sgunes Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Glad to hear that is working, now I think the fastest card you can drop in is going to be the GTX 285 into a Hack-Intosh. Can't really tell the specs from the best buy site, but from BFG directly it looks like an awesome card. I would only recommend that you be sure and ask about Best Buy's return policy if something does not work properly. I like what BFG does, but have not always liked the quality for the price, and remember, they sometimes can stray away from the reference design. I found the EVGA GTX 285 2GB version for $390 at Fry's (no rebate needed). I will drive over there now and pick one up together with the Trendnet GbE card. I think they have a 2 week return period. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1335265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I found the EVGA GTX 285 2GB version for $390 at Fry's (no rebate needed).I will drive over there now and pick one up together with the Trendnet GbE card. I think they have a 2 week return period. Sweet, let us know how this works out... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1335278 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgunes Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Sweet, let us know how this works out... Well, it looks like all high-end Nvidia cards are sold out. They checked inventory at Fry's for stores within 500 miles and there was no stock. It looks like all high-end Nvidia cards have minimal availability which can only mean that they will come out with their new generation within a couple weeks (just in time for X-mas). At least I got the Trendnet GbE for $10. I put it in the bottom PCI slot, turned the build-in ports off in bios and SL says in System Profiler under Ethernet Cards: "This computer does not appear to have any PCI Ethernet cards installed." What am I missing? I rebooted twice... No dice. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1335341 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 At least I got the Trendnet GbE for $10.I put it in the bottom PCI slot, turned the build-in ports off in bios and SL says in System Profiler under Ethernet Cards: "This computer does not appear to have any PCI Ethernet cards installed." What am I missing? I rebooted twice... No dice. That is strange, but three things to try... 1st - Re-seat the card, pull it out, and put it back in making sure its a snug fit. If that does not work then... 2nd - See if the networking control panel wants you to add a new port. Make sure its added their first for system profiler to see it fully. 3rd - Turn on the built in ports and see if it comes on in the networking control panel. If not, maybe its a dead card? or double check to make sure its the right controller and that TrendNet offers Mac support with that card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1335493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoHPhasor Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 After a minor hiccup, I am now running SL 10.6.2 flawlessly. Here is the system: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Quad 2.83GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Memory x 2 (for a total of 8GB) Pioneer CD/DVD Burner Black SATA Model Antec Sonata III 500 Black ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply Patriot Extreme Performance 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory x 2 (for a total of 8GB) This is the Lifehacker setup other than the less expensive 2.83GHz processor and no Network Adapter (the onboard LAN works perfectly). I added the ASUS WL-138g PCI Wireless Adapter. My monitor is an ASUS VW246H connected by DVI from the video card. I had installed SL 10.6 using Halloween v.2 installer and then updated to 10.6.1. For the 10.6.2 update, I dragged the Extra folder to the trash and then ran Stell's v.3. The minor hiccup occured when I updated to 10.6.2. I got the BSOD. From reading previous posts here I tried the other DVI connector on the video card and rebooted. Success. Being a Princess Bride/Andre-the-Giant fan, I appreciate Stell's boot logo, but replaced it with the original apple. Thanks to all who have provided the info to help this amateur get his first Mac. Try turning the monitor off then back on if you get the blue after boot. My secondary works perfectly IF I do it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1335606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgunes Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 That is strange, but three things to try... 1st - Re-seat the card, pull it out, and put it back in making sure its a snug fit. If that does not work then... 2nd - See if the networking control panel wants you to add a new port. Make sure its added their first for system profiler to see it fully. 3rd - Turn on the built in ports and see if it comes on in the networking control panel. If not, maybe its a dead card? or double check to make sure its the right controller and that TrendNet offers Mac support with that card. I took it out, re-seated it and BAM! it's working. I cannot see any other computers on my network (collection of 4 XP and Vista machines). I was able to do that with iAtkos 7 running 10.5.8. What do I have to do for that? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1335679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I took it out, re-seated it and BAM! it's working. I cannot see any other computers on my network (collection of 4 XP and Vista machines). I was able to do that with iAtkos 7 running 10.5.8. What do I have to do for that? Thanks Glad to hear that worked, as far as networking with the other computers, it might be best if you were to look at a piece of software called Dave. It is meant for networking between Mac's and PC's but there is a price, don't know how much. Does anyone know of any other software? possibly Free? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1335945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ÜberMac Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Glad to hear that worked, as far as networking with the other computers, it might be best if you were to look at a piece of software called Dave. It is meant for networking between Mac's and PC's but there is a price, don't know how much. Does anyone know of any other software? possibly Free? You can turn on SMB sharing under the Sharing System Preference. Check filesharing and click on the option button then check the SMB option. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1336004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgunes Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 You can turn on SMB sharing under the Sharing System Preference. Check filesharing and click on the option button then check the SMB option. Thanks. Now I can see my Hackintosh from the other computers (and can access all drives). However, I cannot see any windows computer in my finder. I already rebooted. In my finder I have checkmarks in "Connected Servers" and "Bonjour". What else can I do to access my Windows PCs from my Hackintosh? Some of the Windows PC do not have a firewall or any other kind of protection to deny access from the Hackintosh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1336357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 You can turn on SMB sharing under the Sharing System Preference. Check filesharing and click on the option button then check the SMB option. As you can tell, windows to mac networking was not my strongest point, but now I know! Update: I almost forgot, decided to swap my Quad Core for a new one, the Q9650 and decided to get the Corsair H50 liquid cooling solution for CPU's. It runs 20 degrees Celsius lower than before! YEAH!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1336400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAVEC Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Thanks. Now I can see my Hackintosh from the other computers (and can access all drives). However, I cannot see any windows computer in my finder. I already rebooted. In my finder I have checkmarks in "Connected Servers" and "Bonjour". What else can I do to access my Windows PCs from my Hackintosh? Some of the Windows PC do not have a firewall or any other kind of protection to deny access from the Hackintosh. What I do to see my Win 7 pc's is to connect to server (command K) and type in smb://computer name and then connect as guest and then all the shared folders come up. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1336421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
metzler555 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 The EFI string method works in my hack using two 9800gtx+ cards from different manufactures. This was a must for me when going from 10.5.8 to 10.6.1. I originally got it working in 10.5.x following the link from Aquamac. On this motherboard you must set the display to PEG2 and the second PCIx slot becomes your first monitor. There is some trial and error but it is worth it for the outcome. Good luck. What steps/guide did you take or follow to get the two graphics cards working on the 10.6 snow leopard install, with stella's installer? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1336473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
virtualdiver Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Stella, thanks to you and Adam Pash for all of your work. I have build up 4 drives using the 'Lifehacker- No Hacking Required...' method, and 2 more that I trashed while beginning to learn how to use Terminal to install and repair permissions on a drive I've been working on for my X61s ThinkPad... following terminal commands to the letter (and space), I put in a space where it shouldn't be and it trashed my permissions in my home directory, and even though I could have probably fixed them, it was faster to reinstall the whole drive. Well, live and learn. A total of 6 installs, and all went flawlessly. One thing I haven't heard about anyone doing is something I tried and I wanted to confirm that this will work to those interested in this. I used the Lifehacker method to build a USB key installation drive, but instead of restoring the Snow Leopard image to the USB key, I used Snow Leopard Server (10.6 Build 10A433). It installed to the hard drive as easily as Snow Leopard installed without any problems or issues. Booted up, put in my serial number and off to the races! Awesome work that you've done! Many thanks! One other small note to mention. I had one issue after building my second or third drive (in the same machine)... after rebooting to the new drive and downloading the Lifehacker installer to the desktop and running it on the freshly installed drive, I ejected the USB key and rebooted... the BIOS got stuck at the 'verifying DMI pool' screen. After a little head scratching, I realized I had left my DLINK Bluetooth USB dongle in one of the USB ports... when I pulled it out and re-booted everything proceeded normally. The DLINK works great with SL, thanks for the tip on your blog, just need to remember to remove it while doing an installation. Before I'd install it, I'd gotten used to the behavior that when the BIOS is set to USB as having the highest priority, if or when it no longer sees a USB device at boot time, it will move the USB category to the lowest boot priority, so I never went back and changed it manually after the previous installs. The BIOS obviously is aware the DLINK USB is installed but can't tell that it's not a bootable device with a system on it so it just hangs. Cute, huh? Thanks again for everything... I've never used OSX before, but I'm a quick learner... cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhb87 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I built to these specs with a few differences: 4 gb OCZ Gold RAM DDR2 1066 Sapphire HD Radeon 4870 1GB DDR5 Intel Q9550 Patriot 32GB SSD 2x 1TB WD Green 7200 RPM HD I prepared my thumb drive according to the instructions and the same with my BIOS. However, when my computer started booting from the Hack install thumb drive it froze up at the point where the silver rectangles spin under the Apple logo then progresses to "Select your Language" window. I'm wondering if this is likely a problem with my hardware/settings/something I've overlooked? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrambler_455 Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Has anyone installed any eSATA cards? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Has anyone installed any eSATA cards? I have 2 cards and will try them when I get off work. They should technically work as long as they have the proper drivers, since there is PCI detection for this mobo. I have heard that the onboard e-Sata is finicky and hit or miss in 10.6.2. One quick thing I just noticed on stell's blog. Apparently Netkas updated FakeSMC to version 2.5, has anyone tried this yet? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkronElliott Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Thanks. Now I can see my Hackintosh from the other computers (and can access all drives). However, I cannot see any windows computer in my finder. I already rebooted. In my finder I have checkmarks in "Connected Servers" and "Bonjour". What else can I do to access my Windows PCs from my Hackintosh? Some of the Windows PC do not have a firewall or any other kind of protection to deny access from the Hackintosh. I found tonight that McAfee also had a firewall. Check if your Virus protection also includes its own firewall. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j0seph Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 First off I would like to thank Stell and Adam for the great guide! I've already ordered all my parts, and I just read through this WHOLE thread and the original (terminal version) LH guide and LH no hacking required guide. One thing I notice reading through this whole thread is all the people posting in here with different hardware! This is confusing as hell for someone building there first hackintosh! Anyway to my question at hand: 1. So far I've read that using the terminal version of the LH guide is the stablest? Which is the best/stablest way to install? 2. If I use the terminal version, do I have to upgrade to the no hacking Halloween package to kill the temp. problems some people have posted? PLEASE feel free to correct me if I'm wrong as I just read this and may be a little confused myself! Thanks everyone! -joseph Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 First off I would like to thank Stell and Adam for the great guide! I've already ordered all my parts, and I just read through this WHOLE thread and the original (terminal version) LH guide and LH no hacking required guide. One thing I notice reading through this whole thread is all the people posting in here with different hardware! This is confusing as hell for someone building there first hackintosh! Anyway to my question at hand: 1. So far I've read that using the terminal version of the LH guide is the stablest? Which is the best/stablest way to install? 2. If I use the terminal version, do I have to upgrade to the no hacking Halloween package to kill the temp. problems some people have posted? PLEASE feel free to correct me if I'm wrong as I just read this and may be a little confused myself! Thanks everyone! -joseph The confusion is understandable, I think this forum has evolved from its original purpose as new supporting software allows for other hardware. Now from my understanding, the terminal version is not necessary, as the package StellaRola has put together negates that. As far as stability goes, I have used the v3 installer and have had no problems what-so-ever and I am far from using the exacts specs of the lifehacker guide. Let me try and simplify it a bit more... The Motherboard is the most important, you need to use the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Processor - Any Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad that is supported by the board will work. (double check the gigabyte product page for CPU support) RAM - same thing applies to RAM, just be sure you are using what the board can support and check gigabyte's page Hard Drive - Does not really matter, as long as its Sata I/II compatible (no SAS drives) CD/DVD-R - This is where you need to be a bit picky, most any will work but for my experience with many brands I find that Sony, Pioneer, and Plextor give the best compatibility and burning reliability for most media you use Power Supply - Have at it, choose what you want and make sure its Intel compatible and at least 500 Watts PCI Nic - Since the on-board ethernet can be finicky and does not support AFP or Bonjour, definitely go with what the lifehacker guide suggests to make it easy. Graphics - This is where its a bit tricky persay... ATI can work but its a bit harder then going with Nvidia. You can go with just about any Nvidia 8, 9, or GT200 card, except the CO-OP based cards, and the new GT210/220. These are brand new and are a GPU revision, I would stay away from them. Also I made a previous post about good manufacturers to go with as they stay within the Nvidia reference design for best compatibility. I would recommend EVGA, XFX, Zotac, PNY (just remembered them) and some BFG cards. Hope this helps you out and clears some confusion. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkronElliott Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 First off I would like to thank Stell and Adam for the great guide! I've already ordered all my parts, and I just read through this WHOLE thread and the original (terminal version) LH guide and LH no hacking required guide. One thing I notice reading through this whole thread is all the people posting in here with different hardware! This is confusing as hell for someone building there first hackintosh! Anyway to my question at hand: 1. So far I've read that using the terminal version of the LH guide is the stablest? Which is the best/stablest way to install? 2. If I use the terminal version, do I have to upgrade to the no hacking Halloween package to kill the temp. problems some people have posted? PLEASE feel free to correct me if I'm wrong as I just read this and may be a little confused myself! Thanks everyone! -joseph Greetings, I have completed this build starting November 13 and finishing the 17th. I had confusion in some instances that I could share the road bumps and the resolution. I will go at a higher level to give the general concept. With the hardware parts, I followed Adam's list posted on the Lifehacker's site. With all the manuals I followed the Gigabyte manual. My two issues in the hardware installation was missing the ATX 12V to the motherboard and the NIC card. Besides the ATX connection, you will need the ATX 12V, I missed that in the assembly. CPU Fan would only spin once and not enough power to boot. Took 4 hours out of the schedule Saturday. When placing the Video Card into the slot, it helps to have the 2nd slot open for the fan. The last fix I did Tuesday was moving the NIC card to the last slot (PCI2) to have network access. The Sata connections I did are only in the orange sata connectors. Hard drive is Satat2_0. When doing the BIOS settings it helps to have a second monitor. I had the keyboard connected to the Hackintosh and the mouse connected to the PC for going through the Web pages. Note that some of the BIOS information is in the Comments field, open the screen captures full screen. I missed those when I was wrestling through the items. The majority of my time from Saturday to Tuesday was the Installer. I completely misread the instructions and by accident I did do the correct install, but double guessed myself and reinstalled. I created the Thumb drive exactly as explained with V3 installer. I booted off the USB installer, format the Hack Hard Drive, run the installer to load the OS onto the Hard drive, reboot. When rebooting, the USB thumb drive will run again, currently this is the only bootable drive. I quit the installer the second pass through the installers menu. The exit will give you the option to boot to your formatted Hard Drive, allow the software to direct you. This reboot will complete the installation of the OS to your Hack Hard drive. Once this is done you still do not have a bootable hard drive until you run the USB Installer's installation pointing to the Hack Hard drive. After the OS finishes "Welcome Screen" you can access the Thumb from the Finder. Or if you shutdown by mistake. Reboot to the bootable thumb drive, Quit the installer selecting the Hack Hard drive and allow the software to direct you by booting to the hard drive. Then use the Finder to run the installer from the Thumb drive. Remember that the installer will be ran twice. 1. Creating the Extra folder on the Thumb drive to make it bootable. Stell mentions that you want to Backup/Remove the Extra folder on the Thumb, so his installer can create the new one. 2. Creating the Extra folder on the Hack Hard Drive to make it bootable. The Version 3 makes the upgrade to 10.6.2 possible. I have been running since Tuesday 17th. Waiting on another WD internal drive so I can start using my time machine. Got the networking running Friday 20th. McAffee has a firewall disabling the connection for my share. I never thought I had more than 1 firewall running. Also the application TeamViewer could be a last effort, free software like VNC, handles firewall issues on its own. This software will be VNC like, so install on both machines. Updating to 10.6.2 was a non issue. Now I am trying to figure what to do with the machine now that it is working. Thank you Stell, Adam, and others that I got information from. Hopefully I did not take away from others fun trying to troubleshoot their issues. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamTheGeek Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 I've got just one more question for the assembled knowledge on this thread. I've come across Dell Part #430-2757. It's apparently the PCI version of the Dell Wireless 1505. (Here's a link: http://bit.ly/6mQ30p). I was wondering if anyone foresaw any problems with this setup. If there aren't any. I'm going to go ahead and buy one for myself as an early birthday present. It's apparently the Dell Wireless 1505 (which Stell has listed as compatible) in an enclosure, with a proprietary external antenna. I've used this type of setup on Dell machines before, and it's quite reliable. If this does work, it could be a boon for the lifehacker build. Non-disclaimer: I have no association or affiliate deal with Dell. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgunes Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 What I do to see my Win 7 pc's is to connect to server (command K) and type in smb://computer name and then connect as guest and then all the shared folders come up. The interesting point is that iAtkos v7 was able to see all other windows computers and connect to them automatically. It would be nice if the gurus here could find out how that was achieved. Could it be some kind of kext? I would have to set up guest accounts on all the windows machines. Trying to log on as administrator did not work. My hackintosh can see the SATA drives connected to the JMicron SATA ports but it cannot see the ATA drives connected to the JMicron ATA connector. This applies for finder and for the disk utility. Is anybody able to see any ATA drives? How were you able to do it? Does anybody know of a PCI or PCI-e internal SATA card (non-RAID) with 4-6 ports that is hackintosh compatible? The motherboard (GP EP45-UD3P) has only 8 SATA ports but the Thermaltake Armor can take 12-14 hard drives with the drive cages. I use it as a media server. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1337994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 I've got just one more question for the assembled knowledge on this thread.I've come across Dell Part #430-2757. It's apparently the PCI version of the Dell Wireless 1505. (Here's a link: http://bit.ly/6mQ30p). I was wondering if anyone foresaw any problems with this setup. If there aren't any. I'm going to go ahead and buy one for myself as an early birthday present. It's apparently the Dell Wireless 1505 (which Stell has listed as compatible) in an enclosure, with a proprietary external antenna. I've used this type of setup on Dell machines before, and it's quite reliable. If this does work, it could be a boon for the lifehacker build. Non-disclaimer: I have no association or affiliate deal with Dell. Here is the best piece of advice I can give on this. I have seen some Dell hardware work out of the box, since they FINALLY went with good chipsets. I bring this up as just about any, Broadcom based wireless chip will be seen as an Airport card and work in OS X. This is a good thing, and since this matches closely, I would say give it a try and let us know if it works for you, as I have had success with Dell mini PCI-E wireless cards. The interesting point is that iAtkos v7 was able to see all other windows computers and connect to them automatically. It would be nice if the gurus here could find out how that was achieved. Could it be some kind of kext? I would have to set up guest accounts on all the windows machines. Trying to log on as administrator did not work. My hackintosh can see the SATA drives connected to the JMicron SATA ports but it cannot see the ATA drives connected to the JMicron ATA connector. This applies for finder and for the disk utility. Is anybody able to see any ATA drives? How were you able to do it? Does anybody know of a PCI or PCI-e internal SATA card (non-RAID) with 4-6 ports that is hackintosh compatible? The motherboard (GP EP45-UD3P) has only 8 SATA ports but the Thermaltake Armor can take 12-14 hard drives with the drive cages. I use it as a media server. As for the viewing of window machines, I am wondering if something was changed in the defaults of the Firewall in 10.6. Since 10.4 we have seen 3 different, I want to say versions, of the firewall control panel/setup. This might be where we want to look first. For your problem with the ATA controller, check the BIOS. MAke sure your setting are correct, otherwise you will not see anything on that bus. For the PCI/PCI-E card, you can basically use anything that is Mac and PC compatible. I have a higher end High Point Rocket Raid card, and it works beautifully. I know that Siig, Sonnet, Rosewill, and a few others make Mac/PC compatible cards, so they should work. I say this because the board we are using has proper PCI detection, which is not common for all Hack-Intoshes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1338039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j0seph Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Thank you SBMac and AkronElliott, you guys cleared some things up for me! Hardware is a check: Parts arriving next week Software/Install: This is where the confusion was on which version of the no hack method installer to run, I now understand. This afternoon me and some friends are going to be setting up his hackintosh so I'll let you guys know how it goes! -joseph Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1338082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j0seph Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Ok, having some issues, this is the second MB they have tried, first one had two bad RAM slots. Second board installed, first time it booted, frooze entering bios (used a ps2 keyboard, if thats an issue) Any ideas? Motherboard again? Same exact specs as the LH guide, to the T. -joseph Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/25/#findComment-1338351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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