Gringo Vermelho Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 When I turn on my PC, OSX doesn't boot. It stops after the IOAPIC message. No combination of -x -v -f or -s or any of them by themselves makes any difference. Then I take any old OSX86 10.5.x DVD i have, even ones that won't boot all the way to the installer on my system (DVD drive is on a Marvell PATA controller unsupported by most distros) and boot up from that with -v. Once it gets past the IOAPIC message (some DVDs do, some don't) I press the reset button and bam, OSX boots from the harddisk and works perfectly! :shrug: I've made it a habit to boot into single user mode and run fsck at this point. Most of the time there are errors, probably caused by shutdown not working. Although it doesn't make any difference if I shut down the computer by selecting restart, entering BIOS setup and then shutting down manually from there. Yeah restart works, but sleep, and shutdown doesn't work - monitor goes to standby and PC stays on, fans spinning. Of course this has to do with the APIC...what I don't understand is how booting from a DVD first seems to 'initialise' it somehow. Also I'm convinced that if I could get shutdown to work properly I wouldn't have this problem. But who knows. Shutdown doesn't even work on actual Apple hardware for some people in 10.5.6. Deleting Voodoopower.kext doesn't change anything. I know it has a shutdown fix in it but it's not helping me. I'm on iPC 10.5.6 final, using vanilla ACPI/APIC kexts, DSDT.aml patch, latest VoodooPower from SuperHai, Voodoo XNU final 9.5.0 kernel. Hardware is ASUS P5Q-E (P45/ICH10R) and a late model Intel Pentium 4 651. ACPI 2.0 and APIC tables enabled in the BIOS. I don't really expect any help with this issue because it's just too damn weird. But if anyone at least has an idea what's going on or where to look for solutions please let me know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154506-shutdownboot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tros (kaz) Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I tried to update my BIOS with an Asus laptop that has just about the same chipset, it crapped out on me around the same place (although I never messed with it to see if DVD's would help boot or not). I'm just saying, maybe try a few BIOS versions back, and see if there's any change (although you may have to perform the DSDT fixes on it). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154506-shutdownboot/#findComment-1088769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 I've tried flashing to older BIOS before and ASUS EZ-flash wouldn't let me downgrade! I've got the latest BIOS (1703) on it. Maybe if I boot from my USB stick with their stand-alone flasher there's a command to force it. Last night after posting I installed Slice's IOPCIFamily.kext 2.5.4 but nothing changed. Also got his USB 328 and USB Mass Storage kexts installed. USB stick transfers still seems too slow. lol P5Q-E is a stubborn mother******. These 'little' things are extra annoying when everything else just works. The only errors I can see in the system log are the good old 'family specific matching fails' on bootup for nearly every device on the motherboard. No clues there unless I'm missing something. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154506-shutdownboot/#findComment-1089024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 Tried exchanging VoodooPower.kext for OpenHaltRestart.kext. Same thing. Also tried IntelEnhancedSpeedstep.kext just for kicks but it causes a kernel panic on boot. For my next trick, I'm going to try disabling devices one by one to see what happens. Did anybody find out yet why some of us don't have the 'restart after power failure' (or whatever) checkbox in the power saving settings? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154506-shutdownboot/#findComment-1089703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 wtf now Windows Vista started to do the same thing. Out of the blue. The P5Q-E BIOS has a neat feature that lets you store two separate BIOS setups. I haven't touched the profile I'm using for Windows, which was already installed and running on a different drive before I installed 10.5.6. Weirdest thing is that at this time the only thing that's different is that I've got one of the LAN ports disabled in the Windows BIOS profile and it's set to boot from the other HDD. So maybe this is really a bug in the BIOS - or maybe there is something wrong with the Interrupt Controller on this board (argh). I'm also wondering - ASUS probably don't do much testing with older CPUs like my P4-651 in their newer boards. So maybe it'll work better with a newer CPU. I'm getting a Core 2 Duo E8500 (yay) in a month or so. I would really appreciate it if other P5Q-E owners would share their BIOS settings and hardware configuration. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154506-shutdownboot/#findComment-1093555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 First, my apologies for posting in the wrong place!! lol This thread really belongs in the Leopard sub-forum. When I turn on my PC, OSX doesn't boot. It stops after the IOAPIC message.No combination of -x -v -f or -s or any of them by themselves makes any difference. Then I take any old OSX86 10.5.x DVD i have, even ones that won't boot all the way to the installer on my system (DVD drive is on a Marvell PATA controller unsupported by most distros) and boot up from that with -v. Once it gets past the IOAPIC message (some DVDs do, some don't) I press the reset button and bam, OSX boots from the harddisk and works perfectly! :shrug: (Gringo Vermelho was a temporary login I created until I could log in with this account again) I fixed this annoying issue today by disabling 'memory remapping' in the BIOS. Default setting is enabled. I thought this was supposed to fix issues if you have 4GB RAM, but I only have 2GB.. so that's a bit odd. But I guess it makes sense to set it to 'disabled' - since I don't need it! Anyway - now I can boot without having to use a random OSX86 install DVD to get past the IOAPIC message first. The issue with Vista (the poor thing) getting confused was due to toggling the Plug'n Play OS setting in the BIOS. Still got no shutdown/sleep however. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154506-shutdownboot/#findComment-1109252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 No..it turns out that setting didn't fix it anything after all. I still have to start from a DVD until the IOAPIC message in order to boot from HDD. If I had more hair I'd probably tear out some in frustration. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154506-shutdownboot/#findComment-1109560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Searay_X has arrived with some new ideas. Discussion will continue in this thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=159040 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154506-shutdownboot/#findComment-1115376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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