Need help with Audigy sound, nForce 680i LAN, and nForce Raid Array

[Maciek Leja]

Hey Everyone.

 

So I'm super excited cause I got iDeneb 10.5.5 working on my PC after not much work - Q6600, Asus Striker Extreme, 4gb of ram, Sata HD, Sata DVDrw

 

Now I have 3 things I need to figure out - hopefully with all of your help.

 

Sound:

I have the Soundblaster Audigy card: http://www.soundblaster.com/products/produ...p;product=14189

I installed this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=104797 put nothing changed. OS x shows no sound card installed.

 

Lan: This is the description on the site:

NVIDIA nForce® 680i SLI™ built-in dual Gigabit MAC with external Marvell PHY

Support NVIDIA DualNet® technology

 

I searched the forums for possible fixes and I tried two different kexts. the nForceethernetcontroller.kext at this site:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=73317

 

I followed the steps - did this twice and nothing changed. When I plug in my cable, none of the lights are blinking. And in settings, there are two ethernet controllers (like there are on the mobo) but both of 'em say cable unplugged. No matter what I do this doesn't change. I have a feeling since I installed oSx with another kext for LAN that was in the customize, would that be interfering with it?

 

Raid array:

I have a Raid Array on the nForce chipset - 2 sata 150gb Western Digitals doing raid 0. My vista installation is on it. In OS X - it just shows up as two seperate hard drives but I cannot access them.

All my music and files are on it so I'd love to get it working. It's an NTFS drive so I know it's read only but that's good enough. Any ideas?

 

Anyone can attack any or all of these at once. Obviously most important right now is LAN and then Sound. The raid can be figured out last.

 

Thanks you!

[Maciek Leja]

Update: I ended up finding a PCI D-Link ethernet card that seems to work right away. I'm writing this from OSX !!!!

 

I also found a second sound card: Soundblaster Live 5.1 and the Soundblaster Audigy

 

Neither work

 

And the raid still isn't working well.

 

Any ideas?

[Maciek Leja]

Finally got sound working. I switched my cards - I put in the Soundblaster Live 5.1 and I re-downloaded the installer I mentioned above - installed it. Then I also did the kextunload and kextload commands and restarted - sound works!!!!

 

Final problem - getting OS X to read the raid 0 drives with the Vista installation on it. I have the NVRaid on my computer - can't find much info on it on the forums. Any ideas?

[Maciek Leja]

Just got a response from someone that the NVRAID isn't working in OSx. That sounds like the actual truth. Unless anyone has other news - I'm just going to get rid of the raid .

[Lanceomni]

LAN:

You can try the link in my signature for your LAN. Remember to remove any other lan related kexts prior to install.

 

ON-BOARD RAID:

I wouldn't hold your breath for the on-board raid. Despite being an on-board feature of the mobo it is most likely still considered a soft or fake raid in that your processor is doing the heavy lifting (just like software raids created in your OS). True hardware RAID controllers do the processing internally and do not farm the work out.

RAID can involve significant computation when reading and writing information. With traditional "real" RAID hardware, a separate controller does this computation. In other cases the operating system or simpler and less expensive controllers require the host computer's processor to do the computing, which reduces the computer's performance on processor-intensive tasks (see "Software RAID" and "Fake RAID" below). Simpler RAID controllers may provide only levels 0 and 1, which require less processing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_arr...dependent_disks

I have an Asus board with "On-board RAID" I used it for scratch disk when I had XP installed and It worked great. OSX however isnt seeing it as an array. I was extremely disappointed that I could not use this feature as I wanted two dual boot OSX & XP and use it in RAID 0 for scratch disk.

 

You may find a PCI Express RAID controller. One that does the processing on-board and doesnt pawn it off on your CPU.

 

Kext installation:

Just in case an installer isnt doing the job you can manually install them.

 

1. Remove all related kexts

2. Copied yourkext.kext to /System/Library/Extensions

3. In Terminal write:

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/LibraryExtensions/yourkext.kext

4. Copied yourkext.kext to /System/Library/Extensions

5. Entered your admin password when prompted

6. In Terminal write:

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/yourkext.kext
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

7. Restart and used the boot flags:

-v -f -F

 

-v Verbose

-f pull kexts from extensions folder not from the cache

-F ignore com.apple.boot.plist