JJRMac Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Hey everyone! I finally decided to start setting up a new PC that will dual boot OSX and XP. So far I got: 4 Crucial Ballistix 1GB PC2-6400 800mhz Intel Q9450 XFX 8600GT My question is about the motherboard. I jumped the gun and bought the GA-P35-DS3l rev 2.0 from new egg the other day. After trying to find out some info it seems that I will loose functionality with my IDE port and no sound. At least that's what I got from the Wikipedia. I'm thinking of returning the board and buying the Gigabyte EX38-DS4. My main concern is having everything on board working. Does anyone have this board fully functioning? Or has anyone gotten the GA-P35-DS3l rev 2.0 fully working? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie11c Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Everything works perfect for me with the DS3L. In fact my installer is custom suited for this motherboard since I do alot of testing on it. My DVD writer is IDE and works fine, my sound works without any issues. The only thing I dislike about it is the current BIOS do not allow me to read temperatures correctly with my E8400. Of course this problem is not limited to just this one motherboard though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJRMac Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 Do you have a dual boot setup also? I am also planning on OC'ing the chip a tad bit into the 3.0-3.2 range. Do you think this would cause any problems? And is there an install guide specifically for our motherboard or on what you did to get it running fully? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_nv Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Hey JJRMac, I also have a DS3L motherboard with a Q6600 and it is working with network and sound. I used this guide: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83689 Right now I'm dualbooting XP/OSX on two drives using the F12 function in the BIOS. I'm still new at all this Mac stuff so i'm still figuring lots of stuff out too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critic81 Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 I also have a DS3L and have totally switched over to Leopard as my main OS. I love it. The only hiccup I had was that with 4gb of memory and using IDE devices causes kernel panics in Leopard. The ways to get around this are, set AHCI to on and disable IDE controller and you can use 4gb of memory. OR you can use the maxmem=3456 as a kernel flag. It's all explained in this tutorial http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83689 If you don't have 4gb of memory or if you don't have any IDE drives, then you are golden with the board you have. Or if you have IDE drives and don't mind using 3.5 gigs of memory you are golden too. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJRMac Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 Well I actually ended up getting the Gigabyte EX38-DS4. Which Leopard is the best one for this motherboard? KALYWAY? I tried doing a search on the forums but am not getting any topic hits on the search engine. I noticed on the Wiki that someone said they got it working 100%. I'm also still trying to figure out whether I'm gonna put each operating system on their own drive or split one with 2 partitions. Does it matter if the drive is ide or sata? And is it still not possible to install leopard from and IDE dvd drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 please post again with your install experience with the EX38-DS4... as well as general usage impressions - that's the exact board I'm contemplating using in my build! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJRMac Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 Will do once I figure out how to do this. If I can't use an IDE dvd drive i'm gonna have to run out and buy a new sata one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Well, do try the IDE drive... Ya know, I've heard of a lot of people using USB flash drives too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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