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I am also having the panic while trying to install using the latest version of kakewalk on a G41M-ES2L. Tried using the USB and the CD method, same results with either.

 

I will look into this tomorrow (Saturday). I've had a busy schedule lately.

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Its a laptop. This guide works for desktops.

you have the wrong CPU and motherboard.

Even if you could somehow get it to start, your DSDT would be completely different. Nothing would work.

Nothing in your laptop is compatible with this guide. Nothing. Well, maybe the shift key on your keyboard, but only if its USB instead of PS2.

 

Is there another guide I could use??

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mrjanek I don't suppose you have any idea why my HDD is not showing up in disk utility?

 

quoting my original post:

I installed kakewalk onto my USB drive and I have an MSI x58 Platinum, I selected the one MSI board in the installer thinking it would be similar as the platinum is a popular choice for hackintoshes (I had mine up and running perfectly for about 6 months until I got a kp and opted to reinstall).

 

Anyway, it seemed to work fine booting up (no kp) and I got the snow leopard install screen which I figured meant I was good to go. However when i went to transfer the OS to the HDD in disk utility my 1TB SATA hard drive is not showing up. I know the hdd still working and like i said i've been using a hackintosh for a while so it's definitely compatible but it is just not showing up in disk utility. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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I am trying to do this on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P system, and I keep getting the error

 

"Image checksum error, sorry...

 

Boot failed: press a key to retry"

 

This is via the KakewalkLegacy.iso I don't have a Mac install to try the other install method.

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I have a question mrjanek. What happens if I want to change my video card to a gtx285. Can you give me some directions on what I would need to do to an already running system in order to upgrade? I'm currently running an 8800GTX and am thinking of going to a GTX285.

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Well first I have to say mrjanek this is all amazing so far. I personally haven't got very far but the work you have done and the attention you have given this keeping it up to date is truely impressive. Now my problem probably is already answered I browsed about 20 pages until I got bored. I am using the cd version it loads up and I replace cd Snow Leopard begins to load, little spinning icon for a minute or so then it just comes up telling me to restart. I followed the guide I know my motherboard isnt an exact, but I am hoping it is close enough to work

 

Processor i7-920

Motherboard Gigabyte X58A-UD3R

Ram 3x 2gb 1600 corsair

Video cards 2x bfg tech gtx 260

 

I am assuming thats enough specs. Whenever you can get to this it will be apprecated. I will continue to troll the pages looking for a similar problem/answer

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mrjanek I don't suppose you have any idea why my HDD is not showing up in disk utility?

 

quoting my original post:

 

Correct me if i'm wrong, but you're trying to install SL to a 1TB drive, right?

The bootloader Kakewalk uses cannot use 1TB size hdd, it has to be a smaller one 750gb, 500gb, etc.

 

I hope you can sort it out.

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ok,Thank you very much , this was flawless , i do have a couple of issues but i think there unrelated to GA and kakewalk, but i figure i ask if any of you seen this before

 

GA-x58-ud3r 1.6

Intel i7 OC@4.0Ghz

Mushkin 4gb 1600

2 - 64 gb ssd's Windows 7 RAID0

1-500GB wd Snow leopard

1-1tb Seagate extra space

eVGA 8800 GTS 512 g92

omega striker 7.1 0 only in windows

Intel 1000pro only in windows

Plantronics wireless headset both OS's

 

Mouse- Logitech G7

Keyboard-Logitech pro

 

 

Im dual booting with sata controller in raid (for windows 7) + native for SL) using boot loader

 

all works everything boots either windows or SL score 243 xbench!! :(

 

Here is the issue, on reboots from either OS, My keyboard will not work to choose OS SOMETIMES, like every other other it will work. tried two keyboards happens to both! Once i get in either OS it works fine! Now i did have to patch SL to get it to reboot using EvOreboot.kext now everything restarts fine! So with this info anyone see anything standing out or got ideas? Does this sound like Power issues? or something else?

 

this is 10.6 with Kakewalk which i downloaded and used 2 days ago!

 

 

Here is com.apple.Boot.plist

 

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=i386</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>3</string>

<key>Theme</key>

<string>Default</string>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>RestartFix</key>

<string>Yes</string>

 

 

 

and here is whats in the extra folder if that helps

 

com.apple.Boot.plist

DSDT.aml

Extensions

Extensions.bak.mkext

Extensions.mkext

smbios.plist

 

 

thanks for all you hardwork! Hopefully someone has a suggestion or idea!

 

 

 

*****EDIT***** Forgot when i boot into windows after SL the CLock is off by 4 hours too!!!

 

 

and this may help

Model Name: Mac Pro

Model Identifier: MacPro3,1

Processor Speed: 3.87 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 8 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Bus Speed: 760 MHz

Boot ROM Version: MP31.00C1.B01

SMC Version (system): 1.30f3

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Are you making any money in the way of donations? I think you have the best code going, and I don't want to see you quit what you are doing, it has to be a time drain.

 

I think everyone should donate. What is the average donation? I will donate. I think $100.00 per person is fair, or is that too little? If everyone who uses your install program donates $100.00, that would at least be some money for you.

 

Thanks mrjanek, you're the man :-)

 

Here you go my man, don't spend it all in one place :-)

 

This email confirms that you have donated to mrjanek the amount of 73.43 EUR using PayPal. Currency Conversion: $102.54 USD = 73.43 EUR

 

Come on people, you buy expensive hardware, don't be cheap, donate to Mr J. today! He has done a great job.

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Are you making any money in the way of donations? I think you have the best code going, and I don't want to see you quit what you are doing, it has to be a time drain.

 

I think everyone should donate. What is the average donation? I will donate. I think $100.00 per person is fair, or is that too little? If everyone who uses your install program donates $100.00, that would at least be some money for you.

 

Thanks mrjanek, you're the man :-)

 

Here you go my man, don't spend it all in one place :-)

 

Come on people, you buy expensive hardware, don't be cheap, donate to Mr J. today! He has done a great job.

 

Thanks a lot for your donation -_- I really appreciate the support!

Most of the donations I've been getting have been around 10€

But really any amount of money is always appreciated and it certainly keeps me motivated.

 

Don't worry I won't be giving up this project :(

Again, thanks to everyone for their support!

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mrjanek, thanks. Installing the latest bootloader fixed the sleep issues with the EP45-UD3P. Thanks you!

 

Really? Mrjanek, what other changes were there to account for this? The changes you mentioned previously wouldn't explain sleep suddenly working.

 

Can someone recommend a good sata dvd writer that will work with osx? It appears to not like my ASUS sata dvdrw at all. It sees it can't seem to use it. Also, will the stock mac keyboard and mouse work okay?

 

Sony Optiarc seems to work well.

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Hi!

 

i just updated to Kakewalk 2.0 using the EX58A-UD7 selection in the installer on my X58A-UD7 Board. Works so far very nice, but one thing i wonder about is that all harddrive icons are orange now, just like firewire or usb drives but without the usb/firewire symbol inside the icon. how come?

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Hi!

 

i just updated to Kakewalk 2.0 using the EX58A-UD7 selection in the installer on my X58A-UD7 Board. Works so far very nice, but one thing i wonder about is that all harddrive icons are orange now, just like firewire or usb drives but without the usb/firewire symbol inside the icon. how come?

 

Expect a fix soon.

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Hi!

 

i just updated to Kakewalk 2.0 using the EX58A-UD7 selection in the installer on my X58A-UD7 Board. Works so far very nice, but one thing i wonder about is that all harddrive icons are orange now, just like firewire or usb drives but without the usb/firewire symbol inside the icon. how come?

 

I've just uploaded the fix.

Go ahead and click the "Download bootloader" link in the first post. Install the that package to your SL partition.

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Hi i am going to look into installing cake walk i was wondering if these are compatible for it:

 

Intel Pentium Dual-core - E5200 @ 2.5 ghz

Video card: Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT

i have a 500gb hardrive

I am currently running windows 7 and i am trying to use kakewalk to be able to dual boot windows 7 and Snow leopard

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yes i donated just now 20 eur i think thats close to 30 bucks USD or near it!! :P

 

Last nite i upgraded to 10.6.2 , and changed arch=i386 to arch=x86_64

 

Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 10:35:19 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_X86_64

 

 

Still the keyboard issue now here is the thing, i can get to bios hitting delete but asoon as boot loader comes up is where the intermittent keyboard issue comes about weird huh!

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I've just uploaded the fix.

Go ahead and click the "Download bootloader" link in the first post. Install the that package to your SL partition.

 

Hi!

 

Still the same problem. icons are still orange.

another problem came up: shutdown in macos works, the hardware goes off, but after a few seconds the computer starts up again. strange... could that possibly be kakewalk related or is that a problem with my bios?

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Hi i am going to look into installing cake walk i was wondering if these are compatible for it:

 

Intel Pentium Dual-core - E5200 @ 2.5 ghz

Video card: Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT

i have a 500gb hardrive

I am currently running windows 7 and i am trying to use kakewalk to be able to dual boot windows 7 and Snow leopard

 

Those components are fine... the most important thing for kakewalk is your motherboard.

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The first page only mentions out of the GA X-58A series the UD7 model but not the UD3R and UD5 models.

Do those two models work as well as the UD7 or are there any known problems?

I just do not want the complexity of water cooling, if I can avoid it.

Thanks.

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I'm having great success with Kakewalk.

 

My EX-58-UDR3 is working well, but I can't seem to get analogue sound working. I have a digital device showing, but I don't have a digital receiver to test it.

 

I've googled endlessly and only found dead links to kexts. Is there a definitive way to get the audio fully working on 10.6.2 with this motherboard?

 

I think sleep is resetting too, but working in safe mode.

 

 

Sigh. I thought my motherboard was a ex-58-UDR3 when it was infact a GA-X58A-UDR3. Surprising I got that far.

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