[GUIDE] Retail OS X Install (10.5.8) on Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 (Core i7) Mobo

[Asterra]

Just wanted to report my tentative success. No big surprise, as 10.5.7 seems to be enabling a lot of success stories. I solved the remaining System Profiler issue by completely removing the SMmaximalclock and SMexternalclock lines from smbios.plist. I've also managed a 4GHz overclock which tops out at 62 degrees or so under load, and seems stable.

 

Anyway, big thanks to Digital Dreamer, FUT1L1TY, and everyone else. It was a long road with 53 installs, but it seems to be over. If I feel up to it, I might try something really stupid, like installing the other 4870.. but the current 4870 already puts out so much heat that the system temp sits at 52 degrees (it should be more like 30).

 

And now, a semi off-topic question: Is there any way of disabling the UD5's CPU OC Alert LEDs? With my system at 4GHz, five of those things are lit up. This is a problem because my heatsink (Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme 1366) is so tall that it prevents me from being able to close my case (not by much). So those blue LEDs are an Xmas tree beacon, shining brightly enough to cast shadows on the walls. That's just not going to work. ;p I'm currently running at stock again because of this issue.

[digital_dreamer]

Just wanted to report my tentative success. No big surprise, as 10.5.7 seems to be enabling a lot of success stories. I solved the remaining System Profiler issue by completely removing the SMmaximalclock and SMexternalclock lines from smbios.plist. I've also managed a 4GHz overclock which tops out at 62 degrees or so under load, and seems stable.

 

Anyway, big thanks to Digital Dreamer, FUT1L1TY, and everyone else. It was a long road with 53 installs, but it seems to be over. If I feel up to it, I might try something really stupid, like installing the other 4870.. but the current 4870 already puts out so much heat that the system temp sits at 52 degrees (it should be more like 30).

 

And now, a semi off-topic question: Is there any way of disabling the UD5's CPU OC Alert LEDs? With my system at 4GHz, five of those things are lit up. This is a problem because my heatsink (Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme 1366) is so tall that it prevents me from being able to close my case (not by much). So those blue LEDs are an Xmas tree beacon, shining brightly enough to cast shadows on the walls. That's just not going to work. ;p I'm currently running at stock again because of this issue.

Congratulations on your setup! Sounds like you counted each and every install. I gave up at 25.

 

With those keys removed from the plist, what's being reported by SP now?

 

I have a hard time believing you have a 4GHz OC with only 62°C under load. Something doesn't sound right. What type of load did you submit the CPU to? All 8 "cores?" If you haven't, you should try prime95 mentioned in the end of the tutorial.

 

Yeah, those blue OC LEDs are bright! Heh. I don't have a lid on mine, yet, and they sure do shine brightly. I think they should be controlled by the BIOS, but they may not have a interface and be strictly hardware. You could do what people do with their VCR clocks...

 

MAJ

[joeblough]

I believe this is the correct route, fellow sage, people aren't going to be using 10.5.6 anymore now that sound works without using headphone-only (until someone hacks it for SPDIF for 889a) voodoohda. 9.7 kernel would not be needed because it was temporary for the time being, now that 10.5.7 is out, it should definitely be omitted from your kext package.

 

under normal circumstances i would agree, but here and there i keep reading reports of people having random KPs with 10.5.7, and there's the whole TyMCE thing in 10.5.7, which may or may not be a problem. i guess DD could just re-release one of his older scripts from the days of 10.5.6 for anyone that wants to go that route.

[Jimmy Urine]

1 CPU with four (4) cores!!

 

Hello everyone,

 

been using Wolfi's script since 10.5.5 and it has worked wonderful with a few modifications within every version, what I'm all puzzled about is the fact that "about this mac shows 2.67GHz Unknown/ and that i can't get the memory to show the right speed. what's even more depressing in all of it is that i know that i need my identifier model to show MacPro4,1 in order to enjoy the benefits of my vanilla 9.7 kernel, without it my computer gets hogged once a few days and that's not to mention the speeding clock which is always 15 minutes faster for each hour.

i tried a couple of applesmbios.kexts from all the packages i could find. i even replaced the boot files in the script to have cameleon 2 rc1 (not sure if it worked) but i can't seem to get the identifiers right.

could anyone suggest something?

anything i should try?

 

if it all works out, and i experience no problems i promise to repack it all nicely and upload it (wolfi's script with the modifications that is...)

 

-Gal

[rama]

for those of you who read my previous post about random crashes, try downloading latest x58 installer from post #1 of this topic... install the kexts from the _ATA folder and give that a try... its helped so for for me.. but havent had enough time to test properly, I'll update after work tonight.

 

cheers.

[Asterra]

With those keys removed from the plist, what's being reported by SP now?

Depends on which bios configuration I'm using. At stock, it claims 2700 MHz. At 4GHz, it says 4100. Trifling inaccuracies that I can live with.

 

I have a hard time believing you have a 4GHz OC with only 62°C under load. Something doesn't sound right.

It's legit. I partially followed a guide I recently located - written by somebody from Gigabyte themselves - on how to go about overclocking to 4GHz. He had just about the same setup I have (my ram is faster). His temperature under load, at 4GHz, was 53°C - quite a bit lower than my 62, and a discrepancy I blame solely on my amazingly hot 4870, whose waste heat is rising directly into the heatsink. (The Gigabyte guy wasn't even using a case.)

 

What type of load did you submit the CPU to? All 8 "cores?" If you haven't, you should try prime95 mentioned in the end of the tutorial.

Following the Gigabyte guide, I used four simultaneous sessions of "Stress Prime 2004", tailoring each to specific cores. Task Manager confirmed readily enough that all eight cores were fully stressed for the ~10 minutes I kept them going.

 

The Thermalright 1366 is just that good. I did my research well. When I stop Stress Prime 2004, the temperature drops in an almost unbelievable fashion.

 

(As an aside, I have to say.. the way the UD5 handles BIOS CPU adjustments is alarming. Regardless of whether I'm overclocking or returning everything to stock, I pretty much always end up having to let it sit with no power for a couple of minutes before it will agree to power up my peripherals.)

 

You could do what people do with their VCR clocks...

Pretty much. ;p I'm mulling over various light-denying materials. Chances are there's some kind of perfect (and removable) LED-blocking material for circuit boards.

[joeblough]

Pretty much. ;p I'm mulling over various light-denying materials. Chances are there's some kind of perfect (and removable) LED-blocking material for circuit boards.

 

get some Kapton tape. its meant for circuit boards - its non-conductive. its not totally opaque (usually its a dark yellow/amber color) but if you put a few layers over the LEDs it will probably dim them way down.

[mangopeach]

Depends on which bios configuration I'm using. At stock, it claims 2700 MHz. At 4GHz, it says 4100. Trifling inaccuracies that I can live with.

 

It's legit. I partially followed a guide I recently located - written by somebody from Gigabyte themselves - on how to go about overclocking to 4GHz. He had just about the same setup I have (my ram is faster). His temperature under load, at 4GHz, was 53°C - quite a bit lower than my 62, and a discrepancy I blame solely on my amazingly hot 4870, whose waste heat is rising directly into the heatsink. (The Gigabyte guy wasn't even using a case.)

 

Following the Gigabyte guide, I used four simultaneous sessions of "Stress Prime 2004", tailoring each to specific cores. Task Manager confirmed readily enough that all eight cores were fully stressed for the ~10 minutes I kept them going.

 

The Thermalright 1366 is just that good. I did my research well. When I stop Stress Prime 2004, the temperature drops in an almost unbelievable fashion.

 

Can you link us to the gigabyte guide? What are you using to monitor the system temps? Does activity monitor show all 8 processes using 99.9% of the cpu?

[Asterra]

Can you link us to the gigabyte guide? What are you using to monitor the system temps? Does activity monitor show all 8 processes using 99.9% of the cpu?

Here's a link:

 

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/upload/files/...8.12.12_ENG.pdf

 

I was using Easytune 6, which came with the motherboard, although I grabbed it from Gigabyte's page. I didn't confirm an actual percentage, but the eight little activity boxes were all flat at the top, and anyway, Stress Prime 2004 seems to have been developed specifically to maximize CPU utilization. (Apologies to uninterested readers for the discussion tangent.)

[joeblough]

I think the double-boot comes from applying the update on a live system.

 

i think you are absolutely right about this. i just did the 10.5.7 combo updater against my previous 10.5.6 install while booted from the new 10.5.7 install. i moved the Stored_Kexts over from the 10.5.7 install i did with your new script, rebuilt Extensions.mkext and rebooted. no 2nd reboot, no problem. so yeah, i think that extra script that runs and reboots is only done when you apply the update to a live system.

 

Okay. I can put the vanilla 9.7.0 back in there for those still using 10.5.6. I understand. I think I jumped ahead of myself there and pulled it. I just didn't want people to see the vanilla kernel/System.kext and feel inclined to install them on a vanilla 10.5.7 system. You know how that goes - imply something could be used a certain way and, before you know it, everyone is doing it.

 

maybe mattrb is right, this might be too confusing. as i mentioned above maybe if your last 10.5.6-based script is made available that would be enough. 10.5.7 seems stable enough to me at this point.

 

I haven't really tested sleep enough myself, either. But, I wouldn't be surprised to get a failed-wake. If there's anything unpredictable, it's usually sleep. The biggest complaint I hear is just as you described - it works sometimes/most of the time, but certainly not all of the time.

 

regards,

MAJ

 

on my badaxe2 sleep is 99% reliable. i think maybe 2 times in 1.5 years its woken up and the display is all whacked out. but i've never had a lockup coming out of sleep. so far the UD4P with bios F9a seems to be stable enough. when i was having trouble with it it would fail about 50% of the time...

[WilliamsEph97]

I am running under Bios f6 and have a sapphire radeon hd 4850. i have everything working perfectly, including sleep. the monitor goes to sleep and wakes up properly. i have to have the vga to dvi adapter in the second dvi slot on the hd 4850 to get any video though. i ran dd's v.3.5 script and then updated to 10.5.7 using the combo update.

 

drat...I too did this sudo command but I still have the exact same problem with my computer and display sleeping, and the computer wakes up but not the monitor. I wonder if it has anything to do with my Radeon 4870 video card. Everything else works perfect for the video card without any modified kexts or anything right from the 10.5.7 update (unlike 10.5.6). If anyone out there is using an ATI 4000 series card and has sleep working please let me know HOW in the heck you got it done. As far as my other settings in the "pmset -g" command, sleep, displaysleep, powerbutton, and disksleep are all set to "0". "hibernatemode" is set to 2, and "ttyskeepawake" is at 1. Does that sound about right to everyone or is there anything that should be changed there, or that is different in your settings. Thanks

[animani]

I did a clean install of 10.5.7 using the following:

 

1) A working machine

2) An extra hard drive that has been freshly formatted

3) 10.5.6 Retail DVD.iso

4) 10.5.7 Combo Update.DMG (724 megs)

5) DD 3.5 script

6) UUID.kext (attached below)

 

Here are the steps I took:

 

1a) Moved mach_kernel and System.kext from the DD 3.5 script into a non-install folder. (We won't be needing these)

 

1b) Placed the UUID.kext in /Misc_Patches/to_install/ of the 3.5 script

 

2) Mount the 10.5.6 Retail and 10.5.7 combo update.

 

3) Launch DD 3.5 Script, enter password, and select the empty hard drive as the install destination.

 

4) Run steps 2, 3, & 4 manually (that is one at a time)

 

5) Launch the 10.5.7 combo updater. Be sure to select the new drive or you will be applying the update to your current startup disk. Run the update.

 

6) Return to the DD 3.5 script. Run steps 5, 6, 7, 9, & 10 manually.

 

7) Restart and enter BIOS. Make sure your new drive is the boot drive.

 

8) Create temp user. Do not migrate at this point. This failed for me.

 

9) Once you reach the finder. Reboot just to be sure.

 

10) This time you can run the migration assistant from the utilities folder. Be sure the "Files and Folders" are not selected (this will overwrite your /Extra Folder).

 

I just thought I share that in case you were having problems with sleep or what not. I'm using the F6 bios still. Safari 4 seems to be working just fine. I've had no KPs.

 

Good luck!

 

EDIT 1: The Combo update is 729mb and can be found here

 

EDIT 2: I forgot to mention to remove LegacyAppleAHCIPort.kext from the installer script. Let's call that step "1c)". You can do that afterwards manually but remember to rebuild the boot cache using the script.

 

Is there any kext that needs to be removed necessarily? I have seeing cameron doing this

 

I just did this:

 

1. I took my mini 9 hackintosh, connected my HDD for the x58-ud5 and opened DD's script version 3.6 and ran step 2,3,and 4.

2.updated to 10.5.7 using the combo update and selected my x58 drive for the install(because my retail disc is 10.5.5.

3.Opened the script again and ran step 5( I deleted the kernel and the natit.kext because I wanted a vanilla install and have no need for the natit.kext).

4. I disconnected my HDD and connected it to my GA-EX58-UD5 and booted from it.

5. Once it booted I downloaded the script and ran the processor info changer and then deleted the script.

6. I ran software update and of course checked my system profiler to make sure everything was working.

I show all 4 cores and in activity monitor all 8.

 

My system is as follows:

GA-EX58-UD5

1 TB SATA HDD

OS X 10.5.7 Retail and VMware 2 Win 7 RC 2

LG dual layer burner

Nvidia Geforce 9800GT 512Mb

ocZ 12GB DDR3 Ram

 

If you have issue's booting make sure you have you bios profile the same as DD's.

 

3.Opened the script again and ran step 5( I deleted the kernel and the natit.kext because I wanted a vanilla install and have no need for the natit.kext).

 

Whats the difference between this two methods?

 

Would my NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE with 128MB of GDDR SDRAM work on leopard without adding any string? I say this because it is the card came with my dual late 2005 Mac.

 

One last thing dudes imagine you have a successful installation and everything is working absolutely perfect. Is there a way of making an image of the hard drive with all included? I will use several applications and plugins so it would be a lot of time saver in case your drive fails.

 

[iamnicos]

One last thing dudes imagine you have a successful installation and everything is working absolutely perfect. Is there a way of making an image of the hard drive with all included? I will use several applications and plugins so it would be a lot of time saver in case your drive fails.

 

 

Yes. It's the "Disk Utility" dude !

 

Open, choose a parition, click on "New Image". Choose a folder, of course not on the same drive. Run. This backup (should be around 75% of the size) can be restored using same soft...As simple as that.

 

Using Onyx, you can acces to others compression setting for Disk utility to reduce the size of the DMG. Just google it.

 

99% of answers are just a click away...Dude

[Hakintos]

The install does not end, In the BIOS I changed the Memory Frequency 1066 by 1333. HPET Mode 32bit by 64bit.

 

[digital_dreamer]

The install does not end, In the BIOS I changed the Memory Frequency 1066 by 1333. HPET Mode 32bit by 64bit.

Installing what? Latest 10.5.7 update?

 

If you are installing that update on a live system that's still running the Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel, I'd expect there would be problems. Update your kernel first or update from a different partition.

 

MAJ

[digital_dreamer]

maybe mattrb is right, this might be too confusing. as i mentioned above maybe if your last 10.5.6-based script is made available that would be enough. 10.5.7 seems stable enough to me at this point.

The kext download (not script download) contains the 9.7.0 kernel, the exact same one in the 10.5.7 update, not the earlier build. So, if one were to, say, out of ignorance, "replace" the vanilla 10.5.7 kernel with this one, there'll be no difference.

 

One could also extract the vanilla 9.7.0 kernel from the 10.5.7 update with Pacifist, if needed.

 

regards,

MAJ

[robo456]

Before I start, I'd just want to thank everyone that has worked on the EX58 project!!

 

I originally tried making a boot-132 cd with all the proper kexts and everything, but for some reason, my EX58-UD5 just would not boot it. I tried the CD that i used for my EP45-DS3R with similar results. After a day and about 10 CD "coasters" of messing with that, I figured i'd use the "2 drive method" (which might be where my issue may be coming from)

 

I have a working vanilla install on a GA-EP45-DS3R that i dropped in a fresh hard drive. I formatted it with disk utility as GUID and used FUT1L1TY's quick guide to roll thru the install. I took the drive out and dropped it in my EX58-UD5 (F7 bios) and it booted right up. Everything worked right out of the box except for the "About my Mac". I'm assuming since I ran the DSDT app on my old machine, it was picking up that info.

 

I tried running thru the last part of the mobo-patcher script on the new but that didn't seem to do anything. I popped in OSXTools and was able to "reset" the CPU info, but that shows 3.2 Ghz Intel i7 920 now. It got the chip right, but the processor speed is 2.67 ghz (completely stock, no OC)... In the 'hardware' portion of about my mac it shows:

 

  Model Name:	MacPro4,1
 Model Identifier:	MacPro4,1
 Processor Speed:	3.2 GHz
 Number Of Processors:	1
 Total Number Of Cores:	4
 L2 Cache (per core):	256 KB
 L3 Cache:	8 MB
 Memory:	6 GB
 Bus Speed:	1.33 GHz
 Boot ROM Version:	MP31.00C1.B00

 

Also, I forgot where I read it, should I change the MacPro4,1 to 3,1? I thought I recalled seeing that some software update or something only ran on that specific model type.

 

If anyone could point out how to modify the speed, that'd be great.

 

I ran a few benchmarks on both my EP45-DS3R (Core 2 Duo E8500 3.17 GHz, 4GB 667 DDR2, 8600GT 256mb) and the new EX58-UD5 (i7 920 2.67 GHz, 6GB 1600 DDR3, 4870 1gb) and was pretty suprised at the results.

 

EP45-DS3R System

xbench 1.3 test (no HD) - 277.38

xbench 1.3 test (with HD) - 215.97

geekbench 2.1 test - 4405

 

cinebench r10 CPU1 - 3644 CB-CPU

CPUX - 6946 CB-CPU

multiprocessor speedup - 1.91 x

open gl - 7056 CB-GFX

 

 

EX58-UD5 System

xbench 1.3 test (no HD) - 202.64

xbench 1.3 test (with HD) - 101.82

geekbench 2.1 test - 5150

 

cinebench r10 CPU1 - 698 CB-CPU

CPUX - 9443 CB-CPU

multiprocessor speedup - 13.53 x

open gl - 1594 CB-GFX

 

 

I would have assumed (especially for the money!) that the UD5 would have blown my other older system away. Boo. What's really odd regarding the video scores is that using the default kexts that I downloaded from the first page (latest release as of today 5/20), the 4870 shows it's running properly in the hardware profile (QE/CI all enabled running at 1024x768x32) Any ideas on this one??

 

Thanks!!

 

--rob

[mangopeach]

Before I start, I'd just want to thank everyone that has worked on the EX58 project!!

 

I originally tried making a boot-132 cd with all the proper kexts and everything, but for some reason, my EX58-UD5 just would not boot it. I tried the CD that i used for my EP45-DS3R with similar results. After a day and about 10 CD "coasters" of messing with that, I figured i'd use the "2 drive method" (which might be where my issue may be coming from)

 

I have a working vanilla install on a GA-EP45-DS3R that i dropped in a fresh hard drive. I formatted it with disk utility as GUID and used FUT1L1TY's quick guide to roll thru the install. I took the drive out and dropped it in my EX58-UD5 (F7 bios) and it booted right up. Everything worked right out of the box except for the "About my Mac". I'm assuming since I ran the DSDT app on my old machine, it was picking up that info.

 

I tried running thru the last part of the mobo-patcher script on the new but that didn't seem to do anything. I popped in OSXTools and was able to "reset" the CPU info, but that shows 3.2 Ghz Intel i7 920 now. It got the chip right, but the processor speed is 2.67 ghz (completely stock, no OC)... In the 'hardware' portion of about my mac it shows:

 

  Model Name:	MacPro4,1
 Model Identifier:	MacPro4,1
 Processor Speed:	3.2 GHz
 Number Of Processors:	1
 Total Number Of Cores:	4
 L2 Cache (per core):	256 KB
 L3 Cache:	8 MB
 Memory:	6 GB
 Bus Speed:	1.33 GHz
 Boot ROM Version:	MP31.00C1.B00

 

Also, I forgot where I read it, should I change the MacPro4,1 to 3,1? I thought I recalled seeing that some software update or something only ran on that specific model type.

 

If anyone could point out how to modify the speed, that'd be great.

 

I ran a few benchmarks on both my EP45-DS3R (Core 2 Duo E8500 3.17 GHz, 4GB 667 DDR2, 8600GT 256mb) and the new EX58-UD5 (i7 920 2.67 GHz, 6GB 1600 DDR3, 4870 1gb) and was pretty suprised at the results.

 

EP45-DS3R System

xbench 1.3 test (no HD) - 277.38

xbench 1.3 test (with HD) - 215.97

geekbench 2.1 test - 4405

 

cinebench r10 CPU1 - 3644 CB-CPU

CPUX - 6946 CB-CPU

multiprocessor speedup - 1.91 x

open gl - 7056 CB-GFX

EX58-UD5 System

xbench 1.3 test (no HD) - 202.64

xbench 1.3 test (with HD) - 101.82

geekbench 2.1 test - 5150

 

cinebench r10 CPU1 - 698 CB-CPU

CPUX - 9443 CB-CPU

multiprocessor speedup - 13.53 x

open gl - 1594 CB-GFX

I would have assumed (especially for the money!) that the UD5 would have blown my other older system away. Boo. What's really odd regarding the video scores is that using the default kexts that I downloaded from the first page (latest release as of today 5/20), the 4870 shows it's running properly in the hardware profile (QE/CI all enabled running at 1024x768x32) Any ideas on this one??

 

Thanks!!

 

--rob

 

 

your scores for the ud5 are way too low. My 920 is overclocked to 3.7 and my geekbench is 13150 and xbench is 445, cinebench is 20,250. Something is not right with your scores. Even at stock your geekbench should be over 10k.

[robo456]

your scores for the ud5 are way too low. My 920 is overclocked to 3.7 and my geekbench is 13150 and xbench is 445, cinebench is 20,250. Something is not right with your scores. Even at stock your geekbench should be over 10k.

 

That's what I figured too looking at a few peeps sig's. I'm at the stage where "I know enough to be dangerous" eheh, but not enough to really know what I'm doing so far. I'm learning as I flop thru this stuff and from what I've read from other posters.

 

What's odd, is nothing really looks "out of place" as far as the hardware profile (besides the speed issue referenced in my original post), nothing shows "unknown" or "unconfigured" or "disabled". I'm not really sure where else to check, or to see which files are causing problems.

 

--rob

[animani]

Yes. It's the "Disk Utility" dude !

 

Open, choose a parition, click on "New Image". Choose a folder, of course not on the same drive. Run. This backup (should be around 75% of the size) can be restored using same soft...As simple as that.

 

Using Onyx, you can acces to others compression setting for Disk utility to reduce the size of the DMG. Just google it.

 

99% of answers are just a click away...Dude

 

I am using OSX since a while mate and I knew I could make it with disk utility or many other software. I just thought there was some files on the hard drive it could not read or find when making the dmg. But if it works that simple even better. Thanks.

 

Could anyone answer the other questions please? It is very important to me.

 

Thanks.

[robo456]

EX58-UD5 System

xbench 1.3 test (no HD) - 202.64

xbench 1.3 test (with HD) - 101.82

geekbench 2.1 test - 5150

 

cinebench r10 CPU1 - 698 CB-CPU

CPUX - 9443 CB-CPU

multiprocessor speedup - 13.53 x

open gl - 1594 CB-GFX

 

From my other post on the previous page, I started over from scratch:

 

1) Installed sata drive in my original working EP45-DS3R

2) formatted/partitioned it with GUID

3) mounted retail 10.5.6 and combo 10.5.7 images

4) ran run-patch_installer.command script

4a) option 2, 3, 4

4b) installed combo update

4c) option 5, 6

5) exit, shutdown, remove drive and replaced into target machine (EX58)

6) boot up, go thru the initial user setup and get to the desktop

7) re-ran the run-patch_installer.command script

7a) option 7, 9, 10

8) exited out, reboot...

 

I left EVERYTHING stock and reran all the benchmarks, here's what happened this time:

xbench 1.3 test (no HD)   - 314.20
xbench 1.3 test (with HD) - 224.04
geekbench 2.1 test		   - 8585

cinebench r10 CPU1		  -  3500 CB-CPU
				 CPUX		  -  14733 CB-CPU
multiprocessor speedup	 -  4.21 x
open gl							-  6606 CB-GFX

 

Better, but still looks like there's room for tweaking without OC'ing. Thanks for any ideas!

 

--rob

[digital_dreamer]

That's what I figured too looking at a few peeps sig's. I'm at the stage where "I know enough to be dangerous" eheh, but not enough to really know what I'm doing so far. I'm learning as I flop thru this stuff and from what I've read from other posters.

 

What's odd, is nothing really looks "out of place" as far as the hardware profile (besides the speed issue referenced in my original post), nothing shows "unknown" or "unconfigured" or "disabled". I'm not really sure where else to check, or to see which files are causing problems.

 

--rob

Which bootloader are you running?

The older bootloaders (anything older than 2.0) exhibit a system clock issue on the vanilla kernels, thereby messing up any time-related routines.

 

Don't worry about using the MacPro4,1 identifier. It fits your system. It's just those using that identifier without a Core i7 system that need to watch out.

 

regards,

MAJ

 

EDIT: Okay, your latest scores are normal and respectable for a stock system.

[robo456]

Which bootloader are you running?

 

EDIT: Okay, your latest scores are normal and respectable for a stock system.

 

I chose the cham 2.0rc1 from the script. Looks like it's time to load this puppy up and enjoy it... Thanks so much DD and everyone for all the research and info!!

 

--rob

[remydlc]

Before I start, I'd just want to thank everyone that has worked on the EX58 project!!

 

I tried running thru the last part of the mobo-patcher script on the new but that didn't seem to do anything. I popped in OSXTools and was able to "reset" the CPU info, but that shows 3.2 Ghz Intel i7 920 now. It got the chip right, but the processor speed is 2.67 ghz (completely stock, no OC)... In the 'hardware' portion of about my mac it shows:

 

  Model Name:	MacPro4,1
  Model Identifier:	MacPro4,1
  Processor Speed:	3.2 GHz
  Number Of Processors:	1
  Total Number Of Cores:	4
  L2 Cache (per core):	256 KB
  L3 Cache:	8 MB
  Memory:	6 GB
  Bus Speed:	1.33 GHz
  Boot ROM Version:	MP31.00C1.B00

 

--rob

 

+1 Many thanks for your efforts and this guide.

 

Rob,

 

like you I followed the guide posted by FUT1L1TY @ May 18 2009, 08:16 PM. It worked like a charm. But like you, I have the very same CPU problem. It shows @3.2. My memory is 1333 and it shows running at 1600. I overclocked the CPU at 3.4, and still shows the same info. However, I saw improvements in my Xbench test.

 

Does this affect anyhow our PC performance? Have you find a solution.

 

Thanks

[FUT1L1TY]

Is there any kext that needs to be removed necessarily? I have seeing cameron doing this

 

I have enclosed a screenshot of the kexts i am using with 10.5.7

 

Would my NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE with 128MB of GDDR SDRAM work on leopard without adding any string? I say this because it is the card came with my dual late 2005 Mac.

 

I imagine that should work without a string.

 

EX58-UD5 System

xbench 1.3 test (no HD) - 202.64

xbench 1.3 test (with HD) - 101.82

geekbench 2.1 test - 5150

 

cinebench r10 CPU1 - 698 CB-CPU

CPUX - 9443 CB-CPU

multiprocessor speedup - 13.53 x

open gl - 1594 CB-GFX

Thanks!!

 

--rob

 

Something is definitely wrong although I can't tell you what that is. My Geekbench scores are below. The strangest thing is your cinebench 'multiprocessor speedup'. It's way too high. I'm pretty sure this should be a number between 4 and 5.