here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...1&st=0&start=0

and here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...8&st=0&start=0

to start of, it's really a complex process but reading them over and over and asking question will help. Do note that i have speedstep working, wake from aluminum keyboard, shutdown and restart w/o Openhalt kext (or the likes)..

lot's of people help me including xopher, mm67, AudiSport, MC and many more

Good Luck and Merry X-Mass (2 more hours from where i'm from).

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case: G4 Quicksilver ● Snow 10.6.2● Gigabyte G31M-ES2L rev1 F10 Bios ● Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 ● XFX 9600GT Extreme Ed ● 4GB TeamElite Xtreeme 1066Mhz ● PCI 3port Firewire 400 ● PCI Linksys WMP300N v1 ● Apple Magic Mouse ● Apple Aluminum Keyboard ● 23inch Apple HD Cinema Display ● uMacbook Pro 2.4 ● MacMini 1.8 HT ● White 24 iMac 2.16 ●

I'm new to OC'ing... I just tried this... with an 2.5GHZ E5200 and DDR2-800 ram

On the MIT BIOS page I changed
Freq 200 -> 240
PCI Freq Auto->100
SPD Auto->3.3

This gives me 3.0 GHz on the E5200 (in theory the E5200 has much more headroom than this) and maintains 800MHz on the RAM... I think (as I said this is new to me)

SL is booting, have not used long enough to comment on long term stability.. wanted to get feedback from other folks.

My Xbench scores jumped from

Overall 144.03 -> 164.27
CPU 177.30 -> 214.95
Thread 205.34 -> 300.10
Memory 161.36 -> 178.32
Quartz 225.68 -> 270.25
OpenGL 90.05 -> 109.40
User Interface 286.73 -> 349.85
Disk 77.70 -> 75.06

No change in system temp according to iStat and Temperature Monitor.. but as mentioned before I do not actually believe these work, b/c the temps never change and are the same as reported without OCing.

EDIT: on the temp I installed http://macbricol.free.fr/coreduotemp/ and then the 32-bit SL version of MSR Tools (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...80&p=1259137&#) and my temps now do seem to move... again every utility seems to report a DIFFERENT set of temps, but at least now they appear to be move-able. Idling around 37C and peaking around 50C playing Quake 4 with the 5200 at 3.0GHz.

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GA-G31M-ES2L.v1, E6300 @ 2.8GHz, nvidia GT240 (or 9500GT), 10.6.6, fakeSMC rev454

Hi!

I`ve got some problems during installation...

I`ve done everything at is writen in Step by step guide on this thread,

but installation stops responding after initializing ethernet.
(checked in -v mode...)

(onboard audio is disabled because of using ToneportGX USB audio card)

Does any know solution for this? :)

I would be very greatful for help!:)

Discol

My specification:

Motherboard:GA-G31M-S2L
Processor: Dual Core E2160
Graphics Card: ATI 2600XT PCI-E
Pendrive: 16GB usb Toshiba
Hard disk: Sata II 500GB

Which version of the mobo? rev 1 or rev 2? can you try the install w/o the audio card and then put that back in _after_ everything else is working?

EDIT: also I note you have the non-E S2L flavor of this mobo. What are the diffs?

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GA-G31M-ES2L.v1, E6300 @ 2.8GHz, nvidia GT240 (or 9500GT), 10.6.6, fakeSMC rev454

I think this is rev2.

Here is my motherboard specification - i don`t see any differences in comparison to ES2L model...

http://www.gigabyte.eu/Products/Moth...ProductID=2693

also i tried to install with and without onboard audio and external usb...

same problem exists:

System not responding after initializing ethernet.

Should I add other kext files?

I have no idea how to solve problem...

I believe the folks with the rev 2 of the ES2L need a separate NIC. On the rev 1, we have a Realtek chip for LAN, I don't see any LAN chip called out on your mobo specs at Gigabyte. Try booting in linux and do an lspci to see what you have. I believe your ALC662 _is_ supported for audio, but you'll have to track down a kext for that.

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GA-G31M-ES2L.v1, E6300 @ 2.8GHz, nvidia GT240 (or 9500GT), 10.6.6, fakeSMC rev454

Lan chipset onboard is:

realtek 8111

Maybe it causes a problem?

Shouldn't.. that's what is on the ES2L rev 1 (lspci reports Realtek RTL8111/8168B)

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GA-G31M-ES2L.v1, E6300 @ 2.8GHz, nvidia GT240 (or 9500GT), 10.6.6, fakeSMC rev454

Solved!

It freezes because of 2600XT, after booting on onboard x3100 graphics all works fine..

ATI card works after deleting two kext files related to this graphics card.

Now it works without GE/CL support at 1400x1050 resolution on only one DVI.

So tomorrow I will get 9600GT card to get full graphics support! Cheap and with CUDA!

Thanks for help and guide! It is great!

Hi,
I have 10.6.2 installed with the ES2L motherboard ver1

1. In 10.6.1 the screen saver would work but now it will goto sleep but never wakeup. Is there a fix for this?

2. I could not find a post for bios setting for this board. Is there a link someone could post

Thanks inadvance.