yochino Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Looked around and it seems the 10.5.8 is breaking sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shstevens Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 after a few reboots, sound hardware came back and over 24 hours of no lockups. crossing fingers :^) -shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCom Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 I'm just hoping I can get the GTX 275 working. Hi, Firestorm. I was planning to buy a GTX 275 too. Did you manage to get it work? If so, how did you do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firestorm88 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Hi, Firestorm. I was planning to buy a GTX 275 too. Did you manage to get it work? If so, how did you do it?I followed this guide almost exactly. Only difference is before I used UInstaller, I dowloaded OSX86Tools, Plist Edit Pro and followed this exactly: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1178921 It might not make sense now, but it does when you have the program in front of you. After that, install the EVGA GTX drivers. Then use UInstall like weaksauce says. Only difference is to not patch the video with it as you've already done it. I also didn't check the Time Machine fix because weaksauce said in his guide you have to do video and that together, which I didn't do. After this, Reboot. Might take a while to reboot the first two times for some reason, but it became fine after that. After restarting I used the Chameleon 2.0 installer to install Chameleon so I could dual boot with a nice GUI on two seperate HDDs =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCom Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Thanks a lot. The method described by Kasakka in the linked post, is it NVCap Edit? Cause I was told it's the only way to have an MSI GTX 275 Lightning working, because of its non-standard outputs and memory, I presume: VGA-DVI and HDMI with 1792MB of memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firestorm88 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I'm not sure what it's called. I don't think the non-standard output / memory would be a problem as long as you replaced 0x0000038 with whatever it is for 1792MB and replaced DVI-DVI with VGA-HDMI (or DVI-HDMI depending on what the card is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCom Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I took a look on the software, and that's not so simple. I found a Hex converter here: http://www.geocities.com/binary_converter/...exadecimal=0380 But to get HDMI working, you need to extract the ROM from the VGA card, and do several other complicated steps. I'd better stick with the Twin Frozr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxymoronic7 Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 After restarting I used the Chameleon 2.0 installer to install Chameleon so I could dual boot with a nice GUI on two seperate HDDs =) Please excuse me if this has been asked a bunch of times and I missed it, but since I'm relatively inexperienced I just wanted to get an official word. What's the best way to dual-boot? I have two 640 WD, that I'm planning to run each respective OS on and two samsung F1's for scratch and backup. I already got 10.5.7 working on one HD with weaksauce's boot-132 method on the wiki. Should I go the chameleon route as mentioned above? Or Remove the OSX HD and put in a different HD and install windows, then put OSX back in and use the Drive selector I think my Gigabyte Ud3p mobo has? And what would be best to dualboot with, Vista or 7? Sorry for all the questions, but since I'm not too savvy with the whole hackintosh troubleshooting scene yet, I'm just looking for the best way to have the least problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firestorm88 Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 I would recommend doing this: 1) Remove all HDDs except the one you're installing OSX to 2) Finish Hackintosh setup as per weaksauce's guide 3) Download and install Chameleon RC2 using their installer 4) Remove all HDDs except the one you're installing Windows 7 to 5) Finish Windows 7 setup 6) Put all HDDs back in 6) When booting you should get the Chameleon 2.0 screen. If it boots into Windows, it means the HDD that boots is set to the wrong order. Reboot, go into BIOS, set the boot order so the other Western Digital HDD is first (the Mac OS one) That's the setup I did. Don't have the HDD you want Windows on while you install Mac OSX and vice versa. It can cause issues from what I heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCom Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 1. Plug: • Optical drive to Sata 0 • OS X HDD to Sata 1 • Windows HDD to Sata 2 They should appear in the right order without doing anything else. 2. Before installing OS X, create a dedicated partition for system files (OS X and apps), in order to avoid their fragmentation with large datas like videos. The first partition will be the fastest. You may need to let enough free space for music if you want iTunes to manage your library, since it only works on the startup partition. 3. Install OS X, then Chameleon from installer, on the same partition/drive. You're done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny V Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 1....You may need to let enough free space for music if you want iTunes to manage your library, since it only works on the startup partition. Actually you can have the iTunes library on a separate drive or partition. Just need to point iTunes to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxymoronic7 Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 .2. Before installing OS X, create a dedicated partition for system files (OS X and apps), in order to avoid their fragmentation with large datas like videos. The first partition will be the fastest. You may need to let enough free space for music if you want iTunes to manage your library, since it only works on the startup partition. I was planning to use each 640 WD for solely their respective OS. I was gonna use one of the samsung 1TB for backing up OSX and anything I might need to in windows and the other for music/video/scratch. That would work, wouldn't it? I don't want to have to use multiple partitions if I don't have to. Thanks for the help also firestorm, that method seems like it would be the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxymoronic7 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 About Chameleon RC2, do I need to do anything else after installing it before I start the whole process? I went to the Cham website and read some of the comments and a bunch of people are having various problems. Should I be wary of something or are they mostly just idiots? p.s. should I briefly plug in a scratch drive and make a backup of my working osx before the chameleon/win 7 process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firestorm88 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 About Chameleon RC2, do I need to do anything else after installing it before I start the whole process? I went to the Cham website and read some of the comments and a bunch of people are having various problems. Should I be wary of something or are they mostly just idiots? p.s. should I briefly plug in a scratch drive and make a backup of my working osx before the chameleon/win 7 process? I just installed it and had absolutely no issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxymoronic7 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 aaaaaaaaaaaaaand the last question, thanks for all the help. So I installed 7, seemed fine, and plugged in the Mac HD, the win hd and one scratch drive. I use chameleon and boot up in OSX. Upon booting in OSX I get the error message "disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" and the scratch drive didn't show up on the desktop, so I'm assuming that that's the non-readable disk. Is this just because I didn't format it yet? If so, what should I format it to to be able to move/access files to/from both my mac and win OS? If that's not the reason, is the harddrive bad? Thanks again, this has gone much more smoothly then I imagined it would because of it. edit: if it is the format issue, it seems the best way around it would be to split it into two partitions, one 640GB for backups in HFS+ and the rest in NTFS and use MacFuse. Is there anything better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firestorm88 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 If it's a formatting issue, I'd try formatting it in Windows to NTFS. Then install NTFS-3G to read/write to it: http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/ I'm not sure on this point as I haven't really done that with an internal drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greythorne Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 anyone tried SL on EP35-DS3L? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haterade Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 greythorne, yes, it works fine but you need to fix your dsdt.aml so it doesn't reset cmos every time. Also i would stick with pcefi v9 v10 seems to give me more kps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firestorm88 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 The wiki doesn't seem to be working for some reason. ETA on Snow Leopard guide for the UD3P? I see one in the 10.6 section by another user, but is a little harder to follow. I already ordered my SL disc and am just waiting for a nice guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narin Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Used this guide a year ago and I've still yet to upgrade from 10.5.4. Anyone have a clear guide to upgrade to Snow Leopard with our configs? I also saw the guide in the 10.6 section, but looks kinda complex. This one was so easy to follow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yochino Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 agreed... all the guides have been vanilla installs. Any way to get retail on our systems? Also, have ppl successfully been able to get nvidia GTX 200's on their systems without having to do a complete wipe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threepwood Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 So apparently we need a new DSDT file for Snow Leopard, has anyone done this? I'm getting my copy of SL any day now and I'm really eager to do a serious installation (still on Kalyway-made-vanilla 10.5.5). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzyshubert Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 So apparently we need a new DSDT file for Snow Leopard, has anyone done this? I'm getting my copy of SL any day now and I'm really eager to do a serious installation (still on Kalyway-made-vanilla 10.5.5). I have Snow Leopard running on my ga-p35-ds3l with an Nvidia 7300 gt. Works perfect. 2 days now and no kernel panics! You will need to build a new DSDT file but it is easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greythorne Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 greythorne, yes, it works fine but you need to fix your dsdt.aml so it doesn't reset cmos every time. Also i would stick with pcefi v9 v10 seems to give me more kps. Haterade, thanks for the reply. do you happen to have a step by step guide so that i may follow it to install? also when you say dsdt.aml needed to be fixed, this i got to do in the existing leopard 10.5 installation right? thanks once again. regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threepwood Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 I have Snow Leopard running on my ga-p35-ds3l with an Nvidia 7300 gt. Works perfect. 2 days now and no kernel panics! You will need to build a new DSDT file but it is easy. Ok, how does that work? Care to share that file with the rest of us? Did you use Universal Installer with the old DS3L plugin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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