Snow Leopard on 945GZ Motherboard?

[pygoscelis]

Any idea if Snow Leopard can run on an Intel 945GZ based mobo with Pentium D? It has GMA 950 (2772). The manufacturer of my mobo is Biostar (Model 945GZ MICRO 775 SE).

[ArcticRift]

Good morning,

There is hope for the 945 crowd.... I haven't tested Sound... and graphics are set to 1024x768...

Pentium D 3Ghz D920 I think...
3Gig DDR2 800MHZ ram
Intel 945GM motherboard
GMA 950 Graphics
Sata hdd.....

Had to spend a day on getting it booting etc... used IOATA and IntelATA... smbois and other kexts from this forum... with 432 kern for AMD... but working FAST and stable

[ut2211]

Originally Posted by ArcticRift Good morning, There is hope for the 945 crowd.... I haven't tested Sound... and graphics are set to 1024x768... Pentium D 3Ghz D920 I think... 3Gig DDR2 800MHZ ram Intel 945GM motherboard GMA 950 Graphics Sata hdd..... Had to spend a day on getting it booting etc... used IOATA and IntelATA... smbois and other kexts from this forum... with 432 kern for AMD... but working FAST and stable

I have a 945Gc ICH7 with sata disk.
I have KP with appleintelpiixata (netkas)
Please give more details: bootloader, kext etc.
Thank you.

[ArcticRift]

Heya.... to give you a quick breakdown...

I used the "How to get it running on an AMD pc" guide and the "Install Snow Leopard how to from the sticky...

That mostly helped with the dsdt.aml and UUID settings... trust me it is important.

I used the following files that are all around on the forum:

Kernel for amd Snow 10a432
AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext
IOATAFamily (When I added this in the end... everything worked for me )
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
OpenHalRestart.kext
PlatformUUID.kext
boot efi 10.1


The rest of the files are from the guides as mentioned. LIke I said... the UUID and dsdt.aml... with the kexts was very important.

I have all my kexts in the extras folder... except the two ATA ones... i copied them to the S/L/E folder and repaired permissions with chmod and chown..

And it works...

GMA 950 isn't workin 100% yet, and I get kern panic on full screen RSS screen saver or any video I want to run... but I think the solution is in adding the efi strings.

It loads the driver... but at the moment.. when I have time... I will look in to it further.

Good luck... it's worth it.... had 10.5.7 running and 10.6 is a LOTT faster for me

ps...was so busy following between these guides... will try and see if I left anything out...

plus I am booting with just -v

[ut2211]

Thank you ArcticRift,

I will try you suggestions this evening. I have a core 2 duo so I think vanilla kernel will be fine.

Regards

[spammon]

Originally Posted by ArcticRift Heya.... to give you a quick breakdown... I used the "How to get it running on an AMD pc" guide and the "Install Snow Leopard how to from the sticky... That mostly helped with the dsdt.aml and UUID settings... trust me it is important. I used the following files that are all around on the forum: Kernel for amd Snow 10a432 AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext IOATAFamily (When I added this in the end... everything worked for me ) NullCPUPowerManagement.kext OpenHalRestart.kext PlatformUUID.kext boot efi 10.1 The rest of the files are from the guides as mentioned. LIke I said... the UUID and dsdt.aml... with the kexts was very important. I have all my kexts in the extras folder... except the two ATA ones... i copied them to the S/L/E folder and repaired permissions with chmod and chown.. And it works... GMA 950 isn't workin 100% yet, and I get kern panic on full screen RSS screen saver or any video I want to run... but I think the solution is in adding the efi strings. It loads the driver... but at the moment.. when I have time... I will look in to it further. Good luck... it's worth it.... had 10.5.7 running and 10.6 is a LOTT faster for me ps...was so busy following between these guides... will try and see if I left anything out... plus I am booting with just -v

Works for me! Confirming for an ECS 945GZT-M motherboard. I followed your instructions. I use the nVidia 9400GT so that was working with the correct EFI String.

For anyone else that may be wondering:

* Use the kexts and follow the install instructions.
* Make sure you visit the AMD thread below for more information on the modbin kernel
* Use the bootloaders from the AMD thread. I had no luck using the modbin kernel with Chameleon r431 and better luck with r640. The thread has all the necessary files and kexts!

[AMD] Snow Leopard 10A432 Install

*Do not forget to use the kext utility to rebuild your caches.

Note: I cannot get 64bit with this kernel. I personally prefer the 32bit kernel but anyone who is looking to go 64bit will have until another kernel or method is released.

MB: ECS 945GZT-M v1.0
CPU: 1.8 Ghz Pentium Dual-Core E2160
GPU: 512 Mbyte nVidia 9400GT
RAM: 2 Gbytes
Drives: 80gb SATA, 80gb PATA, DVD+RW PATA

Thanks!

[tomahawk]

I to have a 945, i think my configuration caused issues though.

I am currently dual booting windows 7 (with easy bcd) and leopard 10.5.8. Installed SL to a separate SATA drive and used the kernel that Artic suggested.

Upon boot the SL SATA drive is not even showing up for me to pick from, i installed boot efi 10.1as well and placed boot in root of SL partition, no go.

Back to the drawing board for me I guess, I wonder if i should ditch windows 7 for now? Are you guys running windows as well or just leopard and SL?

Also, any help with the dsdt.aml step would be appreciated.

[pygoscelis]

Could you attach a zip file with the kexts you used? Oh is the AMD guide the one on InsanelyMac?

[ArcticRift]

Heya... this is a quick one... most of the kexts should be in here... there was an amd guide on this forum first the other forum post os a copy. The Kernel is the one called AMD 432 and not test 7

Good luck... trust me... just as you want to lose hope... it will boot... and you will smile all weekend

[ArcticRift]

Quick note... this will leave you with USB keyboard and mouse...

The other kext files... is on this forum, under important files... updated regurlaly