andytof47 Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Ok... here it is a clean slate for me I just sold my previous Gigabyte board for a replacement to someones who's computy blew up EXCELLENT - Mean I can buy based on an informed decision and not just hope for the best.... these are the boards I have access to for a cheap and not to nasty AMD based Solution...........there are others but these are the socket am2's that aren't to expensive. GA-M61P-S3 SOC-AM2 ATX IEEE1394 4xDDR2/800/667/533/400(Max 16Gb) Onboard nVIDIA 430/Audio PCI-E 1x16 PCI-E x1 4xPCI GbE LAN/4xSATA 1xPATA RAID GA-M61SME-S2 Micro ATX AM2 2xDDR2 Onboard nVIDIA GF6100/Audio 10/100LAN2 SATA USB2 GA-MA69GM-S2H SOC AM2, AMD 690G chipset,Onboard Radeo X1250-based graphics, 4 DDR2 DIMM memory slots, Supports dual channel DDR2 800/667/533/400 DIMMs , GA-MA69VM-S2 SOC AM2 MA69Chipset, Matx, Onboard VGA, Gigabit LAN, 4 x DDR2 800/667/533/400 DIMMs, 1 PCI Express x 16 slot, 1 PCI Express x 4 slot , 2 PCI slot, 4 x SATA, MBGA-M56S-S3 SOC AM2, FSB2000, ATX, DDR2, PCIE16x, RAID, GBLAN, 1394a Should I steer clear of these and just buy an intel based system perhaps? GA-945GCMX-S2 Intel 945GZ SOC775 Micro ATX 2xDDR2/533/400 Onboard Video/Audio PCI-Ex16 PCIx3 GbE LAN/4xSATA 1xPATA FSB1066/800/533, 1333FSB by OC GA-945PL-S3 (V3.3) GIGABYTE SOC775, ATX, 4 DDR2 memory slots, Audio PCIE, SATA2, Gigabit LAN , 1 PCIE x 16 slot, 3 PCIE x 1 slots, 3 PCI slots GA-945P-S3 Intel P945PL SOC775 ATX 2xDDR2/533/400 Audio PCI-E x16 3xPCI-E x1 3xPCI GbE LAN/4xSATA 1xPATA FSB1066/800/533 GA-946GMX-S2 Intel 945 Soc775, 2 x DDR2 memory slots, Supports Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core / Core™2 Duo processor , VGA/Sound onboard,1 PCI Express x 16 slot,1 PCI Express x 4 slot 2 PCI slots GA-G33M-S2 Gigabyte SOC775 QuadCore, G33, FSB1333, DDR2, VGA onboard, PCIEx16, SATA2, GbLAN, mATX GA-P31-S3L Intel P31 Soc 775 ATX FSB1333 DDR2 PCIEx16 SATA2 GbLAN VDBIOS GA-P35-DS3 Intel P35 SOC775, 4 DIMM slots, Supports1333/1066/800 MHz FSB, Gigabit Lan, Onboard Audio, 1 PCI-Express X16 slot, 3 PCI-Express X1 slot, 3 x PCI, SATA RAID 0,1 GA-P35-DS3P Intel P35 SOC 775 ATX 4XDDR2/800/667/533 Audio 3 PCI-E GBE LAN/8SATA 3Gb/s12 USB2.0 1394 Solid Capacitor GA-P35-DS4 Gigabyte SOC775, Supports1333/1066/800 MHz FSB, Gigabit Lan, ATX, PCI-Express, PCI-Express X16 (X8) x 2, PCI-Express X1 (X2,X4) x 3, 8 Channels ALC889A Audio, 4 DIMM slots Those are the Gigabyte boards for intel ------ I'm really just after something that will work, look nice, and almost not need any driver patching because I don't know how to do that yet............ I have a SATA HDD and a SATA Pioneer DVD R/RW all and any help is appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kw3179 Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 I got it working on a GA-P35-DS3. A very basic board. Q6600, 2gb ram, Nvidia 8800GTS. Sata seagate drive. Installed from leopard flat image and had to enable AHCI in bios to get it to run. Video and internet good straight up. Had to patch sound. Xbench score of 122 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytof47 Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 Ok Sounds good -- Any Links on howto do the sound patch you mentioned? I'm still very new to this aspect of things. Also have you tried any other versions I currently got Uphuck -- the version you've installed is available from the BAY of Piracy but i'm wondering if it's a matter of just burning the image to a dvd and booting or is it just Like ghosting the image onto my SATA HDD?? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kw3179 Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 The file is the flat leopard. I got it from the green demon, its a demonoid of a place to visit. <Hint, Hint> These are the instructions I followed for sound patch: May need to have an administrator password set Unzip alc889a.zip in OSX not in Windows. GO TO System/Library/Extensions copy to backup folder: AppleAzaliaAudio.kext AppleHDA.kext ALCinject.kext Then delete the above files in extensions folder. Drag AppleHDA.kext and ALCinject.kext to extensions folder. You will get error messages but say OK. <-- The next step will set the correct permissions for the files --> Copy and paste commands in terminal window sudo -s <--Enter your password--> chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/ALCinject.kext && chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/ALCinject.kext && chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext rm -f /System/Library/Extensions.* diskutil repairPermissions / <-- Now reboot your computer when it finishes --> F8 at boot and -f to rebuild kext cache files Use search to find alc889a.zip file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytof47 Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 HaHaa ---Hint Hint good one, Anyways I maight try that after I get the flat version to see how all goes -- of course buying the hardware tomorrow will go a long way in helping the problem also I'll let you know how all goes..... Thanks for the pointer on teh sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optimusp Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I've got a p35-DS4L. Everything works wonderfully except sound. But you'll experience this problem with almost any mobo you'll buy. The easy solution is to buy a USB audio device that supports OSX. In my case, I bought an m-audio fast track. It installs easily using the drivers from m-audio's website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hnettles Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I just installed the flat image last night on a Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L motherboard with an Intel E2160 cpu overclocked to 2.7 ghz and 2 gigs of ram. Video was an Nvidia 6600 PCI-E. The install booted up beautifully the first time, and saw all hardware EXCEPT for the onboard Realtek Gigabit network. I went to the Realtek site and found a driver for OSX86 version 10.4, which is working. I had to install it twice (no idea why it didn't work the first time). My biggest problem is this is my first Mac, and I have no idea what I am doing at this point..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optimusp Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I just installed the flat image last night on a Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L motherboard with an Intel E2160 cpu overclocked to 2.7 ghz and 2 gigs of ram. Video was an Nvidia 6600 PCI-E. The install booted up beautifully the first time, and saw all hardware EXCEPT for the onboard Realtek Gigabit network. I went to the Realtek site and found a driver for OSX86 version 10.4, which is working. I had to install it twice (no idea why it didn't work the first time). My biggest problem is this is my first Mac, and I have no idea what I am doing at this point..... P31 or P35? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thysm00 Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 Try the GA G33-DS2R it's fully working instructions here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=71338&st=0 and some help also here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=71317&st=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrizz Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 GA-945GCMX-S2 working perfectly with efi aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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