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which page exactly do you talk about the com.apple.Boot.plist EFI because I need to do this myself and have installed or re-installed osx 4 times already. Each time Im pretty much screwing up the boot loader. So the things I will never try (The new chameleon) (myhack installer) That ruined my graphics. I just want my 8600 GTS 256 to freakin work Ugh!! :( So im willin got try the graphics enabler if thats what it takes but I want to make sure im doing this s%^&t correctly or else its another farking format again.

 

I'm not sure of the page, but you can find a string for your specific card using google, or OSx86 Tools (don't install the string using OSx86 Tools, but just copy and paste it yourself). Use an installer for Chameleon RC2, and replace the "boot" file wherever you installed Chameleon with the RC4 one. These files (including OSx86 Tools I believe) are all found in my SL Pack v5.0b (few pages back).

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I'm starting to encounter Ethernet problems.

It disconnects here and there.

I have to either log off and log back on and it will work for a little bit.

I have to restart my machine and it will work for 30 mins.

Everyone else in the house has no problems besides me.

 

Any suggestions?

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@lateralusman, At Chameleon type -v arch=i386

 

This will also get you verbose and you can see i386 when you machine starts to boot... just to confirm!

 

 

EDIT:

 

 

Well I have a pretty large grin on my face right now. I started tinkering with my machine over the last weekend and I found out what was causing my sleep issue. No-Execute memory protect [Disabled] this cannot be disabled or your machine will get stuck in starting up and then shutting back down. So yeah happy I fixed this one.

 

Bumped my OC up to 3.92GHz, still can't get 4GHz....

 

I also starting playing with dsdt, since I finished on my hackbook.. I thought it would be a good time :) I did a fresh dump in Ubuntu and started patching, I can admit this was ver frustrating at times, but overall I kept pretty calm :P my dsdt has been slimmed from about 6000 useless lines to about 1000 lines + on the up I am now running 1 kext, fakesmc.kext and that's it! Using modified RC4 boot file and a patch for restart/shutdown, Sleep works 100%, Audio Good, Graphics via dsdt, no efi strings, LAN working ( Still need ifconfig Bonjour fix ), Vanilla Apple power management with perfect temps.... I mean it really does not get any nicer than this :D

 

I am very happy with this board!

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mrjanek: Excellent work, installed using a portable USB disk & downloads as of 1/11/2010. All appears well.

 

MB = Gigabyte EP45-UD3P

Graphics = Nvidia 8600GTS 256mb

 

Question: What procedure does one follow to upgrade the graphics card? And is a GT220 ok? or 250, 260 or what?

 

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mrjanek: Excellent work, installed using a portable USB disk & downloads as of 1/11/2010. All appears well.

 

MB = Gigabyte EP45-UD3P

Graphics = Nvidia 8600GTS 256mb

 

Question: What procedure does one follow to upgrade the graphics card? And is a GT220 ok? or 250, 260 or what?

 

philmrmac

 

What you will need to do with a new card depends on how you have your card working now. Are you using the Chameleon auto detect, an EFI string or a kext injector currently? If you are using Chameleon, you should be able to just swap the card and it should automatically work. If you are using an EFI string, then you will need to, before swapping in the new card, change the EFI string to the correct string for your new card in com.Apple.boot.plist, then shut down your machine, swap the card and when you power up you should have the right settings. If you are using a kext currently, take it out and switch to using either Chameleon or an EFI string :)

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mrjanek: Excellent work, installed using a portable USB disk & downloads as of 1/11/2010. All appears well.

 

MB = Gigabyte EP45-UD3P

Graphics = Nvidia 8600GTS 256mb

 

Question: What procedure does one follow to upgrade the graphics card? And is a GT220 ok? or 250, 260 or what?

 

philmrmac

 

Or I would say the best method would be inject with dsdt :)

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Depends on how much GFX power you're looking for. My 9800 GTX+ 512MB runs on SL beautifully, and it's a decent card. If you want a 10 series+, then I'm not entirely sure what your best option is. I would stick to EFI strings for graphics though, but that's just me. DSDT is slightly more annoying to change, but it's still easy if you are careful.

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I'm starting to encounter Ethernet problems.

It disconnects here and there.

I have to either log off and log back on and it will work for a little bit.

I have to restart my machine and it will work for 30 mins.

Everyone else in the house has no problems besides me.

 

Any suggestions?

 

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Are you using the built in Realtek ethernet on a GA EP45-UD3R? Which DSDT are you using?

 

Yes I am using the built in network card.

I am using your Default dsdt.

I've never had problems for months since you started your guide.

Problem started to happen on Monday slow speeds, dropped speed. it fluctuates up and down.

I cant even get speeds of 200kb when i download a file

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Well it has to be related to the update. Maybe do a search to see if these problems exist on genuine macs...

 

Might not be a genuine Mac problem, but worth a look. I haven't had any problems, however.

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Hello all,

 

I recently acquired the EP45-UD3P and I am using this thread and a couple other sources to get up and running.

 

The only problem I am having now is I would like to get my pci audio card working. I also have a WLAN card (138G) in the bottom pci slot. If I switch the slots for the audio card and the WLAN card, then my airport is not recognized and the audio card works fine with the kext I have (CMEDIA 8738).

 

So, it appears that one of my pci slots does not work properly. Has anyone run into this? I see a few posts that discuss issues with it. I have looked long and hard at the DSDT dsl output file that can be used to generate a .aml file - but I do not know enough to figure out what may fix my pci slot issue. Any help out there?

 

Thanks.

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Hello all,

 

I recently acquired the EP45-UD3P and I am using this thread and a couple other sources to get up and running.

 

The only problem I am having now is I would like to get my pci audio card working. I also have a WLAN card (138G) in the bottom pci slot. If I switch the slots for the audio card and the WLAN card, then my airport is not recognized and the audio card works fine with the kext I have (CMEDIA 8738).

 

So, it appears that one of my pci slots does not work properly. Has anyone run into this? I see a few posts that discuss issues with it. I have looked long and hard at the DSDT dsl output file that can be used to generate a .aml file - but I do not know enough to figure out what may fix my pci slot issue. Any help out there?

 

Thanks.

 

Post your .dsl here and I'll take a look.

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I got a panic when using this guide and need help!

 

My config:

 

GA-EP45-UD3L

Intel E7300 2.66 GHZ

Sapphire Ati Radeon HD 4870 1GB

2x1GB DDR2 memory

250 GB SATA

 

You JUST pm'd me about the smbios.plist, and I don't think it would cause that kind of KP. Regardless, boot with the "-s" boot flag, and delete the smbios.plist (if and only if you were successfully booting before making changes to it).

 

sudo rm -rf /(Location of smbios.plist)/smbios.plist

 

(requires root password).

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You JUST pm'd me about the smbios.plist, and I don't think it would cause that kind of KP. Regardless, boot with the "-s" boot flag, and delete the smbios.plist (if and only if you were successfully booting before making changes to it).

 

sudo rm -rf /(Location of smbios.plist)/smbios.plist

 

(requires root password).

 

no I'm sry about that I got the smbios right and got everything up and working till I REBOOTED like it said in your guide but it didn't work.

 

I can't figure it out because the only thing differently I did than your guide was that when I got to the dsdt part I found a guide that had dsdts made for gigabyte boards and used the one that matched my board. Could that have caused it?

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