Setting up a Biostar TForcep965 / Sapphire x1600

[greenman100]

Credit for this guide needs to be given to thedguy, ConroeMac, SABR and finally Diego Sampaio.

 

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This guide uses 10.4.8 Jas.

 

 

Motherboard:

Biostar TForce 965P. Beauty of this board is PS2/USB all function out of the box, and ultra cheap overclocking. Audio is a simple edit.

 

 

If you are desperate to get IDE to work you’ll need an:

SATA to IDE

converter

(Beware of which SATA converter you get as you can buy them to work in the wrong direction.)

Rosewill RC-204

will work fine. I've got this (connected to my dvd-rw) and I believe a few other members do as well.

or

USB to IDE

converter.

 

Now that you’ve got all the hardware, and in the case, here’s how to plug everything in so it’ll work, and how to setup the BIOS.

 

First Hook up your

SATA Hard Drive

to the

Orange

ports on the board.

Then connect your Sata DVD (or IDE converted to USB) to the

USB

ports.*

 

Now fire up your lovely new system, if all goes well you should be able to go on...

 

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Press

DEL

and go into the bios, set the SATA controller to use AHCI.

 

Save the bios settings and throw your OSX install disc, pick the following options:

Comvo Update

Semthex Kernel

ICH8 support

any others you want

 

You should have a working installation of OSX. I'm aware there are gaps, but I did not feel like typing out how to install osx once the cd booted, it's been done time and time again. I may add it later.

 

Time for a little plagiarism at the expense of ConroeMac and Rammjet

 

There are several options for these next steps, I made a simple script for fixing reboot and the audio, but if you want to do it manually the info is just blow. The script is at the bottom of this post. Keep in mind there are 2 ways to fix the restart problem. If the first option does work, my script probably won't (or it may if your just having issues with typos), you can try the post further down this page.

 

Fix Audio:

 

 1. Delete AppleHDA.kext:
In Terminal, type: sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
2) Edit AppleAzaliaAudio.kext:
In Terminal, type: sudo pico /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/Info.plist
Search for (use hotkey= ctrl + w):
<key>IOHDAudioCodecVendorID</key>
change the string to:
<string>0x10ec0883</string>
Exit pico
sudo pico /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAzaliaController.kext/Contents/Info.plist
Search for (use hotkey= ctrl + w):
<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
change the string to:
<string>0x284b8086</string>
Exit pico
3) Clean up the system:
In Terminal, type: sudo diskutil repairpermissions /
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/
4) Then, reboot and enjoy sound out of two channels.

 

VIA IDE does nto work at this point. Please post if you can figure it out.

 

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------------ My script for after first boot---------------

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Here's my script, does the same thing as above but in less steps.

 

This includes the AUDIO fix.

 

sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
sudo perl -pi -e 's/0x10ec0880/0x10ec0883/g' /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/Info.plist
sudo perl -pi -e 's/0x26688086/0x284b8086/g' /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAzaliaController.kext/Contents/Info.plist
sudo diskutil repairpermissions /
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/

 

Open a terminal, and type "nano audio-restart-fix" and paste the above code into it.

Press "ctrl+o" and then yes.

type "chmod a+rwx audio-fix" and then type "./audio-fix"

 

You should now have full functioning Audio support.

 

 

X1600 works with Natit:

 

http://www.necnet.de/krass.man/Installers/...0Installer.html

 

And onboard LAN works with DaemonES' installer

 

http://www.necnet.de/krass.man/Installers/...0Installer.html

 

 

Thats' it. Any feedback is welcome.

[jrk]

I just bought this board (TForce 965pt) and am trying to set it up.

 

You mention:

 

Press DEL and go into the bios, set the SATA controller to use AHCI.

 

However, extensive searching of the BIOS reveals no such settings. What am I missing? Is this a typo copied from another howto? Or something specific to the TForce 965 Deluxe? Has anyone actually run this board (the PT, most specifically) with OS X?

 

Thanks for any pointers, and sorry for the suspicion, but I bought this board based on this recommendation only to find that some of the steps don't actually seem to apply to this board, so far as I can see. (And Biostar has 0 BIOS updates for this board, so I don't think it's a BIOS version difference keeping me from seeing the SATA AHCI mode setting.)

 

Thanks!

[hgjob]

TForce 965pt (ich8)can not set the SATA controller to use AHCI.it just need ich8R.So this boaed can not install Mac OS now.

[greenman100]

easy, just upgrade to the deluxe BIOS. it works fine then, you'll have hte option to choose AHCI

[hgjob]

realy?you do it?

[jeenam]

Does the latest JaS 10.4.8 iso released 1/3/07 support the Via VT6410 PATA IDE controller on this board? There was no mention in the release except that the JMicron IDE controller now works straight out of the box.

[ferlie]

dude... this mean if i install mac x86 in 965PT board must use IDE to USB for DVD drive??? cause i always getting error when install it, always show "AppleHDA.kext load failed, unable to locate layout_id properly"