Shuttle Xpc Sb61g2 Drivers For Mac

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Here’s a quick set of notes on what I did to get this up and running. CPU: Intel Pentium4 3.0 Ghz Chipset: Intel 875 RAM: 512 MB DDR. Rosetta (SSE2): works. Sound (Intel 82801EB/ER): works. Video (ATI Radeon 9700 Pro): works, supports Core Image and Quartz Extreme. Ethernet (Broadcom BCM5788): works, see below. Wireless (Shuttle USB Prism3-based): not working, no drivers.

USB (Intel 82801EB): works. Firewire (Via VT6306): untested Problems: 1.

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Defaults to 1024×768 resolution (fixed) This is pretty simple to fix. Based on a, I editted /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist by adding the following settings: Graphics Mode 1280x1024x32 While I was there, I also took the liberty of removing the kernel verbose flags, and changing the boot timeout to 1 second. Ethernet driver doesn’t support the BCM 5788’s PCI id (fixed) I found for patching the driver in the. A brief run-down follows, but note that these instructions use values (PCI id and MAC address) that are specific to my ethernet card. Start a admin shell ( sudo -s).

cd /System/Library/Extensions/. cd IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/. cd AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext/Contents/MacOS/. cp AppleBCM5701Ethernet /Desktop. AppleBCM5701Ethernet to replace all instances of: 66 81 FA 59 16 with 66 81 FA 9c 16 (note: using replace all might cause issues, so you might want to just step through each case). address 37554 from 75 71 to EB 71. cp /Desktop/AppleBCM5701Ethernet./.

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cd /System/Library/Extensions. rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache. rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext. kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions.

Reboot. After the reboot, set the MAC address (which defaults to 00:00:00:00:00:00) sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:30:1b:f1:f4:f4 3. Sleeping the display doesn’t blank it, but freezes the last image.

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No solution yet, and not that important to me since this is a desktop.

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Conclusions As I stated at the beginning of the article, the SB61G2 is a Very Big Deal. The lightning-fast turnaround from chipset announcement to cube release is unprecedented for Shuttle, and is hopefully a harbinger of future events. The overclocking features built into the SB61G2 are very impressive, allowing for huge performance gains with the right hardware. Unfortunately, though, the benchmark results for the SB61G2 give me pause. Intel motherboards are known for valuing stability over performance, and it's normal to see an Intel motherboard get its clock cleaned in the benchmarks by a third-party board based on the same chipset.

The fact that the SB61G2 lost so many benchmarks to the Intel boards concerns me. The fact that some results showed the SB61G2 performing worse than an Intel 865G board with the on-board graphics enabled concerns me even more. Damage and I looked things over, and our best guess has to do with RAM timings. We had to use some very conservative timings to get the board stable with our Corsair XMS3200LL DIMMs at DDR400 speeds, which is unusual, since Corsair stuff is unstoppable on nForce2 boards.

The Kingmax allowed for slightly more aggressive timings, and slightly improved performance in some cases, but we're hoping a BIOS update will help things even more. Assuming the performance issues get sorted out, I can easily recommend this cube to the most demanding enthusiast. With 8X AGP, Serial ATA, 800MHz front-side bus and dual-channel DDR400 support, this box was made to fly.

The idea of a machine with those features appeals to me. The idea of running a screaming fast, 3.3GHz, overclocked config appeals to me even more.

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And the idea of doing so in a tiny, stylish, quiet box appeals to me most of all.