Updated September 26, 2009

Hello All,

I would like to report a successful Vanilla Snow Leopard Retail install on the GA-EP35-DS3L with F6 BIOS using the "Totally Vanilla" method by MACinized.

Don't worry, its actually a lot easier than it looks. NVIDIA 8800GT 512 dual monitor graphics & ALC888 sound working from DSDT 100%, although sound is not reported in System Profiler. All sound jacks are recognized in the Sound System Preference. I had to use AHCI Kext's for the drives to be recognized as internal. Also had to use the PlatformUUID.kext with the edited custom UUID to remove the UUID 35 error.

To install I personally ended up having to do an image of my 10,000 RPM bootdrive, and then restore that image to another hard drive. I then booted off the other hard drive and continued performing the MACinized method on my original 10,000 RPM boot drive to install Snow Leopard.

Everything working in 32-bit mode, which was set by default in the MACinized method.

64-bit requires two extra kext extensions - fakesmc.kext and NullCPUPowerManagement.kext.

Kext's I used post-installation were:

1. IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
2. LegacyAppleAHCIPort
3. LegacyIOAHCIBlockStorage
4. PlatformUUID.kext

You can download a copy of my DSDT here.

Kext's I used post MACinized method are here.

Extra kexts to boot in 64-bit mode are here

*You need to use the PC EFI 10.1 or 10.3 bootloader to boot in 64-bit mode.

Cheers!