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d00m42
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Ah, my flashbacks of when I got the GSOD's ;)

 

Honestly thats pretty dang good, with all those tasks going and just now crashed.. your doing well.

 

I played with my memory timing a tad and that resolved any "remainder crashes" after the ntfs issues I had found.

 

I have yet to have any GSOD since my original post awhile back, I am very happy with SL and the whole setup :)

 

Yeah well considering EVERYTHING works, it's a start. I AM using two different kits of memory (same manufacturer/model, but one set is 2x2gb one is 2x1gb for a total of 6gb) which could be problematic, and I could always loosten the mem timings from 5-5-5-18 to 6-6-6-18 if necessary. I'm pretty damn sure 425*9.5 = 4.03 GHz is stable for my processor from prior testing, but it's possible that the extra 2x1gb kit is making the system slightly unstable. I'll go through more testing through tomorrow.

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Time Machine has about 65GB or so to go.

 

Tomorrow I'll see if I can get it truly 100% stable (no KPs/GSODs for a full 24 hours doing intensive tasks constantly). Once I'm content with my result, I'll finish up the new guide and post it, although I have quite a bit of homework, plus I have to do a few college apps/essays this weekend. I'll probably have the time, but I might not be able to answer many questions till later on tomorrow.

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I am getting a really strange behaviour if i try to boot me new installed SL:

 

All fans start spinning at max and the screen is black, even resett and power off is not working

 

I do NOT have a EP45 board, i have a P35. Also my video card is a ATI Radeon HD 3870 which seems to cause this problems.

 

Does anybody know how I can get this card working on SL?

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GA EP45-UD3R bios F11 (final):

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherb...mp;FileID=14980

Direct link:

http://america.giga-byte.com/FileList/BIOS...45-ud3r_f11.exe

 

Caution: using the Windows @bios flash utility is NOT recommended.

Instead: use the Q-flash utility from the bios setup screen.

 

Anyone try updating the bios yet?

Any effect on the OSX 10.6 boot process?

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Anyone try updating the bios yet?

Any effect on the OSX 10.6 boot process?

 

just theoretically thinking:

 

the dsdt is based directly on the bios (one way to create a dsdt is to start from a bios file)

meaning that you may have to re-create your dsdt for a 100% compatible dsdt with your system, I would guess that it may/should still boot ok, but may have hidden problems here and there if you keep the old one.

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Time Machine has about 65GB or so to go.

 

Tomorrow I'll see if I can get it truly 100% stable (no KPs/GSODs for a full 24 hours doing intensive tasks constantly). Once I'm content with my result, I'll finish up the new guide and post it, although I have quite a bit of homework, plus I have to do a few college apps/essays this weekend. I'll probably have the time, but I might not be able to answer many questions till later on tomorrow.

 

you should try mprime like I told you before

run it for hours and see if you get one single error

but check your temperature since they can sky rise, or you may want to setup the alarm in the bios

 

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I have a 500GB drive but it's full of data, I have a 250GB, but want to keep that one for separate data

then I have the Leo drive but didn't take everything out yet

 

finally I have two other 160 an IDE and a SATA, I'll combine them into raid 0 (for a speedy 320GB drive) for a time machine backup... speed won't do much since my SL is a "slow" (non-raid 0), but at least I'll get 320GB in one drive...

just saying that I may be asking for trouble, we'll see if SL can raid an IDE and a SATA and use it as TM without any GSOD....

(someday I'll get a 2TB disk so that I can TM all my disk... as soon as they get sub $100)

 

edit: just started it, so far so good: TM 72GB to go

edit TM done without GSOD (btw that was in 64bik kernel) :P

 

well now that I know TM works, I don't know how I could crash my mac, any help, LOL ?

 

also on this latest install I did, I never repaired cache or permission, never ran kext utility (I already had my mkext for the extra folder, which is on the EFI partition), it is a truly pure install

 

just tried the read and write speed of the Time Machine drive I have 112 MB/s.... (used aja system test)

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Hey Guys, I'm stumped. I've followed this guide to the letter several times and I get a KP on booting a drive I've created with the contents of the retail DVD.

 

I don't know what else it could be. Other than creating my own DSDT.aml file, which I'm under the impression is not immediately necessary since my board is so similar, I'm at a loss as to why it immediately KPs.

 

KP:

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BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Unknown

 

Mac OS version:

Not yet set

 

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel .....

 

System uptime in nanoseconds: 109521134

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I've seen that. I couldn't get past it for a while. My problem was I was using the stock Chameleon 2.0 rc2 bootloader.

 

Once I switched to a more recent Chameleon (I inquired- apparently comes from user modbin), it booted right up. You can also skip running kextutility - no Extensions.mkext is required.

 

Find the newer chameleon here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182227

under Making a Boot-132 Disc + Method in the Files needed -> boot.zip (195.81k)

 

Bliss out

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you should try mprime like I told you before

run it for hours and see if you get one single error

but check your temperature since they can sky rise, or you may want to setup the alarm in the bios

 

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I have a 500GB drive but it's full of data, I have a 250GB, but want to keep that one for separate data

then I have the Leo drive but didn't take everything out yet

 

finally I have two other 160 an IDE and a SATA, I'll combine them into raid 0 (for a speedy 320GB drive) for a time machine backup... speed won't do much since my SL is a "slow" (non-raid 0), but at least I'll get 320GB in one drive...

just saying that I may be asking for trouble, we'll see if SL can raid an IDE and a SATA and use it as TM without any GSOD....

(someday I'll get a 2TB disk so that I can TM all my disk... as soon as they get sub $100)

 

edit: just started it, so far so good: TM 72GB to go

edit TM done without GSOD (btw that was in 64bik kernel) :D

 

well now that I know TM works, I don't know how I could crash my mac, any help, LOL ?

 

also on this latest install I did, I never repaired cache or permission, never ran kext utility (I already had my mkext for the extra folder, which is on the EFI partition), it is a truly pure install

 

just tried the read and write speed of the Time Machine drive I have 112 MB/s.... (used aja system test)

 

Wow that's pretty fast :P And yeah well in x64 I have no way to monitor CPU temp... Temperature Monitor doesn't work in x64, and I would really not want to rely on a BIOS alarm alone. I'll figure something out though... I'm also gonna try a memtest to makesure that my memory isn't the issue (using two different size kits, even though they're both Corsair XMS2). 12GB left on TM, so I think it's fine...

 

I wish that iStatPro could read CPU temp : ( It only sees the temps of my 3 internal HDs.

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yes! I can't access the internet. I have to recreate dsdt file. Audio is working OK and boot process is much faster.

 

;) I recreated new dsdt file, but network is not working in F11 bios motherboard version, even after new sl install. Shame because the boot process is faster.

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:) I recreated new dsdt file, but network is not working in F11 bios motherboard version, even after new sl install. Shame because the boot process is faster.

 

I had a similar result after bios update on my Biostar P35 board.

The onboard NIC still worked in Windows, but quit working when running OSX 10.5.

Disabled the onboard NIC & replaced with a Realtek 8139 chip based 10/100 PCI NIC card, which solved the problem.

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looked around, but can't find one

(tried MSRtools, but doesn't work)

 

Aww... I'll figure out something. The people who make Temperature Monitor really have to make an x64 version -.-

 

I found out that my KP from earlier having to do with Photoshop is a known bug that the people over at Adobe are working on.

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Aww... I'll figure out something. The people who make Temperature Monitor really have to make an x64 version -.-

 

I found out that my KP from earlier having to do with Photoshop is a known bug that the people over at Adobe are working on.

 

I'll let you know if I get KP due to photoshop, haven't extensively used it yet in SL

 

I'm deleting Leo now !!!

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It's very specific, I think one cause is dragging an image onto the dock icon to open it in PS.

 

thanks for the info, I'll try that right away

 

also if you open the console, launching photoshop you get :

post-309790-1252184400_thumb.png

 

malloc error are not good, a programming instructor would knock you points out for having those ;)

 

 

edit

I get similar mallor_error

but no KP

 

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should I be crazy a little, and try OSX system on a raid 0 setup (now that I have an empty 160 where Leo use to be)?

I would formatt the SL drive

set it up in raid 0 with the "Leo drive"

and restore with TM

 

sound good ?

a TM restore should work... I hope

 

will I still have an efi partition on a raid setup? I hope so

 

edit:

I'm recreating my SnowLeo external USB install Disk, with chameleon 2, since it is supposed to be raid friendly

 

edit:

 

it worked

but I don't know how to setup the efi partition, I could at least boot it using my HD SL install disk

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I am getting a really strange behaviour if i try to boot me new installed SL:

 

All fans start spinning at max and the screen is black, even resett and power off is not working

 

I do NOT have a EP45 board, i have a P35. Also my video card is a ATI Radeon HD 3870 which seems to cause this problems.

 

Does anybody know how I can get this card working on SL?

 

It's the video card. It will "work" in VESA mode in SL (32 or 64) if you remove the ATIRadeon2000 and ATI3800Controller kexts.

 

Be mindful that how you flag the video resolution for the bootloader is how the display will remain with Snow.

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Helpme...

 

ga-ep45-ud3r

q9550

 

Error:

puschCPU_CSTData _CST evaluation failed

 

Set in my dsdt

Scope (_PR)

{

Processor (CPU0, 0x00, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}

Processor (CPU1, 0x01, 0x00000000, 0x06) {}

Processor (CPU2, 0x02, 0x00000000, 0x06) {}

Processor (CPU3, 0x03, 0x00000000, 0x06) {}

}

 

not work...

any help

thank

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Helpme...

 

ga-ep45-ud3r

q9550

 

Error:

puschCPU_CSTData _CST evaluation failed

 

Set in my dsdt

Scope (_PR)

{

Processor (CPU0, 0x00, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}

Processor (CPU1, 0x01, 0x00000000, 0x06) {}

Processor (CPU2, 0x02, 0x00000000, 0x06) {}

Processor (CPU3, 0x03, 0x00000000, 0x06) {}

}

 

not work...

any help

thank

 

try that:

		Processor (CPU0, 0x00, 0x00000410, 0x06) {}
	Processor (CPU1, 0x01, 0x00000410, 0x06) {}
	Processor (CPU2, 0x02, 0x00000410, 0x06) {}
	Processor (CPU3, 0x03, 0x00000410, 0x06) {}

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