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so.. i had it all working with kalyway 10.5.1 and dual booting with xp

 

i decided to update with kalyway 10.5.2 combo update... at first i thought it wouldn't boot so i did a -v on bootup it gives me this ntfs error...

NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk0s2): ntfs_pagein(): Failed (cluster_pagein)ext(). error 5)

NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk0s2): ntfs_page_map(): Failed Failed to read page (error 5)

if i leave it alone for a few minutes.. it'll eventually bootup...

 

anybody know whats wrong with it? would it have anything to do with Paragon NTFS installed?

 

Specs are

 

Q6600 on a DS3l

8800GT

ahci disabled

 

so does anybody know whats wrong? i didn't find anything on this forum about it...

luh3417
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I am aware of that thread that has that fix. I am not entirely sure it will do anything for AHCI, i am pretty sure it wont, like anibalin said. Be my guest. Test it out, i am sure it fixes other problems.. like possible if some Pata ports dont work.. but i dont think AHCI will be fixed.

mtotho, could you be specific about what you mean by "the AHCI problem". Are you talking about "the last 2 SATA ports don't work". Its your thread, but would it be more accurate to call this "The JMicron problem". For example, my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P has 6 SATA ports controlled by the ICH9 and 2 SATA ports controlled by the JMicron (which also controls the IDE). AFAIK the JMicron SATA and IDE both are useless (or maybe the JMicron SATA is only useless in AHCI mode, but then one could tell the BIOS to leave them in IDE mode and also to run the ICH9 SATA ports in AHCI mode). Conversely, all 6 ICH9 SATA ports work, in AHCI mode or in IDE mode (still talking about the SATA plugs). Many motherboards use the JMicron. Gigabyte uses purple plugs to distinguish the JMicron SATA ports. Each of these 2 chips that control motherboard SATA plugs gets its separate section in the BIOS. Even though the ICH9 supports 6 SATA ports, marketings contribution is, in order to create a product line with 6 or 12 or 18 nearly identical boards, some of the line will only install 2 or 4 actual ICH9-SATA plugs onto the board, plus 2 JMicron-SATA to add versatility (see my post above about the rain dance to get AHCI going on XP). My guess, and at this point its just a guess, is that a full JMicron driver is the only cure some day, and it might both fix the last 2 SATA ports and even solve some or all of the IDE problems, but that Apple never uses the JMicron chip and thus this is not their problem. Everyone just avoid the JMicron and everything it touches for now and they'll be fine, yes?

luh3417
luh3417
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Does anyone know if dual displays work? I am using the DS3L board and have an 8800gt

No reason for them not to work. Please read through the thread. They work for me. P35-DS3P 7300GT. You may need to go over to the video threads and look for answers there. That's where they told me about DisplayConfigX which I had to resort to because one of my displays is screwed up. That got me to dual 1920x1200 q241wb non-TN Muslim heaven. Also consider isolating that all your hardware is happy with all your displays by using another OS for a test first.

themonkey40
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Good Evening Everyone, well I am in my third week of using my hackintosh and have a decrease in the perfromance of the computer. Here are the specs:

 

Kalyway 10.5.1 Install

P35-GS3L motherboard

Nvidia 8600 256 mb video card

320 Gig Sata HD

3 gig 800 mhz ram

HP DVD 740 IDE Drive

 

When I first installed it benched at 121 (using xbench). I just ran it again and got a 91. It has been running slugish and taking a long time to load simple programs. It also hangs up while using the dock or open the hard drive and going to my applications folder. I have tried repairing the permissions while booted and was sucessful, and also tried from the Kalyway CD but got an error and it wouldn't let me.

 

I would love some suggestions on how I can improve the performance to bring my hackintosh back to life in all its glory.

Ziadantosh
Ziadantosh
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Ok guys I am facing a problem installing Hackintosh since purchased my GA-P35-DS3R Rev.1.0

I will put down my configuration first :

 

Gigabyte P35-DS3R Rev. 1.0

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66GHz

G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2 @ 800 + elixir 1x1GB @ 800

WD SATAII 250GB

PowerColor Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB PCI Express

Samsung IDE DVD-RW ( plugging it with IDE to USB converter)

PSU HEC400W

 

I had P965-DS3 and I was using Tiger 10.4.8 very good and all devices worked but now upgraded to this P35-DS3R since then facing the problem installing both Tiger & Leopard.

yesterday was my last attempt plugging an empty HD 60GB alone trying to install ToH leopard but failed with errors when trying to boot after a successful installation hereunder the snapshots of this error :

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I don't know what to do to get it works.. I tried every possible way..I had AHCI enables & disabled.. plugged the Hard disk to Orange & Purpple sata ports.. my earlier attempts were with my 250GB hard disk which has Windows XP & Vista under Acronis OS selector booter..

any ideas of what I can do?

Please I really need to get it work..

thanks in advance

 

 

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forgot to mention that after logging to Windows XP and plugging my eSata HD that had trying to Leopard on it was unallocated which is very strange.. it would appear as HSF+ partition or anything but not unallocated as if nothing happened to it.

blackduke
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dual boot question.

 

1hdd - xp

2hdd - leopard guid

 

2more hdd's

 

is it possible (in this phase), to make a boot screen, and not to go to bios each time to change boot harddrive.

I've tried the chain0 method, but unsuccesful. can you help guys?

 

thanks in advance... cheers

dci693
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dual boot question.

 

1hdd - xp

2hdd - leopard guid

 

2more hdd's

 

is it possible (in this phase), to make a boot screen, and not to go to bios each time to change boot harddrive.

I've tried the chain0 method, but unsuccesful. can you help guys?

 

thanks in advance... cheers

chain0 works great for me, but my Leopard is MBR. What happened when you tried chain0?
nbpc
nbpc
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I must be the only idiot that can't make this work...

 

Based on this guide, I bought the following

 

GA-P35-DS3L (F7 BIOS)

Q6600

Asus EN8500GT

OCZ 6400 (2 x 2GB)

WD 320 SATA

 

I already had a LG SATA Drive that worked on another Hackintosh (Gigabyte 945GZM-S2C).

I'm using Kalway 10.5.1 (two different downloads) on different DVD media.

 

I have followed this guide many, many times over three days and have always wound up with the same result.

 

I get through the Disk Uitlity, the Install process and the restart screen.

 

After the reboot, the Darwin/x86 boot comes up. A few more console lines flash (EFI something or another...) and then the PC reboots and reboots.

 

I swapped the video card for a BFG 7800GT.

I've removed one memory stick to avoid the 4GB issue.

 

I know the hardware is good because I can build out the setup way above in XP and let it run.

 

Ug!

 

Please help! I want in the club!

 

NBPC

Russell910
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very good thread. Answered almost all my problems with leopard.

 

btw, I am still having 1 issue that I cannot solved, it is about AHCI enable and I am using 4GB RAM

Please share knowledge & experience. Thanks a lot.

 

My system is:

MB ASUS P5KR (4 SATA, JMicron disabled in the BIOS)

Intel Q6600

4GB DDR2 800 (4x1GB)

SATA0 = 160GB for VISTA (partitioned 50gb & 110), ntfs

SATA1 = 160GB for Leopard (partitioned 60 & 100), mbr, mac os x journaled

SATA2 = 320GB for Vista Data, ntfs

SATA3 = DVD-RW Pioneer

VGA XFX GeForce 7900GS 256MB

USB Ralink wireless b/g

 

My first installation before I found this thread, I am using enhanced SATA

Installed using kaliway 10.5.1 and updated to 10.5.2 using kaliway combo update & kaliway kernel

all working normal and then I found the system sometime crash and need to restart. Google and found this forum... very huge forum and nobody answer my thread regarding my crash until I found this thread... just know that 4GB memory can cause kernel panic. Following all the instruction in here, I choose to enable AHCI in my bios and test it... WOW... everything is rock solid stable system...

I updated the orange icon using the file suggested in the first post. Excellent. Very big thanks to mtotho.

and for Vista, just update the registry so it can read AHCI.

 

the problem I like to ask is: with AHCI enabled, if I restart leopard, it just stuck and give me error "waiting for root device"

so I restart and change in BIOS to disable AHCI and back using Enhanced SATA, and leopard can boot and running normal again.

in the leopard, I must delete /System/Library/Extensions.mkext and restart, go into BIOS, Enable AHCI, and Leopard can boot again with AHCI.

How could this happen?

I have to manually delete extensions.mkext everytime I need to restart/shutdown my leopard just to make it work using AHCI enable... seems only me who has this problem.

 

when replacing AppleAHCIPort.kext and IOAHCIFamily.kext, I manually copy and paste into the Extensions folder, replace the original one.

I also trying doing it from Vista, copy and paste into leopard HD, but I am still have this problem.

 

Still figuring out why leopard cannot read AHCI if extensions.mkext still in the cache.....

 

Please help me on this.. thank you very much.

Lord Norr
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I was having problems with my SATA DVD drive. I seemed to fix that problem to create another,

I borrowed a DVD IDE drive from work and tried to intall. If I used 10.5.2 and let it boot up, within seconds a screen comes up telling me to restart.

If I use -v -x, just seems to panic out and turns off my computer.

10.5.1 gets me into the installer to a point, but soon as i click next and accept, it comes up with a log I can choose to save, telling me again to restart.

Any solutions?

The problems this time around seem completely different. And all I did was change the DVD drive to IDE. Im at my wits end :)

mtotho
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@spiderman. I only overclocked my quad core.. but dude to their being no appopriate ratio option for 1333 fsb, the ram is clocked at 835 mhz.

 

@russel, i would use terminal to repair permissions after copy that stuff over.. or use the kext helper

 

here are terminal repair permission (i would reccomend reinstalling the ahci kexts thought)

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/
touch /System/Library/Extensions
exit

 

not sure what "touch" does, dont ask.

nbpc
nbpc
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The board came with F7. I did downgrade it back to F6 and tried to rebuild.

 

Same dumb luck.

 

Maybe a Hackintosh wasn't meant to be...I can't get Kalway to install on a GA-965P-DS3 or a 945-GZM-S2C (which I was able to do successfully before).

 

I keep thinking I've got a bad copy of Kalway.

 

Thanks for the suggestions! Keep 'em coming

NBPC

 

Maybe you should try and reflash bios to F6. There could be a problem with the F7 bios and OSX. Anyone else using F7 bios and Kalyway 10.5.1?

 

 

Chevy

tessa17
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I am new to this forum and have found a lot of helpful information to make installing kalyway mac on my machine but i still need help.

 

Here are my specs

mb ga p35 ds3l

sata 80gig hd

3 gig memory

ide dvd burner

sata dvd burner

with 2 other sata hd not hooked up having xp and vista as dual boot

 

Here is the problem when ever i log into mac it changes the time settings on my motherboard everytime. Is this normal i have had this motherboard for about a 2 weeks. Is there something wrong or what have i done wrong?

 

And sometimes i get a message in my bios that it need to change to the last know good config with other configs choices.

 

 

Please help.

dci693
dci693
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Here is the problem when ever i log into mac it changes the time settings on my motherboard everytime. Is this normal i have had this motherboard for about a 2 weeks. Is there something wrong or what have i done wrong?

 

And sometimes i get a message in my bios that it need to change to the last know good config with other configs choices.

 

 

Please help.

The mac stores time differently than a PC does. This thread might give you some info. I don't know why you'd get the last known good config error message tho.
MacUser2525
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The mac stores time differently than a PC does. This thread might give you some info. I don't know why you'd get the last known good config error message tho.

 

That would be different than windows OS does you mean the vast majority of devices other than mircosoft's use Universal/GMT as it is known to store their time settings... The last known good config message usually indicates that your over clock is not working properly and the BIOS is setting it back to some sane defaults.

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