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- Jul 21, 2019
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO WiFi
- CPU
- i5-8400
- Graphics
- UHD 630
Greetings,
So using the build specs from the Buyer's guide I assembled a Z390 I AORUS Mini Custo Mac with an Intel I5-8400 LGA1151 processor. I happened to already have a Snow Leopard DVD (two actually) so figured I would start with IBoot 3.3 path to loading Snow Leopard. Having looked through the various topics on the forum I have tried PCIRootUID=1, -x, -v, -s and GraphicsEnabler=No options. I have set all the common BIOS settings per the IBoot guide (i.e. BIOS to ACHI mode.) There was no HPET to 64 bit mode setting for this particular BIOS. With all that the furthest I can get it to the grey screen Apple logo after I boot the Snow Leopard DVD after IBoot.
While some users have experienced success after tweaking other BIOS settings, I wanted to take a pause before I start changing things. One thing is that I have way more than 4 Gig of memory on this board, mainly because the smallest installed option from the buyers guide was 16MB total. But that and the fact the installation guides for this go back nearly ten years it seems, it got me thinking...is the above motherboard too modern for something like Snow Leopard and will never work using the IBoot method? Should I go with a more modern OS X to start?
I just used Snow Leopard because I had it and the IBoot method seemed very straight forward.
Thanks
Dino
So using the build specs from the Buyer's guide I assembled a Z390 I AORUS Mini Custo Mac with an Intel I5-8400 LGA1151 processor. I happened to already have a Snow Leopard DVD (two actually) so figured I would start with IBoot 3.3 path to loading Snow Leopard. Having looked through the various topics on the forum I have tried PCIRootUID=1, -x, -v, -s and GraphicsEnabler=No options. I have set all the common BIOS settings per the IBoot guide (i.e. BIOS to ACHI mode.) There was no HPET to 64 bit mode setting for this particular BIOS. With all that the furthest I can get it to the grey screen Apple logo after I boot the Snow Leopard DVD after IBoot.
While some users have experienced success after tweaking other BIOS settings, I wanted to take a pause before I start changing things. One thing is that I have way more than 4 Gig of memory on this board, mainly because the smallest installed option from the buyers guide was 16MB total. But that and the fact the installation guides for this go back nearly ten years it seems, it got me thinking...is the above motherboard too modern for something like Snow Leopard and will never work using the IBoot method? Should I go with a more modern OS X to start?
I just used Snow Leopard because I had it and the IBoot method seemed very straight forward.
Thanks
Dino