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TopazBar
TopazBar
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Try this link: http://rapidshare.com/files/2498249/AppleSMBIOS.tgz.html

To check the file: tar -tvzf AppleSMBIOS.tgz

To install:

sudo tar -xvzf AppleSMBIOS.tgz -C /System/Library/Extensions

repair disk permission

reboot

Nice explanation, thanks.

 

My /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSMBIOS.kext is 41 024 bytes, version 1.0.6

 

"Get Info" says that. I don't know if this file is 10.4.4, which you say is the best. Is yours the same?

TopazBar
TopazBar
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Infamous,

 

BIOS 1.3 is available for download from ASRock: http://www.asrock.com/support/download.asp...oe945G-DVI#bios

Waiting for your report.

TopazBar: The BIOS is from AsRock I believe, that guy is in contact with AsRock so they might send him one... I'll ask him.

 

And BTW, what is AppleSMBios for? Why do we need to use the old file?

altagor
altagor
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Hi,

Yours xbech results it's 130-150, my 90.

My system:

Jas 10.4.8 (Combo, SSE3, GMA950)

MB Conroe945G_DVI

CPU E6400 (CPU FREQ 300, PCIE 117)

RAM 1GB (DRAM FREQ 333)

Seagate 320GB SataII

LCD on DVI (Fixed 128MB)

USB Mouse, PS2 KB

OHCI PCI FireWire

Most difrent it's CPU and graphics test.

What i doing wrong? Please help me.

Sorry for my english.

test.txt

mdg
mdg
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Has anyone gotten this to work with 10.4.8 Jas ISO repack. This DVD has both the semthex and mifki on it. It tried both.

 

Semthex makes "about this mac" crash and reload finder.

 

Mifki about this mac works great! Until I click more info, and then under "Harwdware" it says "there was an error while gathering this information".

 

I have 945G-DVI with Core 2 Due E6600 (2.4 Ghz) not overclocked (running normal).

 

Can anyone help to resolve the "About this mac" issue?

 

-----Part 2------

 

I am DESPERATELY trying to get a card other than ADD2 working with DVI. I am not the proud owner of 3 video cards and can't get DVI to work with any.

 

I am optimistic about 2 of them: Saphire x 1600 Pro PCIe 512 Mb (Dev ID 71c2) and nVidia 7300 GS (Vendor ID 10de) (Dev ID 01df), but haven't been able to get them to work with any kind of patches (work out of the DVI port that is).

 

Anyone have specific ways of getting either card to work? Can anyone recommend a specific card where DVI works? And most importanly detailed instructions for how to make this recommendation work with this board?

 

Thanks!

mdg
mdg
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When i try mifki after "Strating Darwin" system restart. I try -x -s -v and nothing only reboot.

 

I had the same problem and it drove me mad...the answer is in your motherboard:

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/ConRoe945G-DVi

 

Also, set the BIOS properly if you are using a Core 2 Duo. In the Bios, under the CPU settings, set the "execute" something or other ... I think Execute Memory Protection to enable. You might also need to enable the CPU ID. Most of the settings under the CPU settings are disabled, for some reason.

 

This should get you working.

altagor
altagor
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OK, i enable CPUID and execute memory protection in bios, install 10.4.8 with mifki but xbench not chage the result - it's 83. I download new kernel from applelife.ru/developer - DeamonES now xbench show 135!! (128 CPU, before 83) but CHUD show me 1CPU with HT (Core 2 Single). Can i do something to enable 2 cpus (Core 2 Duo)?.

"About this mac" stil restart finder.

 

Jas 10.4.8 (Combo, SSE3, GMA950)

MB Conroe945G_DVI

CPU E6400 (CPU FREQ 300, PCIE 117)

RAM 1GB (DRAM FREQ 333)

Seagate 320GB SataII

zam
zam
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altagor:

 

Your "low xbench" problem was probably just the clock which was going too fast, so the Xbench results were low because Xbench thought that the tests were taking longer than they actually did. DaemonES kernel seems to have fixed your clock issue, because it tells your operating system your real FSB. This can also be cured using mifki's kernel with a boot parameter "fsb=XXX" where XXX would be your FSB speed is Mhz.

zam
zam
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I don't understand why new users are reporting that their CPU's are running only with 1 core. Why it's happening?

 

There are dozens of ASROCK 945G DVI users with C2Ds and their cores are working perfect (with any OS X version & kernel), including me.

 

The "stuttering with two cores"-bug was indeed with me on Conroe945G-DVI until I updated the bios from 1.0 to 1.2. So this is somehow related to the motherboard. I have no idea what was fixed in the newer bios, but it seems that many other motherboards still suffer from the same problem.

Nokman
Nokman
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After reading this thread (thanks for starting this rkwok :-) I decided that it was time for upgrading my system as well and giving Mac OS X a try...

 

I got a 945G-DVI, a E6400, 2x 1GB Team DDR2 CL 4 RAM and a SATA2 Samsung SP2504C.

 

The install of the newest JAS 10.4.8 Combo wasn't really a walk in the park. I didn't know which custom packages to install especially with the two kernels to choose from and all the other packages that sounded like they were needed. After a couple of unsuccessful installs I found out that only the SSE3 Semthex Kernel and GMA 950 package were needed. System works fast and stable without a glitch.

 

I didn't install the Azalia package which I found out later was necessary for sound output. So I extracted this package with Pacifist from the JAS install DVD and installed it. Afterwards I wanted to patch the Azalia as described in the wiki but always got errors in the repair phase. Rammjets post here helped and I finally got it working.

 

By the way: I have a USB Labtec Pro Webcam plugged in my computer which I found out by accident works as a mic for Skype etc. (Recognized as "unknown USB audio device" without any tweaking, but camera functionality doesn't work)

 

Remaining challenges:

 

USB Keyboard sometimes stops working properly, like it starts writing the same letter over and over or some keys just stop working. Can be easily fixed by re-plucking the USB cable but still... Also couldn't figure out how to power up computer from keyboard yet.

 

Going to set up some conservative OCing soon, thanks for your help here so far, Tecnoworld. Attached is a XBench 1.3 score without OCing. Again, thanks everyone for sharing your experiences here, Apple support couldn't be better :hysterical:

XBench_111306_wo_OC.txt

ROXR
ROXR
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I suspect that Miki's kernel is more fast. look, my system just as yours

 

Results 181.08

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127)

Physical RAM 2048 MB

Model ACPI

Drive Type HDS728080PLA380

CPU Test 110.91

GCD Loop 251.27 13.24 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 121.59 2.89 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 89.16 2.94 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 79.07 13.77 Mops/sec

Thread Test 213.98

Computation 195.58 3.96 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 236.21 10.16 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 148.82

System 143.51

Allocate 113.86 418.14 Kalloc/sec

Fill 159.98 7778.79 MB/sec

Copy 170.30 3517.49 MB/sec

Stream 154.55

Copy 141.39 2920.25 MB/sec

Scale 144.51 2985.60 MB/sec

Add 168.33 3585.83 MB/sec

Triad 168.12 3596.53 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 157.14

Line 129.06 8.59 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 163.94 48.95 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 156.40 12.75 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 142.38 3.59 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 219.63 13.74 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 257.53

Spinning Squares 257.53 326.69 frames/sec

User Interface Test 403.49

Elements 403.49 1.85 Krefresh/sec

altagor
altagor
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Thanks for help.

Now everything work perfectly!

For other with problems:

 

I instal from JAS 10.4.8, i check Combo, SSE3 with semthex kernel and G950 (dont check USB fix)

after install i copy azalia kext to extensions install RTL1xxx (both as attachments)

change rights for azalia:

 

chown -R root:wheel appleazaliaaudio.kext

chmod -R 755 appleazaliaaudio.kext

 

remove cache:

 

rm /system/library/extensions.mkext

rm /system/library/extensions.kextcache

 

and repair permision

in bios audio must be set to ENABLE (no auto)

 

For USB20 speed i instal IOUSBFamily

(ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/Mac_OS_USB/IOUSBFamily-261.4.2(Intel)-log.dmg)

 

Solve problems:

 

1.Crash in About this mac

Applesmbios.kext from www.filefactory.com/file/3d1838 (in attachments)

 

2.low xbech results

in com.Apple.boot.plist add fsb=xxx (in my case 300)

 

3.core 2 duo as core 2 single

in bios MAXCPUID must be DISABLED

 

I have E6400, my bios setings is

For CPU:

Overclock Mode CPU,PCIE Async

CPU 300

PCIE 115

Boot Failure Guard Enable

Spread spectrum Auto

 

Enhanced Halt State Disable

MAX CPUID Disable

Intel Virtualization Enable

CPU Thermal Enable

No Execut Mem Protection Disable

Intel Speed Strem Auto

 

Memory i set to 333

 

Now my xbench is 136

 

IOUSBFamily.kext 2.6.1 is too large to post here (4MB). Link included in post

install.rar

test.txt

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meattattat
meattattat
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I had the same problem and it drove me mad...the answer is in your motherboard:

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/ConRoe945G-DVi

 

Also, set the BIOS properly if you are using a Core 2 Duo. In the Bios, under the CPU settings, set the "execute" something or other ... I think Execute Memory Protection to enable. You might also need to enable the CPU ID. Most of the settings under the CPU settings are disabled, for some reason.

 

This should get you working.

holysxxt...

I disabled them and i installed mifki kernel => keep rebooting.

 

I should try again after enabling them. thx :compress:

Infamous
Infamous
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I'll clear up the BIOS options for those who are confused. I see some of you are just messing around there :construction:

 

Enhanced Halt State - You can enable this if you're overclocking (testing), it should correct the BIOS if you overclock memory/CPU too much, or do "something wrong".

 

MAX CPUID -better CPU recognition for legacy operating systems. Disable it, it's only for old systems.

 

Intel Virtualization Technology - If you're using Parallels or VMWare, Enable it. Will greatly increase performance of guest operating systems in virtualization software

 

CPU Thermal - Lowers the voltage of CPU. I recommend to disable it, since we are not using notebooks and are not worried about +/- 5% energy saving. Always turn off if you're overclocking. (can be also some kind of overheat protection, i'm not _exactly_ sure, but it's safe to turn it off)

 

No Execute Memory Protection - Memory protection. Enable if you're using MIFKI kernel, or your system will not boot

 

Intel SpeedStep - If you don't want to let your CPU automatically lower its speed, set to disable. It's power saving if your PC is idling. Always set to disable if you're overclocking

 

...you should also enable HPET option in the other section.

 

Hope I've written it right.

meattattat
meattattat
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I'll clear up the BIOS options for those who are confused. I see some of you are just messing around there :angel:

 

Enhanced Halt State - You can enable this if you're overclocking (testing), it should correct the BIOS if you overclock memory/CPU too much, or do "something wrong".

 

MAX CPUID -better CPU recognition for legacy operating systems. Disable it, it's only for old systems.

 

Intel Virtualization Technology - If you're using Parallels or VMWare, Enable it. Will greatly increase performance of guest operating systems in virtualization software

 

CPU Thermal - Lowers the voltage of CPU. I recommend to disable it, since we are not using notebooks and are not worried about +/- 5% energy saving. Always turn off if you're overclocking. (can be also some kind of overheat protection, i'm not _exactly_ sure, but it's safe to turn it off)

 

No Execute Memory Protection - Memory protection. Enable if you're using MIFKI kernel, or your system will not boot

 

Intel SpeedStep - If you don't want to let your CPU automatically lower its speed, set to disable. It's power saving if your PC is idling. Always set to disable if you're overclocking

 

...you should also enable HPET option in the other section.

 

Hope I've written it right.

 

 

Very clear~ thx a lot~ :)

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