ShadowFex Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Hi, Im looking at buying a GA-EP45-DS4P motherboard to run vanilla osx kernel on. I'm just making sure that this board is fully compatible before i go out and but it and also want to make sure that SATA DVD works on those SATA chipsets. There is also a GA-EP45-DS4 model which is exactly the same except for the lack of TPM. Dense a regular in the hackint0sh channel told me he had that board running fully supported, but i just need to make sure the P model would also be supported. Has anybody has any success with these motherboards running osx86 on them? Thanks Toby Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119769-ga-ep45-ds4p-compatible-with-osx86/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
theotherone Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 From my experiences from the recent weekend installing the GA-EP45-DS3P i couldn't recommend going for a P45. Go for the GA-EP35-Chipset, it seems much more supported or tested then the P45 chipset. I was only able to install iAtkos 10.5.4, everything else fails, i also got usb-sound-problems (do to the E8500 CPU which is 45nm), i also suffer from ethernet-problems on the 2 internel Ethernet-Ports (slow transfer-rates). Tried different drivers and kexts, and killed about 2 days worth with reading here on the insanely-board. At this weekend i will try another 2 or three combinations of boot-132 installs with a few kexts and will see if i can get any further, but maybe i will just stop killing time and buy a GA-EP35-DS3P which works fine... After all, the P45-Chipset doesn't offer much over the P35, so why bother? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119769-ga-ep45-ds4p-compatible-with-osx86/#findComment-848062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
magare Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 I use the same mobo. Installed Kalyway 10.5.2, than patched with Kalyway 10.5.3 and than did a vanilla update to 10.5.4. Everything works ok except the sound. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119769-ga-ep45-ds4p-compatible-with-osx86/#findComment-851250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theotherone Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Finally found the problem with my EP45: The Video-Card! I have a ATI HD3870/512MB, which i only could make bootable with iATKOS 10.5.4, all other installs greater 10.5 resulted in kernel-panics! Now i finally installed a XFX 8800GT with 512 MB and finally no problems with vanillia-installs! So my remaining problems are the ethernet-ports which deliver only 20-40kb instead of 240 on my DSL2000 Connection. The only connection that works as expected is a wl138g wlan pci-card. But the internal RTL8169S/8110S as a separate installed pci-card with 8168B/8111B Realtek didn't work. If someone has a solution for this i have a complete working install! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119769-ga-ep45-ds4p-compatible-with-osx86/#findComment-851368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
magare Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Anybody got the ALC8889A sound working with this board, please? Shutdown, restart don't work eather !!! Have tried all possible HDA and Kazila kext , but no go! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119769-ga-ep45-ds4p-compatible-with-osx86/#findComment-851875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Cru Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Try the 889a kext on taruga's site. Worked for me after endless nights banging my head against my table. Thanks Taruga. Also, it is a turtle not a frog... right? here it is if you need it. Once again, can't thank you enough Taruga. AppleHDA.kext.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119769-ga-ep45-ds4p-compatible-with-osx86/#findComment-885826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Oak Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I am having some trouble getting the sound to work with the Ga ep45 ds4p. The above post is the best hope I have found but I still do not have sound. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119769-ga-ep45-ds4p-compatible-with-osx86/#findComment-898188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigsegv Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 I am having some trouble getting the sound to work with the Ga ep45 ds4p. The above post is the best hope I have found but I still do not have sound. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have the same motherboard and everything works great (Mic, Headphones, etc). I used the ALCinject and AppleHDA 1.2.9a4 from LS8's install pack. I posted my install notes here: GA-EP45-DS4P, boot-turbo-munkey + LS8v14, 10.5.5 retail Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119769-ga-ep45-ds4p-compatible-with-osx86/#findComment-938433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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