EP45 DS3L iPC 10.5.6 Installation Tutorial - SAVE TIME AND READ THIS!

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After many installations trying to get it perfect I'm finally there.

 

Installed iPC 10.5.6 (1st version from Pirate Bay) PPf1, PPf2

 

My Hardware:

 

EP45 DS3L

E8400 overclocked to 3.4ghz with stock cooler

Kensington Hyper X 4gb

Zotac Geforce 7300gt 256mb

I installed the OS on a SATA drive (dont recommend using IDE)

 

Heres every option I chose during installation:

 

1. Dont select a kernal, this will install the default 9.6.0

 

2. NVdarwin 256mb (video driver)

 

3. Chipset Driver: Intel ICH10 Sata & JMicronATA & IDE

 

4. Dont select an audio driver, Use the drivers from this link (Azilla & HDA): http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=135948

 

5. USB Drivers: I selected Patched USB Drivers

 

6. Fixes and Patches: Sata drive icon fix

 

7. DSDT Patches: Patch DSDT with New HPET

 

8. Alternate Bootloader: Chameleon with DSDT/Custom Boot Picture

 

9. Applications: OSX86 Tools, Mkext Helper, Universal Uninstaller

 

 

Here are the BIOS settings I used to get sleep working:

 

Bios Settings:

 

Select - Power Management Setup

 

Set - ACPI to S3 (STR)

 

Set - Soft Off by Pwr-Bttn

 

Set - PME Event Wakeup - Enabled

 

 

System Preferences Settings

 

Click on Energy Saver then options, check the box (restart automatically after power failure).

 

 

Final Note

 

Remaining issues:

 

Shutdown doesn't always completely shutoff the computer. I found that having sleep fully functional is more important than having to push the power button to completely shutoff the computer. Restart works great and sleep works great. One issue I found was after waking my IDE drive would disappear. My two other sata drives work great after wake so I just removed the IDE drive cause I dont need it.