I appreciate this Thx! I'll try that in the next few days, cause I'm busy and I'll post the results here.

Thx again!

Yeah, that's why I ordered the new one instead of open box -- their website said pretty clearly "no cables, no manual," etc... Bummer.

Hi, I succesfully installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on my P5W-DH.
Intel core 2 cuad 4 gigs ocz gold ddr800, evga gforce 7300gt 256 megs, maxtor 160 sata2 hd.
Instalation went well installed drivers after that, I got everything working, my sound is a pro Presonus Firepod, instant recognized. This is my hardware overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: BOOT.EFI.V80
Serial Number: CK157KMHK5B
But since is my fourth Leopard instaltion, I got audio drops in itunes, with cds, or my mp3 located on the HD.
Have you know about this?
Thanks in advance.

It looks like the Asus P5W is starting to go out of stock across the internet retailers. Earlier this week newegg deactivated the item.

I've been researching a lot of the motherboards and this one always seems to be the clear winner for working mostly unpatched out-of-the-box.

Do I go with this motherboard even though it seems to be at the end of its life or are there better newer boards out there? Suggestions?

I bought mine brand new on eBay from someone and actually saved $50 over what newegg was charging. Those looking for this board might try that. Just remember to check the seller's feedback!

But this also brings up the question, what Asus board is being used to replace the P5W DH Deluxe???

Hi,
would it be save to do a bios update on the motherboard or would there be any interference with Leopard? I'm running Kalyway 10.5.2 (Combo Update) and my bios is 2206. The current version is 2704. Has anybody tried this or can think this through? My install works pretty well, so I'd hate to mess anything up.
Thanks!


http://www.youtube.com/user/therealfudgemachine

Rule of thumb for bios updates: If you don't experience problems related to your mobo bios, don't bother updating!
But on the other hand it should always be possible to downgrade. So why not giving it a try and tell us how well it worked?

Greetz

Catw3azle

IIRC, I am running bios version 2602. I tried 2704 and it did not work properly for me, so I reverted back to 2602 and it works fine.

yes... works fine

Through software update?

NO! Already heard that method does not work. I screwed up my install and had to redo everything last night. Search for the method to update to 10.5.2 for this board, the procedure is the same.

PS: is anyone on this thread going the full vanilla route with EFI strings on your ASUS P5W DH Deluxe? I have my 8800GT-512 nvidia graphics card working great but need help with audio and ethernet.

I haven't done it yet -- waiting on an update for my graphics card -- but these instructions worked fine for 10.5.2, and are now labeled for 10.5.3, too. http://netkas.org/?p=50



Unrelated to the upgrade, I have a question. Does anyone have a problem with their computer mysteriously coming out of sleep mode? My sleep works fine, but it will wake up on its own either minutes or hours after put to sleep. Sometimes when it does this it'll lock up on wake. I assume it's my USB optical mouse "moving" but I didn't see anywhere in the BIOS to disable wake up on USB. any suggestions?

Ok, this is bugging me, where is HPET in my BIOS? Asus P5W DH Deluxe board of course, using version 2602. People keep saying to enable it but I can't find it.

I can confirm that using software upgrade from 10.5.2 --> 10.5.3 will hose your installation.

Thx!



Actually, I don't use sleep, but I think the reason is, as you said, mouse or keyboard. Asus on their MOBOs has "feature" that USB ports are always powered, no matter what are you set in BIOS. You can only try to change the jumper for USB power (I think it's called +5VSB or smth like that). Look in the manual for that...

Hi guys, wich BIOS are you using for the p5w dh?

I want to update it to the past one, is it fine for osx?

damn, done everything same as 10.5.2, doesn't seem to work, damn going to have to reinstall the OS again ><

I tried using the Kalyway's installer that I found on the little green monster but had no luck. And yes I followed the directions. Not sure if I want to go through restoring my system for a third time so I'll wait for more confirmations.

How does it work with ATI cards? Also, will I have to redo my efi strings?

okay it's working now, i did a clean install with retail method only kexts removed were IntelCPU crap and added dsmos, that's it

Anyone had any success with the Kalyway 10.5.3 Updater found on the bay?

If so, did you use any of the new kernals? and which one?

Or... Has anyone tried the JAS version on the green demon?

Thanks
alf

Hello

I have a Asus P5W DH Deluxe, Quad Q6600 4GB ram and a XFX 8600GT videocard. Without installing any videocard drivers i get a 1024x768 image (which is no good ..) and if i install NVinstaller (tried version 0.33 and 0.41) after reboot i get a blank screen.
I used Kalyway and Leo4all for the install. Anybody any ideas what to do?

Greetinx
Atze

Ok, i switched the vidcard with a 7300GT which works fine! Some other things, my soundconnections at the back aren't working. The frontconnection is working? Any ideas
Seconds, somebody seen any change to get the asus remote working? This would be great!

Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD + 10.5.3 combo update

=

Everything but sleep working out of the box for me

WELL Somebody explane to me why after the kalyway 10.5.3 update, i get the YELLOW HARD DISK ICONS in DESKTOP? (removable HD)HOW TO FIX IT??? HELP??SATA system profiler:Vendor: Intel Product: ICH7-R AHCI Speed: 3.0 Gigabit Description: AHCI Version 1.10 SupportedMaxtor 6V250F0: Capacity: 233,76 GB Model: Maxtor 6V250F0SEEMS OK BUT I GET YELLOW ICONS IN DESKTOP!! HELP ME PLS!for the rest all is working fine, i had to reinstall the video drivers after deleted all the kexts about gforce and NVxxx then reinstall NVinstaller1.41 and i had back the QE/CI.Solved it i put the old 10.5.2 kexts...AppleAHCIand IOAHCIfamilyi forgot the IoAHCIfamily....... :)now is fixed..

don´t cry, yellow is nice ... if you wish another HD Icon ... download one, there are enaugh nice HD Icons for Mac on the Web and copy it, open your Disk with Command+I and click on the yellow Icon, than paste it and you will have that Icon you want to have ;-)

@Atze de Vries

installing NVInstaller is not enaugh, this will not overwrite the existing Kexts, you have to use Pacifist to install NVInstaller ... that works !

Why should be a change in APPLE 10.5.3 concerning an Asus Remote Control ?

Infact, i deleted all the old kext MANUALLY... heheheh!

great !

That card should work great, you just need to read up on how to use EFI graphics strings. Go here: http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,104.0.html

Just joined the club, perfect installation using Kalyway 10.5.2 and the lastest bios available on the ASUS website.
Its a bit of fresh air, after dealing with the D945GCNL, this one is much better. BTW.. Is there any way to make the Bios boot time faster? it takes ageeeees to load.

I had success updating to 10.5.3 today. But it would have been much smoother if I didn't use the Kalyway combo update.

It's not that it doesn't for our motherboard, it's just that it reverts the hard drive icons back to the orange external ones and disables the graphics card support for Core Image and Quartz Extreme. I fixed these issues by downloading the latest version of NVinstaller (v. 52) and the using another combo updater package to fix the icons.

That combo update is featured in this thread:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=109102

It's kind of a pain to download but worth it because it packs more support in. BUT beware that I did not install 10.5.3 using this updater package as mention above. But if I was to do it again I would. Best of luck using either.


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The easiest way to decrease POST times is to disable any IDE/SATA channels that don't have a drive connected.

Actually I heard that it helped if you disable all the fan monitoring stuff. Seemed to speed mine up!

Does anyone have problems with there wifi not working at the correct speed? The wifi module manual says it is 802.11g (54 mbps) compatible and system profiler says that it is connect to a USB 2.0 hub but, it only operates at USB 1.1 speed (so only 12mbps). Is there any workaround for this?

I'm not satisfied with the slow transfer rates (usually around 120 Kb/s with wifi and when i connect through ethernet i get about 1.5 Mb/s). My computer is in a different room than the router so i can't be connected through ethernet unless I move the entire computer Here is a picture of my system profiler:

Finally did it too using Kalyway 10.5.3. and the NVinstaller v. 52. Looks all fine.

We have a Problem. The Time machine fix doesn't work anymore. AFP/Time Machine no longer work in 10.5.3 ;\ This also breaks things like Qmaster in FCP... breaks it bad. I can't find a work around. Anyone have any ideas?

My time machine was working fine in 10.5.3 and then it suddenly stopped working after a while. I'm not sure what i did but i might have installed an extension or two. So to fix it i just used my previous time machine backup to restore the extensions folder. I don't know if this helps at all but its what i did and it fixed my problem.

Best of Luck!
~bmxer55

I just tried using TM under 10.5.3 to a Firewire external hdd and when it tries to backup it says Failed cannot find drive.

I'll be looking around for solutions. Not a big deal.

Help with Wireless and ICH7R Drivers

I have Kalyway 10.5.2 installed and working great, except for 2 issues.

1) I have RAID setup for my windows partition and OSX tried to mount these at startup, but fails with a "Disk Insertion" Error. How can I get OSX not to attempt to mount these drives?

2) I have installed the realtek 8187L driver, but it puts a really ugly icon on the dock, and since I don't use a wireless connection I would like to either disable / un-install the driver or hide the icon. anyone know how?

thanks

Paul

If the drivers has a dock icon, it means that it's not a driver at all, it's an application that starts when you log in. Try removing it from the login items. That should work. If it doesn't, just delete the whole thing with AppZapper.

Thanks for the quick reply.
I can't see the realtek application in my login items.
Exactly how should I find this.....

I'll also take a look at AppZapper

Paul

After updating to 10.5.3 I needed some time to realize: now everything is working - I mean 100 % !!!

the last issue I had, was that I couldn´t shutdown after sleep - gone!

e-sata with hotplug, four monitors on two graphic cards, booting from raid0 and perfect sleep .......i love my machine

the last question is how to get rid off that damned bios thing

Anyway I can get your Networkingfamily kext?

Sure i'll PM you it because i don't know if i'm allowed to post it since it is Apple's copyrighted stuff.

I backed up and then did a complete clean reinstall of Kalyway 10.5.2 then the Combo update mentioned about in my post.

Had fix the sound once again but now everything, even Time Machine works great.

Does anyone's ethernet not work after updating to 10.5.3? I usually just used my wireless but i recently tried my ethernet and it doesn't work! I have all the drivers installed but for some reason it doesn't work.

I installed 10.5.2 on another drive and the ethernet worked. When i copied the drivers over to 10.5.3 it doesn't work anymore! Please help!

EDIT: JK i got it to work! I just installed the drivers from the gigabyte_ds3-4pack.1.2.dmg and that solved my problem. It did however, break my wireless. I got a new wifi card to use as an airport. It was working until i installed the ethernet drivers

EDIT AGAIN: I finally fixed everything! just restored the 10.5.3 drivers over the old ones i was using and now airport and both ethernet ports work

Hey, so Kalyway 10.5.2 is running just fine on my comp. However, the OS only seems to recognize 1 of my usb ports as being 2.0. All the other ports completely throttle my speed to 12 Mb/s. Does anyone know a way to correct this?

Used Software Update to get to 10.5.4. I had a Vanilla Kernel and was running 10.5.3.

Everything works great.

what settings do i need to put my bios in to be able to use a vanilla kernel ?

yes, no problems after installing 10.5.4

Here are pictures of my Bios, which is 2602 by the way.