GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3P and Intel Core i3-3225 with OSX 10.8.2

[samcrow]

GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3P and 10.8.02 working great

Hi there,

This is a quick and simple installation guide for 10.8.2 and GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3P built.

Hardware configuration
Rosewill FBM-01 Mini ATX case
GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3P
Intel Core i3-3225 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz
TP-LINK TL-WDN4800
ASUS USB-BT211
Diablotek PHD350 350W ATX12V V2.2
ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner
OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-128G 2.5" 128GB SATA III
Team Xtreem Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

Installation
- Using my MacBook I've purchased and downloaded OSX 10.8.2 from the app store
- I've created a bootable 8GB USB memory with Unibeast 1.5.3
- After completing the hardware install, I've entered the BIOS and loaded "UEFI Defaults" and select "AHCI SATA"



- Booted up from the newly created USB memory and pressed the tab key on my keyboard to type the following:

PCIRootUID=0

- Once in the install process, I've used Disk Utility to format my hard drive (Mac OS Extended Journaled)
- Installed OSX 10.8.2 without any issues and rebooted
- Once again I pressed the tab key on my keyboard to type the following:

PCIRootUID=0

- After completing the user registration I ran MultiBeast - Mountain Lion 5.2.1 and selected the following items:



- Remove the USB memory and rebooted
- By the next reboot, the machine started up from the hard disk and I was able to verify that all hardware works 100%. Sleep, restart etc. work as well.

Geekbench results



Two pictures of the final product:



Hope this post will help others!

 

[potemkin]

Any tweaks to Asus BT ?
I used the Asus 21 not 211.
The 211 never worked before.
Does it work now ?
Would be great to now as it is readily available while the one I used is discontinued.

 

[samcrow]

The 211 never worked before.
Does it work now ?

Hi there,

Absolutely plug and play, I had no problem with the 211.
System Preferences appear to handle it just like a built in BT adapter.

Hope it helps!

 

[electronix001]

Hi there,

This is a quick and simple installation guide for 10.8.2 and GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3P built.

Hardware configuration
Rosewill FBM-01 Mini ATX case
GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3P
Intel Core i3-3225 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz
TP-LINK TL-WDN4800
ASUS USB-BT211
Diablotek PHD350 350W ATX12V V2.2
ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner
OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-128G 2.5" 128GB SATA III
Team Xtreem Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

Installation
- Using my MacBook I've purchased and downloaded OSX 10.8.2 from the app store
- I've created a bootable 8GB USB memory with Unibeast 1.5.3
- After completing the hardware install, I've entered the BIOS and loaded "UEFI Defaults" and select "AHCI SATA"

View attachment 41918

- Booted up from the newly created USB memory and pressed the tab key on my keyboard to type the following:

PCIRootUID=0

- Once in the install process, I've used Disk Utility to format my hard drive (Mac OS Extended Journaled)
- Installed OSX 10.8.2 without any issues and rebooted
- Once again I pressed the tab key on my keyboard to type the following:

PCIRootUID=0

- After completing the user registration I ran MultiBeast - Mountain Lion 5.2.1 and selected the following items:

View attachment 41925

- Remove the USB memory and rebooted
- By the next reboot, the machine started up from the hard disk and I was able to verify that all hardware works 100%. Sleep, restart etc. work as well.

Geekbench results

View attachment 41981

Two pictures of the final product:

View attachment 41920View attachment 41919

Hope this post will help others!

ok, HD4000 graphic chipset is working with QE/CI ?

 

[alextiming]

I have this mobo and CPU, but this was completely useless and didn't work. Moving on to something else.

 

[RuSz]

OMG just purchased those two for 200 euro total. if tonymac only recommend this then it got to be this. and i also have gtx650 for it.

 

[fchk]

I've got the same mainboard, but installation fails here.

My system:
- GA-B75M-D3P, tried BIOS version F5, F6, and finally F4
- 8G of RAM
- i5-3475S 2.9G HD4000 4 Cores - this is the major difference
- 500G SATA2 Hitachi HDD
- no additional cards

I used the same Unibeast 1.5.3, but also tried the most recent one (2.0.2).

The installation starts, the grey Apple logo displays with the spinning lines, then the resolution switches, there is only a grey screen and a spinning beachball.

End of Game.

Can anybody help me?

fchk

 

[Adrian B]

Use the most up to date versions. How did you set up your UEFI Bios?

First, head over to Peripherals, here you want to make sure that the xHCI mode is set to Auto. In some UEFI versions this defaults to Smart Auto, but this setting doesn’t work in OS X. You also want to make sure that xHCI and EHCI Hand-off is enabled.

On the peripherals settings screen you can also configure the display settings. In the case of the example above, a discrete graphics card was used, so PEG is what you want to select under Init Display First. If you’re using the integrated Intel graphics, then you want to select IGFX here. You don’t need to make any changes to the Internal Graphics Memory Size setting here, just leave it at the default of 64MB.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/99-quick-guide-configuring-uefi-gigabyte-s-7-series-lga-1155-boards.html


Adrian B

 

[fchk]

Solved! VT-D was the culprit.