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has anyone tried this version of FakeSMC?

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=234452

maybe we'd finally have better temperature reporting.

And has anyone ever gotten the fans to do anything but run at max?

Replacement for g31m

For those who are looking for a replacement for G31M-ES2L....

One morning my motherboard was dead, fans spinning but black screen, no bios, nothing.
After trying a bunch of stuff I decided to get a new board.
I got the GA-G41M-ES2L ver. 1.1
It booted with my hard drive I had set up for the g31m (10.6.4).

Only thing missing was sound. I fixed that by running AzaliaAudio.pkg from this thread at insanelymac:

Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G41M-ES2L

The board look very similar, although my g31 board had nicer, golden heatsinks :-)

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5098/gigabyteq.jpg

Cannot Boot in 64 Bit

I decided to do a complete reinstall of SL and update to 10.6.4. I have had my system running 10.6.1 vanilla perfectly (except auto sleep) in 64 bit following the OP's directions.

This time I used MultiBeast to install SL. I left the <string> for "Kernel Flags" blank in my Boot.plist (as I did before) to boot in 64-bit, but after the Apple logo screen with the circling chasing bars, I never get to the desktop, but instead, I freeze on a blank blue screen. But when I put in "-x32" on the Chameleon screen, I am able to boot into the desktop.

When I type in "ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi" in Terminal, I get ""firmware-abi" = <"EFI64">." So I should be able to boot in 64-bit mode.

How come a system that ran in 64-bit mode under 10.6.1, will not run in 64-bit mode under 10.6.4? I tried using the same boot file, smbios.plist, boot.plist, fakesmc, and much more to get it to work under 64-bit mode.

Updated from 10.6.0 to 10.6.4 Everything works as it did before except sound. Xbench score went up from 147 to 159 including disc tests and seems faster. Perhaps It wasn't running 64bit before and now is? Is there an easy check for this?

Rev 2 board
E6300 2.8
9400 GT QE/CI working out the box. I think this card has native drivers. It's always worked for me and is a decent low end card. 9500 GT IIRC is also native and is a better card.
2GB DDR2 800

edit: tried the azaliaaudio patch above and it worked great. Audio is working again. Make sure you don't have any other kexts loading at the same time or it won't work.

any1 know if this Asus ENGT220 videocard works in our configs?
here to buy
thx

In Case of Sleep and Audio Problems with G31M-ES2L (revs 1 and 2)

I've got Snow Leopard 10.6.4 completely working on the Gigabyte G31M-ES2L (have rev 1 and 2 boards).

If anyone is having Sleep problems, make sure you have the latest SleepEnabler.kext in your Extra/Extensions folder, and it seems that a 'compatible' graphics card (i.e. NVidia or ATI) may be the key to getting sleep to work. I tried to get sleep working on an ASRock mobo, as well as both Gigabyte mobos (Snow Leopard) using the onboard graphics and they would never sleep (same may be true for incompatible graphics cards).

I put a PNY NVidia GeForce 9400 GT into the rev 1 and sleep worked. I put a PNY NVidia GeForce 8400 GS into the rev 2 and sleep worked. I also tried the 9400 in the ASRock mobo - and sleep worked. I'm using the EFI String (via OSX86Tools) for the appropriate graphics card in the system's com.apple.Boot.plist (Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration). I tried the NVEnabler kext before using the EFI String and initially it worked, but then broke after updating the SleepEnable.kext, so for me, the EFI String option has worked best for sleep and graphics. I've been using that method on my rev 1 mobo all year and never had a single problem - and sleep has always worked 100% (with updated SleepEnabler.kexts).

For audio problems, try AppleAzaliaAudio.kext (goes into System/Library/Extensions via 'Kext Helper b7'). I've tried other audio kexts but had problems with them (i.e. audio distortion after sleep), so AAA kext has worked brilliantly for me on 4 different mobos (both Leopard and Snow Leopard) over the last 18 months.

Hi!

Did anyone update to 10.6.5??? No problems?

Thanks

I've performed an update to 10.6.5 and all works apart from sound.

I tried couple of things, such as:
http://www.dailyblogged.com/updating...eopard-10-6-5/
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/

Unfortunately no luck with sound.
If anyone has worked out the sound for the 10.6.5, any help would be appreciated :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by sublimespot (Post 48807)

I put AtherosL1cEthernet.kext in my Extensions folder for LAN success on v2 boards. After doing this I lost sound and have to boot with -f EVERY TIME in order to get the system to boot. grr. Also this v2 board has random crashes quite a bit. My v1 board is rock solid.

I had the same problem. Delete the atherosl1cthernet.kext in E/E and put one in S/L/E, run Kext Utility, and reboot.

It's strange because people with the rev2 board have it in the E/E and it works for them.

Updated today to 10.6.5.

Removed 10.6.4 Sleepenabler, installed 10.6.5, rebooted and installed 10.6.5 Sleepenabler, and ran the 10.6.2 AppleHDA installer. Everything is working great here.