P35-DS3P Rev 2.0 F6 Bios

[gyasih]

I am trying to get my system to work. Here are my specs:

Q6600 G0 Step

1 Samsung 183L-SATA DVD

1 Western Digital HDD-SATA

1 Phillips DVD-IDE

1 Western Digital HDD-IDE

4GB G-skillz PC2 6400 (5-5-5-15)

I am trying to install both Vista and any Leopard. I have tried many of the Bios settings listed on here and can't get either one to install. Could someone please direct me to a BIOS setting, Leopard install and the correct placement of devices on the board. I really have looked around beacuse I didn't want to get the look around you idiot responses.

 

Thank you

[VooD]

You have to setup your hd controller in ahci mode and boot from a usb cdrom, that´s all. Then when asked don´t install any ichrX driver. The disk controller already works very fast by default.

[gyasih]

no usb drive and i just bought most of this stuff.

[PowerSupply]

You dont need a USB drive. Just use the yellow SATA-ports and set them to AHCI mode.

[gyasih]

I tried so many combinations, i set up on Yellow port 0,1 and setting setting ACHI. I tried the Purple ports-Nothing works!

[gyasih]

vista installed, none of the patched dvd's work. Anyone

[YoYelloW]

im having teh same problems, tried eveything toh, brazil, efi, leopard tiger, and all get stuck before even macosx starts up. im starting to think its cause of a dodgy chip somewhere thats not working like intended.

[TonyKL]

I have rev1.0 of this board.

Set the disk mode to 'AHCI' and I could use either yellow(intel) or purple(gigabyte) sata ports.

When booting I had to use safe mode (-x) to get to the installer.

 

Both BrazilMac and ToH booted from DVD(sata on yellow) and installed.

[fuzzywasaduck2]

Do you know that it takes a good 20-25 minutes to boot into the brazil install setup wizard thing?

 

After you've pressed F8 at the darwin loader you need to type -x -v

 

If you see Still Waiting for Root Device at any point, your configuration is probably wrong

 

I've got the P35 chipset and I have installed Leopard, but it doesn't boot yet.

 

Others with the same chipset that are succeeding seem to be using  SATA DVD and HD Driv

s.

 

In your bios; If you go to Intergrated Peripherals.  The top setting should be set to AHCI mode; 

he one under it (SATA 0-3 controller - I think - these are the native sata controllers, not the JMicron ones) should be Enabled.

 

There's a setting 4th or 5th from the bottom - SATA IDE controller or something - Disable that and the setting below it should grey out

 

My SATA DVD drive arrives today and I'm pinning my hopes on this - USB didn't work for me, in that the Brazil disc wanted to take over an hour to install - I stopped it

 

Don't worry if your PC doesn't seem to be doing anything whilst trying to load the Brazil disc - it can appear to be doing nothing for a few minutes at a time - just wait 20mins or so ok

[gyasih]

i finally installed using flat image-no dvd i used worked. I tried both IDE and SATA HHD's and DVD and nothing would allow me to install.

[xavier2]

fuzzywasaduck2 is quite correct. it takes rather a while for brazilmac dvd patch to boot. I almost ditched the dvd but my curiousity kept the install disc spinning in my drive. I opted for the flat image later and everything work flawlessly. I have p35 ds3p and running leopard 10.5.1.

[NateS]

i used to have this mobo, and it only worked now and then booting of the DVD, was wierd, but keep on trying and it will work

[Clayfree]

I have this motherboard and can confirm that it will work. Get the Leopard flat image ( the one that you write from a windows install). Copy the correct batch file into the main folder and just double click it. A command window will launch and ove sata it takes about 6 minutes to write. Make sure your bios is set to AHCI and boot into the new install then go through boot menu.

 

EDIT:

I see you have 2 drives, I originally installed to an IDE dive and it worked perfectly. You may want to look at Acronis Boot Manager. It will launch on startup and give you the choice of booting into Vista or Leopard. In the end I used 2 sata drives. One with XP and one with Leopard.