Fairlyodd Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Okay it has been a while since I have attempted an install and just like before I have some issues that I can't seem to find any reference to for guidance, so I am asking for some help from the pros. Okay first my system specs: Mobo - Gigabyte M68MT-2 CPU - Athlon II x4 645 Chipset: Geforce 7025 South Bridge - nforce 630a Memory - Crucial Extreme 8gig Video - Geforce 210/GT218 1Gig Audio - Realtek AL887 HD LAN - Realtek RTL8211CL Okay I installed retail dmg of Snow Leopard. I updated to 10.6.6 and installed 10.6.6 legacy kernel. Modified my boot.plst file with proper string for video card support. Rebooted and everything seems fine, but once the system boots to desktop I lose functionality with my Ethernet connection even though it shows in finder that it is there? iTunes, kext helper, and kext utility, crash constantly, so no ability to replace kexts. About this MAC shows proper video specs and cpu cores, clock speed, fsb, and memory allocation. No kernel panics at boot or or at desktop, not really sure what is going on, but I am completely lost as to how to fix these issues. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys Update: I did some major research on the subject of my application crashes and noticed that if I put in the flag <maxmem=4096> at boot my system becomes a bit more stable and no more iTunes crashes. I guess you can't use more than 4gigs of ram period even though it is addressed correctly in finder. I still can't seem to get my Ethernet to work at all. I have read several posts about this issue, but none seem to help much with my particular chip, allot of chatter about the RT81xxx chip, but nothing regarding mine. I have some ideas on how to fix it, but I needed to get some ideas from some of you who have been working with this project longer than I have. Okay this is what finder sees for my system configuration and video card specs and mind you the only problem in the system specs is my processor is not what is listed, mine is an Athlon II x4, but the clock speed and everything else is correct. nVidia GeForce 210: Chipset Model: nVidia GeForce 210 Type: GPU Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 1024 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0a65 Revision ID: 0x00a2 ROM Revision: nVidia GeForce 210 OpenGL Engine [EFI] Displays: Acer S231HL: Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Rotation: Supported Display Connector: Status: No Display Connected System Configuration: Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro3,1 Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 3.11 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per core): 512 KB Memory: 8 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05 SMC Version (system): 1.30f3 Serial Number (system): SOMESRLNMBR Hardware UUID: C5E6CA73-2DAF-54FE-BEBD-B484C6E0E0AF If anyone has any ideas on how to fix my Ethernet chip let me know, I will do my best to research what I can, but I do not want to break this installation because it is the most stable I have ever had, short of the network issues that is..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Get yourself an account at Kexts.com Then download the 3rd choice on this page: http://www.osx86.net/view/1849-nforce_lan.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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