Namidar

Thanks for the input! namidar

analogg, You absolutely rock and are without a doubt my savior. Everything works great... qe/ci, sleep, app store, sound, graphics card, etc. The only thing left to test (most likely tomorrow at work) is if dual monitor support is in place and if it isn't I suspect that I can activate onboard video and use it for my second monitor. I've unplugged my OS X install drive and my Seagate 500gb data/time machine drive and am now installing Windows 7 on a second SSD drive. Man am I glad that I got a great deal on these SSD (refurbished) drives. I mean a great deal (for around here anyways)! From what I understand a dual boot os x / windows system is pretty straight forward if installing on two physically separate drives. If you have any advice or cautions regarding this please let me know. This will be the first time I've had a Windows install in like 4 or 5 (maybe 6?) years. I couldn't be more pleased! Thanks. I cannot remember the last time I had such a tight build... Probably since my first hackintosh some years back after following the original lifehacker guide. Next I have to update my other home hackintoshes. I'm not nearly as worried about doing them as I've seen install guides and pre-edited DSDT files for them. My main system will also get two SSD drives and dual boot while my other system (kids system) will dual boot also, but off of two physically separate hard drives. I even bought a fifth of these Corsair Force 3 120gb SSD drives and put it in an esata / USB enclosure that I got for a steal ($10, I think). It seems to be of impressive quality. It is only USB 2.0 but that makes no difference to me as I don't have USB 3.0 on any of my systems. Each one has esata, though. All three are socket 775, and at this point I have no need to upgrade. I'm not a gamer, really, aside from a bit of WOW, and my kids are still young. After I get everything stabilized I am going to try to overclock my simple e2180 2.0ghz CPU. I've read online that it is very overclockable. I've seen a few reports of guys successfully running them as high as 3.4ghz without any stability issues, or even cooling issues to speak of. I don't mind trying to overclock it as I have a spare e2180, and I've seen them as low as $10 on eBay. Thanks again. Let's keep in touch, A very excited and grateful Namidar.

OK, so after taking another look I realized that multishit had not moved the DSDT.aml file into the /extra directory. I also recompiled the DSDT.aml file using chameleon wizard. Next thing I did was boot using the flags GraphicsEnabler=Yes and PCIRootID=1. So now she boots fine! I'm not exactly sure what combination of the above did the trick (probably all?), but now I have a functional system. I'm gonna clone it before anything else is installed. Again, I will report back. Namidar

I'm not sure what I was thinking, but I have mistakenly given you the wrong information. The card is dual dvi not hdmi. Not sure how I even got confused about that one. I'm gonna keep looking around. Yeah, I'm up there a bit. When I was ten my parents sent me for a one week computer course at the radio shack plant that used to be here in my city. The first computer that I really hacked on was a Tandy, 1000 model if I remember correctly. (if there was such a model, it's been so long...). The first computer my family owned was a brand spanking new Apple ][e. Many/most of my friends were c64 fans. My firt pc was based on an 8086 architecture. (Again, am I remembering that correctly?) It's the grey hair coming in, I tell you. It makes you forget things. I turn 42 at the end of this month. Thanks again, Namidar

Analogg, Thanks for the reply. I did in fact go ahead and ignore it. Seems to boot well ... Up to the blank/black screen. That one is driving me nuts because as I mentioned before, the card works great when booting from the USB key. I wonder if deleting all video kexts on the 10.8.2 install and replacing them with the ones crom the USB key would be a cheap work around. As for those errors go... I'm sure glad you know what you are talking about. I've been hacking around on computers for about 30 years now, but that coding is way beyond me. Thanks for the help Namidar

Analogg (or artur-pt, should you feel so inclined to assist), I've tried to compile the DSDT, but get the following warning: 2138 Warning ResourceTag larger than Field (Tag: 16 bits, Field: 8 bits) In searching the forum I've found a suggested and supposedly working fix for the following warning: 2138 Warning ResourceTag larger than Field (Tag: 64 bits, Field: 32 bits) In my reading I understand that it would seem that there is a difference between the fix for these two different errors, but for the life of me I cannot seem to find out what that would be. I've googled quite a bit regarding this. I've made a post (on this board) asking for help, but I am wondering if you encountered the same problem, and if so, how did you go about fixing it? Can I continue on with the process of compiling and using the DSDT without fixing these warnings for now? As always, Thanks muchly.

Hello, Would you mind helping me also? instead of: 2138 Warning ResourceTag larger than Field (Tag: 64 bits, Field: 32 bits) I get a similar warning: 2138 Warning ResourceTag larger than Field (Tag: 16 bits, Field: 8 bits) How do I go about fixing this? You gave commands/code for 16, 32, and 64 bits, but not 8. I would never have even have thought that 8 bit would be used... shows you how little I know. Thanks so much for your time, and as always with anybody's help, ALL input is APPRECIATED. Namidar

I appreciate your help. I am running an EVGA 9800gtx... Problem is that the card has ONLY got 2 hdmi ports... Hmmm. Hope you are wrong on that count. EDIT: In theory the card should be able to be made to work as it works just peachy when I boot the system from unishit. At least this makes sense to me. I have built 3 other hackintoshes, but this is the first time I've really had to deal with dsdt files. In response to artur-pt: I just want to say that I have looked at / skimmed /perused over a few guides and sites, but I just don't have a whole lot of time these days. My old Asrock Conroe 1333-d667 went for a crap and I'm trying to get this one functional ASAP as I have progress reports due in like a week. I just don't have the time that I used to have prior to having young children, marriage, demands of work, etc. I'm trying, though. I love hackintoshing and I learn what I can when I can. Priorities, right? Anyways, analogg, thanks for all of your help. I will try to implement your knowledge as soon as I'm able. I will report back. Thanks, Namidar

ok, now it is letting me click on the patch, but instead of allowing me to save it, it is opening it in a text window with a lot of text in it... what extension should I save this with in order to be able to use it? Thanks again.

Not sure why, but the board is telling me that I am not authorized to download the patch... hmmmm... will try again, I guess. Thanks.

BTW... Thanks very much for the file!

I was in the process of typing this when you made your last post. Please disregard anything that you've already addressed. BTW... What multishit settings did you use? ================================================================ Ok, Me again. I forgot to ask a few basic and non-basic questions: Do I install the kexts to s/l/e or extra? Do you recommend chameleon wizard for this? Did you do a unishit/multishit install or a myhack install, or perhaps another? I did a unishit install and have been trying a multishit install with the following results: [i've copied and pasted this from a post I made on tonycrapx86.com] ================================================================ MY RIG: - Gigabyte ga-g41mt-s2pt, rev. 2.1 (which is supposed to make it a bit of a pain). - Intel core 2 duo e2180 (old and simple chip) - EVGA NVIDIA 9800gtx 512mb, and 8 gigs of ddr3 ram on the motherboard - 2 x Corsair Force 3 SSD drives, one of which I am trying to install OS X 10.8.2 on - 1 x Seagate 500gb HD - pcie sata 3 2-plug expansion card (cannot remember brand but recognized out of the box) I can install 10.8 fine with unishit. After install I have no ethernet. Then I install 10.8.2 update and then afterwards the 10.8.2 supplemental. After this the network is fine. The system seems to work well except for 4 things: 1. sleep 2. sound 3. hardware monitoring 4. the fact that I cannot boot after a multishit installation In regards to not booting after multishit installation (of various configurations - easybeast included and at one point easybeast alone): The system seems to boot. Using the -v flag, I can see what looks like everything booting, and then the screen goes black and everything shuts down. I have used -v, -x, -f, PCIRootID=0/1, and GraphicsEnabler=Yes/No. All in various combinations. No luck. *** EDIT: Is it perhaps problematic to install OS X on a SSD drive? Just wondering. If I boot from the unishit stick, all seems ok (except sleep and sound). Also, Im not sure how to check to see if QE/CI is enabled, but I assume it is because of the fact that the 9800gtx is natively supported in ML. ================================================================ Got any ideas or advice for me? Either way, I appreciate your help! Thanks.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I'm soooooo excited to have a glimmer of hope at the end of this tunnel! I will try this later tonight or tomorrow and post results. Namidar

Thanks for your help. I had a look at the link you provided and found it quite confusing. I found a dsdt for an earlier revision of this board. I understand that the difference between them is the audio chipset. Would it be hard to patch this dsdt so that it would work with my chipset? Also... How does the patching process work? If I patch the audio, does the new patch overwrite the old configuration? Thanks again for any help. Namidar

Hello, I was wondering (hoping) that someone could help me patch a dsdt for a gigabyte ga-g41mt-s2pt rev. 2.1 motherboard. I have found a patch for the s2p model but not the s2pt model that I have. Unless the s2p model patch would work for the s2pt board as well? Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks very much, Namidar