naquaada
05-18-2008, 06:36 PM
Hi guys, here we can talk about BIOS settings. But first about the Toast thing, maybe it could help someone.
Since I upgraded my Board to the Opteron 185 and 4 Gig RAM, I couldn't save or burn bigger (>1GB) toast images anymore, it always crashed at 39-45%. I had no idea what it could be. Was it the Opteron? It worked on all Athlon 64 with similiar boards and up to 3 Gig RAM. Later I took out some RAM bars and then it worked, with 2 Gig only. But I needed more RAM. During my overclocking experiments I found in two DRAM setting entries with mapping over 4GB. My board can only handle 4 GB, so I disabled them. After this Toast worked again.
Maybe we should take a look at the BIOS settings and share experiences. How much is the BIOS used from OSx86? Sometimes it seems it don't cares about it at all. I had a NEC DVD-RW drive which wasn't detected in BIOS at all. In MacOS it was available and I can even burn with it. Some boards needs to diable USB Legacy support, some don't. What settings should be used fpr Plug'n'Play OS? I have it set to 'No.'
What you can do if you use your PC only for MacOS is to disable all unneccessary components, like parallel port, gameport, midi port, modem, not supported RAID or LAN controllers and of course the floppy disk controller. If you don't need all hard drive ports set the drive type to 'none', this speeds up booting.
Any Ideas?
Since I upgraded my Board to the Opteron 185 and 4 Gig RAM, I couldn't save or burn bigger (>1GB) toast images anymore, it always crashed at 39-45%. I had no idea what it could be. Was it the Opteron? It worked on all Athlon 64 with similiar boards and up to 3 Gig RAM. Later I took out some RAM bars and then it worked, with 2 Gig only. But I needed more RAM. During my overclocking experiments I found in two DRAM setting entries with mapping over 4GB. My board can only handle 4 GB, so I disabled them. After this Toast worked again.
Maybe we should take a look at the BIOS settings and share experiences. How much is the BIOS used from OSx86? Sometimes it seems it don't cares about it at all. I had a NEC DVD-RW drive which wasn't detected in BIOS at all. In MacOS it was available and I can even burn with it. Some boards needs to diable USB Legacy support, some don't. What settings should be used fpr Plug'n'Play OS? I have it set to 'No.'
What you can do if you use your PC only for MacOS is to disable all unneccessary components, like parallel port, gameport, midi port, modem, not supported RAID or LAN controllers and of course the floppy disk controller. If you don't need all hard drive ports set the drive type to 'none', this speeds up booting.
Any Ideas?