Islander Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 what can cause an MD5 hash to be corrupt? I re-downloaded 10.5.1 on my Dell desktop, transferred it over to my external Hard drive and then checked it on my HP laptop (the burner on my laptop is more reliable/fast) using MD5Win, as advised by ~PcWiz. Could transferring it over to my external hard drive corrupt it? thanks, Tory Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-727553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitboi Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 cyberderf, Try it and see. I think a couple people have gotten it to work, but as a rule, NO. You will most likely need to put it in a USB enclosure, or buy/borrow a SATA DVD drive. This was discussed thorougly in this thread roarsoar, Glad you have things working! It seems system profiler does not show Audio, even if it is properly working. Try to play something in iTunes to listen if it works! Also, in System Preferences > Sound, it will show valid input and output devices. Islander, Which download are you using? Check the original download on your Dell to see if that matches. Are you checking the md5 on the actual ISO file? If you are using BT, you can try to "Verify Data" using the BT client. That should force a recheck to find any bad blocks and *may* help.Anything can corrupt bits - bad memory, random magnetic fields (audio speakers, magnetic name tag in your laptop bag?), bad cables, flaky USB/IDE/SATA ports, etc etc etc. etc ETC! That is why I want ZFS! Fruitboi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-727557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Thanks fruitboi. I'll be sure to check it next time I'm home. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-727569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roarsaur Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 roarsoar,Glad you have things working! It seems system profiler does not show Audio, even if it is properly working. Try to play something in iTunes to listen if it works! Also, in System Preferences > Sound, it will show valid input and output devices. Fruitboi Oh you're right, it does work (tried with headphones)! I will try with 5.1 later too and report back. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-727575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i*C Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Impossible to install from an IDE DVD Drive on a DS3L ? .. There is a problem with IDE drives in general. Not your motherboard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-727622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I'm thinking I should just RMA this video card because it looks like there is a problem with 8600GT cards. I'm looking for something that will provide me HIGH resolution without the headaches I'm getting with this video card. any suggestions? price range is anywhere up to probably $120 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-727653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roarsaur Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I'm thinking I should just RMA this video card because it looks like there is a problem with 8600GT cards. I'm looking for something that will provide me HIGH resolution without the headaches I'm getting with this video card. any suggestions? price range is anywhere up to probably $120 Hmm, you missed the $95ar 8800gts 320mb yesterday ($85ar/agco, or $70ar/25off75gco) yesterday at buy.com. Just monitor deal sites for a really nice deal. It looks like 8800gt G92s are going below $150 now too. This deal looks pretty good, $148ar 8800gt g92 512mb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-727675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 Those deals look great, I wish I had gone for a 8800 or a 9600. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-728075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitboi Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 There is a problem with IDE drives in general. Not your motherboard. hmm.. I'm thinking it's more the JMicron IDE/SATA controller on this motherboard that is the problem, not IDE drives. From what I've read, JMicron work horribly on windows drivers, so they REALLY don't work well on hackintosh... I could be wrong. I know when I tried to install Kalyway on my AMD box I had to go out and buy an IDE hard drive because the SATA drivers were not available. So, different motherboard(chipsets), different levels of support and different levels of problems. Perhaps pcwiz can share some light? Aaron Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-728200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 are the 8800 series cards the most compatible? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-728203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Actually the 7xxx series cards are the most compatible, but 8 series works well too, the 9 series is pretty much the only cards that don't work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-728239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I was the 60th person to vote for my the favorite poster awards andI voted you! keep up the good work dudeok so I finally got around to working on my computer. earlier I had a problem with partitioning the hard drive, and I thought it had corrected itself but i believe somehow that caused the b0 error. when I try to wipe the hard drive it says bad file descriptor? Update: I visited the thread on partitions started by Rammjet to try and fix the b0 error in terminal, but when I type "diskutil list" it comes up with a "bus error"? Is it just me or have I really F'ed some shizz up? All I wanna do is start from scratch! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-728286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Yeah it sounds like there is something seriously MESSED with your hard drive. What I suggest: Get the GParted Live CD and burn the ISO to a disc. Then boot from the CD and you boot into a partition editor, destroy all the partitions so that you just have a big block of unallocated space. Then make one primary partition formatted as FAT32. Now you can continue with your installation (partition/format with Disk Utility again). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 wow I dont know what the hells goin on. I got home from work, tried reinstalling and everything went off without a hitch (except the resolution of course) I'm using it right now to surf the web. I guess I'll have to deal with the resolution now that I know its the least of my problems! I'm just gunna not fiddle with it for the time being and research the hell out of fixing the resolution without destroying another part of my computer. thanks for the assistance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 For the resolution you need graphics drivers, and I guess since you have an 8600GT you would need the Punk92 NVIDIA v2.0 installer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 just tried it but nothin. black screens gone, but still no good resolution. is there something I need to do after installing it? all I did was restart my computer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i*C Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 @pcwiz I think you will find this interesting. As you know i have 2 installs, one for testing o course. I had 9.2.0 kernel so i downloaded ToH Leopard 9.2.2 kernel and installed it. I check it after restart with uame -a and it showed up as 9.2.2 version... as it suppose to. After that i decided to go crazy amnd install your pack aspecially sleep ( iknow that it is 9.2.0) but decided anyway. After restart what your insaller did was replaced 9.2.2 ToH with 9.2.0 kernel. Everything works. Didnt brak my install What software would you recomend for total back up of my perfect intall? (I want to have two identical installs so i test some more for myself) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitboi Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 macciti, Try plugging in USB drives.. that broke for me when I installed a 9.2.0 kernel after having 9.2.2 vanilla. fruitboi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i*C Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 macciti, Try plugging in USB drives.. that broke for me when I installed a 9.2.0 kernel after having 9.2.2 vanilla. fruitboi Yes you are right. It did. I am not sure why because on my perfect install i have 9.2.2 kernel that was updaed with apple updater (time machine update) and everything, everything works fine. There is a problem with patched kernel i think. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 I'm assuming the USB thing is only with the 9.2.2 kernel right? Because USB works fine for me here with 9.2.0 (haven't installed Time machine update yet). To make an image of your perfect install you can use Norton Ghost, Time Machine (requires patch), etc. You could even probably use Disk Utility to make a DMG backup of your drive that you can restore. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitboi Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I'm assuming the USB thing is only with the 9.2.2 kernel right? I read a thread about people not able to mount USB drives unless the drive was plugged in at startup. Basically, what I found and figured out is that if you *HAD* the 9.2.2 kernel and downgrade to 9.2.0 - there are a few kexts that will think they are no longer compatible (they check for the kernel version). I'm guessing this is why you can't truly revert to an older kernel. So my experience: 9.2.2 vanilla > 9.2.0 speedstep (broke USB mounting) > 9.2.2 vanilla (USB mounting works again) Does that make sense? Fruitboi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roarsaur Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Off topic but everyone has this motherboard... Will Gigabyte's Dynamic Energy Saver interupt overclocked processors? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I've tested some minor overclocking and havent seen any interruptions. definitely want an after-market fan though. the stock intel fan wont cut it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i*C Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I'm assuming the USB thing is only with the 9.2.2 kernel right? Because USB works fine for me here with 9.2.0 (haven't installed Time machine update yet). To make an image of your perfect install you can use Norton Ghost, Time Machine (requires patch), etc. You could even probably use Disk Utility to make a DMG backup of your drive that you can restore. Yea, usb problem was with ToH kernel 9.2.2... everything works fine with 9.2.2 from apple updater that came with time machine... You know what though... now at least if anybody needs to downlgrade kernel to 9.2.0 they can use yur installer and it will safely replace 9.2.2 to 9.2.0 at least it did for me... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 There is a problem with using my installer to replace the 9.2.2 kernel though. You see, every time a new kernel is installed, so is a new System.kext, so their versions match. So 9.2.2 kernel and 9.2.2 System.kext. My installer only installs the kernel, so you end up with a 9.2.0 kernel and a 9.2.2 System.kext. What happens when the two versions don't match is you will not be able to mount DMG files anymore. Try it, it won't let you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90795-guide-installer-leopard-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3pds3rds4-1052-efi/page/26/#findComment-729675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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