Lifehacker Guide with GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard

[thepretender]

SBmac to your surprise and mine I put the 6600gt in and booted -x32 and all seems well, works like it should no KP. Good news for those who can't quite afford the "exact" parts.

 

Turns out Bonjour wasn't 100% with the terminal fix. But this fix works just fine. Could save a pci slot or $10 bucks for someone I picked up a SL compatible Trendnet Ethernet card from my local Fry's before trying this. Anyone need a 9800GT and a network card cheep jk

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/125-bonjour64:_a...4-bit_snow.html

 

With this fix and version 1.6 of the GA_EP45-UD3P on board nic's work 100% can't say for older versions of the MB. Though I suspect they would be fine also.

 

Working 64bit kext (works 32bit also) for onboard NIC found in this post.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181133

 

0800damo, if your PCI NIC won't work turn on the onboard Ethernet in you BIOS and try the above.

[MacTech84]

SBmac to your surprise and mine I put the 6600gt in and booted -x32 and all seems well, works like it should no KP. Good news for those who can't quite afford the "exact" parts.

 

Turns out Bonjour wasn't 100% with the terminal fix. But this fix works just fine. Could save a pci slot or $10 bucks for someone I picked up a SL compatible Trendnet Ethernet card from my local Fry's before trying this. Anyone need a 9800GT and a network card cheep jk

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/125-bonjour64:_a...4-bit_snow.html

 

With this fix and version 1.6 of the GA_EP45-UD3P on board nic's work 100% can't say for older versions of the MB. Though I suspect they would be fine also.

 

Glad to hear its working for you, from my understanding the KP is caused in 64 bit mode, as the drivers were not good for the 6/7 series with 64 bit. I am hoping at some point in the future to actually see full support for the onboard LAN, but there are soo many chipsets out there for these ports, I think its best for a PCI-NIC for right now.

[0800damo]

Just curious here, do you have the onboard ethernet enabled or disabled? And did you install any kext files for the onboard ethernet?

 

all bios settings are as the lifehacker set up so whatever it is in them sorry but this is my first build and not that familiar with it all yet

 

onboard ethernet does not work either

 

have not installed any kexts

 

thanks for your interest

[MacTech84]

all bios settings are as the lifehacker set up so whatever it is in them sorry but this is my first build and not that familiar with it all yet

 

onboard ethernet does not work either

 

have not installed any kexts

 

thanks for your interest

 

Try this...

 

Pull the PCI NIC card, boot up and go into BIOS. Check the settings for your LAN ports and make sure they are disabled. Let the computer restart and fully load into OS X. Once that is up, shut the computer down, unplug the power supply, then re-install the PCI NIC you have and reboot. Let us know if that works...

[0800damo]

Try this...

 

Pull the PCI NIC card, boot up and go into BIOS. Check the settings for your LAN ports and make sure they are disabled. Let the computer restart and fully load into OS X. Once that is up, shut the computer down, unplug the power supply, then re-install the PCI NIC you have and reboot. Let us know if that works...

 

tried it no luck

[MacTech84]

tried it no luck

 

I would recommend trying the following from member the pretender. Personally I would say try the kext first, and if that does not work, try the other fix after removing the kext. When I home later I will try the kext myself.

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/125-bonjour64:_a...4-bit_snow.html

 

With this fix and version 1.6 of the GA_EP45-UD3P on board nic's work 100% can't say for older versions of the MB. Though I suspect they would be fine also.

 

Working 64bit kext (works 32bit also) for onboard NIC found in this post.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181133

 

0800damo, if your PCI NIC won't work turn on the onboard Ethernet in you BIOS and try the above.

 

Thanks for finding these...

[MicahDanielSmith]

Thanks to everyone contributing here. Got my hackintosh working really well with reading all 30+ pages of this guide. That being said, I wanted to see how people were approaching wireless. I have read some other posts on the forum discussing wireless adapters that are/are not working, but havent seen anything that was really conclusive of things working in SL -64. Anyone using a wireless adaptor they can suggest? PCI or USB? Looking for something that will work as an "airport" card just so I dont muck up any future updates. Thanks!

[MacTech84]

Thanks to everyone contributing here. Got my hackintosh working really well with reading all 30+ pages of this guide. That being said, I wanted to see how people were approaching wireless. I have read some other posts on the forum discussing wireless adapters that are/are not working, but havent seen anything that was really conclusive of things working in SL -64. Anyone using a wireless adaptor they can suggest? PCI or USB? Looking for something that will work as an "airport" card just so I dont muck up any future updates. Thanks!

 

There are several PCI cards on the market that will work for Wifi and be recognized as Airport based cards and for these typically you want to find a Broadcom based card as these will work the best right out of the box. If you care to read some more, another site that I use for a lot of product compatibility is xlr8yourmac.com. This guy has created a database of a lot of compatible hardware with the Mac that you might not be able to fin elsewhere, try this link ...

 

http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/action.lasso...yes&-search

 

This is the networking FAQ on his site and should help.

[0800damo]

I would recommend trying the following from member the pretender. Personally I would say try the kext first, and if that does not work, try the other fix after removing the kext. When I home later I will try the kext myself.

 

 

 

Thanks for finding these...

 

sb mac that worked onboard ethernet

 

I am very thankful for your help

 

1 more question

 

can i run osx server with this install method ?

 

I would be interested to hear your thoughts

 

damian

 

and also a big thank you to the pretender i am amewbie and didnt originaly see your post

[MacTech84]

sb mac that worked onboard ethernet

 

I am very thankful for your help

 

1 more question

 

can i run osx server with this install method ?

 

I would be interested to hear your thoughts

 

damian

 

and also a big thank you to the pretender i am amewbie and didnt originaly see your post

 

I have messed with OS X server before, but this was a few years back. The only real difference between server and consumer are applications that are installed, and services you can run through it (in the most basic way to say). Technically it should work the exact same way. If you do try to install this I would recommend you use a different HD that way you do not touch the install you have done of consumer OS X.

[ruby_99]

I need a little help with my video card -- the fan seems to run at full speed all the time. It varies on startup, then stays at a constant high level. It was the same with the Halloween installer and v.3. I've tried to mess around with some of the BIOS settings to no avail.

 

The next steps for me to try are to reinstall on another HD. I have it in the back of mind to buy a different cooler for the card or another, fanless card.

[mosslack]

Anyone having any success running SL on the UD3P with dual video cards? I've tried Stell's install, among others, but none seem to work with 2 video cards. I had it working fine in 10.5.8. Also been having problems shutting down lately, about 9 times out of 10 it simply refuses to shut down. Then for no apparent reason it will work fine the next time. Probably BIOS related, but which setting?

[HAVEC]

I need a little help with my video card -- the fan seems to run at full speed all the time. It varies on startup, then stays at a constant high level. It was the same with the Halloween installer and v.3. I've tried to mess around with some of the BIOS settings to no avail.

 

The next steps for me to try are to reinstall on another HD. I have it in the back of mind to buy a different cooler for the card or another, fanless card.

 

I put an Artic Cooling fanless gpu cooler on a 9600 GSO that did the trick. I'm not sure if you can get away with a fanless cooler on a 9800 GT though. Some people at Newegg liked this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...6-027-_-Product if you have a lot of room in your case.

[MacWannaBe]

I have a question. Everything is working fine. This is more of a cosmetic issue. I have a 16:10 monitor (1920x1200). I have changed the plist in theme so that the bootloader screen is the proper resolution.

 

However, the Apple boot logo (I changed it from OBEY), is showing up rather low rez and squished. Any ideas on what to change it to make it look better?

 

Thanks.

[Nach0 Stallion]

Stellarolla V3 install - worked, then died..

 

Hi everyone, I have been trying for ages to get this exact board ever since i saw the life hacker article, then I saw that Stella has made V3 of the installer I was over the moon, my issue, I have one of those evil ATI4870 cards.

what I have done so far:

 

had a working hackintosh with a GA-31 boards, had vanilla 10.5 install with netkas injector so i was happily playing COD4 on it

wanted more RAM, more HD drives etc

 

so i got the 45-UD3P

i have tried about 12 install methods/guides etc, its now 1:30am, im still at work and am exhausted :/

 

I got aitkos 7 working with sound , lan GFX (only single output)

so i thought id try with the new SL as these cards are now available for SL macs etc etc.

 

stellas V3 worked, i had sound, but now when i turn the system on i get 4 lines of text and nothing happened, I.M forums search is all over the place im just so exhausted going back through dosens of pages trying to find an answer

 

SO my question is this:

can someone help me out with a solution as to what to do to get up and running and if i can have dual monitors (the card has 2 DVI ports) (i have access to real macs etc)

or should i just stick with 10.5.7 iAtkos?

 

my goal is to have a system with 8GB of RAM, win 7 64bit and SL with dual monitors for both gaming and testing customers HDDs (why i needed so many sata ports)

I see that IDE is fully turned off in SL, but with my iatkos i had full DVD burning.

 

any and all help appreciated

 

thank you in advance 'oh forumites who are smarter then me

 

Nach0

[thepretender]

Nacho, Did you install Stella V3 onto the hard drive with snow on it? If not boot with you thumb drive and do so.

[ruby_99]

I put an Artic Cooling fanless gpu cooler on a 9600 GSO that did the trick. I'm not sure if you can get away with a fanless cooler on a 9800 GT though. Some people at Newegg liked this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...6-027-_-Product if you have a lot of room in your case.

Thanks -- this would be my last resort. I'm hoping for a software fix. I would try messing with the DSDT, but don't know where to start. I'm a bit of a newbie at this.

[MacTech84]

Stellarolla V3 install - worked, then died..

 

Hi everyone, I have been trying for ages to get this exact board ever since i saw the life hacker article, then I saw that Stella has made V3 of the installer I was over the moon, my issue, I have one of those evil ATI4870 cards.

what I have done so far:

 

had a working hackintosh with a GA-31 boards, had vanilla 10.5 install with netkas injector so i was happily playing COD4 on it

wanted more RAM, more HD drives etc

 

so i got the 45-UD3P

i have tried about 12 install methods/guides etc, its now 1:30am, im still at work and am exhausted :/

 

I got aitkos 7 working with sound , lan GFX (only single output)

so i thought id try with the new SL as these cards are now available for SL macs etc etc.

 

stellas V3 worked, i had sound, but now when i turn the system on i get 4 lines of text and nothing happened, I.M forums search is all over the place im just so exhausted going back through dosens of pages trying to find an answer

 

SO my question is this:

can someone help me out with a solution as to what to do to get up and running and if i can have dual monitors (the card has 2 DVI ports) (i have access to real macs etc)

or should i just stick with 10.5.7 iAtkos?

 

my goal is to have a system with 8GB of RAM, win 7 64bit and SL with dual monitors for both gaming and testing customers HDDs (why i needed so many sata ports)

I see that IDE is fully turned off in SL, but with my iatkos i had full DVD burning.

 

any and all help appreciated

 

thank you in advance 'oh forumites who are smarter then me

 

Nach0

 

For getting your ATI card to work, try over at the netkas forum

 

http://netkas.org/

 

I would recommend this since the V3 installer only support Nvidia, otherwise you could change out the card you have for one that is more easily supported since the V3 installer does not support ATI cards, only automatic recognition of Nvidia cards. Once you do get it up, both ports should work. I have 2 -20 inch Cinema Displays running off of a GTX 275. As for the DVD burner, I might suggest an upgrade to SATA, just becuase it will burn faster, and they are showing to be a bit more reliable, as well as pretty cheap now. Say $30 for a Pioneer on newegg.

 

I need a little help with my video card -- the fan seems to run at full speed all the time. It varies on startup, then stays at a constant high level. It was the same with the Halloween installer and v.3. I've tried to mess around with some of the BIOS settings to no avail.

 

The next steps for me to try are to reinstall on another HD. I have it in the back of mind to buy a different cooler for the card or another, fanless card.

 

This could be a few things, possibly bad contact between the GPU cooler and the heatsink, possibly bad GPU BIOS, check for an update on the manufacturers site, or possibly just a bad card. Have you had the card overclocked?

 

 

Anyone having any success running SL on the UD3P with dual video cards? I've tried Stell's install, among others, but none seem to work with 2 video cards. I had it working fine in 10.5.8. Also been having problems shutting down lately, about 9 times out of 10 it simply refuses to shut down. Then for no apparent reason it will work fine the next time. Probably BIOS related, but which setting?

 

There is a way from what I have heard, something about hacking the DSDT to get it to show properly, but I have not been able to find the instructions to do so yet personally. Anyone out there got the instructions on how to set that up?

 

I have a question. Everything is working fine. This is more of a cosmetic issue. I have a 16:10 monitor (1920x1200). I have changed the plist in theme so that the bootloader screen is the proper resolution.

 

However, the Apple boot logo (I changed it from OBEY), is showing up rather low rez and squished. Any ideas on what to change it to make it look better?

 

Thanks.

 

For this check out the Chameleon bootloader forum:

 

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,237.0.html

 

Check this out on how to resize the theme and all of the necessary files to change.

[D-an-W]

Damn SB, your like the Energiser Bunny in this thread

 

More great words of advise there, I am just waiting for the GTX285 to turn up!

[Nach0 Stallion]

Nacho, Did you install Stella V3 onto the hard drive with snow on it? If not boot with you thumb drive and do so.

 

ahhh, this appears to be the issue, I did tell my system to boot off USB-HDD but it still gave me the error, thinking i had somehow nuked everything, i had to go into biod and make USB HDD a higher priority then it popped up with bootloader, i selected second drive and up she comes!

 

thank you SOO much!

 

Nach0

 

For getting your ATI card to work, try over at the netkas forum

 

http://netkas.org/

 

I would recommend this since the V3 installer only support Nvidia, otherwise you could change out the card you have for one that is more easily supported since the V3 installer does not support ATI cards, only automatic recognition of Nvidia cards. Once you do get it up, both ports should work. I have 2 -20 inch Cinema Displays running off of a GTX 275. As for the DVD burner, I might suggest an upgrade to SATA, just becuase it will burn faster, and they are showing to be a bit more reliable, as well as pretty cheap now. Say $30 for a Pioneer on newegg.

 

Thanks for the help, yeah I have used Netkas on a previous build, man these ATI's seem to be all over the place, the issue was i wanted a card i can use for gaming Win7 and have M[H]ac support, when i got it there was still issues for people getting a 9800GTX to work

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Nach0

[MacTech84]

Damn SB, your like the Energiser Bunny in this thread

 

More great words of advise there, I am just waiting for the GTX285 to turn up!

 

LMAO, thanks.. For my job, I can be online basically all the time, so I just login and watch the thread every so often. Plus I was making some change to my rig yesterday and it was down for almost the whole day. So yeah, I am on here constantly just because I have received so much help in the past that I just want to pay some back.

 

 

Thanks for the help, yeah I have used Netkas on a previous build, man these ATI's seem to be all over the place, the issue was i wanted a card i can use for gaming Win7 and have M[H]ac support, when i got it there was still issues for people getting a 9800GTX to work

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Nach0

 

Ok, I mean this sincerely and not trying to bash you or your choice in graphics. But why not go with a GT200 series card? (please don't say price). I say this because its just now that ATI with the 5000 series has been able to somewhat catch up with Nvidia's GT200 series. Hell my GTX275 beats most of those cards, but anyways I do stray from my point. For good gaming, and a card you will not have to upgrade every year, go with a GT200 series card, and it will serve you well. It will also be auto-recognized with the V3 installer, and fully work.

[Nach0 Stallion]

Ok, I mean this sincerely and not trying to bash you or your choice in graphics. But why not go with a GT200 series card? (please don't say price). I say this because its just now that ATI with the 5000 series has been able to somewhat catch up with Nvidia's GT200 series. Hell my GTX275 beats most of those cards, but anyways I do stray from my point. For good gaming, and a card you will not have to upgrade every year, go with a GT200 series card, and it will serve you well. It will also be auto-recognized with the V3 installer, and fully work.

 

Appreciate the feedback and the help,the issue is, when i purchased the bits (I have been buying hackintosh bits over the last 3 months), Raven case, 3ghz CPU, video card etc.. when i got the 4870 there was not support in the hack world for the 200 series of cards and netkas had just enabled his injector thingy to get it to work, so it was the best choice... for that month..

i look at nvidia injector programs (i have a dir full of hackintosh installers etc, im soo confused :S ) and the largest card it lists is a 9800gtx..

 

If a 275, 285 work, and work easier then all this ****ing around, ill sell the damn thing and get one

 

honestly i just havnt kept up with Nvidia's hacksupport after my ATI decision..

 

Addition:

I just tried the Bonjour fix for my network ports, the system now thinks every mac on the network is an aluminium iMac and refuses to connect.

 

SB Mac: it seems my choices are

A: run SL in 32bit mode and use realtek1000.kext or

B: disable this 'promisc' mode

 

i want to run this system with 8GB of RAM, its basically a gameing/email and disk scanning system, if i use 32bit mode will it affect the amount of RAM the system will see?

 

thanks (i only ask as i have the exact board as you and am tearing hair out

[MacWannaBe]

For this check out the Chameleon bootloader forum:

 

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,237.0.html

 

Check this out on how to resize the theme and all of the necessary files to change.

 

Actually, I didn't need to do any of that. All I had to do was change the following 4 things in the /Extra/Themes/Default/theme.plist

 

<key>boot_height</key>

<string>1200</string>

<key>boot_width</key>

<string>1920</string>

 

<key>screen_height</key>

<string>1200</string>

<key>screen_width</key>

<string>1920</string>

 

Reboot... everything looked great. I had only changed the screen ones before and not the boot ones, that's why the apple logo and spinner were the wrong shape.

 

-Ed

[MacTech84]

Appreciate the feedback and the help,the issue is, when i purchased the bits (I have been buying hackintosh bits over the last 3 months), Raven case, 3ghz CPU, video card etc.. when i got the 4870 there was not support in the hack world for the 200 series of cards and netkas had just enabled his injector thingy to get it to work, so it was the best choice... for that month..

i look at nvidia injector programs (i have a dir full of hackintosh installers etc, im soo confused :S ) and the largest card it lists is a 9800gtx..

 

If a 275, 285 work, and work easier then all this ****ing around, ill sell the damn thing and get one

 

honestly i just havnt kept up with Nvidia's hacksupport after my ATI decision..

 

Addition:

I just tried the Bonjour fix for my network ports, the system now thinks every mac on the network is an aluminium iMac and refuses to connect.

 

SB Mac: it seems my choices are

A: run SL in 32bit mode and use realtek1000.kext or

B: disable this 'promisc' mode

 

i want to run this system with 8GB of RAM, its basically a gameing/email and disk scanning system, if i use 32bit mode will it affect the amount of RAM the system will see?

 

thanks (i only ask as i have the exact board as you and am tearing hair out

 

Thank you for understanding me and where I was going with my little rant. I can fully understand your choice as yes, at the time under 10.5 ATI seemed to have better support as the Nvidia injectors were getting quite old and obsolete. With recent additions to the bootloader, its now possible for these cards to be supported much more easily, and for some reason I keep reading ATI cards are having difficult support under 10.6. You can use any Nvidia 8/9/GT 200 series card with the V3 installer, except for the GT210/220 and any CO-OP based cards. Best bang for the buck is the GTX275, at least when I got mine on sale and works beautifully.

 

As for the networking, I would recommend dropping in a PCI-Nic card, such as the Netgear GA311. I have tried 4 different methods and scripts for getting the onboard to work and the only thing that is consistent is getting on the net. Bonjour support works half the time in 64 bit mode. Since I wanted full 64 bit support, I basically said screw it and got the add in card and have been happy with correct recognition of other Mac's on my network. I fully know about wanting to tear your hair out, as on my last build I did that way too often. For me this one has been an absolute BREEZE! Let me know if you need anything else...

 

Actually, I didn't need to do any of that. All I had to do was change the following 4 things in the /Extra/Themes/Default/theme.plist

 

<key>boot_height</key>

<string>1200</string>

<key>boot_width</key>

<string>1920</string>

 

<key>screen_height</key>

<string>1200</string>

<key>screen_width</key>

<string>1920</string>

 

Reboot... everything looked great. I had only changed the screen ones before and not the boot ones, that's why the apple logo and spinner were the wrong shape.

 

-Ed

 

Thanks, that is good to know as well. I changed all of the resolutions like it was recommending for the pic files, and it looks great as well.

[MacWannaBe]

i want to run this system with 8GB of RAM, its basically a gameing/email and disk scanning system, if i use 32bit mode will it affect the amount of RAM the system will see?

 

thanks (i only ask as i have the exact board as you and am tearing hair out

 

32-bit will not limit how much memory you can see. I was running in 32 bit mode at first and could use my 8 gigs no problem.

 

A 32-bit APP, cannot use more than 4 gigs I think, but that was not your question. The overall system will be fine in 32-bit mode.