acpi asus a8n-vm mobo issues anyone figure this out? (maxxuss?)

[frinchkin]

Hey-

I've been searching high and low for an answer to my problem and I'm hoping someone figured it out.

Deal is I have an amd venice 64 and asus a8n-vm mobo (nforce 410 gforce 6100). I can run 10.4.1 native but I have to use either acpi or x86pc to get it to work. 10.4.3 I can't get to boot at all and my understanding is the switches that worked with 10.4.1 don't work with 4.3 and up. I have newest bios I can find and have tried to disable acpi in bios (and everything else) but no joy. As a control I have access to an old dell with a socket 423 P4 and I can put the same HD in that machine and it will boot into the gui but it won't run because it only has 128 megs of rambus and it's a dinosaur and rambus is hard to find at a cheap price. In the end I'm pretty sure it's my mobo and it seems like I have the dumb luck of having one that just can't seem to work with 10.4.3 but I'm holding out hope that someone with yoda type ability has an answer as to what could be done to get it to work as 10.4.1 just flies but there's a lot of softs I can't run. Lastly, I did install 10.4.4 and yup, same problem can't past the driver not found for this platform acpi. Sorry for the long post but at this point I'm probably going to have to buy a different mobo to get it running but money's a little tight right now and obviously I would really like to get it working on what I have.

[aPpLeFrEaKpEePs]

Hey i am not sure why u are having this problem..

My friend has the same mobo and he is able to boot into 10.4.3 with no problems..

even SATA is working with my new driver on the MOBO, but no RAID(works only if HD is emulated in IDE mode)..Audio(soundmax) works and display is vesa 3.0(1024*768@ 85Hz.)..no LAN but..

He installed it with the patched 10.4.3(8f1111a) patched dvd..

[frinchkin]

whoa!

 

are you sure it's the same?

there's also a8n-vm csm (slightly different chipset I think gforce 6150 nforce 430)...

which version of the bios is he using? i'm using 0702 (newest one but I had same problem with earlier one)

if he really does have it running please I ask you to help me out because I thought it was pretty much hopeless! If you can help you will be my hero

 

p.s. please take a look at this thread as I thought it may have been a problem with the bios itself

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=10642

thanks again!

[aPpLeFrEaKpEePs]

Hey,

It was I who installed mac os x for him from the deadmoo image. His is A8N-VM only and not the CSM(I am 100% sure), having geforce 6100 NOT 6150. The issue is not with the BIOS. Even he is using 0702 which I downloaded from the Asus website. Install from the image and at first boot use platform=x86pc -v to boot. Delete AppleTPMACPI.kext in /system/library/extensions after logging in secure mode and then reboot. Your OS X install will run great. I will also send you the audio and the video kexts(u will get CI but no QE) and also the CoreImage file required to get PPC apps like Itunes/DVD Player working, if u want them.

 

Glad 2 be of help,

Karthik

 

For 10.4.3, to work you need to disable ACPI 2.0 from the BIOS and repeat the same as above. It works perfectly with the Jas patch patched install DVD.

 

Karthik

[frinchkin]

Hello Karthik,

 

I appreciate your reply but I already have 10.4.1 running natively and it runs well. However, if you have kexts for onboard video and audio or anything else, sure that would be great if you could share becuase I'm running off an old soundblaster pci for sound and I don't have CI. If I could get onboard audio to run that would be a lot better I'm sure.

 

I tried your metho-as best I can discern- for 10.4.3. but I'm a little confused becuase the JaS patch removes the TPMACPI. Here's what I did and you tell me what I missed because I still get the same error-and we are talking about getting it to run natively right? not VM cause I can do that.

 

Installed patched 10.4.3 from virtual cd in vmware (running in xp) to seperate blank disk on my system. At boot screen for install I typed in platform=x86pc -v (just for the heck of it I guess) installed, shut down and went to reboot-knowing there is no TPMACPI to remove. Again I typed in platform=x86pc -v

but still wound up with 'driver for this platform not found acpi' error and yes, I disabled ACPI 2.0 in the bios. I'm not sure exactly what you did or what your setup is-meaning if you have 10.4.1 and 4.3 on same HD or seperate, if you running native or virtual. I have 10.4.1 on one disk and 10.4.3 on a seperate one. I use f8 when my machine boots up to choose my boot device.

[aPpLeFrEaKpEePs]

Hey I asked u to delete AppleTPMACPI.kext if installing 10.4.1 i am aware that Jas's patch removes this kext. My friend is running OS X as native only on his PC. Infact neither I nor him have ever used VMware. Did you try booting in text mode using -s. I dont understand the source of the problem, as we never experienced such a serious issue. Regarding the kexts, give me your e-mail address so that i can mail you the video driver and also the Soundmax HD audio driver kexts.

 

I will look into the issue and try to find out what the problem may be. Also try diabling cool n' quiet from the BIOS. Sometimes that works(did for me on my nforce4 SLi mobo at home)..

 

Hey I asked u to delete AppleTPMACPI.kext if installing 10.4.1 i am aware that Jas's patch removes this kext. My friend is running OS X as native only on his PC. Infact neither I nor him have ever used VMware. Did you try booting in text mode using -s. I dont understand the source of the problem, as we never experienced such a serious issue. Regarding the kexts, give me your e-mail address so that i can mail you the video driver and also the Soundmax HD audio driver kexts.

 

I will look into the issue and try to find out what the problem may be. Also try diabling cool n' quiet from the BIOS. Sometimes that works(did for me on my nforce4 SLi mobo at home)..

 

And regarding your doubt as to whether it is on the same HD or not..

He had 10.4.1 installed first which I removed and installed 10.4.3..

His is also a dual boot system with Windows xp x64

[frinchkin]

I guess that clears a couple of things up. I assumed you knew about the TPC thingy with 10.4.3 but I wanted to make sure because your instructions concerning 10.4.3 were a tad vague. No big deal.

 

I've tried at one point or another disabling everything in the bios and I still get the same darn error. I've also tried every switch under the sun: -s,-z,-v ACPI/X86PC with no luck at all. I've tried moving the HD to master, cable select, slave no luck. Like I said I can take same HD out of machine, put it into dell and it will get past the point where I get stuck on the AMD. Who knows, for all I know it could be the RAM. I did find it interesting that one can't install linux on this mobo without patching the kernel due to the bad DSDT tables. I've tried installing using a burned DVD but I can't get past kernel panics, that's why I used VMware. Maybe you could shoot me out a copy of your kernel for 10.4.3 who knows. I'm glad it works for you. I have no idea why I can't but there was another person with same mobo and he had same issue to. He just ended up getting a different one.

By the way, have you tried 10.4.4 or .5? I did and had same issue. Thanks again Karthik! I'll send you a PM regarding the files.

[Wardialer]

lemme know how that goes. im ready to list my A8N-VM CSM on ebay and buy the same thing by either MSI, Foxconn, or Gigabyte. not sure if its the chipset (nforce430/410) or the brand (ASUS) but clearly others have had success.

 

what im confused about is why this board is listed as compatible for 10.4.4 in the HCL under the WIKI... do they mean compatible running native or vmware?

 

installed 10.4.4 and 10.4.5 off the myz4r dvd, tried various kexts, disabled everything in the bios, and nothing.

[xlek]

would just like to report success with my A8N-VM CSM (at least getting the installer up), after having these same issues and upgrading to the latest 1002 beta bios only recently released, available at ftp://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket...-VMCSM/1002.zip

 

there was definitely a problem with the motherboard; there were similar issues under Linux/FreeBSD documented as the BIOS had a broken ACPI/DSDT implementation.