Lifehacker Guide with GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard

[mm67]

VoodooMonitor kext make a mess with sleep and boot with bios 0.8. I cant find mark-i anywhere.

ane idea?

 

BTW

can u guys share you settings OC - 9550 E0 with bios 0.8

as faster and stable as more welcome

 

thanks

mark_i.zip

[MacWannaBe]

VoodooMonitor kext make a mess with sleep and boot with bios 0.8. I cant find mark-i anywhere.

ane idea?

 

BTW

can u guys share you settings OC - 9550 E0 with bios 0.8

as faster and stable as more welcome

 

thanks

 

 

I posted my OC settings for the 9550 here:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1341488

 

I run at 3.4GHz.

 

See my cooling in my sig. With bios 0.8 it runs idle at about 44 degrees.

 

-Ed

[mm67]

I posted my OC settings for the 9550 here:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1341488

 

I run at 3.4GHz.

 

See my cooling in my sig. With bios 0.8 it runs idle at about 44 degrees.

 

-Ed

 

If you also have Windows on your system you should run Easy Tune 6 and check what kind of voltages you are getting for Cpu termination and PLL with Auto setting. Auto setting tends to set those voltages much too high, max safe voltages for your Cpu are 1.65 for PLL and 1.45 for Termination. With so low overclock you should be able to use stock values for those voltages, you could try changing those to Normal.

[konjow]

thanks guys..

 

My cpu is 3.4 ghz now, but i keep vcore 1,176 llc enable and no auto at all just set regular same V but not auto.

temp is around 41C and its stable. with 1.27 you could get faster one.

[mm67]

I'm currently running my Q9550 at 4.25 GHz with these settings:

******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)******

Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto      ]
CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 8         ]
Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.5     ]
CPU Frequency 4.25GHz...........................[ 500 x 8.5 ]

******Clock Chip Control******

CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 500 ]
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 101 ]
C.I.A 2........................................ [Disabled]

******Advanced Clock Control******

CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 800mv ]
PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 900mv ]
CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 50ps ]
MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 100ps ]

******DRAM Performance Control******

Performance Enhance.............................[standard]
Extreme Memory Profile..........................[Disabled]
(G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 333 MHz]
System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.40B  ]
Memory Frequency 1066...........................[ 1200   ]
DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual ]

CAS Latency Time................................[ 5  ]
tRCD............................................[ 5  ]
tRP.............................................[ 5  ]
tRAS............................................[ 15 ]

******Advanced Timing Control******

tRRD............................................[ 4  ]
tWTR............................................[ 4  ]
tWR.............................................[ 8  ]
tRFC............................................[ 68 ]
tRTP............................................[ 4  ]
Command Rate (cmd)..............................[ Auto ]

******Channel A Timing Settings******

Static tRead Value  ...........................[ 8    ]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment .........................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment  ........................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment  ........................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment  ........................[ Auto ]

tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank)  ......................[ Auto ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank)  ......................[ Auto ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank)  ......................[ Auto ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) .....................[ Auto ]

Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control......................[ Auto ]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control......................[ Auto ]
DDR Write Training.............................[ Auto ]

******Channel A Driving Settings******

Drive Strength Profile.........................[ OC-1200]
Data Driving Pull Up Level.....................[ Auto   ]
cmd Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto   ]
ctrl Driving Pull Up Level.....................[ Auto   ]
clk Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto   ]

Data Driving Pull Down Level...................[ Auto   ]
cmd Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto   ]
ctrl Driving Pull Down Level...................[ Auto   ]
clk Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto   ]

******Channel B Timing Settings******

Static tRead Value  ...........................[ 8    ]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment .........................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment  ........................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment  ........................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment  ........................[ Auto ]

tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank)  ......................[ Auto ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank)  ......................[ Auto ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank)  ......................[ Auto ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) .....................[ Auto ]

Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control......................[ Auto ]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control......................[ Auto ]
DDR Write Training.............................[ Auto ]

******Channel B Driving Settings******

Drive Strength Profile.........................[ OC-1200]
Data Driving Pull Up Level.....................[ Auto   ]
cmd Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto   ]
ctrl Driving Pull Up Level.....................[ Auto   ]
clk Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto   ]

Data Driving Pull Down Level...................[ Auto   ]
cmd Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto   ]
ctrl Driving Pull Down Level...................[ Auto   ]
clk Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto   ]

******Motherboard Voltage Control******

Load-Line Calibration..........................[ Disabled]
CPU Vcore [ 1.225].............................[ 1.4375  ]
CPU Termination [ 1.20 ].......................[ 1.360   ]
CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...............................[ 1.500   ]
CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]........................[ 0.760   ]

MCH Core [ 1.100 ].......................[ 1.420 ]
MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]..................[ 0.800 ]
MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900 ]..............[ Auto  ]
ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]........................[ 1.570 ]
ICH Core [ 1.100 ].......................[ 1.200 ]

DRAM Voltage [ 1.800 ]...................[ 1.80   ]
DRAM Termination [ 0.900 ]...............[ Auto   ]
Channel A Ref [ 0.900 ]..................[ Auto   ]
Channel B Ref [ 0.900 ]..................[ Auto   ]

[960brick]

I'm currently running my Q9550 at 4.25 GHz with these settings:

 

 

Thanks for sharing your settings, trying to keep my temps low while increasing performance little bit, increased FSB (400) while keeping cpu Vcore & termination low. Running 3.6Ghz idle 39C & 52C load -Prime95.

 

CPU Vcore [ 1.225].............................[ 1.150 ]

CPU Termination [ 1.200 ].......................[ 1.100 ]

 

 

This is native speed stepping without any kext. I havn't tried advance dram settings like you did

Cant wait to build my i7 rig.

 

[mm67]

Thanks for sharing your settings, trying to keep my temps low while increasing performance little bit, increased FSB (400) while keeping cpu Vcore & termination low. Running 3.6Ghz idle 39C & 52C load -Prime95.

 

CPU Vcore [ 1.225].............................[ 1.150 ]

CPU Termination [ 1.200 ].......................[ 1.100 ]

 

 

This is native speed stepping without any kext. I havn't tried advance dram settings like you did

Cant wait to build my i7 rig.

 

 

i7 at stock speeds probably won't do this:

[960brick]

i7 at stock speeds probably won't do this:

 

Very impressive for Q9550, whats your load temps?

[mm67]

Very impressive for Q9550, whats your load temps?

 

About 65 C running Prime95 small FFT's but that's in a warm room, currently about 28 C. Once weather cools down to normal temperatures I'm probably at 60 C on full load.

[HAVEC]

I'm currently running my Q9550 at 4.25 GHz with these settings:

 

Very impressive! My 9550 Stella V.3 won't go above 3.4 GHz.

 

What's your CPU cooler and is this a Stella V.3 or a Cartri rig?

[mm67]

Very impressive! My 9550 Stella V.3 won't go above 3.4 GHz.

 

What's your CPU cooler and is this a Stella V.3 or a Cartri rig?

 

Neither, my board is GA-EP45-UD3, not UD3P as yours. But I really don't see any reason why your cpu wouldn't go higher. If it is older C1 revision or E0 with very high VID then high overclocks won't be easy but something like 3.8 GHz should be possible even in that case. I do have a very good cooler, Prolimatech Megahalems with 2 * Silverstone FM121 fans, but your cooler should be able to handle a little more than 3.4 GHz. I think that kdawg is using same board, same cpu and same cooler as you and he's running at 3.9 GHz.

[jbolted]

Couple of quick questions for you.....

 

First, does the computer boot at all? to where you can see the BIOS at least come up...

Second, if it does come up, have you tried to hit the delete key? as mentioned earlier

Third, do you have a separate mac? just in case you need to make a new USB installer...

 

Also, its MacTech84, not 64 or tech 64, lol, just wanted to clarify...

 

Ok, I got to the bottom of the problem. When I got the motherboard back there was still the freezing issue. So I checked on the memory. One of the 2 memory modules was bad and causing the system to freeze up even in bios for a few minutes. Even with the drives disconnected it would freeze, so i removed one module & immediately I was able to make the bios settings needed. My second problem was for some reason the V3 installer would not see the drives. So what I did was make a new usb flash drive with kakewalk. Set up the usb drive to be the first drive, and reinstalled Mac OS 10.6 to my backup drive, once restarted into the backup drive I was able to download the 10.6.4 combo updater. Ran that and restarted. Now upon restart right after verifying DMA pool i hit the arrow key and my main drive was there and it booted. I deleted the extra folder on the main drive that was left from the V3 installer. I was not able to run the installer for kakewalk onto the main drive, I guess because it was already on the backup drive. So what I did was to copy over the extra folder from the kakewalk installer that it installed onto the backup drive & put it on the main drive. I am not sure if I should copy over the boot file that is on the backup drive from the kakewalk installer to the main drive, or should I just leave the one drive with a boot file and both drives with the extra folder from kakewalk? It seems to work fine this way I can boot into either drive and they both work fine. Do I need to have the boot file on both drives?

 

the kakewalk method seems to have dropped my system temps by 10 degrees. Its either that or the fact that i installed a freezer7pro cooler and heatsink.

 

BTW- I ordered a seperate 2 gb dual kit of gskill ram so I can rma the bad ocz ram and still have a computer running . So now when i get back the 4 GB dual kit, I will have a 4 gb daual kit and a 2 gb dual kit can I run them together even though they are different brands? The are both PC6400 800 Mhz memory.

[HAVEC]

FWIW I was able to install a PCI-Express USB 3.0 Controller card that I had lying around in my Stella V.3 UD3P rig. It works with Win7 and is invisible to SL without any apparent harm to the system.

[kamidake50]

Everyone, do yourself a favor and just download the BIOS from http://cartri.net/blog/downloads

 

Everything will work and you won't even need DSDTs or Drivers...... heck with guides:)

[bean5]

had this happen to me today: I had a memory card in on my monitor's card reader and restarted the computer. Left to get a drink and when I came back, the computer was stuck on the bios logo screen. Rebooted over and over again and kept getting the same thing. For whatever reason, I took out the memory card (i think to put it back in my camera) and the computer finally restarted on the next attempt. What's going on and how do I stop it from happening again?

[MicahDanielSmith]

had this happen to me today: I had a memory card in on my monitor's card reader and restarted the computer. Left to get a drink and when I came back, the computer was stuck on the bios logo screen. Rebooted over and over again and kept getting the same thing. For whatever reason, I took out the memory card (i think to put it back in my camera) and the computer finally restarted on the next attempt. What's going on and how do I stop it from happening again?

 

The motherboard boot order is looking for a USB device to boot from (your monitor with a storage device plugged in counts). I have had the same thing happen to me as you described....either make sure that you always pull any attached devices before booting, or go in and modify the boot order in your bios to boot from the internal HD before any connected devices.

[bean5]

I thought that might be the problem as well, but my boot order shows only hdds. I use the memory card for readyboost when I'm in windows, so I'd rather just leave it in there. If there's no fix I'll live with having to pop it out on reboots, but I'd rather not if I don't have to.

[jbolted]

I wonder if someone can help me with an answer to this. I am running now. I have 2 hard drives both of them have 10.6.4. The one drive i installed the kakewalk installer to. It looks like it installed an extra folder with a dsdt.aml file, a few extensions fakesmc.kext & JMicronATA.kext, outside of the extensions folder is com.apple.Boot.plist, smbios.plist and a themes folder. Also on my root of the drive outside of the extra folder is a boot file. I am assuming this boot file is the chameleon bootloader? Is this correct?

 

I tried to run the kakewallk installer on the other drive but it would not install. So i copied over just the extra folder, not the boot file. I figured the boot file on the other drive that took the full install of kakewalk would suffice. I was afraid that haveing a boot file on both drives would conflict otherwise kakewalk would have installed on the other drive for me. I am able to boot up from either drive now with just the one bootfile on the drive kakewalk installed onto with no problems.

 

My question is do i need to copy over that boot file to my other drive, if I wanted to wipe clean the original drive that kakewalk was installed on?

 

My reason for wanting to do this is that the drive that took the kakewalk installer is just a bare install of 10.6.4. All my important files and apps are on the drive that just has an extra folder and no boot file. What i was planing on doing now is to reformat the blank 10.6.4 drive to take a windows install, but if i do that the boot file will be gone.

[JTG78]

I wonder if someone can help me with an answer to this. I am running now. I have 2 hard drives both of them have 10.6.4. The one drive i installed the kakewalk installer to. It looks like it installed an extra folder with a dsdt.aml file, a few extensions fakesmc.kext & JMicronATA.kext, outside of the extensions folder is com.apple.Boot.plist, smbios.plist and a themes folder. Also on my root of the drive outside of the extra folder is a boot file. I am assuming this boot file is the chameleon bootloader? Is this correct?

 

I tried to run the kakewallk installer on the other drive but it would not install. So i copied over just the extra folder, not the boot file. I figured the boot file on the other drive that took the full install of kakewalk would suffice. I was afraid that haveing a boot file on both drives would conflict otherwise kakewalk would have installed on the other drive for me. I am able to boot up from either drive now with just the one bootfile on the drive kakewalk installed onto with no problems.

 

My question is do i need to copy over that boot file to my other drive, if I wanted to wipe clean the original drive that kakewalk was installed on?

 

My reason for wanting to do this is that the drive that took the kakewalk installer is just a bare install of 10.6.4. All my important files and apps are on the drive that just has an extra folder and no boot file. What i was planing on doing now is to reformat the blank 10.6.4 drive to take a windows install, but if i do that the boot file will be gone.

 

Simply copying the the boot file over to you other drive won't copy the boot0 & boot1h files to your other disk, so no, it wouldn't work. The Chameleon install instructions are as follows:

 

Suppose that your installation is on /dev/disk0s2 (can find this using "diskutil list")

 

- Install boot0 to the MBR:

sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0

 

- Install boot1h to the partition's bootsector:

sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2

 

- Install boot to the partition's root directory:

sudo cp boot /

 

So, as you can see, simply having the boot file won't cut it. It needs the other two files to be properly installed as well. And if you reformat your current bootloader disk they'll go bye-bye.

 

However, if you can determine what version of Chameleon your Kakewalk installer uses and install it yourself on the desired drive, when combined with the Extra folder you've already copied, I think you'll be set. (Of course, you'll want to verify this by selecting your preferred drive as the 1st drive to boot from in bios, otherwise, it'll continue to default to your current one.)

 

If you don't want to work with the terminal, you'll have to find a Chameleon installer package such as this one here.

 

On a side note, I assume, since you're in this topic that you have a Lifehacker build. If that's the case, you can use Stell's v3 installer, and it will set up everything for you, including the Extra foler. (here)

 

Hope this helps some.

[HAVEC]

1 Download "Unrar", open "G4-EP45-UD3P2.rar" with "Unrar"

2 Delete Extra

3 "G4-EP45-UD3P2.rar" contains "MacBIOS Bootloader v0.3lb.pkg" run it , select main drive

4 Copy "P45UD3P2.08" ( from rar package) to FAT 32 USB drive

5 Restart, press "end" key select "P45UD3P2.08" from USB

6 Disable “Keep  DMI  Data” and   Enable   “Load  CMOS Defaults” Flash Bios

7 When Bios flash is complete Power  Off by pressing F10

8 Turn on system and wait till bootloader loads , Instantly shut  down

9 Turn on system again and press "delete" go into bios, press  CTRL+F1 until screen flashes

10 Edit bios settings from manual

 

1) CCClone Stella V.3 drive.

2) Trashed Extra

3) Installed Chameleon 1 RC5 Bootloader

4) Copied Widescreen Bios p45UD3P2.08 to FAT 32 USB Flash drive

5) Reboot with flash drive in USB port, Press End to go to Qflash

 

Problem: QFlash says "No Drive Found" when I go flash the Bios.

 

Restarted using the RC5 bootloader to select the CCC USB drive and used CCC to restore the orginal drive.

 

If the unRARed GA-EP45-UD3P2 (UD3P v1.6 only) package works to install the RC5 bootloader why won't Qflash see the P45UD3P2.08 Bios on the flash drive?

[D-an-W]

I forget the exact name of it but do you have the option enabled in the BIOS that allows you to boot from USB?

[Azure70]

I was wondering if anybody got this setup working using an IDE HDD rather than a sata HDD. If so, any help would be great

[HAVEC]

I forget the exact name of it but do you have the option enabled in the BIOS that allows you to boot from USB?

 

I assume you're asking about the "drive not found" problem that I'm having with QFlash not seeing the P45UD3O208 file on the USB drive. Yes, thank you, I tried making the USB/floppy the first boot priority device. Still get the same error message

[960brick]

why won't Qflash see the P45UD3P2.08 Bios on the flash drive?

 

Pressing the "end" key invokes Q-­‐Flash to scan for FAT32 Partitions only. Have you done this ?

[HAVEC]

Pressing the "end" key invokes Q-­‐Flash to scan for FAT32 Partitions only. Have you done this ?

 

I tried another USB thumb drive and Qflash sees the bios on it. So I guess Qflash didn't like the first one for some odd reason. Thanks for the response.