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[Guide] Vanilla Retail 10.6.x with Chameleon v2 for Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L

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Hi blackosx,

 

no overclocking yet. But I remember that I have enabled C2/C2E and C4/C4E state support in the bios settings. Maybe I should give these settings a try...

 

By the way I did my installation with the iPC Live DL DVD. A very nice way to install without the need of an Leopard install...

 

I will try to disable the C2 and C4 state settings and will report again...

 

Steve

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Ok, noob hour here.

 

No matter what I do, when I burn a boot disc (either my own or the one listed under files on he front page) it burns it..but my computer will NOT see it as a boot disc, it just "skips" it.

 

Yes, the first boot device is set to cdrom as well. I burned it to a dvr r and not a cd but I can't imagine that making any difference. I used the disk utility that comes with OSX in my current install and simply dragged the iso to the left plane and then hit burn. It shows up on the disc and the disk is labeled "GA-p45-DS3l" but it will not boot. So weird. Any suggestions?

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Ok, noob hour here.

 

No matter what I do, when I burn a boot disc (either my own or the one listed under files on he front page) it burns it..but my computer will NOT see it as a boot disc, it just "skips" it.

 

Yes, the first boot device is set to cdrom as well. I burned it to a dvr r and not a cd but I can't imagine that making any difference. I used the disk utility that comes with OSX in my current install and simply dragged the iso to the left plane and then hit burn. It shows up on the disc and the disk is labeled "GA-p45-DS3l" but it will not boot. So weird. Any suggestions?

 

I am using DVD too so that is not an issue at all. Try booting it by pressing F12 on boot and selecting your drive from list (if you use sata dvd drive - and you should ! - you should see it's name on list)

 

And my friend we all here are noobs that's why we need guides from legendary people :-)

 

EDIT: I am looking forward to weekend. I want to try to use similar method to install Snow Kitty on my Thinkpad T61 and if it works maybe I will write my own guide :-)

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re: bonjour, how do i know its running properly?

if i chose not to install printers (due to previous installations failing) can i still add them now?

 

 

When you got your system up and running you can install your printer drivers now.

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re: bonjour, how do i know its running properly?

if i chose not to install printers (due to previous installations failing) can i still add them now?

 

Regarding printers I think if you don't have them installed they will download from internet when you try to install printer and you can always install them from retail dvd.

 

Regarding bonjour...Do you have iPhone ? If yes try Remote app to control iTunes from iPhone using Wi-Fi network. It will show you if it works and you will have some fun with it :-)

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Well, balls. I reset the bios to standard defaults and that *did* work, i.e. it started seeing bootable disks. But I solve one problem and another rears it's ugly head: Both my own bootable disk that I made using another guide and the boot disk listed under files in this thread do the same thing, they start to boot and then I get a black screen and the system reboots. ;)

 

It appears the ep45-ds3l is different enough that it will not work on my p35-ds3l.

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Well, balls. I reset the bios to standard defaults and that *did* work, i.e. it started seeing bootable disks. But I solve one problem and another rears it's ugly head: Both my own bootable disk that I made using another guide and the boot disk listed under files in this thread do the same thing, they start to boot and then I get a black screen and the system reboots. ;)

 

It appears the ep45-ds3l is different enough that it will not work on my p35-ds3l.

 

Hi Vis,

 

Just follow Blackosx's guide using the bootcd & retail dvd. I have a P35C-DS3R and it's stable in 32&64bit.

 

Clean install is the ONLY way to go!

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Can anyone with a GA-EP35-DS4 confirm that installation works on this board? I tried to install SnowLeo with this guide but it will just sit idle when i try to clean install with the install CD after a line saying.

 

AppleRTL8169Ethernet

 

Any hints, except from "AppleRTL8169Ethernet is the Ethernet driver"?

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titan4
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Hi Gang,

 

I would like to disable SL from mounting or spotlighting my NTFS drives, particularly Vista, how would I do this?

I can't find anything on google.

 

Thanks.

 

With /etc/fstab

You can take some inspiration here

 

Only in last example you have to use ntfs instead of hfs and i would omit the rw flag since you wont need to and it is just to be on safe side. Just to be clear, noauto flag is the key here.

 

Can anyone with a GA-EP35-DS4 confirm that installation works on this board? I tried to install SnowLeo with this guide but it will just sit idle when i try to clean install with the install CD after a line saying.

 

AppleRTL8169Ethernet

 

Any hints, except from "AppleRTL8169Ethernet is the Ethernet driver"?

 

You know what I think that my last line on boot is ethernet related too, so I would guess that this one is not a reason to why your system won't boot.

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blackosx
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It was actually me who suggested what blackosx wrote in post above me.

...(however I am not sure about memory because as blackosx I too have 800 Mhz Corsairs (4-4-4-12 but I have them on default 5-5-5-18 as of now, but tried every possible setting) ...

 

You see it is like in real world...Sleep is good, but waking sucks :-)

Oh yeah, so it was :(

I haven't touched my memory timing so mine are at default settings to..

 

Lol

 

EDIT: Thanks for all your help here answering the questions :)

 

 

 

@-aKy- Good job with your build - well done :)

 

 

@WildSteve - Interesting about the iPC Live DL DVD... I have never used it, is it like a Linux Live disc and can you just boot from the DVD in to a working system?

 

 

@Vis - Have you had any joy with the BootCD after trying the options from others here?

 

 

@hetman - Another way to test bonjour is maybe use Bonjour Browser? I haven't used it but I've heard others mention it.

 

 

@macastragalos - Hi mate, congratulations on a sweet running Snow Kitty (apart from sleep)... :)

 

 

@Donar - RE: AppleRTL8169Ethernet - This is only a guess but I am trying to think of things you might not have tried like maybe unplugging your network cable from the machine or try disabling the onboard network just for the install?

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@blackosx yes, the iPC live DVD is like a linux live system. The "C"-States did not change anything... The new Chameleon boot file did not help, too... By the way I use the same Corsair memory as you!

 

So maybe time helps, but I do not give up so fast :-)

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@blackosx yes, the iPC live DVD is like a linux live system. The "C"-States did not change anything... The new Chameleon boot file did not help, too... By the way I use the same Corsair memory as you!

 

So maybe time helps, but I do not give up so fast :-)

Okay, Thanks for letting me know about that... Maybe I'll add that as an option of anyone who can't get the bootCD or the USB install option to work?

 

As for your sleep.. sorry, I am out of ideas...

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Just wanted to say two things real quick:

 

1. Thanks again for the guide and the custom boot CD. Snow Leopard rocks.

 

2. After installing using the boot cd I had a few kps everytime I would do a disk task (like repair disk permissions in the disk utility). Then I booted into 64bit and everything worked. So maybe that is some advice- if people are having kps on 32bit mode, try 64bit mode!

 

As a note again I have a EP35-DS3R board with 8gb of RAM.

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2. After installing using the boot cd I had a few kps everytime I would do a disk task (like repair disk permissions in the disk utility). Then I booted into 64bit and everything worked. So maybe that is some advice- if people are having kps on 32bit mode, try 64bit mode!

 

In some cases it actually works in opposite direction too. I had KPs in 64-bit mode but I am not 100% sure how i fixed it because I did 3 things at once - Disable IDE in BIOS, set HPET to 64-bit in BIOS (I guess this is the winner) and installed new Cham. In current state Snow Kitty is extremely fragile and even small tweak can cause her to scream and use her claws around and she starts to prefer grey hair color. Kitties these days...

 

And OMG Blackosx is near his 666's post. Kitties will die !

 

(I should stop posting today)

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Well to all who are using FIREWAVE (griffin 5.1) 64bit You will randomly get kernal panics looking like the image I have included.

 

Since I stopped using the firewave i have had NO Kp's.

 

So my advice is dont use it if you are in x64.

 

IMG_0656.JPG

 

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Capt_Boom
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What if you remove smbios.plist? I have seen bad edits, or incorrect information in there cause KPs right about where you are seeing them.

 

 

 

That sure sounds like a DSDT editing problem. You should double check that you have changed the (RTC) section of the DSDT like it says in the guide. While you are in there, make sure you edit the High speed usb section too. There is a link to the instructions in the first post.

 

This worked Removing the smbios.plist allows boot and i havn't had a KP since.

 

Although i of course would like o use a smbios plist

 

I've tried the one in the current support files with the same affect

 

 

Anyone have a smbios.plist where they have all 4 memory slots populated and is using more then 4 gig of ram they wanna post that i could look at?

 

 

Thanks for the help guys

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This worked Removing the smbios.plist allows boot and i havn't had a KP since.

 

Although i of course would like o use a smbios plist

 

I've tried the one in the current support files with the same affect

 

 

Anyone have a smbios.plist where they have all 4 memory slots populated and is using more then 4 gig of ram they wanna post that i could look at?

 

 

Thanks for the help guys

 

Here you go Capt_Boom. I have all 4 slots filled with a total of 6GB.

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>SMbiosvendor</key>
   <string>Apple Inc.</string>
   <key>SMbiosversion</key>
   <string>MP31.006C.B05</string>
   <key>SMmanufacter</key>
   <string>Apple Inc.</string>
   <key>SMproductname</key>
   <string>MacPro3,1</string>
   <key>SMsystemversion</key>
   <string>1.0</string>
   <key>SMUUID</key>
   <string>AEFFC1BE-B846-327E-A492-1B8097CAE134</string>
   <key>SMserial</key>
   <string>SecretSerial</string>
   <key>SMfamily</key>
   <string>mac</string>
   <key>SMboardmanufacter</key>
   <string>Gigabyte</string>
   <key>SMboardproduct</key>
   <string>EP35C-DS3R</string>
   <key>SMexternalclock</key>
   <string>266</string>
   <key>SMmaximalclock</key>
   <string>2666</string>
   <key>SMmemtype</key>
   <string>19</string>
   <key>SMmemspeed</key>
   <string>800</string>
   <key>SMmemmanufacter_1</key>
   <string>OCZ Platinum</string>
   <key>SMmemmanufacter_2</key>
   <string>OCZ Platinum</string>	
   <key>SMmemmanufacter_3</key>
   <string>OCZ Platinum</string>
   <key>SMmemmanufacter_4</key>
   <string>OCZ Platinum</string>
   <key>SMmempart_1</key>
   <string>OCZ2G8004GK</string>
   <key>SMmempart_2</key>
   <string>OCZ2P800R22GK</string>
   <key>SMmempart_3</key>
   <string>OCZ2G8004GK</string>
   <key>SMmempart_4</key>
   <string>OCZ2P800R22GK</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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Hi blackosx.

 

I finally got the Installer up and running. Turns out the KPs were fixed by the BIOS update F7 released a week ago. As a bonus, the SATA AHCI BIOS was updated to 1.20e as well :).

 

It's currently running at home finishing the install while I'm in uni. I still have to patch my DSDT for the CMOS fix and USB High Speed? Regardless, thanks for your time and effort that you put in to help everyone here.

 

S.

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Kind of repeating what @titan4 said, BIOS seems to matter in terms of stability, but maybe not just a single setting.

 

I disabled everything I don't use (IDE, Serial, Floppy). I was still getting random KPs no matter what I did with the Cham volume and it's files. Out of desperation, I reset the BIOS to factory and changed nothing except setting disks to AHCI and HPET to 64. SL started working much better, so I changed my other settings back to where they were and SL was still working much better. Dunno, maybe this will help someone.

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Hi Did you get your nic working native without RealtekR1000.kext? I have the same MB and I cant get my network work.

The NIC only get APIPA addresses and not from my router.

 

 

I have not tried the onboard nic. I use wireless and the rtl 8187 chipset works in 32 bit. Since i really wanted to run 64 bit, i picked up a Asus WL-138G V2 (PCI) which shows up as airport natively with adding the device id to the broadcom kext.

 

scott

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I followed the lifehacker article How to Build a Hackintosh w/ SL I downloaded the 10.6 dmg from BT. It runs circles around the old XP. The Intel HD (Azalia onboard) audio isn't detected in Sound preferences. Onboard lan works. IDE DVDRW drive doesn't get detected. Software update works. I sure wish I had sound though. The Creative Xi-Fi card isn't detected either. MSI 6600gt pci-e works great at 1680x1050 on a hp w2207 lcd.

 

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3ghz

Gigabyte P35 DS3L

2gb OCZ 1066 (reported to be 800 by system profiler)

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