[Success] Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 & Gigabyte GTS 450 with Lion

[Mamdouh]

Mamdouh's Build: - GA-X58A-UD5 - i7-920 - GTS 450​

GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD5 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Rev 2.0, shipped with BIOS FD (So glad that I got this board)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003378K7M/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128422

GIGABYTE GV-N450OC2-1GI GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125344

Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601920
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model CMG6GX3M3A2000C8
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145255

CORSAIR CWCH50-1 High Performance CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010

Corsair Obsidian Series 800D CC800DW Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139001

Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW120G3K5 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Fresh installation with Lion)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167050

Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal (First Partition has Snow Leopard, and the second has Lion Installer as per xMove+MultiBeast method)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136296

Western Digital VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX 600GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive (Windows 7 Ultimate x64)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136555

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284


Comments
Hello everybody..!! I wasn't so lucky with Snow Leopard with my specs, due to my GTS 450 issues. But now with Lion everything works great.

I had several failures with Lion when I used MutliBeast and DSDT, then I've discovered the best way to get it done.

1-Once you are done with xMove + MultiBeast and booted to Lion (if it's a fresh installation), run Multibeast and apply EasyBeast Install along with System Utilities and reboot to Lion again (Yes, I'm not kidding) .
2- Now apply your DSDT with System Utilities (ONLY) and reboot.
3- Now install your Audio, Network and USB 3.0 individually (ALC8xxHDA+AppleHDA RollBack) + (Realtek Gigabit Ethernet 2.0.6) + (USB 3.0 - NEC/Renesas) every time with System Utilities.

That's all, and now I'm running my Lion for days without a single freeze or kernel panic with full support for my GTS 450.
The only thing that didn't work with me so far is (Sleep). and I think I should do my effort to get it work properly.

My next move is Overclocking my CPU and RAM to meet my old settings with CPU 3.8GHz and RAM 1890Hz.

Regards,

 

[yanakis]

Hi there.

Almost the same config, but after applying custom DSDT Lion no longer boots - kernel panic. I am using 10.7.0 installer.

Regards,

Catalin

 

[Stork]

How are you installing Lion?

 

[yanakis]

Unibeast.

After Install, boot from USB and select Lion Install, system boots fine, everything works except sound.

I followed your procedure, installed easybeast and reboot. After that system boots fine (no kernel panic) but resolution is 1024x728, network no longer works of course. Anyway, this time I applied custom DSDT. Choosing to reboot is getting a kernel panic, reset from the button , boot from hard drive gets kernel panic again.

I think I might have to remove some components from the system. (another SSD drive, 1 TB sata 7200rpm samsung, etc). Bios is ver FD. Lion is on a drive with a second NTFS partition. I am trying now using lion 10.7.2.

Many thanks.

 

[Stork]

There's a GA-GA-X58A-UD5 DSDT in the DSDT Database. I recommend you use it as it will decrease the chance of problems with OS X.

 

[Rob_187]

If got the same problem as yanaki. Installed Lion and it works with easybeast but the resolution is still 1024. After the DSDT install Kernel Panic.... Please can anyone tell me what to do?

yanakis do you allready have a solution?

 

[Daniel8902]

Hi, i have a doubt, a gts 450 EVGA will work in Lion? there is a problem only because it is evga?