only 4 out of 10 times the PC-hackintosh successfully shutdown

[Redalert]

Hi

I have a peculiar problem in leopard

 

1. The system does not always shutdown in kalyway leopard (say only 4 out of 10 times the pc successfully shutdown), the harddrive's & lights switch off but the fan & processor is still active. In the event the system is not properly shutdown the bios sometimes stops to warn frequency overclock error during boot. I have not oveclocked my system & using it with default settings. While it often shuts down without a hitch what could possibly go wrong in another attempt?

 

2. everytime I shutdown the pc in leopard the time is reset (yes I have selected correct timezone & turned off daylight savings as my location does not require daylight savings). Its so annoying that I require to reset the time everytime I boot into vista or leopard as a result my files/activities & the event manager would have recorded incorrect time & so cant keep track of the events.

 

Have tried them on vanilla kernel also & even with 10.5.2 update through apple downloads but this strange problem still exists.

 

I wonder by not choosing sse2 during installation could have resulted in such strange behavior. I thought this would not be necessary as I have a core2 duo with sse3 instructions set. Please help!

 

system config –

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz

MB: Asus P5KC P35 chipset w/ICH9 southbridge

RAM: 2GB Transcend DDR2 800 MHz (1GB* 2)

GPU: Nvidia 8600 GTS eVGA

HDD1: 160 GB SATA 3Gbps Seagate ST3160215AS

HDD2: 320 GB SATA 3Gbps Seagate ST3320620AS

DVD: SATA SONY DVD RW AW-G170S

LAN: Netgear GA311 PCI (onboard Attansic L1 Gigabit lan not working, no drivers)

Sound: ALC883 Onboard HDA

Keyboard: USB/PS2 Microsoft Elite (USB is Working)

Mouse: Logitech USB

UPS: APC Back-UPS-RS 800VA w/Data Cable

 

My Bios configuration

>SATA as IDE emulation as my mobo is ICH9 which does not support AHCI

>1394 port enabled

>ACPI version - 2.0 (enabled after installation, still no difference)

>APIC enabled

>Jmicron enabled (no devices are attached to this controller)

>plug & play OS option disabled (have no effect even if enabled)

 

Kalyway options

>Vanilla

>EFI

>MBR Partition

[Redalert]

what do i do to resolve this please help me.

[mekino]

Hey,

 

I think the problem is the motherboard, mine is P5K-E.

this problem is not single of hackintosh, with Windows it happens the same.

update the bios solves the problem partially, 9 out of 10 times the system shutdown.... approximately!

 

Sorry my english

[Redalert]

have no such problems in windows works 100%

[megavolkan]

OK same problem here but i realized something very interesting (and odd of course) that works for me.

 

My system: Kalyway 10.5.2 with everything updated (graphics update included), MSI P965 Mobo, D820 2.8GHz.

 

A freshly installed system doesn't shut down. Doesn't sleep (in fact sleeps but never wakes, if sleeps need to manually reset the machine) but restarts.

But this part is interesting: If i make it sleep and then restart it (manually as i said before) then shut down "fixes" itself and machine shuts down correctly. No need to repeat the sleep/restart/shutdown process every time, Once is enough.

 

But then i realized smt. else: I have a Vista installation on another disk and if i switch to vista then switch to OS X again, shut down becomes broken and have to repeat the sleep/reset/shutdown process again, then it turns to normal. I think this is all about bios settings, and once a system is installed it makes its own settings into the bios, someway changes it.

 

Anyway this is my solution and it work. Give it a try, then post your results. Good luck

 

PS: I'll make a topic for that

[Redalert]

OK same problem here but i realized something very interesting (and odd of course) that works for me.

 

My system: Kalyway 10.5.2 with everything updated (graphics update included), MSI P965 Mobo, D820 2.8GHz.

 

A freshly installed system doesn't shut down. Doesn't sleep (in fact sleeps but never wakes, if sleeps need to manually reset the machine) but restarts.

But this part is interesting: If i make it sleep and then restart it (manually as i said before) then shut down "fixes" itself and machine shuts down correctly. No need to repeat the sleep/restart/shutdown process every time, Once is enough.

 

But then i realized smt. else: I have a Vista installation on another disk and if i switch to vista then switch to OS X again, shut down becomes broken and have to repeat the sleep/reset/shutdown process again, then it turns to normal. I think this is all about bios settings, and once a system is installed it makes its own settings into the bios, someway changes it.

 

Anyway this is my solution and it work. Give it a try, then post your results. Good luck

 

PS: I'll make a topic for that

 

 

sure will giv it a try & keep u'll posted. sounds tricky though wonder hw u could figure it out & i hope ther's some permanent solution to this soon

[megavolkan]

sure will giv it a try & keep u'll posted. sounds tricky though wonder hw u could figure it out & i hope ther's some permanent solution to this soon

 

Installing 4 times in a row, sleepless until 5 in the morning, crashing, trying every silly solution hoping it will work fingers crossed at the end you're starting to figure out the weirdest

 

Actually i realized it first time i tried to sleep the machine. It was shutting down good. Other times shut down was broken and this was the only thing left untried. Working like a charm

[Redalert]

u r method did not work for me, but i installed new kernel update frm netkas which hopefully would have resolved this (i still havn't shutdown my sys yet only tried sleep) though sleep was working 100% for me until now but after the update system does not resume back from sleep.

 

 

Edit: tried kalyway 10.5.2 & many kernels but the shutdown problem is still ther.