Lifehacker Guide with GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard

[bean5]

if I were doing it, I would get a running system first before adding in extras. That way, if something goes wrong, I have one less thing to rule out as the cause of the problem.

[jsw513]

Hey guys...I'm having a big problem over here...not sure if anyone has experienced it or not:

 

My ethernet port isn't allowing me to connect anymore after months of uninterrupted use. It's telling me that I have a "self-assigned IP" in my network settings. I didn't change any settings, it just happend one day upon boot up.

 

I've tried setting up a static IP w/ no success getting my machine back online. I've tried yanking the card, and reinstalling. I've tried renewing my DHCP lease, checking my firewalls. I'm out of things that I know to get this working again.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using this build, part for part, no changes made.

 

Thanks guys!

[Rx4Mac]

Hey guys...I'm having a big problem over here...not sure if anyone has experienced it or not:

 

My ethernet port isn't allowing me to connect anymore after months of uninterrupted use. It's telling me that I have a "self-assigned IP" in my network settings. I didn't change any settings, it just happend one day upon boot up.

 

I've tried setting up a static IP w/ no success getting my machine back online. I've tried yanking the card, and reinstalling. I've tried renewing my DHCP lease, checking my firewalls. I'm out of things that I know to get this working again.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using this build, part for part, no changes made.

 

Thanks guys!

 

It looks like you are not getting an IP ( via DHCP ) from your router. You might want to check all your ethernet connections and powercycle your router ( pull the power to the router, wait a minute, and turn back on ) Then verify that the router is set to hand out addresses via DHCP.

 

Hope this helps.

[maroundeeb]

What about pm45

[jsw513]

Thanks 2decade...

 

I've tried this too. I probably mentioned that in my post as well. We have 2 other machines wirelessly connecting in the house, so I'm not sure it's a router issue. I've tried connecting the machine to the router w/ other cables and ports in the router, still to no avail. My research shows that this can sometimes be a problem with apple products, but there seems to be a mountain of "solutions" that don't work for me either.

 

It looks like you are not getting an IP ( via DHCP ) from your router. You might want to check all your ethernet connections and powercycle your router ( pull the power to the router, wait a minute, and turn back on ) Then verify that the router is set to hand out addresses via DHCP.

 

Hope this helps.

[Rx4Mac]

Thanks 2decade...

 

I've tried this too. I probably mentioned that in my post as well. We have 2 other machines wirelessly connecting in the house, so I'm not sure it's a router issue. I've tried connecting the machine to the router w/ other cables and ports in the router, still to no avail. My research shows that this can sometimes be a problem with apple products, but there seems to be a mountain of "solutions" that don't work for me either.

 

 

It COULD be that the port died... electronics can fail. Do you have access to another PCI ethernet card to try?

 

( the one in the build is cheap... $10 or so from what I remember )

[jsw513]

Totally possible, and worth checking out....but don't you think the port would've died all together, rather than just not receiving an IP address? It still recognizes when a cable comes in or out of it.

 

It COULD be that the port died... electronics can fail. Do you have access to another PCI ethernet card to try?

 

( the one in the build is cheap... $10 or so from what I remember )

[Rx4Mac]

Totally possible, and worth checking out....but don't you think the port would've died all together, rather than just not receiving an IP address? It still recognizes when a cable comes in or out of it.

 

Could be... could someone ( or some dog, cat, child, gf, bf, yourself, other... ) have kicked/pulled the cable... or could the cable be positional ? ( it works most/some of the time when you string it up this way... ) Try a known good cable.

[MAC IN TOSH]

OK.......I followed this GUIDE to install Retail snow leopard on PC. I did everything mentiones that is to restore the snow leopard image to the External drive and install magic in it. On boot up, I get this error:

 

http://www.dropshots.com/pgrafer#date/2010-05-25/12:20:34

 

Processor Type: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.40 GHz

[Georgiles]

@'MAC IN TOSH'

 

You obviously rushed and did not read everything. Did not follow all the instructions carefully. Seems like you did not set the bios settings as described in the Guide.

Read the guide again, read all this thread, all 80 pages to learn from others experiences & start over.

 

Good Luck

[MAC IN TOSH]

That doesn't sounds good. Please tell me what is it that I am missing

[960brick]

My ethernet port isn't allowing me to connect anymore after months of uninterrupted use. It's telling me that I have a "self-assigned IP" in my network settings. I didn't change any settings, it just happend one day upon boot up.

 

Totally possible, and worth checking out....but don't you think the port would've died all together, rather than just not receiving an IP address? It still recognizes when a cable comes in or out of it.

 

 

Have you figure out the problem with your network card , I had a similar experience where the card would show connected but will refuse any connections no matter what I did, changed over to en0 & en1 still nothing, I swtched over to my backup HD and it worked fine ?? Something was turning it off

 

[MAC IN TOSH]

Can I install Retail Snow Leopard on any other motherboard instead of Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P. Or is there any way to do this

[prettyhatem]

So I followed this guide a while ago and its been working perfectly. Though now I wanted to see if it was possible to create and boot from a software Raid 0? I have some other software raids running on the system and they work great, but never tried it with the boot drive.

 

Is this possible?

[almackska]

Okay, so I have been trying to get this to work for the past 8 hours and I am failing. Here is what keeps happening:

 

-If I do a fresh restore onto the thumb drive, and then install the Mobo package from LH...once I try and boot from the flash drive it gets stuck at Verifying DMI pool data... - When I reboot it MAY get to the start of the installation

 

-If I get to the start of the installation and try to format my HDD for MacOS, 50% of the time it will KP, the other 50 it will act as if it is formatting the drive. After I do format the drive, I get to the select drive screen of the installation and if I click continue, it KP.

 

-If I get all the way to the point where it starts installing, I get to 28 minutes remaining and then KP. Sometimes it just says it failed to load Support files.

 

-Sometimes I just get an Installation error log that comes up right after partitioning drive that cries about:

--NSDocumentController's invocation of - [NSFileManager URLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error:] returned nil for NSAutosavedInformationDirectory. Here's the error: "You can't save the file "Autosave Information" because the volume "Mac OS X Install DVD" is read only."

 

I have yet to get past the beginning stages of the install.

 

 

Bump, same issue here

 

I have replaced everything in my case except well, the case and the mobo and processor. I don't have a spare mobo or processor lying around.

 

Hardware:

GA-EP45-UD3P

Intel Q9650 Quad Core

BFG NVidia 9800 GTX+ (Have tried with ASUS NVidia GT 260)

Netgear Gb Ethernet card w/GA311NA Chipset

8GB DDR2 1066 Mushkin RAM

SATA HDD/DVDROM

 

Using Sandisk Flash drive for install (have tried a regular 500GB USB drive as well - same issues)

 

Not sure where to go from here.

 

Thanks for any help you can give.

[qevlhma]

I finally got on board with Cartri's BIOS today.

 

The BIOS flash went fine, although I had a bit of a scare, since my default boot drive (bios settings will reset after the flash) was not set to be bootable. This caused a bit of a situation since the instructions say you do not want to enter the BIOS until you have seen the boot loader once.

 

I would suggest everyone make sure that drive with your boot loader is the default drive after settings are wiped.

 

After I installed, I actually had to wipe and reinstall my system.. the reason being that I had a lot of kext and other {censored} on the system for various reasons and I did not want to deal with hunting them all down.

 

After the reinstall, I added the Extra's from various posts on here.

 

Everything is working flawlessly and no DSDT.

 

Thanks for your hard work Cartri!

 

-W

[CoHPhasor]

Can I install Retail Snow Leopard on any other motherboard instead of Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P. Or is there any way to do this

 

Possible? Sure.

Far as I know, Cartri can do it on certain ones, and any board

using parts that Apple already has drivers for should be able to have

a DSDT built and installed just as this one did.

 

Stella even suggested he would have rather used an MSI he had.

Thing is, you have to build it/have it built, and you won't find help for it

in this thread dedicated to the EP45-UD3p.

[backinmac]

That doesn't sounds good. Please tell me what is it that I am missing

It could be any number of things. What you have is a kernel panic, and anything that the operating system needs but can't run will cause it. What you need to do is start the entire process over from the guide page, carefully making sure that you follow every step in its entirety. EVERY STEP IS IMPORTANT. Also, are you using correct hardware? EP45-UD3P, Intel Core Based Processor, Geforce 8, 9, or 2 series card after 220?

[artofware]

So frustrated right now.. It's been 3 days trying to figure out why I can't connect to the internet. It was working flawlessly. Now I'm getting 169.x.x.x. ip which is invalid ip. Sometimes I get the right IP, but doesn't connect at all. I even did a fresh install and all drivers are installed. Still no luck.! Whats seems to be the problem here? Help please.

[CoHPhasor]

So frustrated right now.. It's been 3 days trying to figure out why I can't connect to the internet. It was working flawlessly. Now I'm getting 169.x.x.x. ip which is invalid ip. Sometimes I get the right IP, but doesn't connect at all. I even did a fresh install and all drivers are installed. Still no luck.! Whats seems to be the problem here? Help please.

 

Have you even tried a different card?

People post on here all the time about how they activated their built-in ports, have you tried that?

 

Give us a break here budd, there's only so much we can do. ;-)

[backinmac]

So frustrated right now.. It's been 3 days trying to figure out why I can't connect to the internet. It was working flawlessly. Now I'm getting 169.x.x.x. ip which is invalid ip. Sometimes I get the right IP, but doesn't connect at all. I even did a fresh install and all drivers are installed. Still no luck.! Whats seems to be the problem here? Help please.

Have you tried installing Windows or Linux to see if you can connect there? That way you can narrow it down to the operating system or the internet connection itself.

[bean5]

is this relevant to us? if not, how do we make it relevant?

 

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/microsite/185/on-off-charge.htm

[artofware]

Have you tried installing Windows or Linux to see if you can connect there? That way you can narrow it down to the operating system or the internet connection itself.

 

Yeah both works fine now... I had to reset my modem... dumb me! hah

[Mr_Edwardo]

Hi guys,

 

So I figured it was about time to bite the bullet and update from 10.6.1. But I want to get it right, as I really can't afford to mess up this installation!

 

What you should know:

- I'm using Stell's V2 package right now

- I did the original install using the lifehacker guide

- I'm on a GA-EP45-UD3 (rev 1) with a 9600GT

- Everything is currently working great, other than recently I've been having iTunes crash on me, and a few system lockups

 

What I'd like to know:

- should I upgrade to V3 of Stell's package BEFORE updating to 10.6.2?

- Can I go straight to 10.6.3 using software update? or should I use the combo update to go to 10.6.2?

- I should delete the /Extras folder before updating to V3 right?

 

Thanks for the help and advice

 

I'm planning on trying out Cartri's BIOS sometime soon - when it's less crucial for me to have a working system. His site seems to be down though, and I cant find much info on the flashing/installation process. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

Ed

[MacWannaBe]

Hi guys,

 

So I figured it was about time to bite the bullet and update from 10.6.1. But I want to get it right, as I really can't afford to mess up this installation!

 

What you should know:

- I'm using Stell's V2 package right now

- I did the original install using the lifehacker guide

- I'm on a GA-EP45-UD3 (rev 1) with a 9600GT

- Everything is currently working great, other than recently I've been having iTunes crash on me, and a few system lockups

 

What I'd like to know:

- should I upgrade to V3 of Stell's package BEFORE updating to 10.6.2?

- Can I go straight to 10.6.3 using software update? or should I use the combo update to go to 10.6.2?

- I should delete the /Extras folder before updating to V3 right?

 

Thanks for the help and advice

 

I'm planning on trying out Cartri's BIOS sometime soon - when it's less crucial for me to have a working system. His site seems to be down though, and I cant find much info on the flashing/installation process. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

Ed

 

 

Upgrade to V3 FIRST. It's very important to have V3 working fine before upgrading. When that is working, then get the combo update to 10.6.3 and go for it.

 

-Ed