specialsyco Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Hey everyone, i was just wondering how the GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard looks for running leopard. I plan on using this with a core 2 quad cpu and 4gb of ram. I want to know if this will be easy to set up with out too many patches. I have read about similar Gigabyte motherboards that seemed to work well and this is one that meets my needs so i thought it would be a good choice. If you have any other suggestions for a motherboard that costs around $100 or so, let me know. Thanks for any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136274-hows-this-sound-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcastro Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 I am looking at this board as well with a dual core possibly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136274-hows-this-sound-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-970676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertikaldesign Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 I just ordered this board and will be building a system around it in the next few days. Since the northbridge, audio codec, etc are pretty standard, i would assume it's gonna be easy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136274-hows-this-sound-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-973009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddymalec Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 I have this board and am running retail you can PM me with questions if need be. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136274-hows-this-sound-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-984581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmj1268 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Hey everyone, i was just wondering how the GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard looks for running leopard. I plan on using this with a core 2 quad cpu and 4gb of ram. I want to know if this will be easy to set up with out too many patches. I have read about similar Gigabyte motherboards that seemed to work well and this is one that meets my needs so i thought it would be a good choice. If you have any other suggestions for a motherboard that costs around $100 or so, let me know. Thanks for any help. I am running this board as well with a retail install of 10.5.6. I have 8GB Corsair Performance memory and a nVidia GeForce 9400GT 1GB Card with an E8400 Processor, Intel Core 2 Duo. The machine is fast and so far appears to be rock solid. I did have to run the Universal OS 86 Installer. I found a very good write up by auzigog. Just google 'auzigog' and hackintosh and you will find a VERY good write up. One word of caution, although the network cards on board will work, if you use iTunes and an Apple TV, you WILL have problems because the bonjour services do not work well with this card. To remedy that, use a Netgear GA311 Gigabit adaptor and it will work flawlessly with Bonjour and if you are using an Apple TV or an Airport Extreme Base station, your problem will be resolved. I hope this helps. So far my hakintosh has been working beautifully. Best to you. kmj1268 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136274-hows-this-sound-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1114173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 One word of caution, although the network cards on board will work, if you use iTunes and an Apple TV, you WILL have problems because the bonjour services do not work well with this card. To remedy that, use a Netgear GA311 Gigabit adaptor and it will work flawlessly with Bonjour and if you are using an Apple TV or an Airport Extreme Base station, your problem will be resolved. I hope this helps. So far my hakintosh has been working beautifully. Best to you. kmj1268 Or you try the R1000.kext you can get from Psystar.com it allows Bonjour to work properly unlike the built-in Apple driver. BTW what kind of CPU use do you see when transfer at gigabit speed using that card? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136274-hows-this-sound-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1114426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmj1268 Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Or you try the R1000.kext you can get from Psystar.com it allows Bonjour to work properly unlike the built-in Apple driver. BTW what kind of CPU use do you see when transfer at gigabit speed using that card? Hey Macuser2525!!! thanks for the response. Yes I realized that later that I could use the R1000.kext. I am having to ease myself into this. I just recently had an almost perfectly running system and was trying to correct somethings in System Profiler and used a program called Kext Helper b7.... Well that ended up bricking my system. I rebuilt it on Sunday, and am very pleased with what I have but a little nervous about applying kext's. I found the OSX86 Tool by pcwiz... and I really like the fact that I can backup my kernel now and kext files on a regular basis. That at least gives me some kinda of restore point. I still have the crashed system on the other hard drive. When I rebuilt the system I am on now, I just went out and bought another hard drive and figure I will ask one of you geniuses that have far more experience how to recover the crashed system from the other hard drive... I get the dreaded circle with the line when the apple with the spinning circle during boot time. Anyways.. thanks for the response. It is truly an art and a science which requires a great deal of patience when building a hackintosh, but the investment in what you get and what you learn is well worth it. I have a couple of buddies now eager to build their own system. Take care.. kmj1268 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136274-hows-this-sound-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1127010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown User Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Hey Macuser2525!!!thanks for the response. Yes I realized that later that I could use the R1000.kext. I am having to ease myself into this. I just recently had an almost perfectly running system and was trying to correct somethings in System Profiler and used a program called Kext Helper b7.... Well that ended up bricking my system. I rebuilt it on Sunday, and am very pleased with what I have but a little nervous about applying kext's. I found the OSX86 Tool by pcwiz... and I really like the fact that I can backup my kernel now and kext files on a regular basis. That at least gives me some kinda of restore point. I still have the crashed system on the other hard drive. When I rebuilt the system I am on now, I just went out and bought another hard drive and figure I will ask one of you geniuses that have far more experience how to recover the crashed system from the other hard drive... I get the dreaded circle with the line when the apple with the spinning circle during boot time. Anyways.. thanks for the response. It is truly an art and a science which requires a great deal of patience when building a hackintosh, but the investment in what you get and what you learn is well worth it. I have a couple of buddies now eager to build their own system. Take care.. kmj1268 just put your hd back in put in you osx disk hit f8 at boot screen type -v boot into osx goto utilities the disk utility format hd that should do it. You could also use gparted to reformat hd. just google it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136274-hows-this-sound-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1127120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmj1268 Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 just put your hd back in put in you osx disk hit f8 at boot screen type -vboot into osx goto utilities the disk utility format hd that should do it. You could also use gparted to reformat hd. just google it. Hey Unknown.... while that certainly would work, it would erase my data and anyone in my shoes wouldn't want to lose data they already have on the machine. I can definitely mount the drive and copy over what I want but there is something to be gained from learning how to restore a system and become more familiar with the inner workings of the Mac OS X OS. Although I am a noob with with the Mac environment, I have gotten a 2nd system running just perfect. The goal is to revive the other system. I have already figured out my solution. For those who might have experienced what I have... This is what I did. I rebuilt my system on another hard drive. I then installed OS86 Tools. I backed up the kernel as well as the kext files on the working system. I created a backup of the kernel using OSX 86 Tools. Now all I have to do is essentially boot in safe mode and restore the kernel on the crashed hard drive with the kernel I have backed up on a thumb drive. The goal is to not format my data and lose what I have on the drive but to restore the system back to it's condition before it was crashed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136274-hows-this-sound-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1127907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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