terenziodecimomeridio Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Hi, I'm new to the forum and, more important, I'm really NOOB with mac... anyway I finally made it...I got Leopard running on my Pc after install first Tiger...now I have i couple of problems/questions...don't kill me if somebody already made these questions but i swear i looked around but didn't find SIMPLE answers. My Configuration: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ M/B Asus A8N-VM 2Gb Ram MSI Nvidia 7600GT 256Gb SOUNDMAX Integrated Digital Hd audio (onboard) Ethernet Nvidia Nforce Networking Controller (onboard) OptiArc DVD-RW AD-5170A Samsung 400Gb HD LG M1917TM Monitor Now everything in leopard seems to work great exept: My Hard Disk is seen only for 128Gb when it actually is a 400 Gb Hd (This because I had to install Tiger first that saw it as a 128gb hd) The grafic card is seen as a 7600gt card but with 768mb ram ...and I don't know how to enable quartz extreme.. The audio and ethernet cards aren't even seen... Now if someone VERY patient would be so nice to explain me, in a VERY simple way, how to get these things work I would really appreciate it...and maybe I could start understanding something more...and be a little less noob... Thanks to anyone who answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainLoknar Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Welcome Teren, Try Applications/Utilities/ Disk Utility to see your Disk(s) in a friendly interface. Hopefully you will be able to create another partition from the empty space. As for the graphic card, I don't think your card will be able to support QE (yet) but check the Hardware/Driver forum! MacBooks have series 8 cards so I think there is no OSX driver for your card. You have to know if your card is AGP or PCIe - the drivers are different. You (we) need to know exactly what is your audio and ethernet hardware. Look up your motherboard model / open your PC - get dirty! All I needed for my laptop was to find the appropriate IONetworkFamily.kext and install Azalia audio drivers (see also: Apple HDA http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry560580 ). Let me know if you need more info about Disk Utility. Other subjects belong to the hardware section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terenziodecimomeridio Posted January 14, 2008 Author Share Posted January 14, 2008 THANKS for the quick reply and for not killing me for the noob questions... Try Applications/Utilities/ Disk Utility to see your Disk(s) in a friendly interface. Hopefully you will be able to create another partition from the empty space. I tried to use disk utility but it doesn't see any free space...When I booted Tiger install dvd I could only see the hd as 128gb...if I boot first with the leopard dvd I could see it as 400gb hd but I need the tiger bootload so I had to install first tiger then leopard. I also tried to make a 128 gb partition first with the leopard (and left the rest as free space) dvd but when I tried to install tiger it gave me back a software error... As for the graphic card, I don't think your card will be able to support QE (yet) but check the Hardware/Driver forum! MacBooks have series 8 cards so I think there is no OSX driver for your card. You have to know if your card is AGP or PCIe - the drivers are different. My graphic card is PCIe...I tried to install natit drivers but I still can't see it for it 256MB of ram instead of 768mb...and the QE will not work... Is there a way to uninstall these drivers?? or any other ones so I can make a clean install!! You (we) need to know exactly what is your audio and ethernet hardware. Look up your motherboard model / open your PC - get dirty! All I needed for my laptop was to find the appropriate IONetworkFamily.kext and install Azalia audio drivers (see also: Apple HDA http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry560580 ). You're right!!! I opened up my pc and found out that the ethernet hardware is: Nvidia nForce 430 built-in Gigabit MAC with external Marvell 88E1111 PHY supports. and my audio hardware is: SoundMAX ADI AD1986A 5.1 channel soundcard Thanks again!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 This should have been posted in the category Post-Installation Discussion: OSx86 10.5 (Leopard). There you're more likely to receive effective help. Moved. :censored2: About your problem, when you open Disk Utility and select the main branch of your HDD (not a partition within it), does it say it's 400GB? Also do you have another other OSs installed such as Windows? Finally if it's doable then consider backing everything up and starting from scratch and formatting the entire HDD or partition it as you will. Maybe that way you will get the missing space back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainLoknar Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Thanks Mebster for moving the topic. Like he said, try to play with Disk Utility and let us know... Don't worry about uninstalling drivers..if they do not support your hardware, the kernel will load other drivers. I've got a fresh 10.5.1 DVD here and I guess I'll try it before saying anything else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawley Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 First, you don't need to start everything from scratch. Go to BIOS, find SATA CONFIGURATION (it should be on the first loaded page) and switch SATA mode from IDE to AHCI and your hdd should be recognized correctly. I had the same problem with tiger, and that solved it. Regarding natit, try natit dual 0.2 from this page: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...p;hl=natit+dual Install it with the guide from the same page and you should get resolution change, qe/ci and dual display. I have the same soundmax and it works with this attached installer AzaliaAudio.pkg.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainLoknar Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 on many laptops this option isn't available in the bios.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 7600GT should be fully supported. What install option did you use? natit worked for me, or NVinject... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terenziodecimomeridio Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 First, you don't need to start everything from scratch. Go to BIOS, find SATA CONFIGURATION (it should be on the first loaded page) and switch SATA mode from IDE to AHCI and your hdd should be recognized correctly. I had the same problem with tiger, and that solved it. Even if in the System Profiler I still don't see any sound card I've got sound!! Thanks! Regarding natit, try natit dual 0.2 from this page:http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...p;hl=natit+dual Install it with the guide from the same page and you should get resolution change, qe/ci and dual display. I got natit kext installed correctly but without ci/qe enabled...is there anyone who would gently explain to me, in VERY simple words, how to get ci/qe enabled on my Leopard? p.s. I already tried nvinject too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terenziodecimomeridio Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 I got natit kext installed correctly but without ci/qe enabled...is there anyone who would gently explain to me, in VERY simple words, how to get ci/qe enabled on my Leopard? p.s. I already tried nvinject too!!! I got FINALLY CI/QE enabled on my Nvidia Geforce 7600 GT 256 Ram Video card....I copied Nvidia Kext picked up from a TOH AMD patch found in internet, enabled the permissions for the files and reebooted...now i've got 1280x1024 res ci ad qe enabled... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainLoknar Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I got FINALLY CI/QE enabled on my Nvidia Geforce 7600 GT 256 Ram Video card....I copied Nvidia Kext picked up from a TOH AMD patch found in internet, enabled the permissions for the files and reebooted...now i've got 1280x1024 res ci ad qe enabled... how did you make your HDD/Controller functionnal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terenziodecimomeridio Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 how did you make your HDD/Controller functionnal? If you mean sata hd controller, it works natively.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahwahman89 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 As far as I know, laptop BIOS defaults to AHCI... Nevermind. As for QE/CI, research NVInject on Google (there's a good guide there as well). Install it. Then research some more for the 7600 (I'm 100% sure its supported, but kill me I can't remember where I saw drivers for it). Hope that helps at least an ikkle bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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