- Joined
- Feb 19, 2010
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte P55A-UD3
- CPU
- i7-860
- Graphics
- GTX 260
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hey,
I had no major issues dual booting the following system with Mac OSX 10.6.2 Vanilla (Used SL upgrade disk) and Windows 7
Hardware
-GA-P55A-UD3
-Core i7 860
-8GB (4x2GB) Patriot Sector 5 PC3-12800
-BFG GTX 260
-2x1TB Western Digital Green (1 OS on each drive)
-Enermax Modu82+ 625W
Issues/Solutions
Installation
The installation of both operating systems was fairly smooth, the only issue I encountered was when I was choosing my Windows Partition for booting instead of the System Reserved partition (I actually had already re installed windows 7 at this point originally thinking something was setup wrong). Apparently there is a way to get rid of the System Reserved partition but I decided to just leave it.
Audio
At first the onboard sound wasn't being recognized. I just followed the HD Audio Guide http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/12/ ... n-p55.html
More specifically this section of the guide:
"GA-P55-UD3R (ALC 888) owners have reported success using the DSDT.aml HDEF fix combined with replacing the Vanilla AppleHDA.kext with this AppleHDA.kext."
DVD Drive
I purchased the Samsung SH-S223C. It was recognized fine once booted into an OS but it didn't like being booted from. I dont know if it was an issue with the drive itself or a problem across the board with this model. I ended up swapping it with one of the drives at work (it would boot fine from these machines, perhaps an AHCI related issue). The swapped drive was actually same model, just a different version and it worked fine (S223 version F)
Network/Wireless internet
Instead of trying to find a wireless card that would run in both 64 bit Windows and 64 bit OSX I decided to try something a little out of the box. Since my LAN was working fine but my computer was not close enough to the router for a wired solution, I ended purchasing a Linksys WRT160N V3 and flashing it with DD-WRT (at the time of this post must be a V1 or V3 for this solution to work). DD-WRT is a powerful open source router firmware, One of the options it gives you is the ability to create a wireless bridge.
I had some issues at first where the router didn't want to connect to my Apple Airport extreme, It appeared to be something with WPA2 Personal security. I ended up disabling security (Might try enabling just WEP), to avoid anyone just being able to connect I setup mac address filtering through the airport utility. To avoid having to always update the allow list every time I have a friend over who wants to use the Wifi I decided to just enable the guest network. I havent tried yet, but I plan on not broadcasting the SSID for the main wifi connection.
Tuxera NTFS
Since I have a few external drives formatted with NTFS I wanted the ability for Read/Write. When I had first installed Tuxera NTFS I was getting drive issues because I was in 64 bit mode. To get this to work I just enabled hybrid kernel by adding "arch=i386" to my Kernel flags in the boot.plist. Most 64 bit supporting macs use this mode and it can address up to 32GB memory so I dont see this being an issue.
Firewire
I havent dealt with getting firewire working yet. I am looking at purchasing the Startech 1394 PCI Express FireWire Card Adapter (PEX1394B3). This card uses the Agere System FW643 chipset, from what I can find the macbooks used the same chipset for their firewire so I think theres a good chance this card will work fine.
Logic 9 and Presonus Firebox
I havent tried this out yet, thats next on my list after firewire. I dont see there being any issues with since the firebox works fine on my Macbook.
Thats all for today.
I had no major issues dual booting the following system with Mac OSX 10.6.2 Vanilla (Used SL upgrade disk) and Windows 7
Hardware
-GA-P55A-UD3
-Core i7 860
-8GB (4x2GB) Patriot Sector 5 PC3-12800
-BFG GTX 260
-2x1TB Western Digital Green (1 OS on each drive)
-Enermax Modu82+ 625W
Issues/Solutions
Installation
The installation of both operating systems was fairly smooth, the only issue I encountered was when I was choosing my Windows Partition for booting instead of the System Reserved partition (I actually had already re installed windows 7 at this point originally thinking something was setup wrong). Apparently there is a way to get rid of the System Reserved partition but I decided to just leave it.
Audio
At first the onboard sound wasn't being recognized. I just followed the HD Audio Guide http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/12/ ... n-p55.html
More specifically this section of the guide:
"GA-P55-UD3R (ALC 888) owners have reported success using the DSDT.aml HDEF fix combined with replacing the Vanilla AppleHDA.kext with this AppleHDA.kext."
DVD Drive
I purchased the Samsung SH-S223C. It was recognized fine once booted into an OS but it didn't like being booted from. I dont know if it was an issue with the drive itself or a problem across the board with this model. I ended up swapping it with one of the drives at work (it would boot fine from these machines, perhaps an AHCI related issue). The swapped drive was actually same model, just a different version and it worked fine (S223 version F)
Network/Wireless internet
Instead of trying to find a wireless card that would run in both 64 bit Windows and 64 bit OSX I decided to try something a little out of the box. Since my LAN was working fine but my computer was not close enough to the router for a wired solution, I ended purchasing a Linksys WRT160N V3 and flashing it with DD-WRT (at the time of this post must be a V1 or V3 for this solution to work). DD-WRT is a powerful open source router firmware, One of the options it gives you is the ability to create a wireless bridge.
I had some issues at first where the router didn't want to connect to my Apple Airport extreme, It appeared to be something with WPA2 Personal security. I ended up disabling security (Might try enabling just WEP), to avoid anyone just being able to connect I setup mac address filtering through the airport utility. To avoid having to always update the allow list every time I have a friend over who wants to use the Wifi I decided to just enable the guest network. I havent tried yet, but I plan on not broadcasting the SSID for the main wifi connection.
Tuxera NTFS
Since I have a few external drives formatted with NTFS I wanted the ability for Read/Write. When I had first installed Tuxera NTFS I was getting drive issues because I was in 64 bit mode. To get this to work I just enabled hybrid kernel by adding "arch=i386" to my Kernel flags in the boot.plist. Most 64 bit supporting macs use this mode and it can address up to 32GB memory so I dont see this being an issue.
Firewire
I havent dealt with getting firewire working yet. I am looking at purchasing the Startech 1394 PCI Express FireWire Card Adapter (PEX1394B3). This card uses the Agere System FW643 chipset, from what I can find the macbooks used the same chipset for their firewire so I think theres a good chance this card will work fine.
Logic 9 and Presonus Firebox
I havent tried this out yet, thats next on my list after firewire. I dont see there being any issues with since the firebox works fine on my Macbook.
Thats all for today.
