ECS G33T-M2 v1.0 - Total n00b needs help installing OSx86!

[eastbayarb]

Here are my specs:

 

motherboard: ECS G33T-M2 v1.0 with Kaybl's modded BIOS

RAM: 4 GB (2 X 2gb patriot)

CPU: Q9550 (core 2 quad @ 2.83ghz)

HDD: 500gb SATA HDD

DVD: ASUS DRW-1814BLT SATA DVD-/+RW drive

Audio: M-Audio Delta 66

 

Before I installed XP on this HDD, I partitioned it for 120gb and installed XP. I then formatted the other partition for NTFS.

I tried iAtkos v5i and after I formatted the other partition for Mac, it seemed to install fine, but after install, it came up to a screen saying I needed to restart the system. Luckily, the boot loader installed still let me choose between XP and OSX so I still have XP on there. I also tried iPC OSx86 Universal 10.5.6, but that won't get past the first screen at all.

 

I read many, many documents after googling, and diving through a bunch of forums and documents, I am at a total loss. I did remember to go to the BIOS on my motherboard and changing SATA to compatibility mode but I didn't see an option to turn off ACHI.

 

please help!

[smokozuna]

sent you a PM

 

 

Working setup for this board:

 

ECS G33T-M2 Motherboard

 

EVGA 7200GS 512MB PCI-Express Video Card

 

ACPI is enable , SATA is set to compatibility in BIOS

 

 

 

ACPI_SMC_Fix

Cpus=1-Fix

Chipset ICHx

Vanilla kernel

Audio ALC883

Ethernet RealtekR1000

Video NVinject 512mb

 

Must use Kabyl modded BIOS

 

 

http://osrom.net/files/BIOS.mod/MB/E...d.by.Kabyl.zip

 

http://osrom.net/files/BIOS.mod/MB/E...d.by.Kabyl.zip

 

10.5.7 Update

Just wanted to update you guys running the ECS G33T-M2 (V1.0) motherboard with iDeneb 1.4 and wanting to update to 10.5.7. First backup your AppleSMBIOS.kext and AppleHDA.kext. Second update to 10.5.7. Third reinstall AppleSMBIOS.kext and AppleHDA.kext you backed up earlier using OSx86 Tools and your done!

 

 

Best Wishes

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10.5.8 Update

Another update guys, the 10.5.8 combo update bricked my setup using the ECS G33T-M2 (V1.0) motherboard. After the update the system would not boot. I decided to restore to my original iDeneb 10.5.6 setup and all is swell now.

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[smokozuna]

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Here are pics of the BIOS info you requested

 

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[smokozuna]

One more thing, I could not install any OS without connecting my hard drive to SATA 5 and my optical drive to SATA 6 on this particular motherboard. Any other arrangement meant I could not install any OS!

 

Also you can not dual boot on one hard drive, it will not work. If you want to dual boot you will need 2 hard drives for it to work correctly.

[eastbayarb]

One more thing, I could not install any OS without connecting my hard drive to SATA 5 and my optical drive to SATA 6 on this particular motherboard. Any other arrangement meant I could not install any OS!

 

 

Anyone know of a way to get all 4 cores working?

[smokozuna]

Yea Voodoo Kernel with Seat Belt Fix.

 

I sent you an email too.

 

What are you using for Video?

 

I did a Voodoo Kernel once and I believe you select the following

 

 

Chipset ICHx

Voodoo kernel

Audio ALC883

Ethernet RealtekR1000

Your Video Card Driver

Seatbelt Fix

 

 

 

But 2 of the USB on the rear of the board did not work if I remember correctly

[eastbayarb]

I am using the onboard video since I don't have another video card. Is it mandatory to use a different video card? I tried iAtkos v7, iDeneb_v1.4_10.5.6, and iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Universal, and not one of them gets past the apple logo. I do have SATA set to Compatible and APIC set to Enabled in my BIOS

[smokozuna]

This is in regard to your PM you sent me. Either your BIOS flash was unsuccessful or you did not select the proper things during customize before the install. These are the things you must select with the default Vanilla Kernel.

 

ACPI_SMC_Fix

Cpus=1-Fix

Chipset ICHx

Audio ALC883

Ethernet RealtekR1000

 

You will have Video using the onboard graphics but you will be stuck at 1024x768 and will not be able to change it unless you purchase a Hackintosh compatible video card.

 

Let me also add that there are 2 very important things you need to build a successful Hackintosh, a compatible motherboard and video card. Right now you have neither, even though I run the same board, as soon as Snow Leopard is released I will be replacing this board with a Hackintosh compatible ASUS or Gigabyte motherboard.

 

For testing purposes I would remove the M-Audio Delta 66 audio and use the onboard audio for now.

 

Also I use the iDeneb v1.4 10.5.6 disc.

[eastbayarb]

I don't know how I could have messed up flashing the bios - I just used the flashing tool from ECS's site with kaybl's bios and rebooted. I removed the delta 66 card, but I cannot get ideneb (I used the one mentioned) to load past the apple logo. The only distro that goes all the way is iAtkos v5i but it doesn't offer that many options

 

 

This is in regard to your PM you sent me. Either your BIOS flash was unsuccessful or you did not select the proper things during customize before the install. These are the things you must select with the default Vanilla Kernel.

 

ACPI_SMC_Fix

Cpus=1-Fix

Chipset ICHx

Audio ALC883

Ethernet RealtekR1000

 

You will have Video using the onboard graphics but you will be stuck at 1024x768 and will not be able to change it unless you purchase a Hackintosh compatible video card.

 

Let me also add that there are 2 very important things you need to build a successful Hackintosh, a compatible motherboard and video card. Right now you have neither, even though I run the same board, as soon as Snow Leopard is released I will be replacing this board with a Hackintosh compatible ASUS or Gigabyte motherboard.

 

For testing purposes I would remove the M-Audio Delta 66 audio and use the onboard audio for now.

 

Also I use the iDeneb v1.4 10.5.6 disc.

[smokozuna]

You cant get past the first Apple logo screen or the second one after the customize, install, and reboot.

 

Did you flash your BIOS in XP, Vista, or W7?

 

Are there any other Operating Systems on your hard drive?

[eastbayarb]

You cant get past the first Apple logo screen or the second one after the customize, install, and reboot.

 

Did you flash your BIOS in XP, Vista, or W7?

 

Are there any other Operating Systems on your hard drive?

 

 

I blanked the HDD, then installed XP, then flashed the bios in XP, then tried installing iDeneb, the IPC, then iATKOS v7 and none of them got past the first Apple logo screen. The only distro that goes farther (and installs all the way) is iATKOS v5i but since it (10.5.5) doesn't have a whole lot of fixes and options like the others do and on first boot (after it totally installs OSX), it tells you that the computer needs to be restarted.

[smokozuna]

If you are trying to install over XP that would be fine but if you are trying to install OSX on a different partition and keep XP on another partition on the same hard drive that would be a problem.

 

Assuming you are installing over XP, then honestly I am stumped. The only suggestions that come to mind is that first Apple screen stays there for a while, maybe 5 minutes or so while it is installing things to the hard drive. Possibly you did not wait long enough? The second suggestion would be to hook you SATA optical to port 6 and your SATA hard drive to port 5 leaving ports 1 and 2 disconnected. Third default all settings in you BIOS then change only the 2 settings listed above, then try again.

[eastbayarb]

If you are trying to install over XP that would be fine but if you are trying to install OSX on a different partition and keep XP on another partition on the same hard drive that would be a problem.

 

Assuming you are installing over XP, then honestly I am stumped. The only suggestions that come to mind is that first Apple screen stays there for a while, maybe 5 minutes or so while it is installing things to the hard drive. Possibly you did not wait long enough? The second suggestion would be to hook you SATA optical to port 6 and your SATA hard drive to port 5 leaving ports 1 and 2 disconnected. Third default all settings in you BIOS then change only the 2 settings listed above, then try again.

 

 

I have even tried to install with no other OS's on the hard drive and the same thing. It stalls on the first apple screen indeffinitely (I left it there for a half hour once), so it has nothing to do with not waiting long enough. I have tried switching SATA ports on the HDD and dvd drive, tried 3 different DVD drives including a blu-ray drive, burning the install discs at lower speeds and different media, but I notice that at some point after the first apple logo, the drive's read LED just stops being lit. I also tried defaulting the BIOS settings and changing the 2 you mentioned.

 

Maybe I just need to use another motherboard...

[Ixius]

sent you a PM

 

 

Working setup for this board:

 

ECS G33T-M2 Motherboard

 

EVGA 7200GS 512MB PCI-Express Video Card

 

ACPI is enable , SATA is set to compatibility in BIOS

 

 

 

ACPI_SMC_Fix

Cpus=1-Fix

Chipset ICHx

Vanilla kernel

Audio ALC883

Ethernet RealtekR1000

Video NVinject 512mb

 

Must use Kabyl modded BIOS

 

 

http://osrom.net/files/BIOS.mod/MB/E...d.by.Kabyl.zip

 

http://osrom.net/files/BIOS.mod/MB/E...d.by.Kabyl.zip

 

10.5.7 Update

Just wanted to update you guys running the ECS G33T-M2 (V1.0) motherboard with iDeneb 1.4 and wanting to update to 10.5.7. First backup your AppleSMBIOS.kext and AppleHDA.kext. Second update to 10.5.7. Third reinstall AppleSMBIOS.kext and AppleHDA.kext you backed up earlier using OSx86 Tools and your done!

 

 

Best Wishes

Edit/Delete Message

 

10.5.8 Update

Another update guys, the 10.5.8 combo update bricked my setup using the ECS G33T-M2 (V1.0) motherboard. After the update the system would not boot. I decided to restore to my original iDeneb 10.5.6 setup and all is swell now.

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Thank you SOOOO much!

 

This worked flawlessly for me. I have a TON of these ECS boards just chilling around this office and thought hey why not build a hackintosh for the hell of it, but it had literally taken me 2 days to get something working.

 

I used the iDeneb v1.5 10.5.7 release and it worked great both times on the install, however without this article I wouldn't have been able to even get this pos to boot LOL....

 

Excellent. I have a Hackintosh now working. I don't care much for sound I just wanted to play with the iPhone SDK but this is absolutely amazing, and it is fast.

 

 

I forgot to ask.

 

I would LOVE to upgrade to 10.5.8, did you manage to get the Combo to work or am I going to have to wait until the next iso gets released?

[smokozuna]

Thank you SOOOO much!

 

This worked flawlessly for me. I have a TON of these ECS boards just chilling around this office and thought hey why not build a hackintosh for the hell of it, but it had literally taken me 2 days to get something working.

 

I used the iDeneb v1.5 10.5.7 release and it worked great both times on the install, however without this article I wouldn't have been able to even get this pos to boot LOL....

 

Excellent. I have a Hackintosh now working. I don't care much for sound I just wanted to play with the iPhone SDK but this is absolutely amazing, and it is fast.

 

 

I forgot to ask.

 

I would LOVE to upgrade to 10.5.8, did you manage to get the Combo to work or am I going to have to wait until the next iso gets released?

 

If you installed the sound kext during the customize process then all you need to do is go into System Preferences, Sound, Output, and select Line Out and you sound will work. Will there make sure you Input is set to Line In.

 

No, I did not get 10.5.8 working, I would suggest turning off Software Update and not updating until Snow Leopard is released and we get a working setup for that. Enjoy your Hack!

 

Smoke

[Ixius]

Believe it or not, I installed the Sound stuff per your instructions... However it says "No output devices found" when I click on the Output tab.

 

How does one go about disabling updates so I don't get annoyed with the ticker on the dock?

[smokozuna]

I have even tried to install with no other OS's on the hard drive and the same thing. It stalls on the first apple screen indeffinitely (I left it there for a half hour once), so it has nothing to do with not waiting long enough. I have tried switching SATA ports on the HDD and dvd drive, tried 3 different DVD drives including a blu-ray drive, burning the install discs at lower speeds and different media, but I notice that at some point after the first apple logo, the drive's read LED just stops being lit. I also tried defaulting the BIOS settings and changing the 2 you mentioned.

 

Maybe I just need to use another motherboard...

 

Well it seems you are doing everthing correctly. The only things that come to mind are the Brand of Media you are using, I only use Verbatim and I burned @ 4x. The other thing is the BIOS update you did with Afuwin. If you have a floppy you may want to update your BIOS that way but I used Afuwin while in XP and it worked just fine.

[Ixius]

I did the bios update using our usb drive that we have built for all ECS updates I just appended the new files to the drive and ran through the update process with that rom file.

 

I know the update went correctly, in the top left it shows a release date of January 2008 whereas before it was October 22 2008 (latest bios at that time)

[smokozuna]

Believe it or not, I installed the Sound stuff per your instructions... However it says "No output devices found" when I click on the Output tab.

 

How does one go about disabling updates so I don't get annoyed with the ticker on the dock?

 

To disable updates go to System Preferences, Software Update, and un-tick the bottom 2 boxes. What ticker in the dock are you referring too? You and I used different iDeneb releases so I may not be much help to you. Also you should have used iDeneb 1.5.1 not 1.5 but my setup and instructions are for iDeneb 1.4 so YMMV. lol

 

I did the bios update using our usb drive that we have built for all ECS updates I just appended the new files to the drive and ran through the update process with that rom file.

 

I know the update went correctly, in the top left it shows a release date of January 2008 whereas before it was October 22 2008 (latest bios at that time)

 

The BIOS update was directed at eastbayarb, sorry about that I should have quoted.

[Ixius]

I couldn't find a copy of 1.5.1 so I just grabbed 1.5

 

and I should have been paying attention you did quote that to the other user I simply ignored the quote without realizing that.

[smokozuna]

I couldn't find a copy of 1.5.1 so I just grabbed 1.5

 

and I should have been paying attention you did quote that to the other user I simply ignored the quote without realizing that.

 

No problem my friend, 1.5.1 is on the Green Demon BTW.

[eastbayarb]

smokozuna,

 

 

I burned a new iDeneb with Verbatim 4X and still got the same problem. However, this time, I pressed F8 and typed cpus=1 -v (which I didn't do before) and now I finally got into the main installation part. Now when doing the seatbel fix, do I still check the cpus=1 fix as well in order to get my setup to work with my quad core cpu (q9550)? I have already checked the voodoo kernel. How do I check to see if all 4 cores are being used?

 

Also, can I install OSX first, then windows XP on the same HDD (I partioned the 500gb in equal halves) or should I install XP first, then OSX? I got it to install all the way, but even though i selected Realtek 1000 for the ethernet card, ethernet doesn't seem to want to work.

 

thanks

[smokozuna]

smokozuna,

 

 

I burned a new iDeneb with Verbatim 4X and still got the same problem. However, this time, I pressed F8 and typed cpus=1 -v (which I didn't do before) and now I finally got into the main installation part. Now when doing the seatbel fix, do I still check the cpus=1 fix as well in order to get my setup to work with my quad core cpu (q9550)? I have already checked the voodoo kernel. How do I check to see if all 4 cores are being used?

 

Also, can I install OSX first, then windows XP on the same HDD (I partioned the 500gb in equal halves) or should I install XP first, then OSX? I got it to install all the way, but even though i selected Realtek 1000 for the ethernet card, ethernet doesn't seem to want to work.

 

thanks

 

Great Job, my hat is off to you for not giving up. Truth be told I must have had 20 installs under my belt before getting up and running. Having said that I have never had a single KP in the 3 to 4 months I have used this machine and it is my main rig and stays on 24/7. Secondly, I am not an expert, and you are now in no mans land for me. I have done a few Voodoo installs but it had been a while. I will try to help you but you must know this, I do not like anything except Vanilla installs because they are closest to a genuine Mac therefore the most reliable. When I experimented with the Voodoo Kernel yes it got my Cores working , then other things did not work properly. So I had to make a choice, do I want a stable Vanilla system operating on 1 core or do I want an unstable Voodoo system because I want all my cores to function. I would only use Voodoo if I was forced to use an AMD processor.

 

If you do a Vanilla install you will not be able to use all cores, so if you choose the Voodoo Kernel then you MUST select the Seatbelt Fix or all DMG. will crash during install. Do not select cpus=1 Fix with Voodoo but you may need to type it during install or before first boot to get everything up and running, but after that you should not need it again. To see if all cores are operational click on the Apple top left of your screen, then click about this Mac, then click more info, there you will see total number of cores. Installing Windows and OSX on the same hard drive might work but for that you need the new Chameleon Boot Loader and you will need to install OSX first.

 

I would still use 2 hard drives for dual boot because it is the most reliable way and I hate looking at that damn lizard during restart. lmao

 

After you finished your install do a restart and see if everything is working then. If I were in your shoes I would do a Vanilla install and operate on one core or purchase a compatible Motherboard so that I could use my 4 cores.

 

I do have a question, do you have any IDE devices attached to your motherboard? Please list everything you have attached during your iDeneb v1.4 install please because there is something we are definitely missing. A Vanilla install should go off without a hitch. I think you need to format your hard drive with one partition only, then install iDeneb.

[Ixius]

smokozuna,

 

I am having another slight problem.... It is unusual I think.

 

After a few hours of usage, the system just... locks up and requires a reboot.

 

The ONLY things attached to my motherboard is a SATA HDD, everything else with the motherboard is stock stuff.

 

 

On a side note, I am VERY happy I was able to get the iPhone SDK working. LOL

[smokozuna]

smokozuna,

 

I am having another slight problem.... It is unusual I think.

 

After a few hours of usage, the system just... locks up and requires a reboot.

 

The ONLY things attached to my motherboard is a SATA HDD, everything else with the motherboard is stock stuff.

 

 

On a side note, I am VERY happy I was able to get the iPhone SDK working. LOL

The first thing that comes to mind is do you have Sleep enabled in System Preferences? My computer must stay on 24/7 so my VOIP will work so I disable Sleep and do not use it. Second, I did some research last night on the 1.5 and 1.5.1 Distro's and they seem to be causing people trouble. iDeneb v1.4 is on P-Bay right now and I feel that it is the most reliable Distro for this motherboard currently.