[Guide] SNOW on Asus A8N-Sli Premium 64 bit
 

(UPDATED) July 27, 2010

A8N-SLI Premium 4GB with Opteron 165 working like a charm including SLEEP and wake on bluetooth.

This installation is full 64 bits except for the KERNEL by now.

• Boot from a good Leo/Snow pc.
• attach a drive (sata, ata, usb.. as you like)
• do a Chameleon 2 RC4 setup on the above storage
• perform a Snow Leopard Client-Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD setup, mounting the iso, with the doubleclick in the OSINSTALL.Mpkg
• Choose these AD HOC custom installs:
DO NOT INSTALL Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2 (didn't tested it)
Kernel: Legacy_kernel_10.2.0
Graphics: your choice ( I got NVenabler for my 7600GS 256)
Chipset: ANV64bit nforceata avoid Supernforceata. (use kext from zip)
Audio: ALC850-AC97 (use kext from zip) Sound works in 64 bits- By now for me requires PS2 keyboard attached.
Network: Skge (use kext from zip)
SATA_ATA_Fix: IOATAFamily_SATA_Fix

Patches:
Fakesmc (now using this new version http://www.projectosx.com/forum/inde...showtopic=1206)
IOATAFamily_Fix
SMBIOSResolver
UUID
SLEEPENABLER (Select your Version) (use kext from zip)
EVOREBOOT (use kext from zip)
Dont use* Cmos Reset: ElliottForceLegacyRTC
DONT USE nForceLAN, gives problems with SLEEP"
CHECK MY DSDT FILE ADDED!!!!

Some kexts/installers included in attached file.

And one last jewel:

BIOS SETTINGS key to get good performance and avoid the spinning pizza wheel.
Peg Link mode: disabled
Peg Root Control:disabled
Peg Buffer Length: Auto.

Dragonspeed, can you run 32bit apps in 64bit mode? I thought it was not possible yet.

Following your guide on A8n32-SLI Delux (X2 3800+, OC to 2.6GHz)
 

I cannot boot into 64-bit mode, only 32-bit?
"This installation is full 64 bits except for the KERNEL by now." -- Did you mean the same thing? if not, how did you get 64-bit KERNEL working?
Please advise -- thanks a lot ... :-d

-Jack

SNOW on Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
 

Hi dragonspeed,

Thanks for the guide,

I am not sure I can use your DSDT file.


• Boot Snow Leopard Client-Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD - DVD
• Choose custom installs:
- DO NOT INSTALL Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2
Kernel: Legacy_kernel_10.2.0
Boot loader: Chameleon 2 RC4
Graphics: your choice ( I got NVenabler for my Zotac 9500 GT)
Chipset: NforeceATA
Audio: ALC850-AC97
Network: Skge
SATA_ATA_Fix: IOATAFamily_SATA_Fix
Cmos Reset: ElliottForceLegacyRTC
Patches:
FAkesmc
IOATAFamily_Fix
SMBIOSResolver
UUID

WORKS for me

A8n32 -SLI DELUXE X2 3800+ OC to 2.6 GHz
4GB DDR400
Zotac 9500GT 512MB
WD 640 GB Black Ed

SNOW Leopard 10.6.2 on Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
 

xbench -- 118 to 121

updated on A8N32-SLI Deluxe
 

• Boot Snow Leopard Client-Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD - DVD
• Choose custom installs:
- DO NOT INSTALL Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2
Kernel: Legacy_kernel_10.2.0
Boot loader: Chameleon 2 RC4
Graphics: your choice ( NVenabler works for my Zotac 9500 GT, 1600x900)
Chipset: NforeceATA
Audio: ALC850-AC97
Network: Skge
SATA_ATA_Fix: IOATAFamily_SATA_Fix
Cmos Reset: ElliottForceLegacyRTC
Patches:
FAkesmc
IOATAFamily_Fix
SMBIOSResolver (do not select this one, using /Extra/smbois.plist)^_^
UUID

Booting speed improved. No random KP, System Profiler becomes more accurate!!!

A8n32 -SLI DELUXE X2 3800+ OC to 2.6 GHz
4GB DDR400
Zotac 9500GT 512MB
WD 640 GB Black Ed

If you use the latest chameleon you won't need the UUID kext and with a little dsdt mod you can delete elliottforcelegacyrtc too.

Right now I'm using:
AppleAC97Audio
AppleACPIPS2Nub
VoodooPS2Controller
AppleNForceATA
EvOreboot
FakeSMC with plugins (for temp volt and fan)
nForceLAN

Hi eMatoS,
You are right, UUID is not necessary when I use Chameleon 2.0-RC4. I do not know how to edit DSDT.aml for A8n32-SLI Deluxe (Bios:12.5) . I guess I need Linux to be installed first.
Will it be the same as yours? (A8N-SLI ?) if that's the case -- Could you post your DSDT file or I just need to modify it with simple steps?

You can try with this dsdt editor, just extract the DSDT and apply a couple of thoes hacks, like the Snow Leopard CMOS fix, its quite easy to follow.
Once you apply the patches compile the DSDT and a window will popup and tell you if there are any errors or warnings. Some of the errors are listed in the DSDT fix list, so when you fix all the errors you can finally install it, it could be on the root or extra folder, depends on your chameleon's config. To check if it's been loaded you can start chameleon with "Wait=Yes" and check if it's been loaded. You can also specify the DSDT.aml path with something like this on the com.apple.boot.plist:

Hi ematos,
I had big problems with nforce lan and Sleep. I recomend you to use skge,
Have you tried it?