Leopard on Series 7 NVIDIA nForce MCP + Intel CPU MOBOs

[verdant]

Audio: NO SELECTION initially

Chipset: AppleNForceATA

Kernel: 9.4.0 StageXNU (Intel/AMD/SSE2/SSE3)

Network: Ethernet: NO SELECTION initially

Fix: AppleSMBIOS: AppleSMBIOS-27-MP i.e. for Mac Pro

Video: NO SELECTION initially

Applications: Your choice

 

After installation boot with -v -f maxmem=2048.......report what happens......

 

You can install Realtek ALC888 kext afterwards, trying ALC888 kexts from here or here, as well as eno's nForceLAN kext for your Marvell 88E1116 onboard LAN chipsets, and for your EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX(G92) 512MB from here or here or here.....

How you showed me I am sorry I install iPC OS 86 and i choose later kernel. And i also updated software

 

You should be able to see/use all 4 cores when running Voodoo 9.5.0.....not sure about front audio as not all audio kexts enable front audio....

[p_funk]

hey guys maybe you could help me out...

 

im running

cpu--q6600@3.0

mobo--evga 780i

video---evga gtx 280

hdd---pata dedicated drive

 

ive tried using xXx 10.5.6 universial final, w/ different combo's of the vanilla kernel, voodoo kernel,

and stage..along with the nvinject drivers for 1g cards, and kush, and several chipset drivers...

 

i have no trouble getting to the installer and installing...but on reboot it gets to the apple logo and then after about 2 minutes or so it freezes

 

ive checked and rechecked my bios against the settings here and everything seems to be in order there...im running the latest bios rev...

 

any suggestions would be awesome...thx

[verdant]

hey guys maybe you could help me out...

 

im running

cpu--q6600@3.0

mobo--evga 780i

video---evga gtx 280

hdd---pata dedicated drive

 

ive tried using xXx 10.5.6 universial final, w/ different combo's of the vanilla kernel, voodoo kernel,

and stage..along with the nvinject drivers for 1g cards, and kush, and several chipset drivers...

 

i have no trouble getting to the installer and installing...but on reboot it gets to the apple logo and then after about 2 minutes or so it freezes

 

ive checked and rechecked my bios against the settings here and everything seems to be in order there...im running the latest bios rev...

 

any suggestions would be awesome...thx

 

I suggest that you initially install without any video driver option selected in the Customize menu.....just get the basic OS X system working......

 

Also boot with -v at the Darwin boot: prompt......and post a screen shot of the boot screen.....

 

Also AFIK GeForce GTX 200 series GFX cards are not yet supported by OS X. Support is expected with Snow Leopard......

 

Until a proper driver is available, you can run in VESA mode without hardware CI/QE.....as follows:

 

Modify the com.apple.Boot.plist file as follows:

 

1. Go to the Terminal, and at the $ prompt, type in

 

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

2. Enter your password when requested. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the cursor within the Terminal window.

 

3. Type in (without any spaces anywhere except where there are spaces)

 

"Graphics Mode"="1280x1080x32@60" BUT using your display resolution.....

between <string> and </string> under <key>Kernel Flags</key>.

 

4. Move the cursor the Terminal window down until it no longer moves, then press Ctrl O and then Enter, to save the modified com.apple.Boot.plist file.

 

5. Press Ctrl X to Exit and type "exit" at the $ prompt to log out of the Terminal and then close and quit Terminal.

[p_funk]

I suggest that you initially install without any video driver option selected in the Customize menu.....just get the basic OS X system working......

 

Also boot with -v at the Darwin boot: prompt......and post a screen shot of the boot screen.....

 

Also AFIK GeForce GTX 200 series GFX cards are not yet supported by OS X. Support is expected with Snow Leopard......

 

Until a proper driver is available, you can run in VESA mode without hardware CI/QE.....as follows:

 

Modify the com.apple.Boot.plist file as follows:

 

1. Go to the Terminal, and at the $ prompt, type in

 

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

2. Enter your password when requested. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the cursor within the Terminal window.

 

3. Type in (without any spaces anywhere except where there are spaces)

 

"Graphics Mode"="1280x1080x32@60" BUT using your display resolution.....

between <string> and </string> under <key>Kernel Flags</key>.

 

4. Move the cursor the Terminal window down until it no longer moves, then press Ctrl O and then Enter, to save the modified com.apple.Boot.plist file.

 

5. Press Ctrl X to Exit and type "exit" at the $ prompt to log out of the Terminal and then close and quit Terminal.

 

hey man thanks for the reply! i dig the step by step, as a linux user ive gotten very used to the whole guided approach to certain documentation, so its deff appreciated ...ill give this a run through and get back...thank you very much

[jasx]

i think i've figured out what triggers my lockups... its when theres a large amount of data involved, i just tried moving a 12 gig file from win to osx, crash. just tried to load a 13gb torrent (partially done), crashed while "Checking"...

 

ive tried disabling ide block mode and ide prefetch mode... no luck so far

[verdant]

i think i've figured out what triggers my lockups... its when theres a large amount of data involved, i just tried moving a 12 gig file from win to osx, crash. just tried to load a 13gb torrent (partially done), crashed while "Checking"...

 

ive tried disabling ide block mode and ide prefetch mode... no luck so far

 

One possible "fix" that I use is to manually boot with -v cpus=1 maxmem=2048 at the Darwin prompt when I am going to transfer/download a large file.......once it is downloaded/transferred I then reboot with just -v.......

[jasx]

well, even if im not transferring anything, i've never ever been able to have a 3 day uptime.. after it hits day 2, it locks up regardless of what im doing.. tried few maxmem options, 3072, 2048.. no luck.

[verdant]

well, even if im not transferring anything, i've never ever been able to have a 3 day uptime.. after it hits day 2, it locks up regardless of what im doing.. tried few maxmem options, 3072, 2048.. no luck.

 

I presume you have tried eno's latest test kext 0.62.13n?

[jasx]

yep

[jasx]

i've been trying to reproduce it with the nforcelan driver unloaded, but it will not crash (so far), ive been crashing it for hours now while trying different bios settings, i could make it crash everytime by making torrents recheck themselves, launching everything in the dock at once, and playing some world of warcraft...

like i said before, i have 2 rtl8139s but both lose connection at random, this sucks >.<

[jasx]

oh wait i lied.

 

the 8139 appears to be working better than when i last tried it (10.5.5 and not voodoo kernel)

tried with appletrl8139, made the kernel_task go rogue, now using pcgenrtl8139, and kernel cpu usage hasnt been acting up so far... if it doesnt die, i have a working solution

 

also, no lockups now of the usb either, i moved ~50 gigs around, it appears to be rock solid.

[DynaBass139]

Verdant thank you for being here man. I can see you have been a huge help to use all. I need it as well.

 

My System Specs:

Intel Quad Core 2.4 Ghz

4GB Ram (A-DATA)

EVGA 780i FTW Mobo

EVGA 9800 GTX+ SSC 512MB

500GB SATA

500GB IDE

DVDRW SATA

DVDRW IDE

No overclocking except the GC but that is stock that it is.

 

So I have been trying to install 10.5.6 for the ideneb distro (currently downloading xXx 10.5.6)

I have no problems going through the installation process. After the intial restart it allows me to get the last part of setting up the mac (select keyboard, create acct. etc.). So sometimes it will just go through start up, no real errors for what I can see, screen blink and goes light blue, w/o a cursor. But sometimes it will boot up and play the video and let me go all the way through the process where I can start fooling around with osx. Once im in I repair permission just to make sure. I can goto to system profiler and everything is working correctly, all four cores are seen, 4gb of ram, qe/ci are supported, audio in and out, ethernet (when I have it enabled). But after I do a restart anytime after I that first time I'm within osx it will just give me the light blue screen over and over. I've tried installing with different things many times and not much changes.

 

So on ideneb i used

nForceATA

Voodoo Kernel 9.5 (i believe)

Seatbelt Fix

NV Inject 512mb

ALC888 (have tried without)

nForceLAN (have tried without)

 

Also the first few times I was doing this with just the IDE SATA HardDrive and DVDRW to make sure it went into installation fine. But it worked the same way with everything hooked up as well. I would just like to get booted full constantly w/o that blue screen. I've tried -x -s and -f and combos of them and nothing seems to work. Ive also tried cpus=1 which I do for installation and maxmem=2048 and combos of them and still doesnt work.

 

Here are some pics of my bios for you, I followed your guide on bios setting for my mobo but some things I couldn't find so i wanna make sure they are set. I feel like it something pretty easy that I have overlooked.

 

 

Also just as a side note, I have almost an identical pc, running same mobo, a 2.83ghz quad, evga 9800GX2, 8gb ram and everything is running fine and used the same distro and patches.

[DynaBass139]

Also just notice something when it turn my monitor off after leaving it there for a while and then i moved my mouse to wake it, it was fine. So i tried changing it so it would sleep my monitor...no luck. Then I tried to turn my monitor off and on again then it display osx for like 2 secs and back to the blue screen. So confused.

 

and now i feel like an idiot, it was the display port. The other one, boots up fine. Thank you Verdant still I thank you for the support on these forums you're awesome. Hope this helped someone out there. iDeneb technically works for everything right off of installation.

[verdant]

Also just notice something when it turn my monitor off after leaving it there for a while and then i moved my mouse to wake it, it was fine. So i tried changing it so it would sleep my monitor...no luck. Then I tried to turn my monitor off and on again then it display osx for like 2 secs and back to the blue screen. So confused.

 

and now i feel like an idiot, it was the display port. The other one, boots up fine. Thank you Verdant still I thank you for the support on these forums you're awesome. Hope this helped someone out there. iDeneb technically works for everything right off of installation.

 

Thanks for your posts.......sometimes the solution comes from where it is not expected...... Anyhow, your successful experience and actual BIOS screen shots of a 780i BIOS with the correct settings will help those new to OSx86 and the BIOS settings for OS X......

[Co0oLy]

Hello verdant

 

i need your help im trying to install Mac os x X86 with XxX x86 Universal disk Release..

my hardware setting is as following :

eVGA 780i

9800 GTX

4GB ram

two 500 GB Sata hard disk

 

what are the packages recommend to install in the installer in the customize menu ?

[verdant]

Hello verdant

 

i need your help im trying to install Mac os x X86 with XxX x86 Universal disk Release..

my hardware setting is as following :

eVGA 780i

9800 GTX

4GB ram

two 500 GB Sata hard disk

 

what are the packages recommend to install in the installer in the customize menu ?

 

Have your BIOS settings have been set up as in post #1 for 780i.......are you using 10.5.5 or 10.5.6?

[Co0oLy]

10.5.6 i installed it successfully but it feels laggy

[verdant]

10.5.6 i installed it successfully but it feels laggy

 

Have you installed slashack's nForceATA kext and Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel yet.......?

[Co0oLy]

Have you installed slashack's nForceATA kext and Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel yet.......?

i did install the following

Voodoo 9.5.0 1.0 [intel]

applenForceATA

NVinject0.2.1_512mb

alc888 6 ports

nForceLAN ethernet

USB Fix

[verdant]

i did install the following

Voodoo 9.5.0 1.0 [intel]

applenForceATA

NVinject0.2.1_512mb

alc888 6 ports

nForceLAN ethernet

USB Fix

 

If you have QT 7.6 installed, then rename AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext as AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext.bad using Terminal

 

cd /System/Library/Extensions/
ls
sudo mv AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext.bad
ls
exit

[Co0oLy]

If you have QT 7.6 installed, then rename AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext as AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext.bad using Terminal

 

CODE

cd /System/Library/Extensions/

ls

sudo mv AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext.bad

ls

exit

still laggy

[verdant]

still laggy

 

Strange.....I assume you have repaired Permissions on OS X system.....

[Co0oLy]

i disable the HBET in the bios and guest what the os is smooth but i feel there is something wrong with usb speed rate

[verdant]

i disable the HBET in the bios and guest what the os is smooth but i feel there is something wrong with usb speed rate

 

Try slice's USB 2.0 kexts......see towards bottom of post #1......

[radik4506]

You should be able to see/use all 4 cores when running Voodoo 9.5.0.....not sure about front audio as not all audio kexts enable front audio....

 

 

I try to use Final Cut But it always crushing I don't know what to do.