Hi to all :D Today I bring you a great tool for desktop Hackintosh owners that have a Gigabyte Motherboard. Some company (Cartri) in their great intellect thought of modifying the BIOS of a few of the most popular Gigabyte motherboards of the P43 and P45 chipsets:
So if you own one of these, do not hesitate on installing this modded BIOS, but only if you know what you are doing.. If anything goes wrong you can always re-flash the stock BIOS of your motherboard (if you didn’t brick it) hahahahhaha If you succeed you will have a Hackintosh that doesnt need a patched DSDT (since it already will be present in your BIOS), and with one or two well placed kexts you will have full functionality, without complicating your life and getting your hands dirty in DSDT and ACPI hahahha
As always, I take no responsibility in what might happen, but if you need any advice, please do not hesitate and leave a comment.
Here follow the instructions to install, also present in the zip file attached below.
Enjoy ;)
This project consists on a hacked gigabyte bios file (based on the latest official bios for each motherboard) which you can flash to your motherboard (ONLY) trough Q-Flash, and, once booted, have a normal functional computer for any OS, and the possibility to boot under Mac OS X with enhanced features normally achieved trough the use of a DSDT.aml file or modified bootloaders.
The Final idea is having a bios that boots OSX (we will still need a bootloader for now but i pretend to implement that into bios in future releases) without the need of any DSDT.aml stored on your disk.
This is my "new" Hack, 100% functional, just like any Mac Pro, but done the way I want hihihihi
I am using an EP45-UD3LR with this custom BIOS and Clover bootloader.
Safety of Use, Risks and Responsability
Indeed every main release was tested over the referenced board, this bios and it’s flashing process – as any bios update – includes risks and may brick your motherboard if not well done. Some functions of your Motherboard may be disabled in some versions and others may be created depending on the release version you are using
The creator and maintainer of this project takes no responsibility of any damage these bios update can create to anything in this world, being these files released AS ARE and the user fully responsible for using it or not, and any problems it could cause.
4. Installation Instructions
- 4.1 Choose your bios file according to your Motherboard and Display type (Full Screen for 4x3 monitors and Widescreen for 16x10 monitors, you can test both and see which one gives you the most aesthetic look at boot time.)
- 4.2 Put it inside a readable standard FAT32 partition (it maybe inside your harddisk or inside a PenDrive formated for this, be sure the media is safe and not corrupt)
- 4.3 Update your bios using boot-time Q-FLASH as it follows:
4.3.1 Boot your system and press the key END in your keyboard to claim Q-Flash Note: DO NOT CLAIM Q-FLASH FROM BIOS SETUP, DO IT DIRECTLY FROM BOOT TIME TROUGH THE KEY [END] OF YOUR KEYBOARD!!
4.3.2 Leave Q-Flash Setting as in the following screen, Disabling “Keep DMI Data”and Enabling “Load CMOS Defaults” as below (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!! RECHECK!): .
4.3.3 Select “Update BIOS from Drive”
4.3.4 Q-Flash will then scan for FAT32 Partitions in all your hardrives, including floppys and USB Flash drives. Choose the partition containing your downloaded bios.
Note: Q-Flash will only see your USB FAT-32 Drive if it was already plugged while the machine was turned on.
4.3.5 Choose your bios file from the list... your filename should be something like EP45WIDE.07H or other provided file, not the ones shown in the image.
4.3.6 Hit enter on the selected file, it will give you a checksum and ask for confirmation. Confirm and WAIT UNTIL THE PROCESS IS COMPLETE!
4.3.7 When everything goes right, follow the onscreen commands to Power Off your system <F10>.
- 4.4 Turn On your system.
IMPORTANT Notes: On the first time you turn on your system after upgrading to the Mac Edition Bios, the system may take longer to start. This is normal. Wait until Chameleon Boot Loader (or any other bootloader you use) loads, and DO NOT ENTER ANY OPERATIONAL SYSTEM (Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc) YET.
DO NOT JUMP TO THE SECTION 5, AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ENTER CMOS SETUP / CHANGE YOUR BIOS SETTINGS BEFORE THE 1ST TIME CHAMELEON RC4 (the officially recommended loader for these bios) LOADS. THIS COULD BRICK YOUR MOTHERBOARD!
IT MAY TAKE MORE THEN 3 AUTO-REBOOTS BEFORE CHAMELEON (or any other boot loader) LOADS, this is due to gigabyte’s updating of DMI data after loading the default CMOS Settings, depending on the system previous Gigabyte BIOS version, it may have to update the backup BIOS and only then doing the final reboot. Only Do the step 4.5 after you see your bootloader. - 4.5 Instantly shut down your system when the bootloader loads, not entering any OS. Then, proceed with Section 5 Instructions in the next page.
Here is the archive with all the BIOSes hihih
Note: Only for
Note: Only for
"G1-EP43T-UD3L"
"G1-EP43-DS3LR"
"G3-EP45T-DS3"
"G1-EP43-ES3G"
"G1-EP43-UD3L"
"G1-EP43-US3L"
"G1-EP43T-ES3G"
"G1-EP43T-S3L"
"G1-EP43T-USB3"
"G1-EP45-DS3L"
"G1-EP45T-UD3LR"
"G2-EP43C-DS3"
"G1-EP45-DS3LR"
"G2-EP45T-UD3R"
"G4-EP45-DS3R"
"G4-EP45T-DS3R"
"G5-EP45-DS4"
"G5-EP45-DS4P"
"G5-EP45-EXTREME"
"G5-EP45T-EXTREME"
"G1-EP43-DS3L"
"G1-EP43-S3L"
"G1-EP45-UD3L"
"G2-EP45-UD3"
"G3-EP45C-DS3"
"G4-EP45C-DS3R"
"G4-EP45T-USB3"
"G5-EP45-DS3P"
"G4-EP45-UD3P"
"G4-EP45T-UD3P"
"G1-EP45-UD3LR"
"G2-EP45-UD3R"
"G2-EP45C-UD3R"
"G4-EP45-UD3P2"
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