Originally Posted by banini_jeque

I just bought the new EVGA X58 SLI 3, so I guess I'm screwed on native power management for now because it has 6 core support in the first bios. Should I try using one of the older bioses from one of the other boards? If someone got the power management kexts from a new Mac Pro, would that work? Will the 10.6.5 update include a power management kext that will work?

Also, I can't seem to get sound to work. I've tried all kinds of different Legacy kexts including the one from airwalk667's extra folder, along with the hdef section from his DSDT and a stock 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext. I can see the list of outputs and stuff in Apple System Profiler, but theres nothing in the Sound preference pane. Maybe the SLI 3 has a different codec than the ALC 889a? What should I do? lspci gives me 8086:3a3e for the device id, and although I know that's different than the codec id or whatever, I saw that id associated with the ALC1200 in a number of searches. Basically, I don't know how to find out which ALC I have.

EDIT: Crud, figured out how to get it from Linux, looks like I have ALC892. Maybe I should return this SLI 3 and get something else.

Thanks!

BTW I'm not a total noob. I started out on a EP45-DS3L, I was a pioneer on the Zotac IONITX-G-E, I've done an ASUS P6T SE, G41-ES2L, and even an old AsRock P4i65g. Just wanted to put that out there to let people know that for the most part I know what I'm doing, and they don't think I'm a noob.