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with my 8400gs I have been having mixed luck (mostly bad). Sometimes I can get nvinject to work... and usually I can survive a few restarts. So I think I finally have it working...and shut down. But when I start back up later.. I always(?)…

Edit: Reset BIOS.. unplugged.. removed battery on mobo and I am back to BIOS now. Phew. Original text: Acer X1200.. AMD mobo, 8200 chipset. Been using this with Ubuntu for 2-3 months and decided to see how far I could get with OS X. I was…

Doing a system upgrade on another machine, I had a spare GT220 to play with: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127455 by most reviews (videocard benchmark.net/gpu_list.php), its supposed to be _marginally_ better…

Probably an easy question, but too many short words for the search here... Got my hack working pretty well now (G31M-ES2L)... just checking out the little things now... Under 'About this Mac', should my PCI cards (my 8400gs, and I did have…

You can see the scare I had here: could osx86 have killed my Acer X1200 so I got the mobo reset, and did a re-install. The install that died used the forcedeth V ethernet driver (for no particular reason), and this time I went back to…

“thanks for making this guide. I need a little help though. I am using a G31M-ES2L trying to install from a retail copy of SL 10.6.3 that is mounted on a USB-HDD. I am using an E3300 which the BIOS reads as 1.8Ghz for some reason, not 2.5Ghz…”

“Guys, I know its annoying to be repetitive, but I cant situate in what situation this thread is... I just bought this board, rev 2.0, installed retail 1.6.0 with iBoot, and then upgreaded with multibeast 1.6.4, with voodooHDA + voodooPS2, a…”

“I have audio, but next time I lose it, I may just use this USB audio adapter instead: meri tline.com/usb-2-0-to-audio-adapter-w-mic-jack---p-27760.aspx .. $3 from meritline. My issue now is that my hack no longer goes to sleep automatically…”

“Has anyone encountered the following sleep issues ? Sometimes the system goes to sleep and clicking the mouse brings it back on. sometimes the system wakes up, but the display is still black and the display does not come back online. Just w…”

“Rev 1 board, update from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 Removed SleepEnabler from /E/E Copied /S/L/E/AppleHda.kext to a save folder ran kext util Downloaded combo update, ran, rebooted No sound (expected). Copied saved AppleHDA to /S/L/E Copied new 10.6.…”

“Just did the 10.6.4 update I removed sleepenabler kext, It installed without a problem. sound and ethernet still work, My update was only 300 some megs I have another laptop to upgrade and the 10.6.4 update is over 900 megs so... the 300 on…”

“Just in case anyone is wondering... I did the upgrade to 10.6.4 and got a kernel panic. It seems like it's related to the SleepEnabler kext. I believe there were problems of this same nature going from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3. I haven't been able …”

“I'd like to connect and use the 3-pin fan on the mobo, but it seems like its always on full tilt. SMC fan control crashes when I try to run that, and "Fan Control 1.2" reports -1 rpm for the fan anyone had any luck controlling the fans with…”

“installed as instructions provided in post #1 everything was working downloaded 10.6.3 combo from website, took out sleep enabler kext, boom, no audio, fuzzy image via hdmi on ASUS 9400GT. tried with 10.6.2 audio, nothing back to 10.6, down…”

“FWIW, I plugged a GT220 in to this setup and it worked right away.. tho not giving the slight performance boost I expected : osx 86.net/f7/9500gt-beats-gt220-like-crazy-t5998/#post47483”

“Ok, so I got my new (SATA) drive in the mail. So I... -Shut down hack -inserted new drive. -Rebooted. -Once in OSX, presented with dialog for unrecognized drive, chose to initialize as per post #1 format your SATA drive using GPT and Mac OS…”

“I'm trying to wrap my head around the best backup options and recovery options when things go wrong. Forgive me for asking lots of questions.. some of these may seem stupid, but I'm trying to assess what is needed and the trade-offs. I've b…”

“So to get sound back.. I ran the AppleHDA 10.6.2 installer again... rebooted into a KP... the KP messages look like its related to Eltima SyncMate.. so I rebooted in safe mode (-x) and removed that kext (don't use SyncMate anymore anyway…).…”

“Overall 144.03 -> 164.27 CPU 177.30 -> 214.95 Thread 205.34 -> 300.10 Memory 161.36 -> 178.32 Quartz 225.68 -> 270.25 OpenGL 90.05 -> 109.40 User Interface 286.73 -> 349.85 Disk 77.70 -> 75.06 3 stats, new scores in green E5200 @ 2.5GHz -> …”

“Here's my less than perfect update log... - Made backups of Extras and the 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext (in S/L/E) - Downloaded the Combo Update from the Apple website (via browser) - Moved SleepEnabler.kext out of Extras - Applied Update.. let it …”

“Has anyone tried sleep without the new sleepenabler? I saw several reports (not our mobo) that some folks don't need sleepenabler any more (edit: with 10.6.3)”

“ES2l Kil (media fire.com/?0dgkywotnzm) is not available, could anyone help ? Link is working for me.”

“Has anyone gotten Bonjour to work? No matter what I do I can't seem to get it work. I have the revision 1 of this board, and everything works great except Bonjour. Can someone who has gotten it to work, post what they did? Thanks. Edit: I'm…”

“Two problem installs on two machines for me. One got hosed when going to 10.6.2 and when I tried to reinstall it fails to find the HDD. I even reinstalled standard MBR code to it (no change) then wiped it and repartitioned it. Tried with HD…”

“This is a VERY long thread and perhaps I have missed it in the 15 pages I've read but… How do I safely update to 10.6.2 from 10.6? I managed to install 10.6 ok but my card was in VESA as I have a Radeon 4670. So I tried the beta booter from…”

“I have almost the same hardware as you...would you mind sharing your DSDT? Odd.. I thought I replied already (see no reason for this to get moderated out?) I used the same DSDT as in the ES2L kit in post #1. I figured I'd try it and given t…”

“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 car…”

“I have a G41M-ESL2. I've been trying for awhile to get it to boot into SL. I completed the entire process of restoring my SL Retail Disk to my 8GB USB stick and ran the routines, edited the plist file, etc. I put the thumbstick in my gigaby…”

“Installed the Bonjour update 2010-001, Security Update, Remote Desktop update, and Xcode update. So far so good. Rebooted just fine. Internet still works.”

“Zim2dive How did you over clock your e5200? I have the same board and processor any chance you could do a walk short through? see post #402: Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L I can try to answer other questions, but as I said th…”

“Used the .asl file and can boot from the SATA drive now, but not seeing the drive icon on the desktop. Can browse hdd by opening a finder window, but something must be broke. Finder -> Preferences -> (what to show on Desktop)”

“2. Auto sleep doesn't work reliably. It seems to work right after startup but at some point stops working. Will try the script soon. Per a hint I got, if I leave a disc in the drive, it will auto-sleep (wacky, but it works)”

“I followed the instruction and dump all files into external hard drive which has HFS+ partition. I am trying to install into my sony vaio laptop. at the disk utility whle trying to install from external hard drive, it doesn't see the my lap…”

“I can't find the wake on lan options in system preferences... according to support.apple.com/kb/HT3774 they should be on the Energy Saver panel An update. The Wake on Lan option still does not appear in my Energy Saver.. BUT the function ap…”

“I can't find the wake on lan options in system preferences... according to support.apple.com/kb/HT3774 they should be on the Energy Save panel.. but I only see Computer sleep (slidebar) Display Sleep (slidebar) Put hard disks to sleep when …”

“have you updated the SleepEnabler.kext file for 10.6.2? other than that i have not tried on my machine cause its on 24/7... Yes, I was already at 10.6.2, and automatic sleep (as a consequence of the timer settings in Energy Saver) was worki…”

“Over the past week I did 2 things a) replaced my Airport Extreme N router with a DLink router (I needed some QOS function and AEX does not have any) b) added a SATA DVD drive I can manually sleep the machine (from the Apple menu), but it no…”

“me again .. the newbie i read the hole thread but it couldnt figure it out. The Problem: I installed 10.6.2 combo update and forget to change the sleepenabler.kext on my HDD before rebooting. You know the result: Kernel Panic and no more se…”

“Lan chipset onboard is: realtek 8111 Maybe it causes a problem? Shouldn't.. that's what is on the ES2L rev 1 (lspci reports Realtek RTL8111/8168B)”

“I think this is rev2. Here is my motherboard specification - i don`t see any differences in comparison to ES2L model... giga byte.eu/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2693 also i tried to install with and without onboard aud…”

“I`ve got some problems during installation... I`ve done everything at is writen in Step by step guide on this thread, but installation stops responding after initializing ethernet. (checked in -v mode...) (onboard audio is disabled because …”

“That sounds to me like the bootloader isn't installed on your HD. Did you rerun myHack and target your boot SL hard drive? For the overclock all I did was set the cpu multiplier to 10.5 and the front side bus to 325MHz. I had the front side…”

“I'm still a bit skeptical about my core temps... each util reports a different value, and they _never_ seem to change... That aside, I'm wondering what are the options for the case fans connected to the 3-pin "sys_fan" connector on this mob…”

“The 1st post says to Use R1000Use R1000 installer that's included in the ES2L Kit installer that's included in the ES2L Kit The closest thing I see is the "Bonjour Fix/SnowR1000"… but that doesn't seem to do the trick for me... I just ran i…”

“Temperatures. I have installed FakeSMC2.5 and have *3* temp utils now... each reporting DIFFERENT temps (in F) iStat Pro: 94 101 iStat Menus: 93 100 Temperature Monitor: 102 109 On the plus side, they show a consistent difference (btw the 2…”