daifuku74 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Hello people, I recently bought a PearC starter, which is a german clone with Snow Leopard included. it sports a gigabyte EP45-UD3L motherboard, with some other stuff. I don't know the difference between this machine and a regular hackintosh that I would have built myself. Anyone familiar with this type of machine? Do they use a special trick that regular Hackintosh don't have or anything? It starts with some PC-like screens with the total memory etc. then it says loading Darwin and the Mac sequence starts. It came with a USB flash which I can boot from to reinstall. Once I run the installer on the USB flash, I only need to reboot and everything is functional. I've managed to add a WiFi PCI card which has been recognized immediately as an airport card. So, I decided to try my chance to add a firewire PCI card also, and the thing is, both are recognized, but only using the same PCI port. When they are next to each other, only one out of two works. I tried to see the parameters in the bios, and for both ports the IRQs are on AUTO. Is there some kind of KEXT that I could make from zero to add the support of the Firewire card? Why Snow Leopard sees a difference between these 2 PCI slots? You'd say: "Hey guy why don't you ask the vendor?" and you'd be perfectly right. This thing is they don't answer at all... I even found the guy on facebook and sent a message to remember him he must do his work and answer questions but it didn't change anything. Thanks for your suggestions and for bearing with my n00bishness Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203785-pci-firewire-tsb82aa2-chip-from-texas-instruments/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Is there some kind of KEXT that I could make from zero to add the support of the Firewire card?Why Snow Leopard sees a difference between these 2 PCI slots? Not really an answer for you but I see the same behavior on my P45 boards the PCI slot closest to the CPU will not work under OS X on both of them it is not a .kext problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203785-pci-firewire-tsb82aa2-chip-from-texas-instruments/#findComment-1368222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daifuku74 Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 Not really an answer for you but I see the same behavior on my P45 boards the PCI slot closest to the CPU will not work under OS X on both of them it is not a .kext problem. Thanks for this info. Have you come to some kind of a workaround about this? I also have a plug on the motherboard for a firewire port that's on the case but it's never worked. It does not even appear in the board-enabled settings of the BIOS.... Any other P45 owners who have an idea on what to do? Thanks a lot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203785-pci-firewire-tsb82aa2-chip-from-texas-instruments/#findComment-1368390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Thanks for this info. Have you come to some kind of a workaround about this? I also have a plug on the motherboard for a firewire port that's on the case but it's never worked. It does not even appear in the board-enabled settings of the BIOS.... Any other P45 owners who have an idea on what to do? Thanks a lot No workaround you could try a pci-e based card all those slots work on my board along with the firewire port on the back and the header one I have connected to the case outlet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203785-pci-firewire-tsb82aa2-chip-from-texas-instruments/#findComment-1368437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daifuku74 Posted December 25, 2009 Author Share Posted December 25, 2009 No workaround you could try a pci-e based card all those slots work on my board along with the firewire port on the back and the header one I have connected to the case outlet. Thanks for the suggestion. The case-integrated port is plugged into the board but it won't be recognized still. Hmm let's try PCI-E. Thanks and merry christmas ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203785-pci-firewire-tsb82aa2-chip-from-texas-instruments/#findComment-1368823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Thanks for the suggestion.The case-integrated port is plugged into the board but it won't be recognized still. Hmm let's try PCI-E. Thanks and merry christmas ! Your welcome and Merry Christmas to you. BTW I went to the Gigabyte web site to check on your board both revisions of it and the pictures of it I looked at plus the specifications do not list firewire. So are you sure that port on the case is connected to a firewire header? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203785-pci-firewire-tsb82aa2-chip-from-texas-instruments/#findComment-1368947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daifuku74 Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 Your welcome and Merry Christmas to you. BTW I went to the Gigabyte web site to check on your board both revisions of it and the pictures of it I looked at plus the specifications do not list firewire. So are you sure that port on the case is connected to a firewire header? Well, the wire plug that comes from the top panel (2xUSB/1xFirewire 400/Audio In/Audio OUT) is definitely plugged into the motherboard, but that's maybe not its place cause nothing seems to happen. When I received the machine it was disconnected, and the plug was traveling inside the case, so I tried to plug it where it was suitable. Hmm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203785-pci-firewire-tsb82aa2-chip-from-texas-instruments/#findComment-1369202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Well, the wire plug that comes from the top panel (2xUSB/1xFirewire 400/Audio In/Audio OUT)is definitely plugged into the motherboard, but that's maybe not its place cause nothing seems to happen. When I received the machine it was disconnected, and the plug was traveling inside the case, so I tried to plug it where it was suitable. Hmm Oh it is not the place for it looking at the specifications for your board. http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mother...me=GA-EP45-UD3L Whereas mine shows firewire. http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mother...me=GA-EP45-DS3R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203785-pci-firewire-tsb82aa2-chip-from-texas-instruments/#findComment-1369340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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