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Hello All

 

I am writing this in Leopard.

 

Bought my self a Netgear GA311, and it worked straight of the box. :P

 

Anyway , still haven't got a proper resoltion, need to decided on a GPU. Its between a 2nd hand 8800gt, or a new 2600xt.

 

But I have had a problem. I tried updating to 10.5.2, and i installed that, then the kernel and restarted. Yet it got to the Apple Screen, loaded, then rebooted.

 

Any ideas?

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Hello All

 

I am writing this in Leopard.

 

Bought my self a Netgear GA311, and it worked straight of the box. :D

 

Anyway , still haven't got a proper resoltion, need to decided on a GPU. Its between a 2nd hand 8800gt, or a new 2600xt.

 

But I have had a problem. I tried updating to 10.5.2, and i installed that, then the kernel and restarted. Yet it got to the Apple Screen, loaded, then rebooted.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

After install and restart

Do you press F8 and then write "update -v" ?

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I have a Asus P5Q...

Should I buy an ethernet card or wait for .Kext?

 

highcontrast in your sign, your motherboard is PQ5 or P5Q?

Huh!

 

--

 

Anyway, I am now all sorted.

 

I am running 10.5.1(still dont no how to update without buggering it up!)

 

Audio Working.

 

Internet Working( Netgear card) Much faster anyway :D

 

Display. Ati 2600xt, superb

 

I am so happy. Love it.

 

Thanks to all that helped me , meant a lot ot me.

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Hi,

 

i'm new here, sorry for my english, i'm german.

 

i've have installed MacOSX 10.5.2 Kalway without BiosMod!

 

I'used latest Bios 1306 from Asus at P5Q Pro.

 

C2D 8400@4Ghz

 

4GB Ram

 

Sata Seagate 400GB, DVD LiteOn

 

Nvidia 8800GTS

 

Audigy 2 Zs

 

My Bios Options to prevent Kernel panic:

 

Main/Storage Config: Configure Sata as "AHCI"

 

Advanced/Cpu Configuration: All Options "Disabled" (Cpu Ratio Setting "Auto")

 

Advanced/Onboard Devices Configuration: HD Audio and Marvell IDE "Disabeld" 

 

Advanced/PCIPnP: Plug and Play O/S "Yes"

 

Power: Supend Mode "S3", ACPI 2.0 Support "Disabled"

 

 

 

Installed with F8, "-x cpus=1"

 

 

 

Boot installed MacOSX with DVD, F8, "rd=disk0s1"

 

 

 

Some things to fix:

 

Boot (any suggestions?)

 

Screen resolution at 1024x768

 

Audio with Audigy (i've seen a post in that forum)

 

Network stuff (seen before)

 

Update to 10.5.3 and later

 

 

 

Feel free to ask!

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@Doc and Nick

 

I think you two are both also running the P5Q-E

 

Nick I grabbed your audio drivers and just wanted to see if I'm alone in this or if that's just how they currently work.

 

When I'm in OS X (it's running the AD2000 audio chip I believe is the name) I get a lot of crackles and pops in my complex sounds, itunes will play perfectly but say I receive a msg on MSN or AIM and it has the BWOING sound the first part is fine but when it starts to fade out it crackels

 

OR any time it tries to play two sounds at once it tweaks out...

 

Is this Common or do I have a file / bios setting some place screwy

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i've have installed MacOSX 10.5.2 Kalway without BiosMod!

 

I'used latest Bios 1306 from Asus at P5Q Pro.

 

Installed with F8, "-x cpus=1"

 

Had you previously tried installing on older BIOS version without BiosMod? I just wonder if it's the new BIOS version that made it work somehow, I'll have to give it a try.

 

Are both cores showing up in OSX?

 

Check out the guide in my sig, see if that helps with some of your Q's.

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<br />Will Apple eventually support this chipset? I just dont like the idea of using a custom BIOS...<br />
<br /><br /><br />

 

Well, that remains to be seen. Maybe, maybe not. Remember there are a lot of chipsets that apple doesn't "support" and people are running osx just fine on them thanks to some modified kernels and bios mods....so this isn't the first time and certainly not the last. Even if apple does officially end up supporting it, it could be quite a while (most likely when the new versions of mac's come out since they have no reason to until then since their current hardware doesn't use this chipset. whenever and if that is, I haven't the faintest idea). Bottom line is if you want to run osx with this mobo you have to use the modified bios. (The price we pay for being on the bleeding edge.) Besides, the guys that modded the bios' know what they're doing. They're some of the same guys who made all this possible in the first place. I'm personally running the modified 1003 bios for the p5q-pro and can say firsthand there are no issues whatsoever (both with win xp and leopard). If you're worried about future bios updates, don't be. Personally, my last pc went 4 years with the same bios. By this point, the latest bios versions have all the major issues worked out, so theoretically there shouldn't be a reason to futz with the bios again. I always went with the "don't update the bios unless there is an absolute reason to", At least, that's what mama always said. Hope this helps and I'm not just talkin out my @ss.

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Bitrip : Can you please mod these new BIOS for P5Q3.  Already with te SLIC for Vista

 

 

 

 

 

I install the Kalyway 10.5.2 and no problem, but always with the combo upgrade 10.5.3 form Kalyway doesn't boot (waiting for root device).  What kernel do you use?

 

in the 10.5.2 and in the 10.5.3. any ideas????

 

 

 

Sorry my english. 

 

 

 

P5Q3 Deluxe 12.01 BIOS mod by bitrip

 

Q6600 2.4 Ghz @ 3.6 Ghz

 

OCZ reaper 2*1 GB 1333 DDR3

 

MSI 9800GTX+ OC

 

SATA ports setting as raid

 

Raid 0 (500GB*4 Hitachi SATA 2drives) Vista Business 

 

Hitachi 500GB SATA2 Kalyway 10.5.2

 

Pioneer DVD 216D SATA

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Set "MAX CPU ID" in the bios to disabled. That's what did the trick for me. Hope this helps, let me know.

 

 

You sir led me to the right direction i already had max cpu id disabled but i didnt have disable bit enabled... overclocking i always disable all that stuff in hopes of higher clocks and stability

 

quad core goodness now -_- thanks bro

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@Helios: 

 

These is the link, and i put the SLIC whit AMI slic bios utility.

 

 

 

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showth...848&page=26

 

 

 

P5Q3 Deluxe 12.01 BIOS mod by bitrip

 

Q6600 2.4 Ghz @ 3.6 Ghz

 

OCZ reaper 2*1 GB 1333 DDR3

 

MSI 9800GTX+ OC

 

SATA ports setting as raid

 

Raid 0 (500GB*4 Hitachi SATA 2drives) Vista Business 

 

Hitachi 500GB SATA2 Kalyway 10.5.2

 

Pioneer DVD 216D SATA

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Guys,

 

Ignore this - Got it working myself:-)

 

I did a bit of Bios trickery myself and extracted the DSDT file. In it there are no alias entries as quoted on this and other threads about teh processors. Does that mean i'm screwed?

 

Here's a segment of the dsl file from my P5QL-EM.

 

Processor (CPU1, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06)
       {
           OperationRegion (STBL, SystemMemory, 0xFFFF0000, 0xFFFF)
           Name (NCPU, 0x80)
           Name (TYPE, 0x80000000)
           Name (HNDL, 0x80000000)
           Name (CFGD, 0x80000000)
           Name (TBLD, 0x80)
           Method (_PDC, 1, NotSerialized)
           {
               CreateDWordField (Arg0, 0x00, REVS)
               CreateDWordField (Arg0, 0x04, SIZE)
               Store (SizeOf (Arg0), Local0)
               Store (Subtract (Local0, 0x08), Local1)
               CreateField (Arg0, 0x40, Multiply (Local1, 0x08), TEMP)
               Name (STS0, Buffer (0x04)
               {
                   0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
               })
               Concatenate (STS0, TEMP, Local2)
               _OSC (Buffer (0x10)
                   {
                       /* 0000 */    0x16, 0xA6, 0x77, 0x40, 0x0C, 0x29, 0xBE, 0x47, 
                       /* 0008 */    0x9E, 0xBD, 0xD8, 0x70, 0x58, 0x71, 0x39, 0x53
                   }, REVS, SIZE, Local2)
           }

           Method (_OSC, 4, NotSerialized)
           {
               CreateDWordField (Arg3, 0x00, STS0)
               CreateDWordField (Arg3, 0x04, CAP0)
               CreateDWordField (Arg0, 0x00, IID0)
               CreateDWordField (Arg0, 0x04, IID1)
               CreateDWordField (Arg0, 0x08, IID2)
               CreateDWordField (Arg0, 0x0C, IID3)
               Name (UID0, Buffer (0x10)
               {
                   /* 0000 */    0x16, 0xA6, 0x77, 0x40, 0x0C, 0x29, 0xBE, 0x47, 
                   /* 0008 */    0x9E, 0xBD, 0xD8, 0x70, 0x58, 0x71, 0x39, 0x53
               })
               CreateDWordField (UID0, 0x00, EID0)
               CreateDWordField (UID0, 0x04, EID1)
               CreateDWordField (UID0, 0x08, EID2)
               CreateDWordField (UID0, 0x0C, EID3)
               If (LNot (LAnd (LAnd (LEqual (IID0, EID0), LEqual (IID1, EID1)), 
                   LAnd (LEqual (IID2, EID2), LEqual (IID3, EID3)))))
               {
                   Store (0x06, STS0)
                   Return (Arg3)
               }

               If (LNotEqual (Arg1, 0x01))
               {
                   Store (0x0A, STS0)
                   Return (Arg3)
               }

               Or (And (TYPE, 0x7FFFFFFF), CAP0, TYPE)
               If (And (CFGD, 0x01))
               {
                   If (LAnd (LAnd (And (CFGD, 0x01000000), LEqual (And (TYPE, 
                       0x09), 0x09)), LNot (And (TBLD, 0x01))))
                   {
                       Or (TBLD, 0x01, TBLD)
                       Load (STBL, HNDL)
                   }
               }

               If (And (CFGD, 0xF0))
               {
                   If (LAnd (LAnd (And (CFGD, 0x01000000), And (TYPE, 0x18
                       )), LNot (And (TBLD, 0x02))))
                   {
                       Or (TBLD, 0x02, TBLD)
                   }
               }

               Return (Arg3)
           }

 

 

Any help much appreciated.

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Can someone give me some help setting up boot 132 for the p5q-e? I'd like to get a tutorial together.

 

I'm already successfully booting from a boot partition on my hard drive. This way I can add kexts to boot 132 from leopard, and I don't need a usb key or cd in the computer to boot.

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@iPhoneTom

 

I am SO regretting not checking the boards before buying my new mobo ( MSI p45 neo3-f ) - but at least it will be a fun challenge to get it up and running (if it's even possible) :unsure:

 

So I am using your post (post #30) about modding MSI p45 platinum mobo, i figure since mines the sme manufacturer and chipset i can use the basic steps. Ive got to the point where I am supposed to create a *.rom file from my re-compiled *.hex file - is it as simple as just telling the hex editor to 'save as' and then make a *.rom file??? that seems too simplistic, but there are a sh*tload of lines that i will have to go thru and remove a bunch of compiler comments (see below for my .hex file) if thats what's required.

 

i have posted my .hex file and BIOS (the one i modded - possibly horribly wrong) for anyone qualified to look at and tell me how far off base i am, Thanks in advance!!

acpiamlHEX.zip

a7514imsMOD.zip

 

 

PS Yay first post!!! long time reader, first time poster ;)

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