Re: i5/GA-P55-UD3R with F5 BIOS - anyone had success?
with F4, I had a fully working SL 10.6.2 - my problem was that it would crash after playing 15-20 minutes of Quicktime video, namely the Steve Jobs/iPad keynote off the Apple site
that prompted me to go for BIOS F5
I have been stuck for weeks trying to get F5 working. I have been through many, many iterations and frustration and wishing I had never attempted this in the first place. In the interim, Multibeast reared its head as well, and I have been trying that too.
The problem is that SL 10.6.2 would not boot off of the hard disk. It would always crash before fully initializing. I could get it to boot by using the TonyMACx86 P55 Boot CD, but in other posts, no one had an idea as to why that might be the case.
My latest status as of today is a bit less dire - I think I may have a bootable SL, finally.
I started from scratch, installed 10.6 off the retail DVD, and got a system that seemed to be stable with sound/ethernet both working. but, then I upgraded to 10.6.2, and got back to the non-bootable state, where I would get a hard crash somewhere in the SL initialization process, somewhere past NVEnabler
I then thought what changed between 10.6 and 10.6.2 - the kernel! so I used Multibeast to install the 10.0.0 modified kernel, and my system boots. This was not a problem when I was using BIOS F4, i did not have to go for the hacked kernel.
Also, I have been trying to make my system dual-boot Win7, and Win7 crashes consistently. It was running fine with BIOS F4. I suspect it has something to do with trying to boot off of a Mac-formatted GPT disk partition. I got Win7 to boot off of an external eSATA connected drive that was NTFS formatted
does anyone have any ideas for me?