DeepInside Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Hi, I have trouble installing Mac OS X on my Maximus Formula. It's a nice Mainboard but not for Mac OS X. Which Mainboard do you use for Lion and does it work to 100%? Maybe I am thinking about buying a cheap new mainboard…gimme inspiration please. =) (What I need is a 775LGA board) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwmanos Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 well I have an asus p5qc and it work 100% under lion . But in my opinion you have to go and bye a gigabyte they have nice custom apple like bios and are way more compatible than any other. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1719285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepInside Posted July 22, 2011 Author Share Posted July 22, 2011 well I have an asus p5qc and it work 100% under lion . But in my opinion you have to go and bye a gigabyte they have nice custom apple like bios and are way more compatible than any other. Okay i also think about gigabyte. But the most mainboards on the forum here are not on sale. 775 Mainboards arent many out there… Does somebody have experiences with one of this mainboards? Gigabyte GA-EP41-UD3L Gigabyte GA-EQ45M-S2 Gigabyte GA-G41M-COMBO Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2H Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L Gigabyte GA-P41-ES3G Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1719378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inday Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 I use this one Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L and is very easy for Hack Mac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1719388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewara Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 I use this one Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L and is very easy for Hack Mac. how have u installed it? i got the same board, a 8400 gs , and a e6700 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1721774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lulu123 Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 how have u installed it? i got the same board, a 8400 gs , and a e6700 I used Kakewalk 4 and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to install Lion on my g41m-es2l. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1721790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooSee Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 look at my Signature everything's just perfect CooSee ' Ya Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1721810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nissefar Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 look at my Signature everything's just perfect CooSee ' Ya When you say perfect does that include Wake On LAN / Power Button Wake? I'm looking for a board where this works, and it currently does not for a lot of Gigabyte boards, including my EP45-UD3LR. I'd love to hear from some EP45-UDxxx owners where they got this working. It has to do with some of the new low power states introduced in Lion. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1721841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooSee Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 When you say perfect does that include Wake On LAN / Power Button Wake? nope! can't say! never tried, also never used Sleep at all, IMHO no need for my System! i'll never understand why people want use Sleep with there Desktop Systems at all. if it's a Note/Netbook i would understand. why you need WOL ? CooSee ' Ya Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1721849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nissefar Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 When you say perfect does that include Wake On LAN / Power Button Wake? nope! can't say! never tried, also never used Sleep at all, IMHO no need for my System! i'll never understand why people want use Sleep with there Desktop Systems at all. if it's a Note/Netbook i would understand. why you need WOL ? CooSee ' Ya It's easy and doesn't really require power in sleep. Everything (apps, files) are as you left it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1722118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooSee Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Everything (apps, files) are as you left it. well, Lion has this feature now CooSee ' Ya Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1722300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inday Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 For people who like it, g41m-es2l Lion This Extra I am using plus, NIC's LNX2MAC RealtekRtl81xx RTL81xx OS X Driver [Lnx2Mac's Blog] Sound AppleHDA.kext in Extra to put in / Libary / Extensions kexts and with Kexts wizard. Sleep problem, sudo perl -pi -e 's|\xE9\x91\x06\x00\x00|\xC3\x90\x90\x90\x90|; s|\xE8\x7D\xFB\xFF\xFF|\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90|; s|\xE9\xFF\xF9\xFF\xFF|\xC3\x90\x90\x90\x90|; s|\xE8\x1F\x07\x00\x00|\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90|; s|\xE8\xF4\xFA\xFF\xFF|\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90|; s|\xE8\xA0\xF9\xFF\xFF|\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90|' /System/Library/Extensions/AppleRTC.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleRTC GA_G41M_ES2L.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1724188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nissefar Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Everything (apps, files) are as you left it. well, Lion has this feature now CooSee ' Ya In my opinion it doesn't really work that well. It restores windows for applications where you closed all windows. Seems pretty bad. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1724241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
taky2008 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 i've g41 comba and sound & network working perfect Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1724335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Okay i also think about gigabyte. But the most mainboards on the forum here are not on sale. 775 Mainboards arent many out there… Does somebody have experiences with one of this mainboards? Gigabyte GA-EP41-UD3L Gigabyte GA-EQ45M-S2 Gigabyte GA-G41M-COMBO Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2H Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L Gigabyte GA-P41-ES3G Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 Intel-chipset motherboards from most major brands (unless they go too far astray) should pretty much be dead-certain to work one hundred percent - Gigabyte motherboards are popular for the "Hack set" due to their lower cost compared to ASUS in particular. It's the non-Intel-chipset motherboards in general (and those for AMD CPUs in particular) that raise the greater number of red flags and cautions. The G41 chipset, for example, has one bugbear - the onboard graphics. Fortunately, unless you choose one of the Corporate Stable Model types (no discrete PCIe graphics option), that need not be a roadblock (my current "Hack triple" is G41-chipset-based; I just have an AMD HD5450 for graphics). P4x/X4x are better choices for another reason - more DIMM slots; also, these tend to support DDR3 (whereas there is still a tendency for G41-based motherboards to have just two DIMM slots; worse, they also tend to be DDR2-only). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263046-cheap-compatible-mainboards/#findComment-1725331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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