Asus P6T SE Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide [FLASHDRIVE] [UPDATED JUN. 28]]

[DonMcc]

Thanks Marc5 and BChemist. Changing the HD to AHCI in the BIOS did the trick! I then managed to boot from the PC-EFI v10.6. I hadn't realized the boot.bz2 was a zip file!

 

I'm now up and running on OS 10.6 but I am not sure how to proceed with the choice regarding how the computer will boot from now on (Boot from system partition, Boot from EFI partition or Boot from external medium). I have a second HD in the computer with two Windows 7 partitions. It is disconnected for now. My dream would be to have a boot menu where I could choose either of the two Windows installations or OS X. If this is not possible, what's my second best choice? Most of the time I will be booting into Windows so I want that to be my default. I don't mind doing an extra step to boot into OS X. Seems like booting from external would be the way to go, but I don't really understand what would happen to my windows multi boot menu if I chose to boot from system partition or EFI partition. If anyone has some insight how to multi-boot Windows and OS X that would be great!

 

Regarding my three ATI 4650 cards, I only now got video on my main monitor. And my native resolution (1920x1200) is not available in System Preferences (only 1024x768). To only have video on the main monitor is fine for me when using OS X. However, I would still like to have all the cards installed so that I can use all 6 monitors when booted into Win 7. How can get OS X to recognize my native resolution?

 

Thanks again,

Don

[marc5]

Well Don,

 

I had some luck with dual ati 4890. its a bit of a workaround though.

 

firstly, it won't work perfectly, i must warn you first.

 

have a look at this site. http://netkas.org/?p=284

 

that site describes how to get one card to work. for me to get 2 cards working i had to change graphics enabler to no and boot with -f

 

try it and see how far it goes, i've been trying to find a way to disable the card in the pci slot so i won't have any issues but no luck so far. wonder how the real mac pros do it.

 

 

 

Thanks Marc5 and BChemist. Changing the HD to AHCI in the BIOS did the trick! I then managed to boot from the PC-EFI v10.6. I hadn't realized the boot.bz2 was a zip file!

 

I'm now up and running on OS 10.6 but I am not sure how to proceed with the choice regarding how the computer will boot from now on (Boot from system partition, Boot from EFI partition or Boot from external medium). I have a second HD in the computer with two Windows 7 partitions. It is disconnected for now. My dream would be to have a boot menu where I could choose either of the two Windows installations or OS X. If this is not possible, what's my second best choice? Most of the time I will be booting into Windows so I want that to be my default. I don't mind doing an extra step to boot into OS X. Seems like booting from external would be the way to go, but I don't really understand what would happen to my windows multi boot menu if I chose to boot from system partition or EFI partition. If anyone has some insight how to multi-boot Windows and OS X that would be great!

 

Regarding my three ATI 4650 cards, I only now got video on my main monitor. And my native resolution (1920x1200) is not available in System Preferences (only 1024x768). To only have video on the main monitor is fine for me when using OS X. However, I would still like to have all the cards installed so that I can use all 6 monitors when booted into Win 7. How can get OS X to recognize my native resolution?

 

Thanks again,

Don

 

 

hi tweak41,

 

i also realised my firewire drive didn't work. at first i thought it was just me, so i used the usb. its an oxford chipset firewire, works fine with my macbook pro. however, it boots after wake from sleep. odd.

 

 

 

Anyone have issues mounting firewire drives?

 

I've been doing a lot of editing lately and for some reason my firewire harddrive only mounts when I put the machine to sleep and wake it up.

[Bchemist]

I hadn't used a firewire drive recently with the machine, so I can't say with certainty. But the drive works fine on all my other real Macs.

 

 

So it's only the drive then that isn't showing up? Do you have any other devices you can test? Is it showing in the system profiler or in I/O explorer?

 

 

One thing I've noticed is that sometimes the LAN kext won't load if my USB boot drive reverts itself from "hard disk" to "auto" in the USB settings if I forget to remove another USB drive while rebooting. At last I've narrowed it down to what I think it could be...but I don't know enough about the bootloaders to formulate any kind of hypothesis.

 

I use a Sony PD170 with it sometimes but I haven't noticed anything there. What's ironic is that I've had all kinds of problems with my real Macs when it comes to USB drives plus other annoying bugs left and right life software update crashing even when I reinstalled just 2 weeks ago in attempt to fix other crashes.

[AEDan1977]

does anyone know if this will work with an ASUS P6T Deluxe V2?

[kungfupanda]

hey guys, i foolishly installed the latest mac pro audio update and now my audio isnt working anymore. any suggestions?

 

asus p6t-se, i7 920, 3gb ram, snow leopard 10.6.2 using bchemist's sstepthundercat.

 

Edit: I fixed the issue by deleting the apple hda kext in s/l/e and then installing apple hda and hda enabler using kext helper. Thanks anyway andrew79.

[andrew79]

hey guys, i foolishly installed the latest mac pro audio update and now my audio isnt working anymore. any suggestions?

 

asus p6t-se, i7 920, 3gb ram, snow leopard 10.6.2 using bchemist's sstepthundercat.

 

 

This problem is solved

 

Take a look here, follow the blog link and download the kext provided.

[andrew79]

I would like your opinion on this. I am about to build a new hack for a friend of mine and i am thinking if i should go with this motherboard or a gigabyte x58 one. For now i think the P55 chipset is not a good idea. Gigabytes are really supported in this forum, too many guides etc. My older hackintosh system had a gigabyte motherboard, EP35 chipset. It was ok, but 2 years ago there were no dsdt based guides...only kexts and in many cases update trouble. This system is really stable and until now i had no big problems with asus p6t se.

 

So does anyone have any experience with asus p6t se and a gigabyte x58 motherboard? A comparison would be helpful

 

I would also like to hear Bchemist's opinion on this

[Bchemist]

does anyone know if this will work with an ASUS P6T Deluxe V2?

 

Your DSDT and mine are identical after edits, so it will indeed work. Be sure to go back a page or two and get the newest DSDT and patched fakesmc2.5

[Bchemist]

I would like your opinion on this. I am about to build a new hack for a friend of mine and i am thinking if i should go with this motherboard or a gigabyte x58 one. For now i think the P55 chipset is not a good idea. Gigabytes are really supported in this forum, too many guides etc. My older hackintosh system had a gigabyte motherboard, EP35 chipset. It was ok, but 2 years ago there were no dsdt based guides...only kexts and in many cases update trouble. This system is really stable and until now i had no big problems with asus p6t se.

 

So does anyone have any experience with asus p6t se and a gigabyte x58 motherboard? A comparison would be helpful

 

I would also like to hear Bchemist's opinion on this

 

 

You're right about the first part. The guides that I've read stink by current standards. The methods they are using are archaic at best if not completely reinventing the wheel. I mean...bootCD's? Seriously? Don't get me wrong in that I admire their sub community and they really do try hard but it's really a case of the blind leading the blind. I know that they'll figure everything out sooner or later but I've actually been helping FatShenanigans, who posted earlier, above write a guide on the 1156 after she pitched me the idea after reading this thread. To make a long story short, between the two of us we've deciphered almost all of the brands currently available. She has access to the hardware and does most of the testing and I just help her when she gets stuck. I should thank her here for the MSI P55-GD85 rig with the sandcore SSD, i7, and the new 10.6.2 retail disk that she sent as a "thank you". In a word, WOW. I'm still playing with it, but it's unreal. It smokes my 1366's in all benchmarks and has speedstep without a patch, HDA audio works for 889, and everything else worked right away. I literally installed with a boot USB containing the usual suspects and only fakesmc and IOACHIblockstorageinjector...in something like 8 minutes!

 

The rig idles at 26C. Under full load in Logic it never passes 40C! It's so quiet you wouldn't even know that it's turned on. Unless he plans to buy the i7-980, get the 1156 instead. The tri-channel RAM argument is null or at least negligible, at least when I ran Everest and taking first place on every test, beating overclocked i7-960's. I could go on but I'll break it down:

 

First and foremost, speedstep works natively....as in with or without p-states or c-states added into the code! There's no need to patch the IOplatformfamily kext either.

 

The easiest board is the MSI based on what we've tested. I remember reading that AsereBLN also owns an MSI and recommends the P55-GD45. The GD45 and GD85 are more or less identical just like the P6 series for ASUS.

 

The next choice would be Gigabyte due to volume of support, but quality of support is another issue. They are coding their USB ports wrong and they are booting in 64 bit mode. No wonder there are so many problems. I know that FS is going to release our DSDT soon for that series when it is fully tested.

 

The ASUS P7 works just like our P6 and the DSDT is very similar. The only issue is audio where the only current fix is voodoo but we're working on the pins. I told FS to hold off until we can see what 10.6.3 does.

 

All of the rest are about the same. The deciding factor will be audio kexts. Most do have 885/889a or 889 so keep an eye out for that. Next look for LAN but anything Realtek will work.

 

Oh yea...USB 3.0 should be supported soon by Mac so that's something to consider. But get a solid low to mid-range board. Anything more expensive is just gamer stuff that he or she probably won't need unless they dual boot into Windows 7.

 

My best advice however would be to see what happens with 10.6.3 and go from there. That, plus make sure they get an i7 and not an i5

[andrew79]

hmm...i think i will advise him for the msi board. I haven't read any P55 thread recently ... time for reading

 

Thank you a lot Bchemist

[tokyovigilante]

Hey, thanks for the tip, the Intellipoint software seems to have solved the issue. The 7.1 version has 64 bit support as well. I'm not sure why the OS X driver was having issues (with non-Microsoft mice as well) but never mind, seems to be working a treat now. Thanks again!

I guess I spoke too soon, I'm still having issues with the mouse cursor / buttons freezing intermittently with the Intellipoint drivers, on both 32 and 64 bit kernels. Has anyone else seen this issue? The install is pretty much stock other than AsereBLN / up to date DSDT.aml.

 

-Ryan

[andrew79]

I guess I spoke too soon, I'm still having issues with the mouse cursor / buttons freezing intermittently with the Intellipoint drivers, on both 32 and 64 bit kernels. Has anyone else seen this issue? The install is pretty much stock other than AsereBLN / up to date DSDT.aml.

 

-Ryan

 

 

Ι have used a microsoft mice and keyboard with Intellipoint drivers without a problem. I had big problems when i switched to a magic mouse...but that's another story. Intellipoint drivers worked perfectly for my mac mini too. Did you installed the latest version? Are your mice and keyboard connected to the right usb port? This mobo (and others) has specific usb ports for mice and keyboard. Also you should check your bios usb settings (all settings must be enabled).

And one last thing... have you tried with another mice? From my experience when a mice freezes randomly on a windows pc, 99% of the times, it's a mice problem.

 

 

OFF TOPIC:

If anyone has a magic mouse ...try MagicPrefs

This addon is a miracle. I have tried a lot of magic mouse addons-drivers but this one is a 5 star! This is how the magic mouse should work from the beginning. Apple should include it in the upcoming update ...

[tokyovigilante]

Did you installed the latest version?

Yes, I'm running the latest version from the MS site. I also had the same behaviour while using the default OS X mouse driver.

Are your mice and keyboard connected to the right usb port? This mobo (and others) has specific usb ports for mice and keyboard.

I've never heard of this before. Do you have a reference? You may be confusing PS2 and USB ports.

Also you should check your bios usb settings (all settings must be enabled).

I've disabled legacy support, however had the same behaviour with it enabled.

And one last thing... have you tried with another mice? From my experience when a mice freezes randomly on a windows pc, 99% of the times, it's a mice problem.

I've had the same behaviour with a bluetooth Mighty Mouse, and a Logitech RF mouse with USB receiver.

 

Thanks for your suggestions, but I think i've covered most of the logical troubleshooting steps. I suspected a IRQ conflict, but IORegistryExplorer is largely Greek to me .

 

The only other thing I can think of is that Doublecommand (which I'm using to convert an option key to forward delete on my Apple Wireless Keyboard) is interfering with the device, so I might disable that and see how I get on.

[andrew79]

Yes, I'm running the latest version from the MS site. I also had the same behaviour while using the default OS X mouse driver.

 

I've never heard of this before. Do you have a reference? You may be confusing PS2 and USB ports.

 

I've disabled legacy support, however had the same behaviour with it enabled.

 

I've had the same behaviour with a bluetooth Mighty Mouse, and a Logitech RF mouse with USB receiver.

 

Thanks for your suggestions, but I think i've covered most of the logical troubleshooting steps. I suspected a IRQ conflict, but IORegistryExplorer is largely Greek to me .

 

The only other thing I can think of is that Doublecommand (which I'm using to convert an option key to forward delete on my Apple Wireless Keyboard) is interfering with the device, so I might disable that and see how I get on.

 

 

Look at the back side of your computer tower. Under the PS2 ports there are 2 usb ports and there is an icon...showing you where the usb keyboard should go:) The other one is for the mouse. If you plug them into another usb port they will work but i think there is a reason for this icon.

I had a windows pc with asus motherboard in my office and it had the same icon under the ps2 ports. On that pc, if the mouse and keyboard where not plugged on those ports...they DID NOT worked at all!!!

[tokyovigilante]

Look at the back side of your computer tower. Under the PS2 ports there are 2 usb ports and there is an icon...showing you where the usb keyboard should go:) The other one is for the mouse. If you plug them into another usb port they will work but i think there is a reason for this icon.

I had a windows pc with asus motherboard in my office and it had the same icon under the ps2 ports. On that pc, if the mouse and keyboard where not plugged on those ports...they DID NOT worked at all!!!

I'm reasonably sure those icons in fact refer to which PS2 socket mice and keyboards should be plugged into. I believe USB devices do not need to be plugged into a specific port.

[andrew79]

I'm reasonably sure those icons in fact refer to which PS2 socket mice and keyboards should be plugged into. I believe USB devices do not need to be plugged into a specific port.

 

I agree but after what i experienced with my windows pc last year... i thought you could try that too. For me all asus motherboards have a strange usb behavior. My EMU usb soundcard is not recognized when booting in windows or osx. Plug it in a gigabyte hackintosh...problem gone. Plug it in a hackintosh acer laptop...problem gone...

 

I have to unplug and plug it again every time i restart my computer but i can live with it. A mouse problem is much more annoying.

[tokyovigilante]

I agree but after what i experienced with my windows pc last year... i thought you could try that too. For me all asus motherboards have a strange usb behavior. My EMU usb soundcard is not recognized when booting in windows or osx. Plug it in a gigabyte hackintosh...problem gone. Plug it in a hackintosh acer laptop...problem gone...

 

I have to unplug and plug it again every time i restart my computer but i can live with it. A mouse problem is much more annoying.

I know what you mean, often a 99% working system can be more frustrating than one that doesn't work at all .

[andrew79]

I ve been experiencing some temperature problem during the last days so I decided to replace the cooler's thermal paste but nothing.I am at about 45c with every single program closed. Running cubase or parallels or logic studio and the temp goes up to 55c. I tried switching back to older dsdts, repairing permissions, cleaning caches but nothing. CPU gets hotter even if only 1% is used. A few weeks ago 50c was a heavy session temp for my system.Any ideas?

[KingDavid]

i just wanna thank you tweak41 for putting this guide together everything is working

god bless you

[Stephane L]

Hello everybody,

 

I have a Mac OS X Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD.

 

I made the bootable flashdrive with this DVD

 

But each time I try to install SL on my P6T SE, it's written that I can't install it because I haven't Mac OS 10.5 on it...

 

Someone can help me ?

 

Because I haven't a retail install, just an upgrade install...

 

Regards

 

(sorry for my english...)

[andrew79]

Hello everybody,

 

I have a Mac OS X Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD.

 

I made the bootable flashdrive with this DVD

 

But each time I try to install SL on my P6T SE, it's written that I can't install it because I haven't Mac OS 10.5 on it...

 

Someone can help me ?

 

Because I haven't a retail install, just an upgrade install...

 

Regards

 

(sorry for my english...)

 

That's strange, i have the upgrade dvd too and i can install with it on a clear partition... Is it a 10.6.2 dvd or a 10.6.0 dvd?

[Stephane L]

That's strange, i have the upgrade dvd too and i can install with it on a clear partition... Is it a 10.6.2 dvd or a 10.6.0 dvd?

Thank you for your reply

My Dvd is an upgrade dvd/version 10.6/2Z691-6557-A

 

Regards

[andrew79]

Thank you for your reply

My Dvd is an upgrade dvd/version 10.6/2Z691-6557-A

 

Regards

 

I can't think of any reason except the idea that apple maybe locked newer dvds so that they can't be used for a full, clean installation. Have you checked if there are any other options when you try to install? Do you erase your disk from disk utility?

Sorry i know that maybe these questions are not really helpful but i can't think of any other reason...

[tokyovigilante]

Hi,

 

My i7 920 / P6T SE hackintosh is running better than ever thanks to Bchemist's constant DSDT updates, but I have one annoying problem - my RF mouse (Microsoft Arc) frequently locks up for 1-10 seconds. During this time the pointer, buttons and scrollwheel are all unresponsive.

 

I was previously using a bluetooth mighty mouse with a CSR receiver, which had the same problem, but I put it down to a poor bluetooth implementation. I've seen the same thing with other RF and corded USB mice.

 

I'm also using an Apple Wireless Keyboard with no problems. I've googled extensively for a solution, and there are a few vague reports of similar problems, but none identical, and no concrete causes or solutions. I suspect an interrupt issue, but haven't been able to track it down. There's nothing in any of the logs during the freezes. and the computer is otherwise responsive (music plays, responds to keyboard etc.)

 

I'd appreciate if anyone could throw some light on the situation, or suggest further troubleshooting.

 

Specs:

Core i7 920

ASUS P6T-SE, 6 gig DDR3, SATA boot drive.

Apple Wireless Keyboard with ASUS bluetooth receiver (Broadcom chipset)

Microsoft Arc Mouse with RF receiver on separate USB bus

 

OSX 10.6.2 retail with AsereBLN loader / Bchemist's latest DSDT.aml

64 bit kernel (although 32 bit has no effect).

Marionez' ALC1200 AppleHDA.kext

Identifying as MacPro4.1

fakesmc.kext 2.5 in E/E and RealtekR1000SL.kext in S/L/E.

Sorry to dredge this up again, but I was still having problems with my mouse until I took the (in hindsight obvious) step of unplugging my USB bluetooth adaptor and using a wired keyboard. Instantly the mouse problems disappeared and it's been working 100%. To my eyes, this almost certainly confirms a USB conflict with the bluetooth / RF adaptors.

 

Has anyone seen this behaviour when using both bluetooth and RF peripherals? Can anyone suggest a way to move either one onto a different IRQ or otherwise separating the devices? Thanks again.

[Stephane L]

I can't think of any reason except the idea that apple maybe locked newer dvds so that they can't be used for a full, clean installation. Have you checked if there are any other options when you try to install? Do you erase your disk from disk utility?

Sorry i know that maybe these questions are not really helpful but i can't think of any other reason...

Maybe you're right!

I try to find another reason but I really don't understand...

 

The only way is to find a retail install of SL to find the difference between the 2 DVD!