RAMiAM Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Been following this thread with much interest. Purchased two ASRock ION 330s not too long ago. Cracking little machine for media playback. Any progress on OSX86 running on this? Thanks in advance. Cheers, RAM. (My first post and apologies for badgering rather than contributing) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1225555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted August 14, 2009 Author Share Posted August 14, 2009 Been following this thread with much interest.Purchased two ASRock ION 330s not too long ago. Cracking little machine for media playback. Any progress on OSX86 running on this? Thanks in advance. Cheers, RAM. (My first post and apologies for badgering rather than contributing) . . Hi - I think the first post - & first image here show that progress is being made Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1225705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzthqx Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I have my 330 running like a charm thanks to this thorough thread, although I cannot seem to get VoodooHDA to fly. Is this still the only way to obtain onboard audio with this via chipset? I have removed AppleHDA from SLE, and dropped Voodoo in the /Extra/Extensions Cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1244474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Methanoid Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 What I have found to date is: A: If OSX boots through to login with no USB devices of any kind plugged in both OHCI & EHCI controllers will initialize: when in OSX any device will then work at its rated speed B: If you have any low-speed or full-speed [OHCI] devices plugged in at boot, the EHCI controller will not initialize & only OHCI devices will work in OSX for that session. C: If you have no low-speed or full-speed [OHCI] devices plugged in, & any number of High-Speed [EHCI] devices plugged in at boot, both OHCI & EHCI controllers will initialize . . & you can then plug in any device & it'll work at its rated speed. How can I tell in Windows whether my devices are OHCI or EHCI? I have a MS Optical Mouse and Logitech USB Keyboard. Also, which USB Audio works? This? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=380153566431 Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1245912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 Hi - any USB audio widget will in theory work - only m-audio make USB widgets with proper drivers so everything else will give you 2-ch out only, whatever the vendors may claim. Check out the ION 330 tutorial - there's now a BIOS [an troubleshooting BIOS from Asrock support] which, when properly set, gives functioning USB + USB2. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1247770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzthqx Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 To answer my own question, it appears many have indicated VoodooHDA must be placed in S/L/E and does not work in /Extra for everyone. Regardless, I just moved the 330 to Snow Leopard, and it is looking awesome so far. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1251404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry100 Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Hi everyone, just to say I've just finished booting Snow Leopard Retail on AsRock 330 successfully. Tools used: 1.ChameleonRC3 manually installed. 2.Into Extra/Extensions I've installed same kext as for 10.5 but 64 version. 3.Into BIOS I've disabled Hyperthreading, 'cause S/L won't support it, KP if you forget to. 4.After installing the software on the ION disk, and before actually boot it, I've removed AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement*.kext from /System/Library/Extensions 'cause it seams the ATOM is not recognized, causing KP. All this done, I've rebooted and Snow raised fine. I've just upgraded to 10.6.1 and still working smoothly. Annoyances: with CPUPower management not present, I've to disable energy saving, else once the system turn off display I can't turn it on again. still sound problems, still relying on VoodooHDA. As told, hyperthreading turned off. Please, let me know if anyone can provide any clues on thos matters. Cheers and happy hacking! L. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1269865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Methanoid Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Surely better to keep Leopard and HT than Snow and loose HT ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1271183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry100 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Surely better to keep Leopard and HT than Snow and loose HT ?? Well, I've installed two different machines: a quad core desktop PC, with NVIDIA 9400 GT GPU, 1T hard disk 7200 rpm and 4Gb RAM and the ION 330 from ASRock. Both were configured with Vanilla Leopard 10.5.8, and both upgraded to Snow 10.6.1. Now, let's say that on the Desktop PC, the move from Leopard to Snow highlighted some speed enhancement. I didn't run any benchmark, but just the normal usage provided a good feeling of speed and responsiveness. I used some photo retouch app and audio editing app very satisfactory. On the ION, such feeling is reversed, the move to Snow resulted to me in some sluggishness more. My opinion: the move to snow is reasonable where the hardware is pumped enough to gain from the move to 64 bits, without loosing any feature. Maybe, on the ION, it would be better to wait and see if anyone can find a solution for the HT issue on Atom. As you can see, it's not a very technical analysis, but I'm quite sure about it: I moved the ION back to 10.5.8. L. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1271199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peropenx Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Please help, I have an asus ion 330, but no matter what I do, i allways get "unsupported CPU" even before instalation starts... i have turned off CPU hyperthreading in BIOS and tried everything but nothing. Does someone know how to make it work??? I have iMac at home so can do everything that's needed in osx but i can put disk from hackintosh in imac (of course)... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1450878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 Please help, I have an asus ion 330, but no matter what I do, i allways get "unsupported CPU" even before instalation starts... i have turned off CPU hyperthreading in BIOS and tried everything but nothing. Does someone know how to make it work??? I have iMac at home so can do everything that's needed in osx but i can put disk from hackintosh in imac (of course)... . . . Hi : don't PM me asking for unpaid private support, this is a public forum where we all help each other. There is a step-by-step install-guide for your Pro version of the ION 330 nettop at hackint0sh.org by a user called: janco1999 . . I found it inside 25 seconds by using google It seems from a quick read to miss the vital step of making up a suitable dsdt.aml with (at the very least) the CPU alias' removed; but no doubt it's there somewhere. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1451490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
generator85 Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 From reading this thread I gather that this won't work on the 330HT. Does anyone know if there's someone working on a solution for the 330HT? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177867-asrock-ion-330-for-osx-development-thread/page/2/#findComment-1515809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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