Guide- Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 1.0, i7 930 and ATI 5850

[john2in3]

Hi everyone, this is my 2nd Hackintosh build. The first one (Intel Core2Quad) was pretty fun so when I happend upon an i7 and Gigabyte board I had to give it a try.

Parts-

Intel i7 930
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 1.0 (F6)
ATI HD 5850 Graphics

I bought this computer cheap and was so fired up to play around with it (an i7!!), stayed up all night just trying options with the EasyBeast and running stuff to see how fast it was. Well a day later I cleared out the big pile of beer cans and decided to research the best way to hackintosh it up.

Hey, after actually researching the build it was super easy. There are a couple of older threads here but I think their methods have been superceded by the new user DSDTs.

Here is the procedure I used

1. Upgrade motherboard BIOS on the Revision 1 board to "F6" from the Gigabyte website.
Here - http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3305#ov
(you can tell if you have Revision 1 or 2 from the color and size of the connectors on the board-- using the pictures on the web site)

2. Download and Save the F6 "USER DSDT" for the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 1.0 (F6)
Here-http://www.tonymacx86.com/dsdt.php

3. Enable the typical BIOS settings (AHCI, HPET = Enabled/64 bit).

4. Standard iBoot/ MultiBeast Install with-

- select "USER DSDT" running MultiBeast from desktop and with the downloaded user DSDT from #2 on desktop. Run utlities to repair permissions and rebuild cache. Reboot.

- still did not boot, apparently the ATI 5850 is causing an issue, its not supported.
No problem, after a 30 second google search I found that some guy on the internet got the 5850 working and provided the files. What could go wrong?
Link to guy on the internet- http://netkas.org/?p=465
- ATI HD 5850 Kexts- Link - http://mirror.netkas.org/5700/ATY_Init.kext.zip
- ATI HD 5850 Driver Package- Link- http://mirror.netkas.org/driver.tar.bz2

So I
(a) double clicked the driver package and installed the drivers
(b) Ran "kext helper", dropped the kexts on the kext helper and it installed it.
Kext Helper is here- http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/12/great-osx86-community-software.html
(c) repair cache/ permissions with MultiBeast and reboot.

- Now boots!

5. Audio.
- For Audio select
Multibeast-->Drivers & Bootloaders-->Kexts & Enablers-->Audio-->Realtek ALC8xx-->"ALC8xxHDA"
Multibeast-->Drivers & Bootloaders-->Kexts & Enablers-->Audio-->Realtek ALC8xx-->"Apple HDA Rollback"
Then
-repair permissions/caches with MultiBeast system utilties and reboot.

Audio now working, including digital audio output from Motherboard via optical connector!

Hey, not bad and a nice computer.

 

[eelhead]

Nice job!
What is the exact video card and ID number?

I can place it in wiki if not done so already with Netkas info in the notes.

Did you also use the current iBoot and Multibeast with Chimera?
All video working DvD player, Geekbench and what not?

 

[eelhead]

Sorry for two posts I hit back button by accident.

Also framebuffer if you know it?

 

[john2in3]

I forget what Chimura is? Is it included as part of multibeast or iboot? I of course have seen the name a lot of places but it confuses my small brain.

I did use the days-old latest version of multibeast.

-where would I find the video card ID number and frame buffer info ("about this mac" probably)?
-Yes geekbench and xbench work fine, not sure about DVD player will check. I think Geekbench score was in the high 8000s non overclocked.
- sleep does not work. Should I try sleepenabler.kext or is it futile?

 

[biafradog]

You get the video id from About->Info->Graphics...
1002 is ATI, 68a1 is my 5850, you?

You get the framebuffer info via command-line (Terminal),
run
ioreg | grep ATY

 

[john2in3]

Ok, thanks. I'm very sorry but the ATI was much to big, and I needed the space so I have removed it installed a NVIDIA GeForce GT-250. The ATI is now up for sale and I'm not sure I can put it back in for this information. I'm not a gamer and I would never fully utilize its capabilities. That thing is huge, the power connections extend along the length of the card into my HDD bays and I need to use the bays for HDDs. I actually had 2 ATI 5850s in crossfire mode but that was crazy (got the PC from a college kid/ gamer) so sold one of those immediately before attempting the install.

Anyway, I apologize, I hope I don't screw up the nice databases that are being developed here.

FYI- to install the Nvidia, I just downloaded the Tonymacx86 Nividia update here-
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewforum.php?f=125

And it works great. In fact the computer is virtually silent after you log in, before it was loud (and still is on bootup prior to logon)

 

[rwil85]

Ok, thanks. I'm very sorry but the ATI was much to big, and I needed the space so I have removed it installed a NVIDIA GeForce GT-250. The ATI is now up for sale and I'm not sure I can put it back in for this information. I'm not a gamer and I would never fully utilize its capabilities. That thing is huge, the power connections extend along the length of the card into my HDD bays and I need to use the bays for HDDs. I actually had 2 ATI 5850s in crossfire mode but that was crazy (got the PC from a college kid/ gamer) so sold one of those immediately before attempting the install.

Anyway, I apologize, I hope I don't screw up the nice databases that are being developed here.

FYI- to install the Nvidia, I just downloaded the Tonymacx86 Nividia update here-
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewforum.php?f=125

And it works great. In fact the computer is virtually silent after you log in, before it was loud (and still is on bootup prior to logon)

Hello,

I have the same system specs as your System #2..

if you were able to get the hackintosh up and running after installing the Nvidia GTS 250 graphics card - then, theoretically, I should be able to get my build running Mac OS X also if I start from scratch?

If so, what install guide should i be referencing?