scrambler_455 Posted February 3, 2010 Author Share Posted February 3, 2010 What version of Windows? If it's XP, you're going to be far better off using Windows' loader and chainloading Chameleon. This is the only way I could reliably run my Windows installation as both a boot OS and in VMWare (seen as a BootCamp partition). I'm not sure I understand what chainloading means. I'm going to go win7 to avoid SATA problems on XP. When the chameleon bootloader comes up and gives the option to boot from another drive, thats ideally where I'd like to be able to switch to my windows drive. I'm able to get into win7 setup, but I have all kinds of problems with win7 recognizing the hard drive as a valid drive. It sees the drive, but then complains that it can't install on it. I've tried reformatting. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1403158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacWannaBe Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 RANT: THE DSDT DOES NOT CONTAIN KEXTS FOR OTHER VIDEO CARDS. It's a shame that what could have been a useful thread to users with the exact build in maintaining their systems over time has been buried with irrelevent information. /RANT The DSDT does not contain kexts at all. That's not what it does. I think that our DSDT specifies which slot the video card is located. The bootloader is detecting the type of card. The current V3 has a kext for some ATI cards. Overall, it's been suggested that sticking with Dual DVI NVDIA cards is the way to go. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1403184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrambler_455 Posted February 3, 2010 Author Share Posted February 3, 2010 For general hackintoshes, maybe that is true, but there isn't a suggestion in the guide, there is a guide, which specifies a specific video card. The point of this thread (which I started) is to discuss this exact hardware config. Not what to do if you change the hardware config to a different video card and all the endless problems and solutions to all the possible video cards on the market. So, good to know that DSDT's don't contain kexts, but a profile of the system. My goal is to get as much relevant information that I can post at the head of the thread so that people who read the subject of the thread don't get lost in 60 pages of superfluous information. Please take other discussions to a new thread. Here is a topic header suggestion: "Lifehacker Guide GA-EP45_UD3P with other Video Cards" "Stell v3 Installer" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1403203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-an-W Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I use the onboard NIC without problem, I don't have anything Bonjour enabled but normal network stuff works just fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1403204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacWannaBe Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 For general hackintoshes, maybe that is true, but there isn't a suggestion in the guide, there is a guide, which specifies a specific video card. The point of this thread (which I started) is to discuss this exact hardware config. Not what to do if you change the hardware config to a different video card and all the endless problems and solutions to all the possible video cards on the market. So, good to know that DSDT's don't contain kexts, but a profile of the system. My goal is to get as much relevant information that I can post at the head of the thread so that people who read the subject of the thread don't get lost in 60 pages of superfluous information. Please take other discussions to a new thread. Here is a topic header suggestion: "Lifehacker Guide GA-EP45_UD3P with other Video Cards" "Stell v3 Installer" I think that we also need a thread where we can learn more about how our setup works. I for one plan to keep mine for a while and I'm not sure if Stell is going to keep updating his installer over the long haul. It's better that we all become knowledgeable on the inner workings so that we can continue to support each other. Any takers want to start a thread on this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1403327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
leppy700m Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 I think a few people here need to read more, post less and take a pill. This is a hobby. Making cookie cutter mac clones would be a nice commercial venture - if it were legal. But it's not, so it's no more than a hobby. As a hobby, there is not going to be any control over what hardware people bring to their own party. Naturally, there are going to be a lot of questions asked here. Deal with it. This is one of the easiest boards for building a hack. If you're unwilling to google a bit to find your solutions, then perhaps it's time to switch to "Go Fish" or some other activity you're more suited for. I think this thread is fine and I'd like to thank anyone and everyone who has tried to post any kind of solution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1403514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibleman562 Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 I am using the EP45-UD3P FB bios, read through the thread and couldnt find a proper solution. I'm using multiple pci slots and an extra pcie slot. (UAD cards if anyone was wondering). Figured i'd have to go diving into the DSDT to get it all working, wanted to post and see if someone wanted to give me a head start. I'm new to the DSDT scene. Currently, i can boot into SL fine, but it doesnt see any pci/pcie cards other than my graphics on the primary (top) pcie. Thanks ahead of time for the help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1403796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoHPhasor Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I am using the EP45-UD3P FB bios, read through the thread and couldnt find a proper solution. I'm using multiple pci slots and an extra pcie slot. (UAD cards if anyone was wondering). Figured i'd have to go diving into the DSDT to get it all working, wanted to post and see if someone wanted to give me a head start. I'm new to the DSDT scene. Currently, i can boot into SL fine, but it doesnt see any pci/pcie cards other than my graphics on the primary (top) pcie. Thanks ahead of time for the help. DSDT work is stuff not covered here. While the hack does use it, it is FAR too deep of a subject. Please look elsewhere in the OSx86 forum for help with it. (The DSDT is unique to this setup, yes, but modifying it to run differently than the build does not) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1404044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 I'm not sure I understand what chainloading means. I'm going to go win7 to avoid SATA problems on XP. When the chameleon bootloader comes up and gives the option to boot from another drive, thats ideally where I'd like to be able to switch to my windows drive. I'm able to get into win7 setup, but I have all kinds of problems with win7 recognizing the hard drive as a valid drive. It sees the drive, but then complains that it can't install on it. I've tried reformatting. Just disconnect the OS X drive, boot from the Win7 cd and install on the second hard drive. The problem is that Win7 doesn't install unless it is on the primary disk. By disconnecting the OS X drive the new HD becomes the primary and Win7 will allow you to install. Then set the OS X drive as the primary in the BIOS and chameleon should allow you to choose which drive to boot into. Worked for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1405019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAVEC Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Just disconnect the OS X drive, boot from the Win7 cd and install on the second hard drive. The problem is that Win7 doesn't install unless it is on the primary disk. By disconnecting the OS X drive the new HD becomes the primary and Win7 will allow you to install. Then set the OS X drive as the primary in the BIOS and chameleon should allow you to choose which drive to boot into. Worked for me. I put my Win7 drive on the other set of SATA channels and that seems to have worked out. Except for the inability of Win7 to boot into the correct time after booting from SL. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1405118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholepuree Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Hi. I'm having issues with my build. I've been using the life hacker guide. I decided to use the terminal method instead of the automated version. So when I boot from my USB drive I get to the boot loader... Choose my USB drive and the. I get to the grey apple and the spinning pinwheel. A couple minutes later the pinwheel stops and I jus have a frozen screen. What do I do?? FYI I see the terminal method so. I could use pc-efi 10.6 and chameleon rc4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1405182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRobbie Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 EDIT: I've now got this working - it seems that using 10.4.x to make the OS X installation flash disk will NOT work. Even following the Terminal method then copying over the Extras folder and running the halloween installer will NOT work properly (at least not on my machine!). It causes kernel panics when trying to launch the installer, every time. I managed to get a machine running 10.5.5 and followed the lifehacker guide again, the halloween installer worked fine and I was able to install OS 10.6 Have been pawing through the older pages here. All I have at my my disposal are PowerPC Macs. Two Minis running 10.4 and G4/400 Sawtooth running 10.2. Am I wasting my money buying the hardware for this guide? Really don't want to spend $2000 for a pair of doorstops. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1405678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironmang Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 I'm having a problems with netflix streaming, getting the 8152 error DRM error. I've read a bunch of different suggested solutions for different OSX systems, but wanted to see if anyone else here was able to correct this issue as I have the exact build of the lifehacker build. One thing I've read in some places, is that the network card needs to be en0, but is currently set to en1 as a result of not using the built in NIC. FYI Silverlight 3.0 is installed and I can validate videos play from the test site here: http://web.sldrm.video.msn.com/d1/sldrm.html , but when I turn on the DRM option the video does not load. i believe i used the version 3 of the installer from stell's blog my about this mac says Processor 3.1 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Anyone else having problems with netflix streaming using the lifehacker hardware configuration/setup ? -- anyone have it working fine ? thanks for the help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1406113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholepuree Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Hey guys, just an update for everyone... I've finally got a working hackintosh! using the ud3p motherboard, q6600, 6gig ram, and an ATI 4780. I dont know why i couldnt get it to work the 1st few times, but this last time i just used the v3 installer. and it works flawlessly! I had to edit the plist so that it would boot via the 32 bit kernel so i could use ntfs-3g (shar files with my windows 7 drive) and for my wifi - which is an Airlink101 AWLH6070 - N. I love it! One thing i dont get, is how to configure for 5.1 sound? I dont know how to get that working, or test it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1406132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InSan3inHD Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 i have read all 57 pages on the topic and theres alot of good info, i am still getting my parts together for the build. i have a q9550 thats @ 4.2 ghz on WC so i am hoping this machine will fly when i have it setup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1406221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacWannaBe Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Anyone else having problems with netflix streaming using the lifehacker hardware configuration/setup ? -- anyone have it working fine ? thanks for the help I tried this once, using my parent's account as a test. It worked fine. I was able to stream without any issues. I no longer have access to an account so I can't retest. You need to run V3, to install silverlight (that's the easiest way, since your CPU will be identified). -Ed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1406272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironmang Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 I tried this once, using my parent's account as a test. It worked fine. I was able to stream without any issues. I no longer have access to an account so I can't retest. You need to run V3, to install silverlight (that's the easiest way, since your CPU will be identified). -Ed thanks. I did run v3 and silverlight works(except with drm enabled) when i run test it on this site: http://web.sldrm.video.msn.com/d1/sldrm.html . I guess its worth a shot re-running the installation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1406280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrambler_455 Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 Anyone know why an Aja Kona Card wouldn't work in this motherboard? Tried installing one and the system wouldn't even boot. I tried it in just about every pci-slot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1406394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAVEC Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 i have read all 57 pages on the topic and theres alot of good info, i am still getting my parts together for the build. i have a q9550 thats @ 4.2 ghz on WC so i am hoping this machine will fly when i have it setup. It ought to smoke anything Apple has up to and maybe including a $3300 dual Xeon 2.26 GHz MacPro. The best I can get out of my two 9550 systems is 3.4 GHz but I pretty much keep everything on autopilot. Please post your settings when you get it running. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1406518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-an-W Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 I have run mine @ 4.33GHz (24/7 stable) using the harware below, only dual core but it wasn't hanging about Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1406964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntington Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 i've got the exact LH build, + used the LH guide + stella's v3 to create a SL flash drive installer. i'm having a pattern of trouble with installing SL, wondering if anyone has any clues/advice. i'm (fairly) confident my hardware build is fine - i had one SL 10.6 installation working with only minor problems for about 2 weeks. after doing a lot of self-educating & reading, i decided i wanted to try doing a fresh install. several times when i've attempted to install SL on a fresh, new drive of mine (guid partitioned, extended/journaled, per instructions), the installer would start and then hang for a very long time (an hour). as there was no option to cancel the install, i had to hold down the power key to shut it down. i restarted from the flash drive, then run disk utility, which actually ended up making thing worse: when i tried to repair the drive (unused node errors & such), disk utility makes no progress for two hours, and forcing disk utility to close renders that drive (and all the other drives in the computer useless & unsalvageable - i guess disk utility unmounts all the other drives when trying to repair a drive, and forcing it to close leaves all the other drives in a non-functional state as well). i've had to RMA these drives once, it looks like i'm going to have to do this again. the drives were causing KPs even when trying to startup from the flash drive just now. i couldn't even get to the "choose your language" screen. as an experiment, i took out all my HDs and i got to the installer without a problem. i'm new to building computers but i seem to be running into a problem that i can't find anyone else having. :: sigh :: any ideas/suggestions/advice would be very welcome. i'm incredibly frustrated/exhausted going through this all again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1407163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbolted Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 i've got the exact LH build, + used the LH guide + stella's v3 to create a SL flash drive installer. i'm having a pattern of trouble with installing SL, wondering if anyone has any clues/advice. i'm (fairly) confident my hardware build is fine - i had one SL 10.6 installation working with only minor problems for about 2 weeks. after doing a lot of self-educating & reading, i decided i wanted to try doing a fresh install. several times when i've attempted to install SL on a fresh, new drive of mine (guid partitioned, extended/journaled, per instructions), the installer would start and then hang for a very long time (an hour). as there was no option to cancel the install, i had to hold down the power key to shut it down. i restarted from the flash drive, then run disk utility, which actually ended up making thing worse: when i tried to repair the drive (unused node errors & such), disk utility makes no progress for two hours, and forcing disk utility to close renders that drive (and all the other drives in the computer useless & unsalvageable - i guess disk utility unmounts all the other drives when trying to repair a drive, and forcing it to close leaves all the other drives in a non-functional state as well). i've had to RMA these drives once, it looks like i'm going to have to do this again. the drives were causing KPs even when trying to startup from the flash drive just now. i couldn't even get to the "choose your language" screen. as an experiment, i took out all my HDs and i got to the installer without a problem. i'm new to building computers but i seem to be running into a problem that i can't find anyone else having. :: sigh :: any ideas/suggestions/advice would be very welcome. i'm incredibly frustrated/exhausted going through this all again. Try going back into your bios and recheck the settings in the original guide, be especially careful of the boot priority settings and also sata settings. You may have ata enabled that could be causing your problems. You are using a serial ATA drive right? Also when trying to install the flash drive has to be your first drive in priority, then you can change it to your harddrive after the install. Hope this helps a little. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1407255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntington Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Try going back into your bios and recheck the settings in the original guide, be especially careful of the boot priority settings and also sata settings. You may have ata enabled that could be causing your problems. You are using a serial ATA drive right? Also when trying to install the flash drive has to be your first drive in priority, then you can change it to your harddrive after the install. Hope this helps a little. thanks havec. i double-checked the bios settings today. they were exactly the same as the LH jpgs, and i changed the boot priority so that the flash drive was first when going to the install on the new drive. the HDs are new SATA drives...i've tried different SATA ports on the mobo, different SATA cables, having the flash drive plugged into the top ports on the rear instead of the front... the flash drive is the same 16gb corsair that's in the LH guide. came across a few of stella's posts where he said not to get a gigabyte mobo...i'm wondering if i was the unlucky one who got a bad one... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1407260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntington Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 quick update... it appears that my mobo has a bad SATA port or two. after trying many combinations of ports/cables just to be sure, disk utility was able to repair the drives, and i'm once again crossing my fingers and going for another clean install. sheesh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1407518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0800damo Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 It ought to smoke anything Apple has up to and maybe including a $3300 dual Xeon 2.26 GHz MacPro. The best I can get out of my two 9550 systems is 3.4 GHz but I pretty much keep everything on autopilot. Please post your settings when you get it running. Good luck. [/quote Yes please do post your settings as I would love too overclock my set up have done some research but am not very well versed in this sort of thing Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/46/#findComment-1407705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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