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Member #10,411 · 2009-08-27 → 2010-10-19
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@simsim

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Member Number #10,411 Joined 2009-08-24
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-08-27 → 2010-10-19
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
One morning my motherboard was dead, fans spinning but black screen, no bios, nothing. · After trying a bunch of stuff I decided to get a new board. · I got the GA-G41M-ES2L ver. 1.1 · It booted with my hard drive I had set up for the g31m (10.6.4).
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#405 of 6,691 by Dispatches (18 notes) · #62 by Thread Reach (2,411,300 cumulative reads)
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Member #10,411 · Joined 2009-08-24
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Gigabyte G31M / P35 (4) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (3) · Retail DVD / USB (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (3) · DSDT (3) · ALC889a / Audio (3)
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (18)

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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“For those who are looking for a replacement for G31M-ES2L… One morning my motherboard was dead, fans spinning but black screen, no bios, nothing. After trying a bunch of stuff I decided to get a new board. I got the GA-G41M-ES2L ver. 1.1 It…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-10-19
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Updated to 10.6.4. Removed sleepenabler before update. Only problem after restart was sound but AppleHDA.kext from 10.6.2. made it work again. 32bit rev 1 board kexts in extra: fakesmc.kext LegacyAppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver.kext LegacyHDAP…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-06-26
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“@ zim2dive regarding backup strategy. I believe you have to install chameleon separately, thats what I had to do. I was in that situation you described with the 10.6.3 update. I had made a backup before trying the update, (with superduper, …”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-04-16
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Reading the comments on netkas.org concerning 10.6.3 update I came upon the following by "mac_dude". "As I see there is no more 64 bit Support for GForce 7xxx Cards in 10.6.3 " Might explain my problems when updating.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-31
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I had to reverse to 10.6.2 Got a blue screen with 10.6.3 Removed sleepenabler before updating. Maybe it's something to do with my graphics card (7300). I'll just have to wait awhile before updating, see what develops. G31m-ES2L E6300@ 2.8 7…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-30
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Regarding IDE drives. My backup clone is on a IDE drive and boots fine, also the dvd drive I sometimes connect is IDE. I don't use any special kexts. It's just a hassle to get the little jumpers right on the drives, the master/slave thing. …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-14
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Thanks Andy, adding the quotes in the extracted dsdt where you indicated made it compile without errors (still warnings). I just wonder why everybody hasn't got the same problem. I have the 1.1 version of the board and F8 Bios.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-20
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Thanks, booting without dsdt helped. I still get 2 warnings and 2 errors though, so I need to work on it. Besides, everything works fine the way it is so I'm not too motivated Also I have no idea what for example "Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerial…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-19
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I also have a question regarding DSDT. I'm using the supplied DSDT from the original guide. Do you have to boot without dsdt to extract it correctly? I'm wondering because I can't compile a new one using the steps in the guide. Also, can't …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-19
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I updated to 10.6.2. Removed the old sleep enabler before updating. Got kernel panic. Checked Netkas site, saw this: "There is panic with geforce7 cards and 64-bit kernel mode, use 32-bit kernel mode". I have a 7300 card. In 32 bit everythi…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-11
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“In case someone made the same mistake as me… When I was reinstalling my stuff I couldn't get sound for a while, until I realised I was manually making the mkext in /extra by combining the kexts in S/L/E and Extra. It should only contain the…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-19
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I have everything as in the first post and automatic sleep works for me without PleaseSleep as well. 32 and 64 bit both. Only difference is I don't have a bonjour fix. Weird thing though, if you set Display and Computer to sleep after, say …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-02
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“good to know, maybe its just a bug then. I never used chess before, only to test for qe/ci”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-28
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Chess kernel panic. Chess kernel panics in 64 bit as soon as I move the mouse. Front Row and the ripple effects in dashboard work fine though. Chess is fine in 32 bit kernel. It makes me wonder if I have qe/ci only in 32 bits or if its not …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-28
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Thanks for explaining about mkexts, I also found rebuilding the mkext helped me avoid kp when installing little snitch.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Thanks for your update to this great guide, new files worked fine. I wonder, what is the purpose of making your own mkext file? I don't have one on my EFI partition, would it make the boot time shorter if I had? Another thing I discovered j…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-06
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I followed this guide to update my 10.5.6 to snow leopard. Good job on the guide, thanks! Before deciding to follow the guide properly and install from a usb stick I had a few not so successful attempts at installing from a hard drive parti…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-29
1,741,402 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“Thank you for this guide, very nice. The uploaded files and the efi partition mounter made it very painless. I used it to update the drive I pulled from my d945gclf2 for this new board. The only issue I ran into was no sound, but then my 10…”
10.X Core2009-08-27
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