i always get a blue screen fading to black, then there is the Mouse, but i cant move it!!

right now it started with the blue screen but this time it doesnt fade to black (i used G5rocks Bios Settings!)

//EDIT

I used the flat_osx Version (installed from Vista to another HDD and switched Boot priority)

type "-x -v" in darwin bootloader then you can see where it starts hanging

Has anyone gotten this board working with any of the Retail disc installs? I can't get it to boot, and there doesn't appear to be any errors showing in the boot screen... does this board require a specific third-party kext to boot aside from non-essentials like sound?

I have a near perfect install.. 10.5.2, sound, vanilla, efi, lan, 3 sata drives plus sata dvd drive, etc etc.. i just dont have sleep. (anyone know a solution.) And also, i thank the guy for making this thread.. but it is outdated. All you need to do is use kalyway 10.5.1 install disk in.. and install with ahci enabled and execute bit enabled.. and your gold... although i did use some kexts from brazilmacs postpatch.

Just installed Kalyway 10.5.1 tonight, sleep and sound are working fine but I'm having issues with the WiFi (and I actually need it right now since my the router I use is in my roommates room!) I've got the client utility running and have enabled wifi in the Network section of System Preferences but I seem to be have the same problem as the last few posters, it connects for a brief period and then shuts down. Has anyone figured this out yet?

For 10.5.2 did you just use Software update?

No don't try that! You will get a kernel panic during installation.(i had this fun on another hackintosh)Yes, you are right! I fixed that on posting one to avoid that new people go the harder way.

. . . yes: easy-peasy to install to GUID HDD w/ EFI v8.0 (from another install) using retail DVD/image.

After install/before restart in new install, you need to remove:
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement
AppleEFIRuntime

. . & add:
dsmos
ALCInject
NVinject

. . & replace:
AppleHDA
IONetworkingFamily
AppleSMBIOS

. . & correct permissions.

P5WDH-specific audio/networking replacement kexts can be found at this excellent resource.

Works nicer [for me] than any other method. Best to have a recent BIOS with working ACPI & CPU settings [basically enable all].

HI All,

I finally got a hold of this mobo.

1a. Can someone point me at a dualboot (win32 XP / Leo Kaly, GUID-Vanilla) thread for Asus P5W DH?

1b. Or is it possible to run it with bootcamp?

2. Is anyone using this mobo with: Intel Core Duo E2180?

3. Are there any external webpages/must see sources for P5W DH?

Cheers,



Gus

This is how i installed 10.5.2 without any trouble:

(0. download all the stuff first )

1. Install "kalyway_hack_10.5.2ComboUpdate" (from usual sources) - DONT'T REBOOT!
2. Repair permissions

3. Reboot - type "-x -v" in Darwin Bootloader (can take longer as usual)

4. Install kalyway's "10.5.2_kernel_vanilla__and_patched_" (Chosed Vanilla Kernel) DON'T REBOOT!
5. Repair permissions

6. Reboot (can take longer as usual)

7. Install LeopardGraphicsUpdate1.0 DON'T REBOOT
8. Repair permissions

9. Reboot (can take longer as usual)

10. If necessary install graphicscard driver (works fine here with 8800GTS)



Link to the GraphicsUpdate: http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3...csUpdate1.0.dmg

Guys i have a problem to ask

my p5wdh system is able to sleep and wake fine ... but once i come out from sleep and then try to shutdown .. it wont allow .. the screen would go off but the system wont ...

can anyone try this .. i dont know if its just my machine ...

just let the machine sleep .. wake it up .. then try "shutdown" ... if it shuts down perfectly .. PLEASE let me know ...

thanks

yes, i totally agree with you.
also booting and installing from this restored-retail-DVD on a spare hard drive is unbelievably fast.
for me, this is the funkiest way to install leopard.

how much more if you have all the efi strings for your graphics, audio and network?

i already have a working 8800gts_640mb & alc882m efi strings installed. so far so good.
next is the built-in network to avoid installing the fixed IONetworkingFamily.kext for TM. still trying to figure this out.
ppl from other forum are not so keen on sharing.

do you feel perfecting your beloved p5w dh mobo is not yet enough? then go and take a look:

http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/board,2.0.html

i have time machine.

Click to view attachment

Hello Owners of P5W!

Do you have full sound working particulary SPDIF out ?
Do you have wake & sleep reboot shutdown working under 10.5.2 i mean 100 % as many people report they have 100 % one day and 50 % the next one

Could someone edit a comparison of the extention folder between a untouched genuine dvd install with 10.5.2 updates and a fresh 10.5.2 install for a P5W

It' rather fast to do a terminal install of OSX on a partition and keep only the extention folder
You can use TOAST with ALT-C command to open a very good tool for that task and then copy the results in textedit and post

Perhaps someone?

Thank's to all for your time

i think this is a common problem to most p5w dh dlx owners out there.
other mobo like the ga-p35-ds3p has also some issue with not only shutdown but also restart.
but since i moved to efi strings, i no longer have this issue.
i'm not quite confident if it's really a solution but my shutdown problem is now gone.

Hi,
I have a little bit of problem here

I had Leopard 10.5.1 BrazilMac with EFI 5.1, then I had to format HDD. Now I want to install again BrazilMac 10.5.0 Leo, but all I got after installation is blinking cursor (yes, I've used Kalyway bootable cd and installed patch properly).

Then I tried Toh RC2 version....same thing.

After that I used Kalyway 10.5.1 dvd, installed with vanilla kernel and mbr EFI, worked just fine.

I want to install BrazilMac Leopard 10.5.0, what to do?? I have no more idea, I tried everything....

Don't know if it's important, but I'm using 2602 bios (everything is set up fine)..

Please help me

Hi All, Just checking, am I the only person who has an extremely slow post / bios on this mobo? I

tried the following:

- running only on IDE hdd
- running only on SATA hdd- running on mixed IDE / SATA.
- turning off all fan monitoring in BIOS. (was mentioned this could help on other forums)
- setting IDE drives to not installed (also mentioned to help)
- setting disable Jmicron raid (also mentioned to help)

CPU and RAM is correctly identified in BIOS: I am running on 2302 (shipped) bios. Will upgrading the bios help?
Replacing the RAM? Please let me know if you've had issues with a slow post/bios.

My specs:- P5W DH Deluxe.
- Intel Core Duo E2180
- PQI 512MBx2 RAM
- 250/500GB HDD (SATA)
- 160MB HDD (IDE)
- Pioneer DVD (IDE)
- ASUS Nvidia 7300GT
- Lian-Li PC50 Case / 350 Watt PSU



Cheers, Gus

I call this one a medium fast BIOS boot on my mainboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgBl78VDHro

@G5; that's really slow.. i am sure that there is some timeout counter running that makes it that slow..

..unless everyone else has equally slow boot up times? it seems to be almost exactly 30 seconds..

please everyone who can be a55ed; post for how long you see the boot splash on your p5w dh, and use a timer (on your cellphone or something)

i am just hoping this is not how long i will have to wait when i have go it to run properly..

cheers,

G

Does the eSATA port on the rear connectors work in OS X?

my boot up time is that slow. I asked on some computer forums.. they said it was normal for this board.. even these guys with the classis bios were having slow boot issues.

What is with sleep.. only thing i dont really have.

The "pluggable ethernet string" for Marvell Yukon 88E8053 works!

I've been able to use the 10.5.0 vanilla IONetworkingFamily.kext without breaking the time machine.

Also, the infamous " _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35" is now gone.

This error is known especially when entering the "diskutil list" command on the Terminal, and also on some other tasks.

For more info, follow this thread: http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,92.60.html

Ok so is ANYONE able to shutdown 100% of the time properly ? if so, tell me how you did it because I have literally tried everything I could think of... patched kernels, different AppleSMBIOS.kexts , ACPIPowermanagement.kexts....

Hey Guys,
First post, first Hackintosh, long time PC builder.

My Setup is as follows:
ASUS P5W DH
Q6600
Geforce 8600GT

I have leopard up and running (MBR) via Kalyway 10.5.1 install image after several failed GUID attempts.
Graphics are set, installed and working correctly for the 8600GT, what I am struggling with is the Wireless.

I have installed the Realtec package and the realtec utility displays the boards mac address, but when i refresh the networks list there are no networks visible in the networks list to connect to. I am running a Netgear Wireless N router and am wondering if maybe that is the problem.

I have yet to try the ethernet so I dont know if that is working or not.

the realtek is for tiger. I believe you can use the ionetworking from tiger to get it working.. but that ruins time machine and possibly ur ethernet.


@xstorm.. my shut down works 100 percent.. i dont know what specific thing i did.. but i did use alot of the kexts from brazilmacs post patch on top of my kalyway leopard 10.5.2 install.

. . yes, many folks can get the P5WDH to shutdown 100% . . . use PC_EFI & a recent BIOS.

You are not (according to your signature) using the P5WDH.

Had same issue here. All I did was plug dvd into primary EIDE channel (not JMICRON one) and voila: disks appear as internal.My shutdown did not work until I updated the BIOS to v.2406. Sometimes even windows used to hang/reboot instead of shutting sown. I use Kalaway 10.5.1(2)+EFI+Vanilla. If u need more info,settings,.. i am glad to help.It does. I did borrow an external LACIE HD. Had to enable JMICRON and plug the drive before starting the PC(not shure if ESATA supports hot plug).

I tried the realtek drivers with no success.
Gave up on wireless, I am now working on updating to 10.5.2.

My question is, how do you repair the permissions as described in the update guide?

with the apple disc utility

*10.5.2 Update... Update*
Installed perfectly using G5's instructions found in this thread.

Before the update I had no ethernet or wireless, these two issues remain unchanged and still do not work.
Prior to updating this was a fresh Kalyway 10.5.1 install (Selected HD Audio and Realtek options in setup).
I have not installed any network drivers/kexts other than the Realtek option in install.

Does anyone have any ideas on getting the wireless or, at least, the ethernet working?

Hello all!

I'm going to order a P5W DH Deluxe tomorrow, but I'm still a bit confused about the installation requirements. Can I install OSX on an IDE drive? I only have IDE drives except for an external USB/SATA drive which, however, serves as a backup device and is therefore filled up to the rim. I wanted to only hook up a single formatted single 120GB drive to one of the IDE ports, install XP and then OSX and once I see it working add my other HDDs. All my other drives are IDE as well (DVD Burner & DVD ROM).
Sorry if the question was asked before, I've tried my best to find more info but to no avail.
Also, what memory should I buy? I've had quite a few problems with incompatible modules with other systems in the past and need something that is 100% compatible. Would a 4096MB Mushkin SP2-6400 CL5 KIT do?

And finally: Are there any options that are as promising regarding compatibility? The board isn't the newest one and doesn't support the new 45nm processors, so the option of updating my system in the future isn't given. I looked at the Wiki and this one seems to be the best..what do you think?

Thank you very much for your help!

@necevil, ethernet works perfectly OTB without modication... both ports i may add. Wirless does not work on leopard without changing around kexts.. which makes other stuff not work. Do ur ports show up in network preferences

@bananabomb.. DDR2800 ram is fine. I would reccomend getting 2gb sticks because you will be eventually wanting all 8gb's. IDK about ide drives.

I did a reinstall without the wireless drivers and things worked perfectly, but only after I switched from the first ethernet port to the second.
I think that the issue was that the guide I used had me disable my secondary ethernet port (which happened to be where my cable was plugged in).

So I had everything working...
HAD!

Once I had the ethernet working I loaded up the final cut pro suite which worked perfectly and then installed some other things that also worked fine.
At that point I had the whole Q6600 (G0 Stepping) box running @ 3.06 Ghz. Xbench total score was 166.

This is getting into overclockinig (which i have done a lot of on PCs)
Anyway, I decided to see how far it would go, I got it to post up @ 3.4Ghz.

It posted and then went through Darwin like it normally would but when it got to the light grey screen with the dark grey apple logo (where the little indicator usually spins) it hung for a second (no indicator at all) and then rebooted. I figured it was an error and reset my processor settings back to 3.06 and restarted. Darwin started to boot but then immediately failed with no error message and the computer rebooted. I tried again with the same result. At this point I reset all settings back to factory default (with the changes necessary for Hackintosh operation).

Rebooted to the same result.
So basically now I am trying to figure out what the solution is to a previously working install that froze mid startup and now reboots without error after darwin tries to get things started. So far I have rebooted with the install CD and repaired the permissions on the drive but nothing else seems to be working.

Anyone have any ideas short of a full reinstall (which would hurt because final cut takes forever to reinstall).

As far as boot options: I have tried booting with both -f and -v with no success.

Got the thing booting again,
It will boot with -v cpus=1 but not otherwise.
Not sure why this is but I am stoked to not have to reinstall that stuff.

Xbench now shows a total score of 132 at factory 2.4 Ghz settings as opposed to 166 OC'd to 3.06 Ghz.
Now I just need to figure out how to get it booting normally again.

You need SATA hard drives, DVD drive for maximum computability.

Question though: I just got 10.5.2 installed using a retail disc image method, and as for right now everything works great. I installed Netkas' new SMBIOS file to get correct info for About This Mac. However, some reason it still says 2.4 GHz Unknown CPU. All 4 cores are recognized, but does anyone else get it to actually say Core 2 Quad?

necevil. If you overclocked ur cpu too much.. maybe bios settings defaulted.. in which case you need to re enabled Execute disable function, ahci, etc.

What video card you have.. my q6600 is stable at 3.0ghz.. and i get a 195 xbench.. even though my 8800gts does not work the best with leopard.

SLEEP WORKING WITH DUAL DISPLAY !!!

Installed the gfx strings for my gt7300 card, removed natit - result:
booting is faster and sleep works with two displays - yeah
wake up still doesn´t work with mouse or keyboard (monitors still sleeping) but with the power button fast as lightning

still two issues away from the absolutely perfect machine:

only one nic working at the same time and the known wlan problem

I have it working on my P5W. I have a Core 2 Duo @ 2,67Ghz and a 8600GTS 512Mb. My XBench score is around 144 for the total result. I have no clue if that's an ok score for my system though.

Over all the system seems to work fine! I have everything working except for the wifi card. Will fix that when Realtek releases the driver. I have reboot, sleep and shut down working and my 8600GTS has resolutions, QE and CI.

What are you guys doing for audio setups on your P5W DHs? I'm trying to get my Logitech X-530s working properly but I'm only getting audio out of the centre channel.

Ausus P5W-DH Firewire chip boot louding some time ERROR help

I Just installed my Mac OS X 10.5.0 TOH RC2 and updated it to work with EFI+Vanilla and everything worked great, sleep too. But after update to 10.5.2 I lost my ps2 keyboard. My mouse is on USB and keyboard on PS2, everthing else is working great even Graphic Update went smoth but keyboard is not working. I tried loading some kexts from 10.5.0 and 10.5.1 :

-ApplePS2Controller.kext
-ACPIPS2Nub.kext
-AppleACPIPlatform.kext
-AppleSMBIOS.kext

but that didnt help or changed anything.

Does anyone know what could be the catch or any helpful advice?

Yes, I'd emailed the realtek guys and they answered very quick....
they're working on a new driver for LEO and I was told that it will be ready by the end of March or even before...

So, let's hope for that...

It's already here, just now:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...;Downloads=true

it works! it works! P5W Built-in Wireless is working! The new realtek drivers at the realtek website work for the built-in wireless. so far I could connect to a no-security access point for unlimited time, but I cannot connect to a WPA secured network.

hope it works for other people! I'm using Kalyway 10.5.1 SSE2/SSE3

Yes the wireless works!

I'm trying to reinstall my system using ToH (it's cleaner than Kalyway IMHO) but after installing it doesn't seem to boot. Trying MBR now but I would like to use GUID and EFI of course! Any hints?

after some more playing around with the wireless, I'm starting to get some random kernel panic attacks... looking over the panic dump it looks like it's the new Realtek drivers that are causing it... could be a problem. is anyone else getting kernel panics?

is the wireless 8187L or B?

@aldhino, i believe it is the vanilla kernel that disallows the use of the ps2 keyboard.

Sudden and random shutdown ever since installing 10.5.1

I have had a problem ever since installing the 10.5.1 Kalyway DVD. Every other aspect of the installation works (which is why I've put up this problem).

About once every other day, my computer shutdowns. It literally powers off instantly without warning. This never happened when I had 10.4.10 installed.

While it still is random as far as I can tell, there SEEMS a correspondence is emerging between the shutdowns and watching flash video on the web (but it does not shutdown everytime I watch a flash video). It does not shutdown while watching DVDs.

I was hoping the 10.5.2 update and graphics update would fix this problem, but it did not.
This seems to be software related somehow as my XP installation has never shutdown using same hardware installation.

I have tried unplugging all unnecessary devices (2nd CD-ROM and additional hard drives) from the PSU to make sure I was not overloading the PSU (450 watt Antec). Problem still exists.

Any suggestions on how to trouble shoot? Are there some updated Nvidia kexts I can try even though I have the Kalyway 10.5.1+10.5.2 update? Or would have to try a new installation from scratch? Thanks for any help.

runithome: is it going into sleep mode? does it do this in windows or just osx? maybe check your sleep settings in the control panel?That's awesome that Realtek is making an official driver now. Do Apple computers even use this chip, or is Realtek catering directly to us hackintosh users?

It does successfully go into and come out of sleep mode, at the proper intervals that I set in the control panel.

The random shutdowns only happens in OS X (and only since upgrading from 10.4.10).