IMHERETOSTAY Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Had anyone figured out how to make the purple sata ports work??? If so, how?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1438727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean5 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 those ports should work just like the others. Make sure they're enabled in bios. Mine work, though one port was bad. The other port connects my optical drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1438836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codymac Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 those ports should work just like the others. Make sure they're enabled in bios. Mine work, though one port was bad. The other port connects my optical drive. +1 The purple ports work fine but must be enabled in the BIOS. I've got 7 drives in mine plus a BD-ROM. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1438888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean5 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 wasn't it a bag of hurt for you? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1438921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aznboi89x Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 updated to 10.6.3 thru combo UPDATE from apple website and EVERYTHING WORKING q9500 @ 3.2 ghz 4gb 1066 DDR2 SATA hard drive and dvd burner 9800 GTX+ eVGA before i updated to 10.6.3 i had installed stella snow magic V3 ud3p package Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1438950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMHERETOSTAY Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 What the hell is the option to enable them??? I can't seem to find it in the bios! Damn, I must be blind!! Edit: Forget about it, forget to plug in the power lol Thanks guys!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1438953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
backinmac Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Has 10.6.3 killed anyone else's sound? I've heard that AppleHDA doesn't work under 10.6.3. (Obviously not under this thread, but kexts are universal, aren't they?) Nevermind, it works. The only one that works is the black port (On the motherboard) in the back though, and I thought the green port on the front used to work. (On the Antec Sonata 3) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1439067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAVEC Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 updated to 10.6.3 thru combo UPDATE from apple website and EVERYTHING WORKING q9500 @ 3.2 ghz 4gb 1066 DDR2 SATA hard drive and dvd burner 9800 GTX+ eVGA before i updated to 10.6.3 i had installed stella snow magic V3 ud3p package Did the same. Installed V.3 and upgraded to 10.6.3. AFAIK everything works. Just wish my firmware upgrade to my Magellan GPS had gone as smoothly. Bricked the dam thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1439092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepretender Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Not using a modified AppleHDA, sound built into DSDT. Kext only universal if your using them. Has 10.6.3 killed anyone else's sound? I've heard that AppleHDA doesn't work under 10.6.3. (Obviously not under this thread, but kexts are universal, aren't they?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1439247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoHPhasor Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 No Video Here! I just installed 10.6.3 on my LifeHacker build. It has all of the exact same specs except the processor which is q9550. BAD NEWS! No video on reboot. It appears to have disabled the video support for the 9800 GTX. I get through the gray Apple logo and spinner and then the screen just goes black. The monitor is showing no video signal detected. I’ve tried both DVI connections. No luck. I have an HDMI monitor model HG216D that I’m connecting to with a DVI-HDMI cable. It worked flawlessly until I updated to 10.6.3. I re-ran Stell's v3 updater on it. Still no luck. Anyone else have this issue? I had to go back to 10.6.2. Need to try it with a VGA or straight DVI monitor. Let us know what u find just curious, why does the build use 800mhz ram...wouldn't faster ram be better? I'm not hardware savvy over here. Adam had it layin around. Build can use whatever the board can. (May have to edit the plist from 800-?? you get.) I have a really dumb question - I have been surfing the 70 or so pages of this thread and I noticed that some people have been able to get the proceedure to work with a Radeon 4870 512mb card... this is my set up, but whenever I try Lifehacker's method of installation, the system black screens on bootup and freezes. Can anyone give me a really simple method to use the Radeon 4870 card with the lifehacker installation method? Thanks all! HDMI? That's the same symptom those of us with HDMI woes face. (NOT necessarily your problem) I did the 10.6.3 Update today. I'm using Adam Pash's Lifehacker complete hardware list up until now without any problems. After the update to 10.6.3, all worked correctly except the screen savers. None would work or start on their own. If I set a Hot Corner and then activated it with the mouse, the screen saver would start. Also, if I clicked the test button in the screen saver setup it would work, however, it would never start on it's own after the minutes timed out. The sleep mode still works. I have it set for say 25 minutes and it would activate putting the display to sleep as it should. A wiggle of the mouse or press of the keyboard and it wakes up correctly. Only the screen saver has failed after the 10.6.3 update. Any suggestions? Sorry, I'm too lazy to Google through here for my own posts. I did however post in here about having to delete a few files to make my screensaver work. (plists I think) In any case, they control screensaver activation/behavior and sometimes get corrupted. They auto-populate once deleted and it should fix. Happy Googling Then I must already be at V.3. Is Halloween V.3 or V.2 because I upgraded to Halloween just before going to 10.6.2. I have NO idea how you didn't hose that install. The Sleepenabler in the Halloween/v2 installer KP'ed every install I've ever seen. (Unless maybe Stell removed it and you downloaded it after?) Had anyone figured out how to make the purple sata ports work???If so, how?? What do you mean by "Make them work"? Did they ever not? I was a total newb when I built this rig, and put my HD on the purple port and it's run perfectly fine ever since. (If it ain't broke right?) +1 The purple ports work fine but must be enabled in the BIOS. I've got 7 drives in mine plus a BD-ROM. WHAT BD-ROM? Does it read discs/burn in OSX? I. WANT. IT. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codymac Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 wasn't it a bag of hurt for you? LMAO! Nah... I'm not wearing a black turtleneck and trying to sell downloaded content. WHAT BD-ROM?Does it read discs/burn in OSX? I. WANT. IT. Yup - burns and reads fine out of the box. I just burned a dual layer with it a couple of days ago. I mostly use it to rip Blurays with MakeMKV though (I have a mini running Plex attached to the TV). It's a Pioneer BDC-202 but I think it's been superseded by the BDC-2202 which supposedly works the same. From what I've read, MakeMKV will allow you to play a Bluray too, but it's a bit of a convoluted process so I haven't even tried. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 For anyone interested I found something very interesting, on none other, the Insanely Mac Home page. Apparently someone out there is making the HOLY GRAIL of BIOS for a string of Gigabyte boards including ours, and I think we should lend a hand. This guy is making a Custom BIOS that requires NO Bootloader, NO DSDT, and everything works including USB sleep functionality, Proper Temp read outs, and NO! NO kext's to get OS X running. If you have not guessed it, its a Custom BIOS that not only allows for Multi-Booting, but a straight Vanilla Install of OS X from the retail disk! Best part... We can still re-flash to the official Gigabyte BIOS as well. The only downside is that the BIOS is in Alpha for our Board as seen from the image below, but... Like me, being the Guinea Pig that I am, I, and hoping others will join me, want to make this a de-facto standard for our board. I am including the link to the forum for the Custom BIOS, as well as the most recent update for the BIOS he has ported. We will need to PM the developer to get the Alpha build for our boards and then we will be set. Lets get it from Alpha to RC and beyond! I have wondered about a day like this for some time and its here! Also, he is porting the BIOS from version 1.0, 1.2, & the 1.6 board, so lets help this guy out! Forum: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=210994 Blog: http://cartri.blogspot.com/ And most recent update for BIOS... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean5 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 too paranoid to try it out myself, but if he gets a solid working version out, will consider trying. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
backinmac Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 For anyone interested I found something very interesting, on none other, the Insanely Mac Home page. Apparently someone out there is making the HOLY GRAIL of BIOS for a string of Gigabyte boards including ours, and I think we should lend a hand. This guy is making a Custom BIOS that requires NO Bootloader, NO DSDT, and everything works including USB sleep functionality, Proper Temp read outs, and NO! NO kext's to get OS X running. If you have not guessed it, its a Custom BIOS that not only allows for Multi-Booting, but a straight Vanilla Install of OS X from the retail disk! Best part... We can still re-flash to the official Gigabyte BIOS as well. The only downside is that the BIOS is in Alpha for our Board as seen from the image below, but... Like me, being the Guinea Pig that I am, I, and hoping others will join me, want to make this a de-facto standard for our board. I am including the link to the forum for the Custom BIOS, as well as the most recent update for the BIOS he has ported. We will need to PM the developer to get the Alpha build for our boards and then we will be set. Lets get it from Alpha to RC and beyond! I have wondered about a day like this for some time and its here! Also, he is porting the BIOS from version 1.0, 1.2, & the 1.6 board, so lets help this guy out! Forum: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=210994 Blog: http://cartri.blogspot.com/ And most recent update for BIOS... I had seen this a while ago, but since I have a perfect install I figured I would just wait until it is more mainstream with a bigger knowledge base (like the 71 pages of it we have here! ) It was really funny though because I had seen it under the genius bar and thought how interesting it was and the next thing you know its on the front page like the biggest thing in months for the Hackintosh community. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440383 Share on other sites More sharing options...
danyokeem Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Hi guys... I thought I had on my hands a perfect Hackintosh, but looks like I'm in a pickle again. I updated my system through Software Update to the latest upgrade available, 10.6.3, and now when I restart, after the gray Apple screen with the loading spinner under it, the screen goes black and the Mac doesn't start up. Is there something that I did wrong? Another user with the same specs says it works flawlessly! Is there a way that I can backtrack out of that update? I'm on Rev B 1.6, running off Stella's V3. Before the update everything was working lovely. Your help will be appreciated big time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Hi guys... I thought I had on my hands a perfect Hackintosh, but looks like I'm in a pickle again. I updated my system through Software Update to the latest upgrade available, 10.6.3, and now when I restart, after the gray Apple screen with the loading spinner under it, the screen goes black and the Mac doesn't start up. Is there something that I did wrong? Another user with the same specs says it works flawlessly! Is there a way that I can backtrack out of that update? I'm on Rev B 1.6, running off Stella's V3. Before the update everything was working lovely. Your help will be appreciated big time. How is your monitor connected? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
danyokeem Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 How is your monitor connected? It is connected with the DVI input that is in the middle. (S video) (DVI) (DVI) --- I switched DVI ports and still coming up short. At the end of the gray Apple screen with the loading circle under it, after that screen, the cpu keeps running but the monitor turns off because there's No Signal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean5 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 try the vga port...see if that helps. Or maybe turn the monitor off and on. I don't know if it's my monitor or my computer, but with my macbook pro, from time to time the computer wouldn't send a signal to the monitor when waking up or turning on. I had to unplug the dvi cable or turn the monitor off and on and the signal would be picked up again. And this was an actual macbook pro. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTech84 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 It is connected with the DVI input that is in the middle. (S video) (DVI) (DVI) --- I switched DVI ports and still coming up short. At the end of the gray Apple screen with the loading circle under it, after that screen, the cpu keeps running but the monitor turns off because there's No Signal. Which version of the bootloader do you have installed? and what are you full system specs? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codymac Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Your help will be appreciated big time. Boot it verbose and post a screenshot (camera phone, digicam, etc.) of the console output when it hangs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
danyokeem Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Which version of the bootloader do you have installed? and what are you full system specs? I have installed the Stella V3 bootloader. And I have the exact same specs as the Lifehacker guide. To the T, plus a Linksys wireless card. --- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSvU2gGZhQ8 (and monitor restart did not work) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean5 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 I noticed it said hdmi...I thought you said it was connected through dvi. HDMI seems to be an issue for some people with this update... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
danyokeem Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 I noticed it said hdmi...I thought you said it was connected through dvi. HDMI seems to be an issue for some people with this update... hey bean, it says hdmi only because no dvi signal is recognized. maybe the vid card somehow wasn't kexted right? so i was living my life like my hackintosh was the {censored}. but once again my bubble got popped. is it possible that the wireless card has caused this mess??? that sounds pretty ridiculous but who knows. is keeping a time machine backup the quickest way to get back on your feet w/ a hackintosh after hiccups like these? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean5 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 why would your monitor display hdmi if there's no hdmi connection? (from what you said before, all it has are two dvi and an s video connection). Try the s video connection and see if you get the same problem. Also, what monitor are you using (model number)? If possible, use another monitor and see if it'll work with that. If you're using the stella installer and following the lifehacker guide, there shouldn't be an issue with kexts. Like I said, hdmi seems to be an issue and seeing your monitor display hdmi makes me think there's a connection there (like you're using a dvi to hdmi connection). I also don't see how the wireless card could cause a problem, but I wouldn't know if that could or could not cause a problem. random question: anyone know if stell is working on a v4 or anything like that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
backinmac Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 random question: anyone know if stell is working on a v4 or anything like that? Why would he be? Our installs are perfect. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187440-lifehacker-guide-with-ga-ep45-ud3p-motherboard/page/57/#findComment-1440807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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