Jared Kipe Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 It seems that some people have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get their various Audio and/or LAN cards working, and I'm just wondering if there is a consensus as to which is the most compatible board. This is some of the information I've compiled from reading 20 pages of the main P55 thread. Focus is mostly Gigabyte boards obviously. All these boards have the Realtek 8111D ethernet controller. use http://www.kexts.com/view/117-realtekr1000...!!.html ALC888 boards. (use http://www.kexts.com/view/147-acl888_hd_audio.html and delete AppleHDA.kext) (possibly set Azalia Codec to auto in BIOS) P55-UD3L-TPM P55-UD3P P55-UD3R P55-UD3 P55-UD3L P55-US3L P55-UD4 ALC888B boards. (LegacyHDA.kext/AppleHDA.kext from 10.6.1 via tonymacx86's blog) (possible with DSDT.am HDEF trick ?) P55M-UD2 ALC889A (VoodooHDA.kext and remove AppleHDA.kext) (AppleHDA.kext from 10.6.0 or 10.6.1 and LegacyHDA.kext+ possible DSDT hack) (possibly mess with Azalia Codec in BIOS) P55-UD4P P55M-UD4 P55-UD5 P55-UD6 P55-UD6-C There are P55A variants that have USB3.0 feature which I assume would not work well with OSX at the moment. Some of these boards appear to come with ALC889 nonA according to the Gigabyte website. If anyone knows any reason why one or more of these boards would work better than the others, please let me know. Otherwise I'll assume that the USB3et'al is unnecessary. I'm torn between the two micro ATX boards and the UD3R. Does anyone know if all/any of these boards allow 1-16x video + 1-4x video for extra monitors? If you have any of these and have audio/ethernet/anything else working, please reply so I can continue to compile this list. If you choose "Other" for the poll please reply with the other and why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Kipe Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 Bump from page 5! Added compiled list of audio methods. Added poll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aushack Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 got the ALC889A my UD4P working thanks! i ended up having to remove AppleHDA when using VoodooHDA. only working out of the front headphone port which is OK for know, but will probably have to get on to LegacyHDA and patching my DSDT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellarola Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Please don't buy Gigabyte boards. :X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Kipe Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 got the ALC889A my UD4P working thanks! i ended up having to remove AppleHDA when using VoodooHDA. only working out of the front headphone port which is OK for know, but will probably have to get on to LegacyHDA and patching my DSDT. That is very odd... Well not the removing AppleHDA, but that none of your back ports work. I'd probably rerun the test after messing with the Azalia-codec options in the BIOS. Please don't buy Gigabyte boards. :X Wait for it... He's gonna back up his opinion .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Kipe Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 On a side note, I was thinking about getting a P55m-UD2 but I always try to go as silent as possible. I have the original Scythe Ninja+Nexus120mm fan in my current rig, which is apparently incompatible with the 1156 socket boards. I've been thinking about the Zalman CNPS10X Quiet model, but I'm worried on the P55m-UD2 that it would cover the primary graphics PCI express card. I've found that the CNPS10X is a 140mm cube approximately, so if anyone could measure from the center of the socket to the Primary PCIExpress slot and see if its >70mm?? OR, can I use the orange PCIexpress slot on the P55m-UD4 for the primary graphics card? Then I could use whatever CPU cooler I wanted. EDIT: DARN newegg took the case I wanted off sale (Antec mini P180), so I guess I'll use the midtower P150 I have so now there isn't any REAL reason to try to get one of the mini MLBs. I need to order at least some of my stuff today though to get the sale price on my GPU, so please help me out on the cooler issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex HQuest Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 There is also Asus P7P55D series. Unfortunately, not much to say at this time, I don't have a decent video card for OS X. My 4850 sucks and do not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Kipe Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 There is also Asus P7P55D series. Unfortunately, not much to say at this time, I don't have a decent video card for OS X. My 4850 sucks and do not work. Thank you for your reply and probably vote. I don't personally see anything on the P7P55D series that is enticing over the GA lineup. The audio chipset seems to be limited to VoodooHDA.kext (not that there is anything wrong with that). I personally have chosen the P55M-UD2, so we will all see how that goes. I hope the information contained in this thread (and votes) will help more people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterHaas Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 I personally have chosen the P55M-UD2, so we will all see how that goes. The GA-P55M-UD2 has an ALC888b. All the audio support needs is the AppleHDA.kext from 10.6.2 and the Legacy888bHDA.kext from tonymacx86's site, or the Mediafire site which supports the GoogleGroups HQ-A site (of which I am a manager). I have both a GA-H55M-S2H/i3-540 (nVidia PCI-e graphics, 8400GS) and a GA-P55M-UD2/i5-760 (also nVidia PCI-e graphics, 9500GT), both on 10.6.4, running here, and both use the same audio support: the 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext and the Legacy888bHDA.kext. Both of my systems are about as "vanilla" as it gets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infraredmosquito Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Hi, I am having problems with the audio on the p55m-ud2, any chance you have any insight? I first tried the latest latest [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method to put on snow leopard 10.6.5 with the dsdt for the p55m-ud2 f11 bios from the database, and had no luck with that method. i eventually reinstalled and used the easy beast method and got everything working but sleep and, i think, the front audio ports. THis is my extras/extensions list: EvOreboot.kext fakesmc.kext JMicron36xATA.kext JMicron36xSATA.kext Legacy888bHDA.kext LegacyAppleRTC.kext NullCPUPowerManagement.kext NVEnabler 64.kext and the appleHDA.kext in my system/library/extensions is v. 1.7.9 SOSO SO SO SO appreciate any advice!!!!!!!! thanks steve MB:p55m-ud2 graphics: xfx GeForce 9500 GT 4 g ram (corsair) 1TB Seagate SATA drive The GA-P55M-UD2 has an ALC888b. All the audio support needs is the AppleHDA.kext from 10.6.2 and the Legacy888bHDA.kext from tonymacx86's site, or the Mediafire site which supports the GoogleGroups HQ-A site (of which I am a manager). I have both a GA-H55M-S2H/i3-540 (nVidia PCI-e graphics, 8400GS) and a GA-P55M-UD2/i5-760 (also nVidia PCI-e graphics, 9500GT), both on 10.6.4, running here, and both use the same audio support: the 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext and the Legacy888bHDA.kext. Both of my systems are about as "vanilla" as it gets. Hi, I am having problems with the audio on the p55m-ud2, any chance you have any insight? I first tried the latest latest [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method to put on snow leopard 10.6.5 with the dsdt for the p55m-ud2 f11 bios from the database, and had no luck with that method. i eventually reinstalled and used the easy beast method and got everything working but sleep and, i think, the front audio ports. THis is my extras/extensions list: EvOreboot.kext fakesmc.kext JMicron36xATA.kext JMicron36xSATA.kext Legacy888bHDA.kext LegacyAppleRTC.kext NullCPUPowerManagement.kext NVEnabler 64.kext and the appleHDA.kext in my system/library/extensions is v. 1.7.9 SOSO SO SO SO appreciate any advice!!!!!!!! thanks steve MB:p55m-ud2 graphics: xfx GeForce 9500 GT 4 g ram (corsair) 1TB Seagate SATA drive The GA-P55M-UD2 has an ALC888b. All the audio support needs is the AppleHDA.kext from 10.6.2 and the Legacy888bHDA.kext from tonymacx86's site, or the Mediafire site which supports the GoogleGroups HQ-A site (of which I am a manager). I have both a GA-H55M-S2H/i3-540 (nVidia PCI-e graphics, 8400GS) and a GA-P55M-UD2/i5-760 (also nVidia PCI-e graphics, 9500GT), both on 10.6.4, running here, and both use the same audio support: the 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext and the Legacy888bHDA.kext. Both of my systems are about as "vanilla" as it gets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ioan Popovici Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I can't get my P55-UD3L board to install snow leopard. All is fine until "Starting Darwin/x86" then it reboots. I have an i3 530 processor. I have ahci enabled, hpet option on 64 bit. My bios version is FH and i use the dsdt from tonymacx86 and chameleon 2.0 RC5. I've tried cpus=1, busratio=22, -f, x it does not matter it always restarts. I'm at wits end with this board... P55-UD3L FH i3 530 nVidia 8500 2 GB DDR3 Chameleon RC5 Retail Snow Leopard DVD image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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