Comments on: Installing Leopard on x86 PC – Dell Dimension 4500

By: kin

kin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:26:25 +0000

Im having a problem at the start ,it doesnt even get to the grey screen it fails in the beginning dont know why please can you help me please and i got a dell dimension 4500 aswell

By: Darrious

Darrious — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:48:53 +0000

I am trying to get Jas 10.5.4 to even boot into the installer from the DVD. It hangs and says still waiting for root device. I’m not too sure what needs to be set to Primary Slave and Primary Master in my jumper settings on my IDE drives for my hard drive and DVD drive. Please let me know how yours was set up. That might help me in my quest to get this working .

By: Dell Dimension 4600 at wits end

Dell Dimension 4600 at wits end — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:35:19 +0000

[...] but JaS got me in. You can even find a step by step guide for the 4500 (Should be similar) at… Installing Leopard on x86 PC – Dell Dimension 4500 | MadClouds This should help. Also, when booting try using -v and -x at boot. They should get you in. If you [...]

By: Tmorr83

Tmorr83 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:52:42 +0000

After reburning my disk with DU everything installed well. However, my original ATI Rage Ultra 128 video card was causing a panic and would not let the system boot without -x. After installing an ATI Radeon HD 3650 and the appropriate kext from the JaS distro, all is fixed. So far my boots are error free. Now it just tells me to install a keyboard even though I have the PS2 keyboard and mouse installed. I guess I’ll need to use my old Mac USB devices.

By: Tmorr83

Tmorr83 — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:02:12 +0000

Ok I think I figured out my own issue. I burned the iso as a standard file and did not use disk utility to make it bootable. I’m going to retry with a new DVD.

By: Tmorr83

Tmorr83 — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:55:08 +0000

My Dell 4500 with Vista will not boot the JaS 10.5.4 disk. It goes straight to a boot error and asks how I want to boot Vista. (Safe Mode, Normal, Etc.) I know the ISO is good as well as the DVD is good. I have had no issues with other DVD installs so I know the drive is good. Any suggestions?

By: MadClouds

MadClouds — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:23:26 +0000

@kenshinsh – Thanks for the useful feedback!

By: kenshinsh

kenshinsh — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:07:08 +0000

Just to add more info regarding my experience over the last few months… Running 10.5 on dimension 4500 is not a pleasant experience in my mind. Things crash left and right due to the lack of SSE3 support for the processor. I would recommend 10.4.11 over 10.5 on this hardware running a SSE2 only kernel, it uses up less ram and has QI support for more AGP cards.

By: kenshinsh

kenshinsh — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:29:18 +0000

I was able to get mine up and running using the instruction provided without QE/CI support for my graphic card (I upgraded mine to ATI x850PRO at some point). In case you are interested in knowing which agp card would work, I highly recommend the nvidia fx5200 agp (works after installing NVKush). Also, you might want to make sure you have 1 gig of ram installed on your system for it to be at least usable (imo). I also used a USB WIFI dongle with Zydas chipset and that worked without a sweat.

Thank you for sharing the instruction.

By: Liquidmetaphysics

Liquidmetaphysics — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:42:32 +0000

I’m trying to run this same setup on my old 4500, but I’ve gotten to a bit of a snag. The progress bar has frozen once the time remaining reached “About 15 minutes”. I can still hear some grunting from my computer, so I feel like it’s still trying, but otherwise I’ve got no idea what the deal is, any thoughts?