Guide: GA-P67A-UD7-B3 w/ATI Radeon HD 5770 ALL VANILLA

[razormy]

Step by Step Installation Guide for the GA-P67A-UD7-B3 w/Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB

This guide is for a single drive install meant for the GA-P67A-UD7-B3. I do not know if it will work on different motherboards. Your welcome to try and let us know. I have done the install following my guide as a test and it works as stated.

I am working on a guide for Bootable Software Raid 0 which makes our hacked knockoffs even sweeter.

What Works:
Video/Graphics
Sound (not choppy)
Time Machine
Speedstep (C-State)
Sleep (deep sleep)
Ethernet Ports
Shutdown/Restart (even after sleep)
Overclocking (currently at 4GHz w/turbo Enabled to 40 per core)

What I'm Working on:
Fix the F'n mouse jerkyness (bugs me)
USB3.0
Trying to verify if using 4 cores
(please let me know what else I missed)

Files Package
http://www.mediafire.com/?9mcj37cfjmmo6yo

Combo Update
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1361/en_US/MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.7.dmg

Let's Begin

Bios Settings:
-Change Multiplier to 32x
-Change HPET to 64
-Turbo Disabled for now until completely installed/updated

Download the Files Package and unzip to a USB drive

1) Boot w/iBoot legacy CD

2) At iBoot screen replace iBoot legacy CD w/Snow Leopard 10.6.3
Install DVD [F5 to refresh]

3) Highlight Mac OS X Installer and type
GraphicsEnabler=no maxmem=4096 [press enter]

4) Install 10.6.3 Snow Leopard (whatever settings you like) (may have
to use Disk Utility at this time to setup your drives configuration)
[reboot w/iBoot legacy when done]

5) Boot w/ iBoot legacy CD

6) Highlight your New installed Drive and type
GraphicsEnabler=no maxmem=4096 [press enter]

7) Go through the Leopard setup process

8) Install MacOSXUpdCombo 10.6.7.dmg (DONT REBOOT)

9) Install BridgeHelper 2.1 (DONT REBOOT)

10) Open DSDT Auto-Patcher (select GA-P67A-UD7) [apply]

11) Install Chameleon RC5 747 latest (Do Not Press Log Out, Leave Open)

12) Delete AppleHDA from /System/Library/Extensions

13) Make new folder /Extra and /Extra/Extension in the root of install drive

14) Copy the following kext's to /Extra

DSDT.aml (located on desktop cooked by DSDT Auto-Patcher)
com.apple.Boot.plist

15) Copy the following kext's to /Extra/Extensions

ALC8xxHDA.kext
FakeSMC
JMicron36xSATA

16) Copy the following kext's to /System/Library/Extensions

RealtekRTL81xx.kext
AppleHDA.kext
HDAEnabler889.kext

Note: You will get pop ups from Leopard, simply click through them.

17) Delete AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext (will make mouse less buggy)

18) Start Kext Utility and enter password (waite till it completes)

19) Reboot

20) Install ATI Package

21) Reboot

DONE! How nice...

Now go back into Bios and turn up the Turbo to 40+ per core and watch her fly.

Thanks to this forum for all the info. Thanks to the efforts of other users and their guides which helped in the creation of yet another guide for owners of the GA-P67A-UD7-B3

 

[Yoga]

What I'm Working on:
Fix the F'n mouse jerkyness (bugs me)
USB3.0
Trying to verify if using 4 cores
(please let me know what else I missed)

Mouse - this shouldn't be an issue with the 10.7.3 SB kernel. It's related to the legacy kernel as far as I'm aware. Open up terminal and type uname -a just to be sure.

USB 3.0 - Install Renesas drivers in MultiBeast.

Four cores - open up Activity Monitor, double click the CPU usage window (bottom) to get the dedicated window, and run Geekbench or something. 8 cores here due to 2600K.

Screen shot 2011-04-26 at 14.49.58.png

 

[razormy]

What I'm Working on:
Fix the F'n mouse jerkyness (bugs me)
USB3.0
Trying to verify if using 4 cores
(please let me know what else I missed)

Mouse - this shouldn't be an issue with the 10.7.3 SB kernel. It's related to the legacy kernel as far as I'm aware. Open up terminal and type uname -a just to be sure.

USB 3.0 - Install Renesas drivers in MultiBeast.

Four cores - open up Activity Monitor, double click the CPU usage window (bottom) to get the dedicated window, and run Geekbench or something. 8 cores here due to 2600K.

Screen shot 2011-04-26 at 14.49.58.png

Mouse -Using BridgeHelper latest in the guide. Is that a legacy kernel?

USB3.0 - Did that....installed driver via MB by itself and it does not boot the system. System does not like that driver. Did that a few times.

Four cores - Will check.

I did run Geekbench this morning before coming to office and I got a score of 5400. I have to look into this. I like to work from a stripped down version as Vanilla as possible and add Only what's necessary for the system to work 100%

Any suggestions.

 

[Yoga]

It should be - type uname -a in terminal as suggested. It should read:

Darwin Mac.local 10.7.3 Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.3: Sun Mar 6 13:37:56 PST 2011; root:xnu-1504.14.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

USB 3 problem is odd. All enabled in BIOS?

Trying to go all vanilla, which means nothing but FakeSMC.kext, can be fruitless at this early stage. Here's my /Extra folder, and this system flies.

Screen shot 2011-04-26 at 16.00.35.png

Just had a thought. You must run MutliBeast and install the MacBook Pro 8,1 definition for full SB compatibility.

 

[razormy]

Just had a thought. You must run MutliBeast and install the MacBook Pro 8,1 definition for full SB compatibility.

Do you know what it installs?
Is it an smbios.plist file?
Also, Why MacBook Pro and not Mac Pro?

Yeah, the USB3.0 thing also has me stumped. I see it works for others and I cannot see why it's not working for me.

 

[Yoga]

Just had a thought. You must run MutliBeast and install the MacBook Pro 8,1 definition for full SB compatibility.

Do you know what it installs?
Is it an smbios.plist file?
Also, Why MacBook Pro and not Mac Pro?

Yeah, the USB3.0 thing also has me stumped. I see it works for others and I cannot see why it's not working for me.

The kernel you're using is from the 2011 MBP, and hence, it expects the matching hardware identifiers (which is what smbios is for). I get a kernel panic if it's set to anything other than MBP.

 

[Ed_Saxman]

About USB 3.0 in that kind of MoBos with 2 VLI hubs...

Someone reported that Lacie drivers don´t work well with VLI VL810 hubs.

Some other moBos like the UD4 has 2 Renesas Chip but no hubs.
UD5 has 1 chip + 2 hubs.
UD7 has 2 chips +2 hubs.

Seems to work well on Mobos with only one renesas chip, Maybe with 2, as well, but these hubs seems to be the problem.

 

[razormy]

Just had a thought. You must run MutliBeast and install the MacBook Pro 8,1 definition for full SB compatibility.

Do you know what it installs?
Is it an smbios.plist file?
Also, Why MacBook Pro and not Mac Pro?

Yeah, the USB3.0 thing also has me stumped. I see it works for others and I cannot see why it's not working for me.

The kernel you're using is from the 2011 MBP, and hence, it expects the matching hardware identifiers (which is what smbios is for). I get a kernel panic if it's set to anything other than MBP.

Will try it out. I don't think it's kernel specific though.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[callan280]

I'm working Full vanilla with 2011 iMac 10.6.7

Installed 10.6, then updated to 10.6.6, then to the imac update for 10.6.7

DSDT Auto Patcher has been updated for P67A-UD7-B3 with full power management working

SMBios set to mac pro 3,1 and getting a 14,950 Geekbench score

The only thing I can't get to work is USB3
Spent alot of time playing around with the Lacie driver and it gives me plenty of grief. The more promising driver seems to be the Caldigit one (I get no errors with it), but it is locked to their devices only.

 

[neysito]

About USB 3.0 in that kind of MoBos with 2 VLI hubs...

Someone reported that Lacie drivers don´t work well with VLI VL810 hubs.

Some other moBos like the UD4 has 2 Renesas Chip but no hubs.
UD5 has 1 chip + 2 hubs.
UD7 has 2 chips +2 hubs.

Seems to work well on Mobos with only one renesas chip, Maybe with 2, as well, but these hubs seems to be the problem.

I'm on the same boat and by now convinced this is the problem.
I have struggled with this USB 3.0 issue and tried many different configurations/installs since i bought my UD5-B3, as soon as it came out. Always same outcome, the driver on MB does not play nice with the hubs. It needs to be modified for our boards.

I'm about to give up on Snow Leopard altogether.


To think i choose this board over an Asus for those 4 USB 3.0 ports