AMD ASROCK AM3 Successful Install. Post intall Help

[gladpants]

I have the following board : A780GXE/128M - http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A780GXE/128M

 

Updated to the 1.80 bios for AM3 support for my Phenom 1055t. Used Retail install + 10.6.7 update + Legacy kernel 10.7.0 with Chameleon 2.0 RC5. Also used this http://geeknizer.com/install-snow-leopard-on-amd/ to get it to boot. It now boots but I am having trouble with the Audio,Video, Sleep, Restart, Shut down and Erasing CMOS (I admit I haven't researched the resetting CMOS but i do remember seeing a fix somewhere just cant remember where.) . From what I can see, the audio should be able to be fixed. The video is a lost caused with on board so I was thinking about just buying a good pcie card. Don't know if it is running in x64 I don't think so, but at the begging of the boot it seems to recognize all six cores. I do know its the fastest of my 5 OSX86 builds. If the video looked better it would be a great machine. I also get a kernel panic ever time I go to settings-audio and try to change something. Just to be clear -Audio shows as available but only buzzes, Video is only 1024x768. I have tried modifying the com.apple.Boot.plist with no luck. Sleep, Restart, and Shut down don't work at all. When I reboot the CMOS errors out and I have to go into the bios before boot. Thanks for any information you have!

 

Please don't post "use the search function" because honestly I have for the past week with mixed results usually talking about leo installs and stuff from 2009. If you have had exp. with similar chipsets, please comment, if not and you want to flame me..... please go away.

[WhizZ]

I have the following board : A780GXE/128M - http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A780GXE/128M

 

Updated to the 1.80 bios for AM3 support for my Phenom 1055t. Used Retail install + 10.6.7 update + Legacy kernel 10.7.0 with Chameleon 2.0 RC5. Also used this http://geeknizer.com/install-snow-leopard-on-amd/ to get it to boot. It now boots but I am having trouble with the Audio,Video, Sleep, Restart, Shut down and Erasing CMOS (I admit I haven't researched the resetting CMOS but i do remember seeing a fix somewhere just cant remember where.) . From what I can see, the audio should be able to be fixed. The video is a lost caused with on board so I was thinking about just buying a good pcie card. Don't know if it is running in x64 I don't think so, but at the begging of the boot it seems to recognize all six cores. I do know its the fastest of my 5 OSX86 builds. If the video looked better it would be a great machine. I also get a kernel panic ever time I go to settings-audio and try to change something. Just to be clear -Audio shows as available but only buzzes, Video is only 1024x768. I have tried modifying the com.apple.Boot.plist with no luck. Sleep, Restart, and Shut down don't work at all. When I reboot the CMOS errors out and I have to go into the bios before boot. Thanks for any information you have!

 

Please don't post "use the search function" because honestly I have for the past week with mixed results usually talking about leo installs and stuff from 2009. If you have had exp. with similar chipsets, please comment, if not and you want to flame me..... please go away.

 

Try creating a DSDT for your motherboard

http://www.kexts.com/view/459-dsdt_simple_...se)_v1.4.3.html

 

if you don't know what it does. you really need to get into that and google it up.

[gladpants]

Try creating a DSDT for your motherboard

http://www.kexts.com/view/459-dsdt_simple_...se)_v1.4.3.html

 

if you don't know what it does. you really need to get into that and google it up.

 

thanks for the response. I will look into this as I have added a new video card which gives me full qe/ci support. Im using the voodoohda.kext and that solved the sound issue.

 

Are there any drawbacks to to using an edited DSDT?

 

Thanks

[quadomatic]

You shouldn't need a DSDT. I didn't anyways.

 

I think we have relatively similar southbridge chipsets (I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H, AMD-785G chipset). I'll upload my kexts here and maybe you should give them a shot?

 

My install process was:

 

1. Install Snow Leopard via USB stick, with a modified OSInstall.mpkg for MBR disk support

2. Install combo update 10.6.8

3. [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for ethernet support and IOUSB rollback, since 10.6.8 update installs USB kexts that are incompatible

4. Install Chameleon RC5 (ATI HD57xx support)

5. Install nawcom's legacy kernel

6. Paste the Kexts I upload here to your /Extra/Extensions folder and repair permissions/rebuild cache with Kext Utility

7. Edit ATI5000Controller.kext info.plist to include my card's devid

8. Reboot (only reboot AFTER doing steps 2-5). In chameleon, boot with the flags: "-v -force64 arch=i386 maxmem=4096 GraphicsEnabler=Yes AtiConfig=Vervet"

 

On previous attempts, I had CMOS reset issues, but for some reason I don't with this one. I took kexts from an install boot disk that nawcom made, so maybe that's why.

Extensions.zip

[gladpants]

You shouldn't need a DSDT. I didn't anyways.

 

I think we have relatively similar southbridge chipsets (I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H, AMD-785G chipset). I'll upload my kexts here and maybe you should give them a shot?

 

My install process was:

 

1. Install Snow Leopard via USB stick, with a modified OSInstall.mpkg for MBR disk support

2. Install combo update 10.6.8

3. [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for ethernet support and IOUSB rollback, since 10.6.8 update installs USB kexts that are incompatible

4. Install Chameleon RC5 (ATI HD57xx support)

5. Install nawcom's legacy kernel

6. Paste the Kexts I upload here to your /Extra/Extensions folder and repair permissions/rebuild cache with Kext Utility

7. Edit ATI5000Controller.kext info.plist to include my card's devid

8. Reboot (only reboot AFTER doing steps 2-5). In chameleon, boot with the flags: "-v -force64 arch=i386 maxmem=4096 GraphicsEnabler=Yes AtiConfig=Vervet"

 

On previous attempts, I had CMOS reset issues, but for some reason I don't with this one. I took kexts from an install boot disk that nawcom made, so maybe that's why.

 

Actually i did a reinstall and basically did this but only updated to 10.6.7 as that was as far as i needed to go. I picked up a nvidia 9600 which has beautiful support. install went smooth and everything is running great now. Used myhack to install whatever keeps the cmos from resetting everything works except usb wont wake from sleep i always get AppleUSBEHCI[0x6e2d800]::CheckSleepCapability - controller will be unloaded across sleep when I boot. But the usb still works. This is going to be a gift and wont be used to often, It is also my dummy project for my person computer. uses a new chipset and 1090t but im hoping it will go smoothly.

 

I used a second hackintosh to do the initial install. works like a charm from the retail DVD. I did manage to get the 5750 supported but not like i liked. (plus the 5750 needs to go back into my rig.) So i bought the 9600 for $30 on craigslist. Thanks for posting your steps as it was confirmation that I had indeed scoured the interwebs long enough to come up with a good plan of attack.