Hackintosh!
I've spent pretty much all weekend trying to install Mac OS X on my recording computer. (Don't worry, I have a family license for Leopard, so its as close to legit as you can get!) The computer is pretty old and a mishmash of parts, so I was expecting to do a bit of trial and error, but it ended up being harder than I thought it would be. It's a P4 3.0GHz and Asus P5P800S motherboard. At first I couldn't even boot off the install disk - after hours of tracking it down, it turns out the graphics card (GeForce 2 MX 400) wasn't compatible. $50 later, I have a brand new nVidia 5200 FX which allowed me to boot the installer!
I've done the install 10 times trying to get the graphics card to work in a higher resolution that 800x600. Gladly, the graphics card is the only piece of hardware I need to get working, everything else should be basic. I've turned off the onboard networking and sound, I won't need them. Hopefully I can get the graphics sorted out tonight. Remind me to take an image when everything is working right...
I've done the install 10 times trying to get the graphics card to work in a higher resolution that 800x600. Gladly, the graphics card is the only piece of hardware I need to get working, everything else should be basic. I've turned off the onboard networking and sound, I won't need them. Hopefully I can get the graphics sorted out tonight. Remind me to take an image when everything is working right...