no love for 10.6.2

[Superdaedra]

My System

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (rev. 1.6) Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66GHz Q8400

Kingston 4GB (2x2) DDR2 PC6400 800MHz RAM

PNY NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB DDR 3 (not the GTX+)

Western Digital 320GB 16M 7200 SATA II Hard Drive

 

Installed from an

A-DATA 16GB USB Drive with Snow Leopard 10.6 "restored" to it and

either

 

1) v1 of the EP45UD3P Snow Leopard Install Package

2) v2 of the EP45UD3P Snow Leopard Install Package; dubbed the "Pumpkin Installer"

3) v3 of the EP45UD3P Snow Leopard Install Package; dubbed the "Obey-Me Installer"

 

 

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• The BIOS settings screen that Lifehacker includes seem to work with the following exception--For whatever reason, I have to change the Performance Enhance setting to "Standard." If it is set to turbo, the installer KP's at various points during the installation.
  
• I didn't know until today (11/10/2009) that one must install the recommended NIC in the "bottom" PCI slot for Snow Leopard to see it. I took a chance and kept my onboard NIC's set to "enabled" and have had no trouble with them.
  

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1. With v1 of Stell's installer, I had no show-stopper issues, but I noticed that the CPU was not officially recognized, so certain applications that required that would not work (namely just TimeMachine and Silverlight's installer). I also noticed that my System Information lacked a UUID and it seemed the "console" utility's log was bereft with entries that said "GetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35" Updated to 10.6.1 with no issues.
   
2. With v2 of Stell's installer, the Graphics card shows up as "Unknown" but still functions correctly. I actually wiped my hard drive when he released this updated installer and then re-restored my USB drive with a fresh retail copy of Snow Leopard and installed v2 on the USB Drive. I installed Snow Leopard from this fresh package. Everything worked fine even after updating the system to 10.6.1.
   
3. With v3 of Stell's Installer, I went ahead and at first, tried updating the current installation on TOP of the older version on my hard drive (after moving the /Extras folder to another location for backup). After rebooting, I noticed a different boot graphic but similar performance as v2 (still had "Unknown" for a graphics card and still had a "Quad-Core Xeon" processor) BTW-Stell, why did you remove the apple? just curious. The "Obey" graphic is cute and all, but it made me wonder. Updating to 10.6.2 directly from Software Update failed (boots all the way back up but once I should see a desktop, I see nothing but a black screen) I then moved to another working Mac and once again re-restored the USB flash drive to a fresh copy of Snow Leopard retail install and then installed v3 of stell's install package to it---Same behavior--I can install correctly and update to 10.6.1 correctly but updating to 10.6.2 results in a black screen upon final reboot.
   

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So this begs the question

 

Is my CPU no longer supported? (since its not the 3.0GHZ version?)

Is my graphics card the culprit (since its not the GTX+ version?)

 

The CPU is the only real suspicion for me since this behavior (Black screen) is the same thing we're seeing in Atom-based machines. The graphics card issue though, would be easier for me to fix at this time.

 

Please note, that I also tried using yet another, newer flash drive that had the v1 package on it to re-install. Yet again, though, same behavior..I can install and update to 10.6.1 but as soon as I try to boot from an "updated to 10.6.2" system; I get nothing but a black screen. Help?? Thanks

 

woops; this should be under the Lifehacker thread, not sure why it posted here.

[czeslaw]

My System

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (rev. 1.6) Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66GHz Q8400

Kingston 4GB (2x2) DDR2 PC6400 800MHz RAM

PNY NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB DDR 3 (not the GTX+)

Western Digital 320GB 16M 7200 SATA II Hard Drive

 

Installed from an

A-DATA 16GB USB Drive with Snow Leopard 10.6 "restored" to it and

either

 

1) v1 of the EP45UD3P Snow Leopard Install Package

2) v2 of the EP45UD3P Snow Leopard Install Package; dubbed the "Pumpkin Installer"

3) v3 of the EP45UD3P Snow Leopard Install Package; dubbed the "Obey-Me Installer"

 

 

**********************************

• The BIOS settings screen that Lifehacker includes seem to work with the following exception--For whatever reason, I have to change the Performance Enhance setting to "Standard." If it is set to turbo, the installer KP's at various points during the installation.
  
• I didn't know until today (11/10/2009) that one must install the recommended NIC in the "bottom" PCI slot for Snow Leopard to see it. I took a chance and kept my onboard NIC's set to "enabled" and have had no trouble with them.
  

***********************************

1. With v1 of Stell's installer, I had no show-stopper issues, but I noticed that the CPU was not officially recognized, so certain applications that required that would not work (namely just TimeMachine and Silverlight's installer). I also noticed that my System Information lacked a UUID and it seemed the "console" utility's log was bereft with entries that said "GetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35" Updated to 10.6.1 with no issues.
   
2. With v2 of Stell's installer, the Graphics card shows up as "Unknown" but still functions correctly. I actually wiped my hard drive when he released this updated installer and then re-restored my USB drive with a fresh retail copy of Snow Leopard and installed v2 on the USB Drive. I installed Snow Leopard from this fresh package. Everything worked fine even after updating the system to 10.6.1.
   
3. With v3 of Stell's Installer, I went ahead and at first, tried updating the current installation on TOP of the older version on my hard drive (after moving the /Extras folder to another location for backup). After rebooting, I noticed a different boot graphic but similar performance as v2 (still had "Unknown" for a graphics card and still had a "Quad-Core Xeon" processor) BTW-Stell, why did you remove the apple? just curious. The "Obey" graphic is cute and all, but it made me wonder. Updating to 10.6.2 directly from Software Update failed (boots all the way back up but once I should see a desktop, I see nothing but a black screen) I then moved to another working Mac and once again re-restored the USB flash drive to a fresh copy of Snow Leopard retail install and then installed v3 of stell's install package to it---Same behavior--I can install correctly and update to 10.6.1 correctly but updating to 10.6.2 results in a black screen upon final reboot.
   

********************

 

So this begs the question

 

Is my CPU no longer supported? (since its not the 3.0GHZ version?)

Is my graphics card the culprit (since its not the GTX+ version?)

 

The CPU is the only real suspicion for me since this behavior (Black screen) is the same thing we're seeing in Atom-based machines. The graphics card issue though, would be easier for me to fix at this time.

 

Please note, that I also tried using yet another, newer flash drive that had the v1 package on it to re-install. Yet again, though, same behavior..I can install and update to 10.6.1 but as soon as I try to boot from an "updated to 10.6.2" system; I get nothing but a black screen. Help?? Thanks

 

woops; this should be under the Lifehacker thread, not sure why it posted here.

 

Hi!!, i have a similar problem in my four re-install snow leopard 10.6.2, and i solved using the v3 of stell's BUT replace the file "DSDT.aml" in the Extra folder with my own "DSDT.aml". Good Luck.

 

P.D. I wrote this guide and explains how to create your own DSDT.aml follow a simple step's of other guide.

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=197211

 

Thanks to Stell's and MACinized for the terrific work!!!!

[xRotorHead]

Superdaedra,

 

I wasted a day of troubleshooting with the same exact issue as you. It has something to do with your G92 chipset video card and the new 10.6.2 NVDA kexts. You need to replace the NVDANV50hal.kext and NVDAResman.kext from System/Library/Extensions with the previous versions from 10.6.1. Do this workaround, and all will be well. Here is a link to those two 10.6.1 kexts courtesy of Siobhan.