[GUIDE]Retail Snow Leopard 10.6 on a GA EP45-UD3R

[360freak]

Reporting to be 100% working with Cartri's custom ep45-ud3r bios and NO DSDT at all!

 

I simply followed the instruction in the guide, but deleted the dsdt.aml from my hard drive and just skipped the step involving it. Then before my first boot, I installed the Cartri bios. For the bios settings, I referred to the settings listed in the pdf bundled with the bios download, but used the ones in this guide for the settings specified here. (So basically, use the settings listed here, then for all other settings not mentioned, refer to the pdf).

 

Before the first boot, I also deleted the kexts listed in the pdf as not needed. You also don't have to use the DSDT=cartri command at boot, as the dsdt file on your drive will already be deleted.

 

Woot!

 

 

EDIT: Apparently I somewhat lied, though it's nothing mobo related. I can't get QE/CI on my graphics and as with my last attempt at Leopard, my mouse is jumpy/glitchy. My card is listed in my sig - NVidia 9800 GT 512mb. I'm using the 8800 GT efi string as they are essentially the same cards and that's what I've always done in the past. Any advice?

And my mouse is a Logitech G5. Especially with precise movements, it will start making small jumps/glitches on the string. Any advice on this?

 

Thanks

[JFLNYC]

I tried (and am using) the Cartri BIOS myself. It's extremely promising. But I had to reinsert my DSDT file to get my GTS 250 graphics card recognized. Could not find/generate an EFI string which worked (including strings I'd used successfully before), which has never happened to me before.

[360freak]

I tried (and am using) the Cartri BIOS myself. It's extremely promising. But I had to reinsert my DSDT file to get my GTS 250 graphics card recognized. Could not find/generate an EFI string which worked (including strings I'd used successfully before), which has never happened to me before.

 

Ah. My card was recognized fine, and the EFI is working as far as resolution and device identification goes, but I just have no QE/CI support.

[sw170]

..... My card is listed in my sig - NVidia 9800 GT 512mb. I'm using the 8800 GT efi string as they are essentially the same cards and that's what I've always done in the past. Any advice?

And my mouse is a Logitech G5. Especially with precise movements, it will start making small jumps/glitches on the string. Any advice on this?

 

Thanks

Hi 360freak and JFLNYC, did you try Graphicsenabler=yes in com.apple.boot.plist ?

360freak About your mouse I would probably first try to fix Graphic issue so: generate accurate to your GPU string if Graphicsenabler doesnt work, then if you still have jumpy mouse and if you use Logitech drivers, I would remove them, try with apple stock drivers, then whatever the results are: install Steermouse and either - to configure the mouse or - to check if things got better.

 

Can you give us more details about Catri bios upgrade ? like: sleep, restart, shutdown, usb removal error, audio, firewire hotplug, system boot time ?

 

what kexts do you have to use to make things working ?

 

thanks

s

[JFLNYC]

Hi 360freak and JFLNYC, did you try Graphicsenabler=yes in com.apple.boot.plist ?

360freak About your mouse I would probably first try to fix Graphic issue so: generate accurate to your GPU string if Graphicsenabler doesnt work, then if you still have jumpy mouse and if you use Logitech drivers, I would remove them, try with apple stock drivers, then whatever the results are: install Steermouse and either - to configure the mouse or - to check if things got better.

 

Can you give us more details about Catri bios upgrade ? like: sleep, restart, shutdown, usb removal error, audio, firewire hotplug, system boot time ?

 

what kexts do you have to use to make things working ?

 

thanks

s

 

Yes, I tried Graphics Enabler (which has never worked for me on any machine, btw). You can get full details about the bios by going to http://cartri.net/blog/ or going to his thread in these forums.

[sw170]

Yes, I tried Graphics Enabler (which has never worked for me on any machine, btw). You can get full details about the bios by going to http://cartri.net/blog/ or going to his thread in these forums.

 

I know Cartri's blog and following his thread on this forum already.

I am only asking you to share your practical experience with this upgrade.

 

Thank You!

s

[JFLNYC]

I know Cartri's blog and following his thread on this forum already.

I am only asking you to share your practical experience with this upgrade.

 

Thank You!

s

 

Other than my graphics issue, the BIOS works as advertised for me.

[pplug]

Hey guys,

 

I am using the cartri .7m bios on my ud3r! I have a q9550 and a gtx 260 as well. I've had some random panics but I'm hoping that they are due to my overclocking (I've turned it down a bit since then and had no problems).

 

I still have a problem with automatic sleep. I've tried a new system on a fresh HD and still no go! I've heard others making this work, but I think I have a hardware issue. I had this problem when I was using a DSDT file as well. The program Please Sleep has made automatic sleep possible but I want to get as perfect a setup as possible now.

 

No, I'm not running Istat menus or any other system add-ons. I have unplugged all usb devices as well. I tried with a fresh install following all the instructions in the PDF.

 

Anybody with any clues?

[sw170]

"pplug" do you have TSST DVD drive ? If yes then read this

[360freak]

Hi 360freak and JFLNYC, did you try Graphicsenabler=yes in com.apple.boot.plist ?

360freak About your mouse I would probably first try to fix Graphic issue so: generate accurate to your GPU string if Graphicsenabler doesnt work, then if you still have jumpy mouse and if you use Logitech drivers, I would remove them, try with apple stock drivers, then whatever the results are: install Steermouse and either - to configure the mouse or - to check if things got better.

 

Can you give us more details about Catri bios upgrade ? like: sleep, restart, shutdown, usb removal error, audio, firewire hotplug, system boot time ?

 

what kexts do you have to use to make things working ?

 

thanks

s

 

Sleep works fine, restart is good, shutdown is good and does not take long, no USB removal errors that I've noticed, audio is great (I just had to select the "internal speakers"), and the system boot time is pretty average. I just screwed up my install with the nvidia 9000 v2 driver, so I'm doing a reinstall tomorrow and will get back with more results on my graphics. Thanks for the advice!

 

Kexts are as I listed before - only those listed in the BIOS pdf as still needed. I did NOT have to install:

SleepEnabler.kext, OpenHaltRestart.kext, any restart fixer kext, or HDAEnabler.kext. I'll list my exact kexts when I have my SL install back up and running.

 

It turns out my mouse is known for lack of support for OS X and poor functionality in mac. I tried USB overdrive and steermouse with no success, so I just purchased a Logitech LX8 mouse and it works fine.

[grice]

. My card is listed in my sig - NVidia 9800 GT 512mb. I'm using the 8800 GT efi string as they are essentially the same cards and that's what I've always done in the past. Any advice?

And my mouse is a Logitech G5. Especially with precise movements, it will start making small jumps/glitches on the string. Any advice on this?

 

Thanks

 

Hi 360freak, 

 

 

at least, I hope I can help you with this : my card also is 9800GT & my mouse is G5. I also had the exact same problem while on Leopard last year. Apparently with this particular combo, you have to downgrade Quicktime. I read the explanation why but I don't remember it right now 

 

 

 

 

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts..._quicktime.html

 

That's what I had to do (on Leopard) to get rid of the glitchy mouse movements coming out of sleep. 

 

 

 

 

I'm eyeing my UD3R board with a gleam in my eye and my hands are itching to try Catri's bios too  except that I've got work to do and I don't have time to test it on my spare HD I use as a testbed. Will report if I do.

 

With this new bios, how long does sleep on demand take now? My previous SL install took over 15 seconds..

[JFLNYC]

It might also be an AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext problem (in S/L/E). The kext can be removed safely, which often fixes the jumping mouse problem along with stuttering iTunes/Quicktime without having to downgrade QT. If you remove it, remember to run Kext Utility (or at least clear your extensions cache).

[Matt Mastrobuono]

I have tried to install snow leopard on my gigabite ep45-ud3r with bios f12 and it has not worked. some of the changes to the bios required are not on my bios screen and when the computer loads the mac booting screen before installation it goes into a kernal panic

[360freak]

In response to a few of the previous posts -

 

I'm back on SL now. The sleep is almost instant, there's no delay as far as I can notice.

I tried the graphicsenabler=yes option and it was unsuccessful.

 

With the quicktime downgrade, does that mean I will never be able to update quicktime if I want to use my G5? Just wondering if it's worth it or not to stick with the LX8 or return it.

[sw170]

Sleep works fine, restart is good, shutdown is good and does not take long, no USB removal errors that I've noticed, audio is great (I just had to select the "internal speakers"), and the system boot time is pretty average. I just screwed up my install with the nvidia 9000 v2 driver, so I'm doing a reinstall tomorrow and will get back with more results on my graphics. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks '360freak', reason Im asking you for that info is because Im wondering what is advantage of using Cartri BIOS update, my system runs perfectly fine with two kexts in E/E, optimised DSDT and boot in 35 seconds (mind Im using parallels desktop), I imagine only thing I can gain here is fastest boot time, right ? any feedback here ?

thanks

I have tried to install snow leopard on my gigabite ep45-ud3r with bios f12 and it has not worked. some of the changes to the bios required are not on my bios screen and when the computer loads the mac booting screen before installation it goes into a kernal panic

'Matt Mastrobuono' boot system in verbose mode (-v) and post your screen with KP here, what kexts you have in Extra Extensions folder ? put your hardware details in your signature.

 

In response to a few of the previous posts -

 

I'm back on SL now. The sleep is almost instant, there's no delay as far as I can notice.

I tried the graphicsenabler=yes option and it was unsuccessful.

 

With the quicktime downgrade, does that mean I will never be able to update quicktime if I want to use my G5? Just wondering if it's worth it or not to stick with the LX8 or return it.

I just checked in EFIStudio you can create Efi string for 9800 GT did you try that ?

[360freak]

...I imagine only thing I can gain here is fastest boot time, right ? any feedback here ?

thanks

 

I just checked in EFIStudio you can create Efi string for 9800 GT did you try that ?

 

The 9800GT in EFIStudio is the 1GB version, I'm using the 512MB one. I've made custom strings for the 9800gt and tried those as well.

 

I just did a software update to 10.6.3 though, and now I'm getting instant kernal panics. I just saw "***UPDATE*** Possible solution includes making sure you rebuild your kextcache after everything, BE 100% SURE IT WORKED!"

I didn't do that before the update...is there a way I can do it off of my 10.5.4 install on my external hard drive?

 

And I can't really see you benefitting from the BIOS if you already have your OS installed then. I haven't timed the boot time, but it's pretty quick. I really just like the BIOS since I don't have to deal with DSDT stuff.

[sw170]

..is there a way I can do it off of my 10.5.4 install on my external hard drive?

boot with flag -F, if KP, try -f and -x

 

The 9800GT in EFIStudio is the 1GB version, I'm using the 512MB one. I've made custom strings for the 9800gt and tried those as well.

for 512Mb change VRAM, totalsize settings from AAAAQA== to AAAAIA==

[pplug]

"pplug" do you have TSST DVD drive ? If yes then read this

 

 

Thankss for the advice but unfortunately I have a pioneer drive:

 

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D:

 

Firmware Revision: 1.22

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)

Cache: 2000 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

 

I did a test to see if it was the ide drives causing this problem but it had no effect when I disconnected them from the mobo and restarted from a cold start.

 

I am using my GTX260 with the following strings in my com.apple.Boot.plist:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

<key>device-properties</key> <string>6c0200000100000001000000600200000d00000002010c00d041030a010000000101060000010

101060000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730

069007a006500000008000000000000381c0000006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000

650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b0000006469737

06c617922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000

00646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000

0000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000001a0000006e56696469612047

65466f726365204754582032363020000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006

c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e0061006d006500000012

0000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4114000000400031002c006e0061006d00650000001200000

04e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d0070006100740069006200

6c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163100000004e0056004300410050000000180000000

4000000000003000c00000000000007000000001e00000072006f006d002d00720065007600690073

0069006f006e0000002e0000006e5669646961204765466f7263652047545820323630204f70656e4

74c20456e67696e65205b4546495d</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

 

Could any of this this be a possible problem?

[lydian_b7]

Please help me... after install 10.6.3 update:

then i delete sleedenabler.kext and extension.mkext

What should i do?

( sorry for my bad quote, Im new here )

 

Hi !

Same issue here after 10.6.3 combo update, searched it and saw it is fixable.

I have existing hackintosh(10.5.8) HDD, booted from it so I can plug and manipulate my Snow HDD.

Download NullCPUPM.kext from this page: http://netkas.org/?p=382

And drag it in the Extra/Extensions folder to replace it and delete SleepEnabler.kext if you have.

That's it ! It worked for me.

(I dont use onboard sound so dont know wheater sound kext works or not. )

 

Good luck !

[sw170]

Thankss for the advice but unfortunately I have a pioneer drive:

...

well I would say here rather fortunately for you

auto sleep is bit tricky issue to chase, what I can suggest you is to check hibernatemode settings (in terminal type pmset -g | grep hibernatemode) if you have 3 set it to 0 with command sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 check autosleep again

[pplug]

well I would say here rather fortunately for you

auto sleep is bit tricky issue to chase, what I can suggest you is to check hibernatemode settings (in terminal type pmset -g | grep hibernatemode) if you have 3 set it to 0 with command sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 check autosleep again

 

 

Damn! Thats not it. I checked and it does report 0. Thanks for the try though. Back to the drawing board.

[anomaly]

I tried to use osx86tools to install an audio kext but I can't select any kexts, they're all greyed out. Anyone else see that before? What do I need to do? Audio is the only thing left that isn't working for me.

[mactheworld77]

started up and getting a login screen, I log in and then the login screen appears again. I repaired permissions and rebuilt directory with a separate os on usb hard drive, same problem. Any ideas?

[jimbobuk]

I've noticed today that my machine was running with 100MB/s ethernet.. trying to change it in the network properties and it failed.. its 100MB-ness survived a full shutdown and psu switch off.. it only came back onto gigabit within the bios doing a smartlan test..

 

i've commented out the bonjour fix and booted and its running at gigabit without bonjour, i'll try turning bonjour back on and see if this affects it at all.

 

Even running at alleged gigabit, i'm only seeing about 16-20MB/s transfers versus more like 40-60+ that i see when gigabit is working properly. What speeds and sync rates are others getting? I'm starting to wonder whether this hardware is just a bit fussy.. i've never booted it in another OS to know whether it'd work perfectly well in that.

 

I'm thinking about buying a hardware NIC which is listed as working out of the box. If i did this i presume i wouldn't require the ethernet part of the dsdt patch? Can i just disable the LAN on the motherboard, plugin the NIC and expect it to work? Would you still need the bonjour hack in this state?

 

I was looking at the cards listed here

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...2#Network_Cards

 

TP-Link TG-3269

Trendnet TEG-PCITXR

 

seem possible. Anyone else gone down this route with any hardware?

 

Cheers

[toolbox1234]

I followed the instructions here and is able to install SL on my GA-965P-DS3 rev 1.0 and have a question about the bootloader.

 

My system have two disk. First one is MBR based with Win 7 on the first partition and Leopard 10.5.8 with Chameleon V2 RC4 on the 2nd partition. The SL is on the 2nd drive using the bootloader downloaded from the first post of this thread. If I use the BIOS to boot off the 2nd drive, everything is fine. However, if I use Chameleon RC4 to boot my SL, I got: "Errors encountered while starting up the computer. Pausing for 5 seconds...". After few seconds, it will boot into SL without further issue. Just wonder what is in the PC EFI 10.1 package that the rc4 is lacking.