[GUIDE] Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L

[ayame]

Hi guys,

thanks for this very good Thread. I user my Hack since 3 months, all is going perfectly. I assembled many hacks, and this hack is going the best way of all ! THANKS !

But one question is left. I have the problem, that i can't shutdown the hack. Sleep is going well, but restart and shutdown isn't going. It hanks at the blue background where this circle rotates

Does anyone knows if this is normal ?

[macdaddy247]

Hi All,

Would really appreciate some help.

I followed the above install, and it has gone pretty well, apart from the sound, which I'm going to tackle later.

Anyway, more importantly is the ethernet. I am using a small case and am limited with PCI slots (so no space for wifi card).

I was aware that the onboard ethernet wouldn't work (or so I have read). So bought a startech st100slp ethernet card.

It shows up as working on the system, but when I go to network, there is a red light next to it.
Anyone know how to get it working for the internet?

Thanks in advance!

[zim2dive]

Originally Posted by macdaddy247 Anyway, more importantly is the ethernet. I am using a small case and am limited with PCI slots (so no space for wifi card). I was aware that the onboard ethernet wouldn't work (or so I have read). So bought a startech st100slp ethernet card.

You didn't explicitly say.. you have a rev 2 mobo? (rev 1 NIC works)

[macdaddy247]

Hi,

Yes, sorry it's rev 2.
The onboard ethernet is completely dead and not recognised by SL.
So I added the card, and everything started off fine -SL picked up the ethernet card in "about this mac.

But, when I try to connect to the net, it tells me that there is some sort of problem with the connection. The ethernet has a red light next to it (as opposed to green) and it's not listed in networks, so I can tweak its settings.
Is there a driver that I need? Couldn't find one for a startech card.p

thanks!

[dencraig]

Originally Posted by lflashl fir the G3 board, press f12 @ boot then select HD and there USB flash drive is in there, you could try this!

Thanks: I did and it did! Thanks again.

[matthewordie]

I followed the instructions for creating the USB Bootable drive. When I turn on my computer and hit F12 for boot menu... I use USB-FDD and USB-HDD. I've tried both, but neither works. It just sits there and says:

Verifying DMI Pool Data.....


Did I do something wrong when I created my USB Drive? Everything seemed to go smoothly on the mac side.

[GigaMac]

matthewordie
Did you use a MacOX 10.4 to create the USB boot disk? I saw someone posted similar problem due to using a Tiger instead of Leopard (or SL) to create the boot disk.

[cgates30]

I did the 10.6.2 combo update from a fresh install. Removed the old sleepenabler and installed the new one before rebooting. Everything seems to work well except I get a message that my external hdd wasn't properly ejected when I wake the computer up. Is there a fix for this?

[matthewordie]

I used Leopard. 10.5.8 I believe.

[yogi446]

"message that my external hdd wasn't properly ejected when I wake the computer up. Is there a fix for this?"

Yes, you need to edit your DSDT, many fixes posted on various forums. Do some googling.