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

[tj01]

Hi,

I have this UD3R working correctly, with sound, ethernet, Time Machine and some bonjour working. Sharing iphone + itunes, plus CUPS printers is also working correctly.

However, I can't seem to figure out why iPhone Remote don't show up under devices in iTunes. Sharing is enabled in iTunes and Firewall is turned off. I don't think it's the router because I can replicate the same setup replacing this hackintosh with my Macbook Pro and my iphone Remote turns up on iTunes.

Is anyone else with this Mobo and using DSDT have iphone/ipod touch Remote turning up correctly in iTunes ?

I also tried running en0 under promiscuous, but still not visible.

 

Any ideas ?

[Squirrelf]

Eliade,

 

Thanks for the BIOS reset tip. It worked flawlessly. I now have the same issue again though where I can't wake the system from shutdown. I'll work on it a bit over the next few days (time permitting) and I'll keep you posted on my findings.

 

kk

 

great that you go it working

 

thanks, let me know if you find anything about WOL from shutdown

 

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Is anyone else with this Mobo and using DSDT have iphone/ipod touch Remote turning up correctly in iTunes ?

...

Any ideas ?

remote works fine with my ipod touch, always did (well ay least when bonjour was working)

 

did you upgrade to itunes 9

there's also an update for remote with new feature to work with itunes 9

besides that I don't have any other advices...

[machinist]

Who made the Q6600 ?

 

LOL good catch

BUT the system really is running at 3.2Ghz even if it shows 3.6GHZ

I can see it when running GeekBench: my score is about 7000 now

I also get about the same score when running at about 3.2 using a 9x

 

when I did 3.6 (400x9) my score was at or above 8000 (my temperature was also much higher, LOL)

 

the reason why it displays 3600 instead of 3200, is that it will show the speed if running at the max multi, the program thinks I'm in speedsteep mode running at 8x... I'm sure it does the same with every cpu (CPUZ had the same problem few years ago)

great little program though, thanks for the name

 

Eliade:

 

Thought you might appreciate MacCPUID. Intriguingly enough Snow shows 3.2 (bios settings) in System Profiler while Leopard shows whatever one sets in smbios. Interestingly enough, clicking the button on the Intel tool over and over again raises temps and does run the system (either Leopard or Snow) at the "max" for the raised multiple for that instant when the real time sample is taken. Running the tool you suggested previously, MSRTools, I can see a little "blip" when I hit the button on MacCPUID, in Leopard of course, as it moves from the 89% 3.2 to 3.6 for just a moment. Then again I may have been hallucinating? I'm good with either. 3.2 is an effortless and safe overclock for this proc, and does the job.

 

JTG78:

 

I've found a wealth of knowledge on overclocking this UD3P board at Tweaktown, the official unofficial Gigabyte overclocking site? The latest bioses live there too. Been running the AHCI 1.20 f10e which now is dated by the newly posted f10f, so I guess it's flashing time again? A little searching there will yield complete templates for nearly any proc and Gigabyte board combination, and save a lot of trial and error.

[tj01]

did you upgrade to itunes 9

there's also an update for remote with new feature to work with itunes 9

besides that I don't have any other advices...

 

Eliade,

Can you post your dsdt ? I would like to try yours, mine is very similar to yours. I've iTunes 9 and latest Remote.

[liupingguo]

Somebody call 911!

 

Using EP45T-UD3LR, Asus EN8400GS 512MB, followed exactly the instruction, after system finished loading :

 

systemShutdown false

Previous Shutdown Cause: 3

NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.

DSMOS has arrived

AppleRTL8169Ethernet: Ethernet address 00:24:1d:21:b4:5b

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

IOHIDSystem::relativePointerEventGated: VBL too high (96952281), capping to 20000000

 

 

then screen went black, lighted up but no nothing, hard drive seemed to be running.

 

what's wrong with it? I've seen couple of posts on the same issue in this topic, anybody got a clue, please!

[Squirrelf]

Eliade: I use different cpu coolers on my different systems. On my EP45-UD3R I use this one:

 

Cooler Master GeminII S

 

It wasn't my first choice, but I needed something low profile for the Skeleton case. Well, it's fantastic. Most effective cooler I have and only $32. My E8400, OC'd to 4.05 (from stock 3.0) idles at 32ºC. And it runs very quiet.

 

 

I have a zalman 9700 I'll look at temp benchmark to compare it with yours ...

it is a pretty good cooler, quiet most of the time, takes off when needed, but I'm sure there's better

I don't need 3.6GHZ everyday, 3.0Ghz is all I need most of the time (now settling for 3.2 since I'm very close to get a nice dsdt speedstep), but the days I do 3D rendering I want the most I can get out of that Q6600... I know 3.6 is stable (with a vcore lower than 1.5) it's only a very good cooler I need to keep the temps low ... but that chip did very well once I had it running at 68°C during day and 64°C at night non-stop for a week (at 3.2Ghz)...

 

I guess I can still sell my zalman, or mod it to fit into the shuttle (that might be a very bad idea, LOL), in which I have the stock cooler right now (no overclock)

 

Eliade,

Can you post your dsdt ? I would like to try yours, mine is very similar to yours. I've iTunes 9 and latest Remote.

 

voila, just recompile it

 

dsdt.dsl.zip

 

good luck

 

Somebody call 911!

 

Using EP45T-UD3LR, Asus EN8400GS 512MB, followed exactly the instruction, after system finished loading :

 

systemShutdown false

Previous Shutdown Cause: 3

NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.

DSMOS has arrived

AppleRTL8169Ethernet: Ethernet address 00:24:1d:21:b4:5b

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

IOHIDSystem::relativePointerEventGated: VBL too high (96952281), capping to 20000000

 

 

then screen went black, lighted up but no nothing, hard drive seemed to be running.

 

what's wrong with it? I've seen couple of posts on the same issue in this topic, anybody got a clue, please!

 

try to boot without cpupowermanagement kext

I suppose you are not overclocking, if you are go back to normal clock (at least until you have a stable system)

[machinist]

I have a zalman 9700 I'll look at temp benchmark to compare it with yours ...

it is a pretty good cooler, quiet most of the time, takes off when needed, but I'm sure there's better

I don't need 3.6GHZ everyday, 3.0Ghz is all I need most of the time (now settling for 3.2 since I'm very close to get a nice dsdt speedstep), but the days I do 3D rendering I want the most I can get out of that Q6600... I know 3.6 is stable (with a vcore lower than 1.5) it's only a very good cooler I need to keep the temps low ... but that chip did very well once I had it running at 68°C during day and 64°C at night non-stop for a week (at 3.2Ghz)...

 

I guess I can still sell my zalman, or mod it to fit into the shuttle (that might be a very bad idea, LOL), in which I have the stock cooler right now (no overclock)

 

Eliade:

 

Been very pleased with the XigS1283. @100% load all four cores IntelBurn tests rarely crack 60C CoreTemp, Windows side, and here in AppleLand I've never seen a sixty (3.2, 8x400 or 9x355). Idles in the mid-30's. It was very reasonably priced around $20 on sale with free shipping at NewEgg and benched comparable to a TRUE. I lapped it, but not the proc.

[Squirrelf]

I have speed step running using only dsdt !!!

 

I used p-state calculator to get the dsdt settings

 

IDLE: my idle temp are now 51 on the hottest core

before the dsdt fix with only cpupowermanagement it would idle at 43°C, I don't like that...

 

 

HOWEVER on LOAD:my vcore is "much" lower than before (bios is unchanged at 1.325v), in CPUi I was at 1.34v

but status now shows 1.276 on full load (mprime), system is still stable so far

 

 

 

I noticed that the 198/199 edit is different than FormerlyKnownAs's dsdt

we have it on FFixedHW

but he has it on SystemIO

so what does that do?

 

Eliade:

 

Been very pleased with the XigS1283. @100% load all four cores IntelBurn tests rarely crack 60C CoreTemp, Windows side, and here in AppleLand I've never seen a sixty (3.2, 8x400 or 9x355). Idles in the mid-30's. It was very reasonably priced around $20 on sale with free shipping at NewEgg and benched comparable to a TRUE. I lapped it, but not the proc.

 

thanks I'll look at that one too, not on newegg anymore :-(

(I had my eye on the TRUE for a while now...)

[xopher]

I noticed that the 198/199 edit is different than FormerlyKnownAs's dsdt

we have it on FFixedHW

but he has it on SystemIO

so what does that do?

 

Sorry to answer this with a quote, but Superhai posted a pretty good explanation:

 

You also need to make the difference between SystemIO and FFixedHW (and other values).

SystemIO

Is related to the x86 I/O ports, and are defined by your chipset setup (which means that different m/b will have different values)

FFixedHW

That is some fixed hardware, for x86 CPU's it is often used for MSR's. And as you have seen for P-states, the MSR used are the 0x0198 (IA32_PERF_STATUS) and 0x0199 (IA32_PERF_CTL) (on AMD other MSR's are used)

 

Ergo don't edit SystemIO. Do edit the FFixedHW.

 

Eliade: Have you tried to lower the voltage for the minimum stepping? That should get the temps down even more. And hey, if it makes the system unstable, just change it back :-)

[Squirrelf]

Sorry to answer this with a quote, but Superhai posted a pretty good explanation:

 

 

 

Ergo don't edit SystemIO. Do edit the FFixedHW.

 

Eliade: Have you tried to lower the voltage for the minimum stepping? That should get the temps down even more. And hey, if it makes the system unstable, just change it back :-)

 

thanks, that's exactly what I wanted

 

is it normal that I get only two stepping (x9 and x6) from linux dump, and/or should I add x7 and x6 manually

cpu-i P-states display four of them

but you have newer cpu than my q6600 so maybe I get only two and you get four...

 

and I suppose that if I change the overclock of my system I should change the dsdt speedstep settings again, am I right?

 

one more question if you know the answer, is that dsdt overriding the vcore in the bios even at full milti (x9)?

[JFLNYC]

thanks, that's exactly what I wanted

 

is it normal that I get only two stepping (x9 and x6) from linux dump, and/or should I add x7 and x6 manually

cpu-i P-states display four of them

but you have newer cpu than my q6600 so maybe I get only two and you get four...

 

and I suppose that if I change the overclock of my system I should change the dsdt speedstep settings again, am I right?

 

Anyone have a link to download cpu-i? I can't find it for the life of me.

[Squirrelf]

Anyone have a link to download cpu-i? I can't find it for the life of me.

 

http://redirectingat.com/?id=292X457&u...p%3Fmjtzklwlczt

 

if you extract the kext from the packadge you can run it from extra/extensions

(the application "pacifist" will do that for you)

[JFLNYC]

Thanks!

[motorhead6776]

ive been following your guide step by step and everything is going great. i currently find my self at step 6 except i have a gtx 260 core 216 and im not sure what to do. ive heard that this card is supported in snowleopard but i dont know what to do.

[Squirrelf]

ABOUT SPEEDSTEP

at full multi (x9 in my case) the step setting in the dsdt doesn't do anything

I can set the voltage very low, sure cpu-i will display something lower

but I know my system is not a 1.132v, (bios is at 1.325), as of now mprime is super stable

if I change the bios down to even 1.275 keep the dsdt like before, my system crashes less than a minute after using mprime...

 

so what proof do I have that the system is actual using a lower vcore when I'm speedstepping down to x6 ? the temperature make me think I'm actually running at full 1.325vcore even at x6

 

I don't think cpu-i can really be fully trusted

I'll keep on experimenting

 

 

edit:

I added speedstep x7 and x8 to the x6 an x9 I already had, seems to work well

 

however, looking at the idle temperature, I really don't believe at least on my computer that speedstepping is actually reducing the voltage... even if cpu-i sows it, I know the display is wrong at x9... it's more like cpui is reading the dsdt/ssdt instead of getting actual hardware values...

 

I noticed however that if I set a voltage too low in the dsdt for the x6 step, it won't go in x6 very often, actually almost never, so I keep it at the pstate cpui advise, and now it stays at x6 when idle, temperature are still around 49~50°C when it is around 39~42°C without the dsdt speedstep fix

so I don't see the point of using speedstep with this setup

 

any advise ?

 

ive been following your guide step by step and everything is going great. i currently find my self at step 6 except i have a gtx 260 core 216 and im not sure what to do. ive heard that this card is supported in snowleopard but i dont know what to do.

 

the efi string for the 260 was posted somewhere in this thread

I hope the search function works for you...

[sensei730000]

Eliade, or someone else with a working dsdt speedstep could post here the dsdt.aml so i can inspire from it!?

[bluesyblues]

Don't think it matters

edit your boot plist and delete the efi string

than write GraphicsEnabler=yes in chameleon boot screen and it should work

 

I opened com.apple.Boot.plist, deleted the EFI string and added

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>y</string>

 

Then restarted and nothing happened! Did I do it right or is there another way to do it?

[Squirrelf]

Eliade, or someone else with a working dsdt speedstep could post here the dsdt.aml so i can inspire from it!?

 

speedstep_dsdt.dsl.zip

 

as I said I don't consider it perfect yet, but everything that should be done is done

I personally don't know where to go from there to lower idle temperature

 

besides that it is working very well

[chicagofilms]

try to boot without cpupowermanagement kext

I suppose you are not overclocking, if you are go back to normal clock (at least until you have a stable system)

 

 

How do you do that? I'm having lockups and crashes I think are related to AppleACPIPlatform and am trying to find a resolution.

 

I am overclocking a tad, I bumped FSB from 333 to 400 but never had this happen in Leo, so I'm not sure if that's the cause. Is there something I can change in SL to allow the overclock, or is it just a bad idea in SL?

[JFLNYC]

I opened com.apple.Boot.plist, deleted the EFI string and added

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>y</string>

 

Then restarted and nothing happened! Did I do it right or is there another way to do it?

 

Actually, I believe you're supposed to use "yes" instead of "y" now. But no matter how many times I've tried it on all 3 of my machines, Graphics Enabler has never worked for me. YMMV.

[bluesyblues]

Actually, I believe you're supposed to use "yes" instead of "y" now. But no matter how many times I've tried it on all 3 of my machines, Graphics Enabler has never worked for me. YMMV.

 

So what do you suggest to have my graphics card working properly? it's a 9800 GT

[Squirrelf]

So what do you suggest to have my graphics card working properly? it's a 9800 GT

 

I suppose you tried the EFI string, you double checked for any typo

 

are you using chameleon rc3?

if so, rc3 might be loading the wrong com.apple.boot.plist, search for the command to point to the one you want

[bluesyblues]

I suppose you tried the EFI string, you double checked for any typo

 

are you using chameleon rc3?

if so, rc3 might be loading the wrong com.apple.boot.plist, search for the command to point to the one you want

 

The chameleon is RC1 - I used the PC EFI 10.1 that came with the files attached to that string.

 

I used as well the same dsdt that came with the files as I have the exact same motherboard as in the string.

 

I am reading a lot about moding the dsdt for graphics to work but it's quite complicated that I don't know exactly what to do.

[liupingguo]

Somebody call 911!

 

Using EP45T-UD3LR, Asus EN8400GS 512MB, followed exactly the instruction, after system finished loading :

 

systemShutdown false

Previous Shutdown Cause: 3

NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.

DSMOS has arrived

AppleRTL8169Ethernet: Ethernet address 00:24:1d:21:b4:5b

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

IOHIDSystem::relativePointerEventGated: VBL too high (96952281), capping to 20000000

 

 

then screen went black, lighted up but no nothing, hard drive seemed to be running.

 

what's wrong with it? I've seen couple of posts on the same issue in this topic, anybody got a clue, please!

 

 

 

try to boot without cpupowermanagement kext

I suppose you are not overclocking, if you are go back to normal clock (at least until you have a stable system)

 

 

Thank you for the reply!

This simply gave me KP...

inspired by GA-P35-DS4 experience, I succeeded. So For those who suffered from the last step to success, I suggest guys to install the package from this:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184367, install the The GA-P35-DS4 Snow Leopard Installer (Get it here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ndmrymdqgdz/...now%20Pack.pkg), then you're probably in, better boot with -v -x32 for first time .

 

Mine now is running pretty smoothly under both 32bit and 64bit.

[WinstonAce]

So what do you suggest to have my graphics card working properly? it's a 9800 GT

 

I posted my dsdt file earlier in this thread

ut contains all that is needed for qe/ci/opencl support with 9800gt

just copy the gfx part