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UneeK
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Hey there!

 

Excelent work guys. Thanks for sharing your knowledge about this board.

 

I've got GA-965P-DS3 rev. 3.3

 

Everything is working (thanks to you) except one thing.

 

I have a strange feeling that PCI slots on this board dont work at all :rolleyes: Here is why.

Pls have in mind that I'm still biginner in this os x game.

 

I was trying to make wireless cards work. 2 of them. Both of the cards have Atheros AR5213 chipset. I know some ppl had success

with AR5212. Here is the thing. I did everything as stated in that guide http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=40317&hl=. Nothing worked for me. I do understand that maybe AR5213 is NOT supported like 5212. But here is what's bothering me. I have THE SAME VENID and PID as they do and it works. In fact I managed to get the same card they tested and still no luck(TL-WN650G but with AR5213)

 

Should my card appear in system profiler under PCI even if it doesnt work?

 

I know this isnt wireless forum but maybe someone has some idea for me to try. But you can answer me this :

 

Is there someone who can confirm that PCI slots ARE working 100% on this board? someone who has Firewire card or something pluged in.

 

Thanks for your answers and thank you again for making this board so easy to use under OS X.

 

 

btw, I'm running Jas 10.4.8 + Koolkal 10.4.10 update.

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Is anyone successfully running a stable system (up without panics) with 4 GB of RAM on this board? I read another thread where a user identified issues when using 4 GB of RAM, and since installing OSX on my hackintosh with this board, I've been getting lots of panics as well.

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Is anyone successfully running a stable system (up without panics) with 4 GB of RAM on this board? I read another thread where a user identified issues when using 4 GB of RAM, and since installing OSX on my hackintosh with this board, I've been getting lots of panics as well.

 

 

Running 4GB ram @ 800mhz. No problems yet, however I just installed yesterday.

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I just got this board with Intel Q6600 processor. But I am a bit lost on which OS X version image I should install. Does the 10.4.9 image work directly? Or does one have to install the 10.4.8 first and then apply some patches to get it to 10.4.9?

 

Any help is appreciated since I am a noob to this.

 

Thanks!

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I have a ga-p965-ds3 rev3.3 F12 BIOS (latest to date).

I have a SATA II Seagate 320GB HDD on the orange (ICH8) connectors - it has 3 primary paritions (winxp, osx, storage(fat32))

I am running JAS 10.4.8 see2/3 & ppf1/2.

 

I have been running OSX just fine but last night i went into Disk Utility and it froze. When i rebooted the SATA AHCI detection screen loads, states it detects 2 devices and the hangs. I cant even get into my BIOS. (I think i will be able to if i detach the HDD but i havent tried anything). This happened once before during my early days of OSX86 installs and i chalked it up to me messing something up -- but im pretty sure disk utility hosed something. It was strange because i was able to keep running osx after disk utility quit. it was just when i rebooted that the bios couldnt detect my SATA drives anymore.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks

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gu3d3s
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Hi all,

 

Please help! i instal my new mobo GA965P-DS3 easy, bu oly for i change my HDs from old PC. now i need help for correct configure my OSX for 965.

 

in bios i set al SATA for AHCI mode, but in OSX my devices not showed in AHCI the about this mac show is SATA devices.

 

My DVD (pata) is working in OSX but if i try BOOT from DVD a recive a err msg cant find com.apple.boot.plist...

 

My OSX HD is pluged in JMB conector, if i change for ICH8 (orange) i dont bootup more...

 

Please any help will wellcome, i search in google but only finde info for this mobo for Windows systens :(

 

My hope was U guys!

 

thnx!

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Hi all,

 

Please help! i instal my new mobo GA965P-DS3 easy, bu oly for i change my HDs from old PC. now i need help for correct configure my OSX for 965.

 

in bios i set al SATA for AHCI mode, but in OSX my devices not showed in AHCI the about this mac show is SATA devices.

 

My DVD (pata) is working in OSX but if i try BOOT from DVD a recive a err msg cant find com.apple.boot.plist...

 

My OSX HD is pluged in JMB conector, if i change for ICH8 (orange) i dont bootup more...

 

Please any help will wellcome, i search in google but only finde info for this mobo for Windows systens :D

 

My hope was U guys!

 

thnx!

 

What installer image are you using? I highly recommend using the JAS 10.4.8 SSE2/SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2. Both your HDD and DVD should be plugged into the Orange Intell ICH8 SATA Controllers during install. From what I understand you cannot install to/from drives connected to the Jmicron Controller (Purple SATA/IDE).

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gu3d3s
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hi,

 

Thx for reply!

 

My install com fine now, i put one SATA DVD, but now i have another problem, onlu 2 of 4 intel ICH8 ports is recognized in OSX (tiger or LEO), in Leo i use JMicron kext anda works fine.

 

But now i need ADD more one HD in my 965P, and only have ICH8 (orange) ports 2 and 3 free, 0 and 1 have my BOOT HD (0), and SATA DVD (1), i try any config in BIOS but no heve lucj :(

 

Some one can help?

 

Thz, and sory my bad English...

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I have a ga-p965-ds3 rev3.3 F12 BIOS (latest to date).

I have a SATA II Seagate 320GB HDD on the orange (ICH8) connectors - it has 3 primary paritions (winxp, osx, storage(fat32))

I am running JAS 10.4.8 see2/3 & ppf1/2.

 

I have been running OSX just fine but last night i went into Disk Utility and it froze. When i rebooted the SATA AHCI detection screen loads, states it detects 2 devices and the hangs. I cant even get into my BIOS. (I think i will be able to if i detach the HDD but i havent tried anything). This happened once before during my early days of OSX86 installs and i chalked it up to me messing something up -- but im pretty sure disk utility hosed something. It was strange because i was able to keep running osx after disk utility quit. it was just when i rebooted that the bios couldnt detect my SATA drives anymore.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks

 

Update -this turned out to be a problem with my DVD drive (a Lite-on 20x) -- i switched it out for a 20x Samsung and everything works fine. From what i gather some (though i dont know how to determine which) Optical drives do not work well in AHCI mode.

 

Also - I contacted Gigabyte support and they said Optical drives and HDDs should not run on the same SATA Controller if said SATA Controller is running in AHCI mode. (ex. Your HDDs should be running in AHCI mode on one controller, and your SATA Drives running (preferrably in IDE mode) on another. Of course with OS X there is HW support issues that may not let you run your drives in this "support" (or atleast accord to Gigabyte) configuration.

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Uncle_Pinny
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Hi there.

 

Firstly thank you to all those who have put in hard work getting these installs to work. I've been reading for a while and have got to the point where I've bought my copy of Leopard and want to install. Luckily I stumbled upon this 965P thread.... ;)

 

Quick question - I've read along the threads that I'll NEED a SATA DVD drive - is this really the case? Is this because my Leopard installer DVD (which I will create using the BrazilMac patch) cannot read from my IDE DVD drive? Could someone please clarify this for me? If that's the case I'll have to find one of those adaptors or buy a new DVD drive.

 

My idea is that I will install onto a fresh HD using my BrazilMac patched original Leopard DVD. Any advice for this?

 

Hoping to get this done then sort the EFI but one step at a time.... :)

 

Thanks in advance - sure I'll be posting here quite a bit over the next few days

 

U.P.

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empire29
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Anyone with sleep working on this board ?

I got it working but I must re-plug USB mouse and keyboard to proceed working on wakedup comp.

 

I have S3 Sleep working but in order to wake up the machine i have to press my power button. I cannot wake from sleep using my keyboard or mouse.

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Hi there.

 

Firstly thank you to all those who have put in hard work getting these installs to work. I've been reading for a while and have got to the point where I've bought my copy of Leopard and want to install. Luckily I stumbled upon this 965P thread.... :)

 

Quick question - I've read along the threads that I'll NEED a SATA DVD drive - is this really the case? Is this because my Leopard installer DVD (which I will create using the BrazilMac patch) cannot read from my IDE DVD drive? Could someone please clarify this for me? If that's the case I'll have to find one of those adaptors or buy a new DVD drive.

 

My idea is that I will install onto a fresh HD using my BrazilMac patched original Leopard DVD. Any advice for this?

 

Hoping to get this done then sort the EFI but one step at a time.... :D

 

Thanks in advance - sure I'll be posting here quite a bit over the next few days

 

U.P.

 

Since i installed using an IDE DVD drive, I'm pretty sure having a SATA DVD drive isn't a prerequisite. I did use a mac to make my installer DVD though.

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A.I.Ghost
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jaybeatle

Since i installed using an IDE DVD drive...

Oh, maybe it's because you have GA-965-S3, not the GA-965-DS3? ;-)

I tried many times to install from IDE-DVD, and used at least five different drives - there was no success.

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jaybeatle

 

Oh, maybe it's because you have GA-965-S3, not the GA-965-DS3? ;-)

I tried many times to install from IDE-DVD, and used at least five different drives - there was no success.

 

The only major difference between the S3 and the DS3 is that the DS3 uses solid-state capacitors. There are other minor differences, but none that are significant.

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Oh, maybe it's because you have GA-965-S3, not the GA-965-DS3? ;-)

I tried many times to install from IDE-DVD, and used at least five different drives - there was no success.

 

Honestly, not really sure why IDE worked for me. Before I was able to get my hand's on a Leopard DVD, I tried ToH and it didn't work.

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Sabr

The only major difference between the S3 and the DS3 is that the DS3 uses solid-state capacitors. There are other minor differences, but none that are significant.

Oh, it's easy to find out :blink:

DS3 should have JMB363 or JMB366 chip, which one does S3 have?

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Sabr

 

Oh, it's easy to find out :)

DS3 should have JMB363 or JMB366 chip, which one does S3 have?

 

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe my S3 has a JMB363. DS3's also use a different network controller.

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SomniusX
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I've managed to work out the ToH flat image with my specs, it booted with some hpet msgs, 1024x768.. All seems ok didn't have the time, only 3 minutes, cause i had to drop my self to work. Audio works..

 

I used ToH flat disk image, i "dd" it from windows. I removed the xp disk and used the one with leo. + my new sata dvdrec, i bought just in case!

my specs are here http://casinogreco.com/osx/specs/

 

I just changed the sata ports to the purple ones and that was it, and imagine i always used the other ports. I found about the purple ones from older posts!!!

 

I thank "thy" community, plus you've got another slurping member..

 

Ps i jacked on the rss plus i'm surfing all day. Its only a matter of time to update my n00b self to a hackintosh'er!

 

Thx again 4 everything

 

P.s.2 post made using my iphone from work cause the boss caught me surfing and yelled his guts out!

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A mac addict friend told me that "drivers", kexts, for osx ard installed by just copy pasting it to a specific folder, are there any kexts or some to make my ati x1950pro (club, 256mb) work cause its like working with an old evga or vesa dos game?

 

Thank you again so much for everything and may gigabyte make lovable mobos lije ours!

 

P.s. You people just dont know how many greek fans you got! Keep ig up!

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