[HOW TO] INSTALL ON GIGABYTE/ASUS/COMPATIBLE BOARDS

[mr.mcgoo]

what realtek software? is this for the gigabyte or asus mobo?

 

ASUS p5w-dh, bios 2602. It's the Realtek 8187L software found here.

[koldasice]

umm just got my ds3ltoday, i installed it and whatever, i burned the dvd, and ran the install, upon completion it started loading the files, and then it reboots. I have of course the ds3l, gforce 8400,pent d 930,2gbcosair 800 memory.was i supposed to check something else, other than the vanilla kernal and acpi fix, and the mbr emulation, and i checked sse2 and it reboots, i installed again without sse2, and it still reboots. any ideas?!? i would love to try this out, i like it

[cubswinfllclssic]

umm just got my ds3ltoday, i installed it and whatever, i burned the dvd, and ran the install, upon completion it started loading the files, and then it reboots. I have of course the ds3l, gforce 8400,pent d 930,2gbcosair 800 memory.was i supposed to check something else, other than the vanilla kernal and acpi fix, and the mbr emulation, and i checked sse2 and it reboots, i installed again without sse2, and it still reboots. any ideas?!? i would love to try this out, i like it

 

First, as a rule, when the countdown to boot starts, hit a key and then type "-s" without the quotes so you can see diagnostic messages. That way you know where in the startup it fails.

 

Second, from what I've gathered, vanilla kernel will not run with a Pentium D chip. Use the hacked kernel and see where it gets you.

 

Post with your results, of course!

 

@nkear5, did your sleep/shutdown/restart always work, or was this after you installed smbios and/or 10.5.2 update?

 

@mcgoo, just out of curiosity, have you tried overclocking your e4600? I've gotten to 3.0GHz easily with 250mhz FSB with stock cooling, but I'm waiting to go higher until I get my new heatsink/fan.

[Okasha]

Your guide is really helping me, since I have a P35-DS4 motherboard. Have been working to get it all run smoothly yesterday the whole afternoon and now I got my dualboot running, thanks to you guys!

 

I now have two major troubles.

 

1) In the MS dual boot menu, I can only use the keyboard when it is connected by the PS2 adapter in the PS2 port. After that, I have to plug it in the USB port again, otherwise it won't work in leopard. SO, every time I boot, I have to switch it

 

2) My leopard won't shut down itself. It hangs every time I want to close it. This means that I am unable to decently install drivers because when I reboot, no serious changes have been made. Live messenger keeps installed, the updates worked, but for instance firefox, I have to install that every reboot. How can I see what is causing this?

[Muff04]

hello, I wanted with pleasure one osx system bauen. you can tell me whether I the system would run or where one improves another hardware so the system should take:

 

 

 

core 2 duo e8400

 

Ga-p35 ds3p

 

geforce 8800 gt (512 anti-pollution tests of exhaust fumes.)

 

2 gb RAM ddr2 800

 

2x 250 gb (Samsung.)

 

let me know and which version is only 10.5.1 kalyway or a different one best and then on 10.5.2 updating asks would please me

[dkcs]

i'm on P35-DS3L, was relieved that i finally got my disc to run and reach setup.

 

when my system rebooted after copying all the files，it couldn't proceed and instead showing me a distorted installation screen.

 

this is where the distortion comes in.

 

 

any ideas? i'm desperately trying to get leopard on my system.

 

 

p.s i checked mbr instead of guid. installed osx on my samsung sata hdd; 1 partition. tried rebooting several times but still can't get through the distorted part.

[shurabas]

Its sad that no one fixed the 4 SATA port problem yet

 

I was hoping that it will be fixed soon but I guess not.

 

In my case, when AHCI is enabled, i boot faster in all of my OSes (XP, Leo, Ubuntu) .. If im on IDE, my XP boots extremely slow!

 

Hoping for a fix soon!

[koldasice]

uhhh i actually installed the 10.5.1 dvd on my pent d when i was using my asrock 4coredual, it just kept restarting, do u know where to find the hacked kernel for my application, or the sleep one. and how to load it and such, im kinda new to installing new kernels and junk, would i be better off using 10.4.8 and upgrading? is that even possible?ok i found the 9.2.0 mach kernelw shutdown fix,im not sure if this is the one, if it is, i just need help loading it and such and i think i can make this work

[nkear5]

This was all working fine until today. I plugged my e-sata nic into my computer. As soon as I did this I was greeted with a kernel panic stating (Unable to find driver for this platform "ACPI"). Seeing this I panicked myself, and removed the e-sata port. But the problem still remained. Now the only way to boot into OS X is with the -f flag. It is bearable for now, but some assistance into fixing this would be great, thanks for any help and a great tutorial.

 

Edit: Nevermind, I managed to fix it with a backup of AppleACPIPlatform.kext that came with the Kalyway Combo Update, followed by a reinstallation of the netkas 9.2 kernel.

[mr.mcgoo]

@mcgoo, just out of curiosity, have you tried overclocking your e4600? I've gotten to 3.0GHz easily with 250mhz FSB with stock cooling, but I'm waiting to go higher until I get my new heatsink/fan.

 

No, I haven't. I know I could, but I have a stock cooler and don't want to mess with it right now. It's fast enough for me. I have OC before. Took a 1.8 GHz AMD 64 to 2.4 before.

[koldasice]

has anyone came around the solution to running the 8400gs from pny on 10.5.1. i have the system up and running with LAN, and audio, the video is the only thing that doesnt work right now, any ideas

[mistwolf]

Gigabyte P35-DS3L, Core 2 Duo 8200, 2 GB RAM, Gigabyte 8800 GT video.

 

SATA hard drive, IDE DVD burner.

 

Everything works flawlessly following this guide. No troubles with networking, no troubles with having an ATAPI optical drive and a SATA hard drive. Audio works great with my 2.1 speakers, graphics work great with the latest NVInject that supports the 8800 GTs.

 

Updated to 10.5.2 per the guide given, no problem at all; I mucked it up the first time by not noticing my sudo password was typod, so it was trying to remove the file when it couldn't, which screwed the isntall. Started fresh, made sure my credentials were right, went through without a hitch.

 

Very happy! Thank you for this guide, it was of immense help

[nkear5]

has anyone came around the solution to running the 8400gs from pny on 10.5.1. i have the system up and running with LAN, and audio, the video is the only thing that doesnt work right now, any ideas

 

Try this, I can't remember the author. I think the same person that made natit compiled it.

 

Just install with kext helper.

 

And on a second note, that ACPI kernel panic comes back again, it happens every time again for no apparent reason.

[mtotho]

added Raid guide for Asus p5w DH. Added Wireless kext link.

[koldasice]

And on a second note, that ACPI kernel panic comes back again, it happens every time again for no apparent reason.

 

was that for me, regarding the kext link or someone else, im bout to do a fresh install of 10.5.1 and run this kext and see what happens

 

My vendor is Nvidia 0x10de

device id 0x0422

revision 0x00a1

 

if that helps

[koldasice]

and im on 10.5.1 now i ran the kext to kext helper, rebooted, nothing, i dont know if i did something wrong or didnt add enuf stuff but im still 1monitor and no qe or whatever, will vmware fusion run windows xp with games if i dont have QE on the host?

[bpeugh]

I am having the same problem with the board. Any ideas?

 

i'm on P35-DS3L, was relieved that i finally got my disc to run and reach setup.

 

when my system rebooted after copying all the files，it couldn't proceed and instead showing me a distorted installation screen.

 

this is where the distortion comes in.

 

 

any ideas? i'm desperately trying to get leopard on my system.

p.s i checked mbr instead of guid. installed osx on my samsung sata hdd; 1 partition. tried rebooting several times but still can't get through the distorted part.

[ottoman1384]

I have a ds3l and I wanted to use iStat menus. When I try to see the temp or fan information, it won't show any information. It says that S.M.A.R.T. is disabled. I'm pretty sure I tried both with smart on and off through the bios and it still won't work.

 

has anyone been able to get this to work? thanks in advance.

[MacUser2525]

I have a ds3l and I wanted to use iStat menus. When I try to see the temp or fan information, it won't show any information. It says that S.M.A.R.T. is disabled. I'm pretty sure I tried both with smart on and off through the bios and it still won't work.

 

has anyone been able to get this to work? thanks in advance.

 

Those parts of the program use the built in sensors of a Mac, use the Temperature Monitor program it will show your cpu and hard drive temps.

[nkear5]

was that for me, regarding the kext link or someone else, im bout to do a fresh install of 10.5.1 and run this kext and see what happens

 

My vendor is Nvidia 0x10de

device id 0x0422

revision 0x00a1

 

if that helps

 

The ACPI kernel panic is not related to the Nvidia driver. I was just reiterating a previous post. I have devised a workaround, which was to make a permanent -f boot flag in com.apple.boot.plist.

[mtotho]

@nkear, please add my msn or aim. I have a friend who needs some advice on the DS3P. Thanks

[newbmac]

A few audio suggestions:

 

1) Could you please specify if the Microphone works for each of the audio patches?

 

2) Could you also please list for each if it is 2.1 or 5.1 out?

 

3) Also, if digital-in and out works via coax/optical?

 

 

Thanks and awesome guide!

[mtotho]

@newbmac, took your suggestion, unfortunately i only know about the DS3L and P5W DH, if anyone wants to give me other info, please tell.

 

also, you have to understand, Real Macs do use 5.1 Audio via the digital out. The digital out on these hacks work as they should.. they dont do 5.1 sound unless playing a supported codec with dolby digital surround. Like watching movie or DVD would trigger the switch. Other wise it mainly plays out of the center channel, or all channels. When not watching a movie, i just turn my digital to stereo.. and sub woofer works too.

 

If enough analog ports worked for 5.1 sound, there is a way to set it up in midi sound manager, but i dont know what kind of applications it would even let u use it for.

[newbmac]

@newbmac, took your suggestion, unfortunately i only know about the DS3L and P5W DH, if anyone wants to give me other info, please tell.

 

also, you have to understand, Real Macs do use 5.1 Audio via the digital out. The digital out on these hacks work as they should.. they dont do 5.1 sound unless playing a supported codec with dolby digital surround. Like watching movie or DVD would trigger the switch. Other wise it mainly plays out of the center channel, or all channels. When not watching a movie, i just turn my digital to stereo.. and sub woofer works too.

 

If enough analog ports worked for 5.1 sound, there is a way to set it up in midi sound manager, but i dont know what kind of applications it would even let u use it for.

 

 

duh, i feel silly Of course macs only have 2.1 sound since they use optical for everything else.

That's helpful regarding the mic and optical/coax outputs thanks! I am starting to put together my build list over the next few weeks. I am debating the Gigabyte board versus the Asus. the Gigabyte is half the price and seems like it requires less patching, though the Asus works with AHCI...

 

I looked and didn't see Microphone mentioned? Does the Mic-in work on both those boards?

 

What do you think, Asus or Gigabyte board?

[mtotho]

I am fairly certain mic in works, dont know for sure cause i use usb mic.

 

I like the asus way more than the gigabyte. Not only do i have every single sata/IDe port working, i have raid0 working. Also there is built in wireless that works.