I went head & updated 10.6.4 to 10.6.5 & upon reboot I got message stating "I need to reboot my system holding down the power button". I get this everytime now & no one else seems to be having the same issue as me so I'm lost as to what I need to do.

Thanks in advance.

evga x58 micro
evga 8800gt
i7 920
using newest chameleon bootloader build.

Edit: Found my issue, VooDooHDA no longer wants to play nice with 10.6.5, the only issue is that I no longer have sound. If anyone has a working ALC889 combo that could work on my eVGA x58 Micro mobo, can you please host it or post where I can get it from. A specific guide on installing it would be helpful as well...thank you.

Edit x 2: So for anyone future reference using the eVGA Micro x58 motherboard. If you're using the VoodooHDA kext, with updating to 10.6.5 it'll pretty much wreck your OSX into KP mode. You'll want to remove it completely from your system via Safe Mode if you haven't before installing the update. This does mean no sound for the time being, but below I have a method that you can try to use that worked for me.

1) Download TonyMac's Multi-beast
2) Open Multi-Beast
3) Go through the Prompts until you can see the easy DSDT & User DSDT & etc.
4) At all those check boxes, Go down the boxes until you see Advanced Options & select
5) Should see (Audio, network, & various other things)
6) What you want is Audio of course
7) With using the eVGA x58 Micro motherboard we have the ALC889 Codec
8) Check boxes LegacyHDA889, HDAEnabler889, & 10.6.2 Apple.HDA Rollback
9) Install all three, should be successful.
10) Close Multi-beast - Open Disk Utility > Select OSX Drive > First Aid Tab > Repair permissions > Close DIsk Utility > Restart > Test Sound

Using this method got me updated to 10.6.5 which updates the Apple.HDA audio kext anyways, so VoodooHDA basically kills the system. Anyways, I went from 10.6.5 & no sound , the new update & with sound. Hope this helps even one person.

Thanks msinfo. It didn't work though. I tried it both ways.

VoodooHDA didn't like the dsdt you gave me, but it likes mine fine, probably because I removed my audio device from it since I have ALC892. I always have to delete AppleHDA though.

It was a long shot anyway ... Did you remove sound from dsdt I gave you or did you use your old dsdt? Attached is dsdt without sound device hdef.

I haven't tried that because the pm panics well before the voodoo does, so I didn't think it was worth it. I posted on insanelymac's dsdt fixes for gigabyte boards thread with my dsdt, ssdts, and ioreg output to see if they have any ideas. I think I will keep this board since everything else works, and it's fun to try to work out new frontiers.

Update:
I redid my DSDT, and it's good enough now that I can restart and shutdown without any added kext. I have it attached along with an ioreg dump, my SSDTs, and my boot.plist if anyone wants to look through it.

The only kexts I have in /E/E are:
AHCIPortInjector
fakesmc
IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
JMicronATA
LegacyAGPM
NullCPUPM
PlatformUUID

I would still need one for sleep, but I haven't really looked for one for 10.6.5 yet.

Is working with the EVGA SLI LE E757?
What CDBOOT use?

Thanks.

@shakall, I'm pretty sure you can use the E757, and I bet if you don't use any bios version newer than S71H, you can use the folder these guys are passing around.

@everyone, I've gotten maybe a little closer to getting speedstep on my E767. In my ioreg I have no CPUPLimit, nor do I have CStateInfo. I made a legacy kext based on MacPro5,1, renamed to PowerMac3,4 just for fun, and changed my smbios.plist to PowerMac3,4. I still don't have either of those in my ioreg, but now I get:
I built it in a PowerMac3,4 case if anyone was wondering.

I also updated to bios 77, and now I only get one ssdt.aml instead of two.

Maybe when people start trying to run 32nm 6 core chips on their EVGA boards more people will be trying to get this working than me.

Thx man, me too using bios version 77.

Cool, now we're talking. I'm away from my machine for today (Happy Thanksgiving everybody), and then I have piles of homework, but when I get time, I'm going to be going over this guide a few times. It has something in it about the legacy kext not working right if you put tabs in it instead of spaces when you indent, so that might be a place for me to start. We need to get CStateInfo and CPUPLimit showing up in IOReg under CPU0, Apple_SMC_Platform or whatever. I suspect that somehow, maybe because of something I'm doing wrong, or maybe because of the bios, that C2RC5 isn't loading the C-States even though it says it is.

Hey everyone. I'm putting together a new build for a friend based on an eVGA X58, so thanks for 30+ pages of good info. I've read through a lot of it and tried to retain as much as possible, but still have a couple questions. I just started really working on getting things up and running (hadn't found a good thread like this till today), so I haven't tried a whole lot yet.

The build is: X58 FTW3, i7 920, AMD 5870

Ignoring the GPU for now, because I know most people in here are using NV cards, here are my questions.

1. LAN, For the SLI or Classified most people have, does eth work out of the box? Maybe I missed what everyone is using for a fix there, but I haven't seen anyone mention the RLT811xx driver that I've been using. I need to reread the DSDT patches more carefully, so maybe it's in there. That driver is actually working perfectly for me, but it needs to be installed to /s/l/e and I'd prefer to go another route if there is one.

2. Audio, seems like HDEF in the DSDT and a patched AppleHDA is working well, but some people are still using Voodoo. I'm more used to patching HDA, so planing on doing that unless there's a strong reason not to.

3. USB, I tried upgrading to 10.6.5 once already, but lost USB entirely like some other people did, but I haven't seen anyone report that in this thread. Is that a problem unique to the FTW3? Or will it not be an issue once I get a DSDT built?

4. DSDT, Does anyone know how similar the FTW3 actually is to the SLI or Classified in terms of the DSDT. Those two boards are clearly the most popular here, but maybe I missed someone saying they'd had success with similar patches on an FTW3. I like making mine by hand anyway, so I'll find out soon enough, but just figured I'd ask if it could save me some trouble.

Thanks again for all the work you've already done, and any help you can provide.

YES! Farski, I believe the FTW3 is going to be very similar to my SLI3. I have to use the same ethernet driver. For sound I have to use VoodooHDA because I have ALC892, which won't work with AppleHDA even if you patch it. I think the FTW3 has ALC892 as well. I took the AZAL/HDEF section out of my dsdt so I don't have to delete AppleHDA to prevent KPs from VoodooHDA. I didn't have any usb problems with 10.6.5, aside from the fact that if I booted with the iBoot CD I had, my USB didn't work, so I'm wondering if you're using any tonymacx86 related usb kexts somewhere. I got a new iBoot CD and now that works fine when I need to boot from it. I have everything working including USB3, but excluding SATA3 and speedstep. If you can get speedstep working you're my hero. No one with an EVGA X58 has gotten it to work on bios 44 or newer. You and I are limited to like 76 or 77 since our boards are so new, so we can't use the versions older than 44 that are known to work. I've been trying for months with no luck, so I may switch to a Gigabyte eventually.

cool, good to know about the audio/LAN. Not perfect fixes but certainly easy enough to live with. I'm not too concerned about speedstepping, because I think this machine's either going to be off, or on and gaming or crunching photos. If it's not an easy fix I won't have enough time probably to do any real work on it before I need to ship it off to the owner; sorry I couldn't be more help there.

Looking back I bet I still was booting off iBoot when I had those USB issues in 10.6.5. Once I got an actual install of chameleon going I never even bothered to try again. I had actually also gotten USB3 working in 10.6.4, but can't remember which patched driver I used; do you remember which you're using?

I'm going to read through the thread again this weekend probably to get through most of the DSDT stuff, but are there any notable changes you made for the SLI3 besides HDEF I should know about?

Thanks

I just followed the guides for gigabyte boards. There's a basic one on tonymacx86, and then some more really detailed ones on insanelymac. I have a post a few posts back that has mine with some other things I'm using attached, so you can take a look. The one I'm using now differs slightly from that one, but it's nothing major.

You're really bumming me out on the speedstep though. :'(

Okay so I just want to check to confirm, is the panic that everyone else gets with bioses newer than SZ2Z when trying to load AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement at boot a type 13? Mine is, and I want to make sure everyone else is getting the same one.

Great. Thanks for all the help guys. I'm giving up now and buying an ASUS or Gigabyte even though I don't like the design. At least it will work better.

i just updated mine. no problems at all. all vanilla kext, except for some GPU files for my GTX480 which supports CUDA now and no more vsync issue.

You should make a note in the first post about speedstep not working on the X58 SLI3 or X58 FTW3, and how it only works on the other models if you use the bios version before version 44, which is of course SZ2Z. I changed my mind and haven't completely given up yet, but if I like the Gigabyte X58 G1 when it comes out I'll probably get that.

sure thing. ill just quote you

I've been looking into it more. I'm wondering if I replaced the CPU microcode in bios version 77 from EVGA with the microcode from a Gigabyte X58 board's bios if that would fix it, but I'm not sure if that's really the problem. This is a copy of my post on insanelymac:

On EVGA's website, they list these differences between bios 44, which breaks AppleIntelCPUPM support, and SZ2Z, which enables it:
To me, this suggests three possible causes.

1. The CPU microcode

2. The "Turbo Performance" option

3. Notice how the naming conventions of the bioses change from SZxx to just two digits. Does this mean that perhaps they did a complete rewrite and that the cause of our problem could be something unrelated to the added features in version 44?

iasl link is broken
 

The link in the OP to iasl is broken. Where could one find a copy?

Google: http://www.projectosx.com/forum/inde...topic=386&st=0

The complete ACPICA-utilities are also default part of most Linux/BSD OS-derivates. :)

Just to update everyone a little bit. I've got the ALC892 on my E767 working with AppleHDA now using the new ALC8xxHDA kext from MacMan over at tonymacx86. First I tried to bin patch AppleHDA from 885 to 892, which made it load, but didn't give me sound. Then I switched to the 10.6.2 AppleHDA rollback and now it works.

So, that's a step forward. Almost there.

Still no ability to load AppleCPUPM without the type 13 panic, so no speedstep either. I've been playing with acpiexec to see if I can find something in there, but I don't really get it yet.

Here's my DSDT with the necessary HDEF section for the ALC8xxHDA to work.

Alright, so can someone like airwalk667 or msinfo pleeease make a full acpidump from linux on your X58 SLI and post it? You've got to be using the same bios version (SZ2Z) and settings you're using in OS X. I want to get the whole thing and compare it to my full dump from my X58 SLI3 to find all the differences I can in the acpi table and see if maybe something in there is causing the panic. It's a race to see if newegg has an open box ASUS P6T6 before I make this work.

kernel panic
 

Wow this thread is so huge! I first installed with iBoot + Multibeast and I got a working system. Next, I followed the guide on page 1 exactly along with ALL of the important notes at the bottom. I'm getting a kernel panic when I use the /Extra folder from this guide. When I use my backup /Extra folder I'm ok. I was wondering if I list what I have in there maybe someone could help me figure it out.

Backup /Extra folder that works kexts:

EvOreboot
fakesmc
JMicron36xATA
JMicron36xSATA
LegacyAppleRTC
NullCPUPowerManagement

Airwalk's Extra folder kexts including suggestions at the bottom of post 1:

AHCIPortInjector
fakesmc
HDAEnabler
IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
JMicronATA
LegacyHDA
NullCPUPowerManagement
OpenHalfRestart
PlatformUUID
SleepEnabler

dsdt.aml that I made myself

Here is a photo of my kernel panic:

(attached below)

@neptunet, I suspect sleepenabler. Try booting without it. What board do you have and what bios version?

So my FTW3 started having all sorts of problems mid-December, right when I was going to start honing the DSDT to get things finalized. Getting it replaced was no easy feat, but I finally have a new, working board and it's time to start over. Hopefully I'll have some good news to report herein the next couple of days.

then again..
 

@banini_jeque I have the EVGA X58 SLI, the original one. Also how do I find out what bios version I have? I checked eleet but it didn't say. Also I am having another issue - I went back to my backup Extra folder and my system is hanging now before I get to OS X. I booted in verbose mode and took a screenshot where it hung up.

@farski, are you going to try to get speedstep working? We need to identify a difference between bios versions e758_sz2z and e758_44 that is causing AppleCPUPM to panic, despite our setups meeting it's requirements otherwise. Not sure how to figure that out. Then if we manage that, we have to see if we can do some sort of override, assuming that the cause is the same across all post version 44 evga x58 bioses.

@neptunet, you probably don't have your DSDT quite right. The hangup is probably related to the AppleRTC errors you're getting, so look at your RTC device in your DSDT and compare it other peoples. It should say what bios version you have on the bios boot screen, or on one of the bios setup screens.

@banini_jeque i removed the DSDT.aml from both directories before i took the screenshot.. what do you think of that? do i just need to reinstall?

No, you need to have a modded DSDT, it just needs to be done right. If you're new to this stuff, I'd say use airwwalk's extra folder with his DSDT in it, but delete SleepEnabler. I think SleepEnabler was causing your original issue, and not having a DSDT the second one. Then if you find out your bios version, if it's sz2z you can also delete NullCPUPM and OpenHaltRestart and you should still be able to boot.

@banini hey I went back to my airwalk extra (without the sleepenabler - well I changed the .kext extension but I left it in there) and dsdt but I got the kp I first posted. My bios is sz50. I guess my bios is newer - what do you think of that?

EDIT: dang banini_jeque you did it! i made some edits to the airwalk extra folder - so i dropped in the original folder but put in my custom boot.plist and I booted! Wow.. what a relief to be back in my installation. Thanks for the suggestion. Now I just need to get sound working I guess and then start seeing if anything else is broken. What puzzles me is that originally I had no DSDT or airwalk Extra folder but now my system won't boot up without it! I have no idea what I did. Haha.. I'm so lost. well at least for the moment I have something to fall back on. I guess I'll copy /Extra and make changes one at a time to keep track of what I do.

About the DSDT.. I booted using airwalk's DSDT and I did not get the CMOS reset, so that's good! BUT, I noticed when I decompiled his DSDT that it only has a single entry for RTC length - whereas when I make my own DSDT and decompile it, it comes with 2 RTC length entries in two different headings - not the single "CMS" deal. What is that all about? Is it relevant?

I figure Airwalk probably deleted one of the RTC length sections since you only need one. For sound you just need the legacy kext, and then you need to either bin patch AppleHDA, or get the 10.6.2 rollback AppleHDA. If you google "perl AppleHDA ALC889" you should find the instructions to binpatch, or if you get the tonymacx86 multibeast it will have the 10.6.2 rollback in it. I got fed up with trying to make speedstep work on my SLI3, so I've now replaced it with the ASUS P6T WS Pro. I only need 3 kexts for it to be perfect.

@banini_jeque nice, 3 kexts sounds nice. what does speedstep do?

i have two hard drives - an SSD and a 1.5 TB HD with an HFS+ partition on it that I formatted in disk utility. However, after my initial installation os x isn't seeing it. Any ideas what that's all about? Is it JMicron stuff?

UPDATED to 10.6.6 safely. had some minor issues with the GTX480, but i was able to fix with the nvidia official drivers. make sure to keep your AppleHDA.kext if your going to use a combo update. i was in 10.6.5 then just did the apple software update, had no issues.

@neptunet
try switching the sata cables to the bottom black sata slots. im assuming that you installed OSX in the SSD. if you plugged in the 1.5TB on the top 4 sata [ red, red, black, black ] its usually involves enabling them [jmicron]

@slayer great, nice to hear you got 10.6.6 running smoothly. did you try the tonymac nvidia driver update at all? i have my HDs in sata 0 and 1 - i forget what colors those are, but i think they are vertically stacked. do you know if i need any certain jmicron kexts to enable all those sata ports? i jacked my back up and i'm not looking forward to lifting my case up and changing the cables haha.

Actually got around to putting the new board in this weekend. Seems to be working fine (did a lot of testing in windows), so I started working on OS X. I basically started from scratch, a clean install. But I'm using the exact same boot setup as I was before the breakdown. Same package installer of chameleon, same boot plist and smbios, same extensions. For some reason now I'm having trouble booting, though. It's not panicing or giving me kext errors, no errors at all. Right after I choose the volume to boot, it starts loading for less than half a second and then the computer pretty much turns off. Video goes away and all the fans start running at full speed. Any ideas what could cause that? Never seen a bad kext do it.

@neptunet
is it set to AHCI? it should work by default.

[enable]
[enable]
[AHCI mode]
[AHCI mode]

@farksi
im assuming you have a dual boot setup using chameleon. this is the reason why i chose to dual boot in a different way. i have both installations in separate HDDs. i have windows setup with IDE then Mac with AHCI. whenever i need to go to a different OS i just go to BIOS and set it up as IDE or AHCI depending on the OS.

if not, try using the kext in the first post again if you havnt yet. maybe setting up a new dsdt would help.

likewise, constantly switching that setting in bios....


On another topic here guys but has anyone been able to get netflix to work with our boards? Maybe there's a mod to the boot plist we can do?

netflix is working for me (I assume you have silverlight installed) the second part to get it to work is make sure your ethernet interface shows as "built in"

BTW I took the 10.6.6 update no issues here.

netflix is working for me. Also i just upgraded to 24GB ram, finally i can work with After Affects CS5 with no ram problems... i also haven't booted on my windows install since CUDA is working now.

that's awesome lol doubt you'll ever need to close a program again...think i may need to wipe and reinstall everything soon...got netflix working but i'm having a shitload of permission problems. Cant even enter "su" in terminal anymore, responds, "su:sorry" ....unable to copy and replace items in any system folders I get "you don't have permission" repair permissions doesn't work either :-|

its not a delete its a decrease from 4 to 2 in the dsdt

do you know of any way to transcode digital video (avi, divx, xvid, h264) using GPU?

Long story short if I download a movie and need to transcode it is there a way to do the transcode to h264 using GPU ?

you will need a CUDA enabled GPU, if your not aware of it already. Ive been transcoding/encoding through premiere pro cs5 and it shows significant time changes. I used to transcode videos for about 1-2 hours before. Now it only takes 10 - 15 minutes to transcode with the GTX480. i am not aware of any other programs that utilizes the GPU for transcoding, but im sure Premiere Pro Cs5 uses gpu acceleration for the mercury playback engine and exporting videos. So maybe you could put the (avi, divx, xvid, h264) in the timeline and export the video to whatever format you prefer. I havent tested Adobe Media Encoder CS5, but i think it uses the same programming for export. So maybe you could just use Media Encoder, but im not entirely sure about the GPU accelerated encoding since im always in Premiere Pro.

AND heres the other option that i havent tried. this looks promising, but not sure about the mac version

http://www.movavi.com/videoconverter/

UPDATED tutorial with new links. DSDT creation. added "Intel Speed step, turbo boost note". added quotations for better organization of steps.

If anybody wants me to add any useful links in the first post just message me or tell me here in the thread

-slayer

xxxslayeriiixxx,

i have evga x58 classified too but the 759 model, although my system is up and running im wanting to know if your dsdt would work on my mobo too im using bios 74, is there anything i would need to change in smbios like UUID etc...

im running 980x i7 @ 4.2
kingston hyper x 2000 mem 6gb
evga classified 759 mobo
Ati HD5970 x 2 crossfire x

thanks

i would suggest to create your own DSDT.aml, but you could always try. also change your smbios.plist according to your hardware specifications like RAM, the mac model you want, etc...

Wow, very nice setup - congrats! If I m not mistaken you've got six core cpu, right? If so this would be an interesting test to see if you are going to get native power/turbo running with newer than we are all using BIOS. At a minimum I would expect that you need to modify CPU section for six/12 core (it is four/8 right now) and generate your own ssdt files.

PS You might be able to get away with auto-generated ssdt tables if you are using RC5