netcastle Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I see - according to this test I have the shared memory issue after all, though other than this test, I haven't seen any evidence of the problem. Regular computing doesn't seem to be affected by the memory issue this board has, but when you start dealing with larger files the results can be pretty frustrating. Did your screen snow when you ran the memtest? What kexts are you using? With my setup I end up with snow when running onboard video with 4 gigs installed. It doesn't matter what kexts I use. But this is a board bought back in December. I can't believe this board is so popular. Who would have thought back in Decemeber that this discussion would be this persistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oso2k Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I can't believe this board is so popular. Who would have thought back in Decemeber that this discussion would be this persistent. Especially with the ASUS P5N7A-VM being so much more (reportedly) trouble free (the 4GB+ working and near vanilla install from 10.5.5+ DVD or 10.5.5+ MBP Restore DVD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlach Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 Especially with the ASUS P5N7A-VM being so much more (reportedly) trouble free (the 4GB+ working and near vanilla install from 10.5.5+ DVD or 10.5.5+ MBP Restore DVD). Well you know, it is what it is. Some of us bought this board and would like to see it fully functional. I personally don't care to hear anymore about the ASUS board. I prefer Gigabyte mobos in general and a separate thread was created to discuss the ASUS board. Have ball and gloat all you want over there. OTOH, if you all are sick of hearing anything at all on this thread, we can move the discussion to my guide thread (linked in my signature). That was one of the reasons I created it after PMing Stell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oso2k Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 Well you know, it is what it is. Some of us bought this board and would like to see it fully functional. I personally don't care to hear anymore about the ASUS board. I prefer Gigabyte mobos in general and a separate thread was created to discuss the ASUS board. Have ball and gloat all you want over there. OTOH, if you all are sick of hearing anything at all on this thread, we can move the discussion to my guide thread (linked in my signature). That was one of the reasons I created it after PMing Stell. It's funny that you should say that I'm gloating because I own neither. The only hackintosh I have is my MSI Wind U100. I've been holding out on the ASUS board in hopes of this board having its RAM issues solved. And in fact, I applaud you for taking the time to organize the info gathered in the dozens of pages of postings into a concise HowTo guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlach Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Sorry, didn't mean to target you or anyone in particular. Gloating is the wrong word, more like reveling in the fact that whoever has the ASUS doesn't have the same issues those of us with this board do. That said I still think we'll get this thing working. It's funny that you should say that I'm gloating because I own neither. The only hackintosh I have is my MSI Wind U100. I've been holding out on the ASUS board in hopes of this board having its RAM issues solved. And in fact, I applaud you for taking the time to organize the info gathered in the dozens of pages of postings into a concise HowTo guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oso2k Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 That said I still think we'll get this thing working. I agree and that's why I'm holding out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leppy700m Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I think it works pretty well for not working. I have confirmed that I in fact do have the onboard video/memory issue with 'noob's memory test, and sleep is broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSO Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Hi Everybody, I think it's really hard to have a clue what is the straight forward solution to get this MB done isn't it? I've got everything working and here's how I did to everything. EFI v8 Patched a Clean 10.5.6 disk original from my MacBook (Aluminum Unibody) Dropped NVkush, AppleSMBIOSEFI, OpenHaltRestart, IntelCPUPMDisabler, HDA889a 10.5.6 fix(HDAEnabler & AppleHDA) into /S*/L*/E*/ Done! QE CI Audio LAN works out of original files. NO DSDT!!!!! Remember Don't Need to waste your time to update, patching anything extra.. i.e. DSDT!!!! BIOS!!!! LOL I've 4GB of memory and it's working fine! I've even overclocked it from 2.4GHz to 3Ghz. Power shows the latest compliant power saving edition (via System Preferences THE LIGHT BULB) Check Attachment for what it looks... Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoMuS Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Hi, Could you pack all the files you pointed above and upload them? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koalala Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 It seems to be working, like all the others. But in fact it's not. If you fill your RAM it will corrupt graphics and KP. For the power icon, in 10.5.6, everyone get this icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcastle Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 For the power icon, in 10.5.6, everyone get this icon. What do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSO Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 It seems to be working, like all the others. But in fact it's not.If you fill your RAM it will corrupt graphics and KP. For the power icon, in 10.5.6, everyone get this icon. Not all of mine, I've 26 Hac running 10.5.6 only 5 of them shows up this Bulb. No Graphic Issues at all with this yet. Tested FCPS2 with RT Unlimited editing 1920x1080P60 . Not a single crash. Best to stay off unneeded hacking.. The reason for all you guys panic is because too much junk kexts, permissions, or lags of fsck -fy LOL Still trying to figure how do I upload my 28GB MacBook UNI.. Once it's there, I'll let know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrilled Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Not all of mine, I've 26 Hac running 10.5.6 only 5 of them shows up this Bulb.No Graphic Issues at all with this yet. Tested FCPS2 with RT Unlimited editing 1920x1080P60 . Not a single crash. Best to stay off unneeded hacking.. The reason for all you guys panic is because too much junk kexts, permissions, or lags of fsck -fy LOL Still trying to figure how do I upload my 28GB MacBook UNI.. Once it's there, I'll let know. yhX. Congrats to your working system. Could you try to -for example- zip a folder containing two 900 meg files or similar. After that try mrosxnoobs mem test that was posted here a few weeks ago. If your system doesn't "snow" on any of them you don't have the problem. I'm really curious about your success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e60 Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Could you try to -for example- zip a folder containing two 900 meg files or similar. After that try mrosxnoobs mem test that was posted here a few weeks ago. If your system doesn't "snow" on any of them you don't have the problem. If somebody could tell me where to get these files and where I have to paste them, I´ll wolud do a test with my machine. NVkush, AppleSMBIOSEFI, OpenHaltRestart, IntelCPUPMDisabler, HDA889a 10.5.6 fix (HDAEnabler & AppleHDA) into /S*/L*/E*/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0987 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 yhX. Congrats to your working system. Could you try to -for example- zip a folder containing two 900 meg files or similar. After that try mrosxnoobs mem test that was posted here a few weeks ago. If your system doesn't "snow" on any of them you don't have the problem. I'm really curious about your success. why don't you just post me that here. I really don't have juice to look thru these 30+ pages... z Z z Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrilled Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 why don't you just post me that here. I really don't have juice to look thru these 30+ pages... z Z z Z I leave the compressing of large files to you, but the memtest can be found in post #99 /c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanky Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Hello, has anyone tried the update already (10.5.7)? Greetings wanky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawOf5 Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Hello,has anyone tried the update already (10.5.7)? Greetings wanky Already updated to 10.5.7 all kexts work fine, except the nForceLAN producing an kernel panic but removing /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/nvenet.kext solved the problem see here . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x4nd0r Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Now the interesting part, does 10.5.7 resolve the memory issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goblin wizard Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 why don't you just post me that here. I really don't have juice to look thru these 30+ pages... z Z z Z Well... what happened? Did you try it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcastle Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Just updated to .5.7. Most of the kexts from .5.6 worked just as well with the update. I did use the new chameleon and that helped solve some the misinfo in the profiler. Otherwise, this board seems to like the update. The only real issue is a kernel panic on restart if I don't rebuild the mkext cache after applying any sort of updates. Fortunately, this is nothing serious. Still using PCIE graphics, so I can't comment on the RAM issue with onboard graphics. I don't really feel like ripping apart my box to test it. Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlach Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Just updated to .5.7. Most of the kexts from .5.6 worked just as well with the update. I did use the new chameleon and that helped solve some the misinfo in the profiler. Otherwise, this board seems to like the update. The only real issue is a kernel panic on restart if I don't rebuild the mkext cache after applying any sort of updates. Fortunately, this is nothing serious. Still using PCIE graphics, so I can't comment on the RAM issue with onboard graphics. I don't really feel like ripping apart my box to test it. Anyone? I updated as per the guide in my signature. It booted fine so I grabbed and ran the memtest. My screen turned green then black with a band of noise at the top. After a minute I shutdown the system and yanked the memory back out. I didn't expect it to be fixed. Signal64 and Co. have indicated it is a bad table exported by the BIOS so we'll need a patch to fix it. I read that Chameleon now lets you patch more than just the DSDT so maybe we get a fix. By the way I tried a USB audo adapter I bought at newegg HERE and it resumes from sleep without issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobydu Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Is HDMI working anyone? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcastle Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Is HDMI working anyone? Thanks in advance Yes. However, there is no audio over HDMI and you are still subject to the RAM stability issues of the onboard video processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdtran1025 Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 EFI v8 Patched a Clean 10.5.6 disk original from my MacBook (Aluminum Unibody) Dropped NVkush, AppleSMBIOSEFI, OpenHaltRestart, IntelCPUPMDisabler, HDA889a 10.5.6 fix(HDAEnabler & AppleHDA) into /S*/L*/E*/ Done! QE CI Audio LAN works out of original files. NO DSDT!!!!! Remember Don't Need to waste your time to update, patching anything extra.. i.e. DSDT!!!! BIOS!!!! LOL What happens if PC-EFI v9 is loaded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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