650 and 680i chipset thread...

[solotitan]

Thanks for linking the wallpaper JaE-V and I'm glad I could share my 680i findings with all of you. JaE-V, you are also doing a very good job answering questions on this thread. thanx Solotitan

[craigolio]

Something that is not clear to me is whether any of the successful Leo installations (or Tiger installations) are being installed onto an SATA drive in the systems with the 680i chipset.

 

I tried installing Tiger from my Jas 10.4.8 w/ ppf1&ppf2 DVD, but even just trying to boot that install dvd fails in a kernel panic. I am downloading the Uphuck 10.4.9 1.4i R3 DVD now, hoping that it can install from a sata dvd drive onto a sata hard drive. Once that works, I'll try to tackle Leo!

 

I could borrow a pata dvd drive it that is the only thing keeping me from where I want to be.

 

Please help!

 

Thank you,

 

Craiglio

[solotitan]

I'm sorry, but I have never been able to install to SATA. This is were the 680i is crippled at the moment. Sata support on the installation DVD's just isn't sufficient enough at the moment to support writing to the drives (this is in my experience only, if it has been successful on the 680i, please enlighten me.) The only way I can get my the SATA drives to work on a working IDE install, is to install ntfs-3g support and with that done, it's still really buggy. But hopfully if enough 680i users come out of the woodwork and work together we can get something done about this. Thank you, Solotitan.

[chrijj]

neither did I, i ve only been able to install it on an IDE drive. my dvd drive is now installed on an Ultra 100tx promise pci card, still not workin under leopard.

 

now iwork does work for me, maybe it didnt work properly without graphic drivers installed.

i dont know if toast titanium doesnt work because it cant find my dvd drive.

 

Today i ve updated my asus striker extreme to 1305 version, and i m unable to disable a core under Bios setup, or i cant find where, i dont know if virtualization cpu or somthing like that has anything to do, it says its a vanderpool enhacment????

i can dsable hpet, but i cant tell if it is good or bad.

[JaE-V]

How do I do this? Sorry, but I'm new to Macs. I've used Macroshaft OS's for as long as I can remember.Thanks for all your help!

There isnt an upgrade option, u kinda just do it lol....just choose the drive its installed on, unselect everything but essentials and install over it

at first i did install leopard over a clean 10 4 8 tiger installation, i installed tiger with -x -v removed nvdaresman, and then installed nvidia drivers and sound drivers and nforceata drivers, but when i tried to install leo, it did install but i couldn boot to leopard, it hung at a blue desktop screen just before it asks to fill in your data, so i tried it again over 10 4 9.i do think my performance is not as good as i wish, dont know if it is because i dont have core duo or because im over an 10 4 9 upgrade.ive spent a week installing and uninstalling leopards and tigers, maybe ill try again and install over 10 4 8 to see if my performance improves.i can-t get to run iwork 08 nor toast titanium does, any advices?what about 10. 5 .1 upgrade?thanks all again

Are you "PostPatching" your install? Also, after you upgrade your previous installation to leo are you booting with -x -v? Also dont load any kexts or install anything til you get leopard running...that could be causing conflicts. all those apps you posted work for me...and as of right now, no on the upgrade ill notify if a tutorial pops up

Thanks for linking the wallpaper JaE-V and I'm glad I could share my 680i findings with all of you. JaE-V, you are also doing a very good job answering questions on this thread. thanx Solotitan

Something that is not clear to me is whether any of the successful Leo installations (or Tiger installations) are being installed onto an SATA drive in the systems with the 680i chipset.I tried installing Tiger from my Jas 10.4.8 w/ ppf1&ppf2 DVD, but even just trying to boot that install dvd fails in a kernel panic. I am downloading the Uphuck 10.4.9 1.4i R3 DVD now, hoping that it can install from a sata dvd drive onto a sata hard drive. Once that works, I'll try to tackle Leo!I could borrow a pata dvd drive it that is the only thing keeping me from where I want to be. Please help!Thank you, Craiglio

Not possible as of yet, we're all using ide's....i can read sata ntfs partitions well, just no write ability. I also played around with hfs formatting one of my sata drives to see if i could write to it and my system wouldnt even boot with it connected so osx doesnt like our chipsets in that matter...and yes ntfs-3g is super buggy

neither did I, i ve only been able to install it on an IDE drive. my dvd drive is now installed on an Ultra 100tx promise pci card, still not workin under leopard.now iwork does work for me, maybe it didnt work properly without graphic drivers installed.i dont know if toast titanium doesnt work because it cant find my dvd drive.Today i ve updated my asus striker extreme to 1305 version, and i m unable to disable a core under Bios setup, or i cant find where, i dont know if virtualization cpu or somthing like that has anything to do, it says its a vanderpool enhacment???? i can dsable hpet, but i cant tell if it is good or bad.

yea i read on your bios, and you dont have the option....thats weird so you'll have to use the boot flag cpus=1

[chrijj]

Are you "PostPatching" your install? Also, after you upgrade your previous installation to leo are you booting with -x -v? Also dont load any kexts or install anything til you get leopard running...that could be causing conflicts. all those apps you posted work for me...and as of right now, no on the upgrade ill notify if a tutorial pops up

 

 

my previous install of leo was boot with -x -v flags and i couldn go further than desktop blue screen, but maybe is what you said kext making conflicts. im going to run xbench and try to post a screenshot, now apps work for me too, maybe it was an issue with my messed graphic drivers installation, lot of troubles there.

 

also y didnt postpatch any of my installation, neither did i with the actual leopard, i thought postpatching was necessary for those who cant boot because a darwin didnt find which drive to boot from.

 

THANKS again youre doing a great job here

 

Ps here is the picture, i do think my ide drive is slowing my system, its an old 80 gb seagate, i thought it was going to be a little faster than that.

[JaE-V]

my previous install of leo was boot with -x -v flags and i couldn go further than desktop blue screen, but maybe is what you said kext making conflicts. im going to run xbench and try to post a screenshot, now apps work for me too, maybe it was an issue with my messed graphic drivers installation, lot of troubles there.also y didnt postpatch any of my installation, neither did i with the actual leopard, i thought postpatching was necessary for those who cant boot because a darwin didnt find which drive to boot from.THANKS again youre doing a great job here

lol so your actually running now without the postpatch?yea when i xbench my system, i unselect the hard-drive part ide's are slugs

[chrijj]

lol so your actually running now without the postpatch?yea when i xbench my system, i unselect the hard-drive part ide's are slugs

 

yes, thats right i didnt need to install the postpatch to boot to leopard, it did go straight i did install leo over tiger on a single disk with a single partition.

[JaE-V]

yes, thats right i didnt need to install the postpatch to boot to leopard, it did go straight i did install leo over tiger on a single disk with a single partition.

 

haha wow

[Objection]

I didn't postpatch mine either... I wonder if I would get my second core to come up if I did...

[JaE-V]

I didn't postpatch mine either... I wonder if I would get my second core to come up if I did...

 

lol wow

[andyph666]

so I tried to install jas, mactub, uphuck and none of them work, I get hte multilanguage kernel panic. Ive taken out the sata drives, disabled the other 3 cores in the evga 680i bios, and I have ide hdd and cd drive. But surprisingly the tubgirl version worked without me doing anything but I got stuck at the keyboard screen. So now im reinstalling the jas and doing what everyone else is doing: deleting the nvres kext file. I'm thinking this is the only thing left

[sinewave]

I followed the instructions provided by "itsalok4u" and actually managed to get Leopard installed using the ToH disk. This is a fresh install, no Tiger.

 

My motherboard is an eVGA 680i 122-CK-NF68 A1 with Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU and an 8800 GTX. I disabled a core in BIOS and have used the following flags for boot-up: cpu=0 idlehalt=0 platform=X86PC -v -x. I'm installing on a 20GB IDE drive attached to the same chain as my DVD drive. I have Vista on a SATA drive. I also installed the boot patches from nateleav76's script, per itsalok4u. Additionally, I rm'ed the files NVA* and Geoforce* files in /System/Library/Extensions.

 

The install went fine, but I'm getting kernel panics when I try to boot off my disk (again, using the flags above). Screen shot of panic attached. Any ideas?

[.NetRolller 3D]

MSI P6N SLI-FI Clean install using ToH RC2 (with nVidia GeForce series VGA)

 

The guide has moved! You can find it here.

[JaE-V]

I followed the instructions provided by "itsalok4u" and actually managed to get Leopard installed using the ToH disk. This is a fresh install, no Tiger.

 

My motherboard is an eVGA 680i 122-CK-NF68 A1 with Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU and an 8800 GTX. I disabled a core in BIOS and have used the following flags for boot-up: cpu=0 idlehalt=0 platform=X86PC -v -x. I'm installing on a 20GB IDE drive attached to the same chain as my DVD drive. I have Vista on a SATA drive. I also installed the boot patches from nateleav76's script, per itsalok4u. Additionally, I rm'ed the files NVA* and Geoforce* files in /System/Library/Extensions.

 

The install went fine, but I'm getting kernel panics when I try to boot off my disk (again, using the flags above). Screen shot of panic attached. Any ideas?

 

dont know exactly what it is but your problem lies within the postpatch....i'd say use brasilmac's since thats what everyone here has had success with...your ACPIPlatform.kext is whats causing the panic, it just needs to be replaced with the proper one.

[itsalok4u]

I followed the instructions provided by "itsalok4u" and actually managed to get Leopard installed using the ToH disk. This is a fresh install, no Tiger.

 

My motherboard is an eVGA 680i 122-CK-NF68 A1 with Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU and an 8800 GTX. I disabled a core in BIOS and have used the following flags for boot-up: cpu=0 idlehalt=0 platform=X86PC -v -x. I'm installing on a 20GB IDE drive attached to the same chain as my DVD drive. I have Vista on a SATA drive. I also installed the boot patches from nateleav76's script, per itsalok4u. Additionally, I rm'ed the files NVA* and Geoforce* files in /System/Library/Extensions.

 

The install went fine, but I'm getting kernel panics when I try to boot off my disk (again, using the flags above). Screen shot of panic attached. Any ideas?

 

 

You don't need to remove any NVA* or Geoforce* files if you are doing fresh install. Our configuaration is exactly same other than the CPU. (I have q6800). With the instructions I posted I have successfully installed and booted Leopard 4 times on my system and 2 times on my friends system. Try to remove kext causing the kernel panic and see if you can boot in to leopard or not. Make sure you either have generic PCI or USB card attached. If not try, reinstallation without removing any NV* or Geoforce* files. For me everything is working other than the performance while copying or moving huge data of the IDE hard disk(OS) is very slow.

[Objection]

Let me say... if you don't need to postpatch to boot, don't. I attempted to postpatch and went back to my original problem of the system rebooting at the gray apple screen with no error message. Its what Brazilmac's DVD does for me, and what the flat image did. D:

 

Time to re-install...

[JaE-V]

Let me say... if you don't need to postpatch to boot, don't. I attempted to postpatch and went back to my original problem of the system rebooting at the gray apple screen with no error message. Its what Brazilmac's DVD does for me, and what the flat image did. D:

 

Time to re-install...

 

screwed my installation too

dropped my hard drive on the floor now it wont boot anymore piece of lol

[andyph666]

Jae-V, anyways I got leopard running now. But for some reason the onboard audio doesn't work. Did you do anything to make the evga 680i A1 onboard function? And for anyone else here does anyone know why the macnubs geforce 8800 detects the 8800 ultra but does not provide QE/CI? Thanks.

[chrijj]

mine leopard was running fine, although on core solo, i`ve striker extreme, e6600 and 8800gtx xfx. i-ve overclkocked to 3.0 and get alomst the same k panic that sinewave does,i´ll try to post a screenshot, i managed to boot with -f, everything runs fine now still core solo.

 

is there any problem to boot with -f flag¿? ive run xbench and it doesnt affect my performance.

 

thanks

[sinewave]

".NetRolller 3D", for line 20., the key I found in /System/Library/Extensions/backup/NVDAResman.kext/Contents/info.plist was "IOPCIPrimaryMatch", not "IOPCIMatch". Also, running Marvin's AMD Utility with your revised instructions fails and the log says:

 

***********************************************************************
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* Marvin's AMD Utility v.25 - 2007.11.18  10:03:48
********************************************************************************
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* Input arguments:
*     target_dir="/System/Library/Extensions/backup"
*     dmount="/"
*     cat="leopard"
*     do_patch_all="yes"
*     simulation_mode="no"
*     undo="no"
********************************************************************************
*****************************
Searching for binaries in: /System/Library/Extensions/backup/NVDAResman.kext
***   err003 - No candidate files found in binary filelist
2007-11-18 10:03:51.386 open[182:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

[.NetRolller 3D]

The guide was updated heavily, with a new workaround for the -legacy (and possibly the cpus=1) requirement, working CPUID patching step and updated IOPCIMatch/IOPCIPrimaryMatch strings. Also, somebody please test if simply appending the video card devID works as well!

 

@sinewave: Your panic was caused by incorrect boot parameters (missing -legacy, cpu=0 should be cpus=1). You can either add these params to your boot.plist or update to ToH's 9.1.0 kernel.

 

Other news: updated drivers needed! We need a new ALC888 hack which uses Leopard kexts and supports the 5-ports+optical+coaxial configuration (coaxial is actually there on P6N SLI-FI, not just Platinum, just it isn't soldered onto the board. Soldering an RCA socket to the empty solder points should allow you to use it.) A LAN driver and a working SATA implementation would be good as well. (Related question: I know that SATA doesn't work. However, is it safe to connect a SATA HDD to the motherboard, or does it cause data corruption? I don't want to test it myself and learn it the hard way...)

[JaE-V]

Jae-V, anyways I got leopard running now. But for some reason the onboard audio doesn't work. Did you do anything to make the evga 680i A1 onboard function? And for anyone else here does anyone know why the macnubs geforce 8800 detects the 8800 ultra but does not provide QE/CI? Thanks.

 

azailla audio pkg should get your audio working....not sure if that card is supported or not

[sinewave]

..Running Marvin's AMD Utility with your revised instructions fails and the log says:

 

Searching for binaries in: /System/Library/Extensions/backup/NVDAResman.kext

*** err003 - No candidate files found in binary filelist

2007-11-18 10:03:51.386 open[182:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

 

Fixed this (thanks NetRolller 3D) by installing a fresh /System/Library/Extensions/backup/NVDAResman.kext from the ToH DVD, changing the IOPCIPrimaryMatch again and then re-running Marvin's Utility. I'm now running at native 1920x1200. However, I notice that System Profiler now crashes. I'll look through the logs for that one.

 

For what it's worth to anyone, using the cpus=1 in boot.plist allows me to enable the second core in BIOS, so it's one less step to do when moving back to Vista.

[.NetRolller 3D]

Could you try installing the 9.1.0 kernel? (It's on IRC, not sure if I am allowed to post here.) Instructions for installation and testing: unzip kernel, copy mach_toh to your root directory, run the command "sudo -s; chown -R 0:0 mach_toh; chmod -R 755 mach_toh" from terminal, then reboot with the parameters "mach_toh cpus=2". I can't test because my CPU is a Celeron 440, which is single-core (recognized as "2 GHz Core Solo" with the 9.1.0 kernel, and as "2 GHz Unknown" with the 9.0.0 one).

 

Edit: When updating to 10.5.1 on this board, it goes mostly like other ToH-without-EFI installs, except for the following:

1. Use the standalone installer with Pacifist, NOT Software Update. Using SU will not cause the problem, just it won't update. Using the standalone with Installer.app will refuse to install.

2. Don't forget to back up GeForce.kext and NVDAResman.kext before install, and restore them after installation, otherwise you will get a panic! (You will also need to re-add your device ID to NVDANV40HAL.kext.) I learnt this the hard way!