Guest bristolanthony Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 (edited) Hi All, just finished my first OSx86 install after a massive 14 hours due to all sorts of hiccups, some of which were my fault and some due to the peculiarities of the Medion hardware. I'll write up the process for future Medion users so you don't endup throwing your netbook out the window like I almost did ;o) Many thanks to Paul for his guide. I followed Paul's guide http://netbooks.modaco.com/content/msi/270...nd-advent-4211/ First nightmare was the firmware upgrade to utilise the overclock functions of the MSI Wind. I began by installing the official Medion 1.0b Bios update which went perfectly smoothly using the recovery mode. No overclocking options in the BIOS though. I then followed http://www.electricvagabond.com/2009/02/ms...update-10b.html to install the MSI Wind firmware with the overclock abilities in XP. All went well in the flash, rebooted and....nothing. Blank screen, no LED's ....nada. After frantically googling I found that holding ESC while powering on overrides the BIOS ram settings and lets you pull up the BIOS while pressing DEL. Here you will find that the settings for the MSI Wind are enabled so you must disable the onboard ram as the E1210 does not have a chip soldered onto the motherboard like the Wind. The machine would now switch on but at the windows loading screen I would get a BSOD then blank screen again. Reboot to the BIOS turn AHCI OFF and you will get through to XP. This process took me about to 2 hours to solve, I was seriously sweating it! I used an external DVD enclosure via USB to boot up Kalyway. Boot options recognised the TEAC dvd-drive but I could not get the system to boot from the disc for love nor money. I made a bootable USB install with Disk Utility, OSX86tools and Chameleon and a 4gb pen drive. http://www.scribd.com/doc/9451233/How-to-Boot-Kalyway-USB use OSX86tools to add a Darwin EFI to the usb also. You will need another machine running OSX to do this. First time this took me 2 hours as I chose the Kalyway DVD image from the DVD drive and did not format the drive properly, make sure you mount the image file and use that, should take 15 minutes to restore the image to the USB stick. This would now boot from the boot options but get stuck about 30 seconds in when trying to initialise the USB port I believe leaving this message "still waiting for root device". Go back into the BIOS settings, enable ACHI again and change the boot order so the USB device comes first. You should now be able to follow Pauls guide through the installation. Once you've completed Pauls guide install the Ralink wifi drivers found here http://forums.msiwind.net/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=6146. Make sure you enable the wifi card with fn+f11. You will have to create a profile in the Ralink software to connect to your network automatically. To enable Overclock head back to the BIOS, go to Advanced Tab and change your DOC settings to the desired overclock speed (+8%, 15% or 24%) It took me a while to get the overclocking to work, I had enabled +24% in the BIOS, saved and restarted but no change to my 924 score in Geekbench, pressing fn+f10 to enable Turbo mode whilst in OSX also did nothing. On the Medion there is no red LED indicator on the power button, it just switches on or off. What you must do is press fn+f10 while booting (at the MSI logo) so that the blue power LED switches off. Now run Geekbench and see what you get. My score is 1174, and I assume I am running close to 2ghz. No problems as yet with this clock and the system stability. Everything is running fine aside from the Headphone jack which I will attempt today using http://forums.msiwind.net/osx-software/new...orks-t4854.html That's it so far, the machine was bought by a friend for a portable DJ setup so he will put it through its paces later with a VCI-300 and Serato Itch, plus Scratch Live and Traktor to benchmark performance. Any questions or suggestions please fire away! Good Luck :excl: P.S. The E1210 160gb is £239.99 over at www.medionshop.co.uk (the 80gb with Bluetooth is £299.99) Edited April 24, 2009 by bristolanthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awarner (MVP) Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Thanks for posting your experience. Glad its all sorted now, sounds like you had some real fun moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bristolanthony Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Call it a baptism of fire :excl: To save posterity I also left out a few glaring errors such as not customizing the install in my eagerness and ending up with the wrong kernel and having to start all over again.. :excl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bristolanthony Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 (edited) I'm testing with Serato Scratch Live 3 and Itch with vinyl + turntables and VCI-300 respectively and whilst the turntables is working flawlessly the VCI + Itch setup is proving less successful. Lots of clipping and the tracks pause when dropping an new one on the timeline, rendering it useless for anything out of the bedroom. Things improve somewhat with a +24% overclock but still unusable. My only hope is that an upgrade to 2gb RAM will make a difference. Has, or can, anyone benchmark their Wind for some 2gb vs 1gb comparisons? Also any ideas as to the best performing 2gb stick regardless of cost? Cheers, have a good weekend! Edited April 27, 2009 by bristolanthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cinestral Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) To enable Overclock head back to the BIOS, go to Advanced Tab and change your DOC settings to the desired overclock speed (+8%, 15% or 24%) It took me a while to get the overclocking to work, I had enabled +24% in the BIOS, saved and restarted but no change to my 924 score in Geekbench, pressing fn+f10 to enable Turbo mode whilst in OSX also did nothing. On the Medion there is no red LED indicator on the power button, it just switches on or off. What you must do is press fn+f10 while booting (at the MSI logo) so that the blue power LED switches off. Now run Geekbench and see what you get. My score is 1174, and I assume I am running close to 2ghz. No problems as yet with this clock and the system stability. Hey! So I tried this with my MSI Wind and it worked well. (I'm running 10.5.5, 2GB RAM) As stated, the key is to do it on MSI boot up screen. Interestingly, on the Wind, I get the red LED indicator. However, does red correspond to 8% , 15% or 24% ? On the Mac side, does it only overclock to one percentage increase? Also, when I put the computer to sleep and then wake it up, the LED goes back to blue. Does that mean it's no longer overclocked? Regarding Geekbench, Before overclocking, my computer scored between 917 and 928. Overclocked, it scored 1156. Not bad... Edited April 26, 2009 by Cinestral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bristolanthony Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 To enable Overclock head back to the BIOS, go to Advanced Tab and change your DOC settings to the desired overclock speed (+8%, 15% or 24%) It took me a while to get the overclocking to work, I had enabled +24% in the BIOS, saved and restarted but no change to my 924 score in Geekbench, pressing fn+f10 to enable Turbo mode whilst in OSX also did nothing. On the Medion there is no red LED indicator on the power button, it just switches on or off. What you must do is press fn+f10 while booting (at the MSI logo) so that the blue power LED switches off. Now run Geekbench and see what you get. My score is 1174, and I assume I am running close to 2ghz. No problems as yet with this clock and the system stability. Hey! So I tried this with my MSI Wind and it worked well. (I'm running 10.5.5, 2GB RAM) As stated, the key is to do it on MSI boot up screen. Interestingly, on the Wind, I get the red LED indicator. However, does red correspond to 8% , 15% or 24% ? On the Mac side, does it only overclock to one percentage increase? Also, when I put the computer to sleep and then wake it up, the LED goes back to blue. Does that mean it's no longer overclocked? Regarding Geekbench, Before overclocking, my computer scored between 917 and 928. Overclocked, it scored 1156. Not bad... Hi Cenestral, Red LED = Overclock ON. The overclock will switch to whatever you have enabled in the BIOS settings, so its either no overclock or whatever you chose (+8,15,24). AFAIK you cannot switch between these speeds outside of the BIOS. Thanks for your Geekbench results, it seems Geekbench doesn't get anything out of the extra 1gb RAM, hopefully the problematic software will respond differently. Ant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cinestral Posted April 28, 2009 Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 Hi Cenestral, Red LED = Overclock ON. The overclock will switch to whatever you have enabled in the BIOS settings, so its either no overclock or whatever you chose (+8,15,24). AFAIK you cannot switch between these speeds outside of the BIOS. Thanks for your Geekbench results, it seems Geekbench doesn't get anything out of the extra 1gb RAM, hopefully the problematic software will respond differently. Ant Thanks Ant. Seems my Geekbench scores are for 15% overclocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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