mtotho Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Here is my guide http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83689 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulNoize Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Hello KTotho - This is awesome news! i stumbled across this site just as i am kind of piecing together a new machine for my brother, and he would greatly enjoy a dual boot machine like this if i can get it to work! i have a new DS3L MoBo, but a wild array of different parts otherwise. i have an e2180 c2d processor 4x1gb DDR2-667 RAM (The cheap HP 1.8v ram) OR fast OCZ SLI-certified DDR2-1066 RAM (2x1gb) eVGA 7600GT CO PCIe video card OR Foxconn 8400GS PCIe card 2 x 500gb Western Digital WD5000AAKS SATA Hard Drives i am a complete neophyte at the OSX86 experience, but i have built a couple of Windows boxes before, and would like to try my hand at this to stretch my skills a bit. While i poke around and read more, i am hoping that you (or someone) might be able to let me know if the spare hardware listed above might work with the Mobo for this dual-boot project, or if i need to go get other stuff. Thanks in advance, and congratulations on having a nice working system! =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-596706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 sorry to confuse you. You can have whatever processor/ Ram/ Video card(assuming it is supported) that you want. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-600165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tall_rob Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Your guide works great! Thank you... However, it does suffer from the shutdown problem but I have found a temporary workaround... To shut down the computer simply run from a terminal: sudo shutdown -h now This works 100% of the time and the system shuts down without any problem. The only issue is that you have to make sure all applications are closed before executing the code.. Thanks again! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-600881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikoncanon Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Hi im using the GA-P35 DS3R Everything works out of the box accept sound which i patched. My 7200 GS worked with nivida drivers. But here why im writing. I can't restart without having the disk in the drive. Is there any way to fix this. Becasue the computer goes to sleep just fine and wakes up with a wiggle of the mouse. Help me please I have pics motherboard: GA-P35 DS3R processor: Intel core 2 duo 6550 video: gigabyte gforce 7200 128mb memory: 2gigs of ddr2 667 case: coolermaster case cm690 harddrive: western digital sata 320gig 3.0 optical drive: Lg dvdrw +rw Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-601011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clv101 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Becasue the computer goes to sleep just fine and wakes up with a wiggle of the mouse. Now that's impressive - how do you think you got that working? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-601037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikoncanon Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 i used the kalaway 10.5.1 install method. it was very simple and just worked. i will upload some pic's later today. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-601050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clv101 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 i used the kalaway 10.5.1 install method. it was very simple and just worked. i will upload some pic's later today. Maybe something in the BIOS is set up differently - waking up from sleep is very rare as far as I can tell. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-601099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikoncanon Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Hummmm! Is there a way to boot without the Disc in the drive. Oh by the way its on the fritz if i leave it asleep for more that an hour it shuts down. Any ideas? Let me know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-601788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
critic81 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Just wanted to say that I used this installer and I'm running at 100%. I have a tri-boot system going with Vista/XP/Leopard. It works smooth like butter. I was getting the kernel panics when I was doing a lot of disk activity. I thought it had something to do with the JMicron drivers but before I tried any of that i used the maxmem = 3456 and now its running smooth. I do have AHCI disabled because I installed Vista with it disabled and I don't want to reinstall that to get it working. So for now I will suffer with about 3.5 gigs of memory, which is still pretty damn good. Well thanks a lot for the install guide mtotho, worked out great. Hopefully it all goes smoothly with the 10.5.2 update when it comes out. oh ya one more thing. For any of you who do have the dual or tri boot going with NTFS drives, try out Paragons NTFS for Mac. I downloaded and installed it last night and it definitely works. The reason I did it was to have read/write access to my music and pictures from vista. It worked, but I freaked out about it maybe messing up my vista drive so I uninstalled. Still looking for a good way to share music and pictures with vista and Leopard. Ok i'm done. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-602628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
critic81 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Also a question. I have a belkin 54g wireless pci card i think the FD7000, and it works great except one thing, when I go in to change from DHCP to put in a manual IP address, it takes it but it doesn't save it. It always reverts right back to DHCP. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks guys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-602690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Is there any way to get 5.1 working on the audio? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-602852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikoncanon Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 what are you using ipv4 or ipv6?Just a note: I have installed a few programs on the system.World of Warcraft BattleField 2142Adobe Lightroom HandbreakAdium Windows Remote DesktopAnd yes they all work flawlessly This would be a great system if it didnt shut down after an hourmotherboard: GA-P35 DS3Rprocessor: Intel core 2 duo 6550video: gigabyte gforce 7200 128mbmemory: 2gigs of ddr2 667 case: coolermaster case cm690harddrive: western digital sata 320gig 3.0optical drive: Lg dvdrw +rw Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-602924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helob Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Your guide works great! Thank you... However, it does suffer from the shutdown problem but I have found a temporary workaround... To shut down the computer simply run from a terminal: sudo shutdown -h now This works 100% of the time and the system shuts down without any problem. The only issue is that you have to make sure all applications are closed before executing the code.. Thanks again! Hi, Did you find a permanent solution to the shutdown problem? I encountered the same problem. After clicking shutdown from the menu bar, there is a KP msg that to shutdown, have to use the power button. Have to press the power button for a few sec before Leopard shutdown. There is no problem with restart. Any help and advise from anyone would be much appreciated. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-605107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 @Critic81. Vista should have the AHCI drivers already on it. If you enable AHCI, it should be able to boot fine, and leopard will work aswell, no need to reinstall anything. also, if u choose to go back to AHCI, you do not need Maxmem=3456, it should just work with all 4gb of ram without a problem. @nikon cannon. I think you installed leopard with GUID while leaving ur hardrive formatted as MBR. To fix this, reinstall leopard, making sure to select MBR in the customize option, @whoever, i dont think there is a fix for 5.1 yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-607067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
critic81 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I did try doing the AHCI drivers and changing the registry to activate AHCI but to no prevail. I got at boot time, "Error loading OS". But with AHCI ON I did boot up with full 4gb memory int Leopard but the memory issue was still there. So AHCI did not fix it for me. I ran the Highload mem test and in 2 seconds i got a kernel panic. I went back to maxmem=3456 and I was all set again. Weird that it did not fix it for me. Oh well. Right now i'm running maxmem and no AHCI and i'm pretty happy. I have most of my programs installed on Leopard and working great. Now my only issue is do I switch over 100% to Leopard or do I stay vista. Not sure what I want to do yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-608329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viscaria Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I am using the RealtekR1000 kext to get Bounjour working and now, after waking from sleep I have to manually renew the DHCP lease. Anyone else have this issue? DHCP still works fine after sleep, I just have to go to system preferences and renew the lease. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-609131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliab Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Yes here it's Kalyway install isn't it ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-609355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viscaria Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 No I installed from the retail disc + PC_EFI v8.0. I am thinking of trying the drivers from the realtec site, but I don't see a 10.4 driver there. Perhaps it is the on labeled 10.04? Has anybody had any luck with these drivers in Leopard? @critic81 I am running with 4GB of RAM (2x2GB, dual channel) and it is working fine. I have AHCI enabled, SATA native mode enabled, and 64-bit HPET (don't know if these last two make any difference) Perhaps you could post you BIOS settings from the "Integrated Peripherals" and "Power Management Setup" so we can compare settings. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-609979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Viscaria, How many SATA ports working? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-610279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viscaria Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I'm using the first 2 SATA ports (one for the boot drive and one for the DVD burner), but I haven't tried the other two since I don't have any other devices to plug into them. I also have one 80GB PATA hard drive that I was going to use for windows, but I think it is causing some issues. I am getting random lock ups and and power offs in both Leopard and Vista when accessing this hard dirve. I don't know if the disk has issues with the JMicrom controller, a flakey mobo, the disk, or incompatibility between the disk and the controller. I guess for now I'll have to stick to OS X. So very sad... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-610669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrsdscout Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I just built my first OSx86 system today using this guide and it worked perfectly! System specs: GA-P35-DS3L Q6600 3 GB of DDR2 nVidia 8600GTS (working w/ 2 1680x1050 monitors) M-Audio Delta 1010lt (no intel leopard drivers yet) 2 Samsung 500 GB HDs Samsung SATA DVD-RW Notes: Installed using MBR method. GUID wasn't working for some reason. BIOS/Install options must be followed exactly! Install was fast- around 10 minutes. onboard audio/lan works External USB drives work fine Thanks for the guide! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-610806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amephist Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 -P-Ata DVD Drives only sometimes work(depending on the drive) I myself could not get neither a Samsung nor Pioneer to work. Best to stick S-Ata. -P-Ata (aka IDE) hard drives may not work to install OSX on, but it has been reported they work in OSX after installation for data or whatever. I have a slightly different board GA-P35 DS3R and Vista on the main SATA drive. The DVD drive and the OSX disk are both on the same IDE channel. It worked like a charm. This guide is my new Bible Thanks for taking the time to make it mtotho Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-610998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I'm using the first 2 SATA ports (one for the boot drive and one for the DVD burner), but I haven't tried the other two since I don't have any other devices to plug into them. I also have one 80GB PATA hard drive that I was going to use for windows, but I think it is causing some issues. I am getting random lock ups and and power offs in both Leopard and Vista when accessing this hard dirve. I don't know if the disk has issues with the JMicrom controller, a flakey mobo, the disk, or incompatibility between the disk and the controller. I guess for now I'll have to stick to OS X. So very sad... Thanks, I'm planning to buy this board, but I have 4 SATA and 2 PATA HDs plus 2 PATA DVDRs Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-611832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrsdscout Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Here's an update to my install: I installed using non-AHCI setting, and it worked with 3 SATA HDs and 1 SATA DVD Update: After installing 4 GB of RAM, I am getting the "GSOD" with this config. I highly recommend the DS3L only be used for people with 3 GB RAM or less, or that plan on using only one hard drive! Network did not work out of the box w/ 8111b chip Update: After building three more systems with the same board, LAN works out of the box. I bought the Linksys Wireless-G WMP54GS PCI card and was detected as an airport card with no need to install drivers! PCI Firewire card does not work. System Profiler gives "Warning: The FireWire drivers are not loaded." message, but I haven't found a solution. This seems to be a problem for many Leopard users with intel-based Macs. Update: 10.5.2 Fixed this. It was a Mac issue and not OSx86. I ran Xbench and scored a 145 (beating most Mac Pros) but the Disk Test is holding it back. The Random uncached Read/Write scores for 4K blocks are very slow- only around 1 MB/sec. I wonder if this is my drive, or possible a SATA issue? Changing to a new WD drive improved the score to 170, and 210 w/o drive test. MSI Geforce 8600GTS scored well in Xbench- more than double the Mac Pros with the older but more expensive 6800 Ultra. Update: I have also installed a 8500GT 512 and a 8800GT 512 with no problems. All of my software- CS3 suite, Maya, Final Cut, etc. work very well with no crashes. I will have to investigate the cause, but any overclocking causes the computer to fail and reboot at the default cpu speed. My previous board was an Abit AB9 Pro that was a good overclocker with the same components. Update: I swapped back to the AB9 Pro board and OS X detected everything. No more crashes using 4 GB of RAM (This board has 9 SATA ports!) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83762-how-togigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-100-working/#findComment-612318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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