Sound should just be running the installer that I have in my OP. Use UInstaller and apply the Gigabyte EP45-DS3L kext package. Then, open OS X 86 Tools and hit "touch extensions folder", reboot.

Then go to System Preferences and set the sound outputs to whatever you are using (probably internal speakers)

Also, can you do me a favor and DL this:
http://www.maxon.net/downloads/downloads/cinebench.html

run the video (OpenGL) test and let me know what numbers you get. thanks!

Dead9

United States4725 Posts

August 23 2009 05:15 GMT

#182

On August 22 2009 08:48 maleorderbride wrote:
The 4870 should really work, unless you have a TOXIC 4870 or one of the HDMI/S-video/DVI version cards. Is that what you have?

Even if you do, there *might* be a thread somewhere on insanelymac that can help.

<b>Dead9</b>: Have you tried just one stick in each of the RAM channels? Is it possible that just one channel on the motherboard is bad?

Oh well though; already gave my extra ram sticks to a friend
Hopefully I won't have any problems for a few years

torifile

United States6 Posts

August 23 2009 14:23 GMT

#183

On August 23 2009 05:34 maleorderbride wrote:
Sound should just be running the installer that I have in my OP. Use UInstaller and apply the Gigabyte EP45-DS3L kext package. Then, open OS X 86 Tools and hit "touch extensions folder", reboot.

Then go to System Preferences and set the sound outputs to whatever you are using (probably internal speakers)

Also, can you do me a favor and DL this:
http://www.maxon.net/downloads/downloads/cinebench.html

run the video (OpenGL) test and let me know what numbers you get. thanks!

Well, I've got a slightly different MB. It's a EP45-DS4P. I was able to get the audio working through eventually by copying the AppleHDA.kext from my iMac and an HDAenable.kext file. Works great now.

Cinebench:
CINEBENCH R10
****************************************************

Tester :

Processor :
MHz :
Number of CPUs : 4
Operating System : OS X 32 BIT 10.5.8

Graphics Card : ATI Radeon RV770 Prototype OpenGL Engine
Resolution : <fill this out>
Color Depth : <fill this out>

****************************************************

Rendering (Single CPU): 3483 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 11986 CB-CPU

Multiprocessor Speedup: 3.44

Shading (OpenGL Standard) : 7088 CB-GFX

****************************************************
I was not able to overclock at all. I tried the settings you recommended but the computer would just restart a couple of times and the revert to previous settings. Gotta work on that... The key difference for me was the DDR2 ram running at 800 mhz rather than the 1066 that you have. Can you recommend settings for OCing based on that? I understand that the mem needs to run at at least 2 times the CPU setting, right? I'm also still running the stock Q9550 cooler.

maleorderbride

United States2916 Posts

August 23 2009 18:13 GMT

#184

Heh, yea I can not recommend overclocking if you are not going to upgrade the CPU heatsink.

You are also correct that you need to have at least 2:1 of the FSB, but that means you can just do a lower overclock, such as 400FSB. You will also want to change the FSB ratio to 400FSB, instead of the 333FSB that my guide uses. Then manually select 800MHz for the RAM speed (2:1).

400FSB will still yield a very reasonable speed of 3.4GHz. Voltage can probably be ~1.30 or less depending on the starting VID of your chip, so long as you have load-line calibration enabled.

maltice

United States28 Posts

September 03 2009 23:31 GMT

#185

So.....

Any news on snow Leopard Maleorder?

Havent been around much to do any research on it but firgured I'd post in here to see if anyone has upgraded successfuly yet

-malt

maltice

United States28 Posts

September 05 2009 20:00 GMT

#186

Anyone know how to get rid of the chameleon bootloader screen? I don't actually want to do dual boot anymore and insteadm just want it to go to osX but I cant get rid of the bootloader screen, heh

Thanks

-maltice

frankenstein

United States8 Posts

September 08 2009 12:32 GMT

#187

Has anyone tried the new release snow leopard on this build?? Im getting my parts in today : ) first time building too looks great.

Thanks for the Guide.
frankenstein

maltice

United States28 Posts

September 08 2009 21:28 GMT

#188

I haven't tried yet. Got the upgrade sitting there on my desk but been too busy at work to mess with it. Let us know if it works for ya!

_maltice

maleorderbride

United States2916 Posts

September 09 2009 17:09 GMT

#189

I will do SL soon (probably this week) and then post the driver files.

Maltice:
Instead of removing Chameleon just edit it to autostart.

Navigate to the /Extra
copy the apple.com.Boot.plist to the desktop
open it and add the following lines below any line that ends in </string>

Preserve the tabbed over formatting of the keys/string

<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>

Save the plist and add it back to the /Extra folder.

Open terminal
type sudo -s
enter your password (you must have an account with a password for this)

cd /
chmod -R 755 extra
chown -R root:wheel extra
exit

Reboot and Chameleon should autostart the default volume in 2 seconds.

frankenstein

United States8 Posts

September 10 2009 16:22 GMT

#190

I cant seem to get the boot 132 disc made? I unrar it with winrar and the INITRD shows as a winzip file not an image file Im new to these programs any help would be great

frankenstein

United States8 Posts

September 10 2009 20:50 GMT

#191

got it now i cant get the the right format into GUID to complete the install of osx....

frankenstein

United States8 Posts

September 10 2009 20:53 GMT

#192

nevermind just clicked on it and it worked

maleorderbride

United States2916 Posts

September 11 2009 03:18 GMT

#193

glad to hear its working! (although seemingly frustrating)

frankenstein

United States8 Posts

September 12 2009 01:48 GMT

#194

Almost working sort of im trying to search for stuff first but i cant find something similiar
I get a blue screen on boot(even in safe mode -x) and cant eject the boot 132 disc (I was going to try a fresh install to fix it) so cant go anywhere that i see.
This happened after doing auto update
at first i was having the same problem as maltice with a grey (with specs dots like water splashed on the screen) screen on boot but could move the mouse and stuff would sort of move. So i tried the safe boot and opened up the 4870 driver and did the install .... I dont think i was suposed to do that
my memory showed up but my video card doesnt show up all the way like one of the other posts has a picture with a 4890 card my didnt show all the info .
is there a comand i can use to just start over and do a fresh install?

heres what i get on diagnostic messages. anything else i should look for?
I cant get in to osx I just get the blue screen.
boot 132 is stuck in dvd drive
The only difference on my build is i have a Pioneer218 dvd burner SATA

dumppanic (53)error getting reference to iodevice tree

frankenstein

United States8 Posts

September 12 2009 01:49 GMT

#195

Thanks for your time and this guide any help would be great

frankenstein

United States8 Posts

September 12 2009 01:53 GMT

#196

one last thing in safe mode i get a grey screen with an apple and a timer circle below the apple then..... after a while.... screen goes black then turns blue

Thanks again
frankenstein

jacktheripper

Australia21 Posts

September 12 2009 02:59 GMT

#197

So, any updates on Snow Leopard? I'm keen to install it, but checking here for any details i should know

maleorderbride

United States2916 Posts

September 13 2009 18:56 GMT

#198

On September 12 2009 10:48 frankenstein wrote:
Almost working sort of im trying to search for stuff first but i cant find something similiar
I get a blue screen on boot(even in safe mode -x) and cant eject the boot 132 disc (I was going to try a fresh install to fix it) so cant go anywhere that i see.
This happened after doing auto update
at first i was having the same problem as maltice with a grey (with specs dots like water splashed on the screen) screen on boot but could move the mouse and stuff would sort of move. So i tried the safe boot and opened up the 4870 driver and did the install .... I dont think i was suposed to do that
my memory showed up but my video card doesnt show up all the way like one of the other posts has a picture with a 4890 card my didnt show all the info .
is there a comand i can use to just start over and do a fresh install?

heres what i get on diagnostic messages. anything else i should look for?
I cant get in to osx I just get the blue screen.
boot 132 is stuck in dvd drive
The only difference on my build is i have a Pioneer218 dvd burner SATA

dumppanic (53)error getting reference to iodevice tree

Do you have a 4870 or a 4890? Did you auto-update to 10.5.8? You can try using a DVI->VGA converter on the card and see if that changes anything.

You can use a paperclip to open the DVD burner (the small hole in the front panel).

Try booting with -x -f -v.

You can always do that fresh install can't you? Just boot off the Boot-132 CD like you did the very first time.

On September 12 2009 11:59 jacktheripper wrote:
So, any updates on Snow Leopard? I'm keen to install it, but checking here for any details i should know

I will be using this guide to install SL:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181903

I figured I can make it more approachable, but have not had time yet. School started up for me again =/

I can promise that it will happen eventually since I need to do it for my business, but I do not know when.

frankenstein

United States8 Posts

September 13 2009 22:58 GMT

#199

for some reason i thought i couldnt install sorry about that. its installing nicely now.
Thanks again.

tgrokz

United States30 Posts

September 27 2009 18:20 GMT

#200

i realized that my mobo was the ud3r and not the ud3lr hahaha. that was so stupid of me, but as soon as i put the ud3r kexts into OSX, everything works perfectly.
the ONLY little problem i have now is the CMOS. for some reason, booting into OSX resets the time in my BIOS to 4 hours too late. i can boot into win 7 a hundred times without the time changing, but as soon as i go into osx, it resets the time. the weird thing is that the time in OSX is always right, no matter what the bios says
sleep/hibernate/standby doesnt work in windows 7, but that doesnt bother me too much