Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[mosslack]

I'm not sure what is going on, but I seem to be getting double posts here lately. Is this an Anandtech issue? Anyone know?

 

[mosslack]

Have you tried the install that alfa147x mentioned? Since yours seems to be a special case it would be interesting to know if the different install method would fix your problems. Of course I can understand not wanting to do another install. Let us know how the different router performs.

 

[scootermaster]

Have you tried the install that alfa147x mentioned? Since yours seems to be a special case it would be interesting to know if the different install method would fix your problems. Of course I can understand not wanting to do another install. Let us know how the different router performs.

I used the link to the promiscuous mode script.

Buuuuuuuut, I'm either the smartest idiot I know, or the dumbest genius, because it WAS a router issue. I thought, last time, my router woes were fixed by not "filtering multicast". And in fact, googling has uncovered that Bonjour does use multicast. But in this instance, everything was hunky dory by unchecking "Filter NAT redirection". Now, I don't remember tinkering with that -- ever -- but keeping that unchecked seems to be working. I'm actually curious to go back to the old kext method, and see if that works (it should). I haven't checked the 10.5.8 partition, but i'd bet a testicle it's working fine.

And iTunes 10 seems to have fixed the ANNOYING "album art doesn't show up in Finder" bug that plagued 9.2.1.

:-D Now it's full steam ahead with the 10.6.4 partition! (Until 10.6.5 breaks everything. )

 

[mosslack]

I used the link to the promiscuous mode script.

Buuuuuuuut, I'm either the smartest idiot I know, or the dumbest genius, because it WAS a router issue. I thought, last time, my router woes were fixed by not "filtering multicast". And in fact, googling has uncovered that Bonjour does use multicast. But in this instance, everything was hunky dory by unchecking "Filter NAT redirection". Now, I don't remember tinkering with that -- ever -- but keeping that unchecked seems to be working. I'm actually curious to go back to the old kext method, and see if that works (it should). I haven't checked the 10.5.8 partition, but i'd bet a testicle it's working fine.

And iTunes 10 seems to have fixed the ANNOYING "album art doesn't show up in Finder" bug that plagued 9.2.1.

:-D Now it's full steam ahead with the 10.6.4 partition! (Until 10.6.5 breaks everything. )

Right you are, welcome to the world of Hackintoshing! Glad it is working okay for you.

I did a reinstall on another hard drive using Tonymacx86's iBoot and the 10.6.3 DVD. It installed just fine. Then I used my installer files to make the hard drive bootable and take it up to 10.6.4, but now I can't get Bonjour to work using any means. I was hoping to offer an alternate install method for those who prefer using the DVD instead of a flash drive. May work on it this weekend as it's a long one.

 

[mosslack]

I have just finished a new guide for the DS3L which is located here:

http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a/web/install-guide-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-dvd-10-6-x

This guide uses the retail DVD instead of a flash drive to install the system on your DS3L. I have tested it pretty well using the 10.6.3 install DVD, but it should work equally well using the 10.6.0 DVD with the changes noted. If you use this guide, feedback is always appreciated. Thanks!

 

[DougoMan]

Thanks for the guide, Mosslack.

So my UD3P just broke. What should I replace it with? Is there a current best board available? Ds3L?

 

[Kaido]

Thanks for the guide, Mosslack.

So my UD3P just broke. What should I replace it with? Is there a current best board available? Ds3L?

If you want to keep your Core 2 chip, UD3P is the best board imo. Been super super great for me. If you want to upgrade to an i7, I just ordered an MSI Pro-E. Next weekend I'll start tinkering with it - it's about time this thread got an update

 

[mosslack]

Thanks for the guide, Mosslack.

So my UD3P just broke. What should I replace it with? Is there a current best board available? Ds3L?

What's wrong with the UD3P?

 

[Kaido]

Got the Pro-E in. Setup 10.6.4 + latest updates. Sleep is the major bug right now, has the typical restart-on-sleep issue. Hit 4ghz easy on the i7-930. Real happy with the stability of the board, glad I went with it. Working weekend for me, so I'll play with it more next weekend hopefully. Cheers.

 

[Kaido]

Decided it's "Take Your Hack to Work Day" Got sleep working, USB works on wake without the disconnect error, green audio output jack works, headphone jack works, real nice rig.

Known bugs:

1. Headphone jack doesn't auto-switch from the rear jack when you use it. Someone wrote a menulet that lets you choose your audio outputs quickly, however:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/audioswitcher.html

2. Jmicron shows up as ATA, not SATA. There is one SATA port and one eSATA port controlled by Jmicron, the other six SATA ports are ICH10, which is natively supported in OS X. Aside from the cosmetic issue of having Jmicron show up as ATA, there are also two problems - a speed hit and a Hot Swap bug. My SSD reads at 256 MB/s under SATA, but only 185 MB/s under ATA; it writes at 251 MB/s under SATA and 155 MB/s under ATA. So there is a definite performance hit to using those ports. I'm using an older Tonymac Jmicron35xATA kext to enable ATA functionality; the newer ones don't work at all:

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/03/jmicron-sata-support.html

Also, the eSATA Hot Swap function does not work properly. It only allows a single drive to be connected & ejected, and will not recognize anything else until you reboot. Par for course with Hackintosh eSATA (very few work afaik). However, those two port ARE usuable, and I was able to boot off the internal Jmicron SATA jack, so that's something.

Other than that, pretty peachy. Great OC'er, my rig is running at 4ghz solid on a 2.8ghz i7-930. Very happy with it. Pretty awesome for a $189 board! Make sure you get the MSI X58 Pro-E, NOT the USB 3.0 version.

 

[Zaap]

Yeah the MSI Pro-E board is pretty nice. I set up a friend's system a few months back (i7/920, 6GB DDR3-1333 GT250-1GB) and the owner is still raving about how well it performs. I had some initial problems with 10.6.4 on it, but eventually figured it out.

Another great board I recently used for a friend's build is the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R.+ i7/950 (Nearly identical parts otherwise.)

It's only $10 more than the MSI- and setup was bone-simple following TonyMac's guide. Nothing against the MSI, but if I were building a new machine for myself, I'd choose the Gigabyte just because it was a shade simpler (for me anyway) to setup, and it feels just as rock stable as any of the better socket 775 boards ever were... only faster!

For multiple graphic cards though, the MSI is the better choice since it has dual full-speed x16 slots, opposed to the Gigabyte which has 1 at x16, but both at x8 if used together.

 

[mosslack]

Yeah the MSI Pro-E board is pretty nice. I set up a friend's system a few months back (i7/920, 6GB DDR3-1333 GT250-1GB) and the owner is still raving about how well it performs. I had some initial problems with 10.6.4 on it, but eventually figured it out.

Another great board I recently used for a friend's build is the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R.+ i7/950 (Nearly identical parts otherwise.)

It's only $10 more than the MSI- and setup was bone-simple following TonyMac's guide. Nothing against the MSI, but if I were building a new machine for myself, I'd choose the Gigabyte just because it was a shade simpler (for me anyway) to setup, and it feels just as rock stable as any of the better socket 775 boards ever were... only faster!

For multiple graphic cards though, the MSI is the better choice since it has dual full-speed x16 slots, opposed to the Gigabyte which has 1 at x16, but both at x8 if used together.

Yeah, but what fun is that? You need some mystery in your life man, live a little! That is where the fun is. I mainly chose mine for the 6 monitor setup possibility and got lucky. By that I mean some help from kdawg on the DSDT. The rest was pure Tonymacx86, what an awesome combo the iBoot + MultiBeast. BTW, did you look at the iBoot Preboot.dmg file and Extensions.Mkext file which is contains? It must have every kext available included in it, no wonder it works so well with almost any system.

@Kaido, awesome dude, you still da man! You gonna do a guide for this one or just let everyone go their own way? I'm doing a reinstall on another hard drive on my P55-GD80 to see if I can figure out why it won't shut down. Has to be SL related as it shuts down just fine from Windows 7.

 

[Kaido]

Yeah, but what fun is that? You need some mystery in your life man, live a little! That is where the fun is. I mainly chose mine for the 6 monitor setup possibility and got lucky. By that I mean some help from kdawg on the DSDT. The rest was pure Tonymacx86, what an awesome combo the iBoot + MultiBeast. BTW, did you look at the iBoot Preboot.dmg file and Extensions.Mkext file which is contains? It must have every kext available included in it, no wonder it works so well with almost any system.

@Kaido, awesome dude, you still da man! You gonna do a guide for this one or just let everyone go their own way? I'm doing a reinstall on another hard drive on my P55-GD80 to see if I can figure out why it won't shut down. Has to be SL related as it shuts down just fine from Windows 7.

Yup, guide. Got it funneled down to Chameleon RC5 + a few kexts. No DSDT or anything. Pretty straightforward. I'll post a beta kit shortly.

 

[Kaido]

Yeah the MSI Pro-E board is pretty nice. I set up a friend's system a few months back (i7/920, 6GB DDR3-1333 GT250-1GB) and the owner is still raving about how well it performs. I had some initial problems with 10.6.4 on it, but eventually figured it out.

Another great board I recently used for a friend's build is the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R.+ i7/950 (Nearly identical parts otherwise.)

It's only $10 more than the MSI- and setup was bone-simple following TonyMac's guide. Nothing against the MSI, but if I were building a new machine for myself, I'd choose the Gigabyte just because it was a shade simpler (for me anyway) to setup, and it feels just as rock stable as any of the better socket 775 boards ever were... only faster!

For multiple graphic cards though, the MSI is the better choice since it has dual full-speed x16 slots, opposed to the Gigabyte which has 1 at x16, but both at x8 if used together.

Nice! I'm a big fan of Gigabyte boards. I just wanted to try something new after the DS3L, ES2L, and UD3P. I do like this board a lot, although I'm eyeing the P6T7 Supercomputer from Asus as well - I like all those PCIe ports, lots of room for expansion!

 

[alfa147x]

Nice! I'm a big fan of Gigabyte boards. I just wanted to try something new after the DS3L, ES2L, and UD3P. I do like this board a lot, although I'm eyeing the P6T7 Supercomputer from Asus as well - I like all those PCIe ports, lots of room for expansion!

Man up and do the P6T7 Supercomputer.

 

[Kaido]

Man up and do the P6T7 Supercomputer.

For a lil bit more I can get this instead:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813188067

Same 7 PCIe ports, but supports dual Xeon i7's and up to 48 gigs of RAM. Overclockable. Can handle 6-core CPUs. I believe it takes regular DDR3 as well, no fancy ECC or Buffered stuff required.

So a bit more pricey, but infinitely more upgradable. And I bet it's hackable :sneaky:

 

[DougoMan]

For a lil bit more I can get this instead:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813188067

Same 7 PCIe ports, but supports dual Xeon i7's and up to 48 gigs of RAM. Overclockable. Can handle 6-core CPUs. I believe it takes regular DDR3 as well, no fancy ECC or Buffered stuff required.

So a bit more pricey, but infinitely more upgradable. And I bet it's hackable :sneaky:

Haha the motherboard is AWESOME.

 

[DougoMan]

What's wrong with the UD3P?

I don't know exactly. But whenever I try to install an OS (windows or mac) I get an error. I've swapped hard drives and video cards without luck. It was a refurb board so I would not be surprised if it broke.

I don't know why I even bother sending hard drives and motherboards in for repair. The crap I get back is always useless.

 

[mosslack]

I don't know exactly. But whenever I try to install an OS (windows or mac) I get an error. I've swapped hard drives and video cards without luck. It was a refurb board so I would not be surprised if it broke.

I don't know why I even bother sending hard drives and motherboards in for repair. The crap I get back is always useless.

Yeah, sounds like it might be bad. Have you tried a live version of Ubuntu to see if it is hard drive related? That would pretty much confirm it I would think.

 

[mosslack]

Yup, guide. Got it funneled down to Chameleon RC5 + a few kexts. No DSDT or anything. Pretty straightforward. I'll post a beta kit shortly.

I haven't kept up much with Chameleon, what does RC5 do better than RC4?

 

[Kaido]

I don't know exactly. But whenever I try to install an OS (windows or mac) I get an error. I've swapped hard drives and video cards without luck. It was a refurb board so I would not be surprised if it broke.

I don't know why I even bother sending hard drives and motherboards in for repair. The crap I get back is always useless.

What error message are you getting? Did you always have the error or is it new?

 

[DougoMan]

What error message are you getting? Did you always have the error or is it new?

It said something like bad checksum. I can't remember exactly.

I just got an ES2L from Frys and it works great. About to install OSX on it.

 

[mosslack]

It said something like bad checksum. I can't remember exactly.

I just got an ES2L from Frys and it works great. About to install OSX on it.

Uh, RAM problem?

 

[Kaido]

I haven't kept up much with Chameleon, what does RC5 do better than RC4?

Just adds more features. PSTATE & CSTATE flags, no restart kext needed for some boards, takes care of platform uuid, auto-ram detect, a bunch of little things like that. Probably more stuff but you know how the devs are on documentation

 

[Kaido]

Right now, everything but Sleep is working with the Pro-E. SleepEnabler for 10.6.4 is a no-go and the other methods I've tried aren't taking either. Pretty good progress though. Zero kernel panics. Everything else works like a charm.