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GWolfman
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Hey, I wanted to test OS X without messing with my current RAID0 drive configuration on my Asus P5W DH Deluxe, so I plugged in my USB drive, and installed 10.5.2. After I hit restart it tries to boot but restarts after a seconds or two after it passes the Darwin bootloader screen. I hit F8, and -s (for safe mode?) but it still reboots. Any ideas? Do I have to install it onto a SATA drive directly attached to a port on my motherboard? Also, what options do I need to select/deselect on the customize menu. For example, I didn't see anywhere to select which EFI I wanted to use (MBR, GUID) as you showed in your 10.5.1 tutorial. Is this automatic in 10.5.2? Does anyone know of a good 10.5.2 tutorial/guide? All I seem to find is 10.5.1. Thanks!

 

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Markiebona
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L. AHCI is enabled. SMART Fan Control is off as advised in this guide. I believe everything else is default BIOS options.

CPU: Correct. I haven't overclocked or anything (yet). G0 stepping BTW.

Ram: 2x2Gb Patriot PC2-6400 800Mhz

Video Card: Factory Overclocked 8800GT 512Mb, Manufactured by BFG Tech

Hard Drive: GUID formatted 500Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA, 100 Gig Partition for Leopard, 365 Gig for Documents. I also have an old SATA Maxtor something or another (it came with my old Dell, so i really have no idea.) It's 80Gigs and I'm currently using it for XP.

DVD: Pioneer DVR-212D SATA. I haven't really tested this yet as far as burning goes, but it reads everything fine.

Mouse & Keyboard: $30 Dynex Keyboard and Mouse. Both USB. Both work fine. The Keyboard has a range of buttons on the site - the right is things like stop, play, louder volume etc. which all work with iTunes except for the Stop button (since iTunes has no Stop Button). Nothing on the left side works (mostly generic application launchers) except for one which does the same thing as pressing Alt+Tab and another which, as far as I can tell, types this single character inside the quotes: " ´ ". Ha.

No Floppy

 

There has been one small issue. PnP USB. It doesn't work when I boot with only my mouse and keyboard plugged in. But it does when I have my mouse, keyboard, USB Midi Controller, Printer, and Webcam all plugged in when I boot. Strange. But not a big issue. I have to test this, but I think as long as you boot with a USB key or something plugged in at boot it works.

 

Sleep doesn't work with the vanilla kernel. But it does with the stock mach_kernel. Strange though, because when i boot with the "sleepkernel" flag, sleep doesn't work. "mach_kernel" does. You'd think it'd be the other way around.

 

Glad to help out. It's quite exciting that this board works so well!

 

Much appreciate your help drawrof !!!!!

 

Just wondering you might know....???

Saves me spending money for nothing.

If I was to fill the 4 DIMM slots on the MOB with 4X2Gb Patriot PC2-6400 800Mhz.....would/should it work?

 

Thanks again

:)

drawrof
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Much appreciate your help drawrof !!!!!

 

Just wondering you might know....???

Saves me spending money for nothing.

If I was to fill the 4 DIMM slots on the MOB with 4X2Gb Patriot PC2-6400 800Mhz.....would/should it work?

 

Thanks again

;)

 

hey, i'm not an expert by any means, but i see no reason why not. Those were my plans eventually anyway, as 8 gigs will be good for the video editing i do.

 

It is my understanding that the new AHCI kexts are included by default in the new kalyway 10.5.2 (these allow all 4 sata ports to be seen and used), so as long as you run with AHCI enabled you should have no problem with 8 Gigs of ram. I believe you will be limited to 3.5 or so Gigs if you do not enable AHCI.

 

AHCI can be enabled in 10.5.1 but without the new kexts that this guide offers OSX will only see whatever's connected to the first two SATA connections.

Zetsubou
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ok just having one problem here, im running 10.5.2 off of a ga-x38-dq6 and the one problem im having is getting my internet to connect( its Realtek 8111B) i was having some mild troubles in vista with it conking out for a second but it would always reconnect but in leopard it sometimes reconnects but sometimes it doesn't. anyone know what may be causing this?

critic81
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Can somebody kindly help me. here is where I have put this bit of information, is it in the correct place?

 

key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>-legacy</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>maxmem=3072</string>

 

 

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<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>-legacy</string>

<string>maxmem=3072</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>2</string>

dci693
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ok just having one problem here, im running 10.5.2 off of a ga-x38-dq6 and the one problem im having is getting my internet to connect( its Realtek 8111B) i was having some mild troubles in vista with it conking out for a second but it would always reconnect but in leopard it sometimes reconnects but sometimes it doesn't. anyone know what may be causing this?
That's the same controller in my GA-P35-DS3L MB. Is it just the Internet or are you having issues also connecting to your router? If it's a general connection issue, check if in your BIOS you have the "Onboard LAN Bootrom" set to Enabled

 

When I first installed OSX my LAN would not connect no matter what. I then reinstalled with that setting enabled and it worked immediateyl. I then disabled the setting, within a few days the LAN connection issues resurfaced. I then reenabled it and voila! Back in business. Give it a shot - it's free.

Boot Camp
Boot Camp
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Can someone please tell me how to fix Shutdown on the P5W DH Deluxe, when I shutdown, my fans stay on.
(Yes I'm replying to myself)... Problem was the "Realtek USB WLAN Client Utility", you have to turn the radio off before you shutdown, otherwise yours fans and such stay on.

 

I will also be testing the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD on the P5W DH Deluxe some time soon.

cubswinfllclssic
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Hey all,

 

Since I've been posting and asking questions about sleep on the DS3L, I thought I'd share a few more interesting tidbits that I just recently discovered:

 

1.) When sleeping the computer (which works as long as my processor is at stock multiplier), it would take a long time for everything (except the RAM of course) to actually shut off. On resume, I would get an error message saying that I had not properly ejected my disks; even though my external USB drive (300GB) was connected upon resume, the it would initially appear as disconnected. The drive would then reload.

 

However, after disconnecting my external USB drive and instead connecting it via firewire, the computer now instantly goes to sleep and wakes up normally. Crazy.

 

2.) I used an aluminum Apple Pro Keyboard at work and decided to buy one because it is simply a beautiful keyboard. I used to use the older Mac Pro Keyboard (white) so this wasn't much of a change, BUT strangely, when the keyboard is connected via the onboard USB 2.0, it won't work after sleep. If it's connected via my PCI USB 2.0 card, it works before and after sleep. Only problem is that I need the keyboard plugged into the onboard port in order to choose my operating system at boot.

 

I checked around the forums and the HCL, and others seem to have this problem too. If you guys know of any way to fix it, I'm all ears. :)

 

It seems that the DS3L has trouble initializing USB devices after resume from sleep. On top of all that, my Miglia TV adapter and EyeTV 3 show a shaky picture after resume from sleep. I wonder if there's any way to change the way this is handled by OS X.

 

So, I hope you enjoyed my latest "FYI" excerpt regarding sleep on the DS3L...

Zetsubou
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That's the same controller in my GA-P35-DS3L MB. Is it just the Internet or are you having issues also connecting to your router? If it's a general connection issue, check if in your BIOS you have the "Onboard LAN Bootrom" set to Enabled

 

When I first installed OSX my LAN would not connect no matter what. I then reinstalled with that setting enabled and it worked immediateyl. I then disabled the setting, within a few days the LAN connection issues resurfaced. I then reenabled it and voila! Back in business. Give it a shot - it's free.

thx that seems to have worked, though i still believe its intermittent in both since i've tried ddl stuff on vista and it doesn't finish because it dissconnects, weird though how i never had it enabled before and i didn`t have a problem before. does anyone know if overclocking and reducing vcore voltage to below default could cause damage to other parts of the mobo?

mr.mcgoo
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I also have the P5W DH Deluxe. What partitioning method did you use? And did you use 10.5.2 directly, or did you start at 10.5.1?

 

I'm sorry. My microphone port works. I don't know if the line in works.

 

When I read that (running on little sleep) I was thinking microphone.

GWolfman
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I'm sorry. My microphone port works. I don't know if the line in works.

 

When I read that (running on little sleep) I was thinking microphone.

 

 

Huh, what? That wasn't me. Maybe you got me mixed up. Is the BIOS 2602 necessary for it to work on the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe? Do older ones work? Does 2704 work?

MacUser2525
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On the Asus and Gigabyte boards, how do you tell in the specs the largest hard drive size they support?

 

If it is a newer board bought within the last few of years then it should support any size drive out there.

newbmac
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If it is a newer board bought within the last few of years then it should support any size drive out there.

 

 

Thanks!

 

I was surprised to learn that many Dells don't allow hard drives larger than 500gb! If I am building, wanted to be sure I could buy a 1TB drive in the future :)

MacUser2525
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Thanks!

 

I was surprised to learn that many Dells don't allow hard drives larger than 500gb! If I am building, wanted to be sure I could buy a 1TB drive in the future :)

 

No surprise there really Dell does their own thing with the BIOS, one thing to look out for if buying a Gigabyte board is you may have to update the BIOS on it if you get an error reading the size of the 1tb drive at least my BIOS update page has a little blurb there saying the newer one fixes certain 1tb drives not being detected properly.

newbmac
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No surprise there really Dell does their own thing with the BIOS, one thing to look out for if buying a Gigabyte board is you may have to update the BIOS on it if you get an error reading the size of the 1tb drive at least my BIOS update page has a little blurb there saying the newer one fixes certain 1tb drives not being detected properly.

 

Ya, figured I would need to bios update a new board.

 

Thinking of getting the Antec Sonatta III case, supposed to be very quiet (which is my top priority) for all of this...

 

Just having second thoughts on building a hackintosh given all the USB and shutdown/restart problems people are having with 10.5.2

mr.mcgoo
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Huh, what? That wasn't me. Maybe you got me mixed up. Is the BIOS 2602 necessary for it to work on the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe? Do older ones work? Does 2704 work?

 

Yeah, dhillman needed the apology. But I also stated something false and you might have believed it too.

 

So my output and microphone both work with my BIOS 2602 (I didn't know they released a 2704). I don't know if the line in work.

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