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Dewdman42
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Gracias. Interesting. I looked all over the place for this yesterday or the day before and couldn't find it. Must have just barely missed it. I will do a binary compare out of curiosity to see if tech support sent me essentially the same thing. Good to know its official now though. Thanks.

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I tried F13e too, thanks to your file. It works great so far. Update: Switched to the F13 from Gigabyte Site.

 

USB drive connected while starting the computer up had forced the computer to restart, disabling Overclocking. Now the overclocking settings stick, no restart, it just works as one would expect it to do. Update: this works only for some time then it makes problems again.

 

What i notice is the RAM timing setting (i.e. 5-5-5-18 etc.). This has gone.

 

You noted, that shutdown/sleep/restart works now for you. With or without the patched kexts and power off fix?

 

Regarding BIOS, I have received F13e from Gigabyte last night. I guess this is nearly ready for production. The production version of this BIOS has already been released for some of the other P35 boards, but not quite ours yet. I tried it last night. Sleep S3 worked perfectly for me, so that seems to be fixed. I slept and awoke, no problem and very fast. Restart and shutdown are working. latency seems fixed compared to F12, though I can't tell for sure without running on windows. Also they fixed the vcore retention issue I mentioned before.

 

karaakeha1, I'm not sure why you're having sleep problems. which kernel and osx86 distro are you using now?

 

I recently did a clean install using boot-132 to install from Vanilla Leopard disc. Then I upgraded to 10.5.4 using online Apple Update. Then I installed chameleon and applied the post-batch.sh script provided on this thread to overwrite that handful of kexts (ie, SMBIOS, AppleHDA, etc). I used EFI strings for Audio, network and GeForce video. Everything is working 100%, including Sleep(s3), USB, iPod, firewire, audio, network, everything....and I'm getting the best benchmark numbers I've seen yet on this machine.

 

ls8, latency numbers will be inflated if you have any kind of devices you're using. if you use the mouse/keyboard, the latency numbers will go up. USB hard drive, etc..any kind of device usage, particularly stuff like firewire, usb, etc..will ramp the latency values up a bit. The BIOS fix eliminates spikes that people were seeing for no apparant reason when a minimum amount of devices were connected. The fix eliminates the spikes. But if you plug a bunch of stuff in, then you won't detect the spikes most likely because they will be buried under all the other device usage, but that doesn't mean the inefficiencies aren't happening somehow.

 

Also, BTW, latencies under 100usec are not bad at all. That performance you showed for your iMac is not bad at all. Everything under 33 usec. That is actually quite good!! When you get spikes into the hundreds of usecs, or worse yet, over 1ms, then that's when it can effect something like audio. Still, many people will never notice the difference even there, except for some pro audio and video situations.

 

but its true, when I measured these latencies on this hardware running XP, the idle latencies were more like 20usec on average, a bit lower than the iMac is showing. but this is actually a very small discrepancy, not worth worrying about.

 

ps - I'm attaching F13e in case anyone else wants to try it

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F13 Sleep works as just posted by karaakeha1

 

OK, problem solved... by loading optimized BIOS settings once, then reconfigure to the desired settings. All 4 cores are detected now, and sleep, restart, shutdown all work with F13.

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Interesting. So maybe the CMOS memory arrangement needed to be reflushed with new data to be all happy in this BIOS. hard to say. I am having no problem with sleep on F13e. I will move to the official F13 shortly. I will try to trick of optimized BIOS as you suggestsed and then reset my settings, not a bad idea.

 

In case anyone is running, I have hardly any patched anything. Almost everything is pure kernel except for a couple of kexts in that v12 pack that ls8 is sharing with everyone.

 

I have noticed that every once in a while the machine turns off overclocking by simply changing it to DISABLED. this seems to happen only when I'm monkeying around with things. When I don't monkey around and just reboot as needed, the overclocking sticks. Not sure why our board does this, but it may be perfectly normal, not sure.

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OK, problem solved... by loading optimized BIOS settings once, then reconfigure to the desired settings. All 4 cores are detected now, and sleep, restart, shutdown all work with F13.

 

Sleep, restart and shutdown work with vanilla files? No patched AppleACPIPlatform and shutdown-fix required ???

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Guys, just a quick question... I've been thinking about picking up a set of Logitech z5500's recently and I just want to know if I'll be able to get 5.1 surround via the optical/coaxial digital outs on the DS4? I've searched high and low (which isn't easy on this site - even using Google) and I can't seem to find a definitive answer. Will I just be limited to 2 channels or will I get 5.1 digital out? If so, what kexts/patches/whatever will I need to get it working?

 

My apologies if this has been answered before, but I just can't find it here (and I'm about to tear my hair out in frustration)... I'd like to find out before I hand over my precious $300!

Thanks in advance! :D

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@eclau

 

I have a similar issue with my sata optical drive: If I leave a CD/DVD in it for over 4-5 minutes the drive won't respond at all and won't let me gain any access to it .. neither opening the inserted media nor ejecting.

 

As long as there is no media in the drive this doesn't happen.

 

 

I asked for this a bunch of times here at insanelymac but didn't get any answer to it ...

I think that this must be down t the specific model of optical drive or maybe just the firmware version on that drive. I had this problem with a Pioneer DVR-215. I replaced it with a Pioneer DVR-212 & had no more problems.

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I´ve got some news concerning the kernel panics.

It was the USB WLAN stick (particular the driver) which caused the kernel panics. I uninstalled the driver and unplugged the stick and now the system is rock solid.

But for some reason, shutdown will not work every time, especially when the system was up for some hours and longer.

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LS8 or Others,

 

I'm just about to purchase either the GA-P35-DS4 or the GA-EP35-DS4. Bios versions are different and the E board appears to be Energy Efficient - apart from that - same chipsets etc.

 

Searching the forums someone mentions that you had an E board and had problems with it. I look at your signature and you have the GA-P35-DS4 not the E. Did you have this mb and did it cause you some problems and you went back?

 

I'm just about to buy the E version but don't want a world of pain when I can quite easily buy the earlier board. I take it your scripts/install guide will work exactly the same on either board?

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LS8 or Others,

 

I'm just about to purchase either the GA-P35-DS4 or the GA-EP35-DS4. Bios versions are different and the E board appears to be Energy Efficient - apart from that - same chipsets etc.

 

Searching the forums someone mentions that you had an E board and had problems with it. I look at your signature and you have the GA-P35-DS4 not the E. Did you have this mb and did it cause you some problems and you went back?

 

I'm just about to buy the E version but don't want a world of pain when I can quite easily buy the earlier board. I take it your scripts/install guide will work exactly the same on either board?

 

I bought a EP35-DS4 for a friend and installed Leopard on it with just the scripts and kexts ls8 provides here. No problem at all reported by my friend.

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I bought a EP35-DS4 for a friend and installed Leopard on it with just the scripts and kexts ls8 provides here. No problem at all reported by my friend.

 

Some people also reported that the kext pack works perfectly on GA-X38-DS5

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