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Installed today on a new EP43-UD3L, install was very easy and seems to be working for the most part, one thing I noticed is the RTL8168C/8111C is not at 1000MBs, only 100Mbs. Anyway to improve this ?

 

Other then that, I haven't noticed many issues, working good and thanks for a great install.

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Installed today on a new EP43-UD3L, install was very easy and seems to be working for the most part, one thing I noticed is the RTL8168C/8111C is not at 1000MBs, only 100Mbs. Anyway to improve this ?

 

Other then that, I haven't noticed many issues, working good and thanks for a great install.

 

Hmm I think I have the same issue with the EP45-UD3LR; supposed to be getting gigabit lan (1000Mbps or 125 MB/s), however the highest speed I get is around 12MB/s which is around 96 MBps. Looks like it is running on 100.

 

For some reason the automatic configuring in system preferences - network - advanced - ethernet was using 100. I changed it to full duplex 1000 and now I am getting speeds of 55MB/s compared to the old 12 (however my laptop has a speed of 80MBps so I guess the driver is not fully up to scratch)

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Hi guys, holiday greetings!

Mrjanek, thank you for putting this great guide together, installation went like a breeze!

 

I'm facing three issues here:

 

1. Speedstepping did not work.

 

Fixed this by adding NullCpuPowerManagement.kext and SleepEnabler.kext (from netkas for 10.6.2) into E/E. Lowered my power consumption by about 25W under idle.

 

2. Highspeed USB ports recognized as external. After sleep USB speed is very low and the improper device removal msg shows up.

 

Searched the forum and editing the DSDT looks to be a solution, but I'm not there yet. Does anybody else have the issue and eventually a solution!?

 

3. After display sleep, random semi-transparent, light blue or sometimes black screen comes up. By putting the machine shortly to sleep, it's good again.

 

Your input is highly appreciated!

 

 

(Not sure if signature will show up, not seeing it in preview, my first post, so the components are:)

EP45-UD3LR F7 : Q9550@3,8GHz : 8GB Corsair Dominator : Zotac 9400GT

10.6.2 following mrjanek's guide.

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For some reason the automatic configuring in system preferences - network - advanced - ethernet was using 100. I changed it to full duplex 1000 and now I am getting speeds of 55MB/s compared to the old 12 (however my laptop has a speed of 80MBps so I guess the driver is not fully up to scratch)

 

Thanks, I should have checked that and didn't, runnung full 1000Mb now. for me this is important as I transfere large files between my hack and Windows 7 media server. I know the speed was off by the hub that shows connection speed. if others have this issues may it should be added to the post install check list. has been added to mine.

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Mrjanek - I have EP45-UD3L.

Is there a way I can assist you in adding support to it?

 

If you have a working install then just send me the /Extra folder (complete with DSDT.aml and the specific kexts)

When I've got those it's just a matter of repackaging and adding the files to the installer.

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If you have a working install then just send me the /Extra folder (complete with DSDT.aml and the specific kexts)

When I've got those it's just a matter of repackaging and adding the files to the installer.

 

I'm getting home in the weekend (Im a soldier), so I'll do it asap. Hope it will now work :)

everytime I tried to install, it wrote me some bizzare error code ( http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3660/img0151d.jpg )

 

EP45-UD3L

Q9400

4 Gigs ram

nvidia 8500gt

1 500 Gigs HD, 2 250 Gigs HD.

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2. Highspeed USB ports recognized as external. After sleep USB speed is very low and the improper device removal msg shows up.

 

Searched the forum and editing the DSDT looks to be a solution, but I'm not there yet. Does anybody else have the issue and eventually a solution!?

 

EP45-UD3LR only:

I've just fixed this, at least the USB device removal issue with sleep, haven't had time to test USB speed.

All the packages have been updated (GigabyteUSB.dmg, GigabyteCD.zip and GigabyteBoot.zip)

As you've already got your system up and running I suggest downloading and using GigabyteBoot.zip. Install it to your Snow Leopard partition.

 

mrjanek

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Cheers mrjanek!

 

That's been a smooth move! Measured USB speed with AJA and it's constant during several wakings. And also no device removal msgs.

 

Remains my display sleep issue, but that might be rooted somewhere else - there's been difficulties with the Zotac cards in Leo as well.

 

Thank you and enjoy the beer!

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Another try to get to 10.6.2: I made a fresh USB-Stick according to the current guide and gave it another shot. 10.6: works flawless when installed over existing drive with MacOS. Updating to 10.6.2: instant crash when Desktop is loaded.

 

Hardware used:

http://aserebln.blogspot.com/2009/09/1-106...h-hardware.html

except the mainboard is an EP45-UD3LR.

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

J. Daehn

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All I've got to say to the topicstarter.. Hail to you!

I've been tweaking for years to even get any OSX86 installation running properly. They'd run eventually, after hours and days of tweaking. :P So after beating a World of Warcraft Addiction i was officialy OSX86 installation addicted ;)

After a while, the installations would stop working due to some stupid update or some damned kext not liking your frankenstein build.. And well in this case, the installation is something even my grandma could do!

 

The install running fresh and up-to-date to 10.6.2 since this morning!

hackintosh.jpg

- installation was a breeze, took about 10 minutes

- everything on the motherboard was supported straight out of the box

- my GPU was even detected during installation (8800 GTS)

- i am running a Q6600 B3 stepping CPU overclocked to 3.16 GHz. with a passive cooler. All is stable (awesome overclock boards these P55s). I don't know if its due to my clock that it sees my proc as a Quad Core Xeon, or if its some kind of similar CPU ID, its purely cosmetic anyway.

- only thing withholding me from using this as a main OS is the lack of (proper) support for SB cards. I have an Audigy card, and you can play audio on it perfectly thanks to the kX drivers. However, I do some music production and my audigy midi ports are nowhere to be seen. The driver doesnt officially support MIDI in / out so for audio i am just stuck to playing it.

- i do notice an abundance of disk activity (rattling). looking under processes i see mds? being the main one snooping up disk activity..

 

Hail to you mrjanek should you need any help or info let me know. Great contribution to the community, just shows how close the hackint0sh community is to making OSX86 mainstream.

 

//edit: forgot to mention what board I have. It's an EP45-UD3LR with F5 BIOS.

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Hello, all.

Ran the installer on my UD3R

Get the

boot0 : GPT

boot0 : testing

boot0 : testing

boot0 : testing

boot0 : error

Do I just need to flag the partition as active in terminal? Maybe one of the installer scripts failed.

Best,

Mike

 

Hi Mike,

 

I suppose you ran the GigabyteUSB installer on a mac somewhere.. I had the same problem at first and then I noticed it was because i selected all of the motherboards to install to the USB stick.. Rewrote the image to the USB stick and then installed the only required files for my mobo.. Worked perfectly for me from then onwards.

 

 

 

//small update:

Been running stable the whole day / downloading / different loads / even a few games (WoW *cough*.)

There was high CPU usage all the time though and the rattling of the HDDs kept on. So I suspected it was spotlight indexing ALL of my hard drives. I found a quick fix to stop that {censored} from happening:

- fire up a terminal

- sudo -s

- mdutil -a -i off

And it will take a few minutes before it stops entirely. I found there to be no lack in functionality in Spotlight or my performance decreasing otherwise, to the contrary.

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Hi Mike,

 

I suppose you ran the GigabyteUSB installer on a mac somewhere.. I had the same problem at first and then I noticed it was because i selected all of the motherboards to install to the USB stick.. Rewrote the image to the USB stick and then installed the only required files for my mobo.. Worked perfectly for me from then onwards.

 

 

 

//small update:

Been running stable the whole day / downloading / different loads / even a few games (WoW *cough*.)

There was high CPU usage all the time though and the rattling of the HDDs kept on. So I suspected it was spotlight indexing ALL of my hard drives. I found a quick fix to stop that {censored} from happening:

- fire up a terminal

- sudo -s

- mdutil -a -i off

And it will take a few minutes before it stops entirely. I found there to be no lack in functionality in Spotlight or my performance decreasing otherwise, to the contrary.

 

Hello,

I have 10.5.7 running on my UD3R on a separate drive so I used that to run the gigabyte installer to the USB drive.

I just repartitioned the drive for 10.6 again and am trying a reinstall to see if it was a problem with the installation. If the problem persists I'll try to remember the terminal commands to mark the partition active and run that.

Best,

Mike

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Hello,

I have 10.5.7 running on my UD3R on a separate drive so I used that to run the gigabyte installer to the USB drive.

I just repartitioned the drive for 10.6 again and am trying a reinstall to see if it was a problem with the installation. If the problem persists I'll try to remember the terminal commands to mark the partition active and run that.

Best,

Mike

 

Hi Mike,

 

My terminal commands weren't related to your problem (I think), I was posting a fix to another small issue where CPU & HDD load would skyrocket due to Spotlight.

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I have recieved these parts last week and will have time at the weekend to build the PC, already have the SL USB from dads iMac some time ago. the DVD and DVD-RW drives are Pioneer that are about 5 years old that may need renewing :)

 

EP45-UD3LR

Core2Due E8500

Axle 8600 GT 1GB

Corsiar 2x 1gb dual channel

WD 160gb HD

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Hi Mike,

 

My terminal commands weren't related to your problem (I think), I was posting a fix to another small issue where CPU & HDD load would skyrocket due to Spotlight.

 

No, there are terminal commands to set a partition to be active, quite different from yours to turn off indexing.

 

I can never remember them off the top of my head, always end up searching around for them.

 

Mike

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Ok time for some feedback

 

The 1st time I used this guide, I ran into problems, but only when I updated to 10.6.2 ... it was KP right after main screen loaded. Some others had similar problems.

Now I think I have found the problem, it points to my graphic cards, both the Nvidia GeForce 6600GT (PNY) and the Nvidia GeForce 7800GT (XFX)

I thought that I have eliminated the Graphic cards by trying both, but apparently not. Today I have installed a Gainward 9500GT Passive and then tried a full fresh install with this. This time it worked 100% like so many others here have reported. I hope that this bit of information can be useful to any one out there having problems. I have tested this install also with the older files that I have from the 1st time I downloaded, and that also worked 100% including flawless update to 10.6.2

 

My full speck is in my Signature, and enjoy the beer MrJanek

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The 1st time I used this guide, I ran into problems, but only when I updated to 10.6.2 ... it was KP right after main screen loaded. Some other had similar problems.

Now I think I have found the problem, it points to my graphic cards, both the Nvidia GeForce 6600GT (PNY) and the Nvidia GeForce 7800GT (XFX)

I thought that I have eliminated the Graphic cards by trying both, but apparently not. Today I have installed a Gainward 9500GT Passive and then tried a full fresh install with this. This time it worked 100% like so many others here have reported. I hope that this bit of information can be useful to any one out there having problems. I have tested this install also with the older files that I have from the 1st time I downloaded, and that also worked 100% including flawless update to 10.6.2

 

My full speck is in my Signature, and enjoy the beer MrJanek

 

Cheers! Thanks a lot ;)

 

I had the same problem at first and then I noticed it was because i selected all of the motherboards to install to the USB stick..

 

Err.. I guess I should've mentioned this :) Correct, only select one of the packages as the other ones will only overwrite each other. I've been looking for a way to make it impossible to select more than one of the packages, but I haven't found any yet.

 

Been running stable the whole day / downloading / different loads / even a few games (WoW *cough*.)

There was high CPU usage all the time though and the rattling of the HDDs kept on. So I suspected it was spotlight indexing ALL of my hard drives. I found a quick fix to stop that {censored} from happening:

- fire up a terminal

- sudo -s

- mdutil -a -i off

And it will take a few minutes before it stops entirely. I found there to be no lack in functionality in Spotlight or my performance decreasing otherwise, to the contrary.

 

Another way of disabling indexation of certain drives and/or folders is by going to System Preferences and then Spotlight. In the Privacy tab you can add drives and/or folders that you don't want indexed.

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Just updated the USB guide (GigabyteUSB.dmg) and added support for EX58-UD5 and EX58A-UD7.

 

GigabyteUSB Changelog

v1.2 Beta
- Added support for EX58-UD5 and EX58A-UD7

v1.1 Beta
- Added support for EP45T-UD3LR, EP45-UD3P and EP45-UD3R

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

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Hello Mrjanek you seem to have done a fine job here. So much so I'm thinking about ditching the motherboard on my current Dell System which I have failed miserably to convert to a dedicated Final Cut Express hackintosh box. See my posts here.

 

I'm planning on buying a EP45-UD3LR board (but was considering EP45-UD3P) with a new GT 210/220 graphics card (for transcoding, Bluray, Final Cut work, etc) and transfer the old PC bits to it.

 

I have a few questions if I may regarding your install method:

 

1) If I bought a EP45-UD3P would both graphics slots be supported ie. ability to use SLI mode?

2) Would a GT 210 graphics cards be Quartz Extreme enabled using this method and the EP45 boards?

3) Would I be able to utilise the HDMI output and DVI or VGA simultaneously (thinking about running a video presentation onto a tv whilst doing work on my monitor)?

4) Is there a more compatible card you could recommend?

 

Your answers would enable my core 2 duo macbook (GMA 950) take a breather from all the hard video work its been churning through over the last few years. All the best to all the ppl keeping this topic alive!

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Many thanks for this, mrjanek! The thread is aptly named - it is indeed a minimal effort install! I've successfully installed SL and updated to 10.6.2 on a Gigabyte X48-DS4 (ya, you don't see too many of that around) - audio, video, and wireless (airport!) all working with voodoohda, netkas' enabler.

 

There is just one problem - to boot into SL, I have to continue to use the boot dvd. I downloaded the usb installer and tried installing the bootloader onto my usb drive but it doesn't work - just freezes at acpi platform plugin (some sleep function I know). I tried all the different dsdts included in the usb installer but to no avail.

 

For some reason, I can't seem to get a working dsdt for my motherboard. So I was wondering if the dsdt used for the boot dvd is on the disc somewhere so I can copy it onto my usb installer or even my SL drive if it works.

 

I don't mind using the boot dvd but I really want to get my two video cards working (gtx 285 sli) so I don't have to keep removing one when I want to boot into SL.

 

Thanks for any help!

EDIT: Okay I was being dumb...I downloaded the boot package and now all is well. Still trying to fix the dual video card issue though.

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