mkayz Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 anyone tried the iATOKS i1.0r3 + bad bios patch on a asus laptop? it says it will solve the freeze at the buffers count (10495), which in my experience was caused by ACPIPlaltform.kext thus forcing us to use a single core. Well that is how i got around it anyway, not sure how you guys did it, any thoughts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-646979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
easycome24 Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 has anyone who got a w7s able to power off there computers with out holding on the poweer butten? thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-646992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidass Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 mine laptop is identified as mac pro too, but battery meter works for me(I've used first post's guide to extract kexts from extensions.mkext (tiger 4.8)) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-647015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjduro Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 don't work for me you can also try this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry607234 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-647047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaholics Posted February 28, 2008 Author Share Posted February 28, 2008 anyone tried the iATOKS i1.0r3 + bad bios patch on a asus laptop? it says it will solve the freeze at the buffers count (10495), which in my experience was caused by ACPIPlaltform.kext thus forcing us to use a single core. Well that is how i got around it anyway, not sure how you guys did it, any thoughts? so does this actually let you use 2 cores? which notebook are you using? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-647052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidass Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 and this is a candy for those, who want to make their camera work: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webcam-....1.dmg?download (works for me) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-647070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QMax Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webcam-....1.dmg?download (works for me) Can you please post your camera VID and PID as appear in Windows ? Thanks, Max Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-647653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaholics Posted February 29, 2008 Author Share Posted February 29, 2008 it's macam... unfortunately it does not work for me, but I can use macam for another cheap webcam I got off ebay lol... focus kinda sucks (manually twisting the thing lol) but the color and clarity are good! (especially since i paid $13 for it) I got both cores running! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-648194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
python1564 Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 you can also try this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry607234 Thanks jjduro it worked! hmm... now im getting 10 minute battery life... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-648327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaholics Posted February 29, 2008 Author Share Posted February 29, 2008 Hey guys, I noticed something strange. Because my built in webcam is USB, I use Windows XP in VMWare to run MSN, and connect the USB webcam (not usable by OS X because no drivers) to it. I know, a hefty 512MB dedicated to MSN and IE... but sometimes OS X will not see the built in webcam connected so it won't let VMWare use it.. Other times I can see it in system profiler and am able to connect it to vmware. anyone know why? Thanks! Ant Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-648431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
easycome24 Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 it's macam... unfortunately it does not work for me, but I can use macam for another cheap webcam I got off ebay lol... focus kinda sucks (manually twisting the thing lol) but the color and clarity are good! (especially since i paid $13 for it) I got both cores running! i cant get to irc from here so coule you please help me ask him for a Modified BIOS for w7s that would run both cores? thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-648690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidass Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 i cant get to irc from here so coule you please help me ask him for a Modified BIOS for w7s that would run both cores? thanks! just write you request with link to bios in that thread Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-648816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidass Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 you know what? I get better battery life on leo than on windows with all those power4 gear. I get abot 2:30h, while on windows just 1:40 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-648852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiwi Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 "I noticed also when i am under MAC OSX the HD make son strange noise, i' had the same noise under ubuntu and it's was the cycle_load_problem, is this problem knew under mac ?? I'm also encountering this strange 'tick' under both Linux and OSX on my F3SV. On another note, I finally have been able to get network connectivity! I found an old USB network card based on the Pegasus chipset and it works without any problems or stability issues biggrin.gif" The tick noise can be solve by setting up manualy the hdd's apm with hdapm (search on google didn't remember), install it and type in a terminal hdapm diskX (X=Your disk) 192 The tick is normal, "your disk protects itself", but to many id bad for its lifetime.... Sorry for bad english i'm french ! Is the trick for "all core working" exists for an Asus A8Sc (Z99Sc) ??????? I'm on leo Kalyway, that's good ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-649018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaholics Posted February 29, 2008 Author Share Posted February 29, 2008 you know what? I get better battery life on leo than on windows with all those power4 gear. I get abot 2:30h, while on windows just 1:40 That is strange. I haven't drained my battery on Leopard yet but I'm sure it's reporting wrong with something like 2:20 or something while on Windows I clearly have 3 hours (I bought a 9 cell battery). Plus, Leopard doesn't have cpu throttling features, etc to save battery life =/ (well, not for us anyway) This is strange. I just realized that my battery meter is gone again. Is Leopard restoring a non-working version of powermanagement bundle? @all, If you want dual core BIOS fix, you must go to the thread in my signature and ask for your BIOS mod (and post him a link so he knows where to find your BIOS) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-649045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiwi Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 How can i mod a bios ? Oh for the hd apm, you can also set it to 255 (it desactivates the hd powermanagement-HD's APM), or "max", type man hdapm for info... level 192 is a good compromise between powersaving and this @}#{[@| tick noise... The tick noise is due to a bad configuration of the firmware of the hd, and a bad configuration of our mac os acpi, too agressive... hdapm link Antaholics i also encountred a systems hangs on grid view since i've updated Quicktime (for FCP), have you find a fix ? I encounter a kernel panic at shutdown (but never at restart) since i've installed the hda patch for ACL660 (Beta version), anyone have an idea...? Thanks all, that thread had save me many times ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-649047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidass Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 I wish it would be true )) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-649300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaholics Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 How can i mod a bios ? see my post above: @all, If you want dual core BIOS fix, you must go to the thread in my signature and ask for your BIOS mod (and post him a link so he knows where to find your BIOS) Antaholics i also encountred a systems hangs on grid view since i've updated Quicktime (for FCP), have you find a fix ? I just used the newest 10.5.2 graphics kexts (look around, I'm not sure where it is) I encounter a kernel panic at shutdown (but never at restart) since i've installed the hda patch for ACL660 (Beta version), anyone have an idea...? Thanks all, that thread had save me many times ! I got the same KP problem, not sure how to fix it. Anyone else have any ideas? I wish it would be true )) I think this is an issue with AppleACPIPlatform.kext With the 10.4.8 kexts my battery meter worked fine, but with the vanilla kext, apparently battery meter doesn't work at all. I tried the iATKOS (r1 I think) AppleACPIPlatform.kext and I got the same problem. 10 hours batter life! Anyone using Leopard AppleACPIPlatform kexts with the battery meter working? Ant Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-649554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
easycome24 Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 hey guys everytime i try to get my notebook to 9.2.0kernel i wont be able to have the usb device to mount but the usb works because my bloothtooth worked but if i plug a u-disk or something it wont show up does anyone know why? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-649982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidass Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 yep, I have same problem, it can't mount usb devices Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-650371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jermo Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Hey, Well I got the fixed BIOS and I can get into the install fine without doing cpus=1 but when I went to actually install the OS, It started copying files then about 2 minutes into the install an error message appeared saying something like "cannot copy files setup will now exit" that isn't really what it was but I don't remember exactly. Looking at the partition after showed that about 1GB had been used. Then I thought maybe it was because the partition was fat32 so I opened the installer up again and opened the disk manager and "erased" the disk to be formatted as as mac extended. After the "erase" operation was completed (not long) the drive wouldn't mount anymore and therefore I couldn't install onto it. I've tried numerous times all day with no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks! Update: I tried again with a fat32 partition because it seems that only fat32 and ntfs will mount in the installer and got the error again, so I took a picture. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-650807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaholics Posted March 2, 2008 Author Share Posted March 2, 2008 Jermo, As far as I can tell, you can't install OS X on a FAT32 partition. You must install it on a Mac OS X Extended case-sensitive (Journaled) partition or something similar. Can you tell us what laptop and what install DVD you are using? Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-650916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jermo Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Yeah I have an F3Sv and I'm using the kalyway leopard 10.5.1 install disk. Like I said the only thing that will mount is Fat32 and NTFS so when I try to install in Fat32 it copies about 1.3GB then gives that error. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-650922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaholics Posted March 2, 2008 Author Share Posted March 2, 2008 what happens when you mount the HFS+ partition? did you format it as mbr? What options did you pick for installation, and have you tried any other install DVDs? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-650924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jermo Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 I tried an old 10.4 disk ages ago but just used to get "still waiting for root device" at least I'm past that with these. I don't know how to get an HFS+ partition, or format it as mbr. I'm just using either paragon in windows or the disk manager with is quite limited from what I can see. the only filesystems I have in there are mac extended, case sensitive, journaled and none of those will mount after I "erase" them in the installer, it will mount again if I format as fat32. As for installation options I tried to pick the ones that seemed to make sense.. I don't remember all of them though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/70928-the-official-asus-f3-series-notebook-thread/page/17/#findComment-650927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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