tony9394 Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I tried but somehow I get a white sceen after apple logo come off. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1332315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phanguy Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I tried but somehow I get a white sceen after apple logo come off. a list of your exact hardware would be helpful. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1332327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony9394 Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I have: ga-ep45-tud3lr <- I just bought it yesterday. intel q9450 ati radeon HD 3870 500gb wd sata hard drive 4gb of memory ddr3 and I have one old motherboard that I want to use on snow leopard instead. I perfer to use this one, if u can show me how. My old motherboard is intel DX38BT Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1332852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phanguy Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I have:ga-ep45-tud3lr <- I just bought it yesterday. intel q9450 ati radeon HD 3870 500gb wd sata hard drive 4gb of memory ddr3 and I have one old motherboard that I want to use on snow leopard instead. I perfer to use this one, if u can show me how. My old motherboard is intel DX38BT As far as I can tell your hardware should work with Snow Leopard. Have you followed the Lifehacker steps exactly? If you haven't then please explain what you didn't do, or what you did differently. As far as your old board: according to the wiki, it should be able to run Snow Leopard as well. The wiki is always the best place to start for all answers. http://wiki.osx86project.org Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1333069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony9394 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 i followed exactly like it said. i finished the step copy bootloader. startup up from usb. i got to the apple desktop screen. the icon load and i got stop on the white background screen, never get into the beginning install screen where you choose the english. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1333478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellymonster Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Did you get the 9800 GTX working with Snow Leopard in the end? I can't get mine to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1333992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phanguy Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 i followed exactly like it said. i finished the step copy bootloader. startup up from usb. i got to the apple desktop screen. the icon load and i got stop on the white background screen, never get into the beginning install screen where you choose the english. If you're following it exactly then it won't work quite right because you're using a different video card. The dsdt that's included wasn't made for the kind of card that you have. There are two things you can try: http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/23846198...-update-ud3p-v3 The longer way would involve first finding a way to install Leopard. Installing Leopard is simpler because there are a lot of different distros that make it pretty easy. Then you would have to redo the USB with Snow Leopard and then run the installer from that link on the USB drive. The USB should then run just fine. Otherwise what you'll need to do is just remove the dsdt from your USB and see if it runs. It may or may not work at all if you remove the dsdt, but I think it will. Though what will happen is that the code in the dsdt to prevent your cmos from being reset will be gone, so once you get Snow Leopard installed you'll have to redo all your BIOS settings. But then once you can get Snow Leopard to boot you can run the installer from the above link and you should be good to go. Either way the special installer from the above linked post is key. A third option would be to edit the dsdt to work with your video card, but I'm not so great with doing that, so if you want to google that around then go for it. Did you get the 9800 GTX working with Snow Leopard in the end?I can't get mine to work. It may or may not work if yours isn't the 9800 GTX+ version. I'm not too knowledgeable of the differences, but if they're different enough then the same problem occurs with needing a differently edited dsdt. See above for a similar way to solve your problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1334029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalilama Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Hi, I'm curious if you edited the smbios file to get 'about this mac' to show 'ddr3 1066', or if it detected it itself? I just did an install with the same mobo and have ddr3 1333 ram. I'm getting mixed results: * system profiler and about this mac both showed 'ddr2 800', until I edited /Extra/smbios.plist and now they show ddr2 1333 (still don't know where the 'ddr2' is coming from) * sysctl hw.busfrequency hw.physmem hw.memsize shows: 1332000000 (correct) 2147483648 (half the installed 'physical' ram) 4294967296 (correct) * activity monitor shows 4G total ram so... I *think* osx sees all 4G, it just doesn't display it properly in 'about this mac' and system profiler. dunno why hw.physmem is half on another note, how did you get your onboard lan working? mine was not recognized initially, but after a few reboots and tweaking other settings, it suddenly showed up. as for your audio problems, check this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=188349 it worked for me cheers Not sure anyone answered the question about the DDR3 showing up, but the smibios.plist settings you need to tweak are SMmemtype. Use 18 for DDR / 19 for DDR2 / 20 for DDR2 FB-DIMM / 24 for DDR3. Lots more info here: http://prasys.co.cc/2009/09/guidecreating-...n-smbios-plist/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1357714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightmix7474 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 have the same motherboard and video card and i only can get it to display 1024x768 can some one help me out 9800 GTX+ version Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1477059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukhanlists Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Sleep, Wake, Shutdown, Restart - all work fine. No problems. Like I said, the only problem I have had is getting the onboard audio to work. I've tried every kext i can find, but can't seem to get it to work. I ordered 2 of these USB audio adapters today. I think these will work for the time being. Only $12.99 each at NewEgg. I'll share my results when they come. I have the exact same board and everything except Shutdown/Restart works. Would you mind sharing your DSDT.aml along with whatever you have in /Extra? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185550-build-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-q9550-8gb-ddr3-9800gtx-snow-leopard/page/2/#findComment-1567448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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