iATKOS 2.0 - Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 - Mighty Good!

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Initial iATKOS 2.0 success, low hassle factor:

 

Quad Q9300

Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4

8GB Gskill DDR2 1066 memory

EVGA 8600GT 256mb

IDE DVD drive

Corsair HW620W Power Supply

3 SATA drives

Kalyway 10.5.2 Install Disk - stalls @ 2min - did not work

iATKOS 2.0 10.5.2 - Works!

DVI>VGA adapter, for what its worth

 

 

Bios settings you must do first before 10.5.2 iATKOS install

in gen order of importance:

 

1) boot order set to DVD drive first

2) SATA/Raid Mode set to AHCI

 

Helps don't know how critical:

 

3) ACPI set to S3

4) HPET mode set to 64bit with support

5) CPU EIST Function (speedstep) off (for now)

6) Limit CPUID Max 3 disabled

7) Virtualization off

8) CPU Enhanced Halt off

9) onboard LAN 1&2 enabled with Rom enabled

 

Initialized 80GB drive, 45GB for main iATKOS OS, two partitions, rest for kext and other backup: GUID, each extended and (journaled)

 

 

Checked three things for install:

 

1) iATKOS v2.0i Main System

2) Darwin Bootloader

3) Drivers/VGA/nVidia/NVinject/256MB (for my EVGA 8600GT 256mb)

 

Thats all folks! And it works! It loads with Menu Meters, one of my favs. No thermometer though.

 

USB works. My DVI>VGA adapted VGA monitor works.

 

Bus speed, Memory, Number of Cores, Processor/Speed all correct.

 

Monitor works with screen saver and sleep, wakes on mouse, VRAM correct @ 256 MB, NVinject 0.2.1 QE/CI good.

 

Shutdown/Sleep do work.

 

I don't have LAN or sound, I guess it's a driver kext or something. There goes another day figuring it out.

 

I am using the Mysticus C* most excellent backup strategy found here: forum.insanelymac.com—index.php <http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=109102>

 

I have an initial xbench of 148 with all selected, without disk - 234. As I recall Kalyway only ran at about 124 - all selected, no idea why. That install freaked on me, probably my fault, check previous post. Installed iATKOS 2.0 baby!

 

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Rummaged around and found LAN driver:

 

210.51.181.211—RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip <ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip>

 

is this the latest?

 

info for another at end of this link also: forum.insanelymac.com—index.php <http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=29436&st=420>

 

This one works like a charm! Before I could complete the rest of the instructions after rebooting it configured and LittleSnitch warned me of Apple Time trying to connect, good sign! Rebooted again and my shared G5 server shows up but alas I cannot connect to it to download files for some reason, will have to try another LAN driver and learn Mac unix, oh god help me, dos was nightmare. I now have a DSL connect thru my router though.

 

Stay tuned.

 

Thanks, iATKOS a whole bunch.