TopazBar Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 I have this board, but I can't get OSX to work for me. It locks when booting (blue screen, wasn't I trying to get away from those?). When I boot with -v I can see it locks on - display: family specific matching fails I selected both SSE3 and GMA900 packages on install, any ideas? ps: I have the conroe dvi, an E6300, 1GB ram. I have two primary partitions of 30gb each, first is XP, second is active and has OSX. pps: bios version is 1.2 ppps: osx version is jas 10.4.6 While it is booting, keep pressing F8 until you get darwin boot message, then type -x at the boot prompt and press enter (-x is for safe boot). It is very odd that u were able to boot from install DVD, but cannot boot after installation...hmmm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inopia Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Topazbar: I've tried -x, doesn't work. I've tried removing the 915 kext, I've tried removing the AppleHWSensor, fiddled with the bios, stood on my head but still nothing. :/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopazBar Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 did you try "-s" single user mode, too? I'm kind of baffled. You seem to know what you are doing. 915kext u need them. put them back. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inopia Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Topazbar: yep, tried booting single mode too :/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopazBar Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 So this is the first boot from the hard drive for OSX? right? You didn't get to finish registration stuff? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inopia Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Yep, no boot, not even once. Right now I'm trying it again from square one. I have a 30gb partition, primary, id=af and the rest of the disk is clean. I'm going to install OSX on there, clean, only select SSE3 and no other packages just to eliminate all other causes. I'm quite sure I'll just have to put up with a couple more tries before I can celebrate I just remember btw, when I installed OSX the first time I deselected all printer drivers and all language extensions. Maybe that broke it? Also I had a realtek lan card in there (because when I ordered the machine the glan driver wasn't available yet) so I took that out as well. Yes, I am that desperate Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inopia Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Right, and now it has somehow managed to throw away all my partitions. This is fun Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopazBar Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Yep, no boot, not even once. Right now I'm trying it again from square one. I have a 30gb partition, primary, id=af and the rest of the disk is clean. I'm going to install OSX on there, clean, only select SSE3 and no other packages just to eliminate all other causes. I'm quite sure I'll just have to put up with a couple more tries before I can celebrate I just remember btw, when I installed OSX the first time I deselected all printer drivers and all language extensions. Maybe that broke it? Also I had a realtek lan card in there (because when I ordered the machine the glan driver wasn't available yet) so I took that out as well. Yes, I am that desperate yes, u are on the right track. don't need that stuff. EDIT: wish I was there with u, looking over. this board communcation mechanism is so lousy. EDIT: if u ever get to registration screen, press ALT+q. that will skip it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopazBar Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 yes, u are on the right track. don't need that stuff.EDIT: wish I was there with u, looking over. this board communcation mechanism is so lousy. EDIT: if u ever get to registration screen, press ALT+q. that will skip it. Inopia got it working (package selection issue, not mobo). Welcome to the club. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprezzatura Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 The 4k issue in xbench looks to apply to 'real' macs as well, check out this intel core 2 duo imac: http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=190687 low uncached write there too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-206685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infamous Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 sprezzatura Not that true. That iMac is getting 2.22MB, we are getting 1.2 iMac is twice as fast than our machines. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprezzatura Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 True, althought this top of the line imac is only getting 1.00mb: http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=191970 Maybe it's an xbench related issue? random 4k writes also seem like a task that could be very drive dependent. not to say there might not be an issue, but i think it's promising (in a sick sort of way) to see similar results in brand new apple hw Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopazBar Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 True, althought this top of the line imac is only getting 1.00mb: http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=191970 Maybe it's an xbench related issue? random 4k writes also seem like a task that could be very drive dependent. not to say there might not be an issue, but i think it's promising (in a sick sort of way) to see similar results in brand new apple hw sprezzatura, Yes, it is very comforting to see that Xbenchmark. Thanks for pointing that out. Infamous, OSX 10.4.8 now says "VRAM: 64 MB of shared system memory", LOL. Also, this number stays the same for single or dual display setup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
King A Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Question not mentioned here before: I have this board and I'm very pleased with it. Is there any chance for a tv out? Dual Monitor is working great. Checked sub-d and dvi. but I want sub-d and svideo or composite. thanks p.s.: onboard lan working great for me too so far Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecnoworld Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 I guess your only chance is to get a video card featuring TV-out (like ATi x1600) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
King A Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 that's bad. since i don't game and the gm950 is perfectly suitable for me, exept of course the video out Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Neo Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 NOOO! Don't buy a X1600 for this!!! Dual Monitor on X1600 is not working yet!! The only way to get TV-out is a converter... I remember that colonels postet a topic about mac htpc or something... and he bought a vga to s-video converter, and this thing is working great! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Hi, Trying to install 10.4.5, then 10.4.3 on a mobo Asrock Conroe 945G-DVI., with 1 G RAM, 2 channel, 160 G Westen Digital SATA hdd. The setup works too quicky, about 5-6 mins, but the ripples on the progressbar are verry quickly but not smooth. After restart, the setup assistant moves verry sacadat and dissapears before all completions. I remain only with a blue screen and the mouse. Where I'm wrong? Please if somebody experiences these problems, let me know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inopia Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 XanthraX: when installing, select 'custom', and select both the common (intel+AMD) and SSE3 packages. You don't need GMA900 support. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 mm i dont know guys but im not getting 1.2 mb in 4K uncached read. my results are superor than the mac you posted Results 159.83 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.7 (8J2135a) Physical RAM 2048 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0 CPU Test 127.73 GCD Loop 308.36 16.25 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 149.10 3.54 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 90.02 2.97 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 97.48 16.97 Mops/sec Thread Test 259.77 Computation 238.50 4.83 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 285.20 12.27 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 159.90 System 151.53 Allocate 116.37 427.34 Kalloc/sec Fill 194.01 9433.21 MB/sec Copy 165.29 3414.07 MB/sec Stream 169.25 Copy 158.30 3269.70 MB/sec Scale 161.23 3330.88 MB/sec Add 180.49 3844.90 MB/sec Triad 179.40 3837.86 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 191.04 Line 157.22 10.47 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 200.55 59.88 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 192.45 15.69 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 173.60 4.38 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 258.44 16.17 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 205.63 Spinning Squares 205.63 260.85 frames/sec User Interface Test 479.96 Elements 479.96 2.20 Krefresh/sec Disk Test 73.09 Sequential 109.83 Uncached Write 124.17 76.24 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 111.04 62.82 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 87.74 25.68 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 125.57 63.11 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 54.77 Uncached Write 20.70 2.19 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 173.11 55.42 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 90.18 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 127.45 23.65 MB/sec [256K blocks] But what i really enjoy is comparing my ihack with some mac pros http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=196066&doc2=186079 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Neo Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 But what i really enjoy is comparing my ihack with some mac proshttp://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=196066&doc2=186079 Yes thats right! A week ago I looked at some Mac Pro xBenches and I was shocked! The xBench of our C2D Macintels are better than the from the Mac Pros! Thats really cool... Ah and yes, I ordered my Conroe 2day! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-207879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecnoworld Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 I'm with my hackintosh again So...how do I make my external drive bootable, via the disk utility in mac OS x? thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-208043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprezzatura Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Nice aberracus! You especially kick the pro's ass in memory scores, thats the big bummer with the mac pro, the memory architecture and FB really slows them down there. Of course, your bus is also faster because of your OC... I'll be building a 945G-DVI next week and i'm considering the e6400 too. I'm curious though, what stopped you from going to 350mhz FSB? do you think it was the RAM or the mobo or the cooling? (cause we all know the e6400 itself is capable of much more) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-208051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecnoworld Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 sprezzatura: dunno aberracus, but I preferred to stop at 299Mhz BUS, since I could keep the PCI-e at 100Mhz. I know that the small DVI card could handle more w/o any problem, but a C2D at 2.4Ghz is enough for almost every task... think that I can play a DVD movie on one monitor, while using the internet on the other one, while recording an MPEG TV station on my HD...that's great, since the CPU is below 50% even then... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-208054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Mmm i dont htink it was neither the ram or the cpu, the problem is the mobo and the pcie, i can go to 350 fsb without problem BUT my pci needs to be around 120 for that, and thats too much for the ati card. Anyway pci from 112 in advance causes somewhat extrange behavior so im restraining it in 110 (the pcie) so i have to pull down my FSB to 320 something. The only macpros winning over conroe are 3 ghz with raid BTW i think the better conroe is the allendale 6400, more bang 4 your money. You know when you buy a conroe 6700 you only get guaranteed 2.66 ghzs but you have the same sky or top as a humble 6300 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24637-asrock-conroe945g-dvi/page/15/#findComment-208067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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