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Old 04-01-2008, 02:13 PM
gev2006 gev2006 is offline
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Hi to all,
this is my configuration :
ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-AP
Chipset 790FX/SB600
AMD Phenom 9500 quad-core processor
RAM 4Gb Kingston DDR800
ATI 1950Pro 256Mb
Seagate 250Gb PATA (Leopard)
Maxtor 320Gb SATA2 (Windows)

Installed System:
Leopard 10.5.2 (from Zephyroth)
Kernel 9.2.0
SB600 kext

My problem is that my system freeze everytime I start an application that use a lot of hard disk read/write...
Some example: client torrent, amule, parallels, stuffit...
It doesn't give me a real kernel panic, but freeze only and I can do nothing, only reboot...
I've read that someone has copied some kext from 10.5.1, but it doesn't work for me...
I've tried also to install new AppleVIAATA.kext, IOATAFamily.kext, IONetworkingFamily.kext,
AppleACPIPlatform.kext, AppleSMBIOS.kext and AppleOnboardPCATA.kext, but nothing changes...

Can enyone help me?...
Thanks

PS: Excuse me for my english
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Old 04-01-2008, 02:26 PM
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are you using ACHI mode for your HDD?
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Old 04-01-2008, 02:34 PM
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i bet his problem is that he has 4 gigs of ram
cut it down to 3 gigs
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Old 04-01-2008, 02:48 PM
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maybe ur right, but maybe the problem is in the ethernet or HD controller, you can try this, edit the apple.com.boot.plist and add this line under kernel flags

"maxmem=3072" (without the quotes)

if the system is stable the remap memory option is the problem, this happens with 32 bit systems and 4gb
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Old 04-01-2008, 02:57 PM
bhast2 bhast2 is offline
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what is the command in the term to do this??

edit nevermind found it
sudo -s
(enter your password when prompted)
cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
nano com.apple.Boot.plist
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Old 04-01-2008, 03:14 PM
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Quote:
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>maxmem=3072</string
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Old 04-01-2008, 03:15 PM
bhast2 bhast2 is offline
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so this allows 4gigs of ram???
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Old 04-01-2008, 03:20 PM
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with this, you are fixing the max memory to 3gb, the system sees 4gb but only uses 3gb
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Old 04-01-2008, 03:21 PM
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ok i understand that so doing this is like taking one of the sticks out
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Old 04-01-2008, 05:39 PM
gev2006 gev2006 is offline
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Thank you so much guys...
Bhast2, you win the bet...
The problem was really the 4gb of ram...
The option "maxmem=3072" in com.apple.Boot.plist solved everything...

Thanks



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