Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Pneumothorax
Has anyone gotten the built-in audio on the P35-DS3L to work with the analog outputs on 10.5.6? I upgraded as ilife 09 won't work on 10.5.5 and now analog is broken. The optical outputs are working still. I also tried the program used to switch between the different outputs without success.

Have you checked the sound pref to make sure your output is set to line out? The thing that happens when you upgrade to 10.5.6 and have to re-apply the patcher, it switches to the headphone jack in the process. Just check the sound pref and make sure it is set for line out output. HTH

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Just a heads up on the UD3P. Currently as I write this, the UD3P is $115 from newegg, after a $20 rebate.

Yeah that is what I paid for mine, a sweet deal it was too, but I still don't have the rebate check in my hands yet. It's been a rock solid board so far.

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Zaap
Just a heads up on the UD3P. Currently as I write this, the UD3P is $115 from newegg, after a $20 rebate.

Yeah that is what I paid for mine, a sweet deal it was too, but I still don't have the rebate check in my hands yet. It's been a rock solid board so far.

I picked mine up new second-hand for $105 shipped and am happy as a clam.

 

[tranquilweeks]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: tranquilweeks
Is the EP45-UD3P more compatible than the P35-DS3L? I thought that a Kaido-style retail install was equally easy on both?

They're equally easy, but the P35-DS3L series is no longer in production, so you have to go on eBay if you want one. Plus the UD3P has more ports than the DS3L and is only about $35 more than the eBay offerings.

I live in Korea and the UD3P is currently the equivalent of $166, compared to the DS3L being $98 (albeit that's on the Korean equivalent of eBay and I'm not sure if it's new or used). Makes it a harder choice!

@ DarkAmeba: I have Saturday off work, the new Wiki with the hardware recommendations will be up by Saturday evening

Woot!

 

[Jack Flash]

Problem!

Silverlight won't install thinking that I'm on a PPC Mac. Whadda I do?!

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Problem!

Silverlight won't install thinking that I'm on a PPC Mac. Whadda I do?!

http://pcwizcomputer.com/weaksauce12/?p=430

 

[Jack Flash]

Kaido to the rescue!

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Kaido to the rescue!

That's his MO, rides in, solves problems, and fades into the sunset...

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Kaido to the rescue!

That's his MO, rides in, solves problems, and fades into the sunset...

Unfortunately I'm on a big loop, I keep coming back every few months :Q

The Silverlight issue begins with an installation check. Basically, Silverlight has a little Perl script that checks to see if you are running an Intel CPU. It does that by searching the output from "system_profiler SPHardwareDataType" in Terminal. If it doesn't find the word "Intel", it assumes you're running a PPC Mac and therefore refuses to install. The patched version of Silverlight simply edits the Perl installation checker script to ignore the fact that there's no mention of "Intel" in the output.

Now, the reason that there's no mention of "Intel" in the output is an entirely different story. In my Hackintosh packages, I use a driver called "SMBIOSEFI". This basically modifies the SMBIOS to read the correct values in About This Mac > More Info > Hardware. Having a separate driver like this is nice because it leaves the system's SMBIOS driver stock, so it's okay if you run system updates and it gets overwritten - the modifications will still be injected just fine. However, I think that this driver must be regularly updated to keep up with the changes to SMBIOS (or so I assume, but it's not being updated by anyone that I know of atm).

I'm not exactly sure where the conflict comes from. Bart86 on the Insanely forums posted that on 10.5.6, with the newer version of AppleACPIPlatform.kext, the injector fails to update the Model Name and Model Identifier, but if he swaps out the AppleACPIPlatform driver to an older model, it works just fine. On our particular boards, the issue is that we are not getting the Processor Name string injected in our hardware overview listing. For example, my output is:

Model Name: Mac
Model Identifier: EP45-UD3P
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
Serial Number: W1234567890

Compared to a dump from my friend's iMac:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: (removed)
SMC Version: (removed)
Serial Number: (removed)

So, the Processor Name string isn't getting injected. It appears to get injected on other systems, especially notebooks, so we know the code is there and works, so there is obviously some kind of conflict going on. Whether that is due to a conflicting kext or a newer version of some driver, I don't know.

The bottom line is, it's not a big deal. Silverlight is the only app I've ever come across that scans for the Processor Name, and that is easily circumvented by patching the InstallationCheck script in Perl or just by downloading a pre-patched version.

 

[Jack Flash]

Question: Can I change the 'serial number' from W1234567890?

 

[Jack Flash]

Having trouble.

DVD doesn't seem to want to boot (new one and the old one I used before) I was using a HP burner before but am now using a Samsung (bootcode was 9f and is now fe)

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Having trouble.

DVD doesn't seem to want to boot (new one and the old one I used before) I was using a HP burner before but am now using a Samsung (bootcode was 9f and is now fe)

Not sure how yours is setup with regard to hard drives, but I have a HD with Leopard and one with Vista. Sometimes when I switch around without actually shutting down the DVD burner will not be seen. Completely shutting down my system will bring it back. HTH

 

[Kaido]

Bah, I'm not gonna finish tonight. Maybe tomorrow

This is like a research paper lol...I'm already past 20 pages :Q

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Bah, I'm not gonna finish tonight. Maybe tomorrow

This is like a research paper lol...I'm already past 20 pages :Q

Don't burn yourself out. The moment you finish it, 10.5.7 will be out.

 

[leglez]

Anyone else have troubles with netflix/silverlight? I installed the one that Kaido released on my Q6600 hack a long time ago and have had no issues. But recently I installed it on my girlfriends E5200 and the install said it went through fine but I get an error when trying to get on netflix.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: leglez
Anyone else have troubles with netflix/silverlight? I installed the one that Kaido released on my Q6600 hack a long time ago and have had no issues. But recently I installed it on my girlfriends E5200 and the install said it went through fine but I get an error when trying to get on netflix.

I've never tried it with any of my Hacks, but a friend did with a GA-945GCMX-S2 and has not been able to get it working. He had it working when he had a Kalyway 10.5.0 install on the same system, but now that he is running the retail version of 10.5.6 it won't work. I guess it just works for some and not for others.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: leglez
Anyone else have troubles with netflix/silverlight? I installed the one that Kaido released on my Q6600 hack a long time ago and have had no issues. But recently I installed it on my girlfriends E5200 and the install said it went through fine but I get an error when trying to get on netflix.

I've never tried it with any of my Hacks, but a friend did with a GA-945GCMX-S2 and has not been able to get it working. He had it working when he had a Kalyway 10.5.0 install on the same system, but now that he is running the retail version of 10.5.6 it won't work. I guess it just works for some and not for others.

I get that sometimes too, I don't know why it happens. The weird thing is that it gets right up to loading the movie, and then it says "DRM error" or somesuch. I just tested it on my fresh 10.5.6 install with the new BOOT-132 package and it works fine on my Quad though.

 

[leglez]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: leglez
Anyone else have troubles with netflix/silverlight? I installed the one that Kaido released on my Q6600 hack a long time ago and have had no issues. But recently I installed it on my girlfriends E5200 and the install said it went through fine but I get an error when trying to get on netflix.

I've never tried it with any of my Hacks, but a friend did with a GA-945GCMX-S2 and has not been able to get it working. He had it working when he had a Kalyway 10.5.0 install on the same system, but now that he is running the retail version of 10.5.6 it won't work. I guess it just works for some and not for others.

I get that sometimes too, I don't know why it happens. The weird thing is that it gets right up to loading the movie, and then it says "DRM error" or somesuch. I just tested it on my fresh 10.5.6 install with the new BOOT-132 package and it works fine on my Quad though.

Yeah that is the exact same problem I am having too. I wouldn't mind if it was on mine because my 360 is a couple feet away hooked up to the TV so I just stream through that, but the girlfriends is in her room and her 360 is in the living room.

 

[akatsuki]

This thread is awesome. About to pull the trigger (once I find a non-Cali cheap source for parts besides Newegg).

1. GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard
2. Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz
3. Transcend 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
4. XFX PVT86JYAHG GeForce 8500 GT 512MB
5. Cooler Master Mystique RC-632S-KKN1-GP
6. Antec earthwatts EA380

+ 2 1TB WD Blacks (already got these)

Anyone got any suggestions or changes before I go for it?

 

[Zaap]

Try TigerDirect, though it's hard to find a source that's better than newegg, even when u factor in Cali taxes here in California.

 

[DarkAmeba]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Bah, I'm not gonna finish tonight. Maybe tomorrow

This is like a research paper lol...I'm already past 20 pages :Q

No worries!

 

[akatsuki]

Revising list to remove case bling for $$$...

1. Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard
2. Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz
3. 2 x Transcend 2GB DIMMs
4. Rosewill R363 case with 400W power supply
5. Trying to figure out between
   • XFX GeForce 8500 GT - seems well supported in the hackintosh community, or
   • XFX GeForce 9400 GT - some reports of it working, seems to be the newer card...

Cost: $321 from newegg. Could shave down video card further, but want dual DVI
+ 2 1TB WD Blacks (already got these)

Try TigerDirect, though it's hard to find a source that's better than newegg, even when u factor in Cali taxes here in California.

@Zaap - yeah, it seems that Newegg is still the cheapest even with tax. You would think with all the orders they get from Cali, they would find it more profitable to be in Nevada...

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: akatsuki
Revising list to remove case bling for $$$...

1. Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard
2. Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz
3. 2 x Transcend 2GB DIMMs
4. Rosewill R363 case with 400W power supply
5. Trying to figure out between
   • XFX GeForce 8500 GT - seems well supported in the hackintosh community, or
   • XFX GeForce 9400 GT - some reports of it working, seems to be the newer card...

Cost: $321 from newegg. Could shave down video card further, but want dual DVI
+ 2 1TB WD Blacks (already got these)

Try TigerDirect, though it's hard to find a source that's better than newegg, even when u factor in Cali taxes here in California.

@Zaap - yeah, it seems that Newegg is still the cheapest even with tax. You would think with all the orders they get from Cali, they would find it more profitable to be in Nevada...

You don't happen to be near Santa Clara or Tustin, do you? MicroCenter has some good deals IIRC

 

[akatsuki]

The plot thickens:

There is this Sparkle 9500 GT with DisplayPort. Same price as the other XFX cards but with DisplayPort... That seems like a win.

Originally posted by: akatsuki
Revising list to remove case bling for $$$...

1. Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard
2. Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz
3. 2 x Transcend 2GB DIMMs
4. Rosewill TU-155 II case with power supply
5. Trying to figure out between
   • XFX GeForce 8500 GT - seems well supported in the hackintosh community, or
   • XFX GeForce 9400 GT - some reports of it working, seems to be the newer card...

Cost: $321 from newegg. Could shave down video card further, but want dual DVI

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Having trouble.

DVD doesn't seem to want to boot (new one and the old one I used before) I was using a HP burner before but am now using a Samsung (bootcode was 9f and is now fe)

Not sure how yours is setup with regard to hard drives, but I have a HD with Leopard and one with Vista. Sometimes when I switch around without actually shutting down the DVD burner will not be seen. Completely shutting down my system will bring it back. HTH

I was forgetting to swap in my retail Leopard disc. Now we're running!

But, I'm getting a kernel panic at shutdown. Any clues?