DFI is releasing an MATX board based on the P45 chipset. you guys think its hackintoshable? im looking for it to replace my asus p5k-vm in the near future.

Wow, that board looks sweet. P45, 4 RAM slots and 3 PCIe slots on a mATX board? Sign me up.
If it's Hack compatible and reasonably priced, I'd get one in a heartbeat.

yeah thats what i was thinking! no SLI though. but it supports crossfire.
EDIT!

found a little more info
http://www.motherboardpro.com/DFI-LP-Jr-P4...oard-p-660.html
onboard raid. DDR3. thats gonna be power

Has anyone tried this board yet?

Bumpity... anyone tried?

Installation unsuccessful.
Using iATKOS 4i (10.5.4). Need to set SATA to Legacy.
During installation the installation bar hangs at 20%.

have you thought about doing the BIOS mods. idk what you had to do but there was a thread on here about doing a bios mod because of the P45 chipset.
that motherboard looks amazing

I have one of these running right now... ;-)

q6600 2.4 @ 2.90 currently
4gb RAM
Radeon 2600xt ( as it seems to just work as thats what apple use in iMac's :-) )
2 x 1TB Seagate's

Can't get my IDE DVD drive recognised as it must be a different j-micron. installed fine tho as an IDE and not AHCI for the Jmicron controller. Going to get a SATA DVD and stick it in soon.

I used the iAtkos 10.5.4 installation DVD and it worked flawlessly after i set the onboard SATA to AHCI and for some reason (at least with the two 1tb Seagates i have connected to it) had to use GUID disks. Not much hardship tho.

Audio kinda works at the minute with the Taruga HDA enabler - only works when i select inbuilt speakers, but it works fine enough for me with some little logitech desk speakers.

If you got it working, how about adding it to the HCL wiki?

You know, that thing people used to update before everyone just got collectively bored with it. Apparently, it's much more productive having to just guess, and suffer 10,000,000 "will this work!??!" threads. Oh yes, and to bitch about the wiki not being useful.

(By the way, not a rant directed at anyone in particular, just a rant in general!)

I'd like to help out others with this motherboard. If you have this motherboard and want to get it running 100%, send me a PM.

Thanks,

-Stell

I am on the cusp of buying it. The question is how does ethernet work, as well as audio. Does ACHI work including swapping *can I eject disk*. I also need front panel Mic and Headphones, this is REALLY key. Do these things work?

Thank you in advanced for the help

I don't have this mobo, but I own a DFI P35 ATX mobo with very similar specs. Ethernet works oob including bonjour and afp. The audio chipset in the DFI boards is ALC885. This is the exact same chipset found in Mac Pros. So it works 100%. Also I have about every setting turned on, that the motherboard supports and it all works. I have Ahci mode running and Jmicron for the heck of it. These boards are also very solidly made.

Here's a little video of my system profiler on my DFI Lanparty DK....

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/4133/SysProfiler_Boot132.mov

I'm using Boot-132 to install and maintain for updates.

-Stell

P.S. - The optical drive does allow to be ejected with Apple Keyboard or on the actual optical drive button.

On your mobo does front panal Mic and Headphones work? Does Optical output? These are important

Not sure about front panel stuff. I have my DFI in a Apple G5 case. Optical output does work.

I still suggest using a usb audio solution as you'll get better quality sound and more/powered input/output.

-Stell

Its done I bought it, will have it next week... Hope I can make it work. Hope I Can figure out Boot 132 ;P

Hyper X,

Send me a PM when you get your mobo in.

-Stell

i'm running a dfi blood iron front panel does work...

any updates on this? I really like this board.

I just physically received the board. Unfortunately the stock heat sink doesn't fit. I will buy a new heat sink ASAP and will post with results.

hyper x any luck with the board yet, cause im want to pick one up but still want to run dual boot.

and does ICH10R work in osx86?

I'm in the same boat as you, was hoping to pick you up soon, my E6600 is starting to show its age.

Hyper, did you get the ddr3 version or the ddr2?

Well, I just placed the order. Will post results when I get it. This board is supposed to be a killer overclocker.

yeh i seen some crazy things with the oc, like 600FSB E8600

heres a nice read http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=4251

I will be installing it tomorrow had to wait for memory to come in. It shows delivery for tomorrow

Yea, its too bad OSX doesn't like the new radeon cards. I'd put a couple of 4xxx series cards in there in a heartbeat. Gonna have to stick with nvidia... haha

It's now installed but I am in

Still waiting on root device

HELL! ;\

Help?

Try a different DVD Drive?

Maybe hook it up USB, I don't know. Mine comes in on Monday, I'll post where I end up.

Install DVD works and it installs fine, thats not the issue.

The problem is I cant get my old install to even start booting ;\

Sound is also, so far, a MAJOR bust ;\

Your old install from another system? Would you even be able to move HDs like that without changing some kexts and what not?

Also, its supposed to use the ALC885. Does that kext not work?

But I'm glad that you're at least up and running.

The sound stutters HORRIBLE when I get it to even initialize. I am using HDA Enabler... I did a proper codec dump in Ubuntu, patching it causes the audio to not work at all. I tried 3 other dumps with no luck. This was all done with HDA PAtcher 1.20. Unpatched the audio works *with the wrong output jack* but stutters, even over USB audio and with CPUS=1. This is a major problem I cant seem to over come ;\

Hm.. Everything works under windows though? There is nothing physically wrong with the board?

Well with Stell's help I got much further, but was still stuck after updating to 10.5.5

After 4 hours of playing I am now running 10.5.5 with sound, graphics, networking well...

You are all best using the Boot 132 method on this board for a number of things. This board looks once a good guide is written, like it will make an AMAZING hack. This is one powerful little board.

Now to work on things like sleep, and front panal mic! So much work so little time.

Now I got sleep!

So audio, video, sleep, shutdown, reboot, networking, achi All appear happy and working! I think we have a winner everyone!

Now to get the boot 132 on the EFI partition and some cleanup work done, we will be GOLDEN!

So now the GA-945-GCMX-S2 is no long the mAtx board of choice. We have a new champion. It is Lanparty Jr P45 TSR2!!!

Hey everyone. Let me try to explain whats up since there is a bit of confusion.

This applies to any DFI or mobo with ALC885 audio.


Audio works, thats cool and all BUT there are some issues. The only issue will be waking your system from S3 sleep. Sleep functionality works fine, but when it wakes the audio will not. However, S1 sleep will work just fine.

I'd like to point out the best possible solution for ANY hackintosh and that's usb audio devices. With the current state of HDA and even further developments it's not future proof. You can always count on usb audio to work in almost any situation. I know, I know people want the onboard audio to work. I would too. In the end it's just not as reliable. Also most of the time usb audio devices have better sound quality than onboard anyways.

So to get back to the DFI boards. Disable onboard audio in bios. Plug in usb audio device. Done.

-Stell

OK , I've installed the motherboard last night.

Graphics NVIDIA 8600 GTS 256mb OK with EFI Strings.

Sound OK with StickPin method http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=129058

AHCI Sata OK with CycloneFR method http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=129279

Network OK oob

Only Problems :
sleep (when wake from sleep monitor stays black and the Power LED keeps blinking)
In System Profiler Hardware Tab Says "There was an error while gathering this information" tried SMSBiosEnabler with no luck

Finally i was wondering if HPET activation in BIOS could make AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement work.

ApplineIntelCPUPowerManagment will NEVER work with non apple equipment. HPET though should be on 64 bit mode. As for sleep, I will grab my bios setting and post them... right now I have S3 sleep working, except the audio glitch. I will work on S1 and if that work great, I will post both sets of steps. Give me a few days though as my weekend is going to be VERY VERY busy. I am sorry in Advanced.

Ok, couple of questions:

What is the difference between S1 sleep and S3 sleep?

What exactly is boot-132?

My board will be getting in on Monday hopefully.

Use Smbiosresolver.
Turn I think it's VGA wake off I think it's called to have the monitor turn back on. It's like the second option in Power Management section of bios.

-Stell

As for sleep i still can make it happen
I will wait for Hyper X to post his BIOS Settings.

BUT i found something interesting ,so here goes :
In the Hardware overview in System Profiler i was getting the usual error .
So i tried to do something about it using SMbiosEnabler.
In the plist file of the SMbiosEnabler you have the Option to alter the BOOT Rom Version by editing the BIOS Version in a format of XXXX.88Z.XXXX.XXX.0712261124 where X is the part of the BIOS version you can alter.
IF the format is other than that then you have the error in the profiler.
So what i did was to use a tool found in Hiren's Boot CD, called Award DMI Configuration Utility. (It's for Award BIOS ,dont know if works for others)
With that you can alter the DMI info of your mobo.
So mine in Bios Version had a value of : 6.00 PG . By changing this to XXXX.88Z.XXXX.XXX.0712261124 and replacing the X with anything you want you are OK.
Another interesting thing is that the CPU Speed in the profiler was also wrong and that because AppleSMBIOS reads it from a field in the mobo's DMI called Max CPU Speed and not from CPU Speed so by editing Max CPU Speed to the correct value i also manage to have correct CPU speed in the profiler.

So by using Award DMI Configuration Utility you can stop using kexts like SMBIOSEnabler etc.

In the mobo's DMI there is also a field about UUID which already has a value.
But if i dont use the EFI Ethernet Fix String i keep getting the usual UUID error.

I did some serious experimenting this weekend, and got a few things figured out. The issues I have are as followed.

1) Audio will not work, unless I use Boot 132 and http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=129058
2) S3 sleep WILL work and Wakes from sleep, but once awake audio dies and makes the computer sluggish. Disabling audio makes sleep work perfect.
3) Hot Swapping / Hot plugging is not working right. It works partially. I NEED THIS FEATURE! Right now I am sorta screwed.

Other then that, all other problems have been solved and I think you will able to boot using 132 or chameleon. Hopefully I will be able to reach Stell today and get some more work done on this. Possible Solutions to the audio MAY require some custom bios work, which is well beyond my skill level.

So Stell if you get this, PM with a time you will be on, or with some idea how to get audio to work in Chameleon or any other issues I am having. We are so close I can taste it.

Just got it. Having a little trouble with my NT06-Lite Heatsink. Hyper, which one did you end up using?

-Gabe

I am using the stock cooler as I dont have the money for the NT06-Lite right now!

Still having hot swap and sound issues ;\

BTW when you installed the heat sink did the fan go on the top moving air down.. or on the bottom moving air up?

I'm on an sg02 case, so there's no room to install the fan. Its keeping my E6600 at around 28 degrees though. I ended up having to install it without the backplate (I just put some cardboard washers under the screws). It was a pain, but it seems to be holding up.

Just tried iDeneb's 10.5.5 for the hell of it before I played around with boot-132.

Ethernet does not work oob (did not have any additional kexts checked), working on it.

Won't wake from sleep.

-Gabe

Ethernet does work oob. Sleep works.

I can confirm about the Ethernet that works oob BUT as for sleep i still can't manage to make it work,and by that i don't mean just loosing the sound.I cant even make it wake from sleep.

Lets hope Hyper X posts his BIOS settings...

Trying to think how to post them, still having hot swap issues so the setup is not perfect yet. I can try to take screen shots if that would work?

Did you try the Legacy Type kexts for the AHCI ???
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did ideneb go on alright??

ie everything working, minus sleep