Kakewalk: Minimal effort install (EP45, EX58, P55, G41)

[GrootWitBaas]

I have just bought all the various bits and built a machine but am having an issue with getting the Snow Leopard Disk to boot into the GUI.

 

Machine - EP45-UD3LR updated with latest BIOS, E7400 C2D, 4GB GSKILL 1066mhz memory, WD160GB HDD, HIS HD4670 1GB DDR3 PCiE, 500W Power Supply. DVD DL Drive IDE.

 

I have successfully booted from the BootCD and swapped to Snow Leopard Install Disk but after the spinning cartwheel when Snow Leopard should go to GUI I get a blank screen. I had understood that 46XX cards were detected and should just be recognised. Do you think I have an issue with the card not being recognised or is there some other explanation?

 

I downloaded from the link in the first post.

 

What port on your card are you using for display, and did you try the other port?

[the_gael]

What port on your card are you using for display, and did you try the other port?

 

I have tried HDMI, DVI and D-SUB but the result is the same every time.

I have also tried with a SATA DVD Drive but it makes no difference.

[sonofmickel]

I have va video problem as well but I also have a solution that may work. The problem is when I use the VGA port and not the DVI port. I need to "jump start" the graphics card when I use the VGA port. By that I mean that I use an Apple DVI-VGA adapter plug in the DVI port and that updates the video card and put out the correct signal to my VGA LCD monitor. All it takes is a quick insertion of the DVI plug and the VGA monitor updates. I now only use the DVI-VGA plug and my monitor works fine on the DVI port. I do not use the VGA port anymore. I was just testing it out and found this work-around. YMMV.

 

Does anyone know how to force 32bit mode so I can get my MIDI keyboard to work again?

[endos]

I would like to thank you for all of the effort you put into this guide. In my humble opinion, it is the single most helpful thing I've found on this entire forum.

 

I'm running a GA-EP43-UD3L motherboard, with a Q6600 Core 2 Quad processor, and everything in your boot loader works with my hardware configuration. Not only did I successfully install without a hitch, but I was also able to update to 10.6.2 without changing any of the kexts in the bootloader you provided. Default sound out is the headphones jack, but if I actually plug my speakers into the headphones jack, I hear sound out of it, so all I really need to do is just jack into a different port if changing my output device gets too annoying.

 

Video works with my Radeon HD2600 pro, but it's analogous to how it would work on a windows machine before installing the driver, but it's unreasonable to expect that to work perfectly. Otherwise, as far as I can tell, everything on the machine works perfectly.

 

Thanks for all of your hard work, it has saved me many hours of my own time, and the time of others.

 

Installing Snow Leopard on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR

 

Minimum requirements for Snow Leopard to be fully functional on first boot:

• Core 2 Duo/Quad
  
• Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR
  
• NVIDIA/ATI PCI-E Graphics card
  
• Thumb drive 8GB, USB Harddrive OR an Empty CD/DVD
  
• A Mac or a Hackintosh
  
• Snow Leopard
  

Quick run-down of the USB installation:

1. Create an image of your Snow Leopard disc.

2. Restore the image to your thumb drive.

3. Run the "Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR" installer. Point it to your thumb drive.

4. Reboot. Boot from your thumb drive. Install Snow Leopard.

5. You're up and running!

 

Quick run-down of the CD/DVD installation:

1. Burn Gigabyte.iso to a disc.

2. Boot from the disc. Follow onscreen instructions. Install Snow Leopard.

3. Start Install.pkg from BootCD

4. You're up and running!

 

DOWNLOAD CD/DVD GUIDE

This download includes the guide (PDF) and the BootCD ISO (Gigabyte.iso)

 

DOWNLOAD USB GUIDE

This download includes the guide (PDF) and the necessary package (Install.pkg)

 

DOWNLOAD BOOTLOADER

This is for those of you who have already installed Snow Leopard and want to upgrade to the latest bootloader.

 

Changelog:

v1.0 - Monday, December 14, 2009
- Added Chameleon 2.0-RC4 bootloader
- Removed PlatformUUID.kext as it is now obsolete
- Simplified the guide

If you're happy with my work feel free to send beer money Thanks!

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[joergd]

I have to correct myself: I have a Q8200. Now I am wondering if I should have bought a Q6600 (there was none available.)

 

Well, we will see.

 

J. Daehn

 

I just flawlessly reinstalled 10.6 and still have all my data. Phew! You gotta love Apple engineers! I am hesitating to update to 10.6.2 again. What would you suggest for a backup? Disk Utility or Carbon Copy Cloner?

 

THX,

 

Joerg

[the_gael]

I've just updated GigabyteUSB.dmg and GigabyteCD.zip with the latest release of Chameleon (RC4)

With this new version all ATI (46xx, 45xx 48xx etc) cards should work right out of the box.

 

The following changes have been made to the installer:

Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR Changelog

v1.0
 - Added Chameleon 2.0-RC4 bootloader
 - Removed PlatformUUID.kext as it is now obsolete
 - Simplified the guide

 

There is also a new package called GigabyteBoot.zip

This is for those of you who have already installed Snow Leopard and want to upgrade.

 

As always, refer to the first post for the download links

 

mrjanek first of all many thanks for this guide. I have built a machine based on this guide and am having a problem with installing which I believe is related to the Graphics Card (because install fails when Snow Leopard tries to go into the GUI after spinning cartwheel).

 

I have been using the BootCD method of installation and your BootCD loads and boots the machine, I follow the intructions and eject the BootCD, I load my Retail Snow Leopard Install Disk and the Apple Logo appears with the spinning cartwheel. After some time the spinning cartwheel disappears and I am left with only a blank white screen. I do hear some DVD Drive activity and some very small scratch tearing appears on screen then disappear. The install goes no further.

 

my machine spec is

 

EP45-UD3LR

Core 2 Duo E7400

4GB Gskill 1066mhz

HIS HD4670 1GB DDR3 - DVI/D-Sub/HDMI

 

I have tried connecting to all ports on GFX Card but always the same result. I have used different DVD Drives SATA and IDE - still same result.

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

Ken

[the_gael]

mrjanek first of all many thanks for this guide. I have built a machine based on this guide and am having a problem with installing which I believe is related to the Graphics Card (because install fails when Snow Leopard tries to go into the GUI after spinning cartwheel).

 

I have been using the BootCD method of installation and your BootCD loads and boots the machine, I follow the intructions and eject the BootCD, I load my Retail Snow Leopard Install Disk and the Apple Logo appears with the spinning cartwheel. After some time the spinning cartwheel disappears and I am left with only a blank white screen. I do hear some DVD Drive activity and some very small scratch tearing appears on screen then disappear. The install goes no further.

 

my machine spec is

 

EP45-UD3LR

Core 2 Duo E7400

4GB Gskill 1066mhz

HIS HD4670 1GB DDR3 - DVI/D-Sub/HDMI

 

I have tried connecting to all ports on GFX Card but always the same result. I have used different DVD Drives SATA and IDE - still same result.

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

Ken

 

I have just tried using the USB method as well and I get the same problem. I think I will buy another card - I see that the Nvidia 9500GT has been used successfully so I think that will be the one. Any advice on that would be great.

[Hyper X]

Just installed and everything seems to be working PREFECT except 1 small thing...

 

I need hot swapping and it doesn't seem to be working...

 

Is there anything I can do to enable hotswapping? My last 2 boards before this one could do it in some form or another. Now when I hot plug in a sata cord or use my swap bay in the front it doesnt even see the drive is added.

 

Thank you for your help!

[corefile]

In the install doc it says to make sure updated to F7 bios uodate, how do you check which BIOS updates you have, do I need to run windows to update it?

[the_gael]

I have just tried using the USB method as well and I get the same problem. I think I will buy another card - I see that the Nvidia 9500GT has been used successfully so I think that will be the one. Any advice on that would be great.

 

I bought a Gainward 9500GT 1GB - installed it and everything works first time :-)

[corefile]

I have the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P, and I used the BootCD to get Snow working, Everything seems to be working, but Sound. Any idea how to get sound working on the UD3P. I went to the Sound --> Output, but the was nothing there (I'm guessing because of the difference in the motherboard sound ) Any idea for sound on this board?

[mrjanek]

I have the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P, and I used the BootCD to get Snow working, Everything seems to be working, but Sound. Any idea how to get sound working on the UD3P. I went to the Sound --> Output, but the was nothing there (I'm guessing because of the difference in the motherboard sound ) Any idea for sound on this board?

 

Correct, this is because the sound part differs. Try searching the forums for a EP45-UD3P guide. I'm pretty sure I saw one the other day.

 

Hi mister Janek, i want to send beer money, but in euros and not sek, 1 euro = ? sek

 

1 Euro ≈ 10 SEK

 

Cheers!

 

In the install doc it says to make sure updated to F7 bios uodate, how do you check which BIOS updates you have, do I need to run windows to update it?

 

Your current version should show up during the Power-On Self Test (BIOS POST)

The easiest and most reliable method for flashing is with QFlash. You can reach it through BIOS by pressing F8 at start. You basically put the flash rom file on a USB stick and flash with QFlash.

[toldi]

Hi to all! Hi Mrjanek! Your tutorial is awesome! Used the DVD-install method. All was fine until update. After rebooting I have blank dark grey screen with mouse pointer at the left top corner. I can move the pointer, so OS is workin`.

 

Please, can u give any information or help?

 

Hello from Ukraine

 

PS. Using GA-EP45-UD3LR MB, Core 2 Duo E7500, MSI nVidia GeForce 9500GT.

 

 

<b>UPD!<b> Some miracle has happened . I was doing nothing, just moved the mouse after monitor had gone off and saw the desctop. Will reboot now to chek if this stuff will appear again

 

UPD2: This strange moment appeared again, then i rebooted my computer/ Need to wait when monitor goes off and then return by moving the mouse.

[GrootWitBaas]

Hi to all! Hi Mrjanek! Your tutorial is awesome! Used the DVD-install method. All was fine until update. After rebooting I have blank dark grey screen with mouse pointer at the left top corner. I can move the pointer, so OS is workin`.

 

Please, can u give any information or help?

 

Hello from Ukraine

 

PS. Using GA-EP45-UD3LR MB, Core 2 Duo E7500, MSI nVidia GeForce 9500GT.

 

 

<b>UPD!<b> Some miracle has happened . I was doing nothing, just moved the mouse after monitor had gone off and saw the desctop. Will reboot now to chek if this stuff will appear again

 

UPD2: This strange moment appeared again, then i rebooted my computer/ Need to wait when monitor goes off and then return by moving the mouse.

 

Have you tried also to connect to the other port of the card ? Had a similar problem conecting on the one port, but on the other it works 100% all the time.

[Morphey]

hi!

when i'm trying to boot, it writes me this msg:

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3660/img0151d.jpg

 

my system specs:

ep45-ud3l

q9400

nvidia 8500

 

plz help!

[CreativeBR]

I'm thinking in buy an EP45-UD3R / Q9550 based system only i want to try this guide.

 

But i would like to use a 2x1TB RAID 0 as my system/data storage and i couldn't find any info if is it possible to do in a hackintosh install (at least with this install method).

 

I'm asking it now because the UD3L model is much more cheap and if the raid is something too hard to setup there's no reason in order a UD3R model.

 

Thanks a lot for the help...

 

{}s

CreativeBR

[toldi]

Have you tried also to connect to the other port of the card ? Had a similar problem conecting on the one port, but on the other it works 100% all the time.

 

HI, man! Now I use VGA port! Havin` an idea to use DVI port! Thanx in advance! Will check it soon

[M.Piou]

Hi,

I have a logitech X-530: 5.1 kit, three jack are connected (green black and orange), but I only have two speakers and subwoofer that work.

But in system preferences, sound, output, I chose Internal Speakers.

And when I select internal output line, are three other operating (center, left and right on the side), but I wish they all work together.

What should I do that all the speakers running at the same time?

 

Here's my setup:

MB: EP45-UD3LR

Proc: Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2,66Ghz

RAM: 2Go

CG: 9800 GTX+ 512Mo

HD: 250Go 7200tr/min

 

Sorry for my bad english, i'm french.

 

(French on)

J'ai un kit 5.1 logitech X-530, les trois prises jack sont branché ( vert noir et orange ), mais je n'ai que deux haut parleurs et le caisson de basses qui fonctionnent.

Pourtant dans système préférence, son, sortie, j'ai choisi haut parleur intégrer.

Et quand je sélectionne, sortie de ligne intégrer, ce sont les trois autre qui fonctionnent (centrale, gauche et droite sur le coté), mais je voudrais qu'ils fonctionnent tous en même temps.

Qu'est ce que je doit faire pour que tout les haut parleurs fonctionnent en même temps ?

(French Off)

[toldi]

Have you tried also to connect to the other port of the card ? Had a similar problem conecting on the one port, but on the other it works 100% all the time.

 

Tnank you! With DVI It works perfectly .

 

Can report about full workin` hackintosh with Snow Leo 10.6.2 onboard :

 

GA-EP45-UD3LR

Core 2 Duo E7500

4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 memory

MSI nVidia GeForce 9500 GT

 

BIG THANKS TO MJAREK! YOU ARE A GReAT GUY!

 

PS. Can`t use my USB webcamera, but searching the way to solve this problem. Has anyone working USB-webcamera?

 

EVERYTHING WORKS FINE!!!!!

[leafhound]

Hi please will these components work with a Nvidia gforce 9600gt card?

 

 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9600gt_us.html

 

 

tia

[wigy69]

Mainly joined to say thanks and share my experience.

 

Here are my specs:

 

Motherboard: EP45T-UD3LR (F5 Bios)

CPU: Intel Core2Quad 9400

Ram: 4GB DDR3 1333 Kingston

Video Card: Radeon Saphire x1550 256mb

DVD: Pioneer DVDR 216

HD: Western Digital 500GB

PSU: Thermaltake 650W Evo

Case: Antec 900 Two

OS: Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard

 

I changed my main bios settings as per guide. I used the CD method to boot into the Snow Leopard installer. After it installed I used the boot cd to install the Gigabyte package.

 

Out of the box everything was working, even sound output (I am using a EP45T not EP45). The Graphics were correct with the exception of not being able to change resolution. I was able to use the built in Software update to update to 10.6.2 with no problems at all.

 

I then installed a new hard drive and installed windows 7 on it. I used EasyBCD to set up my boot options. At first I had a bunch of problems getting it to work. I finally marked the windows partition as active and repaired my boot loader. After that I got the error NO BOOT MGR. To fix this I had to disconnect my Mac drive, boot into windows installer and startup repair. After it finished I put it all back and it worked like a dream.

 

I did try and use many suggestions to get my ATI card to work (Change res etc) but nothing mattered. I am getting a 9500 or 9600 soon as I will just wait as I see compatibility with these cards are good oob.

 

Some things that you may need to know are:

- The EP45T-UD3LR comes with F5 as the latest bios and this worked Fine with this setup. They have a F6 beta drive on the site which I did not try nor need. I would suggest making sure your Bios is at F5 just to be safe, just tab to see what bios you got on boot.

- For me, sound worked without any extra tweaks. I changed it from Headphones to Internal speaker I think and that worked fine.

- Not sure if it is by default (probably is) but my Hd's were hidden. Just go to the finder prefs and check the show HD's button.

- Using the built in boot loader works great. I did it with 2 Separate Hard drives one with OSX and one with Windows 7. I see a lot of posts about this instead of using partitions and it works great.

 

So that's it, thanks again for all your help and an awesome guide.

[mike.d]

I basically have the same idea. But you would need a RAID-driver for the system to recognize the RAID - don't think, this would work.

 

I would try to, but I ordered "registered" RAM instead of "unregistered" and now my setup does not work... : (

 

I'm thinking in buy an EP45-UD3R / Q9550 based system only i want to try this guide.

 

But i would like to use a 2x1TB RAID 0 as my system/data storage and i couldn't find any info if is it possible to do in a hackintosh install (at least with this install method).

 

I'm asking it now because the UD3L model is much more cheap and if the raid is something too hard to setup there's no reason in order a UD3R model.

 

Thanks a lot for the help...

 

{}s

CreativeBR

[SamAdam]

THIS IS SPECTACULAR.

 

I'm glad my HD got screwed up. This install is perfect. My sound, sleep, display, internet, everything is perfect. Didn't have sleep on the last install, and that was pretty annoying.

 

I have yet to test MATLAB and mathematica, which are very picky about UUID errors and whatnot. If those install easily, I'll buy you a beer.

[Hyper X]

Can Anyone help me with Hotswap at all?

[Rasstar]

I'm thinking in buy an EP45-UD3R / Q9550 based system only i want to try this guide.

 

But i would like to use a 2x1TB RAID 0 as my system/data storage and i couldn't find any info if is it possible to do in a hackintosh install (at least with this install method).

 

I'm asking it now because the UD3L model is much more cheap and if the raid is something too hard to setup there's no reason in order a UD3R model.

 

Thanks a lot for the help...

 

{}s

CreativeBR

 

To my knowledge you cannot install Mac OS using Bios raid only software raid. So if you buy those 2 drives and use the software raid method you cannot see or use the drives on another OS. I have my windows installation on raid 0 and mac os x on a usb hard drive.