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

[Ixius]

Sleep may be the problem IF it is enabled by default I never did disable it.

 

I will give that a shot first and see if that helps any.

 

Also, another thing I noticed is the VNC server built into the system locks after a while and I have to reconnect to that as well, have you had any experience with this?

 

Ok,

 

I have disabled Sleep mode on this system. I dont have a problem leaving it up 24/7 since I use it for work anyways HAHA...

 

One thing I should note, the system locks up I still have a GUI just cant do anything on it, it doesnt actually go into sleep mode. but I did notice sleep for the hard disk was also checked, so this may be it also...

[smokozuna]

Sleep may be the problem IF it is enabled by default I never did disable it.

 

I will give that a shot first and see if that helps any.

 

Also, another thing I noticed is the VNC server built into the system locks after a while and I have to reconnect to that as well, have you had any experience with this?

 

Sleep is enabled by Default. I do not experience with VNC server but a quick search turned up others having trouble with the built in one too and the recommendation is to use 3rd Party. Got to run some errands, be back later.

[eastbayarb]

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.

 

 

I don't have any IDE devices installed at all. It's an all SATA system. I am gonna just do like you said and install XP (then mayber later, Windows 7) on one HDD and ideneb on the other, and use the BIOS to choose between HDD's instead of a boot loader. I have to press F8, then type cpus=1 -v in order for iDeneb to even get past all the Darwin stuff and into the OSX install. I guess now I will not choose that fix when using the Voodoo kernell. I don't really care that audio onboard doesn't work, since I will install the M-Audio Delta 66 card after all works, but the built in ethernet port doesn't work after install. Even though tutorials have said to choose Realtek 1000, The specs of the onboard gigabit LAN say that it is a Realtek GigaLAN 8111B, so maybe during install, I will just choose that.

 

I will report the results later on tonight

[Ixius]

eastbayarb,

 

Can you do 2 things, one take a pictue of the motherboard you have, and then take a picture of the boot screen where it shows the bios information at the top.

 

The only issue I have had is the sound issue when it came to installing after I installed the correct bios. I am just curious if your board actually matches the ones we have here at our office.

[smokozuna]

I don't have any IDE devices installed at all. It's an all SATA system. I am gonna just do like you said and install XP (then mayber later, Windows 7) on one HDD and ideneb on the other, and use the BIOS to choose between HDD's instead of a boot loader. I have to press F8, then type cpus=1 -v in order for iDeneb to even get past all the Darwin stuff and into the OSX install. I guess now I will not choose that fix when using the Voodoo kernell. I don't really care that audio onboard doesn't work, since I will install the M-Audio Delta 66 card after all works, but the built in ethernet port doesn't work after install. Even though tutorials have said to choose Realtek 1000, The specs of the onboard gigabit LAN say that it is a Realtek GigaLAN 8111B, so maybe during install, I will just choose that.

 

I will report the results later on tonight

 

OK. Yes the LAN is 8111B but the only driver available during the iDeneb v1.4 install is the Realtek 1000 if I remember correctly.

 

eastbayarb,

 

Can you do 2 things, one take a pictue of the motherboard you have, and then take a picture of the boot screen where it shows the bios information at the top.

 

The only issue I have had is the sound issue when it came to installing after I installed the correct bios. I am just curious if your board actually matches the ones we have here at our office.

 

That is an excellent idea!

[eastbayarb]

OK. Yes the LAN is 8111B but the only driver available during the iDeneb v1.4 install is the Realtek 1000 if I remember correctly.

 

 

 

That is an excellent idea!

 

 

I am gonna reinstall onto a 300gb drive and then XP later on another 300gb drive (SATA for both).

 

I will take a pic of my MB and the POST screen that shows all the info for the MB.

 

why does this board not have the option to notify you via email of updates to a thread you are involved in?????

[smokozuna]

OK. Yes the LAN is 8111B but the only driver available during the iDeneb v1.4 install is the Realtek 1000 if I remember correctly.

 

 

 

That is an excellent idea!

 

I'll go first.

 

http://yfrog.com/0jimg9766ijx

 

eastbayarb,

 

Can you do 2 things, one take a pictue of the motherboard you have, and then take a picture of the boot screen where it shows the bios information at the top.

 

The only issue I have had is the sound issue when it came to installing after I installed the correct bios. I am just curious if your board actually matches the ones we have here at our office.

 

If there is nothing listed under Sound Output in System Preferences then there is no driver installed. Search the forum for the correct Driver/Kext and install it and I bet you will be up and running. I believe your problem is due to iDeneb v1.5 because after it was released they came out with a patch, then the v1.5.1. I bet if you reinstalled using v1.4 you would have no issues at all, except for Sleep.

[eastbayarb]

Ok, here we go.

 

 

Here is a picture of the motherboard itself:

 

 

This is a non working motherboard from a previous machine, but it's the same as the one that I am using now.

 

 

Here is a picture of the POST screen when you turn on the computer:

 

 

 

As of now, I am installing OSX/iDeneb on the first 300gb HDD

[Ixius]

I have the same exact board,

 

The only thing I noticed which is different with your post, is the line which displays the processor, mine actually writes out the processor type.

 

I am at a loss here.

[smokozuna]

Ok, here we go.

 

 

Here is a picture of the motherboard itself:

 

 

This is a non working motherboard from a previous machine, but it's the same as the one that I am using now.

 

 

Here is a picture of the POST screen when you turn on the computer:

 

 

 

As of now, I am installing OSX/iDeneb on the first 300gb HDD

 

Here is a better pic of mine

 

 

Coupe of things I notice right off the bat. You have 4GB Ram in Single Channel instead of Dual Channel and you have your Optical and Hard Drive on the wrong SATA connectors. Use the pic I posted for reference.

[Ixius]

Here is a better pic of mine

 

 

Coupe of things I notice right off the bat. You have 4GB Ram in Single Channel instead of Dual Channel and you have your Optical and Hard Drive on the wrong SATA connectors. Use the pic I posted for reference.

 

 

Thats exactly how mine looks except I have my SATA drive in slot 1 instead of 5, and I have no optical drive.

 

I will post a picture in a few days if we dont get this resolved my PC is at work I am at home.

 

I am happy to say since I rebooted several hours ago and disabled Sleep mode... The system has yet to crash or lock up from that.

 

Hmm,

 

My last post didnt appear to go through, odd... Anyways I was trying to say that Sleep mode seems to have fixed my lockup issues. It used to lockup after about an hour or so, its now been running 3 hours and 44 minutes.

[smokozuna]

Thats exactly how mine looks except I have my SATA drive in slot 1 instead of 5, and I have no optical drive.

 

I will post a picture in a few days if we dont get this resolved my PC is at work I am at home.

 

I am happy to say since I rebooted several hours ago and disabled Sleep mode... The system has yet to crash or lock up from that.

 

Hmm,

 

My last post didnt appear to go through, odd... Anyways I was trying to say that Sleep mode seems to have fixed my lockup issues. It used to lockup after about an hour or so, its now been running 3 hours and 44 minutes.

 

Congratulations!

 

OK I have to ask... how did you load the OS with no Optical? Did you set Sleep to never and untick put Hard Drive to Sleep when possible?

 

Come on eastbay we are pulling for you!

[eastbayarb]

does it really matter what channle the optical drive or HDD is on?

 

how can you load OSX onto the HDD with an optical drive?

[Ixius]

Congratulations!

 

OK I have to ask... how did you load the OS with no Optical? Did you set Sleep to never and untick put Hard Drive to Sleep when possible?

 

Come on eastbay we are pulling for you!

 

 

Haha I didnt notice all my posts went into one, oh well..

 

Yes, I put Sleep to Never and unticked the HDD Sleep option.

 

I installed the system using an external Samsung DVD USB drive. HDD is a SATA II drive connected to SATA1 on the motherboard.

 

does it really matter what channle the optical drive or HDD is on?

 

how can you load OSX onto the HDD with an optical drive?

 

 

You would burn your media to a DVD, then do the install from the optical drive (DVDRom) and install onto your HDD...

[eastbayarb]

Hey y'all,

 

 

I got everything to work. Onboard audio works, onboard LAN works, video is cool, seems stable. Even though I choose the Voodoo kernel, with Seatbel Fix, but only one CPU is listed. Bummer. I really wanted to utilize all 4 cores on my Q9550 to work since I want to use this setup for Final Cut, Pro Tools, and Cubase, as well as Reason. Another bummer is when I installed the software for my M-Audio Delta 66, I went to the Delta's config, and it said that my Delta 66 wasn't compatible with Intel Macs!

 

Now it's time to try and figure out how to boot between the OSX HDD and the Windows XP (soon to be Windows 7) HDD. Maybe I will just live with just pressing F11 at start up.

[Ixius]

Hey y'all,

 

 

I got everything to work. Onboard audio works, onboard LAN works, video is cool, seems stable. Even though I choose the Voodoo kernel, with Seatbel Fix, but only one CPU is listed. Bummer. I really wanted to utilize all 4 cores on my Q9550 to work since I want to use this setup for Final Cut, Pro Tools, and Cubase, as well as Reason. Another bummer is when I installed the software for my M-Audio Delta 66, I went to the Delta's config, and it said that my Delta 66 wasn't compatible with Intel Macs!

 

Now it's time to try and figure out how to boot between the OSX HDD and the Windows XP (soon to be Windows 7) HDD. Maybe I will just live with just pressing F11 at start up. Speaking of which, shouldn't I be able to see my XP (NTFS formatted) hard drive in OSX? I want to be able to work in XP/Windows 7 and be able to access those files in OSX.

 

 

Since this is a unix based OS, you will probably have to do some tinkering to see the actual partition as it is NTFS, however I am pretty sure it is possible.

 

Its good to hear you got everything to work, what did you select for your Onboard Sound, I would not mind redoing my Hackintosh to have sound support as well?

[smokozuna]

Hey y'all,

 

 

I got everything to work. Onboard audio works, onboard LAN works, video is cool, seems stable. Even though I choose the Voodoo kernel, with Seatbel Fix, but only one CPU is listed. Bummer. I really wanted to utilize all 4 cores on my Q9550 to work since I want to use this setup for Final Cut, Pro Tools, and Cubase, as well as Reason. Another bummer is when I installed the software for my M-Audio Delta 66, I went to the Delta's config, and it said that my Delta 66 wasn't compatible with Intel Macs!

 

Now it's time to try and figure out how to boot between the OSX HDD and the Windows XP (soon to be Windows 7) HDD. Maybe I will just live with just pressing F11 at start up.

 

Great Job!

 

If your Cores are not working under Voodoo I would reinstall with Vanilla. Just live with pressing F11, it is honestly the best way for Dual Boot Hacks. Don't forget to turn off Sleep. Also stick with v1.4, the newer versions of iDeneb are rubbish. Get used to your Hack on 1 core, then when SL is released invest in a compatible motherboard, then all cores will be operational. That is what I would do.

 

Congratulations

 

Smoke

 

Since this is a unix based OS, you will probably have to do some tinkering to see the actual partition as it is NTFS, however I am pretty sure it is possible.

 

Its good to hear you got everything to work, what did you select for your Onboard Sound, I would not mind redoing my Hackintosh to have sound support as well?

 

I would love to see you install iDeneb v1.4!

 

Will you consider it Please?

[Ixius]

Great Job!

 

If your Cores are not working under Voodoo I would reinstall with Vanilla. Just live with pressing F11, it is honestly the best way for Dual Boot Hacks. Don't forget to turn off Sleep. Also stick with v1.4, the newer versions of iDeneb are rubbish. Get used to your Hack on 1 core, then when SL is released invest in a compatible motherboard, then all cores will be operational. That is what I would do.

 

Congratulations

 

Smoke

 

 

 

I would love to see you install iDeneb v1.4!

 

Will you consider it Please?

 

 

I would consider it, just gotta obtain a copy of that one as well.

 

I am one of the unlucky few to have no access to demonoid :/

[smokozuna]

I would consider it, just gotta obtain a copy of that one as well.

 

I am one of the unlucky few to have no access to demonoid :/

 

iDeneb v1.4 is on P Bay right now.

[eastbayarb]

Great Job!

 

If your Cores are not working under Voodoo I would reinstall with Vanilla. Just live with pressing F11, it is honestly the best way for Dual Boot Hacks. Don't forget to turn off Sleep. Also stick with v1.4, the newer versions of iDeneb are rubbish. Get used to your Hack on 1 core, then when SL is released invest in a compatible motherboard, then all cores will be operational. That is what I would do.

 

 

What do you mean, when SL is released? What compatible motherboard are you talking about (are you saying that the G33T-M2 v1.0 isn't a compatible? Why turn off Sleep?

[smokozuna]

What do you mean, when SL is released? What compatible motherboard are you talking about (are you saying that the G33T-M2 v1.0 isn't a compatible? Why turn off Sleep?

 

I mean when Snow Leopard is released. Yes, I am saying that G33T-M2 v1.0 is one of the least compatible boards ever for OSX. An example of very compatible motherbards are the GIGABYTE

GA-EP45-UD3P or the GA-G31M-ES2L. Had you chosen one of those you could do a Vanilla install with the Boot-132 and all cores would be working. We turn of Sleep because in many Hackintosh it just causes problems, although with the other 2 boards I mentioned Sleep does work. Are you getting the picture?

 

The most important thing for building a successful Hackintosh is picking a compatible Motherboard and Video Card.

[eastbayarb]

I mean when Snow Leopard is released. Yes, I am saying that G33T-M2 v1.0 is one of the least compatible boards ever for OSX. An example of very compatible motherbards are the GIGABYTE

GA-EP45-UD3P or the GA-G31M-ES2L. Had you chosen one of those you could do a Vanilla install with the Boot-132 and all cores would be working. We turn of Sleep because in many Hackintosh it just causes problems, although with the other 2 boards I mentioned Sleep does work. Are you getting the picture?

 

The most important thing for building a successful Hackintosh is picking a compatible Motherboard and Video Card.

 

 

Gotcha. I had a GA-EP45-UD3P but for whatever reason, it just ceased to work for no good reason....when does Snow Leopard come out. Sounds very interesting...

[smokozuna]

Gotcha. I had a GA-EP45-UD3P but for whatever reason, it just ceased to work for no good reason....when does Snow Leopard come out. Sounds very interesting...

Snow Leopard comes out in September. By then the members here will have a compatible Motherboard, video card, and install method. In the mean time, take your Hack for a test drive, get comfortable with OSX, then we can either keep our current setups or upgrade our hardware, install Snow Leopard, and get some use out of those Cores we paid for! LOL

[Ixius]

Snow Leopard comes out in September. By then the members here will have a compatible Motherboard, video card, and install method. In the mean time, take your Hack for a test drive, get comfortable with OSX, then we can either keep our current setups or upgrade our hardware, install Snow Leopard, and get some use out of those Cores we paid for! LOL

 

 

Definitely looking forward to it, I had a Beta CD I just havent gotten a chance to try and install it on anything.

[smokozuna]

Definitely looking forward to it, I had a Beta CD I just havent gotten a chance to try and install it on anything.

 

I installed it on my MacBook & MacBook Pro, don't expect to much honestly. It is very much like Leopard with some very small changes. Kind of like Vista and Windows 7, same OS with a slight GUI change. I don't see what all the huff is about, having said that I have already purchased SL and will be installing it on my Mac's but I haven't decided on my Hackintosh yet.