InsanelyMac Forum > Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Thread

thedguy

Sep 14 2006, 07:10 PM

QUOTE (aberracus @ Sep 14 2006, 10:35 AM)

every problem you guyz are having with your hard disk is related to ICH8, THIS ISNT REALLY A COMPATIBLE MOBO.

without OC im running now at 133.33 xbench result (with hard disk), i paste it here for more info:

As you can see the hard Disk work as they supposed to...

It's already been pointed out that the problem is the chipset. I'm not trying to be rude but... Your posting 945 stuff in this thread is completely useless to us with 965 hardware, and no one has recommended anyone go buy 965 parts. And I won't unless the HD issue's get sorted out.

What kind of OC can you get on your 945 board? I know sheepdog could barely run an 805 @ stock speeds on a 945 board.

Sabr

Sep 14 2006, 07:32 PM

Ok, thedguy, I'm trying to edit the AppleVIAATA.kext and AppleAHCIPort.kext Info.plist's and I'm not being successful. Correct me if I'm wrong, but are we meant to be using the JMB363 Device and Vendor ID's in the files? It is JMB363, right?

I am willing to edit files, I just need to be told how to do it

aberracus

Sep 15 2006, 03:02 AM

"...What kind of OC can you get on your 945 board? I know sheepdog could barely run an 805 @ stock speeds on a 945 board..."

This is my first OC FSB 330, havent mess with voltages yet, i think i can get more juice...

Results 156.06
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.4.7 (8J2135a)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model ADP2,1
Drive Type WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0
CPU Test 129.93
GCD Loop 311.33 16.41 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 149.98 3.56 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 92.88 3.06 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 98.62 17.17 Mops/sec
Thread Test 262.31
Computation 242.34 4.91 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 285.88 12.30 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 168.48
System 165.00
Allocate 127.67 468.85 Kalloc/sec
Fill 194.97 9479.79 MB/sec
Copy 191.58 3957.02 MB/sec
Stream 172.10
Copy 160.75 3320.17 MB/sec
Scale 164.30 3394.48 MB/sec
Add 184.71 3934.77 MB/sec
Triad 181.11 3874.42 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 194.56
Line 162.24 10.80 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 202.98 60.60 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 197.05 16.06 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 179.59 4.53 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 252.14 15.77 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 203.76
Spinning Squares 203.76 258.49 frames/sec
User Interface Test 525.37
Elements 525.37 2.41 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 64.68
Sequential 82.17
Uncached Write 88.41 54.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 82.43 46.64 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.36 24.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 74.72 37.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 53.33
Uncached Write 20.78 2.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 130.71 41.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 97.26 0.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 111.69 20.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]

AND Conroe Mac said that this is also a Gigabyte tread, so i was just tying to help...

thedguy

Sep 15 2006, 04:28 AM

QUOTE (SABR @ Sep 14 2006, 02:29 PM)

Ok, thedguy, I'm trying to edit the AppleVIAATA.kext and AppleAHCIPort.kext Info.plist's and I'm not being successful. Correct me if I'm wrong, but are we meant to be using the JMB363 Device and Vendor ID's in the files? It is JMB363, right?

I am willing to edit files, I just need to be told how to do it

Yep the 363 is our chip.

chelhydra

Sep 15 2006, 07:14 AM

At this point i don't think that it really matters to get this thing working. When i upgraded i knew that it would be very hard to get a decent machine that is also osx compatible, but i didn't really care because with leopard version coming soon i get the feeling that all this will be history, i mean we already have old kernel files, it's coming to an end.

El_Hobo

Sep 15 2006, 07:19 AM

Hmm..

I just ordered this board, and plan (hope) to build a dual boot system,
but my plan was to place two 250 gb disks mirrored/raid-1 on gigabytte SATA controller,
And a sata dvd-rw on ICH8 controller..
does anyone know will this work to install/run osx?

thedguy

Sep 16 2006, 05:30 AM

Gigabyte's SATA controller doesn't work in any OS but windows ATM.

Beyond that, the osx doesn't seem to like ICH8 to much as hd access speeds are horribly slow in osx.

If you want to run osx, avoid this board, or anything else 965.

aberracus

Sep 16 2006, 05:57 PM

until now only softraid with usb drives. no luck here...

jp266one

Sep 17 2006, 09:00 AM

QUOTE (thedguy @ Sep 16 2006, 05:27 AM)

Gigabyte's SATA controller doesn't work in any OS but windows ATM.

Beyond that, the osx doesn't seem to like ICH8 to much as hd access speeds are horribly slow in osx.

If you want to run osx, avoid this board, or anything else 965.

I guess we are like Frankstein trying to put parts together that don't belong but still somehow work.

Sabr

Sep 18 2006, 11:24 PM

QUOTE (jp266one @ Sep 17 2006, 09:57 AM)

I guess we are like Frankstein trying to put parts together that don't belong but still somehow work.

lol, that's one way to put it!

Im done

Sep 19 2006, 12:12 AM

UOU! my output sound works!
Thank you for this tip.

It is my first post in this forum.

This mobo rox. Overclocked from 1.8 to 2.8 stable.

Nice to meet u all.

Just update to jas 10.4.7 for intel end ACPI wil work smooth.

Have you tried AHCI? , it seems to work as natuive hardware but my HD where not recognized.

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 12:33 AM

GUYS!! I'm getting somewhere!!!

Click to view attachment

thedguy

Sep 19 2006, 12:46 AM

ok what did you do?

I found http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=27202

Asus p5b ICH8 works for him, Unfortunately what he tried I couldn't get to work and I have no idea what windows device that number has to be pulled from.

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 01:03 AM

QUOTE (thedguy @ Sep 19 2006, 01:43 AM)

ok what did you do?

I found http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=27202

Asus p5b ICH8 works for him, Unfortunately what he tried I couldn't get to work and I have no idea what windows device that number has to be pulled from.

Well, I edited AppleAHCIPort.kext with a few extra Vendor and Dev ID numbers thrown in (JMB363 and JMB360). I also renamed the part in the AppleAHCIPort.kext's Info.plist wherever it says ICH7, I replaced with ICH8...

I can copy and paste the text from each plist if you want...

thedguy

Sep 19 2006, 01:13 AM

yes please.

Did you get anything more than just it showing up as ICH8 though?
Like can you get it to run with sata native mode turned out?

Im done

Sep 19 2006, 01:16 AM

Its a nice mobo.

QUOTE (El_Hobo @ Sep 15 2006, 04:16 AM)

Hmm..

I just ordered this board, and plan (hope) to build a dual boot system,
but my plan was to place two 250 gb disks mirrored/raid-1 on gigabytte SATA controller,
And a sata dvd-rw on ICH8 controller..
does anyone know will this work to install/run osx?

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 01:21 AM

QUOTE (thedguy @ Sep 19 2006, 02:10 AM)

yes please.

Did you get anything more than just it showing up as ICH8 though?
Like can you get it to run with sata native mode turned out?

Will do... gimme a minute - need to switch to OSx86.

Well, as I said, I'm getting there lol... I can now run it in IDE mode, with SATA 0-3 disabled. When I try to run in AHCI, it stops with the message:

JMB0: family specific matching failed
JMB0: family specific matching failed

Ok, AppleAHCIPort.kext Info.plist:

CODE

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
    <string>English</string>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>AppleAHCIPort</string>
    <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
    <string>Version 1.0.2, Copyright 2005-2006, Apple Computer, Inc.</string>
    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
    <string>com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort</string>
    <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
    <string>6.0</string>
    <key>CFBundleName</key>
    <string>AppleAHCI</string>
    <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
    <string>KEXT</string>
    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>1.0.2</string>
    <key>CFBundleSignature</key>
    <string>????</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>1.0.2</string>
    <key>IOKitPersonalities</key>
    <dict>
        <key>GenericAHCI</key>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundeIdentifier</key>
            <string>com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort</string>
            <key>IOClass</key>
            <string>AppleAHCI</string>
            <key>IOPCIClassMatch</key>
            <string>0x2360197b 0x2363197b 0x01060100</string>
            <key>IOProbeScore</key>
            <integer>800</integer>
            <key>IOProviderClass</key>
            <string>IOPCIDevice</string>
            <key>Vendor Name</key>
            <string>Generic AHCI</string>
        </dict>
        <key>ICH8MAHCI</key>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
            <string>com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort</string>
            <key>Chipset Name</key>
            <string>ICH8-M AHCI</string>
            <key>IOClass</key>
            <string>AppleAHCI</string>
            <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
            <string>0x2360197b 0x2363197b 0x27c58086</string>
            <key>IOProbeScore</key>
            <integer>2000</integer>
            <key>IOProviderClass</key>
            <string>IOPCIDevice</string>
            <key>Vendor Name</key>
            <string>Intel</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>OSBundleLibraries</key>
    <dict>
        <key>com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily</key>
        <string>1.0.0</string>
        <key>com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily</key>
        <string>1.0.0</string>
        <key>com.apple.kernel.iokit</key>
        <string>6.9.9</string>
        <key>com.apple.kernel.libkern</key>
        <string>6.9.9</string>
    </dict>
    <key>OSBundleRequired</key>
    <string>Local-Root</string>
</dict>
</plist>

AppleVIAATA.kext Info.plist:

CODE

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
    <string>English</string>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>AppleVIAATA</string>
    <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
    <string>1.0.2, Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 2004</string>
    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
    <string>com.apple.driver.AppleVIAATA</string>
    <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
    <string>6.0</string>
    <key>CFBundleName</key>
    <string>Apple VIA ATA Driver</string>
    <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
    <string>KEXT</string>
    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>1.0.2</string>
    <key>CFBundleSignature</key>
    <string>????</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>1.0.2</string>
    <key>IOKitPersonalities</key>
    <dict>
        <key>VIA ATA Driver</key>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
            <string>com.apple.driver.AppleVIAATA</string>
            <key>IOClass</key>
            <string>AppleVIAATADriver</string>
            <key>IOProviderClass</key>
            <string>AppleVIAATAChannel</string>
        </dict>
        <key>VIA PATA Controller</key>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
            <string>com.apple.driver.AppleVIAATA</string>
            <key>Hardware Name</key>
            <string>82C571</string>
            <key>IOClass</key>
            <string>AppleVIAATARoot</string>
            <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
            <string>0x2363197b 0x05711106</string>
            <key>IOProbeScore</key>
            <integer>1000</integer>
            <key>IOProviderClass</key>
            <string>IOPCIDevice</string>
            <key>ISA Bridge Matching</key>
            <dict>
                <key>IOPCIClassMatch</key>
                <string>0x2363197b 0x06010000&0xffff0000</string>
                <key>IOProviderClass</key>
                <string>IOPCIDevice</string>
            </dict>
            <key>Serial ATA</key>
            <false/>
        </dict>
        <key>VIA SATA Controller</key>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
            <string>com.apple.driver.AppleVIAATA</string>
            <key>Hardware Name</key>
            <string>8237 SATA</string>
            <key>IOClass</key>
            <string>AppleVIAATARoot</string>
            <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
            <string>0x2363197b 0x31491106 0x00e310de</string>
            <key>IOProbeScore</key>
            <string>1000</string>
            <key>IOProviderClass</key>
            <string>IOPCIDevice</string>
            <key>Serial ATA</key>
            <true/>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>OSBundleLibraries</key>
    <dict>
        <key>com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily</key>
        <string>1.5.0d1</string>
        <key>com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily</key>
        <string>1.1</string>
        <key>com.apple.kernel.iokit</key>
        <string>1.1</string>
    </dict>
    <key>OSBundleRequired</key>
    <string>Local-Root</string>
</dict>
</plist>

thedguy

Sep 19 2006, 01:21 AM

Interesting...

Are u trying to get drives to work off the gigabyte raid?

I haven't bothered to mess with that yet (just got my board back today), been hoping to get the ICH8 to work at full speed.

edit: thanx

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 01:26 AM

QUOTE (thedguy @ Sep 19 2006, 02:18 AM)

Interesting...

Are u trying to get drives to work off the gigabyte raid?

I haven't bothered to mess with that yet (just got my board back today), been hoping to get the ICH8 to work at full speed.
edit: thanx

No problem...

I can try it with RAID if you want. Are you suggesting I put the SATA cables into the purple ports instead of the yellow ones?

Im done

Sep 19 2006, 02:25 AM

Ive just got AHCI and SATA HD to work nativelly.
Just enable AHCI instead of IDE and plug sata cable to the purple sata slot in mobo.

HD Speed bossted. XBENCH now rates 125 instead 24.

thedguy

Sep 19 2006, 02:26 AM

Oh, no. I thought that might be what your doing.

Diego... in osx? The rest of us can't get anything to show up in OSX plugged into the purple ports.
What did you do? Exact settings, files you've edited anything... plz

Oh I also got an IDE-to-Sata converter for my dvd drive. Works great.
(Though for some reason on sheepdogs spare nforce4 board it locked that up no matter what OS it was).

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 02:35 AM

QUOTE (Diego Sampaio @ Sep 19 2006, 03:22 AM)

Ive just got AHCI and SATA HD to work nativelly.
Just enable AHCI instead of IDE and plug sata cable to the purple sata slot in mobo.

HD Speed bossted. XBENCH now rates 125 instead 24.

Eh? Really?

Could you tell us what exactly you have done? What about SATA Native - Enabled or Disabled?

Im done

Sep 19 2006, 04:00 AM

I hadnt edited anithing.
In bios put on AHCI. (peripheral settings or something alike)
sata port 0-3 (disabled).
Put your sata on the purple slot (thirdy sata pair, my slots in this case are purple).

RAID Doesnt work at all.

Take a look at this benchmarking. Its the bnest i could do with s3 + 6300 + NFORCE 6200+ Sata 7200 + 1gb corsair.

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=1912...;setCookie=true

thedguy

Sep 19 2006, 04:23 AM

OK wtf?...

It just worked for me.

I took my HD that was running on the ICH8 chipset, plugged it into the purple gigabyte/jmicron port, set the "Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode" to "AHCI" and rebooted.

How the hell did the rest of us miss this? I wonder why the SATA section works but not the IDE.

Diego, Thanks for your post... Now to run Xbench

OK ran Xbench. My system is a bit hampered at the moment (waiting on my 2gigs of ram), but I got a 131 out of it. Much better than the 49 I had before.

Im done

Sep 19 2006, 04:29 AM

lol;lol
It was just luck, i know nothing about kext or mac. Their not comon in Brasil.

Another good surprise is my overclock from 1.8 to 3.01. stable till now

lol;lol
It was just luck, i know nothing about kext or mac. Their not comon in Brasil.

Another good surprise is my overclock from 1.8 to 3.01. stable till now

thedguy

Sep 19 2006, 05:30 AM

I'm learning this myself. I just have a tendancy to overthink things.

Most of us just assumed that the sata portion of the gigabyte (a.k.a. JMB363) didn't work because the IDE part didn't work. Or atleast I did.

aberracus

Sep 19 2006, 05:44 AM

Congratulations!!!

This put the 965 back on track!

and now.. can you install osx from a ide dvd with sata adapter?

Thanks!!!

Overclockers, how much are u accelerating your PCIe?

thedguy

Sep 19 2006, 06:03 AM

I leave my PCIe stock. Before I sent in my board I was hitting 2.69, hopefully with my replacement I'll get higher. I'll find out for sure when I get my replacement ram in the next day or 2.

I'd like to add that with the HD on the Purple Gigabyte sata set to AHCI, the OSX jaz 10.4.7 installer see's the full size of the HD. But with a dvd-rom hooked to these ports won't allow the install disc to run.

Currently installing from an IDE-SATA converter on a DVD-rom with Jas 10.4.7 (connected to the Intel ICH8 ports), to the HD set on Gigabyte sata ports. Seems to be going fine, hopefully my little script will work for installing the ati video/883sound/restart fix.

-D-

Where's ConroeMac? I'd like for him to update the first post to let people know the situation.

aberracus

Sep 19 2006, 06:18 AM

How do you accelerate the fsb leaving PCIe at stock?

its impossible in my mobo ..... cry...

thedguy

Sep 19 2006, 06:45 AM

on the DS3's the PCIe is a seperate option from the FSB. I just set it to either auto or 100 and tweak on the FSB till things break

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 06:46 AM

Are you using the normal AppleVIAATA and AppleAHCIPort Kexts??

jp266one

Sep 19 2006, 07:02 AM

QUOTE (Diego Sampaio @ Sep 19 2006, 04:26 AM)

lol;lol
It was just luck, i know nothing about kext or mac. Their not comon in Brasil.

Another good surprise is my overclock from 1.8 to 3.01. stable till now

lol;lol
It was just luck, i know nothing about kext or mac. Their not comon in Brasil.

Another good surprise is my overclock from 1.8 to 3.01. stable till now

Trully amazing! Valeu Diegão!

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 07:10 AM

I can't get it to work for me...

Tried both of the purple ports...

How long does it take you guys to boot?

jp266one

Sep 19 2006, 07:25 AM

QUOTE (SABR @ Sep 19 2006, 07:07 AM)

I can't get it to work for me...

Tried both of the purple ports...

How long does it take you guys to boot?

it only worked for me using a sata disk, I tried with an ata+adaptor and it didnt work. Loads fast, I didnt time it. Also no need to modify anything on kext. Adaptor also doesnt work with DVD/cd, I had to plug it back to the regular sata with the adaptor.

aberracus

Sep 19 2006, 07:36 AM

In my system PCIe and FSB are separated too.. but if i dont accelrate PCIe a little i could not get a good FSB overclock, i got auto too and when auto is on it just moves the pcie alongside the FSB, so be carefull there, i understand the maximum safe for PCIexpress cards is 117.

BTW We are talking of overcocking here so i recommend all you guys check this post:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=28051

shui aquatic

Sep 19 2006, 12:18 PM

Great!!! I love the purple sata ports! I connect the sata hd to the ports and set the mode to be AHCI in cmos. It works fine at the speed it should be.
Disk Test 45.01
Sequential 86.21
Uncached Write 80.68 49.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 106.10 60.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.75 17.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 123.24 61.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 30.45
Uncached Write 12.11 1.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 53.90 17.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 87.97 0.62 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 53.15 9.86 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Then I try IDE hd combined with sata-ide converter, and DVDROM combined with sata-converter
the ide hd could can be shown in disk utility, but only the disk itself, no partition. If I try to erase or partition it, a message "I/O error" is given.
The DVDROM connected to the purple ports with converter does not work too. When booting, "com.boot....." shown.

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 03:36 PM

This is getting really annoying... I can't figure out why it isn't working for me...

Well, to be fair, it isn't not working, it's just taking too long to boot. I have left it for 10 minutes, and it's not doing anything...

thedguy

Sep 19 2006, 04:25 PM

SABR, your not trying to use an IDE drive are you?

Here's whats up...

1)Hooked SATA seagate HD to purple Gigabyte ports. SATA converted dvdrom to the Orange ICH8 ports

2)Went into the Bios -> integrated peripherals -> and set onboard sata/ide device to enabled.

3)Then the setting below it "onboard sata/ide device ctrl mode" to "ahci"

4) saved bios settings, rebooted into osx.

It fired right up. Then went ahead and tried re-installing osx, and that worked as well. 100% unmodified jas 10.4.7 install dvd.

SABR: being a mod, if you get this to work, could you add a nice little bolded update to ConroeMac's first post about this? This way people trying to find this fix can get it easier than digging thru 4+ pages.

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 05:36 PM

QUOTE (thedguy @ Sep 19 2006, 05:22 PM)

SABR, your not trying to use an IDE drive are you?

Here's whats up...

1)Hooked SATA seagate HD to purple Gigabyte ports. SATA converted dvdrom to the Orange ICH8 ports

2)Went into the Bios -> integrated peripherals -> and set onboard sata/ide device to enabled.

3)Then the setting below it "onboard sata/ide device ctrl mode" to "ahci"

4) saved bios settings, rebooted into osx.

It fired right up. Then went ahead and tried re-installing osx, and that worked as well. 100% unmodified jas 10.4.7 install dvd.

SABR: being a mod, if you get this to work, could you add a nice little bolded update to ConroeMac's first post about this? This way people trying to find this fix can get it easier than digging thru 4+ pages.

Well, thanks for that, exactly how I had it configured. I can reinstall it using this method and see whether it's any better.

Also, good idea. I'll edit ConroeMac's 1st post, hopefully he/she wont mind!

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 06:13 PM

Well, I'm reinstalling... But it is acting much slower than before, and this time it says it's going to take 45 mins to install. when last time it was about 25...

SATA Native is meant to be disabled, right?

Im done

Sep 19 2006, 06:27 PM

14 seconds to boot

QUOTE (SABR @ Sep 19 2006, 04:07 AM)

I can't get it to work for me...

Tried both of the purple ports...

How long does it take you guys to boot?

14 seconds to boot

QUOTE (SABR @ Sep 19 2006, 04:07 AM)

I can't get it to work for me...

Tried both of the purple ports...

How long does it take you guys to boot?

SABR, you should also disable the first item on bios screen related to sata (sata native mode 0-3 = disabled)

SABR, you should also disable the first item on bios screen related to sata (sata native mode 0-3 = disabled)

description by thedguy, discovered by Diego Sampaio 0k?
Ain[t u guys feelin happier today. Lol

QUOTE (Conroe Mac @ Sep 6 2006, 01:02 AM)

I am creating this thread as a conversation for all Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 users. Other related Gigabyte board discussions are welcome.

1. Installation may be done on the GA-965P-DS3 natively by purchasing a PATA to SATA converter. You need to convert the a PATA DVD-rom drive into a SATA cable. The onboard PATA is not supported!

2. Sound and LAN do not work out of the box on this board. Both show promise and I hope this thread will grow to show that both can be fixed. Let it be known that both the sound and LAN which are present on this board have fixes already on other boards.

My personal experience is that I purchased Linksys Wireless G PCI adapter (wmp54G). This adapter is NOT the broadcomm chipset. It, however, does seem to be supported through the RALink drivers. I have attached those drivers below.

I'm currently not interested in fixing onboard LAN, (though I am pretty sure it is possible) but if you get it going it would be great to note it here.

NOTICE

A solution has been found to solve the SATA Read/Write speeds! I will sum it up here, as described by thedguy on page 5:

1) Hook up your SATA Hard Disk Drive to the purple Gigabyte SATA ports.

2) Your PATA to SATA converted DVD-R needs to be plugged into the orange ICH8 SATA ports. If you are using a PATA to USB, ignore this step, and carry on.

3) Change your BIOS' settings, in the Integrated Peripherals section, to have SATA Native Mode: Disabled, Onboard SATA/IDE: Enabled, Onboard SATA/IDE Device Control Mode: AHCI. Save and exit. If you are using a USB DVD-R drive, make sure that Legacy USB Storage Detect is enabled (not sure if this is necessary).

4) Boot from the OSx86 installation DVD or your HDD, and you should have full SATA Read/Write support.

If you have any problems with this, be sure to reply here and we will try our hardest to help. Good luck!

aberracus

Sep 19 2006, 06:31 PM

is there any diference between SABR and Diego mobos?

this mobo GA-965-DS3 appears to be my next mobo!!!

Only worries me the SATA random speed in xbenchmark, wich HD are u using?

look Shui Aquatic results:

Disk Test 45.01
Sequential 86.21
Uncached Write 80.68 49.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 106.10 60.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.75 17.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 123.24 61.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 30.45
Uncached Write 12.11 1.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 53.90 17.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 87.97 0.62 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 53.15 9.86 MB/sec [256K blocks]

mine:
Disk Test 61.84
Sequential 77.87
Uncached Write 71.76 44.06 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 73.44 41.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 85.86 25.13 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 82.18 41.30 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 51.29
Uncached Write 19.38 2.05 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 136.86 43.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 92.94 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 119.90 22.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Someone have an asus eax siltent x1600xt?

how much can you overclock?!!!

this is something now!!

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 07:20 PM

@ Diego:

I have tried what you are all saying - it is not working... Just to install, it said 2 hours and 53 minutes!

I have no idea why it is doing this, but it is... However, becuase of this, it's going to make me fix the ICH8 ports, and I'll get them compatible!

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 07:55 PM

QUOTE (thedguy @ Sep 19 2006, 08:45 PM)

There has got to be something we are missing with your setup. Mind going into detail about what you got, whats hooked up where, and the bios settings?

Ok.

250GB SATA HDD hooked up to Purple SATA port. PATA to SATA DVD-R hooked up to orange ICH8 ports.

SATA Native: disabled, Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode: AHCI.

There really isn't anything else I can say about it. I have a Western Digital Caviar SATAII HDD, 250 GB, split into two partitions. OS X and XP boot properly (not that that is of any help). Not sure what else to say... System specs are in my sig...

I am going to try and get ICH8 working on the yellow ports once this new OSx86 installation is done (in a couple of minutes).

What else do you want to know?

EDIT

BIOS version is F5. Should I downgrade to F4?

Sabr

Sep 19 2006, 11:08 PM

QUOTE (thedguy @ Sep 19 2006, 10:03 PM)

I'm stumped. I've seen it working on an F4 bios and using a Seagate SATA drive.

If I can get a response in the asus p5b thread (2nd post):
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=27202

We might be able to get ICH8 working better. He claims to have it working, but that doesn't work for me, and I can't figure out what device in windows or *nix he's getting that ven/dev id from. Hopefully he'll see my PM.

Well, I have been trying all sorts of different cobinations (as in 0x28XX8086) and not having much success. As I showed you in the picture, I have managed to get ICH8 to be recognised by OSx86, it just isn't using it, if you know what I mean...

jp266one

Sep 20 2006, 01:41 AM

QUOTE (SABR @ Sep 19 2006, 07:52 PM)

Ok.

250GB SATA HDD hooked up to Purple SATA port. PATA to SATA DVD-R hooked up to orange ICH8 ports.

SATA Native: disabled, Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode: AHCI.

There really isn't anything else I can say about it. I have a Western Digital Caviar SATAII HDD, 250 GB, split into two partitions. OS X and XP boot properly (not that that is of any help). Not sure what else to say... System specs are in my sig...

I am going to try and get ICH8 working on the yellow ports once this new OSx86 installation is done (in a couple of minutes).

What else do you want to know?

EDIT

BIOS version is F5. Should I downgrade to F4?

I have F5 and mine works fine with a Seagate SATA 320HDD with two partitions XP and JaS10.4.7. This is and installation that I had before the whole purple use come out hot. Have anyone succeeded installing osx after connecting the hd to the purple connector or are all of us using previously installed OS? I remember that I didnt install any ViaATA kext during installation, just the intel and ss3 support and the radeon x1000 support.

shui aquatic

Sep 20 2006, 02:02 AM

aberracus: My HD is Seagate SATA 200G 7200.9. I don't think the perfermance of ramdom access is satisfying when i get the the result. I test a Powermac G5 (2.3GX2, WD SATA 250G, 1.5G ram), get the result

Disk Test 66.92
Sequential 93.19
Uncached Write 100.19 61.51 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 101.92 57.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 69.31 20.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 114.92 57.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 52.21
Uncached Write 19.89 2.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 124.43 39.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 91.35 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 136.19 25.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]

compared with the Powermac, the perfermance is not too bad. the value 0.**MB/sec is normal.
I have not tried overclocking to avoid uneccesary interfering.

Sabr

Sep 20 2006, 07:28 PM

Well, I'm downloading the JaS 10.4.7 ISO Repack. Perhaps it was the Goatsecx DVD which was preventing me from full SATA support...?

aberracus

Sep 21 2006, 01:36 AM

Guys have you tested the Temperature monitor ?

" I really tried hard to find a working program to check my mobo temp under osx, and i give up, obviously our sensors arent the same the Imacs or Mac Pros use, so... until yesterday, i was reading a post http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...erature+monitor and Sniks said as it was the most common thing in the universe were to get the Holly grial of the overclokers, a Universal program to check our HAckintoshes temperatures under OSX.

Here is the Link

http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html

and the Widget

http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitorWE.html

When the progrm runs first time recognizes the system as an OSX86 "Extended" and installs extra sensors!!!

I would like to see an Insanely Mac Gratitude letter for Marcel Bresink the Author
http://www.bresink.de

Cheers

Aberracus"

In my board it works perfectly but in some dont work at all, i am thinking that mayybe is a thing with the conroes?

thanks for helping!

thedguy

Sep 21 2006, 03:23 AM

ok I made a nice little script for getting the audio to work on the DS3's.
No idea if this will work with other Gigabyte boards with the alc883, but it's worth a try. It's sloppy, and an insult to scripters everywhere, but it works.

open a terminal and "sudo nano audio" (no quotes)
copy and paste the code below into it
press ctrl+oand then
exit with ctrl+x.
run "chmod +x audio" (no quotes) then
type ./audio
reboot.

CODE

sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
sudo perl -pi -e 's/0x10ec0880/0x10ec0883/g' /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/Info.plist
sudo perl -pi -e 's/0x26688086/0x284b8086/g' /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAzaliaController.kext/Contents/Info.plist
sudo diskutil repairpermissions /
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/