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Lifehacker Guide with GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard

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GA-EP45-UD3P / Core 2 Quad / 9800gtx Experience  

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Georgiles
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does anyone know for sure if the dual display will work on the 9800GTX+ following the lifehacker instructions?

 

9800GTX+ works for sure. Look in my signature for more info.

 

Same thing happened to me.

 

send it back to gigabyte dude.

 

Go here for instructions. They are awesome on the phone too. You call them and they take care of you like a king. I was really impressed with the customer service. Look on the board at the manufacture date so you know if is still covered. By the way, I sent it back with Cartri Hacked Bios on it and they still covered it/repaired it. Just don't mention you burned it lol , just say it stopped working.

 

At the time I did not know if they will cover it or how long is going to take so if you read in my signature, I ordered another board for $70 on newegg. All I had to do was replace the board. Updated the new board with Cartri Bios, Booted with the same HDD, and worked perfectly. Seems like these boards are really the same at base.

 

Good Luck

 

the firewire on G5 have some extra 12v on it (from what I've read). That was the problem.

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All I had to do was replace the board. Updated the new board with Cartri Bios, Booted with the same HDD, and worked perfectly. Seems like these boards are really the same at base.

I would think that's more how OSX works than the boards. Essentially, you can take any hdd with osx installed on it and use it on anything that'll boot up OSX. Not sure if windows does it, but one of the reasons I love macs. As long as that new board you bought was capable of booting into OSX (which it was after you installed the cartri bios on it), that HDD should have booted up just like if nothing ever happened. I remember when I first put together the lifehacker install, rather than starting from scratch I just cloned my old OSX install onto a new drive, ran the stella installer on it and booted from it. Everything worked just like it did on my Macbook Pro.

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Georgiles
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I would think that's more how OSX works than the boards. Essentially, you can take any hdd with osx installed on it and use it on anything that'll boot up OSX. Not sure if windows does it, but one of the reasons I love macs. As long as that new board you bought was capable of booting into OSX (which it was after you installed the cartri bios on it), that HDD should have booted up just like if nothing ever happened. I remember when I first put together the lifehacker install, rather than starting from scratch I just cloned my old OSX install onto a new drive, ran the stella installer on it and booted from it. Everything worked just like it did on my Macbook Pro.

You are right. That is just amazing. .....

And no, windows will not do the same. With XP for sure it will give you blue screen 99% of the time :wallbash: .

Windows 7 not working either. You have to reinstall, the application won't work so you will have to install most of your programs again. Why they would have system dll's and not just have functional stand alone apps in their own folder is beyond me. Then look in some crazy folders under users for your old documents, that in the case you had them well organized before the Windows got damaged.

The worst thing about windows is that it gets "heavy", and I mean things loading in the start-up hidden, different processes & services running where the user can't tell which ones are really needed.

Then the internet is filled with trojans mostly guided to hack your default internet home page or make you use their searching engines or just load pop up ads on the fly, every time you open the browser.

If you are ready to browse some porn sites, forget about it. Even with an anti-virus installed (which slows the computer down tremendously), you're pretty much doomed.

Then the countless errors. The messages are the best. like Windows encountered an error --> windows is going to find a solution ---> Solution not found lmao every single time.

Or with the drivers, unknown devices ...... I can go on and on

In the end, investing a bit more in a mac, even mac mini, is better than any windows running hardware

Talking about operating systems my only regret is that no dude with money was able to date to put together a strong, ultra tight & compatible linux, with strong base apps. Ubuntu is ok but there is anarchy due to a plethora of developers not being put together in a team and lack of apps good quality control.

I deviated a lot from lifehacker topic so is time to come back on it.

There is a new Lifehacker guide, i7 based, posted on Oct 25th 2010 for those who want to leave 775 socket behind:

http://lifehacker.com/5672051/how-to-build...ight-easy-steps

 

Happy New Year everybody.

 

What a great forum :unsure:

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There is a new Lifehacker guide, i7 based, posted on Oct 25th 2010 for those who want to leave 775 socket behind:

http://lifehacker.com/5672051/how-to-build...ight-easy-steps

 

Hopefully our socket 775 Hacks will be competitive with i7's for a bit longer. My pet peeve is Intel constantly changing sockets and ram specs forcing us to buy new hardware. I try to keep my electronic spare parts out of the e-waste steam for as long as possible.

 

With luck, this thread will keep going for a few more years by everybody checking in on the status of their Hacks.

 

Happy New Year

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For those of you concerned with you Stell/Catri install...I was able to move my stell install to a kakewalk install with no big issues. I asked the question about 2 pages back if anyone had done it, and never got a response so I just went for it. I downloaded the kakewalk installer, cloned my current 10.6.5 stell HD, and loaded kakewalk.....I didnt even re-install. I just cleared out the "extras" folder and deleted everything from stell's installer and installed kakewalk. So far everything has been fine. Like some people mentioned, I did have trouble with sound at first....but the kakewalk installer does walk through and talk about how to fix sound issues in their forum...I played with that a few times...rebooted, and now everyhing is fine. Havent tried upgrading to 10.6.6 yet, but possibly this weekend.

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Upgraded to 10.6.6 with no problems via software update. However, I cannot log into the new Mac App Store. I get the error message: MZFinance.NoGUIDTokenFailureKey_message

 

The only reason I bring this up is because over at the Apple support forums, people were saying that they were using cloned hard drives. Which means conflicting UUID's. We have fake ones which is a big issue.

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Upgraded to 10.6.6 with no problems via software update. However, I cannot log into the new Mac App Store. I get the error message: MZFinance.NoGUIDTokenFailureKey_message

 

The only reason I bring this up is because over at the Apple support forums, people were saying that they were using cloned hard drives. Which means conflicting UUID's. We have fake ones which is a big issue.

 

I've upgraded and have used the App Store without any difficulty. I even managed to purchase Chopper2 using my iTunes account.

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Upgraded to 10.6.6 with no problems via software update. However, I cannot log into the new Mac App Store. I get the error message: MZFinance.NoGUIDTokenFailureKey_message

 

The only reason I bring this up is because over at the Apple support forums, people were saying that they were using cloned hard drives. Which means conflicting UUID's. We have fake ones which is a big issue.

Appstore is working fine for me,

This install is actually a cloned install as well (from when I moved to a larger hard drive).

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I know this may seem ridiculous to some but does anyone know if having a "Hack" with a non-legitimate serial number embedded in it either, "SOMESRLNMBR" provided by the Cartri installations or a repetitive MacBook serial number from the Stella V3 installations have any adverse effects or problems when using the App Store now provided with 10.6.6?

 

I've heard that you can sign on to the App Store with your Apple ID from iTunes but is any other information transmitted?

 

Thanks

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HAVEC
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What is you guys' serial number and UUID? My serial is something like SMSRLNMBR (I'm not home, will update when I am)

 

Edit: Kind of funny that I write a comment about the serial right after RocketLynx does, haha.

 

Aperature has dropped in price down from to $200 to 79. http://www.dpreview.com/news/1101/11010610...apertureapp.asp

 

It would be a bummer if Apple only let legal machines run it. But wouldn't they be shooting themselves in the foot?

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Just an FYI . . .

 

Recent OS Updates completed with no problems.

Updated from 10.6.4 to 10.6.5 via Combo Update - no probs

Updated from 10.6.5 to 10.6.6 via Combo Update - no probs

Running App Store and downloaded Apps - no problems

 

I am using LH exact setup (except lesser CPU), running Stella 3.0, and all is A-OK!

 

Hope it all works well for you all! :)

 

sirlou

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Georgiles
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Cloned my main HDD for safety.

Updated using "Software Update" from 10.6.3 to 10.6.6 with no problems.

I had to reinstall LegacyHDA.kext and HDAEnabler.kext for ALC888 because I'm on EP43-UD3L but I do not consider that to be a problem.

Probably 10.6.6 replaced HDAEnabler with his own or something. I'm still on Cartri Bios.

 

App Store works and all that.

 

Cheers!

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D-an-W
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For those of you not using the Cartri BIOS do you still consider Stell's v3 to be the most up to date solution for "our" hardware?

 

I am trying to update to the latest files and solutions but anything I do to the Extensions.mkext (Such as remove the files now not required if using newer Chameleon builds) results in the machine not booting (I do run Kext Utility to rebuild it).

 

I did upgrade to the new Network driver by Lnx2Mac which enabled Bonjour for me and got my new network printer working but that file lives in S/L/E not E/E.

 

Stell also mentioned recently he had some ideas but I never heard anything, did anyone else?

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So as previously posted, I upgraded from 10.6.4 to 10.6.5 using the combo updater. I am on the CARTRI BIOS.

 

While I can still put the rig into sleep mode using the keyboard, once it's sleeping it goes into this weird cycle where the DVD player spins up and then down and then the computer goes back to sleep...and then it does it all over again...over and over and over...

 

All components listed in my signature are current...

 

Any ideas or a point in the right direction...

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Can someone let me know how I remove files from the Extensions.mkext and have Kext Utility recompile it and still boot?

 

Everything I have tried to do to it so far just result in getting stuck at the grey screen with a spinny thing, even booting with -x or -v.

 

Basically I am trying to up date this clone drive I have with all the latest and greatest as it has been a while since v3 was released and it seems we don't need some of these files now?

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