Leopard on Series 7 NVIDIA nForce MCP + Intel CPU MOBOs

[Tito_Ambrosi]

I've got my 790i SLI FTW to work with retail OS X and it supports vanila kernel.

Kexts that was created for non mac hardware are awesome.

The only thing is since 10.5.7 update I have to use cpus=1 switch to boot otherwise it wouldn't boot with Core 2 Quad 9400 CPU

I would like to help people installing OS X on same board that I have.

[Krogdor]

I have a XPS 730 system:

 

1. Your MOBO brand and model: Dell nForce 790i Ultra SLI

 

2. Your nForce Series 7 chipset: 790i Ultra SLI

 

3. Your Intel CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Stock 3.00GHz, no overclock

 

4. Screen shots of your current BIOS: I tried to follow your BIOS settings as closely as possible, although a few things were a bit different since it's a Dell BIOS. If you want me to post them just say

 

5. Your DVDRW(s): 2 SATA drives, one of which is only a reader

 

6. Your hard drive(s): 1 SATA 460GB, 1 PATA 8GB, no RAID

 

7. Hard drive PARTITION/FORMATTING: Right now there's nothing on the PATA drive (it's an old one that I just formatted clean) and the SATA drive has 2 partitions, a recovery partition (10GB) and a system partition (450GB). I would prefer to have both installs on the SATA drive, since the PATA is so small, but I wouldn't mind having OS X on the PATA drive if necessary

 

8. Current OS's installed: Windows 7 RC1 installed on the system partition of SATA, nothing on the PATA, hoping for dual-boot

 

9. Your graphics card(s): 1 nVidia 9800GT 512MB

 

10. PCI/PCI-E cards fitted: just graphics card, USB/FireWire/etc are integrated. the system came with a Creative X-Fi audio card but I have removed it while I try to make OS X work

 

11. Onboard devices/functions: nForce LAN, 2 FireWire ports, 6 USB ports (I believe all 2.0 , but not sure), 6 SATA ports that can be configured for eSata in the BIOS plus I see eSata-specific port on the back exterior, 2 PATA/IDE ports, whatever audio is integrated

 

B. Full details of your current OSx86 install status

 

1. Your available OSx86 Install DVD(s) - I've got an iAtkos v7, iPC 10.5.6, and an older iAtkos 5i. I'm currently trying to install the iAtkos v7. I have an iDeneb 10.5.6 ISO as well, although it's not burned to anything...

 

2. Clear description of the problems - "Still waiting for root device" I've tried different combinations of my DVD/HDD drives, as well as many different root disk flags, and all of them give me the waiting for root device error except using disk0 as the root device, which is the hard disk. This results in kernel panic :/ I have pictures of all sorts of the boot screens for all sorts of different hardware/root device configs if you want to see them. The only other thing I can think of right now is the OSx86DeFacto thing described in the first post.

[Tito_Ambrosi]

I have a XPS 720 system:

 

1. Your MOBO brand and model: Dell nForce 790i Ultra SLI

 

2. Your nForce Series 7 chipset: 790i Ultra SLI

 

3. Your Intel CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Stock 3.00GHz, no overclock

 

4. Screen shots of your current BIOS: I tried to follow your BIOS settings as closely as possible, although a few things were a bit different since it's a Dell BIOS. If you want me to post them just say

 

5. Your DVDRW(s): 2 SATA drives, one of which is only a reader

 

6. Your hard drive(s): 1 SATA 460GB, 1 PATA 8GB, no RAID

 

7. Hard drive PARTITION/FORMATTING: Right now there's nothing on the PATA drive (it's an old one that I just formatted clean) and the SATA drive has 2 partitions, a recovery partition (10GB) and a system partition (450GB). I would prefer to have both installs on the SATA drive, since the PATA is so small, but I wouldn't mind having OS X on the PATA drive if necessary

 

8. Current OS's installed: Windows 7 RC1 installed on the system partition of SATA, nothing on the PATA, hoping for dual-boot

 

9. Your graphics card(s): 1 nVidia 9800GT 512MB

 

10. PCI/PCI-E cards fitted: just graphics card, USB/FireWire/etc are integrated. the system came with a Creative X-Fi audio card but I have removed it while I try to make OS X work

 

11. Onboard devices/functions: nForce LAN, 2 FireWire ports, 6 USB ports (I believe all 2.0 , but not sure), 6 SATA ports that can be configured for eSata in the BIOS plus I see eSata-specific port on the back exterior, 2 PATA/IDE ports, whatever audio is integrated

 

B. Full details of your current OSx86 install status

 

1. Your available OSx86 Install DVD(s) - I've got an iAtkos v7, iPC 10.5.6, and an older iAtkos 5i. I'm currently trying to install the iAtkos v7. I have an iDeneb 10.5.6 ISO as well, although it's not burned to anything...

 

2. Clear description of the problems - "Still waiting for root device" I've tried different combinations of my DVD/HDD drives, as well as many different root disk flags, and all of them give me the waiting for root device error except using disk0 as the root device, which is the hard disk. This results in kernel panic :/ I have pictures of all sorts of the boot screens for all sorts of different hardware/root device configs if you want to see them. The only other thing I can think of right now is the OSx86DeFacto thing described in the first post.

 

Well. I've tried, several images of IPC OSx86 10.5.6 and only 1 worked for me it is "iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Final PPF5". I also updated my BIOS to newest version. Another thing you may try on motherboard there is JMicron AHCI conroller turn it on and disable standart Nforce sata controller, keep in mind you will need to plug your drive to Jmicron sata port on your motherboard. And as tutorial say connect only CD/DVD drive and HDD that you need, any extra hardware may cause problem booting.

[Krogdor]

Well. I've tried, several images of IPC OSx86 10.5.6 and only 1 worked for me it is "iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Final PPF5". I also updated my BIOS to newest version. Another thing you may try on motherboard there is JMicron AHCI conroller turn it on and disable standart Nforce sata controller, keep in mind you will need to plug your drive to Jmicron sata port on your motherboard. And as tutorial say connect only CD/DVD drive and HDD that you need, any extra hardware may cause problem booting.

 

Yeah, I've been having only one HDD and DVD drive connected at a time, just listed all the ones I've been trying out.

 

My BIOS doesn't have any AHCI option; I've checked in the past because I had heard it was good to use AHCI with OSx86. According to http://techreport.com/articles.x/14350, the 790i Ultra SLI doesn't support AHCI, and it's not mentioned in any feature/specs lists for the board, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't have it. Although I now notice that there is a new BIOS update available, but it's only 1.0.5 to 1.0.6-probably won't be much different, although I'll upgrade regardless.

 

As for the iPC image, considering that I've tried three different releases I'm reluctant to believe another could help, but I'll see if I can find that one if you think it will help.

 

EDIT: Also, I just noticed I made a typo in my previous post—it's an XPS 730, not 720. Whoops.

[Tito_Ambrosi]

All I can tell on my board there is no AHCI mode in HDD tab of BIOS it is separate controller JMicron AHCI controller. And it saves my time during boot, on AHCI I have gray screen with Apple logo for 6 sec. and my desctop pops out, if I put standard sata controller it will take me 1-5 min to boot my system.

[verdant]

I have a XPS 730 system:

 

1. Your MOBO brand and model: Dell nForce 790i Ultra SLI

 

2. Your nForce Series 7 chipset: 790i Ultra SLI

 

3. Your Intel CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Stock 3.00GHz, no overclock

 

4. Screen shots of your current BIOS: I tried to follow your BIOS settings as closely as possible, although a few things were a bit different since it's a Dell BIOS. If you want me to post them just say

 

5. Your DVDRW(s): 2 SATA drives, one of which is only a reader

 

6. Your hard drive(s): 1 SATA 460GB, 1 PATA 8GB, no RAID

 

7. Hard drive PARTITION/FORMATTING: Right now there's nothing on the PATA drive (it's an old one that I just formatted clean) and the SATA drive has 2 partitions, a recovery partition (10GB) and a system partition (450GB). I would prefer to have both installs on the SATA drive, since the PATA is so small, but I wouldn't mind having OS X on the PATA drive if necessary

 

8. Current OS's installed: Windows 7 RC1 installed on the system partition of SATA, nothing on the PATA, hoping for dual-boot

 

9. Your graphics card(s): 1 nVidia 9800GT 512MB

 

10. PCI/PCI-E cards fitted: just graphics card, USB/FireWire/etc are integrated. the system came with a Creative X-Fi audio card but I have removed it while I try to make OS X work

 

11. Onboard devices/functions: nForce LAN, 2 FireWire ports, 6 USB ports (I believe all 2.0 , but not sure), 6 SATA ports that can be configured for eSata in the BIOS plus I see eSata-specific port on the back exterior, 2 PATA/IDE ports, whatever audio is integrated

 

B. Full details of your current OSx86 install status

 

1. Your available OSx86 Install DVD(s) - I've got an iAtkos v7, iPC 10.5.6, and an older iAtkos 5i. I'm currently trying to install the iAtkos v7. I have an iDeneb 10.5.6 ISO as well, although it's not burned to anything...

 

2. Clear description of the problems - "Still waiting for root device" I've tried different combinations of my DVD/HDD drives, as well as many different root disk flags, and all of them give me the waiting for root device error except using disk0 as the root device, which is the hard disk. This results in kernel panic :/ I have pictures of all sorts of the boot screens for all sorts of different hardware/root device configs if you want to see them. The only other thing I can think of right now is the OSx86DeFacto thing described in the first post.

 

Firstly, what is different about your BIOS settings.......? Are the SATA, IDE, and/or USB options different.....? Please explain in detail.....

 

Secondly, it may be issues with your SATA DVDRW.......often SATA DVDRW/SATA HDD combos on nForce MOBOs can be problematic.....do you have temporary access to a PATA (IDE) DVDRW....?

 

Thirdly, I assume you do not have a AGEIA^® PhysX^TM processor PPA1 (PCIe) installed......not liked by OS X AFAIK......

[Krogdor]

All I can tell on my board there is no AHCI mode in HDD tab of BIOS it is separate controller JMicron AHCI controller. And it saves my time during boot, on AHCI I have gray screen with Apple logo for 6 sec. and my desctop pops out, if I put standard sata controller it will take me 1-5 min to boot my system.

Aha... I had to use the nVidia Device Manager thing and edit the setting in the "Dynamic BIOS"... Weird how there are quite a few options there that aren't available in the actual BIOS screen.

 

 

Firstly, what is different about your BIOS settings.......? Are the SATA, IDE, and/or USB options different.....? Please explain in detail.....

 

Secondly, it may be issues with your SATA DVDRW.......often SATA DVDRW/SATA HDD combos on nForce MOBOs can be problematic.....do you have temporary access to a PATA (IDE) DVDRW....?

 

Thirdly, I assume you do not have a AGEIA^® PhysX^TM processor PPA1 (PCIe) installed......not liked by OS X AFAIK......

Managed to scrounge up a IDE DVDRW from an old computer (same one I stole the IDE HDD out of, haha).

 

Anyway, between the AHCI and the IDE DVDRW, I got it to boot up! At least, to the install screen. So (hopefully) I won't be back here again.

 

Thanks to the both of you for your help! It's been bothering me for a long time that I haven't even been able to make it boot to the installer x_x

[radik4506]

I had problem with capture in Final Cut (freezing) Finally I solve problem by installing CPUS1FIX but now it show just 1 processor How I can make to work all core (QUAD 6600)

[verdant]

I had problem with capture in Final Cut (freezing) Finally I solve problem by installing CPUS1FIX but now it show just 1 processor How I can make to work all core (QUAD 6600)

 

The cpus=1 Fix probably put cpus=1 in com.apple.Boot.plist.......suggest you remove cpus=1 from Boot.plist, then just boot with cpus=1 Darwin boot prompt to do your Final Cut capture, after which you can reboot as normal with 4 cores running to do video rendering in Final Cut.....

[radik4506]

The cpus=1 Fix probably put cpus=1 in com.apple.Boot.plist.......suggest you remove cpus=1 from Boot.plist, then just boot with cpus=1 Darwin boot prompt to do your Final Cut capture, after which you can reboot as normal with 4 cores running to do video rendering in Final Cut.....

 

 

Thank you,but do I have to install somethink to avoid rebooting evrytime?

[verdant]

Thank you,but do I have to install somethink to avoid rebooting evrytime?

 

By not having cpus=1 in com.apple.Boot.plist you should boot up with all 4 cores running assuming you have the correct kernel......e.g. Voodoo 9.5.0 plus matching System and seatbelt kexts.....

[radik4506]

Try the following, one after the other until some gets Final Cut Pro working.....

 

1. Enable Quartz GL using OSX86Tools software if Quartz GL is not already enabled

 

2. Check that your Ethernet port is set to en0 because Final Cut Pro (FCP) AFIK looks for en0 which is the integrated Ethernet port available on all real Macs.

If your active onboard Ethernet port or PCI NIC Ethernet port is not en0, then FCP will not work.....so delete /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist and reboot and check if your active Ethernet port is listed as en0.....

 

3. Repair Compressor......see here......

 

4. But AFIK QMaster handles distributed processing to render farms using more than one networked OS X computer to run Compressor.......so with only one OS X computer to be used for FCP, backup and rename Qmaster.framework to be found in /Library/Frameworks/ as /Library/Frameworks/Qmaster.framework.bad......or just delete it as you still have it backed up....

Sorry for this quation How to backup(Program,location?)

[verdant]

Sorry for this quation How to backup(Program,location?)

 

Simply find Qmaster.framework in /Library/Frameworks/ as /Library/Frameworks/ and drag it your Desktop and put it in a folder called Qmaster Backup (which you can then save also on a USB stick if you wish)......then Qmaster.framework in /Library/Frameworks/ as /Library/Frameworks/ can be renamed as Qmaster.framework.bad......or just delete it, as you now have it backed up....

 

UPDATE: See here too......

[EVGA750i]

Hi I've been reading through all these threads and I'm not sure what the best install would be.

 

Between all the different methods what would have the greatest chance of success on my system?

 

I'm running:

 

EVGA 750i SLI FTW (link here)

2x GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (g92) in SLI

4 GB RAM

4 SATA hard drives on the mobo

1 SATA hard drive on a SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA Controller Card (link here)

IDE DVD burner

 

I own an original OSX install disk.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[verdant]

Hi I've been reading through all these threads and I'm not sure what the best install would be.

 

Between all the different methods what would have the greatest chance of success on my system?

 

I'm running:

 

EVGA 750i SLI FTW (link here)

2x GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (g92) in SLI

4 GB RAM

4 SATA hard drives on the mobo

1 SATA hard drive on a SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA Controller Card (link here)

IDE DVD burner

 

I own an original OSX install disk.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

1. Set up your BIOS correctly for OS X using the template in post #1......you must enable RAID to enable you to enable the SATA controller

 

2. Temporarily remove one GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (g92) GFX card until OS X is installed and running

 

3. Likewise, the SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA Controller Card with its Silicon Image SIL 3114 chipset (have to find driver later)

 

4. Use a USB keyboard and USB mouse

 

As for installing OS X you can EITHER:

 

A. Try the Boot-132 CD/HDD/USB stick + Retail DVD approach, which does not as yet work easily/readily with all non-Intel chipset MOBOs......e.g. nForce+Intel.... BUT I have produced an nForceBoot132.iso image that I can successfully run with

 

rd(0,1)/mach_kernel.voodoo -v boot-uuid=10.5.6 Retail DVD uuid

to get into the Retail OS X 10.5.6 DVD installer to install 10.5.6 Retail on a HDD partitioned/formatted as GPT/HFS+, with Chameleon 2.0 RC1 (now RC2 is available) as the HDD bootloader.....

 

which you can try with your OS X Retail Disk......no guarantees with versions earlier than 10.5.6......

 

OR

 

B. Find, obtain and use iPC 10.5.6 Final v1.1 DVD distro........initially installing without video, network and audio drivers......follow my blog install guide.....

[EVGA750i]

Thank you very much for the quick reply!

 

The OSX disk I have is 10.5.2 so I'll try the iPC Distro and see how that goes.

[Pychon]

Hello gents, made a few posts regarding this and searched the forums for this particular issue all of which lead to a dead end or result in a corrupt DVD image. I don't believe this is the case since the error seems to be pointing to an ATA problem, else multiple issues.

 

I'm attempting to install iATKOS_v7, after formatting and partioning the drives everything seems to go well. I was able to mount the drive and install Chameleon2 on rdisk0s1 same volume i'm installing on. However, once it begins to install it hangs at "Validating Package payload" ... everything else seems to run just fine up to that point then receive a kernel Panic... after about 5-10 minutes.

 

System Specs:

 

Intel Core2 Quad Q6600

Northbridge NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI SPP rev. A2

Southbridge NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI MCP rev. A3

BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 07/07/2008

OCZ2P10662G PC2-6400 (400 MHz) 4096 MBytes

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P [ATA Device] [CD-ROM drive]

NVIDIA STRIPE [sATA Device] 68.95G (74.03 GB) <- Vista64 - Bootloader is already set.

ST3500641A [ATA Device] (500.11 GB) <- Mac OS X Partitioned x 2 (118 / 382) rdisk0s1

 

[verdant]

Hello gents, made a few posts regarding this and searched the forums for this particular issue all of which lead to a dead end or result in a corrupt DVD image. I don't believe this is the case since the error seems to be pointing to an ATA problem, else multiple issues.

 

I'm attempting to install iATKOS_v7, after formatting and partioning the drives everything seems to go well. I was able to mount the drive and install Chameleon2 on rdisk0s1 same volume i'm installing on. However, once it begins to install it hangs at "Validating Package payload" ... everything else seems to run just fine up to that point then receive a kernel Panic... after about 5-10 minutes.

 

System Specs:

 

Intel Core2 Quad Q6600

Northbridge NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI SPP rev. A2

Southbridge NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI MCP rev. A3

BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 07/07/2008

OCZ2P10662G PC2-6400 (400 MHz) 4096 MBytes

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P [ATA Device] [CD-ROM drive]

NVIDIA STRIPE [sATA Device] 68.95G (74.03 GB) <- Vista64 - Bootloader is already set.

ST3500641A [ATA Device] (500.11 GB) <- Mac OS X Partitioned x 2 (118 / 382) rdisk0s1

 

 

Your kernel panic is related to the kexts

 

IOATABlockStorage

AppleNForceATA

IOATAFamily

IOStorageFamily

 

and 32bit versus 64bit memory accessing because you have more than 3GB RAM installed.....

 

So, the system panics with the following message type in the kernel panic log:

panic(cpu X caller 0xXXXXXXXX): getPhysicalSegment() out of 32b range

0xXXXXXXXX, len 0xXXXX, class IOGeneralMemoryDescriptor.......

 

AFAIK the reason is that getPhysicalSegment returns a 32 bit address but because the physical memory address cannot fit in 32 bits a panic occurs.....which invariably happens when more than 3GB of RAM is installed on the MOBO.....

 

Hence, you need to use slashack's AppleNForceATA v0.1 kext which supports 64bit memory addressing via an API using getPhysicalSegment64........

 

BUT if you have a SATA DVDRW, it may not be detected by this kext; in which case, you will have to use MeDevil's AppleNForceATA Test kext and insert maxmem=3072 under Kernel Flags in your com.apple.Boot.plist.....

[Pychon]

Thanks. I'll give that a go... The DVD drive is PATA, wasn't quite clear on that. However, just not sure how to get the kext to an iso image then burn it, i'll search around.

[verdant]

Thanks. I'll give that a go... The DVD drive is PATA, wasn't quite clear on that. However, just not sure how to get the kext to an iso image then burn it, i'll search around.

 

See my blog guide (based on JaS 10.5.4 but generally applicable) here......

[Pychon]

See my blog guide (based on JaS 10.5.4 but generally applicable) here......

 

Read through that and don't understand where I can apply the kext file to an existing iso image then burn it from windows.

[verdant]

Read through that and don't understand where I can apply the kext file to an existing iso image then burn it from windows.

 

In Option B of the link here......

 

Option B. My "Educational and FUN" Option � Injecting the AppleNForceATA.kext into the standard JaS OSx86 10.5.4 Client Server Intel SSE2 SSE3 DVD

 

But ONLY if you have Transmac on Windows and another working OS X system�..and a means of transferring files between Windows and OS X��.

[Pychon]

In Option B of the link here......

 

 

 

Update:

Ran the modified CD with maxmem=2048 upon boot and completed the install. The Chameleon bootloader comes up as it should, however, after the system boots it panics with the following:

 

 

I've tried booting with maxmem=2048 -s -x -v , and the panic persists. If I let it boot with no arguments the apple logo displays and panics with a similar error.

 

 

System Specs:

 

Intel Core2 Quad Q6600

Northbridge NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI SPP rev. A2

Southbridge NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI MCP rev. A3

BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 07/07/2008

OCZ2P10662G PC2-6400 (400 MHz) 4096 MBytes

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P [ATA Device] [CD-ROM drive]

NVIDIA STRIPE [sATA Device] 68.95G (74.03 GB) <- Vista64 - Bootloader is already set.

ST3500641A [ATA Device] (500.11 GB) <- Mac OS X Partitioned x 2 (118 / 382) rdisk0s1

 

 

Installed with bare minimal apps/drivers as you noted on your blog and the same panic displayed. Ran the install again to update settings and the same panic; log is of the second install:

Installer_Log_21_Aug_2009.txt

[verdant]

Update:

Ran the modified CD with maxmem=2048 upon boot and completed the install. The Chameleon bootloader comes up as it should, however, after the system boots it panics with the following:

 

 

I've tried booting with maxmem=2048 -s -x -v , and the panic persists. If I let it boot with no arguments the apple logo displays and panics with a similar error.

 

 

System Specs:

 

Intel Core2 Quad Q6600

Northbridge NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI SPP rev. A2

Southbridge NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI MCP rev. A3

BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 07/07/2008

OCZ2P10662G PC2-6400 (400 MHz) 4096 MBytes

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P [ATA Device] [CD-ROM drive]

NVIDIA STRIPE [sATA Device] 68.95G (74.03 GB) <- Vista64 - Bootloader is already set.

ST3500641A [ATA Device] (500.11 GB) <- Mac OS X Partitioned x 2 (118 / 382) rdisk0s1

 

 

Installed with bare minimal apps/drivers as you noted on your blog and the same panic displayed. Ran the install again to update settings and the same panic; log is of the second install:

 

You forgot to choose your non-vanilla kernel.......and you should only choose 1 SMBIOS....according to your install log you chose 4.....

 

"Mac OS X Leopard"

"iATKOS v7 Main System"

"Bootloader"

"Chameleon v2"

 

"X86 Patches"

"/Extra directory"

"DSDT"

"Decrypters"

"AppleDecrypt"

"SMBIOS drivers"

"SMBIOS' for X86"

"AppleSMBIOS-28"

"AppleSMBIOS-27 6th rev. iMac"

"AppleSMBIOS-27 6th rev. MacBook"

"AppleSMBIOS netkas"

"Disabler"

"Drivers"

"System"

"SATA/IDE"

"JMicron SATA/IDE"

"nForce SATA/IDE"

"Post-Install Actions"

 

So, in Customize choose:

 

iATKOS v7 Main System

 

Bootloader: Chameleon v2

 

Be aware while Chameleon 2.0 can hardcode the SMBIOS information for your system, when you do not select an AppleSMBIOS option, it will set MacPro4,1 as the default on desktop PCs and this will apparently result in a kernel panic due to the TyMCE kext BUT be sure to install it again before updating to 10.5.8 or you will get a kernel panic after the update.

 

X86 Patches:

 

/Extra Directory

 

DSDT ( Only select it if you have to use the cpus=1 flag to boot the OS X Install DVD or the HDD OS X system)

 

Decrypters: Apple Decrypt (ESSENTIAL)

 

SMBIOS drivers: SMBIOS' for X86: Try AppleSMBIOS-28 (or AppleSMBIOS netkas)

 

Kernel: 9.7.0 Voodoo Kernel (but if you have problems then use the official 9.5.0 Voodoo kernel plus the 10.5.5 seatbelt.kext (9.5.0 version))

 

ACPI: x86 ACPI

 

Disabler

 

OHR

 

Drivers:

 

VGA: Enablers : Initially none.....then try NVEnabler or CoreVidia....

 

System: SATA/IDE

JMicron SATA/IDE (only needed if your MOBO has JMicron chipset.....does it?)

nForce SATA/IDE

 

USB

 

Sound: Voodoo HDA driver

 

NTFS-3G (to read/write NTFS partitions)

 

Post-Install Actions

 

Post-Install Actions is not required if and when you use the iATKOS v7 DVD to re-install a driver.....

[Pychon]

Install Log::Clean Install::

 

iATKOS v7 Main System

1. Selected

 

Bootloader: Chameleon v2

1. Selected

 

X86 Patches:

/Extra Directory

1. Selected

 

DSDT

1. Selected

 

Decrypters: Apple Decrypt (ESSENTIAL)

1. Selected

 

SMBIOS drivers: SMBIOS' for X86: Try AppleSMBIOS-28 (or AppleSMBIOS netkas)

2. Selected AppleSMBIOS netkas

 

Kernel: 9.7.0 Voodoo Kernel (but if you have problems then use the official 9.5.0 Voodoo kernel plus the 10.5.5 seatbelt.kext (9.5.0 version))

2. Selected 9.5.0

 

ACPI: x86 ACPI

1. Selected

 

Disabler

1. Selected

 

OHR

1. Selected

 

Drivers:

VGA: Enablers : Initially none.....then try NVEnabler or CoreVidia....

2. NVEnabler

 

System: SATA/IDE

JMicron SATA/IDE (only needed if your MOBO has JMicron chipset.....does it?)

nForce SATA/IDE

2. SATA/IDE , nForce

 

USB

1. Selected

 

Sound: Voodoo HDA driver

1. Selected

 

NTFS-3G (to read/write NTFS partitions)

2. Selected

 

Post-Install Actions

1. Selected

 

 

Post-Install Actions is not required if and when you use the iATKOS v7 DVD to re-install a driver..... I also unselected the iATKOS v7 main package when updating the new drivers... nForce Network controller. This time around it BOOTED .. with 4GB of ram installed and everything works great so far. However, I'm unable to get a network connection; the controller pulls a default 169.x ip and if I manually setup the network settings it does not detect a connection.