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After my pc just stopped working this morning with a complete power-loss I found that the mainboard stopped working. Everything else seemed okay. So I called gigabyte for support and information on replacement or repair.

They told me that the estimated time for a replacement would be 8-12 weeks and I have to ship it on my own costs. I did that and for the time without my beloved mobo I ordered the new Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6. My new toy will arrive in just a few hours via DHL Express.

Hopefully, I will get it to work with OSX - as soon as I get my old one back it would make a great platform for my planned OSX-Server with its 2 raid controllers and 4Gigabit NICs onboard. But - we will see. Nevertheless I will give a short overview here and I'll try to describe my efforts. See you in a couple of hours!

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The best in first: IT WORKS!

I received the mainboard this morning at 7.45am (GMT+1 ) via dhl express. The package contained the new mainboard, a new PSU from bequiet! type "dark power pro 550W" with cable & fan management and some other parts. I took my time to mount the mainboard and the PSU carefully and properly into the case. Took some photos as well - will post some later on.

The I hooked up the hard drive with my installation from the previous used GA-P35-DS4, powered up, enabled AHCI & native-mode in BIOS and voilà:

it booted straight through.

The existing installation was done using ChameleonEFI, a stock Leopard 10.5.2 DVD, 10.5.3+10.5.4 combo updates (using netkas method) and the well known LS8-package v11 for Gigabyte mainboards. (Thanks so much LS8!)

I can tell so far that all 4 ethernet ports work like a charm with DHCP, sleep, restart & shutdown work also without any hazzle.
However: The ICH10 bridge isn't recognized properly - osx sees an unknown ahci-device. But this was also with my P35-DS4.


I will update this post later with more details and some pictures of the mainboard.

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Some pictures of the mainboard...

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fresh out of the box with PCIe2.0, ICH10, ...

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the bank of 4 seperate RTL 8111C GigabitNICs

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3 relatively useless but nice looking buttons on the bottom end of the mainboard.
The GA-EP45-DQ6 has many led indicators for several board functions & resources as AHCI-state, percentual CPU-load, etc.
Useless to me but surely nice for anyone in casemodding or under-table-disco ;-)

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just a short info that "teaming", means combining the 4 ethernet-ports to an array works.
Pictures to come...

This post has been edited by sheeplover: Oct 14 2008, 08:26 PM