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Old 09-19-2009, 06:29 AM
kylejohn kylejohn is offline
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Error installing SL on GA-G31M-ES2L Rev 2.0

Hello all,

Having issues on my board installing SL. I am using the guide from <http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09...art-to-finish/>. Also I should warn that I am fairly new to the community so bear with any noobness on my part. This is a clean install on a unformatted HDD using retail DVD with image and bootloader on USB.

My system seems to constantly get stuck right after

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin: ushCPU_CstData - _CST Evaluation Failed.

I have tried a variety of things including starting in safe mode, cpus=1, acpi=off, etc but keep getting stalling up on the same spot. Here is a photo of the error. It looks like it gets held up right on that...

Also my system is as follows:
CPU type:Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Motherboard: GA-G31M-ES2L Rev 2.0 (does not support AHCI)
ATI Radeon HD 4850, 512mb
240 gig SATA HD
4 gigs Samsung ram
LG Super-Multi DVD/CD R/W

Any advice or tips would be helpful. This stuff gets frustrating!
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Old 09-19-2009, 08:29 AM
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Firstly stop using that Lifehacker guide. It's for a different board. FYI, there's no such thing as generic install.

I would recommend you follow this instead:

http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/guide...or-g31m-t3672/

Mac OS X 10.6.4 Retail || Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz || Gigabyte G31M-ES2L || GeForce 6600 GT 128MB || Realtek ALC883 Audio || Realtek RTL8169 LAN || Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB HD || Sony Dual Layer IDE DVD RW DW-D22A || Apple Aluminium Keyboard || Mighty Mouse

MacBook Pro || 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo || 200Gb HD || 2Gb Ram || NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

iPhone 4 || 16Gb
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Old 09-28-2009, 10:16 AM
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G31M-ES2L Rev2 Sound

Hey any luck on this? I have my install working on rev2 with a PCI nic, efi string for GFX card, but no sound. I have tried almost every KEXT out there for this ALC883 with no luck. There is only one method I have not tried something like HDApatcher I think but it sounds complicated. Any ideas? Thanks PM's would be appreciated if you reply on the forum so I know it is there.

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Old 09-29-2009, 05:52 AM
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Hey any luck on this? I have my install working on rev2 with a PCI nic, efi string for GFX card, but no sound. I have tried almost every KEXT out there for this ALC883 with no luck. There is only one method I have not tried something like HDApatcher I think but it sounds complicated. Any ideas? Thanks PM's would be appreciated if you reply on the forum so I know it is there.

Acid810

Hey thanks for the late reply. I never did get much figured out for this problem. Posted on a few boards but never got much help so decided to try windows 7. What method did you use to actually get it installed? Same board and gfx card? Maybe I can give it another shot and just pick up a new sound card if I can get it working like you.

Would much rather prefer running on OSX

Cheers, and thanks for the reply. Hope you can offer some help!
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Old 09-29-2009, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by acid810 View Post
Hey any luck on this? I have my install working on rev2 with a PCI nic, efi string for GFX card, but no sound. I have tried almost every KEXT out there for this ALC883 with no luck. There is only one method I have not tried something like HDApatcher I think but it sounds complicated. Any ideas? Thanks PM's would be appreciated if you reply on the forum so I know it is there.

Acid810
hi,
try this link.
http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/guide...or-g31m-t3672/
i used the above guide and am having 99 % Mac .Sound, ethernet, 64bit kernel , USB, restart,shutdown all working perfectly. Only thing that i miss from a original mac is the quite operation of the machine. since this is a desktop i have quite a few fan sound.
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Old 09-29-2009, 01:44 PM
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Re: GA-G31M-E2SL Guide

Thanks for the suggestion, I actually used that guide to do my install as well. I tried the latter of the two sound options:


Extensions: (Universal)

fakesmc - now updated to V2, visit netkas blog for the updated kext.
NullCPUPowerManagement
OpenHaltRestart
PlatformUUID - edit this to include your UUID
SleepEnabler
audio:
LegacyAppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver
LegacyHDAPlatformDriver
or proceed to page 9 and look for Voyn1x post if you wanna use one kext (LegacyALC883.kext)

I cant seem to find the "LegacyAppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver" and "LegacyHDAPlatformDriver" anywhere. I am fairly familliar with Mac os, this is my second system, I used the first one for 6 months without booting into windows until Windows 7 RC1 came out. I have admittedly been back on Windows 7 since then. It is really good but I love Mac OS for Audio production. I just seems smoother and I like the software and interface better for that. Windows I use for managing my video and music collection as well as gaming. Anyhow, further suggestions for this REV 2.0 board would be great!

Acid810
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Old 09-29-2009, 11:27 PM
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Did you guys have a working partition of OSX before hand? Im working from scratch on this. I do have a mac laptop though with SL on it that I can use to make the partition and everything. Heard you could just update directly to SL without previously having OSX installed.

Any advice? Thanks in advance. I was having probs installing both OSX and SL on this machine when I was trying. Created quite the headache
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Old 09-30-2009, 10:51 AM
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Previous Install

I tried it from 10.5.6 but I had problems so then I followed a guide that allowed using retail installed from USB disk. Specifically for this board on this forum as well. I have a nice running system. One problem...... No audio.. No matter WTF I try. It is killing me....

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Old 10-07-2009, 12:38 PM
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Hello everyone !

First, I would like to thank every member of the community for being so active and helpful.
i'm pretty active myself on the osx86 scene, but since I rarely get desperate (I always end up finding an answer to my problems) I rarely post. So i will try to keep the story short.

The story started a couple months ago when i stumbled across a guide to install mosX on a gygabite P35C-DS3R ( my media center) and since then, i'm trying (with a lot of succes!) to install osX on all sort of configurations.

Last week, after a friend gave me a buggy dell server he had, i realised I had all the hardware i'd need to build another hackintosh except for a motherboard:

-Pentrium D dual core @ 2.8 ghz
-1x 2gig OCZ ddr2-800 ram
-2x 80 gig sata drives
-1x IDE or SATA optical combo drives
-1x decent psu

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I tough i'd give myself a break and go buy the legendary g31m-es2l board from a local store. its the rev 2.0 but i have a realtek 8139 NIC laying arround. Well... i've never had as much trouble trying to install osX on a machine

I post because (even tho i'm not a pro) i'm running out of options to try. I have the feeling its something really stupid, so here I am asking for help.

Motherboard G31m-es2l v2.0 with bios FC.
I really want to try the retail install methos on this board but i can't even getthe osx retail disk to boot, so for now i'll skip that part and tell you what else i tried.

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The problems is that after every installation i do (and the installation goes fine) the comp enters into a reboot loop. I'll try to explain where it reboots in my own words. When, after you get into the chameleon logo, you boot with -v for example. the computer starts looading a couple files then switches video mode (it seems, at least to me) That's where my comp reboots. It also happens with the 132boot method. I pop the boot CD in, see the lunix bootloader, eject it, put the Leopard retail disk, boot on it, and it does the same thing. starts loading then tries to switch video mode and reboots.

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What i tried so far:

-Partition using GUID and MRB, tried both
-BIOS settings : sata in all modes (enhanced, auto, combined, etc) disabled/enabled the onboard lan, HPET in 32 ans 64 bits mode, ACPI S1 and S3, soft off (instant off), SMART enabled and disabled, Disabled onboard IDE and enabled it... tried to looad default and optimised settings...
-tried my 7800gtx witch i know is working on osX (used in other setups) to bypass the onboard video i was using for a while (didnt mind to be stuck in 1024 for now, but tought it might be the problem)
-tried installing from an IDE AND sata optical drive(ideneb 1.5.1 and iatkos v7 for now since 132 method reboots.
-tried another PSU just in case
-in iatkos and/or iĐeneb, I keep the default kernel, but i tried to install with and without the realtek drivers for my 8139 based NIC, with and without the x3100 video drivers, tried with and without the cpus=1 boot and patch from the installation, tried with and without an intel ICHXX chipset driver, tried with and without every audio drivers... No matter what I try, it always reboots at the exact same spot.
-tried to boot with -v, with "CPUS=1", forcing the resolution to 1024, alouette !!!

I think i did all i could, and read sooo many threads hoping to find what i did wrong...
i now admit my defeat (for now!) and turn to you guys and girls for a little help.

gave a lot of details, i know, but i tought it would be better than not enough.
My goal is to practive my retail install skill with with board (10.5 and SL), that's why i'm posting here.

I also speak french if you are more comfortable giving advices in french!

thanks alot in advance !

Guillaume
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Old 10-09-2009, 05:31 PM
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I managed to get SL retail to install on my rev 2.0 board without too much fuss. First of all, upgrade to the latest BIOS - it seems to resolve a few GSOD issues I had with earlier versions.

First thing I did was the usual DSDT RTC patch - I did this with a Debian LiveCD and iasl.

As for your install media, do the typical thing of copying the SL Retail DVD to an 8+ GB USB drive and then install Chameleon 2.0 RC3 from http://chameleon.osx86.hu/. Replace the /boot file with the PC EFI 10.3 version and setup your boot.plist as needed. Copy your new DSDT.aml over at this point too.

I threw the extra kexts in /Extra/Extensions - all I used was
NullCPUPowerManagement
fakesmc (version 2 from netkas)
OpenHaltRestart

As it stands now, I boot into 64bit without an issue. I don't have audio, or ethernet working yet but I haven't had much time to tinker since I installed on Wednesday. Based on everything I've read, ethernet is a lost cause on the rev 2 board - I'm just going to pick up a $10 PCI card and be done with it. Audio doesn't look like it should be an issue to get it working... couple of kexts and a DSDT patch.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, once you're installed, boot with -x32 initially, run KExtUtility, repair permissions, and then you should be able to boot 64 bit.



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