OS X install on GA-EX58-UD3R

[JesseGray]

Were you able to install just adding the kext files after the initial installation using IDE (the one that you had initially posted)? Or did you have to do a clean install?

 

Where are you getting the 10.5.7 build? I'd love to load it.

 

Also, my Geekbench score is only 6187. I installed the other AHCI kext you had listed, but it doesn't seem to be changing the performance.

 

Is there anything else in the bios (or anywhere else) I need to change other than those 2 settings under Advanced Peripherals?

 

Here is my Geekbench

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/127149

 

Also including my SATA settings under Sys Profiler to see if you can see anything that stands out. I have a SATA DVD drive, rather than IDE. That's the only difference b-t our systems as far as I can tell.

 

Thanks.

[AppleIIGuy]

Were you able to install just adding the kext files after the initial installation using IDE (the one that you had initially posted)? Or did you have to do a clean install?

 

Where are you getting the 10.5.7 build? I'd love to load it.

 

Also, my Geekbench score is only 6187. I installed the other AHCI kext you had listed, but it doesn't seem to be changing the performance.

 

Is there anything else in the bios (or anywhere else) I need to change other than those 2 settings under Advanced Peripherals?

 

Here is my Geekbench

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/127149

 

Also including my SATA settings under Sys Profiler to see if you can see anything that stands out. I have a SATA DVD drive, rather than IDE. That's the only difference b-t our systems as far as I can tell.

 

Thanks.

 

I just installed the AHCI Kexts then changed it in bios

[alyssa]

atfter install, first time loading system.

 

never mind, i got this work under ide mode. and ahci mode for ich10. thank you.

 

Does anyone know what he means?

ich10?

 

I'm also getting a system halt at "System Model Name:"

[alyssa]

I just installed the AHCI Kexts then changed it in bios

 

I don't know if that makes sense....

Do you mean you installed the AHCI from iatkos then changed the bios back to IDE? Because that's what it's sounding like even though I know that's not what you mean.

[fuma]

Does anyone know what he means?

ich10?

 

 

ich10 is Intel's southbridge chipset in this motherboard

 

I don't know where they are getting 10.5.7.

 

I guess they are referring to a dev release - no one can say for certain when they are going to release the 10.5.7 update... it will make our lives a lot easier when they do, it will support the i7 chip... but I don't think anyone should be posting about experiences with an unreleased developers update in this forum. Threads tend to get a bit off topic when stuff like that happens.. (try to figure out whats going on in the GA-EX58-UD5 thread.. its 30+ pages of VMWare discussion).

 

Anyway -

 

I'm building my third hack, this time with this UD3R board and a 920... but so far i can't boot into my install... I'm trying to use an EFi partition, but its restarting as soon as it starts to load... and i use the busratio=20 line at F8... the only "install" i've been able to even use on my maintenance drive to do anything is kalyway 10.5.2, I've tried a half dozen builds, iatkos, ipc, xxx, etc... all different versions... none let me even boot up. it always crashes and restarts. Anyone have experience with the UD3R board and an EFi install here?

[AppleIIGuy]

When I switched to AHCI all I did was install the aforementioned AHCI drivers with OSX86Tool. Then when It rebooted I wrnt into the Bios and set SATA RAID/AHCI to AHCI, Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode to AHCI. Then it just booted.

[JesseGray]

When I switched to AHCI all I did was install the aforementioned AHCI drivers with OSX86Tool. Then when It rebooted I wrnt into the Bios and set SATA RAID/AHCI to AHCI, Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode to AHCI. Then it just booted.

Same for me. Until I killed my whole installation installing Chameleon 2.0.

 

I'm retarded.

[AppleIIGuy]

Same for me. Until I killed my whole installation installing Chameleon 2.0.

 

I'm retarded.

 

Well I actually keep another drive on my computer which is a mirror image of my boot drive. But I just used the Chameleon-2.0-r431.pkg package on one drive to test. Did you try to reinstall PCI EFI V9 on the drive you put Chameleon on?

[JesseGray]

Well I actually keep another drive on my computer which is a mirror image of my boot drive. But I just used the Chameleon-2.0-r431.pkg package on one drive to test. Did you try to reinstall PCI EFI V9 on the drive you put Chameleon on?

You're a genius! That did it. I just used the iAtkos and unselected everything but PCE EFI V9. It gave me an error after installation, but by golly, it still let me boot back into OS X.

 

I went back into OS X and tried to install the Chameleon 2.0 RC1 package again, but it did the same thing. When i reboot, I don't get any errors, it just goes starts rebooting after the device listing. Any ideas? I'd sure like to put Chameleon 2.0 on there.

[fuma]

ich10 is Intel's southbridge chipset in this motherboard

 

Anyway -

 

I'm building my third hack, this time with this UD3R board and a 920... but so far i can't boot into my install... I'm trying to use an EFi partition, but its restarting as soon as it starts to load... and i use the busratio=20 line at F8... the only "install" i've been able to even use on my maintenance drive to do anything is kalyway 10.5.2, I've tried a half dozen builds, iatkos, ipc, xxx, etc... all different versions... none let me even boot up. it always crashes and restarts. Anyone have experience with the UD3R board and an EFi install here?

 

 

I love quoting myself -

 

So I finally got it up and running... using digital_dreamers script -- pretty much everything worked in the script (or had extra "repository" of kexts for other hardware flavors... but its kinda messy on the root of the drive. I can see the kernel and other files I know should be hidden, and it uses injectors for video, which I dislike, so I used the EFI strings for the video. bu other than that.. it works great... everything is working!

 

I'm trying the get the EFi partition boot method working, EFIStudio 1.1 has a great EFi boot partition loader, but it doesnt want to play nice with me, so I'll keep on messing around until I get it.

[JesseGray]

I don't know if that makes sense....

Do you mean you installed the AHCI from iatkos then changed the bios back to IDE? Because that's what it's sounding like even though I know that's not what you mean.

No, I think he means he installed the AHCI kexts found in his driver folder here...

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&id=48045

 

After that, you go into the Bios and change those 2 settings to AHCI (the ones he mentioned). It worked for me too.

 

OK, so I've gotten the whole install working. Everything seems to be working. I have a few problems I'd like to get ironed out.

 

First, when I install the Chameleon 2.0 RC1 auto-install package, I can't boot. It goes through the initial bios screens, and then when the boot options menu would normally show up (in EFI), the screen just goes blank and it starts rebooting all over again. Any ideas?

 

Second, and most important to me, I'm not getting the performance out of the install that you are. My Geekbench scores are only 6400. And that's after playing with the Bios settings to get my 6GB OCR DDR3 Gold Ram to run at 1600 MHz. By default, it seems that the 920 will only let Ram run at 1066 MHz, unless you overclock it. I overclocked it to get it to run at 1600, and that helped a little. It's not XMP ram, so I don't have the option to enable XMP in the bios like you do. Do you think that would be the difference?

 

Other than the Ram and HD, I have the exact same install you do. My HD is a 300GB Velociraptor. It should be faster than a 7200 RPM drive, not slower.

 

Any ideas as to what may be slowing me down?

[buzaglo33]

My System

GA-EX58-UD3R Motherboard

Intel Core i7 920

6 Gb DDR3 1600 Ram 3 channel

1 TB WD SATA Drive

ASUS DVD/RW IDE Drive

PNY Nvidia 9800GT 1024 Mb

 

Install Media iAtkos 10.5.5 DVD

 

In Bios set Onboard SATA/RAID Device to IDE AHCI & Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode to AHCI

 

Boot the iAtkos dvd.

Press F8 to enter Kernel Flags

enter busratio=20 * Note 1

continue booting

Use the Voodoo 10.5.5 kernel

Install Realtek RTL1000 Ethernet, Intel ICH AHCI drivers, & Jmicron IDE

when finished reboot and don't forget to enter busratio=20 -f -v for the first boot

After you setup your user account open up terminal and type 'su nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist then enter your password

where it says

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

put busratio=20 between the <string> and </string>

like this '<string>busratio=20</string>'

 

then save the file

 

then download the 10.5.6 update and install it.

 

After the reboot you can then use OSX86 tools to install the Display and sound Kexts Included in this post. (AppleAzalia kext may cause problems with sound)

 

If you have a Geforce 9800GT with 1024 MB of Vram then you can use OSx86 tool to add this string to com.apple.boot.plist

 

EFI_String_video_Card.rtf

 

Reboot and you should have sound and QE/CI.

 

* Note 1 busratio is set to the cpu clock ratio (a Intel Core i7 920 is 20)

 

UD3R.zip

 

 

brrrrrrrrrr

 

i have i7 920

ex58-ud3r

2x500gb hd sata

ati hd4870

6gb ddr3

vista 64bit

 

 

and 40gb old hard drive i want to install mac on

 

so what i do again can u gude me pleas setp by step

???

[Ritz Carltn]

My Geekbench is as followings.

http://osx86.tistory.com/200

 

But, I still need improvement of Disk Access, it's really poor now.

In Activity Monitor, it just 20MB/Sec read/write speed, same as USB Speed.

 

Thanks.

[JesseGray]

My Geekbench is as followings.

http://osx86.tistory.com/200

 

But, I still need improvement of Disk Access, it's really poor now.

In Activity Monitor, it just 20MB/Sec read/write speed, same as USB Speed.

 

That's fast!

 

Did you add in the AHCI drivers that AppleIIGuy posted in his download? I just downloaded the whole folder and applied all of them with Osx86 tools. Then in the bios, change the 2 settings. My disk access is good, but everything else is slow.

 

How did you get your score up so high? It doesn't look like you're overclocking (much).

[JesseGray]

OK, this is freaking me out.

 

I went into my bios and overclocked my i7 920 to run at 4.0 GHz.

 

However, now that I have booted into OS X, the timing of everything is messed up. My dock icons bounce really fast (at a rapid rate). My clock ticks seconds off at about double the pace. It won't keep the proper time. I promise, I'm not on any illegal substances!

[Wallstreet]

OK, this is freaking me out.

 

I went into my bios and overclocked my i7 920 to run at 4.0 GHz.

 

However, now that I have booted into OS X, the timing of everything is messed up. My dock icons bounce really fast (at a rapid rate). My clock ticks seconds off at about double the pace. It won't keep the proper time. I promise, I'm not on any illegal substances!

 

Did you change your bus ratio when overclocking? This may have something to do with it...

[JesseGray]

Did you change your bus ratio when overclocking? This may have something to do with it...

It is fixed. Not exactly sure what did it though.

 

When I changed to the 9.6.3 vanilla kernel, the clock problem went away.

 

I also loaded Chameleon 2.0 RC1 (at least partially). I am still trying to figure out how to set it up. If anyone has any tips, I'd love to hear.

[remydlc]

Hi There,

 

I just built my pc with Intel X58 DXSO mobo and Core i7 920 CPU. I downloaded the iAtkos dvd and the idenet 1.4 DVDs. I tried to boot them both, but I cannot type. My keyboard is just dead. I can't type any options nor hit F8. I can see the DVD booting up until that boot menu. My keyboard and mouse are USB. This mobo doesnt have options for PS2 mice and key.

 

Have you guys experienced this?

 

Thanks for your help.

[JesseGray]

Hi There,

 

I just built my pc with Intel X58 DXSO mobo and Core i7 920 CPU. I downloaded the iAtkos dvd and the idenet 1.4 DVDs. I tried to boot them both, but I cannot type. My keyboard is just dead. I can't type any options nor hit F8. I can see the DVD booting up until that boot menu. My keyboard and mouse are USB. This mobo doesnt have options for PS2 mice and key.

 

Have you guys experienced this?

 

Thanks for your help.

I haven't had that problem... but every MoBo is different. Did you use all the same kext's as this post?

[Drake Wolfe]

Enable USB support for your keyboard and mouse in the MOBO BIOS. There are a few settings there, make sure they are all enabled.

[crexiah]

Hi

 

I need some help here. I managed to install Ipc 10.5.6 ppf5 on my computer but when prompt to restart, it never boot up into darwin.When i set to the drive(maxtor) i install the Ipc, it state <boot:error>. I have vista installed on samsung Hdd. I'm kind of noob in this area, please enlighten me. Here is my spec:

 

GA-EX58-UD3R Motherboard

Intel Core i7 920

Ati 4850

Samsung 640gb Hdd

Maxtor 120 gb hdd

[teme]

After you setup your user account open up terminal and type 'su nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist then enter your password

where it says

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

put busratio=20 between the <string> and </string>

like this '<string>busratio=20</string>'

 

i"m trying to get this done and i'm getting a "su: sorry" message.

what should i do?

 

thanks

[JesseGray]

i"m trying to get this done and i'm getting a "su: sorry" message.

what should i do?

 

thanks

 

Try typing "sudo nano" instead. That worked for me.

 

Hi

 

I need some help here. I managed to install Ipc 10.5.6 ppf5 on my computer but when prompt to restart, it never boot up into darwin.When i set to the drive(maxtor) i install the Ipc, it state <boot:error>. I have vista installed on samsung Hdd. I'm kind of noob in this area, please enlighten me. Here is my spec:

 

GA-EX58-UD3R Motherboard

Intel Core i7 920

Ati 4850

Samsung 640gb Hdd

Maxtor 120 gb hdd

 

This installation only worked for me if I used IDE instead of AHCI for the initial installation. Don't change the 2 settings in the bios that he recommends in this initial post to AHCI... leave them at their default IDE values. Then, after your first successful boot, add in all the kexts he has listed. When you reboot, then go in and change those 2 values later.

 

Enable USB support for your keyboard and mouse in the MOBO BIOS. There are a few settings there, make sure they are all enabled.

I didn't change any of the default bios settings related to keyboard or mouse.

[teme]

that did it

thanks

[crexiah]

Try typing "sudo nano" instead. That worked for me.

This installation only worked for me if I used IDE instead of AHCI for the initial installation. Don't change the 2 settings in the bios that he recommends in this initial post to AHCI... leave them at their default IDE values. Then, after your first successful boot, add in all the kexts he has listed. When you reboot, then go in and change those 2 values later.

I didn't change any of the default bios settings related to keyboard or mouse.

 

 

Hi thanks a lot. I have Ipc up and running. The problem now is i tried installing all audio kext i can find for UD3R but its not working. Any suggestion?

 

Cheers

Kurt