Fairlyodd

Hi Guys,

My first fully functional Snow Leopard Hack. Took quite an effort to get this system off the ground, but with a great deal of patients and research and of course help from the guys on this forum I finally have it up and running pretty smoothly.

Specs:
Operating System: Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Case: ThermalTake Armor A-30 Micro ATX Case
Power Supply: Mod X Stream Pro 500 Watt Modular Power Supply
Displays: Acer 24" Wide Screen LCD / Sony Bravia 40" HDMI 1080i
Mother Board: Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 Rev. 3
CPU: AMD Athlon II x4 3.11 Ghz 800MHz FSB
Memory: 4 Gigabytes Crucial "Ballistix" PC3-1600
Video: Gigabyte nVidia Geforce 210 1Gb DDR3 (Fully Supported with QE/CI and Rotation)
Network Adapter: Sonnet Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
Sound: Onboard nForce Realtek ALC887 Codec High Definition Audio
Hard Drive (Main): Western Digital 1 TB WDC WD10EADX-22TDHB0
Hard Drive (Secondary): Maxtor 80 Gig Maxtor 6Y080M0
DVD/CDRW: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH70N
USB Devices:
Keyboard- Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000
Mouse: Logitech M185
Printer: Samsung ML-1865W Series B/W Laser Printer
System Backup Drive: Transcend StoreJet 500 GB Solid State
LG Portable Super Multi Drive GP08
WiFi Devices:
D-Link DBT-122 BlueTooth Dongle
Apple Magic Trackpad (not shown)
Sound System: Logitech Z623 200 Watt (Awesome Sound)

Got a strange issue with my DVD/RW....the system sees it, but when I insert a disk to either burn or an audio cd to play in iTunes, iTunes hangs or if I am using Toast Titanium the disk will not burn..here is what is shown in system profiler without a disk inserted, because if one is system profiler hangs as well:

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH70N:

Firmware Revision: UGA0
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)
Profile Path: None
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

I have attached the hang error for inspection.

Okay it has been a while since I have attempted an install and just like before I have some issues that I can't seem to find any reference to for guidance, so I am asking for some help from the pros.

Okay first my system specs:

Mobo - Gigabyte M68MT-2

CPU - Athlon II x4 645

Chipset: Geforce 7025 South Bridge - nforce 630a

Memory - Crucial Extreme 8gig

Video - Geforce 210/GT218 1Gig

Audio - Realtek AL887 HD

LAN - Realtek RTL8211CL

Okay I installed retail dmg of Snow Leopard. I updated to 10.6.6 and installed 10.6.6 legacy kernel. Modified my boot.plst file with proper string for video card support. Rebooted and everything seems fine, but once the system boots to desktop I lose functionality with my Ethernet connection even though it shows in finder that it is there? iTunes, kext helper, and kext utility, crash constantly, so no ability to replace kexts. About this MAC shows proper video specs and cpu cores, clock speed, fsb, and memory allocation. No kernel panics at boot or or at desktop, not really sure what is going on, but I am completely lost as to how to fix these issues.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks guys

Update: I did some major research on the subject of my application crashes and noticed that if I put in the flag <maxmem=4096> at boot my system becomes a bit more stable and no more iTunes crashes. I guess you can't use more than 4gigs of ram period even though it is addressed correctly in finder. I still can't seem to get my Ethernet to work at all. I have read several posts about this issue, but none seem to help much with my particular chip, allot of chatter about the RT81xxx chip, but nothing regarding mine. I have some ideas on how to fix it, but I needed to get some ideas from some of you who have been working with this project longer than I have.

Okay this is what finder sees for my system configuration and video card specs and mind you the only problem in the system specs is my processor is not what is listed, mine is an Athlon II x4, but the clock speed and everything else is correct.

nVidia GeForce 210:

Chipset Model: nVidia GeForce 210

Type: GPU

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 1024 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x0a65

Revision ID: 0x00a2

ROM Revision: nVidia GeForce 210 OpenGL Engine [EFI]

Displays:

Acer S231HL:

Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz

Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Rotation: Supported

Display Connector:

Status: No Display Connected

System Configuration:

Model Name: Mac Pro

Model Identifier: MacPro3,1

Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Processor Speed: 3.11 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per core): 512 KB

Memory: 8 GB

Bus Speed: 800 MHz

Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05

SMC Version (system): 1.30f3

Serial Number (system): SOMESRLNMBR

Hardware UUID: C5E6CA73-2DAF-54FE-BEBD-B484C6E0E0AF

If anyone has any ideas on how to fix my Ethernet chip let me know, I will do my best to research what I can, but I do not want to break this installation because it is the most stable I have ever had, short of the network issues that is..lol