cmmcnamara Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Ok so I've been able to get pass the freeze in Darwin, but right when it is supposed to boot into the installer, I lose video signal....I do not know what to do. I've tried the -x flag with no help and even tried a VGA cable instead but it doesn't work either. I've also switch to Snow Leopard....what do I do.... I really believe that my GTX 260 is the cause of the problem....I can't seem to get into the OS X install environment but the drive isn't reading anymore (read light) which it usually does stop upon arrival at the language selection screen. Anyone able to offer me any help on what kexts or injectors or plist or whatever I need? It looks like an EFI string would work, but I don't see a way of getting my device address without being able to boot into it. Help me please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exia25 Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 One question: for e audio kexts which one to install to work? There are quite a number of them. Can anyone tell? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelxin Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I'm going to keep this short and simple. I've got the x58 classified from evga, and with your guide and the iATKOS v7 got 10.5.8 (after updating) up and running PERFECTLY. Sound, network, video (evga GTX 260 core 216), everything is great. Thank you for this guide, it probably saved me days of screwing around with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikefred Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 I'm going to keep this short and simple. I've got the x58 classified from evga, and with your guide and the iATKOS v7 got 10.5.8 (after updating) up and running PERFECTLY. Sound, network, video (evga GTX 260 core 216), everything is great. Thank you for this guide, it probably saved me days of screwing around with it. Sleep? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSPro Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 I finished the tutorial, and successfully got it to boot on my x58 classified, however after installing the first video driver provided I can't get it to boot. After the apple logo before any logon screen it just stays blank. Can't find a way to get it to boot, not even in safe mode. Any way to get it to boot and then uninstall the driver that gives a blank screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slumlord Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 thanks!! worked 95% w/this guide and a bit here and there w/trial and error. i havent read all the posts to see if its been answered definitively but the distro youd want to use is kalyway. i used 10.5.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rehtom Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Hi. I'm trying to get the kalyway part of this done. But each time I try to install it hangs at about 6 minutes. I have set the bios AHCI setting. Then I go on to install kalyway onto a 40 gig partition of a empty 500 gig disk, but it hangs with 5 or 6 minutes left. I have usually selected nothing out of the customize option, but tried a couple of nvidia checkboxes with no luck. HW is: i7 920 EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR MB EVGA GTX 260 6 gigs of OCX memory 500 gig SATA drive DVD SATA drive (Eventually gskill 128 falcon II to install snow leopard on, but that's way down the road.) Not too sure what to try next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rehtom Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 OK, I've found I have "package validation" errors on the install (javatools, another package I can't remember). So far from googling it looks like I might need to try to reburn the kalyway iso at a lower speed. I've done it at 1x speed and we'll see if that helps. The md5 matches, so the iso should be fine and I'm hoping a new disk will do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rehtom Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 OK, I've found I have "package validation" errors on the install (javatools, another package I can't remember). So far from googling it looks like I might need to try to reburn the kalyway iso at a lower speed. I've done it at 1x speed and we'll see if that helps. The md5 matches, so the iso should be fine and I'm hoping a new disk will do the trick. I had to give up on this. Probably needed to try another dvd drive. Instead I took the easy route and installed from my macbook, which is what I should have probably done in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskanderdumacedon Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Used this guide to successfully install on my EVGA X58 3x SLI. Has worked wonderfully for a few months now. I have USB Audio, so the update to 10.5.8 hasn't caused me any stress at all. I do have one interesting problem though: I use a VanTec NexStar External Hard Drive dock with eSATA and a Seagate 250GB HDD formatted FAT32 (formatted in Leopard) to swap large files between my Windows 7 and OSX environments. Firstly, I can't "hot plug" the dock/drive under OSX. It simply never shows up, though it works in Windows. I can, however, hot plug USB drives just fine. Second, whenever I boot to OSX with the drive already plugged in, and powered up, it shows up fine and works great for a few minutes before OSX freezes hard. As in, No mouse, No keyboard and everything on screen ceases to move that was previously moving (I.E. video, progress bars, etc.) Without that drive powered up, the system is rock-solid stable. I'm pretty new to this scene, so please, if you have something helpful to say, assume you're explaining it to someone dumber than you. Thanks everyone and thanks to Ihavearedcouch for the guide! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puckslinger Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 I can't figure out how to get started.. You have to have it installed before you can install...? i used to be able to do this on my old P4 . not clue what im doing now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexet Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Hello all, Did someone success to install SL 10.6 on an EVGA X58 motherboard ? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnyface Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I've downloaded all the files and burnt the CD. Sadly, when I try to boot from my dvd drive, I get the following error: "System config file ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found" My bios settings are the same as posted in .rtf file. The problem is, when I have my DVD drive in AHCI + IDE, it doesn't work / show up in device manager. I have to change the settings to IDE in order for the DVD drive to be seen by the system. I've tried both ways (AHCI and IDE) with no luck. Any suggestions on fixing this? Specs: Core i7 920 Intel 80 GB SSD Optical: HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22LS30 ATA Device (LG DVD Burner) 12 GB ddr3 ram Nvidia GTX 295 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTyke Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 I have the same issue. Does anyone have a fix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1dog Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 To preface, I am a single Dad, 2 kids and my own business that I want use OSx with for video editing. So I'm not lazy but my reading time is down to a minimum, lol. I have the EVGA X58 Classified E760 Intel Core i7 920, Revision D0, OC'd in bios to 3.8ghz 12.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 738MHz 8-8-8-24 GeForce 8800 GTX AMCC 9650SE-4LPML SATA II Raid Card, 3TB Raid 5 HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22LS30 ATA Device PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A wireless keyboard and mouse. 1st question I have is would it be better to use the Kalyway or the retail OSx snow leopard disc? I have access to both and even though you mention Kalyway I thought you might have an update on this opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snatchmo Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 ok maybe its just me, but im not having any luck, the only luck i get is when i install the ideneb leo and thats about as far as it goes i've used the pc efi loader which shows that the osx86 is installed on the machine and when i try to load it, it just restarts, i've used the ihack installer and nothing, even the boot-132 which don't get me to the install screen on any version i've tried, im using an evga x58 sli le board with the intel i7 920. im not sure where im going wrong can you possibly help me out here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangten Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 @snatchmo, Do you have access to a Mac? The reason I ask is because then you can do a really vanilla install if you have a Snow Leopard disc. And you never mention what version of Chameleon your running AKA "pc efi". List what you have: 1. DSDT.aml 2 .com.apple.boot.plist 3. smbios.plist 4. Extra/Extensions what kexts are in this folder? 5. What Graphics card do you have? 6. How many HDD do you have and will you be running Windows7? 7. Whats your HDD currently format "GUID Partition Table" or "MDR" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1dog Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Ok, got everything working except the audio Classified (E760) 10.6.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computermoss Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Has anyone tested the Optical Audio? Does it work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1dog Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 I never got that far. My audio didn't work so I just went with a USB option, the TASCAM US-122mkII. Works great. If anyone has questions about my setup you will have to PM me because I haven't had time to check this forum out to much lately. I followed this guide pretty much: http://osx86.net/f57/guide-evga-x58-snow-l...d-10-6-2-t3854/ and I used the following for some references: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/...q5ffd1j5emm0rqe and this: http://aquamac.proboards.com/index.cgi?act...&thread=509 and this: http://www.kexts.com/view/91-efi_studio..html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdvanSuper Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Recently gave iATKOS s3 v2 a try and all installed well, however my system hangs at acpi_smc_platformplugin: :start - waitforservice(resourcematching(appleintelcpupowermanagement) timed out EVGA X58 i7 930 Corsair Dominatore DDR3 1600 x2 74 GB Raptors x2 GTX 260 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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