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[HOW TO]GIGABYTE GA-P35 DS3L 100% WORKING

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nikoncanon
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The P35-DS3R to me is a much better board.

Intel E6550 2.33 non over clocked

4 gigs of corsair ram 667 : no issues

2x 320 gig western digital drives

2x Lg dvd+rw's : reason for 2 is that when i run fusion one drive is for windows the other is for leapord and yes it works out great

Cooler master CM690 the best case ever made

Cooler master 600 watt psu sli ready

EVGA 8600GTS 256

Dell Bluetooh keyboard and mouse (no extra drivers plug and play)

Vantec Card reader

Also going to add another harddrive Just for itunes and im using AHCI and Guid

MY xbench score is 153.87 is that any good, and compared to what?

Jerec
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Hello Hello Everyone

 

I'm going to be building a new PC.  It'll have the DS3L board and either an E6550 or E8400, which is similar enough to mtotho's system.

 

But my concern is all this talk about AHCI and SATA ports is confusing and a bit worrisome.  The board's got four SATA ports and I'll actually have four SATA devices (XP, NTFS storage, DVD burner, and Leopard).  So my question is.. would this setup be possible, with and without AHCI?  Sorry if the question seems a bit obvious (I guess the post before me may answer it), but this is my first real foray into both Hackintosh and SATA.

 

 

Thanks!

Jean-Philippe
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nikoncanon, Xbench is giving crappy results on Hackintoshs, espescialy for hard drives I think. I got about 200 with Xbench, which doesn't really reflect actual performance of my computer versus say a Mac Pro.

 

Try Cinebench or GeekBench, much more accurate.

 

My setup with EP35-DS3R is working great, except the sleep / shutdown which is working randomly. Sometimes sleep works but not shutdown and vice versa. (must be when I switch between ACHI or not). I have a SATA Samsung DVD-RW drive which works perfectly.

 

AHCI takes more time to boot but I think it offers better peformance since it enables SATA 2 3Gbps and Native Command Queuing. So, Jerec, you can user ACHI or not, both method works great but when ACHI enables, your hard drives shows as external (you can switch the icon for an internal icon if the orange drive anoy you!).

Viscaria
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I tried replacing IOAHCIFamily and IOATAFamily with the Brazilmac versions to fix the poor disk access times. XBench reported a (very) modest improvement, but after reading your post I looked to the desktop to admire my orange HDD icon and it had changed to the grey one. So there is a fix to make OS X actually see the internal HDD as internal. I don't know what this means for hot swapping eSATA devices one way or the other though, I haven't tested.

 

Note: replacing IOAHCIFamily and IOATAFamily w/o replacing AHCIPort as well caused the still waiting for root device error, I think that IOAHCI and AHCIPort are interdependent.

Jerec
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AHCI takes more time to boot but I think it offers better peformance since it enables SATA 2 3Gbps and Native Command Queuing. So, Jerec, you can user ACHI or not, both method works great but when ACHI enables, your hard drives shows as external (you can switch the icon for an internal icon if the orange drive anoy you!).

 

So it's merely an aethestic difference?

 

Since I don't have much of an idea of what AHCI is, would there be a problem if I were to, perhaps, do the installation with AHCI off, then switch it on?

 

*EDIT*

I guess I'd also like to verify that Leopard can be installed on what the system would see as an external drive.

cyber_tods
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Hi everyone,

 

Any update regarding ALL 4 SATA ports (DS3L) to be fully functional and detected in Leopard in AHCI mode? It's kinda suprsing that there are drivers out yet.

 

I have triple boot system = Ubuntu, Leopard, Vista.

 

In my case, Vista and Ubuntu runs faster/better with AHCI and I dont plan on using IDE with these two OSes. In my Leopard, ACHI and IDE are identical, it just boots faster. I don't really care about speed difference between IDE and AHCI in Leopard, but I care about this issue in Ubuntu/Vista. Now, everytime I have to boot to leopard, I have to go to BIOS just to change the setting to IDE :) Then when I decide to boot to Ubuntu or Vista, I have to go back to bios and change it to AHCI. Its kinda annyoing sometimes ;)

 

I got a feeling that no one will make hacked drivers for this one ;) Are we stuck with 2-SATA port in AHCI mode forever?

 

I wish and pray that someone would make drivers soon :D

 

tod

nikoncanon
nikoncanon
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Im trying the 10.5.2 update right now. I have to take off for school but i will let you know the out come of this event. So cross your fingers and hold your breath. Also this up date is being applied to kalaway's 10.5.1 install on a P35-DS3R

nikoncanon
nikoncanon
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Ok.... I tried the standard update I dont know what went wrong but my system is dead. So im going to have to start scratch.

 

 

Oh one more thing has there been anyone who has tried this on a Dell XPS720 with a 680i chipset.

 

http://www.dell.com/content/products/featu...;l=en&s=dhs

musicismypill
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Thanks for the tutorial, after a bit of tweaking i got my setup running nicely

 

Kalyway 10.5.1

Gigabyte P35 DS3L

Intel C2D E6550 2.33GHZ

2 GB DDRII 800

LG IDE DVD-RW

Asus Geforce 8600GT 512MB

 

for 2 ch audio i just used the azalia package that came with Kalyway but i would like to get my front panel sound working in the future.

 

To those who get an EBIOS error when trying to boot installation DVD : Try different types/brands/speeds with your media Imation DVD-RW @ 2x with alcohol worked for me.

 

Works great so far, a nice slick OS.

 

Thanks

purelife
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I built this setup last night..

I didn't have time to tinker with the install but on my first try with Kalyway the install failed just at the end. I was using Guid partition setup.

 

I'll have more time to mess with it when i

CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20GHz

MotherBoard - Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L

Video Card - XFX Geforce 8400GS 512mb

Memory - OCZ 2GB (2x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400

Dvd-Rw - Lg GSA-H55N Sata Dvd-Rw

Hard Drive - Western Digital 250GB - Sata

Case - Antec Sonata I

macgirl
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4 sata ports work without ahci, 2 work with on ds3l. If you want a board that works with all ports in ahci, dont get a board with an ich9 chipset.

Now there is a new kext that replace AppleIntelPIIXATA and you don't need AppleVIAATA any more.

 

Hi everyone,

 

Any update regarding ALL 4 SATA ports (DS3L) to be fully functional and detected in Leopard in AHCI mode? It's kinda suprsing that there are drivers out yet.

on Feb 17 2008, 08:29 PM -DuNe- announced a new AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext with support to the 4 SATA ports, see here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=88335

sama7896
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Working 10.5.2 except for the fact it does not shut down. I actualy have to send him to sleep to shut down. No bigee though it's the same.

fixed that with patched vanilla kernels, still one problem (kinda) : no front pannel audio in 10.5.2. I understand there was front audio on 10.5.1. Did i need to backup some kext ?

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