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I am having issues flashing the BIOS. I have done this before when I installed Leopard on my P5Q-E. This time, when trying to flash the BIOS I am receiving the error "The file size does not match existing BIOS size!"

Can anyone help?

Hello :)

 

 

My PC: P5Q-E + Q6600 + 4GB + 9800GTX+

 

OSx 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard)

Guide: ASUS P5Q-E Guide by IanT - 11152009-2.pdf

Boot CD: 132Mars-011010-WOS.iso

BIOS: 2001-BIOS-Asus_P5Q_E_for_MAC_OS_X___all_OS__incl._by_Juzzi..ROM.zip

Ethernet kext: AttansicL1eEthernet.kext

 

Miss something? So I can start the process.

 

And some tips are welcome ;)

 

 

Thanks :o

Please help!

 

Asus P5Q-E + E8400 + 4G + 9600GT

 

Retail 10.6.3, Installed by Chameleon 2 RC3+PCEFI_v.10.5 and DSDT Gui Pather

 

No problem during installation, all work perfect

 

Kexts:

audio - voodoohda.kext

lan - LegasyYukon2.kext

 

in Extra/Extensions I have

fakesmc.kext

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

OpenHaltRestart.kext

AHCIPortInjector.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

 

Problem - shutdown/sleep doesn't work, restart - ok.

 

Any idea?

 

PS: Sorry for my English(

  • 2 weeks later...
Please help!

 

Asus P5Q-E + E8400 + 4G + 9600GT

 

Retail 10.6.3, Installed by Chameleon 2 RC3+PCEFI_v.10.5 and DSDT Gui Pather

 

No problem during installation, all work perfect

 

Kexts:

audio - voodoohda.kext

lan - LegasyYukon2.kext

 

in Extra/Extensions I have

fakesmc.kext

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

OpenHaltRestart.kext

AHCIPortInjector.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

 

Problem - shutdown/sleep doesn't work, restart - ok.

 

Any idea?

 

PS: Sorry for my English(

 

Everything you need to boot and work is fakesmc and openhaltrestart kexts in EFI/Extra/Extensions

Look my EFI-folder in attach (chnage EFI in com.apple.boot.plist to your own)

VoodooHDA and skgeosx are in SLE

 

sleep|wake and e-sata works, but looks like VIAATA has some troubles after wake.

 

PS I deleted nvidia plugin from fakesmc bundle, restore it.

efi.zip

  • 7 months later...

when i try to boot with the cd then i always get the cheksum failed error and press any key to retry.... i tried to download the 132mars cd two times but i always get the error... :rolleyes:

 

edit: ahh it works now if choosen the wrong dvd iso ;(

so but now i got the problem of "Still waiting for root device error" i think this is because i got more than one harddrive in my pc i will disconnect all of them except one. but how can i use the other hardriver with the windows on it?

or is this another error i already read about it and try to look at the jumpers im not shure if i got them on the back of my harddrive is there any other solution?

 

edit2: ok maybe the error is because i activated the marvell controller... if i dissable the marvell controller then the pc can't locate the cd drive and dont start from it should i get another dvd drive? if yes wich one would you prefer?

  • 3 months later...

Don't crosspost. I have deleted your other, identical post.

 

If your harddrive and install media is connected to the ICH10R, P5Q-E can install/boot Snow Leopard from a retail 10.6.3 DVD with only fakesmc.kext in /Extra/Extensions and npci=0x2000 in kernel flags in /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist. I can also boot into my 10.6.8 installation like this. I'm sure it will work on Lion too.

 

Use the latest version of Chameleon 2.1.

 

In the BIOS, set ICH10R to AHCI mode, enable ACPI 2.0 and all advanced CPU features, except CPUID Limit. Don't overclock while installing.

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