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RADEON HD3870 users, take note:

 

First, thanks for the excellent guide. Very thorough and well-written.

 

I've been running 10.5.2 (Kalyway) on my DS3L since May with total satisfaction. However, when my boot drive died last week (a Raptor, no less - at least it's under warranty!) I decided to try my hand at an update, as I needed a reinstall anyway. That's when I found your guide.

 

My system: Gigabyte DS3L, 8 gig G.Skill 1000 MHz ram, Intel Pentium Dual-Core (1.8 Ghz clocked to 3.0 - see THIS, yes it's old news..), ATi Radeon HD3870 by Sapphire, Samsung SATA DVD-RW, various hard drives.

 

Some notes based on my experience following the guide:

 

1) During the initial Kalyway 10.5.2 install, follow guide EXCEPT: DO NOT select USB patch, DO select ATI Radeon x2000 graphics driver

 

[The USB patch was showing up as a kext error during one of my many -s (single-user) boots throughout the process when I was following the guide perfectly; it is not needed and I used to use a USB patch app to remove it and alter the kernel revision to get USB working anyway]

 

[The system will boot into corrupt display modes unless this ATi driver is installed; no drivers = corrupt, all = corrupt. Other configs may work but I know this does. At least for me...]

 

2) After installing, system will boot normally (and it seems to me my dual monitor and DVI output was also working, although I may have lacked full hardware acceleration). Drop-down and right-click menus will, however, show as solid white and be unreadable until the last second when the user clicks away. Do not worry, this will go away with the 10.5.3 update - which you should now install, according to the guide.

 

3) After booting into the 10.5.3 installation, install the Radeon HD3870 10.5.3 updated drivers found in THIS THREAD. Upon reboot, full hardware acceleration as well as (dual) DVI support should be working.

 

4) Install 10.5.4 according to guide.

 

5) Install kexts according to guide EXCEPT: I skipped the bluetooth install - I do not have or use it, so I didn't bother. Seems to me it broke my system last time when I was following the guide, although I had lots of graphics troubles so it's hard to say... I installed everything else including the ethernet driver, as I use on-board.

 

EDIT: bluetooth works - or, at least, I can install the kexts without any issues. No way for me to test it, though.

 

6) Reboot and install sound driver patch. Video is already installed so nothing to do here.

 

7) Install system updates, reboot and marvel at the 10.5.4 vanilla kernel system you've just built.

 

** I have not tested this install very rigorously yet, as I wanted to get this down before I forgot it all. I am currently using CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) to image the install so I can quickly recover should the worst happen. If anyone runs into trouble, post.

 

** I also keep my home directory on a different physical drive than the boot drive (see THIS guide) - moving the home folder to the existing copy residing on my second drive immediately after installing 10.5.2 did not work with the subsequent updates. I recommend doing this after everything is finished OR (which I am now forced to do, as I think the settings were trashed anyway) just grab important data and set up a new, moved home folder again after the installation.

 

Hope this helps someone.

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Hey everyone, this is not really an important post, but wanted to ask if anyone else out there has a non-iPod mp3 player and uses iTunes. To my surprise, on my hack my Creative Zen Nano Plus is recognized in iTunes as a device. I can drag and drop music/podcast files to it and they play fine (synching it won't work from iTunes, that's why I use SyncTunes ).

 

On my XP machine, the Creative player isn't recognized in iTunes. Just wondering if this is a special "hackintosh" feature or if real Macs do this too. I suspect iTunes creates it's own database of device contents (like it would with an iPod), because other content that I had copied over to the Creative using SyncTunes did not show up in iTunes. Anyway, just wondering.

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I've been running 10.5.2 (Kalyway) on my DS3L since May with total satisfaction. However, when my boot drive died last week (a Raptor, no less - at least it's under warranty!) I decided to try my hand at an update, as I needed a reinstall anyway. That's when I found your guide.

 

My system: Gigabyte DS3L, 8 gig G.Skill 1000 MHz ram, Intel Pentium Dual-Core (1.8 Ghz clocked to 3.0 - see THIS, yes it's old news..), ATi Radeon HD3870 by Sapphire, Samsung SATA DVD-RW, various hard drives.

 

Some notes based on my experience following the guide:

 

1) During the initial Kalyway 10.5.2 install, follow guide EXCEPT: DO NOT select USB patch, DO select ATI Radeon x2000 graphics driver

 

[The USB patch was showing up as a kext error during one of my many -s (single-user) boots throughout the process when I was following the guide perfectly; it is not needed and I used to use a USB patch app to remove it and alter the kernel revision to get USB working anyway]

 

...

 

5) Install kexts according to guide EXCEPT: I skipped the bluetooth install - I do not have or use it, so I didn't bother. Seems to me it broke my system last time when I was following the guide, although I had lots of graphics troubles so it's hard to say... I installed everything else including the ethernet driver, as I use on-board.

 

Ah man, sorry to hear about your Raptor dying! I just got one this past summer and LOVE it :D

 

Tell me more about your USB patch. I may include it separately. So far it has fixed everyone's USB problems.

 

I'm still confused about the Bluetooth kext issue...I've done dozens of installs on many different machines and have never had a problem with it.

 

 

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weaksauce12's hot deal of whenever:

 

Sonata III case with 500w PSU for $79 shipped:

 

http://shop4.frys.com/product/5178426

 

I'm not a big fan of cases with front doors, but I've done a few builds with this case and it's both pretty and quiet. The shiny black surface looks sharp and it's an easy case to work with, great combo for the price!

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This guide is amazing! I spent a day and a half with other guides before i found this one and within 2 hours of finding this, I had my system up and running. It's a great guide and worked flawlessly.

 

I have one question tho. When i use my optical digital out to my logitech surround sound speakers, i have no control of the volume or mute function from the computer. The sound works, but when i go to system preferences to select digital out instead of line out, i says there are no controls for digital out. Anyone heard of this and maybe have a solution? BTW i have control of my line out through system preferences and my logitech s510 keyboard. I'm running onboard sound (ALC888). Thanks in advance.

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I just installed the bluetooth kexts on my machine and everything seems to work well. I have no way of testing bluetooth, but it doesn't seem to cause any trouble.

 

Regarding the USB issues, see THIS thread. The issue I was having (when I was using 10.5.2) was USB devices not showing up on the desktop as mounted when they were inserted. Item (1) under heading B was the cause of my problems - basically a mismatch between the kernel version and system.kext. The thread also discusses the PCGEN USB patch, which is (and was) unnecessary in my case. I am not using it now and the USB devices seem to work perfectly. Also, when I was running my old installation, I removed the PCGEN patch as part of the USB fix package mentioned in the thread I linked at the beginning of this paragraph.

 

One other reason I decided not to install it as part of this new installation is that I was receiving errors during verbose, single-user boots mentioning the PCGEN patch was either missing or unloadable (can't recall which) after installing the 10.5.3 update. Seems the update wiped it out or broke it. In any event, my system doesn't require it.

 

I will edit my post to remove the references to bluetooth not behaving itself.

 

** The only issue, as of this morning, is that sleep is not working. The machine will go to sleep and will seem to wake using the power button, but the displays will not wake up. Additionally, the machine must be powered down in order to recover - even the reset button does nothing, which leads me to believe it's a hardware issue of some kind, possibly related to the video card as that's what's different about my system. Not a big deal to me, as I never use sleep mode and didn't even test it with the old installation **

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weaksauce12's hot deal of whenever:

 

Sonata III case with 500w PSU for $79 shipped:

 

http://shop4.frys.com/product/5178426

 

I'm not a big fan of cases with front doors, but I've done a few builds with this case and it's both pretty and quiet. The shiny black surface looks sharp and it's an easy case to work with, great combo for the price!

Saw that and was tempted. If I hadn't just paid $10 for a replacement Sonta II door (which I kicked off by accident) , I would consider this even more! My wife would kill me though if I got yet another case. I can see the eyeballs rolling now....
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Saw that and was tempted. If I hadn't just paid $10 for a replacement Sonta II door (which I kicked off by accident) , I would consider this even more! My wife would kill me though if I got yet another case. I can see the eyeballs rolling now....

 

Me too... I thought - well, I've got an extra motherboard, and some memory, HD... it'd sure be fun to build another one... but what would I do with it? I've already got my "Giant Apple TV" plugged into the television in the living room, my daughter's got her G4 Cube hackintosh, my son's got my old BA2 system... hmmm... my wife's perfectly happy with her 24" iMac...

 

maybe I should stop building systems for a while...

 

Patrick

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It's a great guide and worked flawlessly.

 

Also works perfectly for the similar, but not identical GA-P35-S3G, which is a five PCI slot P35 mobo (the other P35s have three PCI slots).

 

The S3G is ALC662-based, however, not ALC888.

 

Good comment on the on-board E-net, BTW. I had issues with my Psystar OpenComputer (since resolved), and also with my two Shuttles (also since resolved), and an 8169 gigabit E-net board was the immediate fix for those, so for this P35 build I bypassed the E-net port and the Psystar patch altogether, as I actually have a surplus of slots.

 

I originally started with a Psystar OpenPro software build for my P35, but it was hopelessly buggy. One of the very few times I've gotten a BSOD from OS X.

 

The guide, above, really made my day.

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v1.2 20-July-2008

 

Attention: This guide is NOT for Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L motherboards. Use the EP35 at your own risk! I don't have an EP35 and thus I can't support you! Buy a P35 if you want 100% compatibility with this guide! Please refer to dci693's EP35 thread for a dedicated discussion and support for your boards!

 

This guide is for the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Rev 2.0 motherboard running BIOS v.7. The product page is here:

[ Snip ]

 

 

The guide is aces!

 

The GA-P35-S3G is from the same family, and has the same P35/ICH9 chip set, but it has an ALC662 codec, not an ALC888.

 

Also, there are five PCI slots, not three, obtained by logically deleting one of the three on the others, and substituting three additional ones, with the deleted PCI slot's interrupts being fielded by a special bus arbitrator chip, which passes through, and back, the appropriate REQ and ACK signals. Otherwise, it operates just like a normal GA-P35-xxx.

 

It would be nice to have an HDA_ICH9_ALC662 component for the GA-P35-S3G.

 

Taruga's HDA Patcher with an ALC662 codec dump get you audio, but some applications, such as Temperature Monitor, claim the audio subsystem is defective (it is not), and they then terminate.

 

As the P35 mobo is an overclocker's dream, and as temperature monitoring is pretty important when OC-ing, getting a working audio component is important to some.

 

With your Guide, above, and some lucky guesses, I was on-the-air with 10.5.4, via Kalyway 10.5.2, etcetera, in less than an hour, after wasting literally days and days with Psystar's OpenPro 10.5.4 software build.

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Weaksauce,

 

Buddy regarding to this: "4. Open Finder and click on your boot drive. From there, navigate to the following folders: Developer > Extras > PreferencesPanes and install "Processor.prefPane" (for all users)"

 

Where is that, last time i have spent 30 minutes looking and couldnt find it:(

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Weaksauce,

 

Buddy regarding to this: "4. Open Finder and click on your boot drive. From there, navigate to the following folders: Developer > Extras > PreferencesPanes and install "Processor.prefPane" (for all users)"

 

Where is that, last time i have spent 30 minutes looking and couldnt find it:(

 

You have to install CHUD, which installs the Developer folder.

 

*****

 

FOR ALL USERS WITH SLOW CLOCKS (that means you, EP35 users!):

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=112531

 

You need to install Chameleon EFI! (included in the package)

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Weaksauce I soon as I come home and get everything ready will write you.

 

I decided to give it a last try today by myself:) And I managed to do all of it from ur tutorial:

 

You know everytime I install leopard some new problem arrises. I installed everything as you said in tutorial.

Restart works, but shut down doesn't. (screen goes black, but pc is not switching off I waited 7 minutes then had to do hard off, 5secs holding the button). This never happened before.

 

2. I have USB wireless keyboard and mouse, after restarting leopard during post screen it is not recognized:( so in bootloader it is inactive:(

The rest seems to be working fine.

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I installed it on my friends board which is GA-P35- DS3L Revision 1 with 4 rear usb as you said, everything seems to be working fine, he is running Core 2 Duo 3.0 Ghz and 2 GB of DDR2 ram.

I used ur guide for install as well as another guide that someone posted here a while ago. First I used iATIKOS but there were a few glitches it just couldnt load up, bootloader gave an error.

But with Kalyway is ok.

However he is still using 10.5.2

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Weaksauce,

 

Buddy regarding to this: "4. Open Finder and click on your boot drive. From there, navigate to the following folders: Developer > Extras > PreferencesPanes and install "Processor.prefPane" (for all users)"

 

Where is that, last time i have spent 30 minutes looking and couldnt find it:(

 

Step #4 is a little unclear on where and how to install the "Processor.prefPane" (for all users)". We are assuming the user knows which PreferencesPanes folder to drag the file to. There are three PreferencesPanes folder on the system and I wasn't sure which PreferencesPanes folder to install until I did further research.

 

Maybe something like: Drag the "Processor.prefPane" file to bootdrive -> Library -> PreferencesPanes folder.

 

My two cents! 8-}

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Just wanted to note my machine is running like a champ.

I had severe crashes for a while and then I unhooked a 300GB ATA drive hooked up via IDE.,

It seems there is some issues with IDE.

 

Using all SATA I'm running like a champ now.

It also seems to be the IDE HD and connection not nessarily the IDE on the mobo since I;'m using a ide-sata converter to connect a 5th drive.

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Hey WeakSause12....

 

Once again this guide is the bomb.... everything works perfectly....

 

Just found that eWIZ have the GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L for $75.00

 

I upgraded one of my systems last month looks like the other will follow .... I had a few issues finding the board as Frys only stocked the EP35 now and the egg did not have the P35-DS3L si it took me a bit to get this but today it is one sale.

 

If anybody needs the board Link 2 eWIZ Mobo

 

Thanks again....

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Hey weaksauce - I did a little write up of my project placing the D945GCLF into a G4 cube case...

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=124166

 

Patrick

 

You're the man, thanks mucho! :blink: The Dual-Core Atom boards are slated for release this month...as soon as they release one with DVI onboard, I'm in!

 

Hey WeakSause12....

 

Once again this guide is the bomb.... everything works perfectly....

 

Just found that eWIZ have the GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L for $75.00

 

I upgraded one of my systems last month looks like the other will follow .... I had a few issues finding the board as Frys only stocked the EP35 now and the egg did not have the P35-DS3L si it took me a bit to get this but today it is one sale.

 

If anybody needs the board Link 2 eWIZ Mobo

 

Thanks again....

 

Awesome thanks for the tip! $75 is a steal...iirc my Bad Axe 2 (my previous Hackintosh board) was something like $175! :blink:

 

Just wanted to note my machine is running like a champ.

I had severe crashes for a while and then I unhooked a 300GB ATA drive hooked up via IDE.,

It seems there is some issues with IDE.

 

Using all SATA I'm running like a champ now.

It also seems to be the IDE HD and connection not nessarily the IDE on the mobo since I;'m using a ide-sata converter to connect a 5th drive.

 

Sent you an updated IDE driver...I don't know if it will work or not, but let me know what your results are.

 

I still haven't tracked down the Bluetooth bug that some people are experiencing. Works on every machine I've done an installation on, so I'm having a hard time troubleshooting it :blink: I'm also going to update the USB patch as a post-install patch rather than a Kalyway patch. I think that pretty much covers the bugs. Still irked about Bluetooth, though.

 

This looks good.

 

Im currently using a PQ5 pro but its annoying me as The Audio/Ethernet don't work.

 

I think I will downgrade to this, looks like a sensible option.

 

Yeah just stick the $8 Encore PCI NIC in there and you'll have yourself one smooth-running machine :P

 

Alternatively, you can use the Encore in your PQ5 and then add a USB sound card to get network & sound...

 

Step #4 is a little unclear on where and how to install the "Processor.prefPane" (for all users)". We are assuming the user knows which PreferencesPanes folder to drag the file to. There are three PreferencesPanes folder on the system and I wasn't sure which PreferencesPanes folder to install until I did further research.

 

Maybe something like: Drag the "Processor.prefPane" file to bootdrive -> Library -> PreferencesPanes folder.

 

My two cents! 8-}

 

The problem has been eliminated in the next update :D Going to be super-easy to do the drivers/patches in the next release!

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Weaksauce and the rest I really need your help,

I gave up on vista and installed mac on my largest partition:)

I have 2 problems damn:

 

1. Cannot play DVD's or VLC says A valid video device could not be found for playback 70017:(

I have GeForce 9800GTX (using PCwiz driver NVject)

 

2. I have tried repairing permissions and I get loads of these errors saying Warning SUID file...... has been modified and will not be repaired:(

 

The rest is working:(

 

Please someone help I cant enjoy my Leo so far:(

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sup3r1or,

 

Have you tried any of these methods...:

 

Scott Dangel's NVinstaller v.52: http://scottdangel.com/blog/?p=27

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry759844

 

http://aquamac.proboards106.com/index.cgi?...&thread=509

 

 

 

I also get the same when running Disk Utilities...:

 

"Warning: SUID file "System/Library/Extensions/webdav_fs.kext/Contents/Resources/load_webdav" has been modified and will not be repaired."

 

But my computer is completely stable...so don't know if this is an issue for me.

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