Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3

[icepuma]

Hi Folks,

 

has anyone experience with the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3 Mainboard?

 

I got a problem with my drives during install. I use iDeneb 1.5.5. My 2 x 1 Terrabyte Samsung drives are shown as 128 gb drives.

I can't format them to the Mac File System...

Has anyone a fix for this MoBo?

 

Which Distro is the best for this MoBo?

 

My Specs:

 

MoBo: GigabyteGA-EP45-UD3

Proc: Intel Q6600 @ 2.4 Ghz, G0 Stepping

RAM: 2 x 2 GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum Dual Channel

Graph: Gainward 8800 GTS 320

HDD: 2 x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1 TB

 

Greetings

Icepuma

Edited November 18, 2008 by icepuma

[milezteg]

Hey there I am about to attempt an install on a GA-EP45-UD3R. I too cannot find much info on this board (zilch!), but it is pretty new. I will attemptthe install tommorow but...

 

I noticed in the HCL: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.2 that the UD3P board is listed but it mentions the Install Method: Kalyway 10.5.2 -> 10.5.5 Retail. You might try that. It also mentioned the Realtek Audio: ALC889Awill need patching.

 

Again very little info out there...If anyone has one of these or a similar board I would love to hear from them

 

I will post my results asap!

[Nickcriscuolo]

Any updates?

 

I am trying the same board with c2q 2.4, 4gb ram, 9600gt 512mb. Having lots of problems. I can install Kalyway 10.5.2 no problem and the 10.5.3 Kalyway update. I just can't get anything past that. I have tried Leo4all. It wont even boot up to install. Apple combo updates 10.5.4 and 10.5.5 cause kernel panics in middle of install. ideneb seems to work, installs fine, but then on reboot after the apple comes up for a little while, the monitor goes black. It seems like it is actually booting up, I just can't see it. After I leave it for a while, come back, and hit a key, I can hear the hard drive spin up like it is waking from sleep. I still get no monitor. I am in the process of trying the various configurations of the install disk, though so far the result is exactly the same no matter what I change. I tried following the instructions for a ideneb install for a gigabyte p35 board here

but that hasn't worked either. I wouldn't even bother trying to go to 10.5.5 now anyway if it werent for the fact that the nvidia 9000 drivers need 10.5.5 and I need to run them to get quartz extreme and core image to work. I would love to hear from anyone who has made progress on this motherboard/video card.

[Nickcriscuolo]

-UPDATE-

 

Okay I have come to an acceptable solution. I tried to get everything working under ideneb 10.5.5 so many times. I followed so many instruction on this forum with no usable result. Most said to install ideneb without video drivers selected, but when I did that, I always got black screen on boot up. The only thing that worked was to install nvinject 512mb. Though surprisingly it got QE/CI working, only with a pretty major bug. The mouse had no hover capability. This was especially annoying on menus. It also meant I couldn't access a hidden dock. Also, I couldn't drag files from one window to another, unless they were in folder view. Also get blue screen on resolution change, have to restart for change to take effect.

 

This is my third Hackintosh and has been by far the hardest to get working. I actually built it for a friend to use for work, so I really need it to be stable. Anyway after a lot of cursing and stress I remembered that the Kalyway 10.5.2 and 5.3 updates worked quite smoothly, only I couldnt get QE/CI to work. So I stole the kext that ideneb installed, clean installed Kalyway, updated to 10.5.3 and used kexthelper to install the stolen nvinject and rebooted. It freakin worked. After I got the audio patched (whole other story!!) I decided to stay at 10.5.3. since I had already been the route of running the apple 10.5.4 and 5.5 updates and all they gave me were kernal panics. So I will let it be, at least until my friend needs to install something that requires 10.5.5, but I haven't seen anything yet. Heck most stuff still works on Tiger.

 

Oh there were 2 minor bugs still present. The resolution still needs restart to change. Sleep and restart work fine, however power down leaves the fan running. I decided they were minor enough glitches to leave, since I had already tried many different kernals, currently running the modified kalyway 10.5.3 kernal. Hopefully there will be some new fixes in the future for me to try.

 

 

PS: I think the 9600gt was harder than the hd2600pro, I sure know how to pick um. I can't say for sure how much fault lies with the mobo or GPU or combo of both. Anyway done for now. I hope my friend likes PHO SX.

 

gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3r

c2q 2.4ghz GO

Asus 9600gt

[seren]

I have a GA-EP45-UD3P and have used iDeneb and I can install with no problems, I'm using Software RAID with a boot partition, Audio is working with either appleazillaaudio installer (only 2 channel no front audio) , or an older version of HDAenabler.kext + AppleHDA.kext (all channels and front audio but makes pops and breaks up at heavy load [playing music while backing up with tm]), I'm working on getting HDAInjector.kext working. The only problem I'm having is freezing during heavy torrenting (system stays semi responsive clock keeps going but no applications respond to clicks, I can not do anything but move windows until eventually the mouse freezes/and the system locks) but, I have solved this in an earlier install and when I have all the kexts I use in order I will up them for use. When installing iDeneb I use the Jmichron kext and the ICHx kext, The Realtek ethernet ports work OOB with iDeneb but you can also use the Realtek1000.kext from pystar. All kernels have worked well for me also, I also use the 800mhz SMBOS kext. I have had success with the IOATAFamily.kext to enable SATA in IDE mode.

 

I have had no (0) success with the Boot-123 cd's I have a retail (early 07) macbook and used the dvd from that. When booting the DVD after the kernel takes over I get "Still waiting for root device" I'm assuming its because I have a ATA DVD and its on the Jmichron controller, it could possibly be due to me having Pioneer DVD also as I have heard problems with the Pioneers + Boot-123 although burning/reading is fine in osx.

 

My hardware

GA-EP45-UD3P

E7200 @ 3.61GHz (yes stable)

4GB DDR 2 OCZ HPC 4-4-4-12 @ 950Mhz

1x 250gb ATA

2x 500gb SATA

1x 250gb SATA

1x Pioneer DVDRW 20x

[buddymalec]

I have this board running retail perfectly. here are specs:

 

Q6600 overclocked to 3.29 ghz stable

8 gb ram

overclocked hd3870

antec 300 case

250 gb system drive

1 tb raid0 setup

 

It was NOT fun getting this to work. Everyone has answers to problems but they really vary on a per system type of basis. I am going to write up a how to when I get time which may be never but in the meantime feel free to PM me with questions and I'll do my best to help. I have spent many countless hours and have mastered this stuff. The video, lan, and sound are all bigtime headaches. I can help just shoot me a PM

[Koen2X]

I have had no (0) success with the Boot-123 cd's I have a retail (early 07) macbook and used the dvd from that. When booting the DVD after the kernel takes over I get "Still waiting for root device" I'm assuming its because I have a ATA DVD and its on the Jmichron controller, it could possibly be due to me having Pioneer DVD also as I have heard problems with the Pioneers + Boot-123 although burning/reading is fine in osx.

I am currently running this board and BOOT-132 without problems. I am booting from the EFI partition for a completely vanilla install. At first, I got the "Still waiting for root device" but discovered that I needed to set the SATA controller to AHCI mode in the BIOS. So now I have it set to ACHI / Native mode and am using the regular (yellow) SATA connections... not the Gigabyte SATA (purple) connections.

 

It doesn't recognize the SATA controller so the icons for the drives are orange. There's a link to a fix in my signature.

 

Also, the LAN chipset works fine out of the box, but Bonjour was flaking out on me. So I installed the RealtekR1000.kext from the link in my signature it works perfectly. The kext from Psystar worked as well, but dropped me from 1Gb/s to 10Mb/s for some reason.

 

For sound, I decided to use the Legacy AppleHDA for Boot-132 simply so that I did not have to have a modified AppleHDA.kext. It is still in development right now, but works fine (aside from making the speakers pop every once in a while).

[seren]

What dvd are you using for osx and also what boot-123 cd, I have been setting sata to AHCI and they are on the yellow ports. Also what brand of dvdrom and what interface do you use for your dvdrom. thanks

 

 

I am currently running this board and BOOT-132 without problems. I am booting from the EFI partition for a completely vanilla install. At first, I got the "Still waiting for root device" but discovered that I needed to set the SATA controller to AHCI mode in the BIOS. So now I have it set to ACHI / Native mode and am using the regular (yellow) SATA connections... not the Gigabyte SATA (purple) connections.

 

It doesn't recognize the SATA controller so the icons for the drives are orange. There's a link to a fix in my signature.

 

Also, the LAN chipset works fine out of the box, but Bonjour was flaking out on me. So I installed the RealtekR1000.kext from the link in my signature it works perfectly. The kext from Psystar worked as well, but dropped me from 1Gb/s to 10Mb/s for some reason.

 

For sound, I decided to use the Legacy AppleHDA for Boot-132 simply so that I did not have to have a modified AppleHDA.kext. It is still in development right now, but works fine (aside from making the speakers pop every once in a while).

[LS8]

you can use LS8v14 for this board

[seren]

Is there a way to do the install with a ATA DVDROM? according to that post they used sata dvdrom

you can use LS8v14 for this board

[buddymalec]

I used a kalyway install (very basic settings) and installed leo retail from there. IMHO way better than the boot132 esp if you have a small drive laying around. It can bail you out of many jams if you have a backup drive running leo in case u ever have problems.

[Koen2X]

What dvd are you using for osx and also what boot-123 cd, I have been setting sata to AHCI and they are on the yellow ports. Also what brand of dvdrom and what interface do you use for your dvdrom. thanks

I used this cheap LG DVD burner (SATA) to install the Retail OS X DVD and downloaded a BOOT-132 ISO here. It had the minimal kexts in it:

ACPIPS2Nub.kext

ApplePS2Controller.kext

dsmos.kext

IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext

SMBIOSEnabler.kext

 

You may want to try installing OSX in PATA mode (change the setting from AHCI > Disabled). I think I might have installed OS X this way and then changed it back to AHCI in order to boot after it was installed.

[Terc]

Bleh, I can't believe so many people are still using all these outdated kexts and installers.

Go buy retail and use boot-132.

 

PS, my board is essentially identical to the GA-EP45-UD3R, watch http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...p;p=978555& for progress on a usb key image for my board

[Nickcriscuolo]

Okay my stable 10.5.3 with QE/CI and audio, will now only boot in safe mode. Otherwise it goes from the apple to a blue screen. Its the same blue screen that occurs when I try to change resolution. Also it seems to default to 800 x 600 even though I keep setting it higher. Granted it is a very old crt monitor. Could that be the issue? The only things done to the computer since it was stable has been install Livetype media and do some work in final cut. Some preference file? I really don't want to start from scratch, but maybe thats just the way it goes, again. Any thoughts? Is this boot123 thing really going to be any easier?

 

ga-ep45-ds3r

c2q q6600 2.4 go

9600gt

[sam_in_chicago]

I used a kalyway install (very basic settings) and installed leo retail from there. IMHO way better than the boot132 esp if you have a small drive laying around. It can bail you out of many jams if you have a backup drive running leo in case u ever have problems.

 

How do you do this? I have iDeneb 10.5.5 installed on a small SATA drive - works fine (I only had to fix the audio).

 

How to I use my Leopard install disc to install a fresh 10.5 on another SATA drive - and to upgrade to 10.5.6?

 

Thanks for the help.

[Auzigog]

I used this cheap LG DVD burner (SATA) to install the Retail OS X DVD and downloaded a BOOT-132 ISO here. It had the minimal kexts in it:

ACPIPS2Nub.kext

ApplePS2Controller.kext

dsmos.kext

IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext

SMBIOSEnabler.kext

 

You may want to try installing OSX in PATA mode (change the setting from AHCI > Disabled). I think I might have installed OS X this way and then changed it back to AHCI in order to boot after it was installed.

 

Were those the only kexts that you put in your EFI partition? I'm looking for a complete list needed for the EP45-UD3P motherboard.

 

I've spent the entire day trying to figure out the right Kexts for this motherboard.

 

I have the "modified" boot 132 version from here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=113288 and it works just fine for installing leopard.

 

I've been trying to do PC_EFI/Chameleon for a bootloader and I've only had partial success with that. I haven't tried the EFI partition version that you did.

 

The part that's really giving me trouble is the 10.5.5 combo update.

 

Also, I can't figure out which Kexts I need to manually apply after I install. And should the kexts be applied before or after the 10.5.5 update?

 

If you could just give me the complete list of kexts that you used, that would allow me to stop guessing about which kexts I need and I can reduce the number of combinations I have to try.

 

Thanks for any help you're able to offer!

[icepuma]

Yeah Folks,

 

i got the whole {censored} thing to work.

• GA-EP45-UD3
  
• Q6600 @ 3.2 ghz G0 Stepping
  
• 3 gb RAM
  
• 200 gb Seagate SATA HDD
  
• NVIDIA Gainward Bliss 8800 GTS 320 MB RAM
  

100 % Works, LAN, Sound 5.1, Full Resolution 1680x1050, Everything...

 

A complete Installation Guide would be up in the next days.

 

Greetings

Icepuma

[Methanoid]

A complete Installation Guide would be up in the next days.

 

Excellent

 

A "few" days have gone.. did this get posted somewhere else? This is the board I want to buy so I'm looking forward to the guide!!

[GrayGhost]

Here's a link to the writeup of my experience with the GA-EP45-UD3P - most everything working except PATA and sleep/wakeup with Radeon HD 3870.

 

http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/mac/hackintosh.html

[Methanoid]

Here's a link to the writeup of my experience with the GA-EP45-UD3P - most everything working except PATA and sleep/wakeup with Radeon HD 3870.

 

http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/mac/hackintosh.html

 

Thanks, helpful guide... at least it points to the relevant threads. Would that there were more like this....

 

I'm beginning to think ATI cards are not a good idea under OSX. My 3850 produces garbage screens above 1024*768, your 3870 won't sleep... but Nvidia are so energy inefficient!!

[NicolBolas]

Here's a link to the writeup of my experience with the GA-EP45-UD3P - most everything working except PATA and sleep/wakeup with Radeon HD 3870.

 

http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/mac/hackintosh.html

 

Site is down. Is there any mirror ?