[GUIDE] (10.5.x) Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Retail Tutorial

[tessa17]

i am in the market for an new motherboard and have mostly used gigabyte boards but i am hearing that asus makes the best boards. However, when it comes to hackintosh it is gigabyte that comes with the highest approval.

 

I noticed that you know are using an asus board. Is that board in you opinion a little easier for hackintosh such as being more featured or less problematic. What is your experience with that board?

[Coca-Cola]

Captain,

 

First of all, thanks for the guide...

 

Im having trouble at step 5.

 

After all reads and starts correctly and im prompted for the language, it reads the mac os retail original disc and it gives me the:

 

"Mac OsX cannot be installed on this computer"

 

Am I doing something wrong?

 

p.s.: I have the original Mac OsX discs that came with the Imac 20' (2 DVD set)

Disc version 1

[thylaxene]

p.s.: I have the original Mac OsX discs that came with the Imac 20' (2 DVD set)

Disc version 1

 

Those discs that come with the iMac et al can only be used with the Mac they came with. You will need a retail version of Leopard, not the restore discs that come with a Mac.

 

Cheers.

[Coca-Cola]

Those discs that come with the iMac et al can only be used with the Mac they came with. You will need a retail version of Leopard, not the restore discs that come with a Mac.

 

Cheers.

 

And here I am frying my brains out!

[CaptainNemo]

i am in the market for an new motherboard and have mostly used gigabyte boards but i am hearing that asus makes the best boards. However, when it comes to hackintosh it is gigabyte that comes with the highest approval.

 

I noticed that you know are using an asus board. Is that board in you opinion a little easier for hackintosh such as being more featured or less problematic. What is your experience with that board?

 

Hey Tessa,

 

well, the only thing you REALLY need to do to get a Hackintosh running on an ASUS board is to patch the BIOS. There are several patches/patched firmware version out there in this forum. This is from my point of view the biggest painpoint, because if someone who does this has forgotten for example a ";" - you're lost and have to order a new BIOS chip (and no warranty will cover this). I've risked it and I am satisfied with the result.

 

Speaking of the ASUS P5Q-Deluxe board, it works very well. I can deliver a set of kext's for this board if needed. The only bad thing here is, that I need to run 2 graphic cards for 4 displays at once and this gives me a lot headache, because using nvkush results in partly slow reaction of the mouse cursor and stucking movements.

 

Using an injection by manipulating the boot.plist works fantastic on the other hand, but this only means for one card what helps not much for me here. So - if you plan to add more than one graphics card, be sure that it will work before you get a newer ASUS board. By the way: I think you will go to a Core i7 based system, right?

 

Overall I must say, that using OSx86 Tools helped me a lot with the ASUS board

 

 

And here I am frying my brains out!

 

Hmm? What's the problem? DVDs that were delivered with iMac, MacBook/Pro, MacPro and Mac mini are hardware-related. Call it a "copy protection", but you simply can't use a bundled OSX on another Mac OR PC. Speaking of licences: running 1 OS on 2 computers violates the licence agreements - so if you want to start off with Hackintosh, I would get a used package from eBay or so OR simply wait until Snow Leopard is released and press thumbs that it will work soon like the "regular" Leopard.

 

Ciao

Nemo

[tessa17]

Hey Tessa,

 

well, the only thing you REALLY need to do to get a Hackintosh running on an ASUS board is to patch the BIOS. There are several patches/patched firmware version out there in this forum. This is from my point of view the biggest painpoint, because if someone who does this has forgotten for example a ";" - you're lost and have to order a new BIOS chip (and no warranty will cover this). I've risked it and I am satisfied with the result.

 

Speaking of the ASUS P5Q-Deluxe board, it works very well. I can deliver a set of kext's for this board if needed. The only bad thing here is, that I need to run 2 graphic cards for 4 displays at once and this gives me a lot headache, because using nvkush results in partly slow reaction of the mouse cursor and stucking movements.

 

Using an injection by manipulating the boot.plist works fantastic on the other hand, but this only means for one card what helps not much for me here. So - if you plan to add more than one graphics card, be sure that it will work before you get a newer ASUS board. By the way: I think you will go to a Core i7 based system, right?

 

Overall I must say, that using OSx86 Tools helped me a lot with the ASUS board

 

 

Ciao

Nemo

 

 

Yeah i am actually and was thinking of giving asus a try because i have mostly used gigabyte board. I am not sure if i am going i7 i may wait to go to i5's that has the p55 chipsets. I still have to do research on which will be favorable for me. For i thinks

 

And as for other hardware i learned the hard way because i searched the forum on ati cards that was compatible and read that the hd3850 worked but come to find out you had to go through hell and back to get it to work and needless to say i never got that card to work.

 

Thanks for the info, you gave me a lot to look at and consider when i decide to buy a new system.

[CaptainNemo]

Hey Tessa,

 

hmm when I see your signature, I ask myself WHY the hell do you want to upgrade? I mean, of course I understand wanting always the latest, largest and biggest Supercomputer under the desk, but it seems like your EP45 with a Q9550 is around about what I would call "up to date". I've pushed 8GB RAM into this machine here and this gave OSX and nice jump forward. Not sure how much RAM do you use.

 

Anyway: Gigabyte is the painless kind of installation. ASUS is what I would call "rock solid". I admit, that it's my 2nd ASUS board I've ever had since those good old days when an AMD Thunderbird 1GHz CPU was the most whopping system and I'm very satisfied with the board itself. Having 3x PCIe x16 ports is very nice

 

I feel you pain regarding the graphics card, believe me - I do! Yesterday I went to 3 stores to try to get the MSI NX8600GTS (256MB) again to have 2 identical cards to hopefully get the system running stable without stucking mouse movements, but guess what: no store has it anymore I just found at Amazon for 79 Euros - awesome price for a 6 months old mid-range graphics card. Hey! I'll even don't play games :/ Ha! Just found it for 49 Euros on eBay!

[tessa17]

Hey Tessa,

 

hmm when I see your signature, I ask myself WHY the hell do you want to upgrade? I mean, of course I understand wanting always the latest, largest and biggest Supercomputer under the desk, but it seems like your EP45 with a Q9550 is around about what I would call "up to date". I've pushed 8GB RAM into this machine here and this gave OSX and nice jump forward. Not sure how much RAM do you use.

 

Anyway: Gigabyte is the painless kind of installation. ASUS is what I would call "rock solid". I admit, that it's my 2nd ASUS board I've ever had since those good old days when an AMD Thunderbird 1GHz CPU was the most whopping system and I'm very satisfied with the board itself. Having 3x PCIe x16 ports is very nice

 

I feel you pain regarding the graphics card, believe me - I do! Yesterday I went to 3 stores to try to get the MSI NX8600GTS (256MB) again to have 2 identical cards to hopefully get the system running stable without stucking mouse movements, but guess what: no store has it anymore I just found at Amazon for 79 Euros - awesome price for a 6 months old mid-range graphics card. Hey! I'll even don't play games :/ Ha! Just found it for 49 Euros on eBay!

 

My system is ok it work .But the system i am building is for my husband (whose system i am always on doing test) and since i am always the one on the computer i am the one who has to upgrade it and that is why i wanted to look into an Asus board just to try something different that would be compatible with leopard also.

 

In my system that i have currently i have only four gigs of memory. How were you able to do that because i have read people saying that had trouble because of the lack of a kext or because of a kext file. Was there anything special you had to do to get it that way? If so could you please tell me what i need or do not need.

 

Glad you found your video card for a good price I know how frustrating that can be. I just upgraded two weeks ago after my ati ordeal to an msi 9600gt. I have tested and made sure it works but i am not using it yet because i am to lazy to uninstall about about 8 differnt OS's driver for ati. Shame on the LAZY!!!

 

Thanks in Advance

tessa

[CaptainNemo]

My system is ok it work .But the system i am building is for my husband (whose system i am always on doing test) and since i am always the one on the computer i am the one who has to upgrade it and that is why i wanted to look into an Asus board just to try something different that would be compatible with leopard also.

 

In my system that i have currently i have only four gigs of memory. How were you able to do that because i have read people saying that had trouble because of the lack of a kext or because of a kext file. Was there anything special you had to do to get it that way? If so could you please tell me what i need or do not need.

 

Glad you found your video card for a good price I know how frustrating that can be. I just upgraded two weeks ago after my ati ordeal to an msi 9600gt. I have tested and made sure it works but i am not using it yet because i am to lazy to uninstall about about 8 differnt OS's driver for ati. Shame on the LAZY!!!

 

Thanks in Advance

tessa

 

Hi Tessa,

 

thanks, but it seems like I've still no success

 

I've 2 nearly 100% same cards (8600GTS) here in my PC - one on "PCI0x1" and one on "PCI0x6". The system itself just "knows" one when I use the OSx86 tools, using the gfxutils results in Kernel Panics. Seems like I have to describe it and ask for help, but I'm very pessimistic on this as I've tried everything several times and followed the tutorials step by step. Well, I can live with 2x 22" displays, but I can't live with XP64, Vista or 7 anymore. Really! I get sick of this.

 

Were you able to select a new board for Core i* meanwhile? P6T6 WS Revolution would be MY CHOICE if I had to spend a lot money - I don't have, but this board is REALLY sexy, but for a Hackintosh? Oh - will your husband use a Hackintosh?

 

The question is, if there is a support for X58 chipset or P55. But I think I've seen some Core i7 "heads up" in some forums at this board. Maybe you should search for those to be sure

 

Ciao

Nemo

[raggedjagged]

This guide is nice, but its too simple. Do you have any plans on making a guide that uses the Vanilla kernel with EFI boot partition and Chameleon RC2 boot?

 

Also, now we should be using kexts in the EFI partition (as a result of Chameleon) and not mess with the Apple kexts in S/L/E.

[CaptainNemo]

This guide is nice, but its too simple. Do you have any plans on making a guide that uses the Vanilla kernel with EFI boot partition and Chameleon RC2 boot?

 

Also, now we should be using kexts in the EFI partition (as a result of Chameleon) and not mess with the Apple kexts in S/L/E.

 

Too simple, hm? Well - thanks for this compliment!

 

No - I don't plan, because I don't use it on this platform anymore (as you can see in my signature). But feel free to extend this one on your own!

 

Ciao

Nemo

[raggedjagged]

Thanks for the fast reply.

 

You should mention in your first post that you do not support this thread anymore because you changed your platform maybe no? It might be helpful for new people who visit this thread. Is there an alternative thread to this one for this board? I would like to be able to update to Snow Leopard!!

[CaptainNemo]

Well, honestly this thread is a few months old and I've done because I haven't found one for the GA-P35-DS3 board. Si - honestly, I really can't tell you if there is another one :/

 

I hope that Snow Leopard will work on our current platforms. I'm a bit scared that it will not... I tried it with an early beta a few weeks ago (or months? - well a long time), but maybe it was because of my boot-CD that does not support Snow Leopard

 

I think my next big thing will be the Snow Leopard Edition for the ASUS P5Q Deluxe - if it will work.

 

Ciao

Nemo

[CaptainNemo]

Glad you found your video card for a good price I know how frustrating that can be.

 

I'm such a fool! I've kicked out the new card and tried it with 1 card and OSx86 com.apple.Boot.plist device-properties. And the mouse still jumps. Then I did a search for "mouse jumps" and what have I found? Instructions to do a QuickTime downgrade and guess what? Everything works fantastic here :pirate2:

 

Running now 3x 22" & 1x 42" Plasma screens with 2x 8600GTS cards, which are connected with a SLI bridge (not that it's really used by OSX but at least CUDA helps BOINC to process the SETI@home WUs fast ).

 

Ciao

Nemo

 

PS. Somewhat happy not to have to use Windows anymore!

[nettuno0]

Hello

 

im going to try this tutorial but it seems to be problems with the P35-Retail.zip!!! when i try to unzip it, i´ll become an error message like: the syntax for Filename....is wrong. this Message comes for the file HDD ICON/ Icon... do you have this problems too??

 

i´ve redownloaded this zip many times but i cant unzip it without an error message

 

how can i unzip it????

[CaptainNemo]

Hello

 

im going to try this tutorial but it seems to be problems with the P35-Retail.zip!!! when i try to unzip it, i´ll become an error message like: the syntax for Filename....is wrong. this Message comes for the file HDD ICON/ Icon... do you have this problems too??

 

i�ve redownloaded this zip many times but i cant unzip it without an error message

 

how can i unzip it????

 

Hmm - tried it here on my MacBook - no problems downloading and extracting the file here. You've downloaded this using OSX, don't you? I'm not sure if it works using Windows (I think it will NOT).

 

Ciao

Nemo

[nettuno0]

Hmm - tried it here on my MacBook - no problems downloading and extracting the file here. You've downloaded this using OSX, don't you? I'm not sure if it works using Windows (I think it will NOT).

 

Ciao

Nemo

 

Hello

 

thx for your quick answer..... no i didnt unzip it on a mac, i try to unzip it from windows 7^^..... ok i will unzip it on a mac osx :-)

 

thank you

[CaptainNemo]

Hehe - I had this feeling when I read your post

 

Good luck with your project!

 

Ciao

Nemo

[tessa17]

I'm such a fool! I've kicked out the new card and tried it with 1 card and OSx86 com.apple.Boot.plist device-properties. And the mouse still jumps. Then I did a search for "mouse jumps" and what have I found? Instructions to do a QuickTime downgrade and guess what? Everything works fantastic here

 

Running now 3x 22" & 1x 42" Plasma screens with 2x 8600GTS cards, which are connected with a SLI bridge (not that it's really used by OSX but at least CUDA helps BOINC to process the SETI@home WUs fast ).

 

Ciao

Nemo

 

PS. Somewhat happy not to have to use Windows anymore!

 

So if i am reading your post correctly the jumping mouse is due to quicktime and downgrading to an older version fixed the issue. Is that correct? I read on netkas site that nvidia has these problems. I ask because i have a nvidia card and would like to know so that if i run into problems this is what i should consider in troubleshooting.

 

Ps Don't down windowzzzzzzzz they still

[CaptainNemo]

So if i am reading your post correctly the jumping mouse is due to quicktime and downgrading to an older version fixed the issue. Is that correct? I read on netkas site that nvidia has these problems. I ask because i have a nvidia card and would like to know so that if i run into problems this is what i should consider in troubleshooting.

 

Ps Don't down windowzzzzzzzz they still

 

Hey Tessa,

 

that's a little bit complicated. First of all, I must say, that I've never had those mouse jumping issues with the Gigabyte installation as far as I can remember. So mostly, I had this by using the Asus board and I thought it was the fault of the NVKush drivers. So I went for a few days with the OSx86 Tools com.apple.Boot.plist injection (device-properties) for my GeForce 8600GTS (1 card!). I wanted to combine those properties for both cards as it was described in this forum, but I failed everytime when building my own HEX file using the gfxutil.

 

So I decided to stick with 1 card and two displays, because I thought it was the fault of NVKush. I recently just notices that even with the device-properties in the com.apple.Boot.plist, I had this mouse jumps. Funny thing is, that it went worse as longer as the Hackintosh runs. I got curious and was really about to kick OSX completely from my PC and try to go into Linux stuff and really thought about buying RHEL Desktop.

 

But it was making me nuts. I'm addicted to OSX

 

So I just gave it another try and a looong search on Google. In the end, I found this little notice here at InsanelyMac that mouse jumps are part of the QuickTime update and a description on how to replace some files using an older QuickTime PKG file and Pacifist. After a reboot, the mouse jumps were gone and so I thought by myself: "Now or never", removed the device-properties of the boot-file, installed NVKush, pushed the 2nd GeForce 8600GTS in and voilá - everything working fantastic

 

I've attached a pic of both cards in my PC Ignore the SLI bridge - it's more for stabilization as OSX nor my Intel based chipset seems to support SLI.

 

 

If you ask me if it's nVidia only - I'm not sure, as I've never used an ATI card in any Hackintosh yet. I just used an ATI parallel to a nVidia card in my Mac Pro last year.

 

Ciao

Nemo

[tessa17]

Nice set up, your system looks a lot waaay cleaner than mine . And thanks for taking the time to explain i get it now. I have never had that problem but now i know what to do if that should happen to me. Don't feel bad i am nuts over osx too. Installing osx was something that was to be a fad for me just to say i installed and used it but here i am almost a year half later still going strong with it.

[nettuno0]

Hello

 

i have some troubles understanding your Step Nr.8...... i wanna install chameleon: you write onto your guide: Double Click the Chameleon DMG File. Place the folder "Extensions" inside the folder "Extra" next to the CHameleon mount........

 

 

i did it so: i´ve copied the folder "Extensions" from the package to the "Extra Contents" folder inside the chameleon dmg. is it right?

 

so and what should i do now??? double click on the chameleon PKG? and install?

[CaptainNemo]

Hello

 

i have some troubles understanding your Step Nr.8...... i wanna install chameleon: you write onto your guide: Double Click the Chameleon DMG File. Place the folder "Extensions" inside the folder "Extra" next to the CHameleon mount........

 

 

i did it so: i´ve copied the folder "Extensions" from the package to the "Extra Contents" folder inside the chameleon dmg. is it right?

 

so and what should i do now??? double click on the chameleon PKG? and install?

 

I would suggest so, yes

 

Have you replaced the files? In the EXTRA folder, there's the "Extensions" folder and this should replace the EXTENSIONS folder INSIDE the DMG file.

[nettuno0]

"Have you replaced the files? In the EXTRA folder, there's the "Extensions" folder and this should replace the EXTENSIONS folder INSIDE the DMG file."

 

 

 

i dont understand what you mean, i have nothing to replace in the dmg file. when i open the dmg file the " extra content" folder is empty. so i copy the extensions folder into the " extra content" folder.... and then???? what should i replace??? and most important is where should i replace??? :-)

[CaptainNemo]

 

1. Drag & Drop the Extensions folder onto the Extra Contents folder, so that the files overwrite the content of the Extensions folder inside the Extra Contents folder.

 

2. Doubleclick the file to install.

 

3. Don't forget to remove the disc before you reboot!!!