Lifehacker Guide with GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard

[JTG78]

even if they work in windows 7, they could still fail (well, not fail really, but simply not respond in OSX the way they should). Try moving to different ones. On my computer, the back ports won't respond until an OS is booted, which means I have to connect the keyboard to the front if I want to get into the bios.

 

 

Random question: I don't know much about hardware, not the finer points at least. Just wondering, how does this setup stack up as a gaming rig (exact lifehacker setup)? Not to revive a silly meme, but will it run crysis? haha.

 

 

I did try hooking my keyboard and mouse to the front ports, but it did no good.

 

As for gaming, I've run Bioshock 2 and Mass Effect 2 (yes, Crysis too) on it at max or near to max graphics setting and it's worked fine. I can't give any benchmarks, but I'm satisfied with the performance.

[sirlou]

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?

 

Is anyone else having this problem with the 10.6.3 update and screen saver activation? Is the OP still having this problem? I also saw the OP's post on the Lifehacker website as well:

http://lifehacker.com/5505056/hackintosh-u...a-charm-to-1063

 

Adam was not aware of the problem but said he's let the OP know if he came across a solution.

 

Any solutions out there?

 

Just wondering before I take the plunge and update.

 

Cheers!

[JHancho]

Hey everybody, I'm a little stuck here.

 

I have the stock lifehacker setup, save for a 3.06 Intel Core Two Duo, and only 4 GB of Patriot RAM and only one HD, a WD Caviar 1 TB.

 

I also got a retail disc of snow leopard, version 10.6 2Z691-6558-A of which I've imaged, scanned, and restored to my Kingston Data Traveller 2.0 (8 gig) as per the instructions.

 

I've tried v1 of stella's install, as well as v3 (I haven't tried v2, because I've read on the board that it wasn't all that great, and it seems v3 is better, though if there's a compatibility issue going on then...). All get me to this point:

 

 

Yes, I've double, triple, and quadruple-checked the BIOs. I'm running FB on the mobo, so it seems as though there's a problem with the install or my HD, which gets detected by the bios and the stuff before the verifying DMI(?) pool data.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

J

[bean5]

maybe...the hard drive wasn;t formatted correctly?

[JHancho]

maybe...the hard drive wasn;t formatted correctly?

 

I haven't ever used the HDD before, and it's not booting into the flash drive correctly so I can run disk utility on the HDD.

 

If you are referring to the flash drive itself, I've formatted it as a 1 partition mac os extended journaled, case-sensitive, one partition - guid. It's had the image of snow leopard restored to it.

 

I'll check that again (I swear I've reformatted the flash drive about 10 times, just to be sure.. and unfortunately the intel mac that I'm using for this is like 15 minutes away...)

 

Thanks for the input, though.

[jbolted]

Is anyone else having this problem with the 10.6.3 update and screen saver activation? Is the OP still having this problem? I also saw the OP's post on the Lifehacker website as well:

http://lifehacker.com/5505056/hackintosh-u...a-charm-to-1063

 

Adam was not aware of the problem but said he's let the OP know if he came across a solution.

 

Any solutions out there?

 

Just wondering before I take the plunge and update.

 

Cheers!

 

As for the screen saver mine goes into screensaver, about 10 minutes before sleep. It works fine wakes up fine, using the latest update via software update from the apple menu. I did not use the downloaded combo updater from the website.

[CoHPhasor]

Hey everybody, I'm a little stuck here.

 

Your hack "just says no" to Andre the Giant? Inconceivable!

 

I imagine you got through the install just fine?

Or is this the Install Stick being used for boot?

[JHancho]

Your hack "just says no" to Andre the Giant? Inconceivable!

 

I imagine you got through the install just fine?

Or is this the Install Stick being used for boot?

 

 

This is my initial install from my flash drive.

 

Does it have anything to do with the leopard disc I imaged from? (2Z691-6558-A) Or is there another issue that I'm missing here?

[bean5]

This is my initial install from my flash drive.

 

Does it have anything to do with the leopard disc I imaged from? (2Z691-6558-A) Or is there another issue that I'm missing here?

try a different thumb drive. I don't see the disc being the issue considering the installer works fine on 10.6.3 and worked fine on all previous updates. Not assuming anything, but just recheck everything or better yet, start from scratch and comb through the guide obsessively.

[backinmac]

I haven't ever used the HDD before, and it's not booting into the flash drive correctly so I can run disk utility on the HDD.

 

If you are referring to the flash drive itself, I've formatted it as a 1 partition mac os extended journaled, case-sensitive, one partition - guid. It's had the image of snow leopard restored to it.

 

I'll check that again (I swear I've reformatted the flash drive about 10 times, just to be sure.. and unfortunately the intel mac that I'm using for this is like 15 minutes away...)

 

Thanks for the input, though.

The Mac you're using wouldn't happen to be running Tiger would it?

[JTG78]

I'd suggest selecting the verbose boot from the bootloader and letting us know at what point it gets stuck in the boot process.

 

This is my initial install from my flash drive.

 

Does it have anything to do with the leopard disc I imaged from? (2Z691-6558-A) Or is there another issue that I'm missing here?

[bean5]

fyi, if you don't know what the verbose loader is, when it asks to press a key to select load options or whatever, hit a key, highlight the drive you want to boat and press down. Menu pops up.

[aj05hi]

Hi

 

I am first time poster but long time lurker around here and hope someone can help me. I am on the same components as the lifehacker post and have successfully installed Snow Leopard on my computer using Halloween installer.

 

After the successful installation I updated the installer to v3 to my hard drive (after backing up and deleting my extras folder). Afterwards I downloaded the combo update of 10.6.3 and all seemingly went well but after the restart I cannot see my desktop. All goes well and i can see the loading screen (with obey graphic) but as soon as it gets past that all I get is blank screen.

 

So I did the whole install process again with the initial successful boot (of 10.6) and after updating the installer once again to v3 (backed up and deleted the extras folder) and tried the combo update of 10.6.2 and the same process happen again, instead of desktop all I get is black screen.

 

My computer is hooked to my monitor via DVI cable at both ends. Is there anything I am missing or haven't tried or am I just unlucky to not be able to update.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[D-an-W]

Does your graphics card have two outputs, I had a similar problem using a 7600GS where it used the VGA output by default and I was using the DVI.

[aj05hi]

Does your graphics card have two outputs, I had a similar problem using a 7600GS where it used the VGA output by default and I was using the DVI.

 

 

 

 

It indeed has two outputs and I forgot to write that i tried both of them with the same black screen result unfortunately.

[backinmac]

I'm thinking about getting a 1TB HDD for backup of my 750GB Snow Leopard drive. I was thinking about partitioning it 800GB for backup and 200GB for Ubuntu or Kubuntu. Would that work or would there be conflicts with the bootloader and such like Windows?

[JHancho]

try a different thumb drive. I don't see the disc being the issue considering the installer works fine on 10.6.3 and worked fine on all previous updates. Not assuming anything, but just recheck everything or better yet, start from scratch and comb through the guide obsessively.

 

alright. I'm an idiot. Apparently I had the Ethernet card immediately below the graphics card. Apparently that is a no-no. After I removed it, the computer happily booted and now I'm dual booting windows 7.

 

Thanks for helping me troubleshoot it.

 

I feel dumb.

 

J

[bean5]

no idea how that would mess up the build but as long as it's working.

[brandon DuBois]

Time Machine Fix

 

I have been working for a while looking for a fix for the TM issue - well I came across this today - copied and pasted - restarted and BAM Time Machine Works.

 

Enjoy everyone.

 

http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,83.0.html

 

Brandon

[CoHPhasor]

It indeed has two outputs and I forgot to write that i tried both of them with the same black screen result unfortunately.

 

This is the same symptom we saw with HDMI.

To make sure it REALLY is the same symptom, set it up so you can remotely connect to the Hack.

(Sharing of the drive is fine, ssh better)

 

What we saw with the HDMI problem was that the machine "started up", but was not able to start the window server and it hung. We were fully able to login on the machine and browse/top it though.

[backinmac]

no idea how that would mess up the build but as long as it's working.

Well, Ubuntu uses GRUB so I'm not sure if that will try to override Chameleon.

[bean5]

sorry, I was responding to jhoncho.

[D-an-W]

Sorry, I know this is Off Topic....but ( ), I have a Windows 7 system and a perfect (AFAIK!) MAC OS X 10.6.3 system using Stell's v3 of course on seperate HD's. What is involved (Other than the search button ) in creating a dual boot system using a Single drive and is it reliable once created?

 

Does anyone that follows this thread run dual boot?

[JTG78]

Just an update and a repeat for my request for help. The problem persists, however, I've found out that after I access my system with LogMeIn, the USB mouse and Keyboard become responsive again. It seems that whatever LogMeIn does to control the system "fixes" whatever is gumming up the works with regards to input responsivness.

 

Does anyone have a clue as to how I could fix this without relying on LogMeIn whenever I want reboot my machine? This remains an annoying situation and I would love to get to the root of the cause.

 

I'm having a really weird problem and I wonder if anyone has a clue as to what's going on for me?

 

Earlier today I booted into Win7 (on a separate hard drive), installed an app and updated my Nvidia drivers. I then shut the macihne down. A couple of hours later I got back and tried to boot into MacOS. Booting seemed to work fine, however, while I could move the mouse on screen, the computer acted as if it was locked up and was receiving no input from either mouse or keyboard (with the exception of the mouse movement). However, what's really weird is that I could log in via LogMeIn.com and control the machine remotely just fine, without any problems.

 

Does anyone have an idea as to the problem or how I might fix it?

[backinmac]

Just an update and a repeat for my request for help. The problem persists, however, I've found out that after I access my system with LogMeIn, the USB mouse and Keyboard become responsive again. It seems that whatever LogMeIn does to control the system "fixes" whatever is gumming up the works with regards to input responsivness.

 

Does anyone have a clue as to how I could fix this without relying on LogMeIn whenever I want reboot my machine? This remains an annoying situation and I would love to get to the root of the cause.

I'm pretty confused about all of this keyboard and mouse nonsense. I don't have this problem in BIOS or the OS so I am pretty much useless. Although, the opposite problem occured for me for Windows after installation which is pretty weird. Thus, I had to reinstall. Anyway, the only thing I can suggest is look for OSX drivers from the manufacturer. Unlike other components, there WILL be drivers for keyboards and mice for OSX because obviously a keyboard isn't OS specific. Also, try all ports. If the ones on your case aren't working, try the ones on your Mobo or vice versa. Try a PS/2 mouse and or keyboard to see if it works.

 

Sorry, I know this is Off Topic....but ( ), I have a Windows 7 system and a perfect (AFAIK!) MAC OS X 10.6.3 system using Stell's v3 of course on seperate HD's. What is involved (Other than the search button ) in creating a dual boot system using a Single drive and is it reliable once created?

 

Does anyone that follows this thread run dual boot?

I think you would have to find a way to install Windows on GPT. I'm fairly sure that I have seen guides for that. Also, is anyone else having problems with InsanelyMac? Im OSX I get all of the posts listed and then I have to open them to see it. In Windows I don't have a cursor when I respond to a post (like now). It's extremely frustrating.