Lifehacker Guide with GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard

[ROLAND4001]

ok sorry to ask but where do I find the Bios setting for this motherboard. I getting ready to update the Bios?

Rickey

 

New question what about the later version of the

 

EP45 UD3P motherboard are will they work? I building a new box in about a month and I can't seem to find this M/B anymore only the later version?

[MacWannaBe]

ok sorry to ask but where do I find the Bios setting for this motherboard. I getting ready to update the Bios?

Rickey

 

I hope that you mean that you want to update some BIOS setting and NOT that you are trying to update the BIOS itself to a newer version.

 

Some folks have had trouble getting their build to work again after updating the BIOS.

[Sound Fondler]

Hey gang,

 

Had my build up and running for a few months now - and it was working flawlessly.

 

However..PROBLEM! My 8800 GTX which was in it has died...so I've replaced it with an old Radeon card I had lying around (X1600 XT). It boots - but resolution is limited to 1280x1024. Was planning on getting a new card (Radeon HD 4870), but wasn't sure if the build is Nvidia restrictive?

 

If it is...is there anyway round this? I dual boot for games, so ideally I'd like the best bang for the buck...which currently is a 4870, or possibly a 5770...

 

Thanks

[ROLAND4001]

I hope that you mean that you want to update some BIOS setting and NOT that you are trying to update the BIOS itself to a newer version.

 

Some folks have had trouble getting their build to work again after updating the BIOS.

Yes I was think of upgrading my BIOS but I won't now. SO my two questions are:

 

1. Where do I find the Bios settings as I getting ready to build another system for my home in the states.

 

2. I still can not boot from the hard drive. I get a Boot0: error when I try. Is there some file I need to delete or such I run the package from the hard drive itself and not from the thumb drive to install the bootloader?

Rickey

[cholepuree]

Hey gang,

 

Had my build up and running for a few months now - and it was working flawlessly.

 

However..PROBLEM! My 8800 GTX which was in it has died...so I've replaced it with an old Radeon card I had lying around (X1600 XT). It boots - but resolution is limited to 1280x1024. Was planning on getting a new card (Radeon HD 4870), but wasn't sure if the build is Nvidia restrictive?

 

If it is...is there anyway round this? I dual boot for games, so ideally I'd like the best bang for the buck...which currently is a 4870, or possibly a 5770...

 

Thanks

 

 

Im running 4870 - with no issues. I used the same instal method using the v3 installer. Works fine. Dual monitors also works.

 

 

 

 

Yes I was think of upgrading my BIOS but I won't now. SO my two questions are:

 

1. Where do I find the Bios settings as I getting ready to build another system for my home in the states.

 

2. I still can not boot from the hard drive. I get a Boot0: error when I try. Is there some file I need to delete or such I run the package from the hard drive itself and not from the thumb drive to install the bootloader?

Rickey

what do you mean by bios settings? - what the settings should be? or how to change the bios settings?

 

I upgraded my bios using their internet update thingamajig last week (through vista) just before I installed SL. Install went flawless. The problem you may have is that your SL drive isnt set as the 1st bootable drive in your bios. You need to go into your bios, check the boot priority and make sure that your SL drive is set as the 1st to boot. I had this issue as I have Win 7 and SL installed on two separate identical drives. so in the bios I couldnt tell which one was which. So it was just trial and error to find out which one was the SL drive. Im pretty sure thats your problem.  

[Sound Fondler]

Im running 4870 - with no issues. I used the same instal method using the v3 installer. Works fine. Dual monitors also works.

 

 

 

Thanks dude - literally just bought a 4890. We will see what is what...

[DonRobbie]

Doorstep #2 is built and running OS X. Overall very happy with the setup.

Working a couple of issues.

#1 I have my network printer working. But it sure wasn't very Mac-like. I tried a couple different fixes (ifconfing, Realtek kext) and neither seemed to get bonjour working. Finally I manually entered the IP address for the printer in the add printer dialog. Once it had the address it "found" the printer and Prints fine. So I guess that's solved (though the process will have to be repeated when the router restarts).

 

#2 We wound up buying the bits from Fry's (impatience is a terrible thing). The motherboard we used for my machine had been returned previously. In BIOS I can only set the CPU multiplier to 6 or 7. My CPU is an Q8200 which should be 2.66Ghz. As it is I can only set it to 2.33 Ghz. The machine is stable. Running for a week and no KPs, lockups, etc. Seems screaming fast to me. Checked the Gigabyte site and the BIOS updates require a Windows/DOS machine to unpack (.exe). At this point I'm inclined to leave well enough alone.

[HAVEC]

Doorstep #2 is built and running OS X. Overall very happy with the setup.

Checked the Gigabyte site and the BIOS updates require a Windows/DOS machine to unpack (.exe). At this point I'm inclined to leave well enough alone.

 

I purchased my board in September or October of 2009. It is the latest 1.6 version with FB bios. There is only one higher version FD and it supposedly fixes a DES version error whatever that is. I would think that all UD3P boards purchased in the past few months are current 1.6 versions and leaving well enough alone is a good idea.

[ironmang]

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.

 

Anyone have any ideas?

 

FYI I've been able to fix my problem.

 

The issue was that the NIC was on en1. I must have left the onboard NIC enabled when installing the OS.

 

To fix the issue I simply disabled the onboard NIC in the bios settings, deleted the following 2 files, and rebooted:

 

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

 

I hope this helps anyone else that faces this problem.

[huntington]

What version bios are you running?

 

FB -- what's the recommended one these days?

[leppy700m]

My CPU is an Q8200 which should be 2.66Ghz. As it is I can only set it to 2.33 Ghz.

Q8200 is a 2.33ghz CPU without over clocking.

 

Q8200 CPU at Newegg

 

FB -- what's the recommended one these days?

FB is what works for me. How is your machine running these days? Did you replace the board with the bad ports?

[huntington]

FB is what works for me. How is your machine running these days? Did you replace the board with the bad ports?

 

oddly enough, i switched ports and sata cables and miraculously disk utility was able to successfully repair my drive. so it seems that either that there must be a problem with either/both the previous port or that cable i'd used. during my first build attempt when i didn't install that crappy intel heat sink properly, maybe something got fried because of the heat sink issue.

 

finally, I have a successful vanilla 10.6 install and i've taken trying to install chameleon to it's own partition on my SL HD (via the blackosx guide). something about that chameleon install isn't working - startup freezes at the apple logo. however, it starts up fine if i use the chameleon on my usb stick. haven't figured out what the discrepancey is. feel like i'm finally very close...

 

installed chameleon onto it's own partition via terminal (via the guide) and then manually installed the dsdt, smbios, and kexts from stella's v3 installer (thanks to his "basics" .zip). something still no quite right. gonna keep fiddling with it today...

[CoHPhasor]

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.

 

No problem, we all start somewhere.

Troubleshooting is both an art and a science.

For future ref, you needed teh right point of reference, then use the "half-split" method.

So the reference was, is it hardware or software related.

The build was specifically designed, and is successfully used by many so it led to something else.

After ensuring you followed all the instructions it left it in the hardware end.

What you described didn't sound like overheat from bad heatsink application as it actually errored.

The error sounded like memory, either HD or RAM.

The latter did not seem likely from the wording, but not impossible.

 

The answer came from a simple Google search of your error wording and problems

from others who installed SL on REAL Macs and posted before you.

Never reinvent the wheel unless the old one isn't working. ;-)

 

Doorstep #2 is built and running OS X. Overall very happy with the setup.

Working a couple of issues.

#1 I have my network printer working. But it sure wasn't very Mac-like. I tried a couple different fixes (ifconfing, Realtek kext) and neither seemed to get bonjour working. Finally I manually entered the IP address for the printer in the add printer dialog. Once it had the address it "found" the printer and Prints fine. So I guess that's solved (though the process will have to be repeated when the router restarts).

 

#2 We wound up buying the bits from Fry's (impatience is a terrible thing). The motherboard we used for my machine had been returned previously. In BIOS I can only set the CPU multiplier to 6 or 7. My CPU is an Q8200 which should be 2.66Ghz. As it is I can only set it to 2.33 Ghz. The machine is stable. Running for a week and no KPs, lockups, etc. Seems screaming fast to me. Checked the Gigabyte site and the BIOS updates require a Windows/DOS machine to unpack (.exe). At this point I'm inclined to leave well enough alone.

 

Bonjour not working? Are you not using the NIC specified in the build?

I know everyone says you can use the onboards, and you can by enabling this, kexting that, but why?

For $10 I never have to worry about it. *sigh

[Presha]

PLEASE HELLP!!!

 

I recently did this build and everything went great until the actual install, after the language screen it gives me a message saying "OS X Can't be installed on this computer" and then tells me I can restore from a time machine disk.

 

I am using all of Adam's components except for a XFX 9800 GT, because I already had one. Now I have checked the hardware compatibility list on this site and it is not listed so I am guessing this is the culprit BUT I dont want to go buying a new card if im just missing something!

 

I checked the install log and it keeps giving me error 35 unable to determine UUID for host.

 

I have double checked the BIOS settings 4 times

 

I tried reformatting the USB and the restore process, with Stelllarolla's V3 boot installer instead

 

I have looked for hours for someone having the same problem to no avail, anyone please help!

[CoHPhasor]

PLEASE HELLP!!!

 

I recently did this build and everything went great until the actual install, after the language screen it gives me a message saying "OS X Can't be installed on this computer" and then tells me I can restore from a time machine disk.

 

I am using all of Adam's components except for a XFX 9800 GT, because I already had one. Now I have checked the hardware compatibility list on this site and it is not listed so I am guessing this is the culprit BUT I dont want to go buying a new card if im just missing something!

 

I checked the install log and it keeps giving me error 35 unable to determine UUID for host.

 

I have double checked the BIOS settings 4 times

 

I tried reformatting the USB and the restore process, with Stelllarolla's V3 boot installer instead

 

I have looked for hours for someone having the same problem to no avail, anyone please help!

 

First, if you are using the v3 installer, that card is fine.

Second, when trying to show us an error, please, write it exactly as you see it.

(It helps for googling, which is what you should be doing)

 

Finally, I think you might have the cards in improper slot positions.

 

Make sure the cards are in the slots designated by the build, and if that doesn't work,

format the HD and try from scratch.

(I assume you have the 1TB drive and not larger? Over 1TB partition=fail)

[Broccoli_Monopoly]

First off, thank you all. This was my first build, and the lifehacker guide along with the awesome resourse that is this thread made it an excellent experience.

 

Just wanted to throw out some of the issues I ran into, and how I (and my smokin hot, genius wife) fixed them.

 

I followed the lifehacker guide (http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required). I formatted an 8GB SanDisk Cruzer USB drive and restored the Snow Leopard DVD image on my wife's macbook pro. I ran Stell's V3 installer, and did the BIOS work as the guide says. Restarted with the USB set as the boot drive, and *gasp* hanged at Verifying DMI Pool Data....

 

After re-formatting the USB drive, backing up the disk image and running the installer again, double-checking BIOS settings, and making sure everything in the case was properly seated, I tried again. Got the same thing, and needed a beer.

 

Here is the solution: Set up the USB drive on a computer that is running a current version of Snow Leopard. My wife's macbook pro runs on tiger, and while the disk utility function is there, and you can follow all the steps...it's not the same. We ended up using a computer that was running Snow Leopard to format the USB drive, and back up the disk image, but foolishly did not run the installer right then. We figured that we could just bring the USB drive home, and run the installer on her macbook and it wouldn't matter.

 

Wrong again.

 

We ran Stell's v3 installer, and still snagged at Verifying DMI Pool Data. My wife, sly minx that she is, took it upon herself to do the terminal work that they detailed in the original lifehacker guide. Boom. Booted and installed just like it was supposed too.

 

Of course, that meant that audio and onboard Ethernet wasn't working. Simple fix. Downloaded Stell's v3 installer on my wife's computer, saved it to a different USB flash drive, and put it on the new Hackintosh. Ran it on the hard drive that I installed Snow Leopard to, and I was good. No longer need the formatted USB drive to boot, and everything works like a peach.

 

My build is below. I cut some corners.

EP45-UD3P Mobo

E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz CPU

EVGA 9800gtx+ GPU

2x2GB Patriot Extreme DDR2 SDRAM

Western Digital Caviar Black 750GB Hard Drive

BFG tech 550w PSU

(no DVD drive yet. Just ordered a Lite-On, should have it Monday)

My case is an old Alienware case I found gathering dust in a friend's basement.

[CoHPhasor]

First off, thank you all. This was my first build, and the lifehacker guide along with the awesome resourse that is this thread made it an excellent experience.

 

Just wanted to throw out some of the issues I ran into, and how I (and my smokin hot, genius wife) fixed them.

 

Congratulations. Any pictures of said smokin hot wife? ;-D

 

You are correct in having discovered Tiger's inability to make the USB bootable.

But that is already discovered, and unfortunately buried in this mound of thread.

SL is *not required to run the install, the minimum is Leopard. :-)

 

(One day soon I'm going to make a list of things people NEED to know and have the original post edited!)

[960brick]

(One day soon I'm going to make a list of things people NEED to know and have the original post edited!)

 

Great idea, that would answer more than have the repetative posts on this thread. Sort of a check list for the Installer, bios ..etc or even a seperate WIKI page since this build is probably the most popular

[CoHPhasor]

Great idea, that would answer more than have the repetative posts on this thread. Sort of a check list for the Installer, bios ..etc or even a seperate WIKI page since this build is probably the most popular

 

Yeah, the original poster was on here like last week.

He was fairly perturbed by not being able to find out new news about the build

as it has all become buried by repeat style posts and others trying to get the build

to curtail to a video card they already have.

 

I was going to propose the change then, but I haven't had time to make the laundry list addendum.

[CoHPhasor]

Uhhhhhh Say What??

 

I'm sorry, I don't know what you're referring to. Do you actually need help, and if so, are you in the right place?

[huntington]

ok...thought i'd post a quick note. got my LH build finally (apparently) stable running vanilla 10.6.2. same exact HW specs, plus an Asus wireless card stella rec'd and an arctic cooler freezer pro 7 fan. i'm also running chameleon off it's own partition. liking that.

 

several SL install attempts had gotten me to 10.6, then the computer would sleep, KP, and then the HD would be unable to be fixed by diskutil on my SL flash drive installer (unused node errors). switched SATA ports / cables and then diskutil was able to repair the drive.

 

i had to do the cable/SATA port switch routine a couple times, but this is the first time i've gotten all the way to 10.6.2 with no problems. everything seems to be cool.

 

does anybody think that the fact that the KPs were almost frying my HDs might mean that the SATA ports on my mobo are bad? on my first build, i didn't seat the heatsink properly and that's why i had to replace it with an arctic cooler fan. if this build fries my HD, i'm thinking i might try to RMA my mobo...i had wayyy more problems than anybody else on this forum (and i've read all 60 pages...)

[bean5]

I followed the newest lifehacker guide to the t. I have almost everything working just fine, and I'm happy as is. However, I have some issues. First, on the ga-ep45-ud3p, the two gigabyte sata connections, you know, the purple ones, don't seem to work. When I first booted the computer before I changed anything in the bios or installed anything, I remember the board would pick up the hdd and the dvd drive connected there. After I followed the bios setup on lifehacker, those two sata connections stopped working, so I simply moved them down to the yellow connectors. Is there any way of getting those two purple connections back to working without affecting OSX?

 

Second, I'm eventually going to want to install windows on this computer. Is it as simple as connecting a new drive to the MB and installing it on that drive, then hitting f12 on startup and picking that hdd?

 

Lastly, I got the network card so I can have full bonjour support, but would i benefit from connecting my router to all three ports? Just wondering.

 

Another thing, I noticed the temp for the q9650 idles at around 44C. I OC'd it to 3.33ghz and it upped the temp to about 50ishC. Does that sound about right? Getting some extra fans today to increase airflow, so we'll see if that drops the temp. First time overclocking anything, so what's an idle temp range for the q9650?

 

edit: forgot to ask, connected a fan straight to the MB using 4pin connector. My understanding is that this connection allows for speed control and reports fan speed...however, using istat, only temperatures show up. I don't get a report of cpu fan speed or this new fan? Just something I have to live with or was there a setting in bios that turned it off or that I need to turn on?

 

Figured out my first issue... Had it disabled.

[HAVEC]

Second, I'm eventually going to want to install windows on this computer. Is it as simple as connecting a new drive to the MB and installing it on that drive, then hitting f12 on startup and picking that hdd?

 

I have Win 7 on a separate drive on the other set of SATA plugs. No problems with the install. Only problem that I know is that it always boots up to the wrong time for some odd reason.

 

You can choose OS boots by either F12 or by using the boot loader and selecting the "system reserved" disc for Win 7.

[leppy700m]

Bonjour not working? Are you not using the NIC specified in the build?

I know everyone says you can use the onboards, and you can by enabling this, kexting that, but why?

For $10 I never have to worry about it. *sigh

 

First, if you are using the v3 installer, that card is fine.

Second, when trying to show us an error, please, write it exactly as you see it.

(It helps for googling, which is what you should be doing)

 

I'm sorry, I don't know what you're referring to. Do you actually need help, and if so, are you in the right place?

 

Yeah, the original poster was on here like last week.

He was fairly perturbed by not being able to find out new news about the build

as it has all become buried by repeat style posts and others trying to get the build

to curtail to a video card they already have.

 

I was going to propose the change then, but I haven't had time to make the laundry list addendum.

 

Look, the cookie cutter build works - perfectly - case closed. We all know that. This hobby is all about experimenting with different configurations, and being put off by people trying to get a variation of it working is silly pettiness. Your surly, sardonic attitude about anything here that's not cookie cutter is getting old.

[huntington]

So, I ran into the same problem again. My install worked for about 10 hours, then out of the blue, my HD gets fried, Disk Utility can't fix it.

 

I'm gonna RMA my mobo. Unless there's something I'm missing, there's no way this should be happening.