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JoeTheWise · #1 02-29-2008, 09:28 PM

Maybe you are right K235, on my A8N SLI I always had that configuration in BIOS (I never used the game and MIDI ports on PC in my all life...) and audio with AC97 always worked from MacOS X 10.4.8 to 10.5.2...

K235 · #2 02-29-2008, 09:39 PM

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[cite] JoeTheWise:[/cite]Maybe you are right K235, on my A8N SLI I always had that configuration in BIOS (I never used the game and MIDI ports on PC in my all life...) and audio with AC97 always worked from MacOS X 10.4.8 to 10.5.2...

So I may actually be on to something

Now the only problem is to understand why those settings are impeding the ALC850 to work when turned on... a conflict between the MPU401 and the actual SP or maybe the fact that the MPU401 is obsolete and therefore (may) not being supported by OSX... that's the dilemma... I'll post some more findings as soon as I'll be back home, thinking of fiddling around with the IRQs and Memory addresses of the devices.

eMatoS · #3 02-29-2008, 10:55 PM

K235 and JoeTheWise
In my A8N-SLI I always had midi and game port active, and it always worked out of the box. Anyway, you should try, perhaps your motherboard gives different IRQ directions to ports.

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[cite] wongbingo:[/cite]

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[cite] eMatoS:[/cite]That's exactly the same error as mine! And I'm also booting the installation from a HD partition.
I'll try to burn a DVD and see what happens.

this is the screenshot, sorry for the painfull quality it's taken with my cellphone.

EDIT: you're right!!!! it passed that error, and then gave me another one, SAM Multimedia Error. I've checked and it's related to a bad DVD, so I'll try again, damned toast!

Hi eMatos,

I have exactly the same error as yours and still stucks at there now.
Would you pls tell me how to slove it? Thanks for your help!!!!!!!!!!

My error was to install from my HD, so I burned a DVD and it worked fine. Hope that's your problem too.

Good luck!!!

K235 · #4 02-29-2008, 11:26 PM

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[cite] eMatoS:[/cite]K235 and JoeTheWise
In my A8N-SLI I always had midi and game port active, and it always worked out of the box. Anyway, you should try, perhaps your motherboard gives different IRQ directions to ports.

My error was to install from my HD, so I burned a DVD and it worked fine. Hope that's your problem too.

Good luck!!!

I actually installed it from a DVD (burned at 4X) as well and believe me, there was no stone I left unturned, looked at more than a fair share of discussions and tried everything (including re-installing OSX about 3 or 4 times... sigh) - I guess it may be a "problem" with the Premium version of the A8N-SLI or maybe the date of purchase may influence this factor (newer versions of the motherboard???) - only ASUS would be able to track the issues... but somehow I do not think they'd like to be involved

eMatoS · #5 03-01-2008, 01:38 AM

What about the Bios update?
It seems the last one is 1303, although some people got back to 1302 and older due to some issues.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20070217064414981&board_id=1&model=A8 N-SLI+Premium&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

Check the ASUS forum:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=A8N-SLI+Premium&SLanguage=en-us

There seems to be manys problems with the onboard sound device, maybe there's a workaround for you.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080105065334656&board_id=1&model=A8 N-SLI+Premium&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

I don't know where I got it from but my bios is rev 1604, and the official sites have the 1603 as last beta, maybe there's a newer version for the premium hidden in the net.

K235 · #6 03-01-2008, 03:16 AM

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[cite] eMatoS:[/cite]What about the Bios update?
It seems the last one is 1303, although some people got back to 1302 and older due to some issues.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20070217064414981&board_id=1&model=A8 N-SLI+Premium&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

Check the ASUS forum:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=A8N-SLI+Premium&SLanguage=en-us

There seems to be manys problems with the onboard sound device, maybe there's a workaround for you.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080105065334656&board_id=1&model=A8 N-SLI+Premium&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

I don't know where I got it from but my bios is rev 1604, and the official sites have the 1603 as last beta, maybe there's a newer version for the premium hidden in the net.

That's very interesting... My BIOS version is not the latest (V. 1009) and my initial thought was that, so I updated the BIOS (1302 1st then 1303) but no cigar, as I said that was the only solution I found (for now); but the fact of you having a BIOS revision 1604 intrigues me... who knows if there's anything that a "hacked" bios could do about these issues.
Thank you for these information, may be very helpful in shedding some light on this obscure problem.

eMatoS · #7 03-01-2008, 06:48 AM

Hey, what about Quicktime 7.4????? I have 7.2 installed.

eaglepride605 · #8 03-01-2008, 07:30 AM

whats the best program to read and maybe even write HFS+ from a 64-bit windows,
macdrive 7 doesnt support 64-bit
transmac crashes every time i open it

thanks

cybland · #9 03-01-2008, 08:45 AM

eaglepride605

I've had the same problem with Transmac until I've installed it to C:\Program Files\Transmac (instead of offered C:\Program Files x86). Also if you're using the cracked Transmac v7.5 from TPB know that supplied cracked .exe is corrupted. I've attached a working cracked exe.

edited by roisoft: NO WAREZ LINKS HERE, OK? THANKS

wongbingo · #10 03-01-2008, 08:58 AM

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[cite] eMatoS:[/cite]K235 and JoeTheWise
In my A8N-SLI I always had midi and game port active, and it always worked out of the box. Anyway, you should try, perhaps your motherboard gives different IRQ directions to ports.

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[cite] wongbingo:[/cite]

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[cite] eMatoS:[/cite]That's exactly the same error as mine! And I'm also booting the installation from a HD partition.
I'll try to burn a DVD and see what happens.

this is the screenshot, sorry for the painfull quality it's taken with my cellphone.

EDIT: you're right!!!! it passed that error, and then gave me another one, SAM Multimedia Error. I've checked and it's related to a bad DVD, so I'll try again, damned toast!

Hi eMatos,

I have exactly the same error as yours and still stucks at there now.
Would you pls tell me how to slove it? Thanks for your help!!!!!!!!!!

My error was to install from my HD, so I burned a DVD and it worked fine. Hope that's your problem too.

Good luck!!!

Thanks for your help, eMatoS!!

For my case, I burned at 4X and boot from DVD already, still get the same problem.
Any other hints on this ?