altoidboy Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 I followed the Lifehacker guide for the GA-EP45-UD3P (found here: bit.ly/GFE66) and have a Hackintosh up and running well, except for one thing: I have tried two different USB audio interfaces with it (Kore controller, and Tascam US-1641) and neither work. I install the drivers for each, restart, but they do not show up as valid output devices in the Sound control panel. (If I test the same interfaces on a real Mac, they work fine.) If I check System Profiler, and they do show up correctly there and are identified by model. So USB itself is working OK, but something about USB audio is not. I also have one Firewire audio interface (Metric Halo ULN-2) and that appears to work perfectly. Built-in audio also appears to work fine. So I've come to the conclusion that USB audio is hosed on this Hacktintosh. I'd love to figure out why. I built this machine to put a USB audio interface on it. Anyone have any clues or things to try? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195103-lifehacker-guide-w-ga-ep45-ud3p-mobo-no-usb-audio/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAVEC Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 I followed the Lifehacker guide for the GA-EP45-UD3P (found here: bit.ly/GFE66) and have a Hackintosh up and running well, except for one thing: I have tried two different USB audio interfaces with it (Kore controller, and Tascam US-1641) and neither work. I install the drivers for each, restart, but they do not show up as valid output devices in the Sound control panel. (If I test the same interfaces on a real Mac, they work fine.) If I check System Profiler, and they do show up correctly there and are identified by model. So USB itself is working OK, but something about USB audio is not. I also have one Firewire audio interface (Metric Halo ULN-2) and that appears to work perfectly. Built-in audio also appears to work fine. So I've come to the conclusion that USB audio is hosed on this Hacktintosh. I'd love to figure out why. I built this machine to put a USB audio interface on it. Anyone have any clues or things to try? This probably doesn't help but my USB DAC iBasso head phone amp works. Profiler shows a Burr Brown from TI at up to 12 Mb/sec. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195103-lifehacker-guide-w-ga-ep45-ud3p-mobo-no-usb-audio/#findComment-1315898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
altoidboy Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 Thanks for the corroboration. I guess it's possible *certain* USB audio devices work. It's just strange that 2 out of 2 have failed so far, and I have no idea what to try to fix it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195103-lifehacker-guide-w-ga-ep45-ud3p-mobo-no-usb-audio/#findComment-1315971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
altoidboy Posted November 2, 2009 Author Share Posted November 2, 2009 Bump...kinda desperate here as I have NOTHING to go on. Can anyone think of any reason the internal audio would work fine, Firewire audio would work fine (1 device tested), but USB audio would not work (2 devices tested and failed on the Hackintosh, while verified working on a real Mac on the same OS version)? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195103-lifehacker-guide-w-ga-ep45-ud3p-mobo-no-usb-audio/#findComment-1318238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacG4 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I realize it's been awhile but maybe the info needs to be out there... I also used the Lifehacker guide to build a GA-EP45-UD3P machine, simply awesome! OS X has two Apple provided locations/apps for sound settings. One is in System Preferences/Sound and the other is an App in the Utilities Folder called Audio MIDI Setup. The latter is one that a lot of people miss. There are two windows in that App - Audio Devices and MIDI Studio. It lets you assign your inputs and outputs in a little more detail and I think you can save your setups so you can switch equipment a little easier. I also use the Griffin FireWave 5.1 Surround Sound output box via Firewire of course. That provides me a third app called FireWave for sound settings. I use optical output too but the FireWave allows me to to have six channels of analog output when I need that. Anyway, flip settings in one app and it changes settings in the other - or not ;-) Find myself checking the settings regularly but it's not too bad. Maybe you are having a similar issue? I have heard USB Audio solutions work on the Mac OS and I see no reason why it wouldn't work on this motherboard. USB is a standard I/O for OEM's. But hey, I could be wrong... I have also found that a fresh OS install can fix some problems easier that trying to trouble shoot a specific driver or file issue. Hope you have found your solution by now ;-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195103-lifehacker-guide-w-ga-ep45-ud3p-mobo-no-usb-audio/#findComment-1621085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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