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@ Professor : I think taht you don't chose or save proper settings, nobody using a Q6600 and a P35 based mobo reported any trouble with overclocking @ 333x9.

Be sure you press F10 after ou set up the clock.

I'll send you picts of my bios screen if needed.

I was fine for the first couple of weeks, then one day last week my machine wouldn't even post in 333x9. I've had to set it back to 266 for now until I find out what happened. Maybe F11 BIOS changed something critical...?

 

Hey :-). I tried again. The settings get saved, but the speed isn't updated somehow, it still reports 2.4 GHz at 267*9 (not 266). And os x recognizes only 2.4 GHz. If I don't bother you, please send me the pics you offered.

Are you sure you don't have a jumper on the CMOS clear pins?

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Repost from yesterday since it ended up being the last reply of the previous page, hopefully it can be answered?

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Thanks very much for all your work on this pack!

 

I have a problem booting 10.5.1 though, seemingly with the realtek Ethernet.

Just past the mDNSResponder spam, I have these lines:

 

<timestamp> localhost kextd[9]: IOKitWaitQuiet() timed out while waiting to write kernel symbols

rtl_r1000_nic_ext: Ethernet address 00:1a:4d:etc:etc

 

But then nothing happens after that. Got any ideas that I can try?

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I was fine for the first couple of weeks, then one day last week my machine wouldn't even post in 333x9. I've had to set it back to 266 for now until I find out what happened. Maybe F11 BIOS changed something critical...?

Are you sure you don't have a jumper on the CMOS clear pins?

 

Yes I'm sure. Well, i read your post and your experience with F11. I tried to boost my pc with 9x333 and it worked once. I switched back, because i had kernel panics (in fact they were related too Kalyway, i think, with the install method of ls8 patch and original DVD i don't have as much kernel panics, only on shutdown). In the meantime I upgraded to F11 and now i can't set overclocking of my board.

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You problem with F11 BIOS sounds really strange, I must be so lucky since I have no problem at all with it !

 

The only thing that I can not get to work is that Fu*king Shutdown, existing solution (at least the one I tried did not work on my configuration, maybe because of BIOS settings...)

 

PS @ ls8 : You should enclosed your BOIS settings in your Pack.

 

You might try Alex's AppleSMBIOS, which is the best in my opinion.

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You problem with F11 BIOS sounds really strange, I must be so lucky since I have no problem at all with it !

 

The only thing that I can not get to work is that Fu*king Shutdown, existing solution (at least the one I tried did not work on my configuration, maybe because of BIOS settings...)

 

PS @ ls8 : You should enclosed your BOIS settings in your Pack.

 

You might try Alex's AppleSMBIOS, which is the best in my opinion.

 

i studied some more about this problem. I read here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83141, that someone updated his bios to F11 and had to flush it, to be able to get his overclocking working again after the update. Can that be? And can I do that safely?

 

For your shutdown problem: Today I removed my two ATA drives from my configuration. And deleted jmicronata.kext. Shutdown seems fine for me now. But i still have to test it further.

 

Best Greetings,

 

Professor

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i studied some more about this problem. I read here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83141, that someone updated his bios to F11 and had to flush it, to be able to get his overclocking working again after the update. Can that be? And can I do that safely?

 

For your shutdown problem: Today I removed my two ATA drives from my configuration. And deleted jmicronata.kext. Shutdown seems fine for me now. But i still have to test it further.

That makes sense. I cleared my CMOS yesterday while I had the case open and set everything back to the way I had it. It seems stable but I haven't tried overclocking again yet though. I ordered a Freezer 7 H/S Fan today, so when I have fitted that I will be more comfortable OC'ing it than with the stock cooler.

 

About JMicronATA.kext, it really is bad. It crashes your machine once you go over 3.5Gb RAM. The version included with most install packs AFAIK is only patched to allow the driver to work with our version of the Jmicron H/W. I disabled this kext for now, I'll use it temporarily if absolutely necessary (like if I want to image my 'bootcamp' drive which is on the IDE ports), and then I'll disable it again.

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i studied some more about this problem. I read here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83141, that someone updated his bios to F11 and had to flush it, to be able to get his overclocking working again after the update. Can that be? And can I do that safely?

 

For your shutdown problem: Today I removed my two ATA drives from my configuration. And deleted jmicronata.kext. Shutdown seems fine for me now. But i still have to test it further.

 

Best Greetings,

 

Professor

 

 

Hey there,

 

I'm the one who wrote the guide you mentioned. Seem like a lot of you people on this forum are really lucky with this motherboard. Google 'p35-ds4 reboot cycle' & 'p35-ds4 bios issues'. Pretty gobsmacking that nearly all of the new Gigabyte mobos all share these same problems from p31 to x48 chipsets.

 

Anyhow make sure you 'clear DMI' data when you flash the bios. Then Shut down. Boot it and load 'optimised defaults' save and power down. then Boot again and see if it let's you overclcock. Also when setting up the bios for your overclcock set the MCH© Voltage & FSB Voltage to +0.1v. Doing this seems to help a lot.

 

My board is going back for an RMA soon because of the reboot cycle, every so often it'll will happen and the system turns on and off in an endless loop for about 3 seconds a time. Doesn't even get to the bios screen. I have to hard cut the ac power to it and clear the cmos. Pretty damaging for the rest of my hardware considering the 1st time it happened i didn't realize for about 20 minutes. My hard drives would have been turned on & off in that period approx 400 times. (Thats got to be good for their lifespan huh...)

 

I can also trigger this anytime I wish now simply by trying to sleep the computer. What's strange is that it does this in both osx AND vista. Funnily enough I never changed anything hardware or software - it just randomly decided that it was going to do this by itself - sleep *was* working 100% OK beforehand.

 

 

I would advise anyone thinking of buying this board to search the terms I listed in Google and see for themselves first. I'll be buying another board (IP35 Pro?) and flogging the new board I get back from RMA.

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Hi All,

 

first i want to tell my system spec:

 

GA P35-DS4 Bios F11

Intel Core2Duo E8400 (45nm)

4x 1024MB SuperTalent 800MHZ 4,4,3,8 Memory

Asus Geforce 8800 GTS 512MB (G92)

Samsung 750 GB Disk Sata AHCI Mode (Leo installed)

Hitachi 250 GB Sata AHCI Mode (Vista for Games)

2 x Sata DVD Writer (Optiarc and TSSTcorp) AHCI Mode

 

Setup:

Installed Kalyway 10.5.1 GUID Partition Table and EFI 8.0

copied ALCinject.kext and AppleHDA.kext for Audio

copied NVinject.kext for VGA, Beta 10.5.2 OpenGL Framework, Beta 10.5.2 NV.kext

static IP settings on NIC (no changes on IONetworkFamily.kext)

 

Result:

shutdown, restart and sleep is working (also the system was overclocked)

SMB and AFP connection to my Thecus 5200Pro NAS is working (1000BaseT FD with good performance, about 400Mbit with large Files)

OpenGL performance 2/3 vs MS

Overall a good working Hackintosh (never tried a Game on OSX just Xbench and OpenGL Extensions Viewer)

 

So, Time has changed (10.5.2 was released from Apple)

 

Installed Kaly 10.5.1 again on a Corsair 32GB USB Stick

 

From this running system, i installed a retail leo 10.5 to my Samsung 750GB

patched with EFI 8

using a GUID partition Table

added dsmos.kext

deleted AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext and AppleEFIRuntime.kext

 

Updated to 10.5.2 using netkas method

and now my 1. Question: it was not possible (read only) to edit the startup script (/System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1) with vi (root permissions)

normaly i am using vi to edit files on command line (standard unix style) but with nano it was working fine.

WHY, what is the difference ?

 

OK, changed the AppleACPIPlatform from ls8

changed the AppleSMBIOS.kext from netkas

changed the ALCInject and AppleHDA.kext for Audio

added again NVInject.kext for working VGA

updated online Graphics update

 

Question2:

what is the difference between the original vanilla (appleAHCIPort.kext, IOAHCIFamily.kext and IOATAFamiliy.kext)

and the Files from ls8 ? (everything working fine with original kexts)

 

Result:

shutdown, restart and sleep works (with overclocking CPU, sleep is not working, reboot cycle) mmhh !!??

SMB and AFP connection to my Thecus 5200Pro NAS is working (1000BaseT FD with good performance, about 400Mbit)

after sleep mode (not overclocked) Networking was not working again ! (static IP) Why ?

OpenGL per formance is much better vs 10.5.1 !

 

Greetings from switzerland

Scocth12

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Hey, dublove, your tip made my day!!! Flushed the bios, and now overclocking works again. Running Leopard at 3GHz now :)

 

Thanks...

 

Hey there,

 

I'm the one who wrote the guide you mentioned. Seem like a lot of you people on this forum are really lucky with this motherboard. Google 'p35-ds4 reboot cycle' & 'p35-ds4 bios issues'. Pretty gobsmacking that nearly all of the new Gigabyte mobos all share these same problems from p31 to x48 chipsets.

 

Anyhow make sure you 'clear DMI' data when you flash the bios. Then Shut down. Boot it and load 'optimised defaults' save and power down. then Boot again and see if it let's you overclcock. Also when setting up the bios for your overclcock set the MCH© Voltage & FSB Voltage to +0.1v. Doing this seems to help a lot.

 

My board is going back for an RMA soon because of the reboot cycle, every so often it'll will happen and the system turns on and off in an endless loop for about 3 seconds a time. Doesn't even get to the bios screen. I have to hard cut the ac power to it and clear the cmos. Pretty damaging for the rest of my hardware considering the 1st time it happened i didn't realize for about 20 minutes. My hard drives would have been turned on & off in that period approx 400 times. (Thats got to be good for their lifespan huh...)

 

I can also trigger this anytime I wish now simply by trying to sleep the computer. What's strange is that it does this in both osx AND vista. Funnily enough I never changed anything hardware or software - it just randomly decided that it was going to do this by itself - sleep *was* working 100% OK beforehand.

I would advise anyone thinking of buying this board to search the terms I listed in Google and see for themselves first. I'll be buying another board (IP35 Pro?) and flogging the new board I get back from RMA.

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I'm the one who wrote the guide you mentioned. Seem like a lot of you people on this forum are really lucky with this motherboard. Google 'p35-ds4 reboot cycle' & 'p35-ds4 bios issues'. Pretty gobsmacking that nearly all of the new Gigabyte mobos all share these same problems from p31 to x48 chipsets.

 

Anyhow make sure you 'clear DMI' data when you flash the bios. Then Shut down. Boot it and load 'optimised defaults' save and power down. then Boot again and see if it let's you overclcock. Also when setting up the bios for your overclcock set the MCH© Voltage & FSB Voltage to +0.1v. Doing this seems to help a lot.

 

My board is going back for an RMA soon because of the reboot cycle, every so often it'll will happen and the system turns on and off in an endless loop for about 3 seconds a time. Doesn't even get to the bios screen. I have to hard cut the ac power to it and clear the cmos. Pretty damaging for the rest of my hardware considering the 1st time it happened i didn't realize for about 20 minutes. My hard drives would have been turned on & off in that period approx 400 times. (Thats got to be good for their lifespan huh...)

Very strange. Thanks for the info, it's quite enlightening, I'll give your recommendations a shot (Maybe next time I will get an Asus).

 

I had the same problem sometimes. I downgraded BIOS to F8 again, problem solved :censored2:

Did you go down in steps, like F11 -> F10 -> F9 until problem was resolved, or just thought 'screw it' and went back to what you had before? I'm thinking about downgrading too.

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I had the same problem sometimes. I downgraded BIOS to F8 again, problem solved :censored2:

 

 

Thats interesting. I'm going to flash back to F8 and see what happens. It's odd though because sleep was working just fine on F11 then one day it just stopped. I'll report back.

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Very strange. Thanks for the info, it's quite enlightening, I'll give your recommendations a shot (Maybe next time I will get an Asus).Did you go down in steps, like F11 -> F10 -> F9 until problem was resolved, or just thought 'screw it' and went back to what you had before? I'm thinking about downgrading too.
Ehi! :( I'm starting to optimize my system, what do you think about sharing your experience on overclocking settings and best bios version to gain them?I think it would be a pretty thing here with ds4 owners. :censored2: p.s. 10.5.2 it sounds little bit snappier but the xbench it's not changed at all.
Thats interesting. I'm going to flash back to F8 and see what happens. It's odd though because sleep was working just fine on F11 then one day it just stopped. I'll report back.
Consider that even with the "old" F8 the sleep is always run well on this board.
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I never had any problems with sleep, just one thing that I'd really like is to be able to use Wake-On-Lan instead of calling my wife to ask her to press the power button so I can log into it from work.

 

BTW - I'm on DS3R and I have assumed all this time that DS3R = DS4 - 1 PCIe slot, so YMMV with anything I will tell you! :D

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I have a proposal to try out:

 

With Jmicronata.kext i had the problem, that on shutdown leopard had a kernel panic in the very end of the shutdown process. I removed the ATA drives and the kext, and Leopard would shutdown cleanly. I had to press the powerbutton of my PC though, to fully shutdown the pc.

 

But interestingly: I was playing with the startvolume preferences, looked, if my startup drives would show up there, they did (seems to depend of the version of EFI, with kalyway or another EFI they didn't, with the one of Ls8 they do) and clicked on a startup volume to choose the system to startup and "restart". Of course it didn't worked. BUT, after that i have shut down the computer, and now it totally shuts down - no power, i don't have to press the power button of the PC.

 

Can someone please confirm this?

 

Thx,

 

Professor

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I will try it tonight when I get home. What version of EFI are you using Prof?

 

Edit: Whoops I forgot. It's Valentines day today... am I allowed to touch my computer at all? I don't think I'll be able to try this until tomorrow...

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I will try it tonight when I get home. What version of EFI are you using Prof?

 

Edit: Whoops I forgot. It's Valentines day today... am I allowed to touch my computer at all? I don't think I'll be able to try this until tomorrow...

 

I was using the one from Kalyway DVD and then another one i found in one thread elsewhere in insanelymac. The phenomenon i described is with ls8's EFI, which is included in the Pack he provides. its the only one i can see my system partitions in the startup preferences pane with.

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hello, I updated to 10.5.2 according to netkas method and was surprised by the fact that my differents partitions on the others hard drives were unable to be unmounted !! ( resource busy) and the owners are enabled .

Does someone else have it also ?

thanks

fred

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The pre- and post-install scripts are well commented, so can be easily edited for your specific needs.

 

update: version 2, ICH9R ATA drivers added

update: version 3, Realtek ethernet drivers updated

update: version 4, Jmicron JMB363 driver added

update: version 5, owners enabled on destination volume by default, ALC889a driver updated (by Alex), RTL1xxx returned, JMB363 not installed by default, efi strings inclulded

 

1/ connect empty HDD to your Leopard machine (Apple or Hackintosh)

2/ create partitions, apply pre-patch (it installs PC EFI - set your disk and volume parameters!)

3/ insert Leopard DVD, open terminal, enter: cd "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages"; open OSInstall.mpkg

4/ follow instructions

5/ apply post-patch (it installs drivers required - set the destination volume!)

6/ connect HDD back to your Hackintosh

 

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i have a quiestion, what can i do with this ? i can change in the dvd ?

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Will this tutorial work with this motherboard:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128064

 

It's the GA-P25-DS4, but it is the rev.2.0 version. Will that make a difference at all, or can I just install Leopard right away (via this tutorial)?

Absolutely not!

There isn't any difference between REv of DS4 at all!

Go ahead , u won't disappointed. :)

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Absolutely not!

There isn't any difference between REv of DS4 at all!

Actually there is. The obvious difference when you look at the board is the earlier revision (1) had parallel and serial ports at the rear plate, and most of the USB connectivity was provided by headers and brackets. This moved for rev 2.0, for DS3, DS3L/R/P and DS4. The other difference is I believe but I'm not 100% certain at the moment, is that the sound chip on the earlier board is not the ALC889A but the ALC888. Between the 2.0 and 2.1 revisions I don't know, but I wouldn't expect much. A comparison on the Gigabyte website may reveal it.

 

Heck - I'm running a DS3R rev 2.0 and it's basically the same board as the DS4 except the DS4 has two PCIe slots for GFX cards, whereas the DS3R and L have only 1 and no Firewire. (And I followed the DS4 install guide ;-)).

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