Joe Phillips Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Hi Guys, Been playing about with MacOSX and PC hardware for quite a while now and never really had any major problems. I went to install it on my PC the other day, I put the DVD in, pressed any key, it displayed Loading Darwin like always and then my PC just rebooted. I have tinkered with the BIOS in most ways I can think of inc loading fail safe defaults, changing the SATA mode into AHCI or compatibility, turning all cards off inc network which has made no difference. I work as a computer technician so please don't hesitate to get technical! I will list my machine specs to see if there is any know hardware issues you guys can point out. Thanks in advance. Motherboard: ASRock G31M-GS Rev 1.0 (Lastest BIOS Installed) Processor: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.34GHZ RAM: 4GB Kingston Value RAM CD-ROM: Superwrite Master DVD-RAM (IDE) Hard Drive: 500GB Western Digital (SATA) + 320GB Western Digital (SATA) Graphics: Nvidia 9800GT Sound: Realtek HD Audio I have been told that using a SATA DVD drive can correct this? I have picked one up today so yet to try it out but how true is this statement? Joe Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 For the reboot issue you must flash the bios with the modded one. For retail installation and other issues: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=195004 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1590517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Phillips Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 Hi There, Thanks for the reply. I see the BIOS img is a .rom. I usually update my BIOS using the Windows tool. I have a USB pen drive which I have made bootable and put the 512kb .rom file on to but it doesn't seem to want to do anything... Am i doing something wrong? Thanks again Joe Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1590600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Hi There, Thanks for the reply. I see the BIOS img is a .rom. I usually update my BIOS using the Windows tool. I have a USB pen drive which I have made bootable and put the 512kb .rom file on to but it doesn't seem to want to do anything... Am i doing something wrong? Thanks again Joe This motherboard don't have flash utility no board. You can flash or with Windows, or with a dos floppy or with a cd with bootable DOS Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1590605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Phillips Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 So I made a windows 98 bootable floppy, added AFUDOS.exe from 1.30 genuine BIOS upgrade from ASROCK added the custom BIOS from your link. Booted floppy used command AFUDOS.exe g31mgs130.rom /p and just says its unreadable... Might give up and go buy a mini mac from the Apple store... Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1590636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 So I made a windows 98 bootable floppy, added AFUDOS.exe from 1.30 genuine BIOS upgrade from ASROCK added the custom BIOS from your link. Booted floppy used command AFUDOS.exe g31mgs130.rom /p and just says its unreadable... Might give up and go buy a mini mac from the Apple store... AFUDOS.exe g31mgs130.rom /p : wrong AFUDOS.exe g31mgs130.rom : right Good idea a mac mini that is an entry level but very good machine. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1590964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Phillips Posted November 28, 2010 Author Share Posted November 28, 2010 Hi There, Right I have had another play with your instructions! I used the command you said was right but it still says: error: File not readable. Is there another place I can download the custom BIOS? Didn't buy a mini mac in the end I bought an iPad Joe Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1592820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Phillips Posted November 28, 2010 Author Share Posted November 28, 2010 Managed to flash the BIOS! AMI has released a utility to do it in Windows so I am all done and happy with that. Next issue I am trying to resolve :- Burnt G31M.iso and booted, when I eject the disk and insert Snow install disk it freezes and does nothing. Interesting.... Will let you know how I get on Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1592840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Phillips Posted November 28, 2010 Author Share Posted November 28, 2010 Couldn't find a SATA DVD Drive so that's great. Built OSX on to the hard drive on a different machine which I know works fine. Put the HDD in to my g31m-gs and it doesn't do anything. It will bring up the Apple background and just sit there, won't even attempt to load... Any ideas?? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1592935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Couldn't find a SATA DVD Drive so that's great. Built OSX on to the hard drive on a different machine which I know works fine. Put the HDD in to my g31m-gs and it doesn't do anything. It will bring up the Apple background and just sit there, won't even attempt to load... Any ideas?? Have you the bios settings exactly as in the guide and a PS2 mouse and keyboard? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1592948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Phillips Posted November 30, 2010 Author Share Posted November 30, 2010 Hi There! So sorry! Yes I have now used the PS2 keyboard and it installed perfectly. The only thing I cannot get to work is the sound. I have installed VoodooHDA.kext using kexthelper, when I install the panel pane I get errors all over the place saying error cannot write to registry and when I dump VoodooKiller in utlities it gives me an error saying its an invalid path... Any help?? Thanks again Joe Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238132-asrock-g31m-gs-s3-snow-leopard-issues/#findComment-1593915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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