colnthefox Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Hi all, I've had my Hackintosh up and running since December 2008 but in the past month, the motherboard saw some damage when I was moving house. I had someone replace it since I didn't have the time but they replaced my Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L motherboard with an ASRock G31M-GS board. My hard drives and all other components that I used when my computer was working are still in position though and when I load up my Windows XP partition, it boots up and acts totally fine. However, when I attempt to load up my OSX partition, it chokes and fails. Will this be a simple case of altering BIOS settings or a complete reinstall? Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Hi all, I've had my Hackintosh up and running since December 2008 but in the past month, the motherboard saw some damage when I was moving house. I had someone replace it since I didn't have the time but they replaced my Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L motherboard with an ASRock G31M-GS board. My hard drives and all other components that I used when my computer was working are still in position though and when I load up my Windows XP partition, it boots up and acts totally fine. However, when I attempt to load up my OSX partition, it chokes and fails. Will this be a simple case of altering BIOS settings or a complete reinstall? Many thanks Look here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=195004 You must flash BIOS and setting BIOS as in the guide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefe Hobs Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 its not the best choice to replace your old giga{censored} board, but after flash your bios it will work, but before you need a modified bios for osx to make it run use google to find it or look here, but its only in german . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colnthefox Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 Thank you both for your responses. Grigorio, I actually looked through that guide earlier. I downloaded the file to flash my BIOS with but I don't know how to do it! It's a .rom file and I've been using macs too long to remember how to use a windows machine and its files. Can you help me out please? I also put those settings in the BIOS earlier but I'm guessing I'll have to re-enter them after flashing my BIOS? Stefe, my old motherboard was broke pretty badly. It wouldn't connect to my monitor, ram slot was broken. I had a look at that site but I couldn't understand the German, I'm afraid! Thanks Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Thank you both for your responses. Grigorio, I actually looked through that guide earlier. I downloaded the file to flash my BIOS with but I don't know how to do it! It's a .rom file and I've been using macs too long to remember how to use a windows machine and its files. Can you help me out please? I also put those settings in the BIOS earlier but I'm guessing I'll have to re-enter them after flashing my BIOS? Stefe, my old motherboard was broke pretty badly. It wouldn't connect to my monitor, ram slot was broken. I had a look at that site but I couldn't understand the German, I'm afraid! Thanks Colin 1) you must flash by DOS (floppy or cd bootable with DOS) In tha Asrock site there is the utility. Is not safe flash the bios via Windows. You'll made BIOS setting after flashing BIOS If you want, try this: Setting the BIOS as in the guide and boot with cpus=1 flag (is only an attempt) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colnthefox Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 I'm honestly so so useless here. The only method I can find for rebooting my G31m-GS requires a floppy disk/floppy drive to complete. Can you tell me if this is the only way? Many thanks again for the help - it's very much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 I'm honestly so so useless here. The only method I can find for rebooting my G31m-GS requires a floppy disk/floppy drive to complete. Can you tell me if this is the only way? Many thanks again for the help - it's very much appreciated. For flash the BIOS there are other 2 ways: 1) a CD bootable with DOS 6.2 and another cd with the .rom file 2) Flashing from windows. Withouth Flashing try this: Download this file: DSDT.aml.zip and add it to /Extra folder and boot your Snow (make the cange in the BIOS showed in the Guide). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colnthefox Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 Sorry, I should have mentioned that it's 10.5.6 (Leopard) I have installed on the partition. Will it work for this? If not, I will look to install Leopard Snow on another partition tomorrow and use this as a primary drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Sorry, I should have mentioned that it's 10.5.6 (Leopard) I have installed on the partition. Will it work for this? If not, I will look to install Leopard Snow on another partition tomorrow and use this as a primary drive. DSDT.aml is the same for Leopard and Snow Leopard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colnthefox Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 Ahhh I can't do this, unfortuntely as only the XP partition loads up - I can't get to my OSX desktop to open Chameleon or do anything after that. I will try flashing and let you know how it goes. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Ahhh I can't do this, unfortuntely as only the XP partition loads up - I can't get to my OSX desktop to open Chameleon or do anything after that. I will try flashing and let you know how it goes. Thanks With ubuntu live edition you can copy the file in your Leopard partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colnthefox Posted September 9, 2010 Author Share Posted September 9, 2010 You're a genius! I now have Ubuntu running live. I can access my OSX partition but I'm not sure where I've to put the file. Would it be System/Library? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colnthefox Posted September 10, 2010 Author Share Posted September 10, 2010 Unfortunately the partition is read-only. Will try figure out how to flash. For some reason, it's not seeing my hard drive OR cd when I try to flash it with those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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