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tessa17
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Ok, thanks everyone i understand about the time and if i am understanding correctly that is ok that my bios changes the time after booting into leopard.

 

But as far as over clocking i don't do that at all. My processor is a e6420 to which i will upgrade eventually over the summer when prices should fall more.

 

But i will take a look at my bios later to make sure i am at default settings as far as over clocking is concerned. :P

MacUser2525
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Ok, thanks everyone i understand about the time and if i am understanding correctly that is ok that my bios changes the time after booting into leopard.

 

Well it is Ok in that there is nothing strange going on other than windows time management practices which of course it is out of sync with every other OS's time management, there is supposed to be a registery setting you can change to tell it that your clock is set to UTC/GMT so the problem would disappear alternatively you could have it sync with a time server on the net everytime you boot to put the time back the way windows expects it to be.

But as far as over clocking i don't do that at all. My processor is a e6420 to which i will upgrade eventually over the summer when prices should fall more.

 

But i will take a look at my bios later to make sure i am at default settings as far as over clocking is concerned. :hysterical:

 

 

Well that is weird then your BIOS should not be reseting like that then you definitely want to be looking into the settings you have in there maybe even though it is a newer board check the CMOS battery to see if you got a defective one.

finesse
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Hi, I have a GA-P35-DQ6 but I have a loading problem. Install works fine, no problems there. When OSX starts loading (the grey apple screen), I just get a message telling me I need to reboot.. no other information other than that.

 

System Specs:

GA-P35-DQ6 F7b

2x 72gig WD 10k Raptors (not raided - plugged into the 2 purple SATA ports)

1x 400gig WD (doesnt show up during installation, possibly plugged into one of the last 2 orange ports)

4gig Dual channel interleaved RAM

Nvidia 7950GX2 graphics card

Onboard LAN/SOUND

 

Bios settings for HHD's are normal IDE mode. I tried AHCI and the same loading message appears.

 

Also, I've read some of this thread and don't know if these have been answered yet but thought id put my 2c in incase it helps someone. The ~3gig ram limit will be different for a lot of people mostly depending on your video card ram + 

eserved memory, so theres no max that everyone can use.

 

EDIT: I have use the -v option while booting and it looks like its a graphics card problem.. Being a dual chip and all it makes sense, so i'll look into it a bit more.

bobmavric
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OK Guys.

First of all let me tell you that my computer crashed each time i was about to use Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, or even copy something in my home network. so somebody showed me this instruction which was really life saver. he told me that i had a RAM issue because my ram was 4GB dual channel. so Please allow me to add a reply to the dear person who wrote this article and really saved me, and to this latest one who has a motherboard exactly like mine. This can be known as final result of my tests to fix Kernel-Panic of Dual channel RAMs.

 

if you guys remember "known issue section", mtotho suggested to add "3072" number between the strings under Kernel Flags. I did so. A bit better than before, but in "About this Mac" section, my RAM detected as 3.79GB and still My Hackintosh crashed. in the second restart of my computer, I noticed RAM detection in BIOS Boot which was 4030. after booting in Mac, I backed up my data in Leopard drive and in terminal again entered :

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

and this time, instead of 3072, I typed 4030. I restarted and checked in Premiere Pro. now I could Begin Rendering the film i was about to render. but after playing iTunes, Computer Crashed again. I removed one of the RAM Modules this time. Booted computer with Just one 2GB Ram. This time I had no problem in rendering and doing other tasks all together. But computer was slower than I expected it to be. so I raised 4030 to 4094, which is 32x2+4030. now it runs very good without any problem. until now, I am expecting to add more 32MB to reach the highest performance without any Kernel Panic, in case of accruing any problem in running so many tasks.

 

I hope this could be a guide to all those who faced problems like me.

And to this member with Gigabyte Motherboard GA-965P-DS3:

your BIOS is too old. Now it is F12. ReFlash your BIOS to F12 and you will be able to install Kalyway Leopard, very smoothly if you do it step by step as this GUIDE instructed.

 

And something else. In this guide i noticed something about 5.1 surround sound which is not possible. I don't know about other motherboards. but mine has ALC883 chipset. honestly i do not recall now where i got the RealTeck driver for it, but in installation package, installer asks for kind of driver and i chose whatever i needed which was ALC883 5.1 Surround. It is a 1.5MB file, so if anyone tell me how can i upload it and where to, i'd be glad to do it for those who might need it.

 

Take Care all

 

My System:

CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 2MB L2 Cache 1066 FSB

MoBo: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Bios version F12

RAM: 4GB DDR2 BUS 800 (2x2GB)

Graphics: nVIDIA 7900 GT-TDH 256MB

HDD: 2 SATA Using IHCA8

Sound: Analog 5.1 Surround RealTek ALC883 chipset - (Works Perfectly)

Sony DVDROM and Sony DVD RW

DVB-S card: Skystar2 (Not working-Please developer, why don't you develop drivers for satellite receiver cards? )

 

 

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

dci693
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regarding dual boot. is your advice to just re-format the osx driver, make it a mbr and install again? will then the osx countdown screen work for booting windows?
If you're asking me, I would guess there must be a better solution than reformatting. If you're using chain0, it's not the osx countdown screen that boots Windows - it's the Windows XP bootloader that boots OSX. Perhaps that's the part you're missing? If you're using chain0, the Windows XP HD must be bootable.
nbpc
nbpc
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Ok, it turns out I am an idiot.

 

As part of my standard overclocking, I mess around with some of the BIOS settings to allow max OC'ing. One of the settings I didn't follow from above was "NO EXECUTE" enabled. Once I changed that, I'm in fat Mac happy.

 

 

 

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

jkspost
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Thanks for the guide. Much appreciated.

 

Works fine on my system.

 

GA-P35-DS3L (rev2.0)

Q6600 @2.7GHZ OC'ed

S-ATA : Western Digital WD2000JD-60KLB0 (1. partition OSX, 2. partition Vista32bit)

Western Digital WD2500KS-00MJB0

P-ATA : Seagate ST3120026A

Toshiba Samsung CD/DVDW TS-H552D

4 GB RAM Dual Channel moe (@900Mhz)

Asus EN7950GT PCI-E (had to flash the bios to get nvinject working)

USB hub with Frontier Design Alphtrack, Apple alu keyboard, Logitech mouse, Syncosoft dongle(steinberg Cubase dongle)

Line6 Toneport UX8

 

 

I've gone through many reinstalls the past 2 weeks, and learned alot by trial and error and trying to get dual boot working (Vista/OSX) and now it

finally works as I was hoping.

 

Only issue so far is when I copy a 1GB+ file from my IDE hardrive onto the OSX partition which is on a S-ATA with ACHI enabled in BIOS,

I get a kernel panic error. But I saw in another thread some discusion on this with no solution so far. However I installed the Kalyway 10.5.1 DVD

from my IDE DVD drive with no issues. And updated to 10.5.2

 

My biggest problem was to get the Line6 Toneport UX8 to work properply in OSX. It installed fined and seemed to work, but occasionally it would make

a half a second audio drop out when playing a mediafile in iTunes etc. Another strange behaviour I had in Windows (both Vista and XP) was whenever I changed the

screen resolution in any computergame, my UX8 and USB hub would loose the USB connection. Resulting in no sound, a dead keyboard and mouse.

Kinda strange since the both the Toneport UX8 and USB hub have eksternel PSU's.

 

Well I suspected this to be a power issue anyway and tried to raise the voltage in the bios by +0.03V and also a little for the CPU also. With a sidebonus being able

to overclock the sucker a little bit to 2.7GHz (Haven't tried to go beyond that yet, but it seems stable for now)

 

The raise of the voltage did the trick and solved both the resolution changing issue in windows gaming, and the audio drop out in OS X.

Been running for a few days and so far so good, as long as I don't copy huge files from the IDE controller. :(

spiderman1369
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@mtotho:

 

I have the same setup as you except for 2 GB ram, different model but SATA Hard Drive, and an IDE DVD drive by LG.

I did the GUID install.

I can get through the entire install with no problems. At the end when it reboots, it goes into an endless loop of reboots. If I type -v, it scrolls through VERY VERY fast and reboots again.

 

Is this because of the IDE DVD drive? If it is, I don't understand why. If it didn't like it, it shouldn't read the Kalway DVD and go through the entire install right???

Lord Norr
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Just as I thought I was actually getting somewhere, someone else comes out and bites me in the ass.

I downloaded Leo4All and tried that. This time things worked alot better, I managed (with much fiddling) to format my parition to HFS+ using windows and the installer recognised it. I customised my install and clicked install. HORRAY

Wait, NO! :P

Soon as I click install, it comes up with a box saying its checking the DVD for consistency or something. It takes a LONG time. 10 minutes to hit 2%. By this point I was really tired from the day so went for a snooze. I woke up an hour later and just had a large "install failed" logo on the screen. Saying it couldn't write to its destination or something.

 

whats going on?!?!

dci693
dci693
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Just as I thought I was actually getting somewhere, someone else comes out and bites me in the ass.

I downloaded Leo4All and tried that. This time things worked alot better, I managed (with much fiddling) to format my parition to HFS+ using windows and the installer recognised it. I customised my install and clicked install. HORRAY

Wait, NO! :P

Soon as I click install, it comes up with a box saying its checking the DVD for consistency or something. It takes a LONG time. 10 minutes to hit 2%. By this point I was really tired from the day so went for a snooze. I woke up an hour later and just had a large "install failed" logo on the screen. Saying it couldn't write to its destination or something.

 

whats going on?!?!

I got the same error message when I initially forgot to format my OSX drive for HFS+. If, as you say, you are trying to format your drive to HFS+ in Windows, I would ask "Why?". Why do it from Windows? Why not do it using Disk Utility after you've booted into the installed DVD? Just use Windows to partition your drive, create a space for Leopard, format it initially as FAT32, boot your DVD, as soon as you've got a menu bar available choose Disk Utility, format the FAT32 partition as HFS+, quit Disk Utility and go back to the Leopard installer and continue on. Oh - and make sure you name your OSX drive as something simple using ONEWORD with no spaces.
grumpster
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@mtotho

Sleep works perfectly on my setup and I have no idea why. I honestly didn't expect it to. I've been shocked by how well everything has worked. I have zero problems to report and all I did was buy the parts you suggested and followed your instructions. Idiots luck, I guess. Thanks again for the guide.

 

P5W DH / Q6600 / 4GB DDR2-800 / 320GB WD / Kalyway 10.5.1 -> 10.5.2

spiderman1369
spiderman1369
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@mtotho

 

I did have "execute disable function" enabled. I started up and shutdown my box about 10 times. Nothing worked. SOooo I decided to take a break, eat dinner, and contemplate which highway overpass to throw this computer off of.

 

After calming down, I started it up again and it booted perfectly!!!??? Why, I don't know???

 

I've now updated to 10.5.2, Video Update, Sound, Lan, Video Card all work perfectly. Shutdown and Restart work perfectly. Haven't tried sleep yet. Will update after I try it and some overclocking!

 

Thanks a TON for this guide and your help!!!

dslmel
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Upgraded from a Pentium D on a asus board a week ago and could NOT get the leo to install, been trying for the last week ... found this thread, set the bios settings, rebooted, and wtf ... works great!! GUID w/EFI ... Thanks!!

prazvt
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Hey all...just thought i'd relate my Leopard install experience b/c everything seems to be working.

 

This was done on an abit iP35 Pro mobo / core 2 duo e6420 / 4 x 1gb of ram / 3 x SATA 250gb / 1 x sata dvd r/w / onboard sound / ralink wireless g.

 

1 - Installed Vista64, created an active partition for SATA disk 1 (0, 1, 2 on my ssytem)

2 - Installed Leopard using iATKOS 1.0r3

3 - Created a new 250gb partition in disk utility

4 - In customize options, chose PC-EFI, Intel SSE2 SSE 3, SATA (for ich9r), and cpu temperature

5 - Installed, rebooted, typed in -s, did the flag 1 for the disk

6 - Rebooted into Vista, used the chain0 method to set up the boot loader

7 - Rebooted into OS X, installed driver for my 8800GTS (nvinstaller)

8 - Did the kalyway hacked 10.5.2 combo update

9 - Installed os x drivers for my wireless card (manuf)

10 - Installed ALC888 drivers using the HDA patch and an alc888 linux dump (.txt file)

11 - Ran OS x software update, installed everything except leopard graphics update.

 

- All SATA disks work

- 8800GTS works at 1680 x 1050 with quartz extreme support

- Audio works

- CPU usage is pretty low ... ~ 5% on each core at the moment.

- Internet works (downloaded a couple gb worth of torrents no problems)

- Office 2008, iLife suite, Photoshop CS3, Adobe Acrobat 8, handbrake, VLC, firefox, Azureus, Toast 8 all work.

- xbench score was about 175.

- shut down, reboot work fine

- hard drive sleep works fine

- haven't tried system sleep, but I don't use sleep anyway

 

Only thing I didn't do is install the netkas 9.2.0 kernel b/c I'm not sure what the benefit of it is. If someone could clear that up for me that'd be cool.

 

BTW I used the SATA drives in IDE mode because whenever I turned on AHCI, I had trouble installing XP x64 (i have the vista ultimate upgrade, so i have to do 2 installs). On the other hand, I didn't realize there was a "BIOS/OS usb keyboard" option in the bios so I couldn't boot off the cd. So it may have worked, had I known that.

 

Anyway...so right now pretty happy :lol:

mtotho
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edit: following my motherboard settings, using latest bios, using 10.5.2 and gfx update, and using mac.nub's latest smbios.. i was finally able to get my computer to enter sleep perfectly.. now the problem is, i cannot wake... still testing various things.

grumpster
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@mtotho

Sorry, I'm an idiot, I should have listed these. From the "about this mac", I get AppleSMBIOS 1.0.12 11/18/07. Hmm... that doesn't sound right, does it?

Video card is eVGA 8600GT-512MB listed in "about" as ID=0x0402 rev=0x00A1 NVinject 0.2.1. OS System 10.5.2 (9C31). Like I said, I'm an idiot, but everything works just great.

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