10.6.2 update success EP45-UD3P

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Hi All,

 

Just wanted to say that I decided to throw the dice tonite and install 10.6.2 using software update. Upgraded from 10.6.1.

 

Install went fine, no problems so far, sound and network are good, even sleep works ok.

 

My original Snow Leopard install was done using the lifehacker guide.

 

http://lifehacker.com/5400897/our-hackinto...sed-hacks-break

 

Gigabyte ep45-ud3p

q9550 quad cpu

8 gigs 1066 ddr

GTX 275

netgear ga-311tx

[MaxRygar]

I'm also running a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P and Q9550 quad cpu.

 

I updated last night and every time that I boot up OSX (I'm running both OSX and Windows 7) the screen goes dark and message appears in the center telling me that "You need to restart your computer" by pushing the power button. That's it - the machine freezes and all I can do is push the power button to restart. I went through that about 6 times before giving up. Everything worked perfectly with Snow Leopard 10.6.1. I don't really want to start over with a new install of the OS if I don't have to.

 

Any help out there?

Thanks.

 

Hi All,

 

Just wanted to say that I decided to throw the dice tonite and install 10.6.2 using software update. Upgraded from 10.6.1

 

Install went fine, no problems so far, sound and network are good, even sleep works ok.

 

Gigabyte ep45-ud3p

q9550 quad cpu

8 gigs 1066 ddr

GTX 275

netgear ga-311tx

[bigwigtom]

I'm also running a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P and Q9550 quad cpu.

 

I updated last night and every time that I boot up OSX (I'm running both OSX and Windows 7) the screen goes dark and message appears in the center telling me that "You need to restart your computer" by pushing the power button. That's it - the machine freezes and all I can do is push the power button to restart. I went through that about 6 times before giving up. Everything worked perfectly with Snow Leopard 10.6.1. I don't really want to start over with a new install of the OS if I don't have to.

 

Any help out there?

Thanks.

 

I too am having similar problems. I am running a similar setup, EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0 Firmware F8, Intel Q9550 CPU and ATI 4850 graphics. Followed lifehacker guide, installed the halloween pack, everything working fine then ran software update, 10.6.2 appeared to install then on next reboot I got kernel panic with error "version mis-match between CPU and kernel". Tried a safe boot but same problem.

 

Obviously I've heard about the potential problems with Atoms in 10.6.2 but this is a Core 2 Quad. I'm wondering if I need to repair disk permissions using the OS X installation disc (flash disk); I wonder if the problem could be caused by kext permissions? Just a thought.

 

EDIT: Booted to installation medium (flash disk) and repaired the Mac HD permissions: didn't fix it.

 

Similarly, could it be because I have installed the halloween pack onto the hard drive, I wonder? Perhaps the presence of those kexts on the hard disk causes problems during the 10.6.2 update process? I'm gonna try a fresh install of 10.6, then go straight to 10.6.2, and if that then works, then install the halloween pack onto the HD.

 

EDIT: Performed fresh install of 10.6, software updated to 10.6.2 without installing halloween pack, same problem.

 

Otherwise perhaps this is because I got my OS X image from a torrent, rather than a genuine installation DVD? I am wondering if the torrented copy may be the cause of the problem? I'm awaiting the arrival of a genuine snow leopard DVD later on today, so perhaps I will try a complete re-install and update to 10.6.2 with that, to see if it makes any difference.

 

Will let you know how I get on

[MacWannaBe]

I too am having similar problems. I am running a similar setup, EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0 Firmware F8, Intel Q9550 CPU and ATI 4850 graphics. Followed lifehacker guide, installed the halloween pack, everything working fine then ran software update, 10.6.2 appeared to install then on next reboot I got kernel panic with error "version mis-match between CPU and kernel". Tried a safe boot but same problem.

 

Obviously I've heard about the potential problems with Atoms in 10.6.2 but this is a Core 2 Quad. I'm wondering if I need to repair disk permissions using the OS X installation disc (flash disk); I wonder if the problem could be caused by kext permissions? Just a thought.

 

EDIT: Booted to installation medium (flash disk) and repaired the Mac HD permissions: didn't fix it.

 

Similarly, could it be because I have installed the halloween pack onto the hard drive, I wonder? Perhaps the presence of those kexts on the hard disk causes problems during the 10.6.2 update process? I'm gonna try a fresh install of 10.6, then go straight to 10.6.2, and if that then works, then install the halloween pack onto the HD.

 

EDIT: Performed fresh install of 10.6, software updated to 10.6.2 without installing halloween pack, same problem.

 

Otherwise perhaps this is because I got my OS X image from a torrent, rather than a genuine installation DVD? I am wondering if the torrented copy may be the cause of the problem? I'm awaiting the arrival of a genuine snow leopard DVD later on today, so perhaps I will try a complete re-install and update to 10.6.2 with that, to see if it makes any difference.

 

Will let you know how I get on

 

 

You should not have updated to 10.6.2 from the Halloween pack! This is what you need to do:

 

1) Boot from your original USB thumb drive you made.

2) Download the V3 installer from Stell's Blog. http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/23846198...-update-ud3p-v3

 

3) delete your /Extras directory from you boot drive

4) Run the V3 installer on your boot drive.

5) Reboot without the USB.

[bigwigtom]

You should not have updated to 10.6.2 from the Halloween pack! This is what you need to do:

 

1) Boot from your original USB thumb drive you made.

2) Download the V3 installer from Stell's Blog. http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/23846198...-update-ud3p-v3

 

3) delete your /Extras directory from you boot drive

4) Run the V3 installer on your boot drive.

5) Reboot without the USB.

 

I see - thanks MacWannaBe! That's very useful info. How silly of me not to see a 3rd version. Will give that a go

 

Then I just need to figure out getting both DVI ports on my 4850 to work and all will be well

 

EDIT: FANTASTIC! Your simple suggestion got 10.6.2 working AND dual DVI output from my 4850; this is so cool. Thank you!

[kevwil]

You should not have updated to 10.6.2 from the Halloween pack! This is what you need to do:

 

1) Boot from your original USB thumb drive you made.

2) Download the V3 installer from Stell's Blog. http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/23846198...-update-ud3p-v3

 

3) delete your /Extras directory from you boot drive

4) Run the V3 installer on your boot drive.

5) Reboot without the USB.

 

That looks simple, and you sound pretty confident about it. Thanks for posting this! I'm tempted to give this a shot. I guess it's time to clone my existing install and make sure I can boot that, then try this.

 

Does the V3 installer *remove* sleepenabler if found, or do we need to do that step ourselves? My sleep is working great now, and I want it to stay that way.

[kevwil]

That looks simple, and you sound pretty confident about it. Thanks for posting this! I'm tempted to give this a shot. I guess it's time to clone my existing install and make sure I can boot that, then try this.

 

Does the V3 installer *remove* sleepenabler if found, or do we need to do that step ourselves? My sleep is working great now, and I want it to stay that way.

 

Well, I tried it. I had to re-boot into the clone to run stella's v3 installer, and again to remove sleepenabler.kext.

 

Sound works, networking works, but my video card was not recognized. I need to get that working or I'll have to go back to 10.6.1. I haven't tried the new sleepenabler for 10.6.2 - graphics is more important right now.

 

Well, I tried it. I had to re-boot into the clone to run stella's v3 installer, and again to remove sleepenabler.kext.

 

Sound works, networking works, but my video card was not recognized. I need to get that working or I'll have to go back to 10.6.1. I haven't tried the new sleepenabler for 10.6.2 - graphics is more important right now.

 

A reboot seems to have fixed the video card recognition. I installed the new sleepenabler.kext - it still boots but sleep doesn't work.

 

Thanks for the tips! I'm happy to be running 10.6.2 now.

[bigwigtom]

Well, I tried it. I had to re-boot into the clone to run stella's v3 installer, and again to remove sleepenabler.kext.

 

Sound works, networking works, but my video card was not recognized. I need to get that working or I'll have to go back to 10.6.1. I haven't tried the new sleepenabler for 10.6.2 - graphics is more important right now.

 

 

 

A reboot seems to have fixed the video card recognition. I installed the new sleepenabler.kext - it still boots but sleep doesn't work.

 

Thanks for the tips! I'm happy to be running 10.6.2 now.

 

Glad you got it working. I too am having a problem with sleep in 10.6.2 - it goes to full S3 sleep, then it wakes up again after about 5 seconds. I've noticed this problem also happens if I boot into Windows 7 through the Chamelon bootloader, but not if I natively boot into windows from F12 menu, so I suspect my sleep issue is related to the fake EFI that the bootloader implements.

 

It's probably worth mentioning this still happens with the network cable unplugged so it's not being woken by the LAN.

 

Are you seeing a similar problem with sleep kevwil?

 

Like you, I've tried installing the newest sleepenabler.kext with kext utility but same problem.

 

It would be nice to have sleep but seeing as everything else works it's not a major issue for me

[kevwil]

Glad you got it working. I too am having a problem with sleep in 10.6.2 - it goes to full S3 sleep, then it wakes up again after about 5 seconds. I've noticed this problem also happens if I boot into Windows 7 through the Chamelon bootloader, but not if I natively boot into windows from F12 menu, so I suspect my sleep issue is related to the fake EFI that the bootloader implements.

 

It's probably worth mentioning this still happens with the network cable unplugged so it's not being woken by the LAN.

 

Are you seeing a similar problem with sleep kevwil?

 

I haven't investigated quite as thoroughly. When I put SL into sleep, the screen goes dark and the cpu fan changes its tune, but the computer never goes into a hibernation mode. Once this is done, the power button will not wake the machine and I have to reset it or cold-reboot it.

[rheneas]

You should not have updated to 10.6.2 from the Halloween pack! This is what you need to do:

 

1) Boot from your original USB thumb drive you made.

2) Download the V3 installer from Stell's Blog. http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/23846198...-update-ud3p-v3

 

3) delete your /Extras directory from you boot drive

4) Run the V3 installer on your boot drive.

5) Reboot without the USB.

 

I have a different GA board, but was successful using Lifehacker's method (see sig). To upgrade to 10.6.2, I installed Stella's v3 on my SL HDD and then installed the Combo update while using 10.6.1.

 

That is, I differed from your instructions above by not using the original USB thumb.

 

After installing the 10.6.1 GeForce.kext to get my nVidia 7xxx card working, 10.6.2 booted nicely and seemed stable.

 

However, when I repaired permissions and rebooted, I got stuck at the blue screen with no cursor. Any idea what's causing this or how to fix?

[AkronElliott]

You should not have updated to 10.6.2 from the Halloween pack! This is what you need to do:

 

1) Boot from your original USB thumb drive you made.

2) Download the V3 installer from Stell's Blog. http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/23846198...-update-ud3p-v3

 

3) delete your /Extras directory from you boot drive

4) Run the V3 installer on your boot drive.

5) Reboot without the USB.

 

My setup is the "Vanilla Recipe" from Lifehacker.

 

Can I get clarity on the installation process?

 

I believe I am confusing the "original first installations" with this process for Version 3.

 

For a brand new installation - No bootable drives yet.

 

1. Create Thumb Drive with SL and V3 installer.

 

a. Backup extra's to new folder on Thumb Drive. Use V3 installation pointing to the thumb drive to create the extra's.

 

b. Boot new PC from Thumb, Select language, Format Drive, and Install Snow Leopard, reboot.

 

c. Boot to thumb drive, select Language, "Quit installation" and select the new SL HD and restart.

 

d. on restart, complete the SL installation from the SL HD and get the "Welcome Screen".

 

e. Run the V3 installation on the Thumb drive pointing at the SL HD? This is the only way I

 

could get a bootable HD.

 

Without quiting the installer I kept looping to the thumb drive installation ( Step B ).

 

If I would boot without the thumb drive ( Step B ) the BIOS changed to the unbootable HD.

 

I have needed to boot to the Thumb Drive a second time.

 

** Repeating the process tonight. Not sure what step I am missing.

 

If I can get clarity on the install process I can verify.

 

Thank you in advance.

[AkronElliott]

My setup is the "Vanilla Recipe" from Lifehacker.

 

Can I get clarity on the installation process?

 

I believe I am confusing the "original first installations" with this process for Version 3.

 

For a brand new installation - No bootable drives yet.

 

1. Create Thumb Drive with SL and V3 installer.

 

a. Backup extra's to new folder on Thumb Drive. Use V3 installation pointing to the thumb drive to create the extra's.

 

b. Boot new PC from Thumb, Select language, Format Drive, and Install Snow Leopard, reboot.

 

c. Boot to thumb drive, select Language, "Quit installation" and select the new SL HD and restart.

 

d. on restart, complete the SL installation from the SL HD and get the "Welcome Screen".

 

e. Run the V3 installation on the Thumb drive pointing at the SL HD? This is the only way I

 

could get a bootable HD.

 

Without quiting the installer I kept looping to the thumb drive installation ( Step B ).

 

If I would boot without the thumb drive ( Step B ) the BIOS changed to the unbootable HD.

 

I have needed to boot to the Thumb Drive a second time.

 

** Repeating the process tonight. Not sure what step I am missing.

 

If I can get clarity on the install process I can verify.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

 

 

My Bad. I do need to run a second time with the Installer pointed to the new HD too!

 

 

You need to run the package on your boot drive after you install os x. That boot drive needs chameleon too!

 

This was not a new issue - found in ( Lifehacker Guide with GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard, For your experience with this EXACT hardware configuration and method )

 

 

 

My other problem would be resolved by: NIC not found

 

Hey All,

 

So glad I found this thread. I have the exact same setup that Adam used and I am having two problems:

 

1. ethernet card not recognized. System Profiler doesn't say its there.

2. video driver - do I need to install a kext? which one? The resolution is stretched and huge.

 

I also used the no hack method.

 

Thanks!

Matt

 

 

Plug your ethernet card into another PCI Slot

 

Plug your graphics card into the first PCI-E slot, not the second.

 

-Stell

[m1sandman]

You should not have updated to 10.6.2 from the Halloween pack! This is what you need to do:

 

1) Boot from your original USB thumb drive you made.

2) Download the V3 installer from Stell's Blog. http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/23846198...-update-ud3p-v3

 

3) delete your /Extras directory from you boot drive

4) Run the V3 installer on your boot drive.

5) Reboot without the USB.

 

Ok, I've rebuilt my USB drive 2x now, and can only get it to boot to the installer, which doesn't let me run the V3 installer. Is there a way I can do this with the installer terminal (bash) or some other method? I'm about to tear my hair out because I didn't read all the fine print on the original lifehacker 'this works with 10.6.2' post and nuked my HackPro with 10.6.2 at the wrong time...

 

Thanks for any help!

[artofware]

Updated to V3. But now my sounds don't work?

[CompletePerspective]

Updated to V3. But now my sounds don't work?

 

experiencing the same, sound was working great in 10.6.1 but no graphics card recognition.

 

10.6.2 with v3 installer, detects video card perfectly, everything is great.. but no sound

 

...have not been able to get timemachine working in SL yet, had everything cherry in 10.5.8

 

If anyone has an audio solution UD3P > 10.6.2 or a TimeMachine fix, would love some help

 

Thanks all'yall

[gnychis]

has anyone gotten audio working yet?

[flyingroti]

experiencing the same, sound was working great in 10.6.1 but no graphics card recognition.

 

10.6.2 with v3 installer, detects video card perfectly, everything is great.. but no sound

 

...have not been able to get timemachine working in SL yet, had everything cherry in 10.5.8

 

If anyone has an audio solution UD3P > 10.6.2 or a TimeMachine fix, would love some help

 

Thanks all'yall

 

 

I am having a similar problem. I had a 10.6.1 retail install using the lifehacker usb flash method. Not everything worked (time machine, bonjour did not work) but it was a workable system. I accidently updated to 10.6.2 the other day and now its giving me kernel panic fits. I tried using the terminal method in this thread of replacing the 10.6.2 kernel with the one from my usb bootloader and am still getting panics (version mis-match between Kernel and CPU). I am hoping since technically the hard disk is a retail install, this will be "work aroundable." Can someone please help!

 

Thanks

 

Ben

 

 

I am having a similar problem. I had a 10.6.1 retail install using the lifehacker usb flash method. Not everything worked (time machine, bonjour did not work) but it was a workable system. I accidently updated to 10.6.2 the other day and now its giving me kernel panic fits. I tried using the terminal method in this thread of replacing the 10.6.2 kernel with the one from my usb bootloader and am still getting panics (version mis-match between Kernel and CPU). I am hoping since technically the hard disk is a retail install, this will be "work aroundable." Can someone please help!

 

Thanks

 

Ben

 

 

Now I have it loading to my desktop before the screen gets greyed out and it tells me to reset my system. maybe closer? I don't know....

 

I am having a similar problem. I had a 10.6.1 retail install using the lifehacker usb flash method. Not everything worked (time machine, bonjour did not work) but it was a workable system. I accidently updated to 10.6.2 the other day and now its giving me kernel panic fits. I tried using the terminal method in this thread of replacing the 10.6.2 kernel with the one from my usb bootloader and am still getting panics (version mis-match between Kernel and CPU). I am hoping since technically the hard disk is a retail install, this will be "work aroundable." Can someone please help!

 

Thanks

 

Ben

 

On verbose boot, here is the panic:

 

 

Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):

com.apple.GeForce(6.0.6)@0xfffff7f80fe3000->0xfffff7f81086fff

dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.0.0)@0xfffff7f80a41000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.0)@0xfffff7f80a3200

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0xfffff7f80604000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.0)@0xfffff7f8093f000

 

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer

 

Mac OS Version

10C540

 

Kernel Version

Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 10:35:19 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_X86_64

 

I am not entirely sure what that all means, but clearly since I am lame enough to type it, I NEED HELP!

 

I gather that my graphics card does not agree with some of the kexts in the 10.6.2 update? That's my best guess. Any ideas on how to help me fix this???

 

Thanks

Ben

 

 

 

Now I have it loading to my desktop before the screen gets greyed out and it tells me to reset my system. maybe closer? I don't know....

[gnychis]

Now I have it loading to my desktop before the screen gets greyed out and it tells me to reset my system. maybe closer? I don't know....

 

boot in to 32-bit mode, you probably have a gfx card that is not supported in 10.6.2 anymore like i did, i have to boot 32-bit mode now (i think nvidia gfx 7000 series)

 

boot in to 32-bit mode, you probably have a gfx card that is not supported in 10.6.2 anymore like i did, i have to boot 32-bit mode now (i think nvidia gfx 7000 series)

 

for anyone with audio issues, try this DSDT.aml that I made... it works for me.

DSDT.aml.zip

[So?Crates]

Also tossed the dice at this setup, but coming up snake eyes on my video card.

 

A month ago I had a few choices ahead of me. Firstly, I could sell off my core2duo/badaxe2 rig (which was running great, btw) and then update to an i7-based Hack. My second option was to upgrade to a Gigabyte board, faster video card, and hold onto my current Ram and CPU.

 

After reviewing the Lifehacker guide, I figured an upgrade to the board and video card would give me the best bang for the buck and allow a Snow Leo install. I purchased the identical hardware as far as what the parts list called for, minus the board. I opted for the 40 dollar cheaper UD3L vs the UD3P, as I did not need the extra X16 slot

 

First, I tried the Lifehacker guide. It worked just fine and the system was stable for 1 minute. After that, I would be forced to reboot thanks to the shutdown dark gray screen.

 

I wasn't willing to give up there though, and later on found a much easier installation method called Kakewalk. It provides a boot DVD that, after startup, you can easily swap for the Snow Leo desk. Awesome. It brought the UD3L board up to snuff and gave me dual video out of my 9800GTX+.

 

But the only way I could get my wireless card to work is by applying a kext that runs in 10.6.2 and up. While the card worked well in 10.6.0 and 10.6.1, 10.6.2 disabled the dual card capability and slowed down GL. It was then the same deal in 10.6.3.

 

Cost so far -

 

100 for UD3L

150 for 9800GTX+

100 for Corsair 450 watt psu (to support the card)

 

So two weeks ago, there I was. 350 dollars in, and the only thing I can show for it is a system that (due to a vid card not fully supported) isn't running any faster than my previous 10.5.8 build. Which sucks. Believe me, I tried everything to try and get dual screens working on this 9800GTX+ card to no avail.

 

Last Friday I broke down and decided that the only solution, now already 350 dollars into this update, that I should just bite the bullet and get the UD3P board. Cost of the new board was 150 dollars. And guess what? The install went beautifully from a USB stick. Pretty easy.

 

So what's wrong? I've tested an update to 10.6.2 and 10.6.3 and, in each situation, there is no dual monitor support. In one instance, I tried adding NVEnabler 64 which bricked the bootup process. Booting from the key worked where I then removed NV, repaired mkext and reran the lifehacker bootloader. Now that drive can boot, but it hangs on the spinner.

 

On my second disc, I'm running 10.6.2. In attempting to get the second dvi working on the 9800GTX+, I booted from the key, removed EXTRAS, and installed the Halloween update. Not only did this add some odd OBEY {censored} to the startup screen, but tanked the audio. I tried reversing to the original lifehacker booter. It worked, but now my audio has noise in the line and the drive needs a fresh install.

 

So here I am, 450 dollars in and the best I can claim out of this is that I can run Snow Leo vs Leo. This video card was supposed to offer a large boost to my creative productivity, rather than a large hole in my pocket. At this point, I wish I could send Lifehacker a bill for my woes. More and more, i think my next i7 will just be an iMac. I'd rather deal with some heat issues than this.

 

If anyone has any thoughts on this, I would welcome your input.

 

Thanks

So?Crates