e Leopard Soup Guide

Archived Tursday, November 6th, 2008 Written by weaksauce12 of the InsanelyMac forums. Special thanks to stella, onetrack, replicant, pcwiz, and kalyway for their help, time, tools, and advice.

Original read Location:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=112708

About is Guide:

is guide is for the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Rev 2.0 motherboard running BIOS F7. e product page is here:http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2629

DON’T SKIP ANY OF THE STEPS IN THE GUIDE! THEY ARE THERE FOR A REASON! THEY AREIN THE ORDER THEY ARE IN FOR A REASON! DON’T RUSH YOUR INSTALLATION!

Hi and welcome to my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Rev 2.0 Hackintosh Guide! is is your A-Z guide for gettingLeopard 10.5.4 Vanilla up and running on the DS3L perfectly! Coupled with the recommended hardware, thissystem works 100% and fits the bill for a Mac Pro “Lite”! I know this guide looks huge, but in reality it’s dirt simple- I’m just wordy. I tried to spell things out as much as possible so that you won’t get lost. If you have any issuesor need clarification, please post and I will do my best to update things! is installation requires about an hourof your time (mostly waiting for stuff to install), so grab some snacks and get ready to enter Hackintosh Heaven!Enjoy!

Table of Contents:

I. IntroductionII. Special NotesIII. PreparationIV. ProcedureV. CloningVI. OverclockingVII. Notes

Please support Apple and purchase Leopard for this project!

I. Introduction:

Hungry for Hackintosh? Look no further! e Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Rev 2.0 motherboard offers the following wonderful, healthy benefits:1. Excellent Leopard compatibility (shutdown/restart/sleep, audio, sata, etc.)2. Low price - under $100 (just use Google Product Search to find the best price)3. Powerful overclocking utility built into the BIOS4. Supports the latest 45nm processors Just check out the features!1. Support for Quad-Core, Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Extreme, and Pentium D CPUs (including65nm chips)2. Max 8 gigs of ram (4 memory slots)3. One (1) 16x PCI Express slot, (3) 1x PCI Express slots, and (3) PCI slots for maximum upgradability 4. (4) working SATA ports5. Onboard Realtek ALC888 sound card - fully working!6. (4) external USB ports and (3) internal USB portsis is one of the best-working, most hassle-free Hackintosh motherboards on the market. It offers rock-solid per-formance, excellent compatibility, and an assortment of expansion options. If you’re looking to build a “Mac ProLite”, you’ve come to the right place!Note: is guide is for Revision 2.0 of the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard. e Revision 1.0 has not beentested. You can tell which board you have by the number of onboard external USB ports - Rev 1.0 has 4 ports andRev 2.0 has 6 ports. If you’d like to try this guide out on the Rev 1.0 board, please let me know what your resultsare! e EP35-DS3L has been tested by several people using this guide with good results; please read through thethread to find out more info on that particular board.

II. Special Notes

ere are a few quirks you should be aware of, as with any Hackintosh system:Update: e Pystar driver in the package only works for like 50% of the people who use it. I’d say don’t bother. Justbuy the stupid $8 card and be done with it lol.First, wake from sleep is handled by the power button. On many motherboards, including real Macs, you can wakethe computer from sleep via the keyboard or mouse; with this P35 board, you have to press the power button to wake it from sleep. is actually turns out to be a nice feature - if you bump the table, the computer doesn’t wakeup because the mouse was jiggled! So don’t freak out when you put the computer to sleep and it doesn’t wake upvia the keyboard or mouse - just tap the power button on the tower and it will wake right up!Second, the Onboard Ethernet has a unique story. To make a long story short, I recommend purchasing the inex-pensive $8 Encore Gigabit Ethernet PCI card to get 100% working Ethernet. If you want the longer story, hereit is: ere are a number of semi-working drivers available. e ﬁrst driver causes AFP/Bonjour shares not to beseen (like iTunes Shared Libraries or AFP File Servers); everything else works. e second driver sees AFP/Bonjourshares, but won’t wake from sleep - you have to manually reset DHCP in System Preferences every time you wake

from sleep; everything else works. e third driver is the best; Psytar has released an open-source Ethernet driverthat sees AFP/Bonjour shares and wakes from sleep - the quirk is that it takes 5-8 seconds to wake up (my guess isthat it has a script that resets DHCP automatically after waking from sleep. I’ve included the driver in the Ethernetfolder of the tutorial package, should you choose to run Onboard Ethernet. It’s only a minor quirk, so if you canlive with a 5-8 second wakeup time, go for it. If you’re nuts like me, pay eight bucks for the PCI card and haveinstant wakeup! Haha.

III. Preparation:

1. Build and test the machine:

You will need a working Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L system to begin with. At minimum, that means:1. Case, Fan(s), Adequate Power Supply 2. Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Rev 2.0 motherboard3. Processor (Dual or Quad-Core recommended, along with HSF and thermal paste or pad)4. Memory (I’d recommend at least 2 gigs minimum, since it’s cheap)5. Video Card (see note below)6. PCI Network Card (see note below)7. SATA DVD Drive8. SATA Hard Drive (Boot Drive)9. Necessary internal power and data cables (be sure your PSU has enough SATA jacks and whatnot!)Video Card Note: Selecting a compatible Video Card is just as important as choosing a compatible Motherboard,if not more so. Video Cards can be one of the biggest headaches when building a Hackintosh, so be sure to chooseyour video card wisely. If you don’t have one already, be sure to check out the InsanelyMac Video Card section.Be sure to choose a video card that is confirmed working with 10.5.3! I have many cards that all work 100%, suchas the 7300GT, 7900GT, and 8800GTS - if you do your research FIRST, it will pay off by not being a headacheLATER. SPECIAL NOTE: 512mb cards seem to have the most issues - RESEARCH these well before purchasing!Make sure you have a driver that works 100% under 10.5.3!Network Card Note: Make sure you disable the onboard NIC in BIOS if you’re using a fully-working PCI card. Also, make sure that you plug the network cable into the correct jack - the PCI card, not the motherboard’s jack!If you are doing a fresh install of Leopard with a PCI card, make sure you have it installed in the case before doingthe software installation! I use the Encore Gigabit PCI NIC as listed in the HCL and it works perfectly, plus it only costs $7.99!Once you have your system built, I recommend using Memtest86+ to test your memory and to burn in your sys-tem. is is included in the “Extra Goodies” folder. Leave it on overnight - if it can do 6 passes with zero errors,then your RAM is good to go. It also gives your system time to “burn in”, i.e. you can see if it restarts for oddreasons, if any wires catch on the fans, if the drives rattle the case, that sort of thing. Simply download the ISOand burn it to a blank CD or DVD (you can use Disk Utility, Toast, Disco, LiquidCD, etc.), pop it in the opticaldrive, and make sure your system is set to boot from CD. ere’s nothing to configure; it just runs until you shutthe computer off. Real easy. Again, I highly recommend doing a 6-pass memory test because RAM problems canbe a huge headache to pinpoint if you’ve never tested for bad RAM.Note: A demo version of Disco, a CD/DVD burning app, is included in the Extra Goodies folder in the tutorialpackage. You can use this to burn ISOs, including Memtest86+ and Kalyway 10.5.2, to CD and DVD.