NEW Intel P55 Mobos & Core i7 860 / i5 750 CPU LGA1156

[lectrcman]

Hmmm, where did you get yours from? I downloaded a program called "aboutthismac.pkg", installed it, but I cannot find an application to run and mine still says "Quad-Core Intel Xeon".

 

That is the one. I dunno. Maybe you have something else superseding the aboutthismag.pkg. Maybe OSXtools might work for you. Hell, I've done so many things to get stuff working that I sometimes don't know what I did. It has been a {censored} shoot. But just one week ago I couldn't even get OSX running, now I'm using it and it kicks my iMacs ass in speed. I just ordered a new 23' monitor and I'm waiting on it and I will be trying a new install on the HD that is meant for it. I currently have a temp drive in it to test with as my permanent HD will dual boot and already has Win7.

 

On that note. My plans are to dual boot SN and W7 with a third partition as a common storage area. I have a 1.5 TB HD. I planned on splitting it 3 ways. Like 200GB for W7, 250 for OSX and rest storage. Any thoughts, suggestions? I am not sure what format to use for the storage area. Use HFS+ and install MacDrive on the Win7 side or use NTFS. I hear the NTFS support on 64bit OSX is still sketchy.

[snokarver]

ive just tried using using LegacyHDA and AppleHDA 1.7.4a1 (from tonymacx86) and couldnt get it working. havent tried editing the DSDT yet i have no idea how, will have to read up on it.

 

i guess i could try Voodoo for the moment but ive read it isnt as good as LegacyHDA and the front ports dont work.

 

I tried Voodoo and it didn't seem to work either. Though I'm not sure the exact combo I'm supposed to have. Voodoo did work in 10.5.8 for me.

 

You can try OSX86tools to set the CPU type in profiler.

 

I just tried this and I would say DO NOT do this. It messed up my OS version, processor version and RAM version... now they say things like "ABOUT_BOX_VERSION_FORMAT_STRING"

 

I even rebooted after setting them. I also tried using it to revert to defaults and that doesn't work.

[tonymacx86]

doing a reinstall, had no idea how to fix my mess and i guess noone else did either. oh well.

 

just a tip i found if no one has peaked into the Chameleon help file yet:

 

type "Graphics Mode"="1920x1200x32" (or whatever your res is) and "Legacy Logo"=Yes into Chameleon or add it to com.apple.boot.plist and remove the "-v" kernel flag and the boot screen will be at full res with the default apple logo so it looks like a real mac booting, still not as crisp, but looks ok. it also gives more room for text in Darwin when booting in verbose.

 

If anyone's having questions about Chameleon boot flags or kernel flags, I put up a few posts today with full Chameleon documentation and how to enable the Apple boot screen.

 

Chameleon Documentation

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/cha...umentation.html

 

Enable Apple Boot Screen

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/ena...oot-screen.html

[aushack]

When you say appear as a Xeon where exactly does it appear as a Xeon?

 

yeah in About This Mac, nothing urgent. also doesnt show the CPU clock set in the BIOS always a few megahertz over.

 

That is the one. I dunno. Maybe you have something else superseding the aboutthismag.pkg. Maybe OSXtools might work for you. Hell, I've done so many things to get stuff working that I sometimes don't know what I did. It has been a {censored} shoot. But just one week ago I couldn't even get OSX running, now I'm using it and it kicks my iMacs ass in speed. I just ordered a new 23' monitor and I'm waiting on it and I will be trying a new install on the HD that is meant for it. I currently have a temp drive in it to test with as my permanent HD will dual boot and already has Win7. …

 

yeah thats how i felt a bit, but now done a few reinstalls because i wasnt happy with it and bit of perfectionist so grasped whats correct and makes my machine speedy.

 

… On that note. My plans are to dual boot SN and W7 with a third partition as a common storage area. I have a 1.5 TB HD. I planned on splitting it 3 ways. Like 200GB for W7, 250 for OSX and rest storage. Any thoughts, suggestions? I am not sure what format to use for the storage area. Use HFS+ and install MacDrive on the Win7 side or use NTFS. I hear the NTFS support on 64bit OSX is still sketchy.

 

im not sure if you can non destructively partition a disk with Windows on an NTFS partition, and certainly not with an MBR partition scheme. i have a 1TB disk with Windows on it and thinking of erasing it with a GUID partition scheme, reinstalling Windows 7 and putting on a partition on for Time Machine and general storage. i think Windows 7 can be installed on GUID http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=dual+boot+guid.

 

You can try OSX86tools to set the CPU type in profiler.

 

… I just tried this and I would say DO NOT do this. It messed up my OS version, processor version and RAM version... now they say things like "ABOUT_BOX_VERSION_FORMAT_STRING"

 

I even rebooted after setting them. I also tried using it to revert to defaults and that doesn't work.

 

hmm maybe i shouldnt try that, just used this for the moment http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=44470, but it only shows in About This Mac, not system wide. 10.6.2 does enable the vanilla kernel for LGA1156, but there must be a file in the new iMac's OS that determiness the CPU type correctly. its a quad core and showing as a Xeon as thats the only quad core CPU that was in a Mac before. now the iMac's have a quad core, but a different model.

[LucaM]

Has anyone with a GA-P55-UG4P motherboard tried to solve the Intel SATA ports problem by editing the DSTD file?

 

I initially installed tonymac's DSTD file, can I archive that and generate a DSTD file from my hardware without having to reinstall the OS from scratch?

 

Thanks!

[aushack]

^ sorry dont know about enabling the Intel sata ports im after that too. but just rename your DSDT file using sudo mv DSDT.aml DSDT.bak.aml in Terminal and it will be safe.

[vetters]

I currently have my audio working (both analog and digital) on my UD2 mobo. I am trying to have the audio run through my gtx 260 graphic card's HDMI with no sucess though. I have the spdif wire connected to the spdif out header on the mobo and wired it to my video card, and there is still nothing. Has anybody gotten audio to passthrough to HDMI on their video card?

[lectrcman]

Is there a way we can make a list of things that should be checked once the install is running other than the obvious things like sound, video, etc...? Little things that might be overlooked by novices such as myself. I see people talking about changing sections of the DSDT so that certain kexts don't need to be used etc... Also where can I find a good list of kexts and what they actually do or is there such a thing?

[joechip123]

1) partition the 1.5 to two smaller partitions, using GUID

 

What size did you make yours?

 

2) installer Chameleon boot loader along with the modified boot file

 

Is this the stuff in Tony's guide? If so, I've got it.

 

3) clone the drive using CCC or disk utilty, but make sure you uncheck that files will overwritten. ie. we don't want to overwrite anything from Chameleon

 

I don't understand this step. What am I cloning the drive from? Are you referring to the Restore function in Disk Utility?

 

 

Hope this works, since our errors, and same drive have me very suspicous.

 

I tried using my 1TB drive from my external enclosure, and I can't even get past the "loading operating system" line, so that drive's even worse!

 

This is slowly driving me a bit mad, but I really appreciate all the help you and others have been giving! Thanks so much!!

[goldenaustin]

What size did you make yours?

 

Is this the stuff in Tony's guide? If so, I've got it.

 

I don't understand this step. What am I cloning the drive from? Are you referring to the Restore function in Disk Utility?

 

I tried using my 1TB drive from my external enclosure, and I can't even get past the "loading operating system" line, so that drive's even worse!

 

This is slowly driving me a bit mad, but I really appreciate all the help you and others have been giving! Thanks so much!!

 

Yeah, I know how you feel about this stuff, which is why I don't mind helping at all, especially since I got mine to work.

 

Size: I made mine 600Gb, just to try since it was close to my 640gig drive that I boot of from.

 

Chameleon: I believe Tony had the installer in his package, otherwise, I just googled, "Chameleon RC 3 installer".

 

Cloning step: Maybe I was confused as to how you got to the point you were seeing the errors, but I saw the Boot0 errors, when I made a backup (clone) of my working drive using my 1.5Tb drive. When I tried to boot off the 1.5TB drive, I saw the exact same Boot0 errors as you. When I referred to CCC and Disk Utility restore, those two tools were used for backing up my original drive. I guess if you didn't get to those errors since you were restoring from a backup like I did, then I think you can just focus on 1) ensuring that Chameleon boot loader is properly installed with the updated boot file, 2) making sure the partition is active via the steps I mentioned, and 3) (or should've been #1), ensure that your working, active partition is smaller than 1.5Tb, but since you were seeing the issue with a 1Tb drive, then try something less, like 600 like I did. I'm not sure what that limit is, but I know Chameleon did have issues with "large" drives, but not sure what "large" actually was. I even thought it was resolved in RC3, but that wasn't the case for me, obviously.

[Treky]

Yeah, I know how you feel about this stuff, which is why I don't mind helping at all, especially since I got mine to work.

 

Size: I made mine 600Gb, just to try since it was close to my 640gig drive that I boot of from.

 

Chameleon: I believe Tony had the installer in his package, otherwise, I just googled, "Chameleon RC 3 installer".

 

Cloning step: Maybe I was confused as to how you got to the point you were seeing the errors, but I saw the Boot0 errors, when I made a backup (clone) of my working drive using my 1.5Tb drive. When I tried to boot off the 1.5TB drive, I saw the exact same Boot0 errors as you. When I referred to CCC and Disk Utility restore, those two tools were used for backing up my original drive. I guess if you didn't get to those errors since you were restoring from a backup like I did, then I think you can just focus on 1) ensuring that Chameleon boot loader is properly installed with the updated boot file, 2) making sure the partition is active via the steps I mentioned, and 3) (or should've been #1), ensure that your working, active partition is smaller than 1.5Tb, but since you were seeing the issue with a 1Tb drive, then try something less, like 600 like I did. I'm not sure what that limit is, but I know Chameleon did have issues with "large" drives, but not sure what "large" actually was. I even thought it was resolved in RC3, but that wasn't the case for me, obviously.

 

Also, I have a 1 TB drive as 1 TB partition, and no boot issue with boot0 and boot1h of chameleon 2RC3 package.

[Treky]

Here is a fix for DSDT for HPET ( no more need for NullCPUPM.kext ) on GA-P55-UD4, Bios version F3.

Not tested on others.

 

Original Code:

Device (HPET)
			{
				Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0103"))
				Name (ATT3, ResourceTemplate ()
				{
					IRQNoFlags ()
						{0}
					IRQNoFlags ()
						{8}
					Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite,
						0xFED00000,		 // Address Base
						0x00000400,		 // Address Length
						)
				})
				Name (ATT4, ResourceTemplate ()
				{
				})
				Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
				{
					If (LGreaterEqual (OSFX, 0x03))
					{
						If (HPTF)
						{
							Return (0x0F)
						}
						Else
						{
							Return (0x00)
						}
					}
					Else
					{
						Return (0x00)
					}
				}

				Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)
				{
					If (LGreaterEqual (OSFX, 0x03))
					{
						If (HPTF)
						{
							Return (ATT3)
						}
						Else
						{
							Return (ATT4)
						}
					}
					Else
					{
						Return (ATT4)
					}
				}
			}

 

Fixed Code:

Device (HPET)
			{
				Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0103"))
				Name (ATT3, ResourceTemplate ()
				{
					IRQNoFlags ()
						{0}
					IRQNoFlags ()
						{8}
					Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite,
						0xFED00000,		 // Address Base
						0x00000400,		 // Address Length
						)
				})
				Name (ATT4, ResourceTemplate ()
				{
				})
				Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
				{
					Return (0x0F)
				}

				Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)
				{
					Return (ATT3)
				}
			}

 

To modify DSDT as above shown, let me remove NullCPUPowerManagment.kext on my GA-P55M-UD4 without getting AppleIntelCPUPowerManagment kernel panic. (Thank you)

But it cause a really big problem, Playing audio make now constantly stutter sound. Games becoming unplayable. So I will continue need NullCPUPowerManagment.kext.

[theotherone]

I too have a gtx 260 (ZOTAC), i tried the same and failed, maybe changing the pins may help, i did'nt try that, i simply used a optical cable which works for me.

 

 

I currently have my audio working (both analog and digital) on my UD2 mobo. I am trying to have the audio run through my gtx 260 graphic card's HDMI with no sucess though. I have the spdif wire connected to the spdif out header on the mobo and wired it to my video card, and there is still nothing. Has anybody gotten audio to passthrough to HDMI on their video card?

[profdre]

Yeah, I know how you feel about this stuff, which is why I don't mind helping at all, especially since I got mine to work.

 

Size: I made mine 600Gb, just to try since it was close to my 640gig drive that I boot of from.

 

Chameleon: I believe Tony had the installer in his package, otherwise, I just googled, "Chameleon RC 3 installer".

 

Cloning step: Maybe I was confused as to how you got to the point you were seeing the errors, but I saw the Boot0 errors, when I made a backup (clone) of my working drive using my 1.5Tb drive. When I tried to boot off the 1.5TB drive, I saw the exact same Boot0 errors as you. When I referred to CCC and Disk Utility restore, those two tools were used for backing up my original drive. I guess if you didn't get to those errors since you were restoring from a backup like I did, then I think you can just focus on 1) ensuring that Chameleon boot loader is properly installed with the updated boot file, 2) making sure the partition is active via the steps I mentioned, and 3) (or should've been #1), ensure that your working, active partition is smaller than 1.5Tb, but since you were seeing the issue with a 1Tb drive, then try something less, like 600 like I did. I'm not sure what that limit is, but I know Chameleon did have issues with "large" drives, but not sure what "large" actually was. I even thought it was resolved in RC3, but that wasn't the case for me, obviously.

 

 

Maybe I can help a bit. I was first using Snow Leopard on a 1 TB drive with just one partition, like Treky wrote already, so that works with Chameleon. Then I divided the drive in 2 partitions, 100 and 900 GB with Disk Utility and SL just kept working. It was different as I installed something and then got kernel panics during boot (still don't know what caused these panics, I didn't change any hackintosh related stuff, did just install iLife...: at that point I had to use my backup from the external disk, I was able to boot from my USB stick and to use the Time Machine backup. After finishing that, the boot error occurred. I just fixed it with installing PC EFI 10.1 and copying the new boot file. And if you're still using a case sensitive formatted drive, try to change that first. It leads to many problems, for example I couldn't copy my Time Machine backup of that case sensitive volume to a volume which wasn't case sensitive and my games didn't run (many programs like Photoshop won't, too).

[jmk420]

This forum is awesome!

 

I have an Intel DP55WB + i5 750.

 

Everything is working great with Tonymac's help. Thank you kindly, sir, for the guides and easy install packages - saved me so much time and brain damage.

 

I got the audio (Realtek ALC888, 0x088810EC) working with VoodooHDA (removed AppleHDA).

 

The only outstanding issue is network (integrated 82578DC, 0x10F08086). I've tried adding the device id to the 82566MM kext from kexts.com per this topic, but no luck.

 

My impression was that the 82578DC would be supported in-kernel (as of 10.6.2) because that's what the new iMacs have - unless they're not using the integrated net? Can any new iMac owner confirm their network controller chipset?

[joechip123]

OMFG, I finally figured this {censored} out!!!

 

goldenaustin - When you said to Google Chameleon RC 3, I thought, WTF, I'll try a different version again. RC3 has large disk support - I think this is what did it! I can now boot off of my 1TB drive. I think I'm going to keep it in there and use it as my main drive and use the 1.5TB drive as a time machine backup.

 

Here's what I did:

 

Formatted my 1TB HD to have an 800GB partition for OSX (200GB for Windows).

 

Restored the OSX partition in Disk Utility using my working installation of SL as the source.

 

Installed Chameleon RC 3 (the instructions are in the Read Me file, but they leave out one step - you have to type "cd " then drag the i386 folder to the space, then hit enter. As well, for copying the boot file, where is says "sudo cp boot /" you need to put your info after that /. So for Tony's example, you'd write sudo cp boot /Volumes/Snow Leopard/. I'm sure a lot of people here know these steps, but some of us who are new to this might not).

 

Restarted - Boot worked perfectly!

 

Thanks so much to everyone here for their time and effort helping me out with this! I really appreciate it!

 

 

EDIT: I've just got two issues now:

 

1) My Geekbench score has dropped from 9000 to 6800 booting off my 1TB drive (the 9000 was off of my 100GB 5400 RPM drive installed with Tony's method). Any solutions to this?

EDIT: Problem solved! I reinstalled PC EFI, boot, extra and DSDT.aml from Tonymac's package, then installed the boot0 file from RC 3. Awesome!!!

 

2) xBench is showing that my OpenGL score is lower on my MSI GTX 260 than my MBP's ATI x1600, which seems a bit odd to me.

 

3) Sleep doesn't work. Has anyone else been able to get it to work on a UD2 board?

[TR0LL]

I wish you could search within a thread on this forum Sorry if this is a noob question but I just haven't been able to make any conclusions on this one from searching on my own. (edit: Now that I've typed the whole thing, perhaps it could have been a new thread, but I'll try this first and can always edit if its out of place). Thanks in advance for any help!

 

I read this thread when I first started looking and didnt know much. Then I read through it again later as I had a better idea of things.

Now I am ready to pull the trigger and am trying to verify once and for all which of the boards I am interested in are fully functional, but its a damn long read and less people having success than not. The organization and input from members here is great, but its still a tough read to get conclusive info out of easily.

 

I know the UD2 is working well for people, but are any other boards?

 

I am looking to do an i7 860 for photo editing. No plans for gaming or video editing but I do want a solid setup that will last me a while here.

I'm liking the option to overclock.

I dont plan to have more than 1 video card.

VGM was nice enough to talk to me last night and recommended I look at the UD3R and UD4P but I have yet to find someone with a fully functional setup using one of those.

I am not pinching pennies on this setup, so if an upgrade here or there will mean a more functional, reliable, or just better setup in general then I am absolutely interested.

 

Although I am new to this, I like learning new things and have a friend who can assist with this build and setup. I'd much prefer to go a tried and tested route to try and avoid any undue issues in getting the computer up and running. As far as I'm concerned if I can talk to one person who personally owns a setup who has it figured out, I'm ready to go for it, but I am not interested or able to be a pioneer when it comes to this stuff.

 

I like the sound of the i7 860 over the i7 920, which has well documented build info... but I'm not sure what the right fit is for me. I won't count out the possibility that for my needs/wants/abilities that the 920 may just be a better idea for me at this point, and know its also a very capable setup.

 

Thanks again for any input... the community you guys have here is awesome and I'm hoping to get involved and contribute soon.

[grncdr]

I wish you could search within a thread on this forum <img src="style_emoticons/default/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> Sorry if this is a noob question but I just haven't been able to make any conclusions on this one from searching on my own. (edit: Now that I've typed the whole thing, perhaps it could have been a new thread, but I'll try this first and can always edit if its out of place). Thanks in advance for any help!<br /><br />I read this thread when I first started looking and didnt know much. Then I read through it again later as I had a better idea of things.<br />Now I am ready to pull the trigger and am trying to verify once and for all which of the boards I am interested in are fully functional, but its a damn long read and less people having success than not. The organization and input from members here is great, but its still a tough read to get conclusive info out of easily.<br /><br /><b>I know the UD2 is working well for people, but are any other boards? </b><br /><br />I am looking to do an i7 860 for photo editing. No plans for gaming or video editing but I do want a solid setup that will last me a while here.<br />I'm liking the option to overclock.<br />I dont plan to have more than 1 video card.<br />VGM was nice enough to talk to me last night and recommended I look at the UD3R and UD4P but I have yet to find someone with a fully functional setup using one of those. <br />I am not pinching pennies on this setup, so if an upgrade here or there will mean a more functional, reliable, or just better setup in general then I am absolutely interested.<br /><br />Although I am new to this, I like learning new things and have a friend who can assist with this build and setup. I'd much prefer to go a tried and tested route to try and avoid any undue issues in getting the computer up and running. As far as I'm concerned if I can talk to one person who personally owns a setup who has it figured out, I'm ready to go for it, but I am not interested or able to be a pioneer when it comes to this stuff.<br /><br />I like the sound of the i7 860 over the i7 920, which has well documented build info... but I'm not sure what the right fit is for me. I won't count out the possibility that for my needs/wants/abilities that the 920 may just be a better idea for me at this point, and know its also a very capable setup.<br /><br />Thanks again for any input... the community you guys have here is awesome and I'm hoping to get involved and contribute soon.

<br /><br /><br /> Personally, I have had pretty good success with the UD4P and a gigabyte radeon 4850. There were a few speedbumps, but nothing major. The only continuing issue is sound, I currently get sound out of the headphone port using VoodooHDA, but it's noisy and obnoxious. I've been playing around with patching AppleHDA / creating a legacy kext, because so far nothing i've tried has worked.<br /><br />p.s. there is a "search this topic" button immediately after the last post on each page, but it was broken last time I tried it.

[TR0LL]

<br /><br /><br /> Personally, I have had pretty good success with the UD4P and a gigabyte radeon 4850. There were a few speedbumps, but nothing major. The only continuing issue is sound, I currently get sound out of the headphone port using VoodooHDA, but it's noisy and obnoxious. I've been playing around with patching AppleHDA / creating a legacy kext, because so far nothing i've tried has worked.<br /><br />p.s. there is a "search this topic" button immediately after the last post on each page, but it was broken last time I tried it.

Thanks for your response... this is really good info for me. Are you on an i7 or i5 with your setup?

Sound is something I can wait on, thats not a major issue for me and I assume it will be figured out soon enough.

Does everything else work 100%... sleep, usb, lan, bootup and operation are normal, etc?

Any other quirks with the computer that make it different than sitting in front of an iMac?

Have you checked to see that the speed of the computer is where it should be?

Thanks a lot... I'm not trying to be unrealistic, but I am just trying to lay the groundwork here to put together a reliable work station that promotes productivity once set up, which means avoiding quirks and glitches.

If you use AIM I'd love to chat

 

And more fully, I was looking at:

i7 860 from microcenter ($239)

P55-UD4P board (or similar, if its better for me)

260 or 275 video card... undecided

gskill ripjaws 2 x 2 gig ddr3 1600 ram (on sale for $80 at newegg)

2x WD Black drives for Win7 and SL

2x WD Black drives for mirrored storage

Antec 900 case with CM Silent Pro 700w PSU

Lite-On DVD burner

...and I guess I need a CPU cooler if I'm looking at overclocking

(have monitor, mouse, keyboard)

[LucaM]

<br /><br /><br /> Personally, I have had pretty good success with the UD4P and a gigabyte radeon 4850. There were a few speedbumps, but nothing major. The only continuing issue is sound, I currently get sound out of the headphone port using VoodooHDA, but it's noisy and obnoxious. I've been playing around with patching AppleHDA / creating a legacy kext, because so far nothing i've tried has worked.<br /><br />p.s. there is a "search this topic" button immediately after the last post on each page, but it was broken last time I tried it.

 

Does this mean that you have all SATA ports working on the GA-P55-UD4P and not only the ones connected to the Gigabyte chipset (GSATA2_0 and GSATA2_1, the blue ports on top)?

 

I still have not figured out a way to have more than two SATA2 ports working with this motherboard.

 

Sound: I am in the same boat. VoodooHDA works but it makes a bit of noise. Not a big deal for me, but I can see how it could get annoying.

 

I have tried creating a hardware specific DSDT.aml file but if I delete the DSDT.aml file in tonymac's folder the boot process fails after going through all the driver downloads. It just hangs there right after all the messages have scrolled through the screen and normally the screen would turn light blue just before loading the desktop. After I reboot, the BIOS informs me that the system didn't post and suggest starting from the last known good configuration. I set the BIOS manually to all the usual parameters before booting (AHCI and all that jazz).

[stingray072]

I can 100% confirm that optical out IS working on the UD2 with tonymac's install. I have tested it with a 10 m optical cable on my rig to my YAMAHA RVX 565, works absolutely beutiful.

Wow this might be the final nail for me to sink into this rig....

You're getting full dts passthrough?

Thanks!

[theotherone]

Yepp! This thing is really a beauty! Today i'm adding a 10.000RPM 300GB VelociRaptor as Startupdisk.

 

How?

 

- First connect your new StartupDrive to your already running hack (via usb, sata, fw)

- Second, make a backup of your previous Startupdrive to the new drive with SuperDuper or CarbonCopy Cloner.

- Third, add Efi to the new drive from tonymac's Tools

 

Now - replace the old startupdrive with the new one and set your BIOS accordingly if you didn't take the same sata-port then your old startuppdrive.

 

300GB is'nt enough for you? Simply set your Userfolder to another drive or partition like i did, here's how:

 

Look in this hint from Mac OSX Hints.

 

So, what you get from this move is:

 

- Superfast booting from a very reliable 300 GB Drive, the fastest on the market.

- Room enough for System & programs which need fast booting

- maybe you can move your virtual machines also to this fast drive.

- Easy Experimentation with new System, or kext-tests etc. without messing with your user-data!

 

Happy Booting!

[gateway69]

hmm 33 pages ... question.. im thinking of putting this together.

 

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 $239.99 .. anyone using this?

Core i7 975

Not sure on Ram. suggestions

Nvidia Geforce GTX 295,285,275 or 260 -- anyone have exp with any one of these

 

What I would like is to use 2 500 Sata drives, one for osx and one for win7 and then dual boot depending on what I need to work in

 

Can anyone give a suggestion on the Ram, network card (unless the mb one works) , audio (unless the mb one works)

 

I will probably try the latest OSX 10.6x depending on which one is working.

 

question: can you use boot camp? or parallels to load in either win 7 into osx so I dont have to reboot at times?

 

Sorry totally noob questions ... I was eyeing a iMac Core i7 but at $2600 thats way to much..

[heinz1]

hmm 33 pages ... question.. im thinking of putting this together.

 

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 $239.99 .. anyone using this?

Core i7 975

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Hi,

 

this thread deals with mainboards using the P55 chipset (LGA1156 socket). For the GA-EX58-UD5 (X58 chipset, LGA1366 socket), there are several excellent guides around, e.g.:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=185097

[Space-man007]

Hi there, with this DSDT file + netkas sleepenabler is sleep working on a Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3.

Sry for my bad English, Im German.

dsdt.aml.zip

Sleepenabler is dont need.

Edited December 1, 2009 by Space-man007