Guide: GA-HA65M-UD3H-B3, i5 2400, Gigabyte Ati5770

[foosi]

My setup:

GA-HA65M-UD3H-B3
Intel i5 2400
Gigabyte HD5770
Kingston 1333 2gb x 2
WD10EARS

I have done a fresh installation last night and so far everything looks good. Sleep works without NullCpuMaganagement.kext. Geekbenck score about 8700 with factory CPU multiplier 31x.

tools used:
~iBoot Legacy 2.2.7 - download it here and burn it into cd
~SL 10.6 installation disk
~10.6.7 Combo update - download it here and save into a usb tumbdrive
~BridgeHelper 2.1.0 - download it here and save into a usb tumbdrive
~Multibeast 3.7.2 - download it here and save into a usb tumbdrive
~DSDT.aml file from Tonymac - download it here and save into a usb tumbdrive


Bios setting:
-Change HPET to 64-bit
-Set BIOS to use ACHI instead of IDE

Installation step as below.
1. boot iBoot Legacy 2.2.7
2. Eject iBoot and put in OSX Install DVD and press F5 to get it to show up after 10 seconds and hit enter
3. Follow instruction in OSX installation to install the OS.
4. Installation finish and reboot
5. boot again with iBoot Legacy 2.2.7 and select the New installed OSX partition to boot up
6. booted into OSX. Plug in USB tumbdrive that contain BridgeHelper, 10.6.7 Combo, Multibeast and DSDT file.
7. Install 10.6.7 Combo Update - DO NOT RESTART after this step
8. install BridgeHelper - DO NOT RESTART after this step
9. copy DSDT.aml file to desktop.
10. Run Multibeast as Below configuration:
-UserDSDT install
-System Utilities
-ALC8xxHDA
-AppleHDA Rollback
-Non-DSDT HDAEnabler for ALC889
-IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
-FakeSMC
-FakeSMC Plugins
-USB 3.0 - NEC/Renesas
-Realtek Gigabit Ethernet 2.0,6
-Chimera c1.4.1 r877
-64-bit Apple Boot Screen
-MacPro 3,1
11. Reboot

suscess to boot into OSX without iboot. Sleep works, graphic card information showed as 5770 at system profiller.


Another question i would like to ask here, does my setup not consider as all vanilla and all working?

Thanks for everyone here for all the tips.

 

[rolandg]

Thank you very much!! i've pretty much got the same setup, except the GPU still running a 8400GS until the support for the 6950 gets done..

 

[xr_939]

thank you i have build the same mac with gigabyte 220gt. thanks to tony. and thanks a lot.

 

[deepzerocool]

I have been looking for guidance of this HA65M for a long time.

Can we upgrade to Lion 10.7.2?

Thank you very much,
Kien.