DX58SO 10.6.0 worked fine with quad core i7 920, broken with six core i7 970

[Swiblet]

Hello there, I know this is not the right section, but this forum wouldn't let me post anywhere else.

 

For the longest time, I've had a computer with an i7 920, a DX58SO Intel motherboard. With a water cooling block, I had it overclocked to 4GHz. I've had a successful Snow Leopard 10.6.0/Windows 7 install on it using the Chameleon bootloader, ever since the DX58SO motherboard patcher was made - I installed it with a retail disc.

 

Now, I got a six-core i7 970 processor. After a lot of trial and error, and stupidities on my part, I finally got it working. I had to update the bios to the latest version, remove the bios jumper, and reset the bios to default settings, or it wouldn't even post. That's fine. After that, it posted and got to Chameleon, and windows worked perfectly. However, every time I tried to get into the mac partition, it would show a few lines of text right before Chameleon would load Darwin (which was normal). Then right after "loading Darwin 86", the computer restarted.

 

I've tried disabling USB boot, intel speedstep, hyperthreading, all cores but one, and Turbo Boost. I still encounter the same problem with the mac partition.

 

Can anyone tell me what the problem is? I'm thinking either I need to install a later version of 10.6, or a later version of Chameleon. (If I can avoid reinstalling the mac system, I'd love to do that...I really don't want to spend another few days trying to install hackintosh again)

 

Thanks!

[Hangten]

10.6 needs to be 10.6.3+ to support hexacore. And your DSDT should be updated with the new BIOS considering you have additional cores added and they weren't there before on your old BIOS.

[Swiblet]

Yep, the bios is updated.

 

10.6.3+, huh? Thanks so much for your help That's what I needed to know. And also...dammit, I didn't want to reinstall mac =_=

 

Would you happen to know if there are any working 10.6.4 installation tutorials out there for the DX58SO motherboard? Preferably with the retail disc?

[XLR]

any working 10.6.4 installation tutorials out there for the DX58SO motherboard? Preferably with the retail disc?

 

Intel DX58SO: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=231993

Boot with NullCPU and use this to patch your DSDT: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=235523

[Swiblet]

Huh. Interesting. This is definitely different from the way I did it. What I did last time, was that I used the DX58SO motherboard patcher and installed it with the disk from within a partition with 10.5 installed on it, then I booted into 10.6 and installed the kexts. Do I need any kind of motherboard patcher to install the 10.6.5 system, or should I just boot into the disc normally before installing all of those kexts and patching the DSDT?

 

Or maybe I can just update to 10.6.4 and fix the DSDT from my windows partition once it doesn't work? : D That would be much easier.

 

EDIT: Well, that was a lot less stress than I thought it would be. I just removed my old processor, put in the new one, updated to 10.6.5 with software update, installed the new one, and it works perfectly. Needless to say, I'm shocked, because updating to 10.6.1 killed my system. xD I didn't even have to reinstall a single kext file. Thanks a lot for the help anyway, guys.