wussyib
09-25-2009, 10:58 PM
Hey. My first post. I know this motherboard has been covered by the current excellent guide stickied using a retail DVD, but i thought I could maybe simplify the process even more building on the Life Hacker Snow Leopard hackintosh guide (no hacking required). Let me preface by saying this isn't much of a guide because it's so stinking easy. It's just a compilation of current SL methods.
For whatever reason, it took me awhile to piece together a working process using the Life Hacker guide, mostly because it's not using a G31M and there's several audio solutions out there. I literally reinstalled SL about 10 times before finding the shortest point from A to Z. Even though this motherboard is well documented, merging the Lifehacker guide with the G31m doesn't seem as well documented as I would assume, since it's currently the easiest SL-hackintosh process.
Essentially, with this motherboard (speaking for v.1.x), you can use this guide EXACTLY.
http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required
After you have a working SL install on your hard drive, and you've run the "EP45UD3P Snow Leopard.pkg" to your boot drive, the only thing that isn't working is sound.
You can install 2 kexts (fakesmc and legacyalc883) and drag and drop this DSDT.aml into your extra's folder, reboot, select "internal speakers" from sound preferences, and you're good to go.
Just install kextutility (included in this post), and drag and drop the 2 kexts to it.
That's it. Pretty much fully working G31m-E2SL with barely a few clicks and a couple drag-n-drops and no terminal work whatsoever.
I included the sleep fix, because in one of my installs I encountered an anomaly where it would not wake up from sleep. The attached combination of kexts seemed to do the trick. However, upon reinstalling again, sleep is working fine without these kexts. The sleep application in the previos G31M retail DVD guide is designed for issues with GOING to sleep, not waking up FROM.
Everything is 100% working (at least what I use). I don't use Bonjour, so I can't speak for that. Also, make sure you use NON case sensitive volume formatting (Lifehacker initially said to use case sensitive) because Adobe CS4 will wig out if you don't.
Being my first post, I want to thank the OSX86 community on this site as well as all the other mac sites. The resources provided are invaluable, and it's amazing how many people put in their free hours to help complete strangers.
Hardware
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Gigabyte G31M-E2SL V1.X
Nvidia GTS-250 1GB
4GB (2x2gb) DDR2
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
2 x 500Gb Western Digital SATA's "Green"
SATA DVD-RW
Dual booting OSX SL 10.6.1 and Windows 7 RTM
For whatever reason, it took me awhile to piece together a working process using the Life Hacker guide, mostly because it's not using a G31M and there's several audio solutions out there. I literally reinstalled SL about 10 times before finding the shortest point from A to Z. Even though this motherboard is well documented, merging the Lifehacker guide with the G31m doesn't seem as well documented as I would assume, since it's currently the easiest SL-hackintosh process.
Essentially, with this motherboard (speaking for v.1.x), you can use this guide EXACTLY.
http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required
After you have a working SL install on your hard drive, and you've run the "EP45UD3P Snow Leopard.pkg" to your boot drive, the only thing that isn't working is sound.
You can install 2 kexts (fakesmc and legacyalc883) and drag and drop this DSDT.aml into your extra's folder, reboot, select "internal speakers" from sound preferences, and you're good to go.
Just install kextutility (included in this post), and drag and drop the 2 kexts to it.
That's it. Pretty much fully working G31m-E2SL with barely a few clicks and a couple drag-n-drops and no terminal work whatsoever.
I included the sleep fix, because in one of my installs I encountered an anomaly where it would not wake up from sleep. The attached combination of kexts seemed to do the trick. However, upon reinstalling again, sleep is working fine without these kexts. The sleep application in the previos G31M retail DVD guide is designed for issues with GOING to sleep, not waking up FROM.
Everything is 100% working (at least what I use). I don't use Bonjour, so I can't speak for that. Also, make sure you use NON case sensitive volume formatting (Lifehacker initially said to use case sensitive) because Adobe CS4 will wig out if you don't.
Being my first post, I want to thank the OSX86 community on this site as well as all the other mac sites. The resources provided are invaluable, and it's amazing how many people put in their free hours to help complete strangers.
Hardware
-----------------
Gigabyte G31M-E2SL V1.X
Nvidia GTS-250 1GB
4GB (2x2gb) DDR2
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
2 x 500Gb Western Digital SATA's "Green"
SATA DVD-RW
Dual booting OSX SL 10.6.1 and Windows 7 RTM