Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[JMS4]

Originally posted by: metzler555
Anyone ever have a problem with the UD3P where the board turns on for a split second, then off? In order to get the board to turn back on I have to flick the PSU switch off then on, then hit the power button on the case again. After that, it comes on for s split second again. I have gotten it to boot up previously, and it seems random, but for the majority of the time the system comes on for a split second and then imediately shuts off. I have tried lots of different ram, unplugging everything, two power supplies. I am thinking my board is bad?

Yes! I pretty much breezed through the install process. The computer failed suddenly pretty much as you describe -> the best I could do was to get the UD3P?s phase LED's to light up for an instant and then everything would shut down. RMA?ed it a week ago.

 

[metzler555]

Originally posted by: JMS4

Originally posted by: metzler555
Anyone ever have a problem with the UD3P where the board turns on for a split second, then off? In order to get the board to turn back on I have to flick the PSU switch off then on, then hit the power button on the case again. After that, it comes on for s split second again. I have gotten it to boot up previously, and it seems random, but for the majority of the time the system comes on for a split second and then imediately shuts off. I have tried lots of different ram, unplugging everything, two power supplies. I am thinking my board is bad?

Yes! I pretty much breezed through the install process. The computer failed suddenly pretty much as you describe -> the best I could do was to get the UD3P?s phase LED's to light up for an instant and then everything would shut down. RMA?ed it a week ago.

So annoying right!? Well I sent my board out today. Let me know if your new one works out. It seems our boards are demonstrating the same symptom. Very weird I think...

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: metzler555

Originally posted by: JMS4

Originally posted by: metzler555
Anyone ever have a problem with the UD3P where the board turns on for a split second, then off? In order to get the board to turn back on I have to flick the PSU switch off then on, then hit the power button on the case again. After that, it comes on for s split second again. I have gotten it to boot up previously, and it seems random, but for the majority of the time the system comes on for a split second and then imediately shuts off. I have tried lots of different ram, unplugging everything, two power supplies. I am thinking my board is bad?

Yes! I pretty much breezed through the install process. The computer failed suddenly pretty much as you describe -> the best I could do was to get the UD3P?s phase LED's to light up for an instant and then everything would shut down. RMA?ed it a week ago.

So annoying right!? Well I sent my board out today. Let me know if your new one works out. It seems our boards are demonstrating the same symptom. Very weird I think...

Did you both buy yours at the same place? Just asking because there were some problems with other Gigabyte mobos with heat pipes. Could be a repeat of that problem. Perhaps a bad run. I believe there was an insulator missing on the boards in question. I was worried about mine when I heard about this, but mine has been rock solid from day 1. HTH

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: cgates
I'm expecting my parts to arrive by Wednesday. Should I plan to follow the guide on the wiki for the DS3L, or should I do something different for the G31M-ES2L board? I'm planning to do the install on the HD using my current mac.

If you don't want to wait, I did mine that way, these boards are very close to perfect without a whole lot of work. I used the DS3L kit with the different options for install choices IIRC I chose the network (no sound) option and the checked everything else on the Uinstaller check boxes except the last one. Then I ran the sound package on the HQ-A file page called ALC883_DS3_hda.pkg.zip. The HQ-A file page is here:

http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a/files

It's good practice even if you decide to go ahead with Kaido's kit when finished. I will probably to a reinstall with Kaido's stuff as soon as it becomes available, but then I'm a hackin' fool!!!

:Q

 

[JMS4]

My board came from Newegg?first week of March.

 

[metzler555]

Originally posted by: JMS4
My board came from Newegg?first week of March.

Mine came from neweeg, rev 1.1, I ordered it may 1st.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack
Did you both buy yours at the same place? Just asking because there were some problems with other Gigabyte mobos with heat pipes. Could be a repeat of that problem. Perhaps a bad run. I believe there was an insulator missing on the boards in question. I was worried about mine when I heard about this, but mine has been rock solid from day 1. HTH

Yeah, I had two bad Giga DS3R's around the time I bought an EFI-X chip. I remember reading on the forums that 50+ people had bad Gigabyte boards, something about the x-rays at Customs messing them up due to lowered production quality, or something to that effect. Lots of talk on other (computer) forums about bad runs as well. It seems to have been resolved since last year...

 

[cgates]

Originally posted by: mosslack
If you don't want to wait, I did mine that way, these boards are very close to perfect without a whole lot of work. I used the DS3L kit with the different options for install choices IIRC I chose the network (no sound) option and the checked everything else on the Uinstaller check boxes except the last one.
:Q

Wednesday night might be too busy here, so Thursday/Friday or definitely by the weekend... I need to read through the procedure again (I started reading this thread around the Christmas holidays...) so Kaido might have the latest document out by then. Either way, I'm sure I'll be posting more as I get into it!

 

[JMS4]

Originally posted by: metzler555

Originally posted by: JMS4
My board came from Newegg?first week of March.

Mine came from neweeg, rev 1.1, I ordered it may 1st.

Not to far afield here, but ... I originally thought the PSU had gone south, so I sent it back. With what I thought was the dead PS I couldn't get a peep out of the board. Not a beep, flicker, nada. With the new PS installed?thanx Antech upgraded me from EW380 to EW500?that is when the phase LED would light for an instant. I also had to cycle the PS On/Off switch.

Oh yeah, I can also pinpoint the moment the board failed -> I was transferring files over from a "real" Mac to the Hackintosh using an external 160GB Firewire HD (an old Micronet MiniMate which has worked flawlessly for years). Anyway on the third batch the Hack shut down the instant I plugged the FW drive in. I dunno, maybe hot-swapping ain't such a good idea.

So, I don't have a clue: plug-in ext. drive -> that kills PSU-> that kills MB? How plausible does that sound?

 

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: JMS4
So, I don't have a clue: plug-in ext. drive -> that kills PSU-> that kills MB? How plausible does that sound?

I suspect there may be something fishy with Hackintoshes and power management using Firewire in certain circumstances. Recently a friend of mine hooked up his Hack (G31M with Firewire PCI card) to an old G4 Mac in target disk mode. He was halfway through copying over a bunch of files when suddenly the Hackintosh made a 'huff' sound, then went dead.

I took a look at it: the PSU had bit the dust, and took with it one of two SATA hard drives (luckily not the OSX drive, and not even the drive he had been copying to) and the SATA DVD drive. Weirdly, the Firewire card was fine, as was the mobo/CPU/RAM. Replaced the PSU and two drives and everything was good as new.

Still, some power weirdness triggered by Firewire must have caused an overload on the 5V and 12V rails that fried the PSU and two drives. (A cheap PSU probably contributed to the problem).

Just about every story I've heard of Hackintosh users with fried hardware has a Firewire origin. Leads me to suspect something isn't really kosher about using Firewire on some setups- though I can't say exactly what or why. Also, I've used Firewire on my own Hacks many times and never had a problem, so go figure.

 

[cgates]

Originally posted by: cgates
Wednesday night might be too busy here, so Thursday/Friday or definitely by the weekend... I need to read through the procedure again (I started reading this thread around the Christmas holidays...) so Kaido might have the latest document out by then. Either way, I'm sure I'll be posting more as I get into it!

Apple just released 10.5.7, so maybe I should wait for Kaido's updated document before building my hackintosh...

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: cgates

Originally posted by: cgates
Wednesday night might be too busy here, so Thursday/Friday or definitely by the weekend... I need to read through the procedure again (I started reading this thread around the Christmas holidays...) so Kaido might have the latest document out by then. Either way, I'm sure I'll be posting more as I get into it!

Apple just released 10.5.7, so maybe I should wait for Kaido's updated document before building my hackintosh...

Yes, I just finished up the hardware recipes, working on finalizing the guides then uploading the kits. And testing 10.5.7.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: cgates

Originally posted by: cgates
Wednesday night might be too busy here, so Thursday/Friday or definitely by the weekend... I need to read through the procedure again (I started reading this thread around the Christmas holidays...) so Kaido might have the latest document out by then. Either way, I'm sure I'll be posting more as I get into it!

Apple just released 10.5.7, so maybe I should wait for Kaido's updated document before building my hackintosh...

Yes, I just finished up the hardware recipes, working on finalizing the guides then uploading the kits. And testing 10.5.7.

Must be a huge demand as the download on my DS3L says 4-6 hours for 286 Mb. I'm using my specially created partition to test with. :thumbsup:

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: cgates

Originally posted by: cgates
Wednesday night might be too busy here, so Thursday/Friday or definitely by the weekend... I need to read through the procedure again (I started reading this thread around the Christmas holidays...) so Kaido might have the latest document out by then. Either way, I'm sure I'll be posting more as I get into it!

Apple just released 10.5.7, so maybe I should wait for Kaido's updated document before building my hackintosh...

Yes, I just finished up the hardware recipes, working on finalizing the guides then uploading the kits. And testing 10.5.7.

Must be a huge demand as the download on my DS3L says 4-6 hours for 286 Mb. I'm using my specially created partition to test with. :thumbsup:

Tested out great on a fresh install on my UD3P! I used the Combo tho.

Going to test .7 on all the rigs tonight. Got the hardware lists completed. All that's left is to finalize the guides, test .7 on them, and upload the kits :thumbsup:

 

[mosslack]

Says 2 hours now, how big is the combo?

Never mind, I just had an error and it aborted. I'm doing the combo now at 729 Mb.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack
Says 2 hours now, how big is the combo?

720, I got it in like 20 minutes. WAY faster than Software Update.

------> http://support.apple.com/downl..._X_10_5_7_Combo_Update

Give it a roll!

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: mosslack
Says 2 hours now, how big is the combo?

720, I got it in like 20 minutes. WAY faster than Software Update.

------> http://support.apple.com/downl..._X_10_5_7_Combo_Update

Give it a roll!

Much better, I think others are switching as mine is slowing down a bit it seems. Still have 37 minutes to go. :beer:

 

[Zaap]

Just downloaded here in 2 minutes!

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Just downloaded here in 2 minutes!

show off!

 

[mosslack]

Just applied the 10.5.7 combo update to my test DS3L partition. A strange restart sequence, seemed to be locked in some sort of loop. Finally decided enough was enough and hit restart. Came back up, normal so far, after initial start a restart, which is normal for the combo update, then another start and this time I got the Leopard background with the clock spinning and finally yet another restart. This time when it came back up all appeared normal, my background image was there, etc. No sound, but I think that was expected also. Executed the patch and now sound is back and everything appears normal. Next up the UD3P test partition.

 

[oso2k]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Just downloaded here in 2 minutes!

20 seconds @ ~36.5MB/sec. Kind slow. I've done 150MB/s before on Linux ISOs which is quite nice. DVD distros in ~30 seconds.


Took 10 minutes to transfer from my MBP to my 8GB Cruzer USB Flash.

 

[Kaido]

Yessssssssssssssss new TV options in Display, time to finish the Media Center guide :evil:

 

[imported_jonnyc]

New TV Options !!!!!!!!
I've got to DL !

 

[imported_jonnyc]

Noooo. It broke my install, stuck at grey apple boot screen, then to what I think is a kernel panic. Black block request hard restart.

Could it possibly be that damn video card.

 

[metzler555]

Originally posted by: JMS4

Originally posted by: metzler555

Originally posted by: JMS4
My board came from Newegg?first week of March.

Mine came from neweeg, rev 1.1, I ordered it may 1st.

Not to far afield here, but ... I originally thought the PSU had gone south, so I sent it back. With what I thought was the dead PS I couldn't get a peep out of the board. Not a beep, flicker, nada. With the new PS installed?thanx Antech upgraded me from EW380 to EW500?that is when the phase LED would light for an instant. I also had to cycle the PS On/Off switch.

Oh yeah, I can also pinpoint the moment the board failed -> I was transferring files over from a "real" Mac to the Hackintosh using an external 160GB Firewire HD (an old Micronet MiniMate which has worked flawlessly for years). Anyway on the third batch the Hack shut down the instant I plugged the FW drive in. I dunno, maybe hot-swapping ain't such a good idea.

So, I don't have a clue: plug-in ext. drive -> that kills PSU-> that kills MB? How plausible does that sound?

This sounds crazy but this is exactly what I was doing. Transfering files between an external mac formated HDD, and between the two internal HDD on the Hackintosh. My external was USB 2.0 however.