[HowTo] Gigabyte GA-8I865GME-775 guide

[JoyMonkey]

After doing a little searching here and on the wiki, it seemed like this motherboard would be a good option for a budget Hackintosh. After installing 10.4.8 everything works perfectly except LAN. Here's a step by step...

 

My hardware specs:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8I865GME-775-RH-AS (rev3.9)

- Onboard Sound: Realtek ALC655 Codec - Device/Vendor ID is 0x24D58086

- Onboard LAN: Intel 82562G chip (PRO/100 VE) - Device/Vendor ID is 0x10518086

- Onboard SATA: Intel ICH5 (I'm not going to be using this)

- Onboard VGA: Intel 82865G - Device/Vendor ID is 0x25728086

CPU: Intel Pentium D 930 (3.0Ghz )

Memory: 1x 512mb and 1x 1024mb DDR 400, Dual Channel

Input Devices: Logitech EX110 wireless keyboard and mouse (single USB)

Monitor: old 17" CRT

IDE1 Primary: Hard Drive: Western Digital 250gb PATA/IDE

IDE1 Secondary: DVD-R Drive: Pioneer A105 IDE

 

Installation:

BIOS Settings:

I left most options at their default settings. In Standard CMOS Features I disabled the Floppy Drive. In Advanced CMOS Features I set First Boot Device to CDROM and Second Boot Device to Hard Disk. In Integrated Peripherals I set Onboard Parallel Port to Disabled, USB Keyboard and Mouse Support Enabled. In PC Health Status I set CPU Warning Temperature to 60oC/140oF and set CPU Fan Fail Warning to Enabled. None of these settings should affect an OS X install, I just set them this way by personal preference.

 

Partitioning with GParted Live CD:

Downloaded the latest Gparted Live CD iso (0.3.4-8) from Sourceforge and burn it to a CD.

GParted's automatic video driver doesn't like the motherboard's onboard video, so choose "GParted-liveCD Force I810 driver" from its initial menu.

Once GParted loaded I deleted all partitions from my 250gb drive. Then I made a new 60gb (61440mb) primary partition with Filesystem set to unformatted - this will be for OS X. I made a 12gb (12288mb) ntfs primary partition for Windows XP and a 16gb (16384mb) unformated primary partition for whatever OS I decide to add in the future. Finally I made the remaining drive space (145gb) into a fat32 primary partition.

 

Installing OS X:

Boot the PC with the "JaS 10.4.8 SSe2 SSe3" DVD. At the initial menu screen run the Disk Utility (found in the Utilities menu at the top of the screen). I selected the unformatted 60gb partition and erased it with "Volume Format" set to "Mac OS Extended (journaled). Back in the dvd's initial menu set the following in the "Installation Type" menu:

I chose not to install any specific video-card driver since I was planning on using the onboard Intel VGA.

Once the install complets the PC restarts and I'm left with a virgin OS X install with everything except the LAN working just like it should.

 

Fixing the LAN driver:

After I installed OS X the only piece of hardware not working appears to the the onboard LAN controller. Luckily this is easy fix. The problem appears to be that the driver (AppleIntel8225x.kext) included in 10.4.8 just doesn't work, so I replaced it with an AppleIntel8225x.kext from an older version of OS X.

 

Download the old version of AppleIntel8225x.kext from this thread and copy the kext onto the OS X desktop. From the desktop drag it into /System/Library/Extensions/ (requires password to authenticate) and then copy and paste the following Terminal commands (this is from the AppleIntel8225x.kext readme)

 

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntel8255x.kext

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntel8255x.kext

sudo kextload -v /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntel8255x.kext

sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

Reboot and start Safari to confirm that your LAN is working correctly.

 

Replacing AppleSMBIOS.kext

You might find that some big applications crash when you try to launch them. A possible fix for this is replacing /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSMBIOS.kext with PauliCat's modified AppleSMBIOS.kext

Drag the modified AppleSMBIOS.kext into the /System/Library/Extensions folder and let it replace the existing one. Then you'll need to Repair Permissions using the Disk Utility or OS X will probably not boot correctly.

If (like me) you restart without repairing disk permissions, you can boot from the install DVD and use the Disk Utility there.

 

Backing-Up The OS X Partition

Now that the OS X install is complete and everything is working like it should, it's probably wise to make a backup copy of the OS X drive partition. The free version of SuperDuper! lets you backup your OS X partition to a DMG image nother hard drive or a usb drive really easily. If anything goes horribly wrong you can restore your OS X hard drive from your backup using Disk Utility on the install DVD.

Updating to 10.4.9

Some newer applications require 10.4.9 or newer. JaS released an update package for Intel SSE3 systems to make updating as painless as possible; it's called JaS.10.4.9.Combo.Update.Intel.SSE3 or something similar. JaS's update archive contains three packages; install the update itself first, then the LoginWindow fix. Then restart (I booted from the install DVD, but that's probably not necessary), run Disk Utility and repair drive permissions on your OS X drive. Restart and apply the SMB fix - this will repair Windows Shares. Restart again and you're all done.

[sauria]

Nice, how inexpensive is this system? Thanks!

[dodo]

After doing a little searching here and on the wiki, it seemed like this motherboard would be a good option for a budget Hackintosh. After installing 10.4.8 everything works perfectly except LAN. Here's a step by step...

 

My hardware specs:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8I865GME-775-RH-AS (rev3.9)

- Onboard Sound: Realtek ALC655 Codec - Device/Vendor ID is 0x24D58086

- Onboard LAN: Intel 82562G chip (PRO/100 VE) - Device/Vendor ID is 0x10518086

- Onboard SATA: Intel ICH5 (I'm not going to be using this)

- Onboard VGA: Intel 82865G - Device/Vendor ID is 0x25728086

CPU: Intel Pentium D 930 (3.0Ghz )

Memory: 1x 512mb and 1x 1024mb DDR 400, Dual Channel

Input Devices: Logitech EX110 wireless keyboard and mouse (single USB)

Monitor: old 17" CRT

IDE1 Primary: Hard Drive: Western Digital 250gb PATA/IDE

IDE1 Secondary: DVD-R Drive: Pioneer A105 IDE

 

Installation:

BIOS Settings:

I left most options at their default settings. In Standard CMOS Features I disabled the Floppy Drive. In Advanced CMOS Features I set First Boot Device to CDROM and Second Boot Device to Hard Disk. In Integrated Peripherals I set Onboard Parallel Port to Disabled, USB Keyboard and Mouse Support Enabled. In PC Health Status I set CPU Warning Temperature to 60oC/140oF and set CPU Fan Fail Warning to Enabled. None of these settings should affect an OS X install, I just set them this way by personal preference.

 

Partitioning with GParted Live CD:

Downloaded the latest Gparted Live CD iso (0.3.4-8) from Sourceforge and burn it to a CD.

GParted's automatic video driver doesn't like the motherboard's onboard video, so choose "GParted-liveCD Force I810 driver" from its initial menu.

Once GParted loaded I deleted all partitions from my 250gb drive. Then I made a new 60gb (61440mb) primary partition with Filesystem set to unformatted - this will be for OS X. I made a 12gb (12288mb) ntfs primary partition for Windows XP and a 16gb (16384mb) unformated primary partition for whatever OS I decide to add in the future. Finally I made the remaining drive space (145gb) into a fat32 primary partition.

 

Installing OS X:

Boot the PC with the "JaS 10.4.8 SSe2 SSe3" DVD. At the initial menu screen run the Disk Utility (found in the Utilities menu at the top of the screen). I selected the unformatted 60gb partition and erased it with "Volume Format" set to "Mac OS Extended (journaled). Back in the dvd's initial menu set the following in the "Installation Type" menu:

I chose not to install any specific video-card driver since I was planning on using the onboard Intel VGA.

Once the install complets the PC restarts and I'm left with a virgin OS X install with everything except the LAN working just like it should.

 

Fixing the LAN driver:

After I installed OS X the only piece of hardware not working appears to the the onboard LAN controller. Luckily this is easy fix. The problem appears to be that the driver (AppleIntel8225x.kext) included in 10.4.8 just doesn't work, so I replaced it with an AppleIntel8225x.kext from an older version of OS X.

 

Download the old version of AppleIntel8225x.kext from this thread and copy the kext onto the OS X desktop. From the desktop drag it into /System/Library/Extensions/ (requires password to authenticate) and then copy and paste the following Terminal commands (this is from the AppleIntel8225x.kext readme)

 

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntel8255x.kext

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntel8255x.kext

sudo kextload -v /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntel8255x.kext

sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

Reboot and start Safari to confirm that your LAN is working correctly.

 

Replacing AppleSMBIOS.kext

You might find that some big applications crash when you try to launch them. A possible fix for this is replacing /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSMBIOS.kext with PauliCat's modified AppleSMBIOS.kext

Drag the modified AppleSMBIOS.kext into the /System/Library/Extensions folder and let it replace the existing one. Then you'll need to Repair Permissions using the Disk Utility or OS X will probably not boot correctly.

If (like me) you restart without repairing disk permissions, you can boot from the install DVD and use the Disk Utility there.

 

Backing-Up The OS X Partition

Now that the OS X install is complete and everything is working like it should, it's probably wise to make a backup copy of the OS X drive partition. The free version of SuperDuper! lets you backup your OS X partition to a DMG image nother hard drive or a usb drive really easily. If anything goes horribly wrong you can restore your OS X hard drive from your backup using Disk Utility on the install DVD.

Updating to 10.4.9

Some newer applications require 10.4.9 or newer. JaS released an update package for Intel SSE3 systems to make updating as painless as possible; it's called JaS.10.4.9.Combo.Update.Intel.SSE3 or something similar. JaS's update archive contains three packages; install the update itself first, then the LoginWindow fix. Then restart (I booted from the install DVD, but that's probably not necessary), run Disk Utility and repair drive permissions on your OS X drive. Restart and apply the SMB fix - this will repair Windows Shares. Restart again and you're all done.

 

 

i got the same mobo everything work except for system reboot when i do shut down. is there a fix for it? please help. thanks