[SOLVED] Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 problems

[hoangbv15]

EDITED: Finally, I have managed to fix everything! The culprit was my bios settings, I thought I have set all the necessary things, but the bios reset caused by the lack of a patched DSDT before I could make my own DSDT, was the main reason for virtually all the kps that I've had.

Here are the settings that need to be made for my Gigabyte mobo:

CPU enhanced halt - disabled

CPU thermal monitor - disabled

EIST - disabled

Now iTunes and Spotlight just work. I'm evaluating the other apps to see if any kp remains.

viva hackintosh!!!

Changing resolution works like a charm now! I simply changed my monitor cable to the other DVI port and it worked.

 

EDITED Figured out that the only setting that affected my hackintosh is CPU enhanced halt. With that turned on, iTunes and Spotlight gave me kps. Turned on thermall monitor and EIST, my system still stayed healthy, no kp.

 

Hi to all.

I have been following the osx86 project for almost 2 years, tried a lot of distros in the wild, and realized that a retail install is the best option.

I used chameleon 2 RC3, together with these kexts:

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

fakesmc.kext

VoodooHDA.kext

ApplePS2Controller.kext together with the Nub kext

EFI string for my Gigabyte 9500GT 512MB

All seems to work fine except for a few:

- The most obvious: sleep doesn't work (cannot wake up).

- With Chameleon 2 RC3, only my PS2 keyboard works, i have to use a USB mouse. This is not the case with Boot-Think bootloader, but this is far less stable than Chameleon.

- Even with the correct NVCAP string, system profiler just shows "no display connected", and i get a blue screen after every resolution change.

- And this is the most expensive: I get random kp with certain apps: Adium, iWorks, Yahoo messenger, iTunes, spotlight, firefox, sometimes even with disk utility while repairing disk permissions. The rest works just fine.

With Adium, iWorks, Yahoo messenger, disk utility, i haven't been able to catch the true cause, but the logs indicated 2 processes: windowServer and sometimes kernel_task. I have a feeling that both have something to do with memory access violation.

With iTunes, kp occurred when adding my 20GB music folder to the library. Sometimes it got through the adding process, but kp again at getting album arts. The logs said nothing, it was jusr iTunes. I gave up iTunes and use Cog now.

With Spotlight, it seems impossible to be fixed. Kp always happened when indexing, so i had to turn spotlight off. The logs said mdworker.

 

This afternoon I was thinking about writing a successful snow leopard installation story, because my hackintosh had been running for the whole afternoong without and kp. But oh well, just when I open up an Adium window to reply my friend's message, boom, a kp.

 

This is my system configuration:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz

3 GB DDR2 667 MHz

Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 rev.1

Gigabyte 9500GT 512MB

[hoangbv15]

I'm so excited about the fact that disabling CPU enhanced halt turned my hackintosh into perfection (except for sleep, still) that I couldn't sleep this noon.

It's a pity that no one answered my thread, anyway. But figuring it all out by yourself is still a fantastic experience, isn't it?