[Guide + Installer] Leopard Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P/DS3R/DS4 (10.5.2 + EFI)

[Johnny V]

Yes FromMac2Hack!

 

As mentioned to fix the audio I just had to reapply PCWIZ's installer a second time.

 

You video card should be fine...

 

The DS3P was my first choice but decided to go with the ex38 for future proofing...but now wish I had the 8 sata ports of the DS3P.

 

Congrats!

[Kronoid]

Yep I have DVI working on my 8800GT. The proper DVI port is the one that is closest to the motherboard...are you using that port first?

 

My video card actually only has one DVI-D port. Then it has a VGA and a S-video out. Unless I misunderstood your question?

 

installed NVInstaller v.41 (after everything was installed via PCWIZ's tutorial.) I'll be adding a VGA monitor later today...so wish me luck!

 

Bad news. I downloaded that and installed, restarted and got a black screen. I left it on for like over 30 minutes and it never worked. Then I tried restarting over and over with different monitors. With my DVI only, then with my VGA only, then with both and it didn't work. Then I gave up and re-installed OSX again from scratch.

And here I am again, connected to the internet on a fresh OSX install but still without a video graphics driver.

Any ideas?

 

Thanks again.

[Johnny V]

Geez sorry about the black screen with the 8400GT. Didn't know the card had one DVI and one VGA port.

 

Try a search for punk92 installers...might have better success.

 

OK go here for the punk92 Nvidia 8400GT drivers...but read to make sure!

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=78980

 

As an aside, the forum's search engine is really stupid awful. Not sure why but took me weeks before I figured it sucked the big one. But anyway I usually just do a google search by placing insanelymac.com with word or phrase I want to find. An example: "insanelymac.com 8400gt", of course with out the quotes.

 

Best,

 

John

[Kronoid]

Geez sorry about the black screen with the 8400GT. Didn't know the card had one DVI and one VGA port.

 

Try a search for punk92 Nvidia installers...might have better success.

 

Best,

 

John

 

 

No problem John. You were just trying to help.

Do you think the fact it has only 1 DVI and then a VGA is part or is causing the problem?

 

I will search for punk92 Nvidia installers. But is there a way to back my system up or something so if it doesnt work I dont need to install everything again fresh? By the way, this is my first time using a Mac. Im a clueless Windows user.

 

By the way, its a 8400 GS rather than 8400 GT, if that makes any difference.

 

Thanks John.

[kinkster]

Okay I solved that problem by hooking up the hard drive the to the cluster of SATA ports that the CD drive was hooked up to. They come in two sets of two.

 

 

Got it all installed, with GUID.

 

Now on rebooting after the install its bringing me to the normal apple logo and spinning white thing, but then Im just brought to a blank unchanging grey screen.

 

 

Im using an ATI 2600 and i did check the NATIT ATI drivers in the install. Im using a DVI connector.

 

 

What should I do?

 

 

 

Can anyone please give me some advice?

 

all the same is true from my above post, but now I've tried doing a "-v" boot, so it would show me the diagnostics. Not its showing the following again every couple of minutes:

 

Still waiting for root device.

Still waiting for root device.

[Johnny V]

No problem John. You were just trying to help.

Do you think the fact it has only 1 DVI and then a VGA is part or is causing the problem?

 

I haven't read anything on having one of each a problem.

 

I will search for punk92 Nvidia installers.

 

Check my above post with a link to punk92 installers. Also my tip to avoid using the forum's search engine and use google instead.

 

But is there a way to back my system up or something so if it doesnt work I dont need to install everything again fresh? By the way, this is my first time using a Mac. Im a clueless Windows user.

Thanks John.

 

Well I got myself into trouble last night when I tried to install Vista. It ruined my OSX install and I didn't have a backup. All the files were there but I could not boot off the OS system. I was able to install a fresh OSX on an empty drive and use the Migrate Assistant Tool (in the Applications> Utilities folder) to move most of my Apps, system settings and files over. But I learned my lesson about having a backup. There might have been a way for you to boot up in bios or Kalyway disk and remove the offending video driver without a reinstall...but I'm just new to this stuff...I'm sure the info is out there. Anyway I'm working on my perfect system then I'm going to clone it to a separate hard drive partition using SuperDuper! The unregerstered version will let you clone a bootable system.

 

Best,

 

John

[~pcwiz]

longtom,

 

Try switching to native IDE mode then.

 

FromMac2Hack,

 

Yes, Time Machine will work just fine without the update.

 

Thanks to Johnny V for helping to answer some of these questions.

[GuySmileZ]

i followed the install as close as possible. i must have missed something i have installed the kernels.pkg and i still get the slow boot... the ahnging at the black screen? anyone else have this problem? it literally takes 2-3min.

 

correction it takes 5 min 27 seconds im going to do a -v boot see whats hanging but it seems to be at the black screen talked about in the guide.

 

i did a -v boot and i get timed out at appleusbhci

 

this isnt what really takes up time. its the blck screen where i cant see what its doing that easily takes 4min the intial boot until the black screen is maybe 30 sec.

 

anyone?

[kinkster]

What do I do if I get to a screen wit a bunch of colord fuzz but it still seems to respond to my mouse imput a bit? This is after reinstalling without the ATI video card drivers.

[Richn]

HELP Please!

 

I have gotten my system running almost 100%. The last items to get fixed are that I am unable to view video from the following locations:

 

All Videos from YouTube and videos from CNN. When you click on the video it loads displays a sec or two then freezes. Contiunes to cache though. ITUNES, MSNBC and DVD's work fine.

 

IMOVIE errors out with something about quartz compatable video card

 

Here is my system configuration:

Mother Board: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core

Hard Drive: 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s

RAM: Corsair 4x4096MB PC6400 DD2 800MHz

Graphics Card: GeForce 7300GS 256 MB

[kinkster]

Have you gone through all the updates etc?

[~pcwiz]

HELP Please!

 

I have gotten my system running almost 100%. The last items to get fixed are that I am unable to view video from the following locations:

 

All Videos from YouTube and videos from CNN. When you click on the video it loads displays a sec or two then freezes. Contiunes to cache though. ITUNES, MSNBC and DVD's work fine.

 

IMOVIE errors out with something about quartz compatable video card

 

Here is my system configuration:

Mother Board: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core

Hard Drive: 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s

RAM: Corsair 4x4096MB PC6400 DD2 800MHz

Graphics Card: GeForce 7300GS 256 MB

 

Sounds like you don't have drivers for your video card installed.

[kinkster]

Thanks for helping me guys. not.

 

 

anyway I got it fixed by not installing the ATI drivers on installation. Then booting by doing -x then from there installing the latest NATIT drivers via thumb drive.

[Richn]

Video Card seem to be working fine. However sound is not working. I read somewhere that if the sound is not working that could cause it. How can I tell if the sound driver is configured correctly. I have used the sound driver software in the installer

 

 

Here is my system configuration:

Mother Board: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core

Hard Drive: 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s

RAM: Corsair 4x4096MB PC6400 DD2 800MHz

Graphics Card: GeForce 7300GS 256 MB

[GuySmileZ]

anyone else experience after the kernels update that th boot isnt any faster? i still get the long wait at the black screen

[Richn]

Well I am totally confused now. I reloaded the audio drivers and all of the videos are working but I still have no sound outputGot it working now, if I select line out it does work. If I select Internal speakers it works

[GuySmileZ]

would the 4 min long black screen im experiencing be caused by my graphics... i did nvinject v33... im doing a fresh install as i speak again following the guide to the T. btw i have the ep35-ds4 with q6600 and 4gb ram.

[Richn]

Well after reading my post last night, I can see how tired I was....

 

Let me readdress my problem and let everyone know my solution.

After I installed everything according to the guide I had just about everything working with the exception of the video from CNN and the YouTube. I did alot of research (googling) and found a post that had the same problems. It said the solution was to get the audio working. After sitting and thinking awhile I realized I was just taking for granted that the audio was working since I hadn't hooked up my speakers yet. Before I hooked up the speakers I did some more reading and found out that sometimes using the installer that the audio doesnt work and you need to rerun it so, so that's what I did. And bam the videos were working now, however I still had no sound. I then connected up my speakers to the out connector and no sound. I then went and looked at the audio section of the system preferences and ensured that the sound was setup to use the line out. Yep! Still no sound ..... While playing aroung I happen to click on the internal speakers and I had sound. Super!!!!!. So I now have a fully operation system with the exception that shutdown and sleep doesnt wwwork correctly yet but I can live with that for the time being. I loaded up VMware Fusion and then installed Windows XP and it ran great!!!!!!

 

 

Here is my system configuration:

Mother Board: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core

Hard Drive: 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s

RAM: Corsair 4x4096MB PC6400 DD2 800MHz

Graphics Card: GeForce 7300GS 256 MB

[Johnny V]

Congrats Richn on getting everything working. I found too I had to load the Audio driver a second time for it to kick-in!

 

.....I loaded up VMware Fusion and then installed Windows XP and it ran great!!!!!!

 

What install method did you use? I ruined my first OSX install the first time trying to install Vista and now I'm Window shy!

 

Thanks,

 

John

[Richn]

I loaded xp within VMware Fusion.

[Johnny V]

Thanks!

 

Bummer... just read that VMware can install Vista 32-bit, but not Vista 64-bit that I have. Back to the drawing board!

[FromMac2Hack]

This guide was very helpful. My system is awesome and working pretty darn good. The only problem I'm having is that the computer won't actually restart. I'll click "restart" and the screen goes black, but the computer doesn't load up the BIOS and then go into OS X. The weird thing is sleep and shutdown are working fine (I used the kernal in the installer)! So it's making installing the sound drivers a bit of a problem. Any ideas?

 

Specs:

EP35-DS3R

Q6600

2GB RAM

Lite-On 20X SATA DVD Burner

500GB SATA HDD

Kalyway 10.5.1 --> Kalyway 10.5.2 Combo Update

[Johnny V]

Hope this post it appropriate PCWIZ.

 

For users having problems with semi-supported video cards TigerDirect has a XFX GeForce 8800 GT 512MB card for $129.99 after rebate.

 

I have the same card, but OverClocked, made by EVGA. Card has zero problems and now running with dual monitors....that card is on sale too for $144.99.

[~pcwiz]

No problem at all Johnny FromMac2Hack, installing the netkas 9.2.0 SpeedStep kernel fixed everything up for me, including restart

[GuySmileZ]

anyone with parallels or vmware fusion get stuck at "Boot from hard drive" or in vmware a "b0 error" ive flagged the windows partition and it still has same errors. i am also doing the darwin bootloader.