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This is the geekiest thing I've ever done! :)

Yesterday I put together this system (see my sig for specs).

 

I'm posting this from my new Hackintosh :)

 

Right now I'm running off JaS 10.4.8 Kernel 8.8.1. I've managed

to get ethernet working by using DaemonES's "Gigabyte Method"

Way Cool!

 

Funny thing is, JMicron SMB363 controller is working now "out of the

box" - no hack required, after installing OS from my SATA Burner

(OS X wouldn't recognize it during install). All I did was enabled

the controller in the BIOS & set the mode to AHCI!

I've got a Pioneer EIDE DVD burner connected to it & it's fully

recognized (as a SATA drive) in System Profiler, with burn support.

I just installed Photoshop CS off of it.

 

One lingering problem - Audio. This mobo has an ALC888 chip.

I tried downloading skippyretard's ALC888Audio.pkg, but so far

no-go.

 

Also, my Lite-On SATA burner is flakey - it stops responding sometimes.

I have to hard reboot the system in order for it it re-appear

(relaunching finder won't do it).

 

And I can put the system to sleep, but it doesn't want to wake up.

 

*** I tried installing Uphuck's 10.4.9 v1.3, but it wouldn't work.

It started the install, I chose a bunch of options I thought would

work, but every time the install would fail as soon as 4% of the

install was complete. I might start a seperate post on this problem.

 

Thanks to everyone who contibutes to this site!!!

Couldn't have done this with you!!! :D

 

*** UPDATE: I finally got the ALC888 2-Channel audio working.

After spending about 4 hours trying to get it to work :bag:

See my sig for details.

 

I now have a fully functional Hackintosh!!! :D

vlad1966
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I'll get xbench scores either later tonight or tomorrow. As far as solving the install problem, I tried bout 10 times with uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 but it always errored out @ about 4% installed (with various options selected before the install & in my BIOS), so I tried Jas 10.4.8 & it just worked the first time.

sarahbau
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I'll get xbench scores either later tonight or tomorrow. As far as solving the install problem, I tried bout 10 times with uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 but it always errored out @ about 4% installed (with various options selected before the install & in my BIOS), so I tried Jas 10.4.8 & it just worked the first time.

Let me know when you get it on eBay. :D

vlad1966
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I'll try to get some xbench benchmarks in acouple hours when I get home from work.

The mobo is really great. Once I used Jas 10.4.8 to install instead of uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3, I was surprised how easily it went.

There was no ethernet or sound initially, but those I got going with a couple easy hacks I found - very cool

dark4181
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the ich9r chipset works as well? out of the box? or do you have the hdd's plugs into the jmicron southbridge, with your sata dvd burner in the ich9r ports? or did you install with the pioneer eide, and add the lite-on sata later?

drewintheav
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Hi :D

 

I have the IP35 Pro motherboard as well.

 

I have the following hardware:

 

EVGA Nvidia 7950GT 512 mb, graphics card.

 

Canon MP460 usb , printer/scanner.

 

Hauppauge WinTV HVR 980, tv card.

 

E-mu 0404, usb soundcard.

 

I used uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3.

 

The videocard, and the network ports worked just from installing with the uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 DVD.

 

Perhaps you are selecting something that you might not need to select, or maybe your copy of the uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 DVD is corrupted?

 

The only thing that does not work for me currently is the integrated audio.

 

Can you please tell me how you got the audio to work?

dark4181
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Hi :D

 

I have the IP35 Pro motherboard as well.

 

I have the following hardware:

 

EVGA Nvidia 7950GT 512 mb, graphics card.

 

Canon MP460 usb , printer/scanner.

 

Hauppauge WinTV HVR 980, tv card.

 

E-mu 0404, usb soundcard.

 

I used uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3.

 

The videocard, and the network ports worked just from installing with the uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 DVD.

 

Perhaps you are selecting something that you might not need to select, or maybe your copy of the uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 DVD is corrupted?

 

The only thing that does not work for me currently is the integrated audio.

 

Can you please tell me how you got the audio to work?

 

so you're saying that all the sata ports work at sata speed?

vlad1966
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Hi ;)

 

I have the IP35 Pro motherboard as well.

 

I have the following hardware:

 

EVGA Nvidia 7950GT 512 mb, graphics card.

 

Canon MP460 usb , printer/scanner.

 

Hauppauge WinTV HVR 980, tv card.

 

E-mu 0404, usb soundcard.

 

I used uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3.

 

The videocard, and the network ports worked just from installing with the uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 DVD.

 

Perhaps you are selecting something that you might not need to select, or maybe your copy of the uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 DVD is corrupted?

 

The only thing that does not work for me currently is the integrated audio.

 

Can you please tell me how you got the audio to work?

 

Here you go:

 

Thanks to Rammjet for this guide. All I did was changed a couple of ID's for the ALC888 & ICH9.

If you have an Intel mobo with ICH9 chipset and ALC888 audio, this will work for you.

 

1) Delete AppleHDA.kext from /System/Library/Extensions

 

2) Edit AppleAzaliaAudio.kext:

 

In Terminal, type:

 

cd /System/Library/Extensions

sudo pico AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

Search for IOHDAudioCodecVendorID (press Ctrl + W)

 

Find:

 

<key>IOHDAudioCodecVendorID</key>

<string>0x10ec0880</string>

 

Change <string>0x10ec0880</string> -- to -- <string>0x10ec0888</string>

 

Exit pico: press Ctrl + O to save and then Ctrl + X to exit

 

In Terminal, type:

 

sudo pico AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAzaliaController.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

Search for IOPCIPrimaryMatch (press Ctrl + W)

 

Find:

 

<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>

<string>0xNNNN8086</string> (where NNNN are any 4 characters)

 

Change <string>0xNNNN8086</string> -- to -- <string>0x293e8086</string>

 

Exit pico: press Ctrl + O to save and then Ctrl + X to exit

 

 

3) Clean up the system:

 

In Terminal, type:

 

sudo diskutil repairpermissions /

sudo chown -R root:wheel AppleAzaliaAudio.kext

sudo chmod -R 755 AppleAzaliaAudio.kext

cd /System/Library

sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache

 

 

4) Then, reboot and enjoy sound out of two channels.

drewintheav
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Hi dark4181,

 

Ok, I think I understand what you are pointing out.

 

The SATA performance is sub par, but only for the Random tests.

 

In Xbench for hardrive performance I get an over all score of 72.86.

 

But this is due to extremely low scores for the Random tests.

 

Specifically, the uncached write test which gets a score of 15.

 

All the other hard drive tests get scores above 120 and up to 185.

 

Perhaps this is because OS X is using a generic AHCI driver for the ICH9R controller?

 

All of the other scores in the xBench hardrive test are between 123 and 185

 

In the bios of the Abit IP35Pro, I set up the 2 controllers to AHCI mode, the ICH9R and JMB363.

 

The Uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 DVD does have a driver for JMB363, but does not have a driver for ICH9R.

 

Perhaps the ICH8R driver from the DVD can be installed and then modified after the installation?

 

Does anybody know of anything that might improve the hard drive performance?

vlad1966
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the ich9r chipset works as well? out of the box? or do you have the hdd's plugs into the jmicron southbridge, with your sata dvd burner in the ich9r ports? or did you install with the pioneer eide, and add the lite-on sata later?

 

I've got the SATA DVD burner on SATA port 1, & the 2 Samsung HDDs on Sata port 2 & 3. I think those run off the ICH9R. I think it's just the IDE & 2 extrenal eSATA ports that run off the JMicron JMB363 controller. I did enable AHCI in the BIOS though for both controllers before install, otherwise I get the dreaded "Waiting for Root Device" error.

I can't install of the IDE Burner @ all though - thank you JMicron ;) I did install of the SATA Burner.

sarahbau
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I'm not too impressed with those XBench scores. Here's what mine scored with a P4 3.0GHz, slower memory, same hard drive, and slower video card - http://sarahbau.webhop.org/pictures/xbench.png

 

Why did my DDR2 533 score so much higher than your DDR2 800? Did you have to underclock your memory multiplier in order to get the CPU to run at 3GHz? My memory is running at 626MHz. I'm also surprised how low your HD score is. We're both using the same exact drive. It makes me not want to upgrade now. lol

vlad1966
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Yeah, those hard drive scores give me a good excuse to but an updated Mac Pro when they come out.

I left my multiplier stock, OC'd the FSB to 334MHz, so the RAM is running 1336MHz???

 

EDIT: Just check the BIOS - RAM was running 668MHz, 1:1 - WTF!

I changed it in the BIOS to 1:5 - now it's at 1002MHz ;)

 

Re-running xBench . . .

 

OK, here it is: http://st136.startlogic.com/~obsidian/xBenchRAM1002GHz.jpg

with RAM running 1002MHz

 

WOW! System feels extremely snappy!!! The Quad 2.66 Mac Pro felt sluggish compared to this.

sarahbau
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Yeah, those hard drive scores give me a good excuse to but an updated Mac Pro when they come out.

I left my multiplier stock, OC'd the FSB to 334MHz, so the RAM is running 1336MHz???

 

EDIT: Just check the BIOS - RAM was running 668MHz, 1:1 - WTF!

I changed it in the BIOS to 1:5 - not it's at 1002MHz ;)

 

Re-running xBench . . .

heh. I was about to correct you on the 1336 to say it should be about 1000MHz, but it looks like you edited your post right before I clicked reply. The memory should run a 3x the bus speed by default, so 266 * 3 or 800MHz. At 333 it should normally be running at 1GHz. I guess it somehow got set to 2x. Still though, even at 668MHz, it should be a bit faster than mine at 626.6MHz. For some reason my Stream score is more than 20% faster. You should run it again now that the memory is running faster, to see what it gets.

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OK. Something has to be up with your score. I just had my boyfriend run it on his computer, and here are his results - http://sarahbau.webhop.org/pictures/xbench_c2d.png

 

He has an E6320 @ 3.0GHz, 2GB of DDR2 800 RAM at 866MHz, a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3, and 7600GT, and a 120GB PATA HD. Your computer should be beating his in everything, or at least getting around the same score. Even his CPU score is way higher.

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