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giandal
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QUOTE(giandal @ Sep 12 2006, 07:45 AM)

 

What I do not understand is why my graphic card is not recognized from the start.

It should be the same as in the mac pro...

 

 

What?

 

Taken from apple, mac pro tech specs:

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port

 

It looks like they use the 7300GT too.

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So you are oblivious to the EFI versus BIOS issues?

 

of course not, though probably I don't understand it completely, as I thought this would be a drivers issue and not a firmware issue.

Better: I just thought that the drivers for the graphic card would be already out.

Anyway, I guess I'll play more with it, trying to fix it back to the standard res...

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bofors
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... as I thought this would be a drivers issue and not a firmware issue.

 

While BIOS PC video cards work in a Mac Pro, they only work for Windows, not OS X, so the firmware issue is explicit at a basic level.

 

Moreover, Apple's Nvidia driver may require a special version of 10.4.7, which should be merged with the main branch in 10.4.8, giving some hope it might be usable with BIOS PC cards in the future.

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Ok I´ve changed nthe Biossettings and now i can install osx. I´ve setted "sata configuration" in "compatible" at that helps (with AHCI nothing works).

 

But after the instalaltion (wich works very well) i cannot boot my osx system. I see the splashscreen but it freezes and i only can lookk for hours and hours the applelogo :(

 

I remember you my hardware:

-Asus P5B (965) Deluxe Wifi

-Conroe 6600

-SATA-DVD

 

Any Idea?

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bofh_de
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mmmh,

i have an intel dg965ss with the 965g chipset and this damn thing

boots from the dvd (tried evere version i can get hands on)

and hangs after detecting the serial port.

 

even if i try the vm way it wont install.

 

has anyone got this mobo to work ?

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Have this working on my GA-965P-DS3 now :D

 

Only troubles are getting full SATA(II) support. It's in PIO mode, so write/read events are at a painful 4MB/s :P

 

In XBench I get 190 without the Hard Disk Drive test, though :P

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Is anyone have this problem i try to install osx on real sata HDD under Vmware useing the 10.4.6 PPF1 JAS DVD but Vmware is reboot every time when i try to install OSX ''Hardware reset''

Core2Duo E6600 and Gigabyte DS4 ......

 

On my laptop i can install osx just fine where is the problem? -->my laptop is HP L2000 AMD turion 1800Mhz

The OSX and Vmware versions on my laptop is the same as my PC.

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Look this is my first OC with the Ga945 and my core Duo 6400, 156 including Hard disk....

 

Results 156.06

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.7 (8J2135a)

Physical RAM 2048 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0

CPU Test 129.93

GCD Loop 311.33 16.41 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 149.98 3.56 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 92.88 3.06 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 98.62 17.17 Mops/sec

Thread Test 262.31

Computation 242.34 4.91 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 285.88 12.30 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 168.48

System 165.00

Allocate 127.67 468.85 Kalloc/sec

Fill 194.97 9479.79 MB/sec

Copy 191.58 3957.02 MB/sec

Stream 172.10

Copy 160.75 3320.17 MB/sec

Scale 164.30 3394.48 MB/sec

Add 184.71 3934.77 MB/sec

Triad 181.11 3874.42 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 194.56

Line 162.24 10.80 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 202.98 60.60 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 197.05 16.06 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 179.59 4.53 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 252.14 15.77 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 203.76

Spinning Squares 203.76 258.49 frames/sec

User Interface Test 525.37

Elements 525.37 2.41 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 64.68

Sequential 82.17

Uncached Write 88.41 54.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 82.43 46.64 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 84.36 24.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 74.72 37.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 53.33

Uncached Write 20.78 2.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 130.71 41.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 97.26 0.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 111.69 20.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]

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ok guys, mac works well in sata configured as AHCI but now my problem is that windows wont boot in AHCI mode, i tried to reinstall windows using de disket with the ich8 sata ahci drivers and doesn't show me any drive, so i was reading that ICH8 doesn't support AHCI mode then i was like WTF? if it doesn't support AHCI mode why can i chose it in the bios and why mac can see the drives and works? can some helpme, thanks.

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i too have the same problem that most have. i have an Intel DG965WH with a Pentium D 950. Im using an HP DVD writer that works on my HP DC7600. I went out and bought the dang sata/ide adaptor but still no luck. i get the still waiting for root device error. i treid swapping the hd from my working osxbox but i get a kernal panic. im lost. i messed with pretty much all the bios settings and still nothing :D im sad. i have a fully fucntional box and it scores about 115 on xbench but i wanted to build a bad ass machine. i hope to get a core2duo soon. i picked up the 965 becuase the 975 was about 220 bucks. i just hate to give up on this board since i was so exited when i got it. i hope someone finds a solution soon. thanks to everyone for testing the 965 boards.

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Dual Core works on the 10.4.4 kernel, just not for core duos but it works for Pentium D's. Alos i have a Intel board, D975XBX based board, sure it was a bit expensive but its a awesome board, the only thing that is lettingme down is my CPU (32-bit, Pentium 4 3.0ghz @3.5 Ghz), its still bloody fast but considering i was goign to buy a quad core Woodcrest system at the end of the year (when i was still working in 3D) i am quirte ahppy with it, i boought my 975XBX board as it is new, fast, supports Conroe, and has blue heatsinks :thumbsdown_anim:.

 

I too wil get the E6300 or the model above it, as they overclock extremely well.

 

I got 1 gb ddr2 ram, but its genric which is ok, but i need tighter timings, i have heard that Pqi sell extremely good RAM that doesnt cost your left {censored}, or if you wanted all out extrem RAM, get a pair of Orange GeIL modules, they are teh best.

 

My motherboard doesnt have the new GMA3000 but i do have a EAX1600XT card which is usuable (hahah, more than usuable). My motherboard also has room for 3 PCI-E x16 slots so if the Mac Pro ever gets Crossfire i will too. This is a good feature too as ATi has announced its new physics technoligy (being able to use any X1000 based card as a dedicated physics card, as long as the card is above a X1600 i think) so it provides good future proofing, everyhting works out of the box with this Mobo, apart from the Audio, which is pissing me off but is easily fixed (just that the sound comes out of the Line Out port)

 

It all comes down to EFI i think, Leopard will (should) embrace the standard tighter than Tiger has and that will make it harder for it work on BIOS pc's.

 

EDIT: Or you could just buy one of these (ala the Ageia phyx card adn the nvidia garbage but it'd be a good system otherwise

 

Could you let me know the model number of the Intel board that you have. I've just bought one with the G965 chipset which doesn't work with OSX 10.4.6.

 

Thanks

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bofors
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The 946GZ chipset itself should be fine (it uses the ICH7 southbridge): http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/946...Z/prodbrief.pdf

 

While the GMA 950 drivers _might_ work with the GMA 3000 on that board, I do not know for a fact that they do. You also need to check the Hardware Compatability Lists (and / or search the forum) for information related to the specific LAN and audio chips on the Intel D946GZISSL. But I would assume they work (or in the case of audio workable).

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My findings:

 

Asus P5W-DH

Core 2 Duo E6600

2GB Corsair PC4\6400

 

10.4.7

CPU @ 3 GHz, 334 MHz FSB

Memory @ PC7200

Works with 2 cores, no problems

 

BUT

 

10.4.8

CPU @ 3 GHz -> big problems with stability

So..

CPU @ 2,40 GHz -> some stability problems, a lot system freezes.

When booting with CPUS=1 the OS works, but I got some little artifacts on the screen.

 

So basicly 10.4.8 is {censored} at this config...

 

Are here people who got the Core 2 Duo E6600 with 2 cores running stable ?

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