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[Chaviv]

I’m looking for some help.

 

I installed Snow Leopard 10.6.3 using iAtkos.

It works fine, however, the disc will only read if I put a Mac format disc in.

If I put a blank in, it won’t read anything there, and is says no disk burner, so I can’t burn anything.

The headphones get sound, but the built-in speakers do not work.

Also, I can’t seem to get anything higher than OpenGL 1.0 though some of my programs say need 1.3 at least.

Finally, I’ve tried 3 ways to upgrade, and all crash the system and I have to reinstall Snow Leopard to use again.

Am looking for any info on fixing the problems, kexts I may need, etc.

Using SIW, here are the statistics for my laptop.

Sorry it is so long, but figured show as much as I can to start. :think:

If any more info is needed, let me know.

Statistics:

System Summary:

 

Property Value

CHAVIV-PC (TOSHIBA Satellite C655)

Computer

Manufacturer TOSHIBA

Family Intel_Mobile

Product Name Satellite C655

Version PSC08U-061037

Serial Number 1B581655Q

SKU Number Montevina_Fab

Chassis [unknown]

PC System Type Mobile

Machine Type AT/AT COMPATIBLE

Infrared (IR) Supported No

DMI System UUID 20BB1707-622B-E011-825C-00266CA9C2DE

UUID 0717BB20-2B6211E0-825C0026-6CA9C2DE

Windows System Assessment

CPU Score 4.40 (Calculations per second)

Memory Score 5.10 (Memory operations per second)

Graphics Score 3.20 (Desktop performance for Windows Aero)

D3D Score 3.30 (3D business and gaming graphics performance)

Disk Score 5.50 (Disk data transfer rate)

Windows Experience Index 3.20 (Base score)

Disk Space

Disk C: 202 GB Available, 221 GB Total, 202 GB Free

Memory

Physical Memory 2940 MB Total, 2143 MB Free

Memory Load 27%

Virtual Memory 5879 MB Total, 4909 MB Free

Pagefile

PageFile Name C:\pagefile.sys

PageFile Size 2939 MB

In use 0 MB

Max used 0 MB

Registry Size

Current Size 57 MB

Maximum Size 2048 MB

The system clock interval 15 ms

 

 

Motherboard:

 

Property Value

CHAVIV-PC (TOSHIBA Satellite C655)

Summary

Manufacturer TOSHIBA

Model Portable PC

Version Base Board Version

Serial Number Base Board Serial Number

Bridge

North Bridge Intel GL40 Revision 07

South Bridge Intel 82801IM (ICH9-M) Revision 03

CPU

Name Intel® Celeron® CPU 925 @ 2.30GHz

Cpu Socket Socket P (478)

Max CPU Speed 2300 MHz

Memory

Maximum Capacity 8192 MBytes

Maximum Memory Module Size 4096 MBytes

Memory Slots 2

System Slots

ISA 0

PCI 6

AGP 0

VL-BUS 0

EISA 0

PCMCIA 0

ExpressCard 0

MCA 0

 

 

BIOS:

 

Property Value

CHAVIV-PC (TOSHIBA Satellite C655)

BIOS Properties

BIOS Vendor INSYDE

Serial Number 1B581655Q

BIOS Version 1.70

Firmware Version 1.40

BIOS Date 07/07/2011

BIOS Size 1024 KB

BIOS Starting Segment

DMI Version 2.4

Characteristics

supports ISA No

supports MCA No

supports EISA No

supports PCI Yes

supports PC Card (PCMCIA) No

supports Plug-and-Play No

supports APM No

upgradeable (Flash) BIOS Yes

allows BIOS shadowing Yes

supports VL-VESA No

ESCD support is available No

supports booting from CD-ROM Yes

supports selectable boot Yes

BIOS ROM is socketed Yes

supports booting from PC Card (PCMCIA) No

supports Enhanced Disk Drive specification Yes

supports INT 13 for Japanese NEC 9800 1.2M floppy (3.5-inch, 1024-byte sectors, 360rpm) Yes

supports INT 13 for Japanese Toshiba 1.2M floppy (3.5-inch, 360rpm) Yes

supports INT 13 5.25-inch/360K floppy services Yes

supports INT 13 5.25-inch/1.2M floppy services Yes

supports INT 13 3.5-inch/720K floppy services Yes

supports INT 13 3.5-inch/2.88M floppy services Yes

supports INT 05 print-screen No

supports INT 09 and 8042 keyboard services Yes

supports INT 14 serial services No

supports INT 17 printer services No

supports INT 10 CGA/Mono video services Yes

NEC PC-98 No

supports ACPI Yes

supports legacy USB Yes

supports AGP No

supports booting from I2O device No

supports booting from LS-120 No

supports booting from ATAPI ZIP drive No

supports booting from IEEE 1394 device No

Smart Battery supported No

BIOS Boot Specification supported No

Function key-initiated Network Service boot supported No

Enable Targeted Content Distribution Yes

 

 

CPU Info:

 

Property Value

CHAVIV-PC (TOSHIBA Satellite C655)

Summary

Number of Physical Processors 1

Number of Cores per Processor 1

Number of Logical Processors 1

CPU #1 Intel Celeron 925

CPU Name Intel® Celeron® CPU 925 @ 2.30GHz

CPU Code Name Penryn

Vendor GenuineIntel

Number of Bits 64

Instruction Set MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, ET64, XD

Platform Name Socket P (478)

Revision R0

Technology 45 nm

Original Clock 2300 MHz

Original System Clock 200 MHz

Original Multiplier 11.5

CPU Clock 2200 MHz

System Clock 199.5 MHz

FSB 798.0 MHz

Number of Cores 1

Core #1

Speed 2294.4 MHz

Multiplier 11.5

Turbo Boost Not Supported

Virtual Technology Not Supported

SLAT Not Supported

Hyper Threading Not Supported

Cache

L1 Data Cache 32 KBytes

L1 Instructions Cache 32 KBytes

L2 Cache 1024 KBytes

 

Storage Devices:

 

Property Value

CHAVIV-PC (TOSHIBA Satellite C655)

Disk 0

Manufacturer Toshiba

Model TOSHIBA MK2565GSX

Size 250.0 GB

Firmware Version GJ003M

Serial Number 80H2P1Y7T

Rotational Speed 5400 RPM

Form Factor 2.5 inch

Interface Serial ATA

Standard ATA8-ACS | ----

Advanced Format Supported No

Transfer Mode (Current / Max) SATA-300 / SATA-300

Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, 48bit LBA, NCQ

Power Cycle Count 917

Temperature 39 C (102 F)

Drive Letter(s) C:

Controller Buffer Size on Drive 8192 KB

Queue Depth 32

Removable No

Cache Enabled (Read / Write) Yes / Yes

SMART Support Yes

Attribute Name Attribute Value Worst Value Threshold Value Raw Data

Raw Read Error Rate (01) 100 100 050 000000000000

Throughput Performance (02) 100 100 050 000000000000

Spin Up Time (03) 100 100 001 000000000486

Start/Stop Count (04) 100 100 000 0000000003D8

Reallocated Sector Count (05) 100 100 050 000000000000

Seek Error Rate (07) 100 100 050 000000000000

Seek Time Performance (08) 100 100 050 000000000000

Power On Hours Count (09) 088 088 000 0000000012F5

Spin Retry Count (0A) 119 100 030 000000000000

Power Cycle Count (0C) 100 100 000 000000000395

G-sense error rate (BF) 100 100 000 000000000028

Emergency Retract Cycle Count (C0) 100 100 000 000000000023

Load/unload cycle count (C1) 092 092 000 000000013C4C

HDA Temperature (C2) 100 100 000 0031000D0027

Reallocation event count (C4) 100 100 000 000000000000

Current pending sector count (C5) 100 100 000 000000000000

Off-line uncorrectable sector count (C6) 100 100 000 000000000000

Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate (C7) 200 200 000 000000000000

Disk shift (DC) 100 100 000 00000000002E

Loaded hours (DE) 092 092 000 000000000D61

Load retry count (DF) 100 100 000 000000000000

Load friction (E0) 100 100 000 000000000000

Load-in time (E2) 100 100 000 00000000014E

Head flying hours (F0) 100 100 001 000000000000

DVD Writer 0

Manufacturer Teac

Model TEAC DV-W28S-VT (TEAC DV-W28S-VT)

Firmware Version M.8C

Interface Serial ATA

Standard ATA8-ACS | ----

Advanced Format Supported N/A

Transfer Mode (Current / Max) SATA-150 / SATA-150

Power Cycle Count [unknown]

Drive Letter(s) D:

Controller Buffer Size on Drive 64 KB

Removable Yes

Supported CD Formats CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW or CD+RW

Supported DVD Formats DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL

Supported Blu-ray Formats None

Supported HD-DVD Formats None

Supported MO Formats None

Capabilities

CD Reader CD ROM, CD R, CD RW

CD Writer CD R, CD RW

DVD Reader DVD ROM, DVD R, DVD RW, DVD RAM

DVD Writer DVD R, DVD RW, DVD RAM

SMART Support No

[Gringo Vermelho]

Most of what's on that list is useless garbage. Your Windows Experience Index score and your hard drive's power cycle count has no effect on your hardware's ability to run OS X. These are the only bits that are actually useful:

SKU Number Montevina_Fab

North Bridge Intel GL40

South Bridge Intel ICH9-M

CPU Name Intel Celeron 925

CPU Code Name Penryn

This tells us that you can use the vanilla kernel and (if the ICH9 is in AHCI mode) unmodified SATA controller drivers.

 

Montevina (AKA Centrino 2) is the 5th generation Centrino platform. Since the previous Centrino platform, "Santa Rosa", Apple stopped using the Intel Centrino platform in their MacBooks and went to Nvidia for their chipset needs.

Your laptop being Montevina-based means you probably have Intel GMA X4500 video which is not supported on OS X, there is no driver for it. This means that you cannot have hardware accelerated graphics and that's why you're stuck on software rendered OpenGL 1.0.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino#Mont...form_.282008.29

 

Missing, useful information:

 

Ethernet (wired and wireless), on-board sound and video card make and model.

[Chaviv]

I know this is my sound data:Property Value

CHAVIV-PC (TOSHIBA Satellite C655)

Conexant CX20671 SmartAudio HD

Name Conexant CX20671 SmartAudio HD

Manufacturer Conexant

Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5069&SUBSYS_1179FDE0&REV_1003\4&1BF8190D&0&0001

PnP Device Id HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5069&SUBSYS_1179FDE0&REV_1003\4&1BF8190D&0&0001

 

Network:

Property Value

CHAVIV-PC (TOSHIBA Satellite C655)

Network Adapter 1

Model Atheros AR8152 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)

Status Disconnected

MAC Address 00-26-6C-A9-C2-DE

Type WIRED

Network Adapter 2

Model Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter

Status Connected

MAC Address 4C-ED-DE-8E-F2-AE

Type WIRELESS LAN

Speed 150 Mbps

[Gringo Vermelho]

Conexant CX20671

VEN_14F1&DEV_5069

This probably works with VoodooHDA, if you're having issues visit the VoodooHDA development thread over at the Project OSX forums and look for information there. Try different versions of VoodooHDA or use the vendor and device ID to search and find out if someone has already made a modified version that works better with your hardware.

 

If you're looking for drivers for your ethernet hardware then type this into the forum search to see what you can come up with:

Atheros AR8152

Atheros AR9285

I’ve tried 3 ways to upgrade, and all crash the system and I have to reinstall Snow Leopard to use again.

That's not a very good description of what's happening. You should provide more details like screenshots or crash logs, what you were doing when it crashed etc etc. Also provide more information about your install method.

[Chaviv]

I actually found drivers and kexts to work with Atheros, as I've been online with Snow Leopard already.

 

The built in update died.

So I tried [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] update.

And update manager tool I downloaded.

 

I can't screenshot as entire system locks and have to reinstall SL to get it running again, but here is something I can see.

 

After using combo updater I get a message.

The machine freezes so I can only get parts of it.

It is blocked by a window telling me to restart.

 

But here is what I can see:

 

panic (cpu 0 caller 0x2a96e6): "Version mis-match between kernel and cpu PM" @ /source cache/xnu/xnu-1504.7.4/osfmk/i386/pm cpu.c:706

Debugger called: <panic>

 

Also, any idea on why, with Snow Leopard, it will read disks but says no burn device and won't recognize blank disks?

[Gringo Vermelho]

If you type..

"Version mis-match between kernel and cpu PM"

...into the search box above, you will find that the fix for that is to delete sleepenabler.kext before updating. Follow the directions given here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=211989

 

Try updating your DVD drive's firmware.

[Chaviv]

Thanks.

 

I can't even find a listing for my particular DVD device on Teac's website.

Anyplace does aftermarket versions of drivers or such?

[Gringo Vermelho]

That's because your drive is only sold to laptop manufacturers, it's not available in retail.

 

If you can't find a firmware update for it on Toshiba's support page for your laptop it's probably wisest to forget about it.

Other laptop manufacturers (HP, Dell) use that same drive as well and you can find firmware updates for it on their sites. Not sure it would be safe to use or if the updater would even run. Do this at your own risk.

[Chaviv]

Overlooking the obvious.

I'm autistic and we are sometimes accused of being so detail-oriented we miss the forest for the trees.

Never thought about checking Toshiba support.