Ran into something new last night.. I had recently moved my hack to serve at HTPC and had swapped in an nvidia GT240 (using DVI out). All worked fine. Then last night, I rebooted and got stuck with a 1024x768 (I think) screen (on my 1080 TV)... the monitors panel showed no other options. When I rebooted again, I noticed a VERY brief error message in top the left corner of the screen right as the countdown counter expires and the myHack screen comes up. The text is there for all of half a second... I tried booting verbose and did not see it... the bet I could make out is something about "bad display ... block...Error: Nvidia ROM patching failed (0x 0)" (this is off of memory, I left my notes at home).

Some googling found other similar reports.. but I did not find any obvious solution... other than pulling the GT240 and putting in a 9500GT I had as a spare... came right back up to 1920x1080 (or as 10.6. seems to like to call it "1080p".

Can anyone point me towards more info on this? I did this install way way long ago.. perhaps is there a newer myHack and/or graphicsenabler I should be installing over what I have now?

also I noticed whatever does this happens before I pick the boot drive in chameleon? ie. even when I switch to my backup drive, the resolution was wrong.

Just to be clear.. everything was working just fine for weeks. Last night I tried to put the machine to sleep, it seemed to get half-way there and then hang... fans blowing full.. so I rebooted and had the bad resolution.

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

Zim,

Do you have a clone for backup? If I was you, I might start trying out different configurations. You could do a fresh install, using iboot. I'm not sure what exactly is going on there. They are using very new Chameleon boot loaders rc2 ver699. those boot loaders have built in graphics card recognition and other new features. May help you out. If you have a bootable clone of your system, you could try just changing the bootloader.

Just some thoughts

I'm having trouble on my eg31m-s2, which is also supposed to be my media center. The resolutions, 1920 x 1080x60 are giving me squiggle lines . making 1080p plasma look like a puzzle. I have to reduce resolution and even then picture is off centered. this is on the 9800gt through dvi-vga.

weird stuff

may just go back to w7

any1 updated to 10.6.7?
any issues? thx

I did successfully update on 10.6.7...
the only think which I must use is pmVersion=21 in the boot sequence.. the rest works OK..
The only difference from prior versions is use of VoodooHDA for audio instead of ALC662.kext
as you probably know G31M-ES2 has ALC662 chip and not ALC882 as many people thinks.

I don't know why my Core2Duo proc is not recognized as Duo but Solo (see first picture)..
Anyone has an idea ??

BR

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Why do you think that g31m-es2l has ALC662 instead of ALC883 (exactly 883, not 882). I have read the specification from gigabyte at http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...px?pid=2889#sp . All motherboard revisions have ALC883.

Also have problem with sound. In Win7 it's more clear and loud than in Mac OS X. Can't solve this problem.

Thanks.

Also updated the Mac Os X without problems. The boot flag is pmVersion=21 too.

Hi,
I have the Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2L. Should the install guide work with this mobo? I am having real trouble getting it to work. I created the USB drive installer using Snow Leopard disk utility in a virtual machine as I don't have a Mac. It all seemed to be working well. modified the plist file etc. Upon reboot and F12 it recognised my drive and I selected the USB thumb drive on the second screen.. then waited.. and waited. Finally the apple logo comes up and then a few seconds later I get a small cirle with a cross through it come up and it just stalls.Any suggestions anyone??

Guys I am stuck after I select the language. It gives me a never ending "preparing installation" screen. How can I solve this?

1-kakewalk with eg41m settings will install and get a basic system running.
2-remove the dsdt from extra folder
3-restart
4-use dsdt auto patcher (find it..google?) select your make and model mobo
5-i removed cmos reset kext from extra
6-repair permissions
7-get newest sleepenabler (each os version upgrade requires new sleepenabler)
http://code.google.com/p/xnu-sleep-e...downloads/list
8-install with kextbeast

besure to follow/read each programs guides, such as kakewalk and kextbeast other wise you will have issues.

thanks to everyone who helped me with this rig. This is the last post in this thread as I am giving my Lion g31m away :-(.