About
This is the official blog for weaksauce12 of the InsanelyMac forums. Currently my main system consists of the following hardware:
- Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
- Q6600 @ 3.0ghz processor
- 8GB DDR2-800 memory
- 1TB Samsung F1 boot drive
- Lite-on DVD burner
- 512mb ATI Radeon HD 3870 video card
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hi can you please contact me personally, i would like to talk to you about efix, iam@rashantha.com
Fan issues with the 3870 vapourize when your string is paired with a dsdt generated by koalala’s patcher. (This works with (the now newly old) chameleon and the IDE uefi-boot usb stick.)
Just thought you might want to know.
EP45-UD3P (rev 1.0)
Q6600 GO
3870
Weaksauce12:
I realize you advocate and use a sound card as a solution to the UD3P’s 889A audio issues, but since you are preparing a package for release would you mind testing out these alpha kexts and a plist please? The kext(s) (ALC889 and Enabler (sort of)) originated from pyro a couple days ago but needed adjustment for our board. They are supposed to create a dige node to end the line 2742 endlessly repeating audio error, and improve the sound output. After adjustment, the latter end seems accomplished. Have to sort out pin and node assignments to achieve the former. If you know anyone particularly adept at such, feel free to forward it on for their attention.
The plist is identical to the one in the HDAPlatformDriver kext in the stock AppleHDA.kext, but the dsp has been removed from the on-board speaker nodes following limini’s recipe: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127877 Been just replacing the stock kext’s plist, but if the plist were made into a string… Seem to recall you mentioned somewhere that you knew of someone who was doing just that.
One result, for those of us who loathe having to replug jacks, (and prefer minimal hardware wear and tear), is the green jack in back becomes a line-out. Another consequence is the sound. As much as a surprise is interesting, at times it can backfire (and blow out speakers), so please minimize your volume prior to testing. Really. Turn the knob from eleven down to one. Seriously.
Please share your impressions. I doubt it produces dige out, but have no way to test. Also don’t have a mike on hand, and my friend Mike who has one had his father die on him two days ago.
The sound assertion error is still annoying, but hopefully at least the patience payoff is a little more rewarding, eh?
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e06279f930b5fe3f2fb2ca15d7ea42d9ed6d98fdc5e51bc05be6ba49b5870170
Hey weaksauce12,
i’m about to build your latest gigabyte build as a summer project, but before I do I wanted to know if you have another build coming up that maybe I should wait for
maybe something with the i7???
cheers,
moon
@ moondragon:
Nope, no other projects in the que. Perfectly happy with my current Quad + 8 gigs of RAM
Check Insanely for Core i7 tutorials!
@ machinist:
NICE! Thanks for the tip!
Greets,
Any chance of updating the guides with more info about using alternate Nvidia cards (specificially the GTS250)? I’m going to be building a GA-G31M-ES2L based box and would like to drop a GTS250 in it (best bang for the buck for me when balancing heat & power) and don’t have a clue what EFI string I’d have to use.
Cheers & many thanks for all the info you’ve provided so far.
@ booker88:
ES2L is great, will be posting a guide in a few days! The GTS250 works fine - all you have to do is select “Custom Nvidia” in Uinstaller and select the VRAM and type in “GTS 250″ for the name of the card, really easy. No need for a custom EFI String manually or anything
My buddy got one a couple months ago and it flies with OS X!
Is it just me, or is there something seriously wrong with your site? All the links seem to be broken with some weird tags in the URLs that look like they aren’t getting processed correctly.
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