Hi there!
I'm new in the forum, but a long-time OSx86 user. I made my first build on an AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754 3400+ in March 2006. Later I switched to an Athlon 64 Socket 939, then to an Opteron 185 o'clocked to 3.00 GHz. My gfx card was a ATI Radeon HD2600XT with the weird ability to 'overclock' monitors: My 20" HP L2035 with 1600x1200 native allowed up to 2048x1536, my LG 3D TV even up to 2560x1440 or 2560x1600. My board was for years an Asus A8N-SLI Premium which always worked great. Now I found it again and renewed it. I also had my old boot system (10.5.8 from about 2008) by hand and it worked flawlessly. I also found my Asus U3S6 card, which is a PCI-E x4 card with 2x USB3 and 2x SATA3. This card is even bootable, the A8N-SLI Premium shows it as SCSI-1 and SCSI-2.
In honor to my old trustworthy system I would like to revive it and would like to check out what is possible with our modern OSx86 techniques. I heard that Sierra should work on an Opteron. But I think there was never a fully working 64 bit AC97 driver. I have a device ID list available.
Greets, naquaada.
I'm new in the forum, but a long-time OSx86 user. I made my first build on an AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754 3400+ in March 2006. Later I switched to an Athlon 64 Socket 939, then to an Opteron 185 o'clocked to 3.00 GHz. My gfx card was a ATI Radeon HD2600XT with the weird ability to 'overclock' monitors: My 20" HP L2035 with 1600x1200 native allowed up to 2048x1536, my LG 3D TV even up to 2560x1440 or 2560x1600. My board was for years an Asus A8N-SLI Premium which always worked great. Now I found it again and renewed it. I also had my old boot system (10.5.8 from about 2008) by hand and it worked flawlessly. I also found my Asus U3S6 card, which is a PCI-E x4 card with 2x USB3 and 2x SATA3. This card is even bootable, the A8N-SLI Premium shows it as SCSI-1 and SCSI-2.
In honor to my old trustworthy system I would like to revive it and would like to check out what is possible with our modern OSx86 techniques. I heard that Sierra should work on an Opteron. But I think there was never a fully working 64 bit AC97 driver. I have a device ID list available.
Greets, naquaada.
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