Confirmed working on my HP XW8600. I'm using the stock video card when I purchased this computer from geeks.com which is the Nvidia Quadro FX 1700. Sound I had to patch with Universal VoodooHDA Driver, I would say go for the most up to date version. Video worked out the box, no fancy kexts...
Yep, that's the difficult part of this machine is the onboard NICs and the NVidia QuadroFX GFX cards. If they have an extra PCI card lying around that's at least a Realtek 81XXX or Intel then they should be okay. Geforce 7600GT should work.
Thanks, yes indeed it's an interesting system. Do you if TonyMac will work on this machine if I install Mountain Lion on it? If so which iBoot or UniBeast and Multibeast should I look out for in order to get this machine up and running. Thanks!
I just installed Snow Leopard on my HP XW8600. The issues I had to over come were the sound, video, and networking. I had a Trendnet Gigabit Ethernet card lying around collecting dust. I decided to install it in the available PCI Slot, so the network for wired Ethernet works only with that...
What kind of graphics card you're using in your rig? Also have you tried to remove the kext associated with your graphics card from the System/Library/Extension folder yet? Also have you tried repairing disk permissions from the Applications/Utilities yet? Last thing, have you put back your...
May I ask, are you using Mountain Lion on your HP XW8600? Also does sound and network work out of the box or do you have to install a kext to get it install and recognize by Mountain Lion? Thanks.
That's great news, will it work with HP XW8600? If so what are the settings you've used in BIOS to at least get to screen where you can format the disk.
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