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Lifehacker Guide with GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard

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GA-EP45-UD3P / Core 2 Quad / 9800gtx Experience  

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leppy700m
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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.

 

What version bios are you running?

DonRobbie
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Update: Couldn't get the PowerMacs to partition the thumb drive as GUID (Disk Utility would just hang at "Creating Partition table.") So Installed Ubuntu on Doorstop #1 and then installed gparted and hfsprogs and then partitioned the drive as GUID and formatted as hfs+. Back over to the Mac and restoring the disk image to the thumb drive now.

backinmac
backinmac
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Newegg is running a promo with the motherboard with a 750 gig Seagate SATA, 2.6 GHZ Pentium Dual Core, and 2GB of GSKILL RAM all for $272. I know that it is not the exact correct setup but do you think it will work if I buy the video card? I'm pretty sure it will, I've read other posts that say the RAM and Hard Drive brands don't really matter and I know for a fact that the new Pentium Dual Cores support the vanilla kernel but I just wanted to bounce it off everyone. Here's the link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleD...st=Combo.328153

DonRobbie
DonRobbie
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Success! Had to do the thumb drive using the Terminal method (Stella's installer would run but not actually make any changes to the disk) but was able to use the Stella installer to update the hard disk after I installed Snow Leopard. Was going to add a kext for the Nvidia GTS 250 but it seems to be working great on its own (translucent menu bar, can move a piece in chess, WoW looks and runs great). Network and sound working,

 

you need to re run the ud3p package on your computer and choose you computer HD as the destination. this will instal the boot loader on your PC and you can use your new hackintosh without the flashdrive.

 

Also in BIOS->Advanced Settings->Hard Disk Boot Priority you need to move the hard disk to the top of the list.

Vesuvius_NLC
Vesuvius_NLC
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I'm having issues installing OS X to my HDD. It gets approximately 50% done with the install and then an error occurs and it asks me to restart and try again. Here are my hardware specs:

 

EP45-UD3P MoBo

2.83 GHZ C2Q Q9550 CPU

WD10EVDS 1TB HDD

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (8GB total)

All other items are stock from Lifehacker build.

 

I'm hoping someone can help out. The BIOS settings are exact to the Lifehacker guide. I've tried Stella's v3 bootloader with no success. Could it be a corrupt file from the SL disk? Is it a hardware issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all the posts!

CoHPhasor
CoHPhasor
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I'm having issues installing OS X to my HDD. It gets approximately 50% done with the install and then an error occurs and it asks me to restart and try again. Here are my hardware specs:

 

EP45-UD3P MoBo

2.83 GHZ C2Q Q9550 CPU

WD10EVDS 1TB HDD

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (8GB total)

All other items are stock from Lifehacker build.

 

I'm hoping someone can help out. The BIOS settings are exact to the Lifehacker guide. I've tried Stella's v3 bootloader with no success. Could it be a corrupt file from the SL disk? Is it a hardware issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all the posts!

 

A question just as important as the specs:

What does the error say?

xDeLiRiOuSx
xDeLiRiOuSx
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Wow, I love this community. I was using weaksauce's "leopard soup" guide and been using 10.5.8 for a few months now. I just decided to use Stella's installer to do a clean install of 10.6.2 ( http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/23846198...-update-ud3p-v3 ) . Everyone works great except audio. I have a UD3P and the tried the ( http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/life...9A.Fix.kext.zip ) kext and it still didn't work.

 

I see "internal speakers" "line out" "line out" and "digital out" None of them works ;)

 

on 10.6.8. I had "internal speakers" "line out" "headphones" and "digital out" I used headphones and it worked really well.

 

A easy fix is a USB soundcard; anyone have a natively supported one that they can recommend?

 

Thanks,

David

Vesuvius_NLC
Vesuvius_NLC
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A question just as important as the specs:

What does the error say?

 

Here's what the sequence looks like:

 

After I click install, the status bar pops up with "Installing Mac OS X on disk."

Then, when the error occurs, above the status bar it says, "Error occurred while installing OS X."

Then it says, "The installer could not copy the necessary support files."

Below that message it asks me to restart and try installing again.

 

Thoughts?

Vesuvius_NLC
Vesuvius_NLC
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When installing try selecting only the bits you really need (Custom option), remove the other languages etc...

 

I tried not installing font support and language support, separately and together, to no avail. Thanks for the idea though.

ROLAND4001
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you need to re run the ud3p package on your computer and choose you computer HD as the destination. this will instal the boot loader on your PC and you can use your new hackintosh without the flashdrive.

 

Ok I've done that a number of times and it never seem to work it hangs at the boot then just lock up. Otherwise I have everything else running great. I to can not install sliverlight for some reason those. I will try again is there an updated package?

Rickey

 

Ok I've done that a number of times and it never seem to work it hangs at the boot then just lock up. Otherwise I have everything else running great. I to can not install sliverlight for some reason those. I will try again is there an updated package?

Rickey

 

Sorry, the error is

Boot0:error

I even try to run the package from a admin account but no effect. I do have two Esata hardrive in the system?

JohnLocke
JohnLocke
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Hardware variation - mostly success:

Mobo: GA-ep35-DS3L/S3L

Processor: E6600 Core 2 Duo

Video Card: Nvidia 8800 GT/OC 512Mb

RAM: 4Gb

 

Install went great! Did it off a USB external hard drive (just a spare hard drive in a $10 enclosure). Booted up into a "retail" version of snow leopard! Awesome!

 

Did the sound install (since I have the onboard sound that needed the patch) and now sound works great!

 

Ran the packaging script to make it bootable off the hard drive instead of off USB and here's where I've run into problems:

 

First, my hard drive configuration: I'm running a quad boot. On my hd0, I have windows7, and two ubuntu karmic installs (I tend to hose one every once in a while and need a backup rather than go to livecd). I installed SL onto hd1 since hd0 was formatted MBR and SL required GUID. All that was fine.

 

If I boot to the USB drive with the install disk and select my "mac" install on hd(1,2), SL comes up clean. If I boot to hd1, I get the bootloader, but it just hangs forever after finding some ntfs file system messages (not even sure why it's finding that or what it's doing at that point ... finds ethernet, then ntfs, then sits there forever).

 

As another problem, I tried using my old fallback of grub2 from hd0. Grub2 detects the SL install on hd1, but doesn't write it to the loader. I tried using the old Leopard menu entry:

set root=(hd1,2)
       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set myuuid
insmod vbe
       do_resume=0
       if [ /var/vm/sleepimage -nt10 / ]; then
          if xnu_resume /var/vm/sleepimage; then
            do_resume=1
          fi
       fi
       if [ $do_resume == 0 ]; then
          xnu_uuid myuuid uuid
          if [ -f /Extra/DSDT.aml ]; then
             acpi -e /Extra/DSDT.aml
          fi
          xnu_kernel /mach_kernel boot-uuid=${uuid} rd=*uuid
          if [ /System/Library/Extensions.mkext -nt /System/Library/Extensions ]; then
             xnu_mkext /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
          else
             xnu_kextdir /System/Library/Extensions
          fi
          if [ -f /Extra/Extensions.mkext ]; then
             xnu_mkext /Extra/Extensions.mkext
          fi
          if [ -d /Extra/Extensions ]; then
             xnu_kextdir /Extra/Extensions
          fi
          if [ -f /Extra/devtree.txt ]; then
             xnu_devtree /Extra/devtree.txt
          fi
          if [ -f /Extra/splash.jpg ]; then
             insmod jpeg
             xnu_splash /Extra/splash.jpg
          fi
          if [ -f /Extra/splash.png ]; then
             insmod png
             xnu_splash /Extra/splash.png
          fi
          if [ -f /Extra/splash.tga ]; then
             insmod tga
             xnu_splash /Extra/splash.tga
          fi
       fi

 

Still no love :). When I select that, I get no errors, just brought immediately back to the bootloader.

 

So I have to use the usb hard drive bootloader to load at the moment. Troublesome.

CoHPhasor
CoHPhasor
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Hardware variation - mostly success:

Mobo: GA-ep35-DS3L/S3L

Processor: E6600 Core 2 Duo

Video Card: Nvidia 8800 GT/OC 512Mb

RAM: 4Gb

 

Install went great! Did it off a USB external hard drive (just a spare hard drive in a $10 enclosure). Booted up into a "retail" version of snow leopard! Awesome!

.......

 

First, my hard drive configuration: I'm running a quad boot. On my hd0, I have windows7, and two ubuntu karmic installs (I tend to hose one every once in a while and need a backup rather than go to livecd). I installed SL onto hd1 since hd0 was formatted MBR and SL required GUID. All that was fine.

.....

 

So I have to use the usb hard drive bootloader to load at the moment. Troublesome.

 

You have made things overly complicated.

It's been stated over and over to use the spec'ed hardware. The DSDT setup is designed for IT.

I don't even know what will/won't work thanks to the mobo having different components.

 

Even if the mobo plays nice here's your other over-complication; ready?

This is *not a crazy multi-boot thread.

You'll find that elsewhere in the OSx86 forums, this thread is for this build.

We recommend that if you wish to dual-boot, have each install on separate drives.

Do one at a time, having ONLY the installing drive connected, then later put them all in.

After that you specify the HD containing SL and the bootloader as the main drive.

The bootloader will see all other bootable drives and allow you to pick from them.

 

Don't complicate things. ;-)

JohnLocke
JohnLocke
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You have made things overly complicated.

It's been stated over and over to use the spec'ed hardware. The DSDT setup is designed for IT.

I don't even know what will/won't work thanks to the mobo having different components.

 

I will simplify my question and notes, then.

 

First, I would like to report that my trial install of snow leopard via this method on a GA-EP35-SS3L (I think the only major difference in the spec) works beautifully. Snow Leopard installs great, and since this is one of the versions of the board that has the 888 audio codec, the simple patch that everyone has already mentioned in this thread fixes the audio.

 

So for others, like me, who were wondering if this motherboard will load snow leopard with this install, it does!

 

Even if the mobo plays nice here's your other over-complication; ready?

This is *not a crazy multi-boot thread.

You'll find that elsewhere in the OSx86 forums, this thread is for this build.

We recommend that if you wish to dual-boot, have each install on separate drives.

Do one at a time, having ONLY the installing drive connected, then later put them all in.

After that you specify the HD containing SL and the bootloader as the main drive.

The bootloader will see all other bootable drives and allow you to pick from them.

 

Don't complicate things. ;-)

 

So I suppose my /question/ doesn't belong in this thread. Sorry about that. But as to your recommendation, that's basically what I did.

 

I already had a fully functioning system that was a triple boot on a 500Gb drive. No problem there.

 

I got a completely separate drive and used the usb-external drive method to load snow leopard onto the new drive. As mentioned above, that worked great.

 

When I finished the install and rebooted, Chameleon came up as expected, but halts on load. This doesn't happen when the install media is present. /That/ chameleon boot loader loads up the OS just fine. (and this can be done with or without the drive that has the other operating systems ... to "uncomplicate" things, I get the same result when it has /only/ the SL hard drive in it ... the other OS's can be ignored). The bootloader "sees" all the bootable disks, but is unable to boot to snow leopard.

 

So this appears to be an issue with chameleon, not the install, motherboard, or snow leopard itself.

 

Figured someone might have seen it before or I was just missing something simple in Chameleon. I also know a lot of people on here use grub to get around Chameleon on intel boxes, so thought grub was also a kosher topic here.

 

Ah well.

JohnLocke
JohnLocke
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Try deleting the /Extras folder from the SL HD, then re-install the bootloader.

 

Brilliant! That worked like a charm! Though somehow in the process I nuked my sound kext. No matter, it was working before and I'll go find it ;).

 

Thanks again! I'd say after that, this install works perfectly for my configuration as well. I was pretty sure about everything but the mobo, but everything works just fine, and it's been stable for three days (so far).

CoHPhasor
CoHPhasor
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Brilliant! That worked like a charm! Though somehow in the process I nuked my sound kext. No matter, it was working before and I'll go find it :) .

 

Thanks again! I'd say after that, this install works perfectly for my configuration as well. I was pretty sure about everything but the mobo, but everything works just fine, and it's been stable for three days (so far).

 

Glad to hear it! That's what we're here for.

FYI, if another installer comes out, that's the M.O.,

delete that folder then upgrade. ;-)

CoHPhasor
CoHPhasor
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CoHPhasor: Any idea on what I can do? Should I swap out MoBos? Is it a drivers issue?

 

Not a drivers issue, likely a bad stick of RAM.

Play musical chairs with them until you find the bad stick.

 

Conversely you could google "linux boot ram check".

I'm sure there are some comprehensive memory testing programs for free.

(Good ones test for a long period)

I think there is even one on the OSX install disk.

In Dual DDR setups like this it's best to keep matching pairs so 1 out of a pair spoils the batch.

(Although, you can still use a single one to install with)

 

If your RAM checks out it could also be the HD, and there are plenty of utils to test that.

If you have a drive over 1TB make sure that the install partition is no larger than 1TB.

Vesuvius_NLC
Vesuvius_NLC
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Not a drivers issue, likely a bad stick of RAM.

Play musical chairs with them until you find the bad stick.

 

Conversely you could google "linux boot ram check".

I'm sure there are some comprehensive memory testing programs for free.

(Good ones test for a long period)

I think there is even one on the OSX install disk.

In Dual DDR setups like this it's best to keep matching pairs so 1 out of a pair spoils the batch.

(Although, you can still use a single one to install with)

 

If your RAM checks out it could also be the HD, and there are plenty of utils to test that.

If you have a drive over 1TB make sure that the install partition is no larger than 1TB.

 

Posting with Hackintosh. You were right, it was a bad stick of RAM. Thanks for your input. I'm very grateful for guys like you who are willing to answer questions from n00bs like me. Thanks again.

ROLAND4001
ROLAND4001
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Ok I've done that a number of times and it never seem to work it hangs at the boot then just lock up. Otherwise I have everything else running great. I to can not install sliverlight for some reason those. I will try again is there an updated package?

Rickey

 

 

 

Sorry, the error is

Boot0:error

I even try to run the package from a admin account but no effect. I do have two Esata hardrive in the system?

Does ud3p package also write the setting to the Bios?

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