@rwillett

“Thanks for the reply. I changed out every component on the computer for ultra-quiet stuff, so the fan is silent even when you open the case and put your ear next to it, same for PSU and all other fans e.g. I run a silent Asus 9400GT card. W…”

“I know it's bad form to quote your own submission but in this case I'll make an exception as I finally appear to have automatic sleep working, which is pretty damm pleasing The one hassle I have on my desktop is the lack of automatic sleep …”

“Good, glad thats worked. I would have been surprised if SATA was your problem, though little puzzled by FAT being so slow. It's not that robust a filesystem but it's not normally a slow pig. Anyway, problem solved so thats great. Rob. Sorry…”

“I've had my Hackintosh working through this thread for some time, probably a year by now, and have no real issues with it. Firewire works, sound is through an iMic USB connector, Ethernet is a PCI Realtek card and I use a silent Asus 9400GT…”

“Keyno, I have two 1.5 TB Samsung Spinpoint Green disks. The only problem I had is recognising a 1.5TB partition in the EFI loaded. I simply split the disk down. The second 1.5TB disk is used for Time Machine, no issues with speed, no issues…”

“You are mixing up multiple installation methods, therefore chaos will ensue. I have a Release 1 board and a Release 2 board. Both work with the guide at the front of this thread. The guide at the front doesn't talk about iBoot or Multiboot,…”

“I have a stable 10.6.0 on my hackintosh (G31M-ES2L) ... I want to try out some games on Steam and according to the hardware/software reqs I need to be on 10.6.3 or later. My 10.6.0 was not done using this guide, but rather one I found on in…”

“Everything worked fine tho? No trouble booting or anything? What video card are you using? Whoops, Missed this reply. I use (or used until tonight) an Asus 9400GT. Works perfectly well for me with zero hassle. No messing around with nvcap o…”

“I suggest you read the first page of this thread, if you follow the instructions it does work. If it doesn't it's because you have deviated from the path. I have used it to install on the V1 and V2 version of this motherboard. The onboard g…”

“I did the graphics upgrade. Made no difference as I don't play games. Rob”

“I recently won a 64GB iPad, , and wanted to connect it up to my Hackintosh. My iPods connect fine and it's never been an issue, so I assumed that the iPad would be just as easy, how wrong can I be. I connected the iPad up using the supplied…”

“I found the on-board Rev 1.0 Ethernet card to be a little flaky over a long period of time. Perhaps after a week or two of non-stop use, it would then stop working. Disabling it and then re-enabling it sorted the problem out. However that a…”

“I have updated from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 rev 1.1 mobo. Remove sleepenabler, updated to 10.6.4, then installed sleepenabler from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=196466. Works great! Sounds works fine, use AppleHDA(don't know…”

“Rats, an excellent idea, why didn't I think of it ? I'm wholly unclear about PCI Express as it's yet another new format to find out about. However I have now ordered a PCI-E Firewire card but I think I'll order one of these as well, they're…”

“I need to add a PCI-Express Firewire card to my G31 Motherboard. I currently have an Asus 9400GT graphics card which spans over my PCI slots only leaving me with one spare one. I use the one spare PCI slot for an Ethernet card. I have a cou…”

“I took the plunge and ordered a quad core Q8300 and fitted it to replace my E6300 dual core. I do a lot of video rework and wanted multiple cores. The older dual core is 2.8GHz, the newer quad core is 2.5Ghz. I figured the slight loss in ou…”

“I have a working system using the dual core CPU. It's nicely patched upto 10.6.3 and works very well. However as is the nature of these things, I want something quicker and wondered if anybody has put a quad core CPU on the G31M board. is t…”

“I'm not sure of the exact details but I know there are stability updates within the major updates, they are NOT just security. On the whole I would advise you to upgrade, however if your machine is not on the network and it's perfectly stab…”

“Upgrading to 10.6.2 is easy, lots of comments on this thread. Upgrading to 10.6.3 is more of an issue with kexts and external USB, see my previous comment.”

“I thought I'd share my experiences on how I got 10.6.3 working on my G31M-ES2L board. I had a number of issues with the first upgrade and went back and installed from scratch. First of all a full system restore from a local Time Machine doe…”

“I have a very similar spec to you, though the graphics card is an Asus 9400GT. If you can set the energy saver to one minute, or leave the |Enegry saver for the screen to come on then move the mouse it springs into action and works OK. I se…”

“The verifying DMI is not a corrupt BIOS. You get it when you change a disk. I've just had it and it's a pain to get rid off. There seems to be very little on the net about it, but it is NOT a corrupt BIOS. I got rid of mine (upgrade from 25…”

“I tried to do this yesterday and never got it to work. The BIOS recognised the disks (as it should) but SL failed to see them. I suspect a new Kext is needed but I put mine in a Firewire enclosure and it worked fine.”

“You;re confusing USB speeds with disk speeds. USB might be 480mbps (it isn't really), your disks can't output data at those speeds. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, you could have 800mbps Firewire but no disk can work at thos…”

“I re-imaged my disc and gave it another shot and it works. rwillett, you have the same card? do you know how to get sound over hdmi? or if it is possible? i am using hdmi to connect to my flat screen and woiuld love to get sound working ove…”

“I have the Asus EN9400GT card and also get the message it's not recognised, however it works perfectly well. You don't state what you have done and where the problem occurs, is this during boot, install or after installation. The more infor…”

“I removed sleepenabler.kext, rebuilt the kext cache, downloaded and installed the 10.6.2, added in the new sleepenabler.kext and then rebuilt the cache. I use the V1 motherboard, your signature appears to be V2 so wonder if that is anything…”

“Summary of problem Gigabyte G31M-ESL MB Dual Core E6300 CPU's 4GB RAM Asus Nvidia 9600GT graphics card connected to 17" screen by Raaritan 4 port KVM on VGA port. I don;t have HDMI (sadly) Black screen on boot after 10.6.2 upgrade. New slee…”

“I connect through the VGA port, via a Raritan four port KVM to a VGA screen. I do not use HDMI. I have just come home and pressed the space button on the computer and the screen is working. It was not working when I left to go to work this …”

“Thanks for taking the time to reply. I followed your instructions and did an upgrade to 10.6.2. It seemed to go OK until the machine rebooted. The iHack screen appears, it all looks OK until I get to the where the login screen should be. A …”

“I have a working system based on the instructions here, no real issues to be honest so thanks for all the hard work. I'm trying to upgrade to 10.6.2, I realise the sleepenabler.kext needs changing but read on for my problem. I cannot find a…”