650 and 680i chipset thread...

[bunzybud]

I'm following this guide but I'm getting stuck at 25% while installing. I have an evga 680i motherboard, E6700 2.66 ghz core 2 duo, 2 gigs of ram. I had JaS 10.4.8 installed and working, I have tried Kallyway, iATKOS, and now ToH RC2. I can get passed the initial boot of the DVD, formatting the HD for HFS Journaled using MBR partition, selecting the things I want installed and the things I don't, then proceeding to the DVD verification (which I skip), then to the main blue bar of installing OS X. My problem is that it seems to take extremely long, longer than it should, and seems like it's frozen but not completely. The blue bar gets about 25% and dosn't ever seem to go any farther, it shows estimated time of 5 hours and 30 mins to install. I've let it sit for 2 hours and still at 25% with no HD activity and no DVD activity, but the blue bar is still swirling and the mouse pointer will still move, and the ETA is still 5 and a half hours. Seems to happen with every install disc I've tried. I'm installing from an IDE DVD drive onto an IDE (PATA) HD. I've disconnected all the SATA drives, turned off the sudgesting things in the bios, and enabled the sudgested things. The install should only take about 20 mins from what I've read, and from what I remember from my experience installing JAS. I verified that my ToH iso has the correct MD5. Any ideas what could be holding my install up?

 

Edit: I swapped out my DVD drive with a different DVD Drive and now it's up to 50% and seems like my drive for whatever reason may have been the issue.

 

Hi Blueraven,

 

I have exactly the same problem with the installer jamming up at 25%, and i am also using a EVGA680i MOBO and a old IDE drive, but my DVD rom is SATA so this is probably not our problem. Iatkos, did not work at all, Kalyway is jamming at 25% and I was already downloading Toh when I saw your post .

 

Keep me posted if you found any workaroud.

 

Things I know I may be doing wrong or that I want to try:

I used a RW DVD instead of a DVD R only (did u?)

I doubt that it could be the HD small buffer , it should work slower only.

Letting the installer roll all night

Disable a HD drive option in the bios.

Trying GUID.

messing with the install options.

 

I you tried any of those, if you found the problem or if you (or anyone) have any other idea on how to solve the problem please let me know, Ill do the same .

 

Good luck!

[cacak333]

hey guys...

 

my audio is working on my striker 680i mobo....but only audio OUT

 

now i need mic....how can i get working the audio IN ????

 

someone can help please ???

[MTWomg]

is it at all possible to get stable lan connectivity with 2 cores? is wireless stable? I'm using a tulip-compatable card on a 650i chipset and unless i run 1 core any large file kills the lan connectivity, making leopard a PITA to use.

[muitommy]

I am stuck at that point too, after getting to step 11 of the guide, right now. I think it's because the bootloader does not get installed when installing from the ToH disc, from what I gather. I thought that doing the "bootfix" step was supposed to fix this? Maybe I did something wrong in those steps? I found a "Format and Make Bootable HD" disc by kalyway that I'm about to try. I read that you possibly have to install tiger first to get a bootloader installed, then install leopard on top of that. I'm guessing that preperation disc would install a bootloader then I can install ToH on top of it. I'll let you know how that goes. My ToH took about 3 hours to install too, dont know why its taking so long, and I'm bummed that I'll have to sit thru another 3 again to try this but here goes

 

Edit: I decided to give Kalyway another shot, it does indeed install the bootloader but I made the mistake of selecting vanilla kernel (later read that our chipset needs modified kernel) and it's stuck in a reboot loop. I'd reinstall Kalyway again without vanilla but it took over 10 hours and I don't want to wait that long again. Think I'll stick with ToH it only takes 2.5 hrs. Maybe now that the HD has a bootloader from kaly on it, I can install ToH ontop of that to get a working install.

 

some of steps in boot fix you done may be wrong, try to follow the guide closely, some successful echo will be shown after your successfully input of commands.

[muitommy]

@jae-V

 

how about your kernel_task in your activity monitor,

i got my kernel_task usage remains high all time,

but my system is still usable... the usage of kernel_task

will drop whenever i open other programs

 

fixed ----- problems of natit.kext which come with the golden.zip and it's useless to me

[oko]

Hi!

 

I have problem with the 22 and 23 .

 

Marvin's AMD Utility said some error and didn't create the cpuid.txt file on the Folder on desktop... In the folder was log file and 1 other file witch wasn't cpuid.txt

 

And when i install golden kernel after restart it shows one line below it shows " Cant find match_kernel "

 

And what this golden kernel does? It is neccesary to get all cores work?

 

 

Oko

 

 

_______________________________________________________

*ABIT S775 NF650I SLI

*MSI GeForce 8600 GT PCI-E 256MB OVERCLOCKED

*Intel Q6600 CORE2 QUAD 2.4GHZ S775

*RAM KINGMAX 2048 mb DDR2 - 800 MHz running @ 667; CORSAIR 1024 mb 667 MHz CL5 (total 3GB of RAM running @ 667 MHz)

*HDD

1. 200 GB IDE

2. 350 GB SATA

3. 400 GB SATA

4. 80 GB IDE

* Floppy 1.4 MB 3½'' (i realy need it )

* USB 2.0

* LAN nForce Networking Controller

* Fire Wire 400 on PCI slot

[muitommy]

Hi!

 

I have problem with the 22 and 23 .

 

Marvin's AMD Utility said some error and didn't create the cpuid.txt file on the Folder on desktop... In the folder was log file and 1 other file witch wasn't cpuid.txt

 

And when i install golden kernel after restart it shows one line below it shows " Cant find match_kernel "

 

And what this golden kernel does? It is neccesary to get all cores work?

Oko

_______________________________________________________

*ABIT S775 NF650I SLI

*MSI GeForce 8600 GT PCI-E 256MB OVERCLOCKED

*Intel Q6600 CORE2 QUAD 2.4GHZ S775

*RAM KINGMAX 2048 mb DDR2 - 800 MHz running @ 667; CORSAIR 1024 mb 667 MHz CL5 (total 3GB of RAM running @ 667 MHz)

*HDD

1. 200 GB IDE

2. 350 GB SATA

3. 400 GB SATA

4. 80 GB IDE

* Floppy 1.4 MB 3½'' (i realy need it )

* USB 2.0

* LAN nForce Networking Controller

* Fire Wire 400 on PCI slot

 

i skipped the marvin patchin steps for my 8800GT..

once you installed goldkernel, you won't need typing cpus=1, cus four core is working

[oko]

If I skip Marvin's AMD utility then when i put NVDAResman.kext (modified) from backup to extensions my computer just shows " Apple screen of deth " and ask for restart...

 

And golden kernel must be installed before 10.5.1 update?

 

 

And what is the kernel job in computer? What do it does?

 

 

Thanks! Oko

[muitommy]

@oko

 

you should use the 10.5.2 kext with nvinject or natit to enable qe/ci, it's known that NVDAResman of previous will cause kernel panic

 

golden kernel should come up with 10.5.1 i think

[muitommy]

@updated

 

finally get everything working except the 8800GT (can enable qe/ci, but system will crash randomly),

thanks for mcdevil, now my leopard have migrated to the sata bus, say goodbye to pata,

i archived by the carbon copy cloner, it will fine if you use ghost 11.

i could write a tutorial if someone want it

[andyph666]

muitommy: how did you get leopard working on the sata bus, I only goti t working on ide. Thanks.

[muitommy]

muitommy: how did you get leopard working on the sata bus, I only goti t working on ide. Thanks.

 

i, install leopard on pata

ii, install the newest nforceata.kext

iii, prepare a sata partition for mac

iv, use carbon copy cloner to copy whole pata partition to the sata one

v, reinstall the darwin bootloader by 'fixboot'

 

p.s. you should disconnet the pata while you boot u yr sata

gd luck!

[kpeksen]

i can install leopard to usb hdd but i can't manage to boot from it when i select boot from usb hdd darwin bootloader starts it starts loading but after that it restarts. If I copy this partition to a sata disk on my system do I have a chance to boot from it???

 

P.S. I tried same method to my friends DELL XPS 1710 and it booted...

[muitommy]

i can install leopard to usb hdd but i can't manage to boot from it when i select boot from usb hdd darwin bootloader starts it starts loading but after that it restarts. If I copy this partition to a sata disk on my system do I have a chance to boot from it???

 

P.S. I tried same method to my friends DELL XPS 1710 and it booted...

 

you could use a fix boot or just use chain0/tboot to locate the drive.

 

in fact, i encounter some error when i try to bless the partitions in leopard...

muitommys-acpi:~ Tommy$ sudo -s
bash-3.2# bless -device /dev/disk2s1 -setBoot -verbose
EFI found at IODeviceTree:/efi
Other partition scheme detected
No auxiliary booter partition required
Returning booter information dictionary:
<CFDictionary 0x10a1f0 [0xa00811a0]>{type = mutable, count = 3, capacity = 3, pairs = (
0 : <CFString 0x18e00 [0xa00811a0]>{contents = "Auxiliary Partitions"} = <CFArray 0x1044d0 [0xa00811a0]>{type = immutable, count = 0, values = (
)}
2 : <CFString 0x18df0 [0xa00811a0]>{contents = "Data Partitions"} = <CFArray 0x10a6b0 [0xa00811a0]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
0 : <CFString 0x10a260 [0xa00811a0]>{contents = "disk2s1"}
)}
3 : <CFString 0x18e10 [0xa00811a0]>{contents = "System Partitions"} = <CFArray 0x1096c0 [0xa00811a0]>{type = immutable, count = 0, values = (
)}
)}
IOMedia disk2s1 does not have a partition UUID
DADiskRef disk2s1 has Volume UUID 4A3BED44-39F8-3C49-A4FE-C2C62D69F78A
IOMedia disk2s1 has path IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/SAT0@E/SEC0@1/@0:1
Could not find IODeviceTree:/options
bash-3.2#

 

anyone has clues?

 

so after all, i use tboot to boot up my system.

[Stupidicus]

I got the same thing, I think I need to edit my nforceata's info.plist to only have my sata and pata devids, haven't done that yet.

 

 

you could use a fix boot or just use chain0/tboot to locate the drive.

 

in fact, i encounter some error when i try to bless the partitions in leopard...

muitommys-acpi:~ Tommy$ sudo -s
bash-3.2# bless -device /dev/disk2s1 -setBoot -verbose
EFI found at IODeviceTree:/efi
Other partition scheme detected
No auxiliary booter partition required
Returning booter information dictionary:
<CFDictionary 0x10a1f0 [0xa00811a0]>{type = mutable, count = 3, capacity = 3, pairs = (
 0 : <CFString 0x18e00 [0xa00811a0]>{contents = "Auxiliary Partitions"} = <CFArray 0x1044d0 [0xa00811a0]>{type = immutable, count = 0, values = (
)}
 2 : <CFString 0x18df0 [0xa00811a0]>{contents = "Data Partitions"} = <CFArray 0x10a6b0 [0xa00811a0]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
 0 : <CFString 0x10a260 [0xa00811a0]>{contents = "disk2s1"}
)}
 3 : <CFString 0x18e10 [0xa00811a0]>{contents = "System Partitions"} = <CFArray 0x1096c0 [0xa00811a0]>{type = immutable, count = 0, values = (
)}
)}
IOMedia disk2s1 does not have a partition UUID
DADiskRef disk2s1 has Volume UUID 4A3BED44-39F8-3C49-A4FE-C2C62D69F78A
IOMedia disk2s1 has path IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/SAT0@E/SEC0@1/@0:1
Could not find IODeviceTree:/options
bash-3.2#

 

anyone has clues?

 

so after all, i use tboot to boot up my system.

[ashizle]

Thanks to all who help me install 10.5, works great, very please and worth the 40 + hour till i got it working.

one problem. when i applied the golden patch i got rid of my vid drive with was workin perfectly X1900

How can i remove the other and install the right one again thanks.

[bluraven]

Yay, my system is 100% complete! So after I got the bootloader on there, I installed ToH, did the golden patch to get the dual cores, setup NVinject for my graphics, MeDevil's sata kext, and got a RTL8139 based NIC (which works without any patches/kexts, natively) I think I can finally say it's done Now I'm just thinking about either putting XP on another drive and or seeing if I can setup parallels on it and how well that runs. Thanks for everyones help

[JollyRogers]

Hey guys, now I see that SATA is a possibility I am giving this another shot.

 

I got it to install via pata, and I can get it to boot, but it gets to a part where it says it doesn't recognize my keyboard and does the push button next to shift key thing, then goes to the migrate from prior mac install(I select no prior install) and then it does some stuff and right back to the keyboard thing.

 

I am using a usb keyboard and usb mouse. I am assuming it is doing this because of my keyboard. Is there an easy fix for this or should I go out and buy a mac keyboard (will that work with windows?)? I have looked around and found a "fix" for p/s2 keyboard but am not sure if that is what I need since this is a usb keyboard. Any suggestions?

 

Once I get past that and the rest of "The GUIDE", I will install the sata fix, add the new drive and set it up and then carbon copy my install over. Pull my ide drive, and hopefully get it to boot. If successful then I can add my other sata drives with vista and ubuntu and update grub to triple boot the system.

 

MUITOMMY, a detailed howto would be great... like where to get files or links etc, I saw medevil's sata fix requires me to pm him I think to get that...

 

I don't think I will have any other problems other then I use wireless. I was thinking of just buying a wireless usb that is mac compatible and using that and pulling my pci card (I have 2 available, an atheros and a linksys).

 

sys specs:

E6600

P5N32E-SLI

8800 GTS 640mb

2xSATA 400G 1 for UBUNTU, 1 for VISTA

Lousy PATA drive with OSX86 kinda installed

PATA DVD-RW x2

Atheros 2320 PCI wireless

[muitommy]

Thanks to all who help me install 10.5, works great, very please and worth the 40 + hour till i got it working.

one problem. when i applied the golden patch i got rid of my vid drive with was workin perfectly X1900

How can i remove the other and install the right one again thanks.

i don't quite understand, could you make it clear?

 

 

Yay, my system is 100% complete! So after I got the bootloader on there, I installed ToH, did the golden patch to get the dual cores, setup NVinject for my graphics, MeDevil's sata kext, and got a RTL8139 based NIC (which works without any patches/kexts, natively) I think I can finally say it's done Now I'm just thinking about either putting XP on another drive and or seeing if I can setup parallels on it and how well that runs. Thanks for everyones help

you are lucky, dude.

by the way, how you boot your sata partition?

 

Hey guys, now I see that SATA is a possibility I am giving this another shot.

 

I got it to install via pata, and I can get it to boot, but it gets to a part where it says it doesn't recognize my keyboard and does the push button next to shift key thing, then goes to the migrate from prior mac install(I select no prior install) and then it does some stuff and right back to the keyboard thing.

 

I am using a usb keyboard and usb mouse. I am assuming it is doing this because of my keyboard. Is there an easy fix for this or should I go out and buy a mac keyboard (will that work with windows?)? I have looked around and found a "fix" for p/s2 keyboard but am not sure if that is what I need since this is a usb keyboard. Any suggestions?

 

Once I get past that and the rest of "The GUIDE", I will install the sata fix, add the new drive and set it up and then carbon copy my install over. Pull my ide drive, and hopefully get it to boot. If successful then I can add my other sata drives with vista and ubuntu and update grub to triple boot the system.

 

MUITOMMY, a detailed howto would be great... like where to get files or links etc, I saw medevil's sata fix requires me to pm him I think to get that...

 

I don't think I will have any other problems other then I use wireless. I was thinking of just buying a wireless usb that is mac compatible and using that and pulling my pci card (I have 2 available, an atheros and a linksys).

...

 

you may try the pcgenehci.kext (search in forum) , but i didn't hear anyone hv issues with their usb keyboard/mouse before, and i don't have either, i might not help you in this scope.

 

what do mean medevil sata's fix, you could simply use the attached file from that thread, it's the newest.

and i had written some simple instructions in the earlier post, see if that helps you.

i would make a detailed if i have time, just quite busy these day.

 

 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

@some progress...

 

GLQuartz do not work;

speedstep do not work.

[JollyRogers]

This is quoted from another thread. I did not renable my onboard LAN ports before rebooting into OSX and maybe that is the issue???

 

"I managed to get leopard to boot into the OS using the "-x" option at startup but after i setup my keyboard and it asks about the migration agent, it hangs for a short time and then loops back to the initial setup screen.

 

I can't seem to get past it, does anyone have an answer?

 

Simple. Or at least this was the fix for me:

 

Leopard doesn't have your ethernet/airport kexts loaded. The next step in the welcome screen is network setup. Leopard tries to find your hardware, fails and restarts.

 

Fix: boot into either a dvd terminal, or if you can, -s, and add your ethernet kext. problem solved"

 

So possibly just enable my onboard LAN and it should work? or because it was disabled during install, I may have to figure out ethernet.kext issues?

[ashizle]

The main problem i am having is that my ati x1900 gt in not install properly. how do is to install it properly and get Quartz Extreme to work. All the posts i see are for x1x00 but dont work on the x1900.

 

sorry for spelling

specs

mobo; xfx 680i

cpu: q6600

vid card; ati X1900 gt

mem; i gig kingston 8500 ddr2

case; antec 900 - hot stuff

hds: 2x 320 gig Wester digital wd3200j sata

320 gig sagate st33206 sata

5000 gig western digital wd5000ajk ide

[Stupidicus]

Muitommy:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=573399

[JollyRogers]

ok that WAS the problem. You have to enable the onboard LAN so that OSX can get to the network setup. I am now in OSX on my P5N32-E SLI MB. Now to get everything else working...

[mikethewolf]

Hey all

 

I'm having some success with this

 

I'm installing ToH RC2, following 'THE GUIDE'

 

Machine

XFX 680i LT SLI

8800GT 512Mb

 

I got everything to work except CI/QE, when I'd put NVDAResman.kext into extensions I'd get a kernel panic

 

I've tried 3 different files - all kernel panic

- NVDAResman.kext from the ToH DVD (with device ID & cpuid)

- NVDAResman.kext from the 10.5.1 update package (with device ID & cpuid)

- installing 10.5.2 NVkexts

 

I'd love to get this up and going, I'm sure its possible.

 

PS: my NIC, a Dlink DFE-538tx is not recognized either.. any suggestions?

[LZeppelinJ0]

Mike were you able to install direct to SATA w/ ToH RC2 or did you have to use the PATA to SATA cloning work-around?