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weekender
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Hi all.

 

I'm new to posting but i've been reading this site for quite a while. I finally succedded in installing a Leo 10.5.1 from scratch with sound working but i can't get my 8800 GTS to work.

I've been reading at NetRoller3D method which is the same that Weekender has explained at post #244 of this thread.

I changed all the files with the ID i got from the System Profiler, and, still following the method, i finally got a cpuid.txt to patch the nvdaresman.kext.

 

I've done that as well and moved it back from /System/Library/Extensions/backup to /System/Library/Extensions. Changed the perms and owner. Repaired perms with disk utility. Tried to reboot but it failed. I had to remove the nvdaresman.kext to boot.

 

Did i missed something ?

 

mobo: P5N32E-SLI + Asus 8800GTS 640

 

Check on your graphic's card manufacturer's website to see what chip they used for your graphic card coz there are 2 types for the GTS: G80 and G92.

If you have a G92 chip then it won't work.

ryanbr
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Check on your graphic's card manufacturer's website to see what chip they used for your graphic card coz there are 2 types for the GTS: G80 and G92.

If you have a G92 chip then it won't work.

 

The 8800GTS G92s are set to be released on the 12th of december, this should not be an issue that applies yet. It would be good to hear if it works or doesn't once it's released, I'm sure someone will grab it.

 

Below is text from a review that had to be pulled because it was put to the web early.

 

"ASUS just informed us that Nvidia has changed the release date from the 6th to the 12th. Initially we were told that it would be fine to post the ASUS Extreme N8800GTS (512MB) review on the 6th which is exactly what we did. Now that Nvidia has unexpectedly changed the release date we have been requested to pull the review till the 12th so we are very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused."

caemca
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I tried callisto 008 and 006, but they don't work! The 008 one recognize my x850xt, but at the starting of the graphic interface all is blocked. What can I do to change resolution? HELP ME! :(

 

EDIT: I tried with callisto 003. It recognises my card, gives me many possible resolutions, but every time I try to change it, a light blue screen appears. And it recognizes my 22"lcd as a crt. Can be this the problem?

Danloreye
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wooot.... i made it.... :rolleyes:

i've douvle checked and triple checked the Weekender and Nvinject.free.fr procedure to install my ASUS 8800GTS and i found out that i'm need new eyes... i've typed the code 0x0193110de instead of 0x019310de... thus not recognizing my video card...

 

Now...next challenge... finding a way to have a working lan and my Logitech Quickcam 4000 to work.... if possible.

JaE-V
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hows has MikeInNs LAN driver been working?
still has the same threading issues....works fine with one core
i have efi installed but the vanilla kernels arent working for somereason, i havent bothered to delete it. does anyone know about the freezing
cant use vanilla kernels with efi, only benifit was unmodified kexts right? i saw nothing beneficial to using it.....when does the freezing occur?
demonfox13x
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i just noticed my computer doesnt freeze bc my music still plays the desktop clock still works and icons still bounce, but all my usb devices stop working. The mouse freezes the keyboard doesnt work and my iphone cant sync. The lights for the keyboard and mouse stay lit until i plug them out, if i try to plug it out and back in the lights stop working. This happens at random times sometimes 5 mins in and other times 30 mins in.

JaE-V
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i just noticed my computer doesnt freeze bc my music still plays the desktop clock still works and icons still bounce, but all my usb devices stop working. The mouse freezes the keyboard doesnt work and my iphone cant sync. The lights for the keyboard and mouse stay lit until i plug them out, if i try to plug it out and back in the lights stop working. This happens at random times sometimes 5 mins in and other times 30 mins in.
its because of the lan driver....delete and use another option if you can. it has threading issues at the moment doesnt work stable with both cores *on leopard* however works fine with a core disabled
Here is my specific PC Config:CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819115028HD: HITACHI Deskstar 7K160 HDS721616PLAT80 (0A32722) 160GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822145125DVDROM: Sony DRU-500AX Internal DVD±RW Drivehttp://www.amazon.com/Sony-DRU-500AX-Inter...e/dp/B00008AZ71MOBO: EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680ihttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813188015RAM [4GB]: G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820231114VIDEO: EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814130071After booting the DVD and installing OSX86 from the burned "Mac OS X 10.4.9 Intel SSE3 [JaS 10.4.8 AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2" ISO, the system crashes at the Apple w/ the spinning thing. [The gray screen that comes down and tells your to restart].Any Ideas?How did you do it
ok so are yu using uphucks dvd or JaS's? looks like a lil bit of both lol
kstover
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Hey everybody, just thought I'd put up an update. I finally got Leopard running stable on my machine. Here are my specs:

 

nForce 680i Mobo

Quad Core 2.4 GHZ Intel Q6600

80G IDE hard-drive

8800 GTS (Dual display)

 

Everything works fine except for the network connection. I get the same USB freezing issue as a few posts ago. I also have not updated to 10.5.1, as the last time I tried, it crashed my system. Other than those two issues, it's working perfectly.

 

@JaE - how would I go about uninstalling the network driver that I installed? I'm really new to Mac and not sure how to un-install a .kext. Thanks.

 

I was able to install easily using Both weekender's guide (Post #244) and .netRoller's. Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer my many questions, you're all awesome.

 

Have a great day/night/whenever you happen to be reading this post.

JaE-V
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Hey everybody, just thought I'd put up an update. I finally got Leopard running stable on my machine. Here are my specs:nForce 680i MoboQuad Core 2.4 GHZ Intel Q660080G IDE hard-drive8800 GTS (Dual display)Everything works fine except for the network connection. I get the same USB freezing issue as a few posts ago. I also have not updated to 10.5.1, as the last time I tried, it crashed my system. Other than those two issues, it's working perfectly. @JaE - how would I go about uninstalling the network driver that I installed? I'm really new to Mac and not sure how to un-install a .kext. Thanks.I was able to install easily using Both weekender's guide (Post #244) and .netRoller's. Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer my many questions, you're all awesome.Have a great day/night/whenever you happen to be reading this post.
just go to the extensions folder and delete the kext and reboot or you can just use one core and it'll b fine momentarily
Thanks jav-e, the freezing is the 680i network driver problem, im back up and running on one core 100% stable. Will wait for MikeInNs Leopard driver.
we're beta testing the new releases....should b fixed soon
JollyRogers
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Hey all great thread on the NF6XX series boards and getting Leopard to work. It encouraged me to try it and I did last night... though I should have waited till the weekend. I am running a ASUS P5N32-E SLI w/ an atheros wireles card (so I don't care about onboard lan), and an Nvidia 8800gts. I ran into a problem hence my first post :)

 

Here is my problem: I currently have 2 sata drives 1 for Vista, and the second for Ubuntu. I use GRUB for my bootloader. I had a spare PATA 20G drive so I dropped that in as slave on the PATA controller. I got Leopard to install, but was not able to boot to any of my OS's because first off I don't think the PATA drive MBR etc was right and secondly from adding the PATA, when my 1st sata drive is selected to boot from, the hd locations are different now and grub gives an error 17 or 22... I used a linux boot disk and edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst but am not sure how adding the PATA drive affects the hd ordering (if that makes sense).

 

My original grub menu.lst:

splashimage=(hd1,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Vista 64

root (hd0,0)

chainloader +1

 

title Ubuntu

root (hd1,1)

kernel blah blah....

 

So when I added the PATA I figured that my menu.lst needed to be changed to reflect this and used a linux boot cd and mounted /dev/sdb1 into /tmp and cd'd to it /tmp/boot/grub and edited menu.lst to the following:

 

splashimage=(hd2,1)/boot/grub/splash.xp.gz

title Vista 64

root (hd1,0)

chainloader +1

 

title Ubuntu

root (hd2,1)

kernel blah blah blah

 

title OSX86

root (hd0,0)

chainloader +1

 

This was assuming that the installed pata now became hd0 and the 1st sata drive became hd1, and the 2nd sata now was hd2. Well apparently my logic was off because no such luck there in at least restoring the ability to boot my other 2 OS's, so I had to pull the drive. I have been googling this with no luck (though I have not given up yet) and hoping someone here may have a good idea since everyone in this thread is adding a PATA HD to their systems to do this.

 

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions. I have considered switching to BCD (I think that is what it is called to handle multi boot). Just in the past I have been very comfortable with linux tools. I have even considered just building another box (though intel chipsets) to do the OSX86 route and dual boot it instead. I am a little paranoid about wasting my linux (mine) and windows (wifes's) partitions... even backed up it is a lot of time to restore everything!

 

Another question. After booting, it did see all my sata drives (I never disabled them) and it "appeared" that they were available for formating. One is 80G w/ Linux and the other is 400G w/ windows... From this thread it seems that sata will not work, but if the disk utulity is seeing them can it not handle formatting one for an install? Stupid question though cause I know the answer... it doesn't work yet. I just had to ask cause I know exactly how adding another SATA will fall as far as hd scheme.

 

Sorry so long ;)

JaE-V
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Hey all great thread on the NF6XX series boards and getting Leopard to work. It encouraged me to try it and I did last night... though I should have waited till the weekend. I am running a ASUS P5N32-E SLI w/ an atheros wireles card (so I don't care about onboard lan), and an Nvidia 8800gts. I ran into a problem hence my first post :(

 

Here is my problem: I currently have 2 sata drives 1 for Vista, and the second for Ubuntu. I use GRUB for my bootloader. I had a spare PATA 20G drive so I dropped that in as slave on the PATA controller. I got Leopard to install, but was not able to boot to any of my OS's because first off I don't think the PATA drive MBR etc was right and secondly from adding the PATA, when my 1st sata drive is selected to boot from, the hd locations are different now and grub gives an error 17 or 22... I used a linux boot disk and edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst but am not sure how adding the PATA drive affects the hd ordering (if that makes sense).

 

My original grub menu.lst:

splashimage=(hd1,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Vista 64

root (hd0,0)

chainloader +1

 

title Ubuntu

root (hd1,1)

kernel blah blah....

 

So when I added the PATA I figured that my menu.lst needed to be changed to reflect this and used a linux boot cd and mounted /dev/sdb1 into /tmp and cd'd to it /tmp/boot/grub and edited menu.lst to the following:

 

splashimage=(hd2,1)/boot/grub/splash.xp.gz

title Vista 64

root (hd1,0)

chainloader +1

 

title Ubuntu

root (hd2,1)

kernel blah blah blah

 

title OSX86

root (hd0,0)

chainloader +1

 

This was assuming that the installed pata now became hd0 and the 1st sata drive became hd1, and the 2nd sata now was hd2. Well apparently my logic was off because no such luck there in at least restoring the ability to boot my other 2 OS's, so I had to pull the drive. I have been googling this with no luck (though I have not given up yet) and hoping someone here may have a good idea since everyone in this thread is adding a PATA HD to their systems to do this.

 

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions. I have considered switching to BCD (I think that is what it is called to handle multi boot). Just in the past I have been very comfortable with linux tools. I have even considered just building another box (though intel chipsets) to do the OSX86 route and dual boot it instead. I am a little paranoid about wasting my linux (mine) and windows (wifes's) partitions... even backed up it is a lot of time to restore everything!

 

Another question. After booting, it did see all my sata drives (I never disabled them) and it "appeared" that they were available for formating. One is 80G w/ Linux and the other is 400G w/ windows... From this thread it seems that sata will not work, but if the disk utulity is seeing them can it not handle formatting one for an install? Stupid question though cause I know the answer... it doesn't work yet. I just had to ask cause I know exactly how adding another SATA will fall as far as hd scheme.

 

Sorry so long :(

 

mann those loaders can get complicated wish i could help...thats why when im installing os's i disconnect all my other drives so i can use the boot menu to select which hdrive i wanna boot from then after, just much easier in my opinion

Stupidicus
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Yeah, I recommend having only the drive you want the OS installed to plugged into the motherboard if you ever want to boot from any of the others again.

 

Not only that, but it leaves each OS's boot stuff on its own drive. that way grub can't narfle OS X's bootloader, since it's on another drive entirely, and they are installed with only that drive present, so it's not only foolproof, it's idiotproof. You won't kill your boot stuff accidentally that way.

 

P.S.

For what it's worth, I always install windows first, then linux on that drive if I'm dual booting... as I want to use grub, not the windows bootloader. That way grub can see the windows partition when it's scanning, and it always works that way. Always. YMMV though. I'll have to formulate a triple-boot strategy now.

Nemon
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Hey all,

Thanks for the Great tutorial, got 10.4.9 installed with old kernnel. used Jas 10.4.8

sound works, out only .

no lan

 

Problem: my display is stuck at 1024x768 and QE is disabled

 

I tried to reinstall the Nvinject a few time but still the same problem.

 

How can this be fixed?

 

BTW this an awesome site, cheers.

 

Thanks

Danloreye
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For me (using Vista & OSx 10.5.1 on a P5N32E-SLi board) i instaleld each OS on a separate drive without adding a boot menu. On the Asus P5N32E you can select which device you want to boot on with the F8 key at startup (suppr get you to the Bios and F8 gets you to the boot device choice). I haven't tried it yet (i'll do it this week end) but i think it would be even possible to choose an external USB drive to boot on.

koolkiwikat
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Im stuck at the begining.....anyone having luck with Gigabyte 680i MB???, Leopard doesnt pick up my secondary controllers(or any other install from 10.4.8 up!!!)....Im running RAID 5 via Nvidia chipset....but its not detecting my 2 spare SATA drives, Ive tried changing via bios to AHCI, RAID...etc no luck, there just not picked up via Disc Utility....hence I cannot install anything :)

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