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Hello to all. I am here to confirm that the Universal SnowOSX 3.5 distro floating around does in fact work. I successfully installed Snow Leopard on my P5Q yesterday evening. :(

 

Steps:

 

1. Download said distro, burn and boot it

 

2. Let it pick the defaults and go to Disk Utility - Partition drive to GUID scheme

 

3. Install SL and let it reboot

 

4. Go through the setup wizard

 

5. Once you get to desktop, click on Applications on the Dock and open up the ATools folder

 

6. Click on Kext Utility and run. This will kernel panic the first time. Don't be alarmed

 

7. Power off and power back on.

 

8. Repeat step #5 and let it finish

 

9. Run EFI studio and apply your graphics card information to the apple.bootlist file

 

10. Download Kext Helper app (google it) and install the voodoohda.kext.

 

11. Restart and boot. You will now have a stable Snow Leopard installation.

 

12. Hit F8 when booting and use -x32 or -x64 boot flags for 32bit or 64bit respectively

 

So far 24+ hours - Rock Solid!!!

 

Time Machine works out of box :D

 

* The only item that shows up wrong is the memory, its really 667 not 800, but eh - small potatoes if you ask me!

 

Hope this helps anyone that is fustrated as I was with the myriad of different scenarios to try and pray that you get a bootable SL installation.

 

Feel free to pick this information apart and add as you see fit.

 

Panther1

 

My specs:

 

Asus P5Q Rev 1x (bios 2102- modded for OSX) - 8GB DDR 2 667 - (2) 160GB Sata II & (1) 500GB Sata II drives (ACHI), Nvidia 8600GTS SSC 256MB, Buffalo PCI 54G wireless card, ALC1200 HD onboard sound

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Asus P5Q Rev 1x (bios 2102- modded for OSX)

 

 

what settings or modifications did you use for motherboard please.

 

What CPU do you have?

 

and do all hardware devices work successfully??

 

and what is the likely hood of running a M-audio Delta 1010LT (ENVY CHIPSET) PCI Card on this too?

 

 

 

thanks :-)

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Hi DEFKT,

 

The cpu is an Intel E6550 2.33GHZ C2D processor. The bios settings are as follows:

 

Turn off Marvell IDE controller, insure that ACPI 2.0 is turned on, I enabled CE1 in the cpu settings, not sure it makes a difference. As far as the M-Audio card goes, you can see if anyone has come up with a kext for it to load. Otherwise go to M-Audio's site and see if they have made the SL driver for that particular card.

 

Outside of that, very little was changed in the bios. Get the bios for the P5Q - OSX at:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=136586

 

By the way with my method, Time Machine works natively out of the box. No fuss no muss!

 

All devices are working correctly. Loading the graphics card info into the apple.bootlist file gives me EFI graphics with all the goodies enabled.

 

I will get screen shots uploaded this evening.

 

Panther1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what settings or modifications did you use for motherboard please.

 

What CPU do you have?

 

and do all hardware devices work successfully??

 

and what is the likely hood of running a M-audio Delta 1010LT (ENVY CHIPSET) PCI Card on this too?

 

 

 

thanks :-)

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Hi Quaza,

 

Go here for the translated tutorial: :(

 

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y...history_state0=

 

Panther1

 

 

I seek a person to translate my tutorial in English ?

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181936

My files and kexts of boot : http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nthvzqzzzmj

 

 

 

The P5Q is really good for SnowLeopard !!!!!

 

Compatibility List:

 

P5Q ----------->OK

P5QL-PRO ---->OK

P5Q-PRO ----->OK

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@ DEFKT a Google search for "Universal SnowOSX v3.5" will find it....... ;)

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also, if you dont mind, what version of P5q do you have, as i am buying my new motherboard this weekend. I have noticed alot of P5q variations, P5Q - SE2 , SE/R, Turbo, Deluxe ????

 

 

also, hah sorry, but i have intel core2quad 8200, will this work?

 

 

oh and thanks for TOTALLY OBVIOUS Osx install search lol, my apologies, i should of realised that right away huh , haha.

 

many thanks

 

I have a P5N32E SLI Plus nForce 650i chipset MOBO with Q6600.....to have fun with (not....?) when my Snow Leopard Retail DVD disk arrives....... ;)

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I have a P5N32E SLI Plus nForce 650i chipset MOBO with Q6600.....to have fun with (not....?) when my Snow Leopard Retail DVD disk arrives....... :)

 

 

sorry dude, i quoted the first part of message from wrong person.

 

but thanks for heads up on linkage. on the download now :)

 

 

Asus P5Q Rev 1x (bios 2102- modded for OSX) - 8GB DDR 2 667 - (2) 160GB Sata II & (1) 500GB Sata II drives (ACHI), Nvidia 8600GTS SSC 256MB, Buffalo PCI 54G wireless card, ALC1200 HD onboard sound

 

 

if you dont mind, what version of P5q do you have, as i am buying my new motherboard this weekend.

have noticed alot of P5q variations, P5Q - SE2 , SE/R, Turbo, Deluxe ????

 

 

i have intel core2quad 8200, will this work?

 

thanks :rolleyes:

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Hello to all. I am here to confirm that the Universal SnowOSX 3.5 distro floating around does in fact work. I successfully installed Snow Leopard on my P5Q yesterday evening. :)

 

Steps:

 

1. Download said distro, burn and boot it

 

2. Let it pick the defaults and go to Disk Utility - Partition drive to GUID scheme

 

3. Install SL and let it reboot

 

4. Go through the setup wizard

 

5. Once you get to desktop, click on Applications on the Dock and open up the ATools folder

 

6. Click on Kext Utility and run. This will kernel panic the first time. Don't be alarmed

 

7. Power off and power back on.

 

8. Repeat step #5 and let it finish

 

9. Run EFI studio and apply your graphics card information to the apple.bootlist file

 

10. Download Kext Helper app (google it) and install the voodoohda.kext.

 

11. Restart and boot. You will now have a stable Snow Leopard installation.

 

12. Hit F8 when booting and use -x32 or -x64 boot flags for 32bit or 64bit respectively

 

So far 24+ hours - Rock Solid!!!

 

Time Machine works out of box :D

 

* The only item that shows up wrong is the memory, its really 667 not 800, but eh - small potatoes if you ask me!

 

Hope this helps anyone that is fustrated as I was with the myriad of different scenarios to try and pray that you get a bootable SL installation.

 

Feel free to pick this information apart and add as you see fit.

 

Panther1

 

My specs:

 

Asus P5Q Rev 1x (bios 2102- modded for OSX) - 8GB DDR 2 667 - (2) 160GB Sata II & (1) 500GB Sata II drives (ACHI), Nvidia 8600GTS SSC 256MB, Buffalo PCI 54G wireless card, ALC1200 HD onboard sound

 

 

you took what like file of boot ? Chameleon (RC1 or RC2) and which boot ? I make search to know what is best.

 

Merci :P

 

 

 

The P5Q is really good for SnowLeopard !!!!!

 

Compatibility List:

 

P5Q ----------->OK

P5QL-PRO ---->OK

P5Q-PRO ----->OK

P5Q3 deluxe ->OK

P5Q deluxe --> OK

 

UPDATE : 2009-09-04

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Bonjour Quaza,

 

The SnowOSX disk provides Chameleon RC1 and RC2. It boots with RC1. The RC2 bootloader can be accessed in the ATOOLS folder within the Applications folder.

 

I hope this sheds more light to your question.

 

Panther1

 

 

 

 

 

you took what like file of boot ? Chameleon (RC1 or RC2) and which boot ? I make search to know what is best.

 

Merci :D

 

 

 

The P5Q is really good for SnowLeopard !!!!!

 

Compatibility List:

 

P5Q ----------->OK

P5QL-PRO ---->OK

P5Q-PRO ----->OK

P5Q3 deluxe ->OK

P5Q deluxe --> OK

 

UPDATE : 2009-09-04

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I have it installed at least 5 times since its release and get stuck on the Apple Boot screen with nothing happening. My hardware is different though and no Leopard install and I used MBR and not GUID.

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ive installed SL on my p5q-e, lan, time machine, ect. all working. however... icant get my system to see IDE drives?

 

when i install the kexts i used in leo 10.5.8 it hangs on boot, says "ioatacontroller device blocking bus" and loops forever

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Great.. it's working!! :-)

 

I'm using a Asus P5Q Pro with 8GB RAM, 2x 1TB HDDs, Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT 512MB and everything is working fine. Using a Juzzi patched BIOS..

 

The only things I additionally installed were AttansicL1eEthernet (most up to date 64bit compile I could find), VoodooHDA (dito), VoodooPS2 stuff (still using a PS2 keyboard) and AppleVIAATA to access the Marvell IDE/ATA controller (for eSATA WD My Book - works although it's only a 32bit kext).

 

Only thing that bugs me a little is that I only get analog audio output working through VoodooHDA with the onboard ALC1200. But it's not that bad. :)

 

Thanks so much to all the countless people who made osx86 possible!

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It won't boot

 

Apple Decrypt: Starting

 

says and waited too long nothing happened

 

I added the following kext to E/E

 

Disabler

fakesmc

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector

IONetworkingFamily

NullCPUPowerMangement

OpenHaltRestar

PlatformUUID

SleepEnabler

 

and in S/L/E

 

VoodooHDA

 

Works flawlessly in 32 bit

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How can I add these kext to iso disc? Please help

 

I use ATI 4870X2 and Asus P5Q SE. I have no installed leopard (only vista installed) so need bootable SL disc.

 

 

 

I added the following kext to E/E

 

Disabler

fakesmc

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector

IONetworkingFamily

NullCPUPowerMangement

OpenHaltRestar

PlatformUUID

SleepEnabler

 

and in S/L/E

 

VoodooHDA

 

Works flawlessly in 32 bit

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