ratbert Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 I have this board, and it's a very nice board. The few things that I have ran into when using it are pretty minor. 1) To get OSX to install, YOU MUST USE A IDE-SATA converter, or a usb cd-rom. It's that simple. After that, just format the drive, and install. 2) Titan works great. 3) You don't have to mess with any dual core settings. Both cores work great, and disabling one is not necessary! 4) The audio to the best of my knowledge doesn't work. 5) The Intel pro 10/100/1000 NIC doesn't work, but is recognized as EN0 in the system profiler. The specs for the board are: Chipset Intel® G965 Express Chipset Audio 6-channel (5.1) audio subsystem using the SigmaTel* STAC9227 audio codec Video Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3000 (Intel® GMA X3000) onboard graphics subsystem I/O Control Legacy I/O controller for diskette drive, serial, parallel, and PS/2* ports LAN Support Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller Peripheral Interfaces Ten USB 2.0 ports Two IEEE-1394a interfaces: one back panel connector and one front-panel header Four Serial ATA IDE interfaces One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100/133 support One diskette drive interface One serial port One parallel port Expansion Capabilities One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector Three PCI Express* x1 bus add-in card connectors Three PCI Conventional bus connectors If you have any other information on this board, please do give more information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Is this the OEM Version?, because if so, you might have a little surprise later on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 That would be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratbert Posted November 23, 2006 Author Share Posted November 23, 2006 Is this the OEM Version?, because if so, you might have a little surprise later on I do indeed have the OEM version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Ok, well at the moment there are no graphics drivers for the GMA3000 but there might be early next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratbert Posted November 23, 2006 Author Share Posted November 23, 2006 Ok, well at the moment there are no graphics drivers for the GMA3000 but there will be early next year. Thats not a big deal for me. I have a 7600gs. I just wish my Ethernet and Audio. I can't find any refrence to the C9227 SigmaTel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratbert Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 Ok, everything is up and running fully. I used an old 3com nic, and an external c-media usb sound card that was automatically detected. Titan doesn't work still, but probably will come the next update of it. If anybody needs help using this board, or if they have any questions, feel free to post here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardialer Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 i got the DG965WH and i can't get it to boot native or vmware. i tried it all... sorry to hijack your thread, but if u could gimme any tips on BIOS settings etc. DG965WH, E6300, 1GB RAM @ 667, some bizarre PCI cards (worked ok when i had AMD running), DVD-RW hooked up through USB. tried AHCI, Legacy, everything... won't boot 10.4.6 jas or 10.4.8 intel sse3 jas. oh yeah. flashed the board w/ latest bios from intel site. furthest i ever got was the UUID w/ a long string of numbers so im guessing its NOT seeing the DVD inside the dvd-rom. thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmoncu Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 @ratbert: you said that this board has a Serial port, however, it says on Intel's site that it doesn't have any COM ports. However, based on the onboard connectors, there's a COM port header. I am confused, can that onboard connector be enabled from the BIOS? Also, a followup, will OSX x86 install if I install it on a PATA HDD? Or all OSX x86 installations on an i965 requires to install it on a SATA disk? Thanks in advanced! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratbert Posted December 21, 2006 Author Share Posted December 21, 2006 The hard disk and cdroms NEED to be sata. No exceptions yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reghost Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I ran into the same problem with one of my dg965wh borads too so i just gave up on it. i just bought the bx2. works great and has gma x3000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neeko Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 All my drives are sata. It won't recognise them now that i've got an external DVD rom going... Any ideas? Is there a better Installer DVD that I'm missing? I'm sure it had something to do with the sata controllers, but I don't know how to change them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neeko Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 The hard disk and cdroms NEED to be sata. No exceptions yet. You advice on using the external DVD rom worked like a charm. Now it won't recognise my sata drives for installation... Any tips? How'd you do it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratbert Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share Posted March 25, 2007 You advice on using the external DVD rom worked like a charm. Now it won't recognise my sata drives for installation... Any tips? How'd you do it?? Make sure your hard drive is in sata port 0, and the bios is set to AHCI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratbert Posted April 12, 2007 Author Share Posted April 12, 2007 Good news! The loki updater goes smoothly, without any changed to the system needed. After upgrading to 10.4.9, then updating to the newest kernel, the correct speed of the processor is also displayed at about this mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TequilaKez Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Hi, I bought this board also as a 945 board was not available to me easily (i'm in India for 4 months). I'm not really keen on buying a fancy graphics card as I only use audio apps so what I want to know is, will osx work on with gma x3000 in vesa 3.0 mode as detected at startup? I'm not worried about qe ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TequilaKez Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Sorry, my install dvd hasn't arrived yet so I can't test... But can someone please let me know if the gma x3000 is detected at startup as vesa 3.0, then will it work in this mode without acceleration? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefinalprophecy Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 I have the DG965WH, and I have it go as far as completing the install and then it crashes and gives me an error message. someone told me before that i should disable extra ports, etc in the bios and take out unnecessary pci cards, but that didnt work. what do you think it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc'dreams Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Hi! I'm thinking to buy this (Intel DG965RY) MoBo for my new hackintosh. Do you think it's a good choice? Any other advices? Is 945g chipset still better for a hackintosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayminer Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 I have the DG965RY board and I have been trying to install OS X for quite some time now, but it just won't see my SATA drives. I have tried all settings in the BIOS (AHCI, IDE (Legacy, Native)), moving them around on the different connectors and so on. I even used VMWare to install the OS to my harddrive (and it works perfectly under VMWare) and I can get to the grey apple screen (when trying to boot natively) and if I boot with -v I can see that it is looking for the boot device. Did you guys do anything special to get it all to work? I'm using JaS 10.4.8 AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1, as from what I figured, the only difference with PPF2 was the Disk Utility. Anyone have any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TequilaKez Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Do you have a graphics card or are you relying on the onboard gma x3000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayminer Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Do you have a graphics card or are you relying on the onboard gma x3000? I'm relying on the onboard graphics for now, but I'm gonna get a NVidia card sometime soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TequilaKez Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Well I think that be the problem. There are as yet no drivers for the GMA x3000 but rumour has it we may see some soon if apple adopts it for the new macs. I resisted the idea that it wouldn't work, thinking i'd get at least a slow vesa mode or something, considering it wokrs on my sis 661fx mobo, but alas it appears we are out of luck. So we can either wait for apple or go buy that nVida card! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayminer Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 But for me it get's stuck at "Waiting for Boot Device" so I don't really think the graphics is the problem at this moment. I think that once the kernel is loaded, it can't find my harddrive (or CD-ROM) anymore, and I have them both connected to the SATA. I have changed the BIOS to AHCI, I have upgraded to the latest BIOS, I have tried a 10.4.9 kernel, but nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TequilaKez Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 Well once I connected my CD-drom via usb and bought a new gfx card all problems went away. Anyways, I'm now searching the forums to find a way to get the sata drives to work in XP in ahci mode so I can dual boot xp. Anyone like to help me out here? I have stuff on a sata drive I need to access with xp but to boot osx I need to put ALL sata drives in ahci mode and then XP can't read them anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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