GUID for GA-P35-DS3L REV:2.0 Vanilla Snow Leopard!

[carny]

I hope this isn't relevant question to the topic.

 

can this method work out with Snow leopard DMG image restored to spare partitions on single GUID Scheme withouth USB and dvd options!

 

I having trouble at the moment because i have leopard installed on current GUID and have the snow leopard installed on second one but it isn't booting for me.

[seanmcgpa]

Fixed the audio "crackle" or "thump" every time a system sound plays (like emptying the trash, copying a file... it was very annoying after a while).

 

Modify your smbios.plist and change your SMproductname to read Mac Pro 3,1 :

 

 

<key>SMproductname</key>

<string>MacPro3,1</string>

 

reboot and viola. flawless sound. Now I have a 100% 64 bit SL install on an 8 TB raid array that's flawless. Thanks all!

[SiriusW]

Snow Gigabyte P35 DS3L v2

 

We need to create a file from Leopard DSDT.aml basic (at least with the correction of Device (RTC) so it does not unconfigurate the bios on every boot).I also added audio and graphics.

 

Restart with SLBoot

Change cd SLBoot for dvd Snow 10a432

Install (unchecking printers in Customize)

Reboot after installation, again changing the DVD Snow for cd SLBoot

Configure

Upgrading to 10.6.1 and rebooting

Install Chameleon 2RC 3

In the Extra folder create another folder called Extensions and install kext's:

AHCIPortInjector

fakesmc (version 2)

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector

JMicronATA

LegacyHDA

NullCPUPowerManagement

OpenHaltRestart

PlatformUUID

SleepEnabler

 

Also put DSDT.aml Extra, com, apple.Boot.plist and smbios.plist (modify the settings according to your Hardware)

Install and run kext Utility 2.3.2

Reboot .... And enjoy.

 

Note:

Every time I used to restart my computer the Bios used to unconfigurate until I used DSDT.aml

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R3VFU736

 

Can someone rehost the file to other online hosting?

Don't know why it shows "This service is temporarily not available from your service area." when I click the link.

It's been happened more than 2 days....

[genuf]

Does this work with Rev 1 of the motherboard?

[drvinhle]

Fixed the audio "crackle" or "thump" every time a system sound plays (like emptying the trash, copying a file... it was very annoying after a while).

 

Modify your smbios.plist and change your SMproductname to read Mac Pro 3,1 :

 

 

<key>SMproductname</key>

<string>MacPro3,1</string>

 

reboot and viola. flawless sound. Now I have a 100% 64 bit SL install on an 8 TB raid array that's flawless. Thanks all!

 

Sean, how do you modify the DSDT.aml file to get the right video card? And does it matter? I have a 9800 512mb?

thanks

[GERGÖ]

I get a kernel panic if booting in 64bit, but in 32bit is everything ok.

What is wrong?

[Josh8178]

Anyone having issues with their P35-DS3L's not waking up from sleep? if anyone could post their DSDT.aml without their GFX string that would be great, also which SleepEnabler they are using? I have really almost given up trying to get it to work properly :/

 

Btw I have an GA-P35-DS3L V2.0 with F9 BIOS.

[SnoopKatt]

Has anyone had luck with using the EFI partition? It's in this guide:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127330

 

I tried it, and all I got was "boot0: error". When I tried flagging the partition as active, it did nothing when I tried booting from it. However, using the Chameleon 2.0 RC3 disc would boot it every time. Did you guys have any luck with this method? It'd be really convenient to have all of the post-install kexts in a different spot.

 

Thanks for any help!

[Josh8178]

Hey guys

 

I managed to sort out my wake up problem! It seems that if I have my keyboard and mouse connected to the 2 USB ports near the Ethernet port the computer refuses to wake, however when I tried using the ports above them, it woke up perfectly! I can even click the mouse to wake up the system!

 

I found a DSDT.aml which detects my ACHI as Intel ICH10 and the USB as "Built-in USB" which is correct I presume. I'm using a Creative Xmod for my sound so I'm not sure about the ALC888 But I'll attach the contents of my Extras folder for anyone that's interested or needs help with their P35-DS3L.

 

If anyone wants to know how I installed 10.6, I simply downloaded the Boot CD from this thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...topic=%20180954

 

Burned the ISO to a CD, booted it up then swapped it with my Retail Snow Leopard DVD, Installed it without Printer Drivers (Very important or it fails)

 

When it finishes installing swap the DVD for the Boot CD again and boot up from the HDD you installed retail SL on, once your account is set up and you're logged in simply download the new Chameleon RC3 installer package from this forum and install it, then copy all the files I attached into the /Extra folder (There's a boot.plist, SMBIOS, DSDT.aml and Extra folder with the correct kexts for this motherboard), download EFI Studio and install your graphics card ( I find it easier than DSDT Patching, I never got it to patch right :/ always got compile errors)

 

Then reboot and pray it works! If you get a kernel panic check you have HPET on 64-Bit.

 

My system is pretty much rock solid and sleep works great now I found out what my problem was.

I click my mouse and BOOM! the desktop is back

 

Extra.zip

[SnoopKatt]

Ok, I got the EFI booting to work by installing the Chameleon bootloader on the EFI partition and by using Josh8178's Extra's folder (thank you for providing that!). However, the dsdt.aml provided in there does not have the onboard audio working. cyberbuddhah's post does have a dsdt.aml with onboard audio working. Thank you both for sharing your files!

 

My only problem is that my PCI cards are still not being recognized. I have an Auzentech DTS-X-Plosion (CMI 8788) that normally works if I use a certain kext. However, it is not being recognized. I then also noticed my Pinnacle Firewire-400 card is not being recognized either. My way around this in 10.5 Leopard was to not use the dsdt.aml, but I would much prefer to use it in this case. How could I enable the PCI cards?

 

Thanks for any help!

 

EDIT: I tried deleting the DSDT.AML, and doing that does make OSX recognize the firewire card, but neither the onboard audio or sound card work. I guess that means that the kext for my audio card doesn't work in 64-bit?

 

Anyways, is there a method to let OSX use both the onboard audio and the firewire card?

 

EDIT 2: I guess I have to use the dsdt.aml because if I don't, I have to reconfigure the BIOS each time.

[Josh8178]

Ok, I got the EFI booting to work by installing the Chameleon bootloader on the EFI partition and by using Josh8178's Extra's folder (thank you for providing that!). However, the dsdt.aml provided in there does not have the onboard audio working. cyberbuddhah's post does have a dsdt.aml with onboard audio working. Thank you both for sharing your files!

 

My only problem is that my PCI cards are still not being recognized. I have an Auzentech DTS-X-Plosion (CMI 8788) that normally works if I use a certain kext. However, it is not being recognized. I then also noticed my Pinnacle Firewire-400 card is not being recognized either. My way around this in 10.5 Leopard was to not use the dsdt.aml, but I would much prefer to use it in this case. How could I enable the PCI cards?

 

Thanks for any help!

 

EDIT: I tried deleting the DSDT.AML, and doing that does make OSX recognize the firewire card, but neither the onboard audio or sound card work. I guess that means that the kext for my audio card doesn't work in 64-bit?

 

Anyways, is there a method to let OSX use both the onboard audio and the firewire card?

 

EDIT 2: I guess I have to use the dsdt.aml because if I don't, I have to reconfigure the BIOS each time.

 

Hey, I just found DSDT.dsl on the InfiniteMac forums for someones P35-DS3L, I've been trying a few to get everything working on my system. My Audigy 2 PCI card has a firewire port on it and it did work in 10.5, but not in SL. However when I tried this DSDT it detected my firewire card properly in system profiler (Before I had some red writing which said there was no device or something) and sleep still works etc.

 

I don't know if this will work for you, but give it a shot. I'm just trying to get my head around DSDT files myself but it will probably take a long time!

 

I have attached it for you and compiled it to AML

 

Sound *should* work.

 

EDIT: Sound works perfectly Integrated, that is. I wonder if theres a SL driver for your PCI sound card? I know theres one for my Audigy 2 under the Kx project

DSDT.aml.zip

[SnoopKatt]

That did it, thanks! At first it didn't work, but then I put the firewire card in a different spot and it saw it, and now I can use my camcorder as a webcam

 

When I use DPCIManager, it sees the audio card, but for some reason the kext isn't initializing it. I've been using a CMI 8738 kext for it (it made the output work in 10.5). It's a 32-bit kext I think, so is there a command line fix that'll make it load in 64-bit Snow Leopard?

 

Thank you again so much for the help!

[Josh8178]

Anyone have the issue where their SATA controller is detected as Unknown ACHI Device? Well it's purely a cosmetic thing but I edited two .kext files with the correct strings so it will be detected properly.

 

Just install them with Kext Utility and reboot.

 

I know this can be fixed with a DSDT file however the one I'm using doesn't have the fix, so, this method is better for me and may be for others.

Archive.zip

[antiocles]

Anyway, I'm curious as to whether other people with this board have the device removal problem and how they've corrected it. With the EHCI USB fix, has anyone else had problems with sleep not working?

 

I can confirm the fix linked to in the BlackOSX guide for EHCI USB causes sleep to stop working.

 

Ant

[metamotion]

Uzmi, I could KISS YOU! I finally got Snow Leopard up and running 100% on my P35-DS3L rev 2.0 using this little guide and your download (specifically your DSDT.aml file).

 

Two issues : your DSDT.aml file specifies your nVidia 9400, which I don't have. I have an nVidia 8800 GTX with 768 megs of memory. Does it really matter? Even though the system profiler said I had a 9400 video card, I could play videos, World of Warcraft, etc. without any issues at all. I guess I should build a native DSDT.aml file with built in support for my 8800 GTX but I find the whole process daunting and confusing.

 

Also - Chameleon seems to be booting in "verbose" mode - I get every single text output before OSX boots. Forgive me if I should know this, but what do I modify so that Chameleon just stays in the GUI and boots Snow Leopard? Duh, I just removed -v from the com.apple.Boot.plist - how dumb am I?

 

Thanks again for this information - after 3 frustrating days I am finally running Snow Leopard.

 

Now for the daunting task of copying my working install onto a software raid array (4 x 2TB drives)

 

Sean

 

 

I've had spectacular success with this guide. Many thanks. There is a slight problem with sleep; the monitor goes blue and won't wake up, but I just set the energy saver to never sleep so that's fine with me.

Also very impressive, the video worked on the first try with this guide. My system even recognizes my Dell monitor, SP2208WFP, which has a camera and microphone, which all run iChat just fine.

However, my video card is an BFG 9500 GT (1 Gb, DDR2). As I said, it works well, but the QE/CI is not turned on.

 

Any tips on getting QE/CI working? It was working fine in 10.5.8. I suspect I need a mod to my DSDT.aml, but I am a relative newbie and afraid to mess with it.

 

Thanks.

[juice_e]

Now you can install retail Snow Leopard and enjoy!

 

 

1:Download this

GA-P35-DS3L

 

2:Rebuild your retail installation DVD on your hard drive or a USB flash drive.(can not boot the DVD itself)

 

3:Install BootThink 2.3

http://www.apple163.com/thread-1476-1-1.html

 

4:Customize com.apple.boot.plist and smbios.plist so that they match your hardware. Edit dsdt.aml too if you dont have Nvidia 9400 Gt.

 

5.Copy all kexts and so on to respective directory on your BootThink 2.3 Drive or wherever you installed BootThink 2.3.

 

6.Boot with your Pc with BootThink and boot of your rebuild from 2. (If you don't see your rebuild from 2. in the GUI of BootThink press F8 ant enter #p=+ and restart)

 

7.Install and reboot with BootThink and choose the hard or partition you installed Snow Leopard.(Your hard must be GUID Partition Scheme)

 

8.Enjoy!

 

 

 

How do i get BootThink 2.3.18 to load first thing when i turn on my computer everytime? ... i currently have 2 hard drives and the second hard drive has bootThink installed on the first partition and leopard on the second partition...

[teh_pwned]

I have everything working but the sound, it was working but i needed to add more of the kext to the extension folder and after a reboot, no sound.

 

also what would i need to do to change:

the RAM from 667 to 880mHz

the graphics card from nvidia 9400 --> nvidia 8800gts 640mb

 

BTW thanks for the guide this is a close as i have gotten to getting os x to work fully.

[SnoopKatt]

Do any of you have S/PDIF working on the motherboard? Every I/O is working except that for me.

[teh_pwned]

After some tinkering the sound is working again, but now i am stuf with the wrong device names etc

any ideas?

[sneezymarble]

Do any of you have S/PDIF working on the motherboard? Every I/O is working except that for me.

 

SPDIF is working for me, but only in stereo. I can't pass 5.1 through optical.

[SnoopKatt]

Could you post the kext(s) you're using please? I would be very interested in this!

[cyberbuddhah]

Any tips on getting QE/CI working? It was working fine in 10.5.8. I suspect I need a mod to my DSDT.aml, but I am a relative newbie and afraid to mess with it.

 

Thanks.

 

SL does not report QE/CI by default. There are many ways to confirm that QE/CI works, but, the simplest way is: if you have a transparent menu bar : you have QE/CI.

 

For example the pic below, taken from my REAL Mac Book Pro

 

 

also what would i need to do to change:

the RAM from 667 to 880mHz

the graphics card from nvidia 9400 --> nvidia 8800gts 640mb

 

For the RAM, edit simbios.plist

for graphic card, use EFIStudio to edit the GFX string

[eanda-sbs]

Just wanted to say thankyou to the creator of the ga-p35-ds3l package. I am up and running and running well although I passed on the bootthink setup in lieu of Chameleon 2 rc3.

 

I have one question on the com.apple.Boot.plist.

 

What are the efi stings that you have added to this file? I can't determine what they are so I figure I better aske the author.

 

Let me know what they are and what versions or maybe where they came from.

 

Any help is appreciated.

[brutus01]

Hi,

 

I am on a GA-P35-DS3L REV:1.0 (still running 10.5.7).

 

Do the posted files also wor on this v.1 board?

 

 

 

 

Thanks!

[cyberbuddhah]

Just wanted to say thankyou to the creator of the ga-p35-ds3l package. I am up and running and running well although I passed on the bootthink setup in lieu of Chameleon 2 rc3.

 

I have one question on the com.apple.Boot.plist.

 

What are the efi stings that you have added to this file? I can't determine what they are so I figure I better aske the author.

 

Let me know what they are and what versions or maybe where they came from.

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

The EFI string is for the video card, in my case Nvidia 9400GT. Actually the DSDT file already tuned the BIOS for the presence of a / any Nvidia card. The EFI string just specifies which card it is. So, technically any Nvidia card should work even though cosmetically it may be reported as a "9400GT" card in the system info. To correct the info that matches your card you can use OSX86 tools to generate the string for your card.

 

Don't mean to hijack this post, but the original poster seems to have abandoned this topic. I will post a more up to date and detail of the installation with dual boot with win 7 on the same hard drive.

 

Hi,

 

I am on a GA-P35-DS3L REV:1.0 (still running 10.5.7).

 

Do the posted files also wor on this v.1 board?

 

Thanks!

 

I do not know for sure. May be you should take the initiative to try and report back. You'll learn along the way and others will learn from you. IT's just an OS. I have since re-installed my OSX a dozen times already, and, it's better every time. Remember to back up you current install first (Time Machine, CCC, Diskutil restore image)