Ryan Rhee Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 I think the problem is SATA, but I'm not sure. I did get the whole thing installed. If I posted on the wrong forum, please move my post to the correct forum. I have a working installation of 10.5.6, via XxX's distro. I have an nVidia 680i board with SATA DVD + SATA HDD, and MeDevil's "TEST" drivers worked. But the read/write is pretty unstable, and crashes when I try to write any file > 100mb Can anyone help me with this problem? All components are working now, it's just that write to SATA is shaky. System: eVGA 680i Mobo 4GB Corsair RAM, @ 800 MHz, 5-5-5-18 timing. eVGA 8800GT 512 mb WD 250GB SATA HDD Sony (I think?) SATA DVD RW I read that some people are having a hard time with >4Gb ram, so I downed my ram to 2gb. still the same. I tried cpus=1, still the same. I'm about to try both. I'll let you know what happens. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144729-680i-unstable-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Rhee Posted January 6, 2009 Author Share Posted January 6, 2009 cpus=1 AND 2Gb RAM seems to have solved my problem! (so far.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144729-680i-unstable-sata/#findComment-1028504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Rhee Posted January 6, 2009 Author Share Posted January 6, 2009 Would anyone know how to use both cores without instability? Much thanks, -Ryan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144729-680i-unstable-sata/#findComment-1029500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Would anyone know how to use both cores without instability?Much thanks, -Ryan Are you using the Voodoo RVV1.0 Rev_A kernel? Also check your BIOS settings against BIOS template in my Pre-Series 7 NForce thread..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144729-680i-unstable-sata/#findComment-1030428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobrainer Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I think the problem is SATA, but I'm not sure. I did get the whole thing installed. If I posted on the wrong forum, please move my post to the correct forum. I have a working installation of 10.5.6, via XxX's distro. I have an nVidia 680i board with SATA DVD + SATA HDD, and MeDevil's "TEST" drivers worked. But the read/write is pretty unstable, and crashes when I try to write any file > 100mb Can anyone help me with this problem? All components are working now, it's just that write to SATA is shaky. System: eVGA 680i Mobo 4GB Corsair RAM, @ 800 MHz, 5-5-5-18 timing. eVGA 8800GT 512 mb WD 250GB SATA HDD Sony (I think?) SATA DVD RW I read that some people are having a hard time with >4Gb ram, so I downed my ram to 2gb. still the same. I tried cpus=1, still the same. I'm about to try both. I'll let you know what happens. I have a similar problem with my 780i, but it's when I transfer closer to 12gig around. eVga 780i Bios: P8 Core2Quad 9450 2g ram 2 sata HD 1 Sata DVD haven't tried limiting the cores yet... will try that when I get home. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144729-680i-unstable-sata/#findComment-1234123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobrainer Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I have a similar problem with my 780i, but it's when I transfer closer to 12gig around. eVga 780i Bios: P8 Core2Quad 9450 2g ram 2 sata HD 1 Sata DVD haven't tried limiting the cores yet... will try that when I get home. limiting the cores for large transfers did the trick. then just reset back to quad core when complete. Not an elegant solution, but it works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144729-680i-unstable-sata/#findComment-1235082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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