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.

Attached Files

dsdt no sound.aml.zip (8.7 KB, 6 views)

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.

Attached Files

evga_x58_sli3.zip (462.1 KB, 38 views)

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.