RoberT_XeS Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 The reason your processor isn't detected right is because that information is stored in your SMBIOS. You need to apply a SMBIOS patch to Leopard and it should detect the proper value. You can find this kext file from this website: http://######.com/index.php?option=...9&Itemid=74 . I used the first two and they worked fine. It still may show up as an Unknown Processor. Just use osx86tools to correct this. RAM seems to always come up as 800Mhz, I manually changed mine to 1066MHz using osx86 tools. You're absolutely correct, the OC profile does adjust the voltages. In some cases, copying this can lead to an unstable system, as I experienced myself. In my opinion, this should be removed from the tutorial steps, as the only real adjustment needed after flashing the bios is to adjust the storage to AHCI. If I were you I would set everything back to defaults and just change the storage configuration to AHCI, just to be safe. I already did that....I removed the CMO File.....Thanks.....Also thanks for the little tutorial above...I have included it in Post #1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabear Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 w00t! The AttansicL1eEthernet.kext worked like a charm. I even inserted an old bluetooth device which got recognized immediately, and then paired my hackintosh with my apple wireless keyboard. which graphics driver should I use for my NVIDIA 9800gtx? It has 512 MB Ram. Also, my SATA DVD/CD-rom doesn't appear inside OS X, any tips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennik Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Thanks! You helped out sooo much with this guide! I finally got everything working on my system with Asus P5Q Pro and Zotac 9800 GT! Its amazing how well it runs. My PC runs OSX as good as my macbook just a lot faster :-) Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabear Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I tried upgrading to 10.5.6 and installing all updates. But sadly, after that I have no audio. Tried re-applying the kext too, but didn't help Using the acl 1200 audio drivers on a p5q pro EDIT: Ok, so I fixed it. I had to go to system preferences->sound and on the sound out-tab, choose internal speakers. It had been set to "interal digital out" after the system update?? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFlagster Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 is strange to install the ideneb and not entering the installation of the retail version, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apreichner Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 is strange to install the ideneb and not entering the installation of the retail version, right? I don't understand the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fighterhawk Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Well reading his earlier posts it seems he is unable to get the retail image to boot properly for install... "I do not know what to do, since I returned to download the Mac OS X retail, but still the same ...It is impossible to debug, because the screen is just all black = S I have installed the ideneb 10.5.5 The following steps are good: 1. After Restart and a short Beep, press F8. 2. Select the Bootable USB Flash Drive and press ENTER. (Very Very Important) 3. Here Select the drive named RETAIL IMAGE. I write '-v' and choose retail, but then after a while the screen is all black ... Who can help me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFlagster Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Yes, that is my problem... What I meant was: it is strange I can install version ideneb, and the retail version can not even go to the installation menu... Sorry for my English, but I'm Portuguese =/ Thanks for all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fighterhawk Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 DarkFlagster what is your hardware config? It could be your motherboard/cpu which prevents it from installing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFlagster Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Maybe my CPU I have an: Asus P5Q Pentium 4 3.00Ghz 2g ram 8600 Gts and I did the step 3 to configure the bios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fighterhawk Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Its your cpu upgrade to core 2 duo and give it a shot or just use ideneb/ipc etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFlagster Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 xD F**king CPU xD Ok ready seems to have solved everything xD thanks to all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidge Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 hey all, i got my P5Q based system working perfectly stable.. i'd like to add another 2 gigs of ram but when i do, the machine won't boot past the grey apple logo i've read all about the issue in this thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...7611&st=320 but am not sure which KEXT i should be replaceing i've got 2 HDD's and one DVD burner in the box, both are SATA is it just a simple matter of installing or swapping one of those kext's then i can boot with the 4gigs? will this affect software updates in the future? thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoberT_XeS Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 hey all, i got my P5Q based system working perfectly stable.. i'd like to add another 2 gigs of ram but when i do, the machine won't boot past the grey apple logo i've read all about the issue in this thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...7611&st=320 but am not sure which KEXT i should be replaceing i've got 2 HDD's and one DVD burner in the box, both are SATA is it just a simple matter of installing or swapping one of those kext's then i can boot with the 4gigs? will this affect software updates in the future? thanks for your help Install the kext using kexthelper http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1025091 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Sally Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 My Asus P5Q EM, with an e5200 o/c to 3.45, 4 gb ram, Onboard sound alc1200 working, onboard lan Realtek 81xx working OOB, usb k/b and mouse, start/shutdown working but not perfect, sleep works, vanilla install using boot 132 and Munky's excellent EFI guide and a Sparkle 9500 GT with full qe/ci using just EFI strings from OSXTools. Also added ethernet strings with OSXTools so time machine works perfect. I used your guide with great results with the only change was to use a 10.56 retail leopard image instead of 10.54 (i had this incase but didn't use it) and replaced the OSInstall.mpkg. after replacing the OSInstall.mpkg (I had a working iPC install at the time) i opened disk utility, partitioned and formatted a 8 gb usb drive to Mac OS Journled. then restored the dmg file to the usb stick. with only a sata hdd drive (just one drive in the box), a sata dvdrw and my usb leo stick plugged in. I boot with the generic iso and at the prompt for what drive i put 81 for the second hdd (the usb stick is hdd2) and installs very quickly and have used this on a dual boot notebook with a MBR as well as GUID drives without a problem. no issues on initial install unless you use a ps2 k/b mouse. mine was usb . For my GFX and ethernet: Istalled retail 10.56 so no video or ethernet kext were selected. My first try i used the latest mac book kext, no ce/ci with or without gfx strings. so i used nothing. ethernet was detected but time machine was not working. I used OSXTools right from my desktop (i had installed all the applications fron iPC distro by de selecting everything except the apps, but got an error message when trying to write to boot.plist file) works if it's on the d/t. Launched osxtools, click on add EFI strings, boot flags. click on GFX Strings custom GeForce hex Name: nVidia GeForce 9500 GT Memory: i used 1024 b/c that's what's on the card Nvcap: i used DVI-I/VGA Next i saved this to a hex file called GFX.HEX Next i clicked on ethernet strings and saved this as ethernet.hex then i pressed on combine hex files and selected both files at the same time write to boot.plist and rebooted with full qe/ci and time machine. switching resolutions results in a blue screen, i press the power button to sleep the box, then press again to wake and i'm back on the desktop with the selected resolution. this was using an old crt monitor thru the VGA port. using a VGA To DVI adapter, resolution changes work perfect. thanks to http://www.osxcores.site50.net/ for the modded bios for my P5Q EM, which made the retail install a snap to do. for sleep to work properly, i had to set one of 3 jumpers on the motherboard, consult your manual for details. without this, you can't wake from sleep with the k/b or mouse. Thanks for a great guide and it works with a 10.56 retail too!! Thanks again Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekip Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Hi, I tried to install MacOSX on my PC for several days no with no luck :/ Robert is my last hope First my PC: Asus P5Q Pro Intel Core2Quad 9550 2,83Ghz Nvidia GTX 280 (MSI) 8 GB RAM SATA DVD Drive Second HD for MacOSX (250GB) + BIOS Flashed with version 2002 form the first post in this thread + Firewire is ENABLED + SATA is set to AHCI At the beginning I tried to install Deneb 1.5 (10.5.6). Install goes fine, but the OS won't boot after that. It starts to boot and then always requests to restart the System: http://dl.kips-world.de/mac/install_macosx_x86/IMG_0006.jpg I tried to format the HD with MBR, with GUID - I tried booting from HD (after Install), from USB and with the Chameleon Boot-CD mentioned all over thread - everytime the same. I tried to boot with -x -F aswell. Heres the exact error Message when booting with -v: http://dl.kips-world.de/mac/install_macosx_x86/IMG_0011.JPG After these tries to install iDENeB failed, I tried to install form a original Retail DVD delivered with my new MacBook. Booted the Chameleon, changed Discs ... Leo starts to boot but after only 1 or 2 secs has a kernel panic: http://dl.kips-world.de/mac/install_macosx_x86/IMG_0007.JPG http://dl.kips-world.de/mac/install_macosx_x86/IMG_0008.JPG I tried everything with 8GB Ram, 4GB and just 2GB installed ... all the same :/ I'm guessing it's the graphic card :/ Any ideas Robert? :< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apreichner Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Hi, I tried to install MacOSX on my PC for several days no with no luck :/ Robert is my last hope First my PC: Asus P5Q Pro Intel Core2Quad 9550 2,83Ghz Nvidia GTX 280 (MSI) 8 GB RAM SATA DVD Drive Second HD for MacOSX (250GB) + BIOS Flashed with version 2002 form the first post in this thread + Firewire is ENABLED + SATA is set to AHCI At the beginning I tried to install Deneb 1.5 (10.5.6). Install goes fine, but the OS won't boot after that. It starts to boot and then always requests to restart the System: http://dl.kips-world.de/mac/install_macosx_x86/IMG_0006.jpg I tried to format the HD with MBR, with GUID - I tried booting from HD (after Install), from USB and with the Chameleon Boot-CD mentioned all over thread - everytime the same. I tried to boot with -x -F aswell. Heres the exact error Message when booting with -v: http://dl.kips-world.de/mac/install_macosx_x86/IMG_0011.JPG After these tries to install iDENeB failed, I tried to install form a original Retail DVD delivered with my new MacBook. Booted the Chameleon, changed Discs ... Leo starts to boot but after only 1 or 2 secs has a kernel panic: http://dl.kips-world.de/mac/install_macosx_x86/IMG_0007.JPG http://dl.kips-world.de/mac/install_macosx_x86/IMG_0008.JPG I tried everything with 8GB Ram, 4GB and just 2GB installed ... all the same :/ I'm guessing it's the graphic card :/ Any ideas Robert? :< I did a little researching for you and I think you're right. That is a very new graphics card. There's a way to boot it in VESA by deleting the kexts, but you will need divx player to play movies and you have to define your own resolution. Although it has been reported to work in the Snow Leopard builds with QE/CI. So if you "magically become a developer " and can get your hands on one and try it, go for it. Otherwise, here's how to boot in VESA. I'll provide the link but I'll also quote it. (It's for the 260 version but i imagine its the same.) http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...amp;mode=linear If you already tried to install your geforce and the system won´t boot even if you trie the save mode "-X", than you can as mentioned, delete the kext in the singlemode and the system will start again in vesa-mode. So do the following: sbin/mount -uw / LS /System/Library/Extensions you´ll see the list with your kext delete wrong kext: rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce.kext rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAN40Hal.kext rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAN50Hal.kext rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAResman.kext then type in: reboot now, the system will boot again normally, you can work like before and try some different things. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabear Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Software raid is a solution on the p5q (and other) motherboards to allow a kinda of RAID for SATA disks, but where there's no dedicated RAID controller, the CPU handles everything. See for example: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto I have windows installed on a software raid (raid), and I would really like to gain access to those drives(read only is enough) from OS X. Is that possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mix_tape Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Hi there, this really looks promising Planning to install OS X on my PC now there seems to be a solution for my ati 4850. my mobo is ausus p5q pro I am a lucky owner of a purchased retail OS X DVD. I bought it more or less at the release date of leopard for my macbookpro - so it should be 10.5.1 or something like that. Is it possible to use this retail version with roberts guide? or would it be too complicated to update it to the current version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searay_X Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 MAC OS X Retail on ASUS P5Q / P5Q PRO /P5Q-EM /P5Q-VM AND OTHERS Great Guide! I wanted to add a few notes to your guide regarding the P5Q For anyone having issues booting from power off you need to see my post HERE If you are using the onboard Atheros with the AttansicL1eEthernet driver in this thread, your Time Machine will not work until you add an EFI string so the IOBuiltin value is flagged <true/>. The attached is the EFI for it (P5Q only)... If you are also running EFI strings for graphics be sure to combine the attached with your GFX strings (OSX86Tools makes this easy) Don't forget to delete the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist after applying the strings Hope this helps... Regards, Searay enet.plist.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umbris Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I am a lucky owner of a purchased retail OS X DVD. I bought it more or less at the release date of leopard for my macbookpro - so it should be 10.5.1 or something like that. Is it possible to use this retail version with roberts guide? or would it be too complicated to update it to the current version? I made it with 10.5.0. I only downloaded before combo update from apple site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mix_tape Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I made it with 10.5.0. I only downloaded before combo update from apple site. hey thanks! I think I will give it a try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoberT_XeS Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 Great Guide! I wanted to add a few notes to your guide regarding the P5Q For anyone having issues booting from power off you need to see my post HERE If you are using the onboard Atheros with the AttansicL1eEthernet driver in this thread, your Time Machine will not work until you add an EFI string so the IOBuiltin value is flagged <true/>. The attached is the EFI for it (P5Q only)... If you are also running EFI strings for graphics be sure to combine the attached with your GFX strings (OSX86Tools makes this easy) Don't forget to delete the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist after applying the strings Hope this helps... Regards, Searay Thanks Searay....I will add that...Added a new section on the post for solutions.... Number 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fighterhawk Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 For ASUS P5Q deluxe users here is how to get stuff working: BIOS: Well you do need to flash your bios so use this file: 2001_BIOS_Asus_P5Q_Deluxe_for_MAC_OS_X___VISTA_Slic_all_OS__incl._by_Juzzi..ROM.zip Ethernet: Use IONetworkingFamily.kext to get the bottom one working (Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller) And Skge.ktext to get the top one working (Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller) IONetworkingFamily.kext.zip skge_for_P5Q_Deluxe.zip Shutdown Problem You need OpenHaltRestart if you have problems shutting down/restarting etc.. OpenHaltRestart_1.0.3.kext.zip Audio: I recommend you use Azilla for now. There is a fully working solution here which makes everything work but you will maybe get a kernel panic while shutting down saying "appleHDA has corrupted the registry) AppleAzaliaAudio.kext.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
userlist Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 hi robert,i can't see the osx drive in xp (say it's gpt protective partition),i'd like to use "Alternate Method" to boot my osx drive,is there other way to do it ? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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