chevy2410 Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 anyone who installs it, post screen shots.. cause i havent actually tried it. Here's mine. How do you insert images rather than an attachment? Chevy ATM.tiff Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-627769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHicks Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Surely the maxmem isn't really a solution, I may be wrong about this, but does that mean OSX just wont use any more ram than 3072mb's, so if you have more it'll be completely wasted. AHCI doesnt make a difference on this board. It does on other but not this. It does fix the ram.. but you can just flag maxmem=3072 or something like that. You can safely disable AHCI in the middle of an install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-627776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 that means ur wasting that ram, basically yes.. chevy.. the .tiff format cannot be viewed on the forums like that press Command plus shift plus 4 and outline the about this mac.. then upload that screen shot... looks nice btw. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-627779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Thanks a lot dude. I'm really having a lot fun with this stuff. Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-627793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JungMin Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Is it possible to install Leopard to a SATA drive but also have IDE hard drives connected to the machine?? My old machine was all IDE drives, now I have a new computer with this (GA-P35-DS3) motherboard. Im no expert at this, so bare with me please. I edited the bios as shown in the first post. But I could only boot the Leopard DVD with the SATA drive connected and IDE drive disconnected. Even then, in the installer the SATA drive didnt show up. Cheers... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-627895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3zero2 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 hi all, after updating to 10.5.2 using the file from apple my restart is not working. anyone else has the same issue? any fix? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-627902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIGANTOID Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Ok, I've installed and am at the setup page but my ps/2 keyboard wont work. It worked fine on the Disk utility page to rename the drive. Any thoughts? What I've done so far, installed as per the guide using AHCI off and attempting GUI-efi but the keyboard wouldnt work, i continued with the install under the name Untitled but the install didnt like that and said there was a problem after the install process was complete. Restarted and reinstalled with AHCI enabled and using MBR was able to use my keyboard in disk utility, instal continues without issue and am now sitting on the setup page but cannot continue. Search turns up no entries. System Specs P35-DS3R Q6600 2x2gb 1x 36Gb raptor INSTALL DRIVE 1x 80gb Raptor VISTA DRIVE 2x 300gb NTFS storage 1x USB external drive 8800 GTS (G92) 512 Creative Extreme Music Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-627963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 the vanilla kernel and the fix make it so ps/2 keyboards dont work. Buy usb. @guy with sound problems: did you ever have sound working? did you update to 10.5.2? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-627990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbmac Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Just wanted to say you wrote a great guide! It's not often there are a lot of continuous contributors to the scene, so I wanted to make a point of dropping you a quick THANKS for being a part of the scene! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master12271 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 @mtotho Could you please share your experience with the Asus P5W compared to the Gigabyte DS3L. I'm especially interested if the ASUS board also has a problem with 4GB of RAM (without AHCI) and if the shutdown/sleep works. I'm considering switching from the DS3L to the ASUS if these problem are fixed. Mac OS 10.5.2 GA-P35-DS3L F8a 2x2 GB Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5 (maxmem=3456) Intel E8400 3.0 GHz EVGA 7800GT 256MB Vram BenQ DC DQ60 IDE DVD Drive Maxtor 6V250F0 7200 250 GB (Windows XP) Segate ST3500630AS 7200 500 GB (Leopard) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nervegrind3r Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 @mtotho Could you please share your experience with the Asus P5W compared to the Gigabyte DS3L. I'm especially interested if the ASUS board also has a problem with 4GB of RAM (without AHCI) and if the shutdown/sleep works. I'm considering switching from the DS3L to the ASUS if these problem are fixed. Mac OS 10.5.2 GA-P35-DS3L F8a 2x2 GB Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5 (maxmem=3456) Intel E8400 3.0 GHz EVGA 7800GT 256MB Vram BenQ DC DQ60 IDE DVD Drive Maxtor 6V250F0 7200 250 GB (Windows XP) Segate ST3500630AS 7200 500 GB (Leopard) ditto on wanting to know you experience with both boards mtotho, thank you very much for your invaluable guide and information. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JungMin Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I am running an Intel Core2Duo E4500 on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 with 2GB DDR2 ram and a NViDiA 7300GS 256MB (just got back from a shopping trip yesterday) I have a 500GB SAAT Seagate drive installed. I partitioned it as follows: 50GB - label: leopard, 450BG - label: media. I installed leopard on the leopard partition, only selected Vanila patch and the GUID boot patch just as it says in the first post. It installed, said complete and rebooted. But it never loads....it boots off of the partition and a 'Darwin' thing spins, but then it just reboots a second or two later. Can anyone point me in the right direction?? I hope I am posting in the right spot.... Thanks. EDIT: Something flashes very fast on the screen....All I can catch is "EFI..." Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukebound85 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 the vanilla kernel and the fix make it so ps/2 keyboards dont work. Buy usb. @guy with sound problems: did you ever have sound working? did you update to 10.5.2? nope i never had sound with 10.5.1. i have since upgraded to 10.5.2 and no sound still i tried the method in both 10.5.1 and 10.5.2 without any luck any insight would be great! thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizmaster Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Question to everyone: I just picked up a new 250 gig SATA drive to put Leopard on. I successfully installed it on a partition to my original drive a while back, but deleted the partition in favor of picking up a second drive. Now, however, when I go to install OSX the Disk Utility only sees 128 gigs of hard drive space. The BIOS recognizes the drive normally as a SATAII/250 gig but once OSX kicks in it claims the drive is only 128 gigs. The drive is a Seagate SATA 250, the mobo a Gigabyte DS3R, I previously did the install from these instructions. AHCI mode is not enabled in the BIOS. Any insight would be much appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 The Gigabyte DS3 Series are great motherboards.. but nothing beats good old asus.. and in this case for osx86 as well. My Asus install is beautiful, Perfect. I use 4gb of ram with AHCI no kernel panics. You can use all the sata ports as it is not an ICH9 Chipset. I dont know if this board is too friendly w/o ahci enabled.. but if your worries are in XP compatibility.. you can always get drivers for it. I dont even dual boot.. straight up GUID and AHCI with 3 hard drives and a dvd drive. Running Time machine to do all my backups. I havae VMware fusion that i can run windows.. that works beautifly. Basically at any given moment (i take huge advantage of spaces + expose) I will have all my ichat windows open in one space, my browser in the other, Itunes/or a game like halo (which runs beautifly, even when not fully screen) in another space.. and i have full screen XP on vmware in the last space.. so it very easy to switch without dealing with minimizing and what not. Dont get me wrong, the DS3 boards are capable of this.. with some limits. The fact is, the P5W DH Deluxe is just that, Deluxe. Worth every penny. Kills real macs. @rismaster, is your sata mode on native in bios? @Duke bound, So you replace the kexts? and used hda patcher (did it seem to work) i find that either one works independently of the other(i do both cause that is what i was told once upon a time). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHicks Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Dont get me wrong, the DS3 boards are capable of this.. with some limits. Having just ordered a ga-p35-ds3 i'm a little concerned by this, specifically what limits are there with the DS3? other than not being able to run more than 2 sata drives with AHCI? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628258 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninetto Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Having just ordered a ga-p35-ds3 i'm a little concerned by this, specifically what limits are there with the DS3? other than not being able to run more than 2 sata drives with AHCI? NOT true... I have all SATA ports with AHCI. The only limitation I think is common, are the minor shut-down problems some experience... Plus some overclockers with certain types of memory do get some mem-errors, but these seem to be rare and specific cases. Last but not least, there can be MINOR connectivity problems with ethernet, depending on how you set up your network. @JungMin : I had the same problem (EFI error and endless re-boots). I fixed it with re-intalling EFI 8 "manually"... using a usb-stick and following one of the efi-guides (make sure to UNmount your install disk)... It seems like Kaly's disk, as fastastic as it is, does not always manage to install EFI properly on some machines. All-in-all I love my Gigabyte Hactintosh, it has never crashed (even with heavy-duty video rendering in FCP), really quick and very beautiful... so much so I might even erase the XP I have on one partition. good luck, ninetto Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHicks Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 NOT true... I have all SATA ports with AHCI.The only limitation I think is common, are the minor shut-down problems some experience... Plus some overclockers with certain types of memory do get some mem-errors, but these seem to be rare and specific cases. Last but not least, there can be MINOR connectivity problems with ethernet, depending on how you set up your network. Ah, that's cool, i thought with AHCI disabled you could only use 3gb's of ram, and with it enabled you could use upto 8gb's with only the first 2 sata ports available. I've read this thread from back to front and must have missed the solution to using more than 2 sata devices with AHCI. I gather there's an issue with DHCP and the ethernet? this wont be a problem for me as i'll be statically assigning ip addresses. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukebound85 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 @Duke bound, So you replace the kexts? and used hda patcher (did it seem to work) i find that either one works independently of the other(i do both cause that is what i was told once upon a time). yep replaced the kexts that were provided with kexthelper or whatever i then restart then put the .txt file provided over the patcher (without opening it up, just dragged the file onto the icon) then restarted results: i can change volume indicator but not get the sound any ideas? thanks for your help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 @mrhicks. You can use up to 64 gigabytes of ram (if your board supports it, our doesnt) without AHCI. The only thing is with 4gb's of ram on alot of boards.. they recieve kernel panics at various times without AHCI. You can still have 8gb of ram.. its not an issue of not being able to go over 8gb of ram.. just not being able to use the last bit of available ram.. so if the problem occurs at all with 8gb (i dont know if it does) it would be with the last .5gb of the 8gb @Dukebound.. did you go into sound preferences and actually change your output with what is connected. Only the lime colored line out port and digital works... and headphone port Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHicks Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I think 64bit CPU's can address more than 64gb, but the practical limitation of the board is 8gb, as there are 4 dimm slots and i don't think you can get more than 2gb per stick... at least not economically. but that's interesting that it's only the last bit of ram that's the problem. This doesn't worry me too much as i'm definitely going to be using AHCI as I only have 2 sata devices. But back to your original statement, other than the ahci/sata/ram/shutdown issue is there any other limits such as performance that the GA-p35 boards suffer from compared to the asus? @mrhicks. You can use up to 64 gigabytes of ram (if your board supports it, our doesnt) without AHCI. The only thing is with 4gb's of ram on alot of boards.. they recieve kernel panics at various times without AHCI. You can still have 8gb of ram.. its not an issue of not being able to go over 8gb of ram.. just not being able to use the last bit of available ram.. so if the problem occurs at all with 8gb (i dont know if it does) it would be with the last .5gb of the 8gb @Dukebound.. did you go into sound preferences and actually change your output with what is connected. Only the lime colored line out port and digital works... and headphone port Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 I guess not. I didnt use my DS3L board long enough. It is definately one of the better Hackintosh boards. I have heard of a few people using it as their main computer. It is fast and everything. I just got fed up with AHCI and switched to asus.. plus i have more than 4 Sata ports on my board now. Basically you could say on a scale of 1-10 osx compatibility.. this is a bit how it lines up Mac Pro Logic board 9.5/10 OSX Compatibility (how does that work out?) Gigabyte DS3* 9.5/10 Asus P5W DH 10/10 Wooot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHicks Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Brilliant, thanks for all your help. I've bookmarked this thread in preparation for when all my hackintosh kit arrives next week. Biggest reason i'm going for this board over the asus is the future upgradeability as it supports 45nm intel chips. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 the only way id upgrade from my current quad to the new quad is if i got the 1000 dollar quad.. that real nice one... at that point.. i dont mind spending a few hundred dollars for a good compatible board... also bios updates have made this asus compatible with atleast the 45nm dual cores.. im not sure of the quads yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-628881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 My 8800 GTS (evga) g80 is really slower than it should be. I have all graphical features.. just i know im running slow. I am running slower than all the 7000 series cards. I Tried 2 different 8800gts.. results are the same. Here are my results trying various kexts im not gonna like, ive posted this same post in many forums.. but no one is giving me any answers.. not even an "idk". O thanks.. i make this good easy tutorial.. and i dont even get a reply when i ask a question.. this forum is awesome. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83689-how-to-install-on-gigabyteasuscompatible-boards/page/16/#findComment-629008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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