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Hi everyone!

 

This is the system I'll be building:

 

Giggabyte EX58 UD3R

Nvidia 9500GT

 

AFAIK everything should work fine with this.

 

Do I have to use some special settings on the BIOS before installing SL?

Will I be able to go into the BIOS after installing SL?

Did anyone have success installing 10.6.2 on that combo?

If not... how/where can I know when I'll be able to install 10.6.2?

 

Thanks for your help

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Hi

 

I just bought myself a GA-EP45-UD3LR, along with a Core2Quad (Q9400) in order to use OS X.

 

Following the Kakewalk guide (CD version), I get as far as booting the Retail install disk. The grey screen with the Apple logo shows, then the screen turns blue.

 

Nothing happens after that. I'm not sure how I can get more debug info for you.

 

The rest of my system is as follows:

 

Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7240S-0B (SATA DVD-Burner)

WD Caviar 500GB SATA

Nvidia 7900GTO PCI-E gfx

2 x 2GB Kingston ValueRAM

 

Any help would be apprecited.

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Greetings, I was curious if anybody has the wake on LAN access option in the energy saver panel in the system preferences. I wish to be able to wake my box up remotely and I cannot seem to get it to work. I tried all the bios LAN settings to in case that made a difference, sadly it did not.

 

I am running a Gigabyte G41M-ES2L with a E7500 and 2 gigs of Ram and an MSI 8400GS graphics card.

 

If you have this working on one of the other supported boards let me know as well I was thinking of upgrading soon anyway.

 

 

One other thing with the Gigabyte G41M-ES2L if I set the HPET to 64 bit i get a kernel panic, unless I use the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

 

Also when I put the board to sleep and wake it up it restarts.

 

Other than that it runs very well.

 

thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

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I have Windows 7 already installed on a SSD. If I run SL will it overwrite the W7 bootloader or will it co-exist in dualboot? Also can I install 64-bit SL or should I stick to 32?

Yes it's going to overwrite the bootloader. Easiest thing to do is to keep the OS's on separate drives, and actually disconnect the Windows drive while you are installing OSX. Then you can boot off of the OSX drive and set the Chameleon boot loader to default to one or the other.

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Hi drdaz

 

plug monitor into the other connector on the graphics card and see if that works

Yours Ray

Hi

 

I just bought myself a GA-EP45-UD3LR, along with a Core2Quad (Q9400) in order to use OS X.

 

Following the Kakewalk guide (CD version), I get as far as booting the Retail install disk. The grey screen with the Apple logo shows, then the screen turns blue.

 

Nothing happens after that. I'm not sure how I can get more debug info for you.

 

The rest of my system is as follows:

 

Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7240S-0B (SATA DVD-Burner)

WD Caviar 500GB SATA

Nvidia 7900GTO PCI-E gfx

2 x 2GB Kingston ValueRAM

 

Any help would be apprecited.

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mrjanek, thank you so much for your time and effort on this project. I have been a lowly forum crawler just soaking up all the info I can.

 

Kakewalk worked great! I have a G41M-ES3L with C2D E4500, 2 GB DDR2, and nvidia 9500GT. Everything is working great except that none of my PCI slots (except my PCI-e) is recognized. I have a Linksys WMP300N rev. 1 that I had working on my 10.5 build in one of those slots.

 

Any fixes for this?

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drdaz
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Hi drdaz

 

plug monitor into the other connector on the graphics card and see if that works

Yours Ray

 

Unfortunately it doesn't help.

 

That said, I tried using Empire EFI, and managed to get SL installed. I am still left with the issues of starting the installed OS... I am running into a similar issue when I try to boot (both using Kakewalk's bootloader and myHack) - I get past the Apple logo, the screen turns blue, and gets no further (actually the blue screen flashes a lighter colour of blue periodically).

 

Interestingly, I can boot using Safe Mode (-x -x32)...

 

If this seems familiar to anyone, or if you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear about it.

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mrjanek
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First I must say thank you! Or tack, if your a swede?

If you are, send me an email for a donation from my site, email me at dennis (at) tshirtsidan dot se.

 

My question; is it a good idea to upgrade the system with os x built in upgrade-thingy?

 

 

Jo, jag är svensk. Tack för erbjudandet! Jag hör av mig :)

 

/swedish off

 

You should be able to upgrade without any problems.

 

 

I'm using the EP45-UD3LR, but gigabit ethernet isn't working (only getting 100mbps). Does anybody else have this problem and is there a fix for this?

 

I'm using a Core2Quad, 9800GTX, 2x2GB GSkill DDR2, Samsung F3 HD

 

Other than that, thanks for all the work you've put into this. Its no doubt saved many people countless hours of work.

 

You have to manually set the speed in System Preferences -> Network.

 

Greetings, I was curious if anybody has the wake on LAN access option in the energy saver panel in the system preferences. I wish to be able to wake my box up remotely and I cannot seem to get it to work. I tried all the bios LAN settings to in case that made a difference, sadly it did not.

 

I am running a Gigabyte G41M-ES2L with a E7500 and 2 gigs of Ram and an MSI 8400GS graphics card.

 

If you have this working on one of the other supported boards let me know as well I was thinking of upgrading soon anyway.

 

 

One other thing with the Gigabyte G41M-ES2L if I set the HPET to 64 bit i get a kernel panic, unless I use the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

 

Also when I put the board to sleep and wake it up it restarts.

 

Other than that it runs very well.

 

thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

 

I'm afraid there is no support for WOL with the driver Realtek1000SL.kext (installed with the package)

One way around this is to delete the mentioned driver kext and run with the Apple one. The bad part about that though is that you lose Bonjour support (although there is a dirty fix for this, google BonjourFix)

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Okay guys I got it working and its great. I unplugged my Windows 7 drive and installed SL on my unused Raptor. After installation I plugged back in the Windows 7 drive. I just change the boot priority in the BIOS when I want to change OS's. Sure its kind of a pain but it doesn't molest my Bootloader.

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Hey, is anyone else having the same issues on kakewalk 2.0:

 

CD/DVDs are having problems ejecting?

 

Orange Drive Icons ( I added the kext from 1.9 for orange fix and its ok but CDs still wont eject)?

 

I am using EX-58-UD3R and several other p45 gigabyte boards and all seem to have eject cd issue after 2.0 (Was ok in 1.9)

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Can You Explain how have you done the process, I mean if its just replace, or you have to rebuild caches, etc... that would be great for the rest of us.

 

I've been running this system for some time, my only problem was hot CPU temp (by 11C compared to Win 7). Fixed it by using nullcpupowermanagement.kext, supplied in this thread. This lowered my temp by about 10C but broke sleep. I fixed this by using sleep enabler. No everything is working great, thanks again for kakewalk.
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RE rebuilding the kext caches, guys, personally I just use kextutility - free & works great in Snow Leo.

 

@ mrjanek - I recently upgraded my old [and somewhat anemic] dual-atom media center to a (much!) better equipped SnowLeo-based HomeTheatreHackintosh, & used your KakeWalk ... my kit is as follows:

 

GA-G41M-E2SL board

Intel E6300 @1.87

2GB 800MHz SDRAM2

WDC Green SATA HDD

SATA DL DVD Burner

Antec Minuet 350 Case

nVidia 8400GS low profile GFX card

 

 

 

I had to do a bit of tinkering w/ the com.apple.Boot.plist to get it to boot from the hdd w/o KP's. Currently I am running on 10.6.2, vanilla w/ just 4 kexts (fakesmc, nullcpupowermanagement [dropped the CPU temps by 10 deg], jMicronATA, LegacyHDA [sound quality excellent]).

 

Are you interested in data on this? I'm not 100% sure of it, but it seemed to me that there might be a problem in that file (or then again, I could have something lurking/hiding on my hdd that was interfering... ?). I ask specifically because it seems that there is not a very well consolidated thread (or group of threads) on the GA-G41M-E2SL. (for the G31M, yes there is, but it is different enough to make a difference, it seems). There are lots of entries in this thread for the EP45's, etc., but not very many at all for the G41M-E2SL's.

 

EDIT : After checking __all__ of the checkboxes in Energy Saver, I now have Sleep after N hours working just fine, though I had to install "PleaseSleep". Sleep now works perfectly, as far as I can tell. I have just one or two little things to tweak. 1. Something in hosts or Bonjour is not quite right, because while I can see all Bonjour computer and connect to them perfecctly _from_ my E2SL hackintosh, screen sharing _to_ it from other Macs (hackintoshes and genuine Macs) doesn't work. Luckily I have a VNC server installed.

 

 

anyway, mrjanek, thank you. :unsure:

(seems like sleep is the only thing not fully working - my next steps are to try to get sleep working a bit better - dsdt editing & the like , and get a better, quieter CPU cooler).

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Hi

 

I just bought myself a GA-EP45-UD3LR, along with a Core2Quad (Q9400) in order to use OS X.

 

Following the Kakewalk guide (CD version), I get as far as booting the Retail install disk. The grey screen with the Apple logo shows, then the screen turns blue.

 

Nothing happens after that. I'm not sure how I can get more debug info for you.

 

The rest of my system is as follows:

 

Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7240S-0B (SATA DVD-Burner)

WD Caviar 500GB SATA

Nvidia 7900GTO PCI-E gfx

2 x 2GB Kingston ValueRAM

 

Any help would be apprecited.

 

For the sake of completeness, and potentially saving somebody else the many hours it took to get to solve this puzzle, I'm writing to inform you of the solution to my problem. (Yes, Snow Leopard is running just fine now :) )

 

In order for the GeForce 7900 GTO to work, you need to flash its bios as described here:

 

http://www.infinitemac.com/f7/geforce-nx79...to-qe-ci-t2775/

 

If you're trying to install SL using the Kakewalk bootloader / installer, you'll need to do so first, as otherwise you will just be greeted with a flashing blue screen instead of the OS X installer.

 

The flash is relatively painless as long as you have a Windows installation on your target hardware. I didn't, so I spent a lot of time trying to make a DOS boot disk and other such nonsense... But I digress. I'm now using the Kakewalk bootloader and Extras happily with Snow Leopard.

 

I've modified the com.apple.boot.plist file in the /Extras folder a little - I've set the kernel flags value to 'arch=i386', since the GeForce 7 series drivers don't play nice with 64 bits.

 

Now to go do the things I was supposed to do at the start of the weekend... Like wash, tidy up, eat and sleep. Meh.

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