Kakewalk: Minimal effort install (EP45, EX58, P55, G41)

[fyreblaize]

make sure you have =<4Gb memory. also keep the mouse moved around every min (maybe it goes into screen sleep). When it reboots you need to select the new installed disk.

 

More information on your system will make it easier for us to help you ... like USB or CD install method ....System specs ...any other steps you did.

 

oh, yea that was the problem, i had 6gb. didnt know that wasnt supported, thanks a lot

[GrootWitBaas]

oh, yea that was the problem, i had 6gb. didnt know that wasnt supported, thanks a lot

 

 

Welcome to OSX .... No need for Huge amount of memory like M$ ....

 

PS: It was in some posts before .... but should also be stated under FAQ and in the instruction IMO

[gofreakmedia]

Welcome to OSX .... No need for Huge amount of memory like M$ ....

 

PS: It was in some posts before .... but should also be stated under FAQ and in the instruction IMO

 

Interesting, Im using 8GB in my build right now and have not had any problems at all.

[hoskoau]

I'm using 12GB and not having any problems

Interesting, Im using 8GB in my build right now and have not had any problems at all.

[GrootWitBaas]

I'm using 12GB and not having any problems

 

Yes I use 8GB, but for install it is sometimes needed to have =< 4GB(on my EP45UD3LR). I have seen this many times, and this happens on all the install methods I have tried. Some installers have maxmem=1 or 4 or something similar, and that normally takes care of the problem.

 

TBH I don't see any huge improvement from 4GB to 8GB, but that is just my personal experience.

[Gurnemanz]

Ray, I found the links here in the forum. I don't have them right at the moment, and have to get to work, but they were referenced in a discussion of audio issues with this kind of build.

 

If I can find it later today, I'll put up a link.

 

Hi Gurnemanz

 

Well done Where did you get the AppleHDA Patcher V1.20 Please

 

Yours Ray

[thehaus]

ProjectY

Thanks for the ram idea. I had thought about it but figured the ram might be ok because I get no errors when using any other os's. I will try switching bankc though on both dimm's from 1-3 to 2-4.

 

Just a note. I booted into 10.5.6 and used d00m42 guide for the EP45-UD3R by going into the SL DVD and running the OSInstall.mpkg and that loaded flawelessly to my 500gb Sl Sata drive. I tried using his v4 pack bootloader PC EFI 10.1 modded and made my DSDT and did the UUID changes along with LegacyHDA change for my ALC888. I then rebooted to the at drive and the correct bootloader came up and I tried a standard boot and then a -v -x32 boot and I keep getting timed out with the ACPI Power CPU and RTL8??? I then ran the Kakewalk bootloader CD and it loaded and setpup my SL install. I then tried the PC EFI bootloader again and it didn't work. i then ran the Kakewalk CD in verbose and watched it get to the same spot that the other kept freezing and once it got past that point the system fired up to the blue start screen before loading the desktop.

 

Funny thing is that when I load the Kakewalk bootloader to the drive I get the same hangup but when I run it from the CD I can load the SL OS. Any ideas why this might occur?

 

Thanks,

 

Haus

 

Hi thehaus

 

a bit out of left field Please try swapping your Memory over from one slot to the other.

Good luck Ray

[mac09hack]

Gigabyte EX58-UD5 - 12 GB RAM - 500 GB SATA disk and Pioneer SATA DVD-RW. Intel i7 920 CPU with Corsair HYDRO H-50 water cooler. EVGA Nvidia 9800 GTX+ 512 Vram.. MacOS 10.6.3

 

I first tried the boot CD process and the boot loader would not reboot after Snow was loaded. I then set up a USB stick as specified and reran the install. After resetting the BIOS to boot off the USB stick the installation went "hitch free"

 

I had always used the Digital Dreamer script to load MacOS but this Kakewalk is a cinch! I am amazed that EVERYTHING came up working - Video - Audio- Ethernets with just a few minimum Kexts. AMAZING!

 

Thanks for this boot/loader option

[mrjanek]

Is there a newer version of the ATI installer??

Working on it, hopefully soon.

 

 

Mr>Janek can you please add a BOOT icon to you main page and the front page of this one? that way for those who update and get no sound can find the BOOt update easier ?

 

Sure, I'll see what I can do.

 

I will just quote myself from the Bios thread .... Please mrjanek ....I know you are the man for this ....and If you do I'll personally send some more beer money

 

Could you clarify how this should be used? Would it be together with the bios project somehow?

 

I'm using the Intel SATA controller on my X58A-UD7 for my HDDs and they are all showing up with the orange icons. I'll try installing the 2.1 bootloader

 

Just installed 2.1 bootloader and I'm having the same problem, the drives are reporting as removable

 

I'll see if there's anything wrong with the 2.1 update and if it's causing this.

 

Can someone else who boots off a SSD drive tell me if it is worth it (or causes and problems with kakewalking/updating)

I've been using an Intel X25-M 80GB SSD for some time now and it works great. It's the best upgrade I've done!

[fyreblaize]

hey all, new issue now. OSX installs to my harddrive fine and completes and says that the computer has to restart to finish installing and all that. when I restart, i put the kakewalk CD back in, but once kakewalk boots, my only option is the kakewalk disc, my new install isnt listed there as an option. is that a problem with my kakewalk disc, or did I miss a step, or a harddrive issue? im using a EX58-UD3R board with nividia gtx260 graphics, 4g ddr3-1600 ram, i7 processor

 

edit-

I first tried the boot CD process and the boot loader would not reboot after Snow was loaded. I then set up a USB stick as specified and reran the install. After resetting the BIOS to boot off the USB stick the installation went "hitch free"

 

just read that, i'll try that out and see if it works

[kaymm2]

I have a GeForce 8400GS, would it be advantageous to get a GF 9600GT? What would benefit from a faster vidcard?

 

The 8400GS worked out of the box without loading any kexts, just kakewalk so would it be just a simple drop in?

[So?Crates]

My story of swapping a Badaxe2 board for a EP45-UD3L

 

 

1. First, I started by swapping out the BX2 for the UD3L. Then, I pulled my PATA superdrive and replaced it with a SATA version (not sure if I needed to, but SATA version is MUCH faster). I kept my 4GB of DDR2 ram, 2 WesternDigital 500 GB HDs, e6600 processor, 7300 graphics and Dlink G card. It was time to switch it up and see what would or would not work. Fingers crossed.

 

Total initial cost for new board and SATA superdrive: 135

 

 

2. Burned the Kakewalk ISO boot loader DVD. Started up, pulled it out at the boot screen and put in the Snow disc. Selected the cleaned HD and installed 10.6 like a real mac. Fantastic! Once the system was finished installing and the desktop appeared, I put Kakewalk back in the drive and installed patches for my Gigabyte board. Upon rebooting, I quickly ejected the Kakewalk disc and the HD started loading up...

 

Note that, upon first appearance of the desktop, the HDs were not showing. I've seen this before. If it happens to you, go up to the top bar and select Finder/Preferences. From there you can tell the system to display HDs on your desktop.

 

 

3. Upon reboot, I had PERFECT Nvidia graphics (1600 x1200, Quartz) and fully working audio. Even the LAN worked right out of the box. What didn't work though was my Dlink DWA-1320. Damn.

 

 

4. Time to update the OS and cross my fingers. Decided to test out first 10.6.2 (kernel panic) and then, after reinstalling the base OS, I jumped it right to 10.6.3 (that's a lot of coffees while waiting for this big update to download and install). So this time, she booted perfectly well, but my once supported 7300 has been downgraded to the dreaded 1024x768 res.

 

 

5. After some time looking for a way to patch, I took some Lifehacker.com advice and picked up a 9800 GTX+, which the website stated was compatible with 10.6.3... and it was. However, it won't work in 10.6, so I'm holding on to the 7300 card for any future reinstalls. If you try and install the base 10.6 with the 9800 in, you'll wind up at a gray screen of death and the spinning wheel. But man, is this new card awesome under the latest update! Only bad thing is I had to buy a new PSU to support its power needs. I got away with a 450 watt Corsair.

 

Graphics and PSU upgrade: 250

 

 

6. Audio. No dice in 10.6.3. Downloaded a Kakewalk patcher/updater which brought it back. While some of the audio ports are a bit messed, I'm getting perfect audio out for my phones. Will look into a better driver patch in the future and have yet to test digital audio out.

 

 

7. LAN still works great, but still no wireless in 10.6.3.I really want wireless. After spending a day reading and looking for patches for my G card, I gave up looking. I ran out and picked up a Dlink wireless N card - 552, that was supposedly working with various patches, etc, but only confirmed for 10.6.2. After bringing the card home and installing, I located a simple guide and some files from TonyMac86. Forget about other guides that want you manually patch drivers... TM86 made it simple. Google Tonymac86 and Dlink 552 for details. So I get the card working, and great... wireless! But damn, why is my system so slow? Youtube stuttered and all apps had this odd delay when clicking pallets, etc. Apparently a defect with the 55X series is that it constantly cycles the CPU for active connections. I took back the card immediately and started to get used to the idea of running 40 feet of RJ45.

 

Initial N card purchase - 50.... then returned... so no cost

 

 

8. There's not a lot of documentation on older Dlink cards working on Snow, esp 10.6.3, so I never bothered trying to patch for the one I initially used beyond what patcher I had trusted with 10.5.8. However, I wanted to see if the new Dlink update I had performed for the 552 would work on the G card. To my surprise, I can happily report that TonyMac's solution worked for my DWA-1320! If you can find this card at a good price, anywhere, I suggest you snap it up! It's quite solid and fast.

 

 

So here I am, running Snow on the new board. Fantastic and smooth performance. So far, the only thing that has come down the pipe from Apple Updates is a security patch. Installed without even blinking.

 

I hope this guide, and some of the pitfalls along the way, will help you in judging wether or not it's worth tossing your BX2 board. In the end, my upgrade cost 385 dollars, but has extended the machine's usefulness for at least a year before I get the i7 itch.

 

Thank you InsanelyMac (general info), Kakewalk (fantastic bootloader), TonyMacX86 (Dlink card support) and Lifehacker (9800 card suggestion)!

[Stellair]

Today I want to install this Kakewalk on a Gigabyte P35-DS4. Any chance it will work?

I'll install Win7 also and I don't want to screw up this install later on...

[mr197002]

Wonder if anyone can help.

 

I installed Kakewalk successfully last night on the following spec (taken off my ebuyer shopping list):

 

Item: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR iP45 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard

Item: Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Cache - OEM Caviar Blue

Item: Pioneer 22x DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA Black Drive - Retail Box & Software

Item: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5300 2.6GHz Socket 775 800FSB 2MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor

Item: Crucial 1GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL6 Lifetime Warranty

Item: OCZ 400W Stealth XStream PSU - 140mm Fan 1x PCI-E 4x SATA

Item: Gainward 9800GT Green edition 512MB GDDR3 DVI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card

 

Everything worked fine, including the sound once I'd run the 2.1 installer. We spent last night installing iLife 08 (we've got a family licence), OpenOffice etc and everything was fine.

 

This morning, my son was downloading a 600MB game from the internet when the screen went blank. Front panel switches wouldn't work and the fans were stuck on loud.

 

Turned the machine off (at the PSU), gave it 15 minutes, checked the connections and tried again. The case fans spin up and after about 5 seconds the CPU fan spins up, 4 lights on the motherboard, all sounds like it normally does when it's starting then...nothing. No display output at all (not even BIOS), just a bunch of fan noise. After about 20 seconds the CPU load lights on the motherboard start to go off, which was normal last night, but that's it.

 

Any suggestions?

 

The only possibly non-standard thing is that it was reporting the 2.6 Dual Core as a 1.7 last night so I changed the multiplier in the BIOS utility to give 13x bus speed rather than 8x, after which it reported 2.6 properly.

 

Have I fried it? Anything I can try?

 

Many thanks in advance for any help.

[Panda78]

Sorry but i've install snow with kakewalk 2.1 btu i have some problems

 

when i restart my pc after installation if i dont plug usb key (with inside kake+osx image) my hdd not boot

I install kake 2.1 into my osx hdd and boot is OK but sound not work

Where i fail?

 

Thanks everyone and sorry for my bad english

 

 

my system:

 

GA-EP-45-DS3L

E8400

4 GB 1066mhz

9800GTX+

[gofreakmedia]

Wonder if anyone can help.

 

I installed Kakewalk successfully last night on the following spec (taken off my ebuyer shopping list):

 

Item: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR iP45 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard

Item: Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Cache - OEM Caviar Blue

Item: Pioneer 22x DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA Black Drive - Retail Box & Software

Item: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5300 2.6GHz Socket 775 800FSB 2MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor

Item: Crucial 1GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL6 Lifetime Warranty

Item: OCZ 400W Stealth XStream PSU - 140mm Fan 1x PCI-E 4x SATA

Item: Gainward 9800GT Green edition 512MB GDDR3 DVI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card

 

Everything worked fine, including the sound once I'd run the 2.1 installer. We spent last night installing iLife 08 (we've got a family licence), OpenOffice etc and everything was fine.

 

This morning, my son was downloading a 600MB game from the internet when the screen went blank. Front panel switches wouldn't work and the fans were stuck on loud.

 

Turned the machine off (at the PSU), gave it 15 minutes, checked the connections and tried again. The case fans spin up and after about 5 seconds the CPU fan spins up, 4 lights on the motherboard, all sounds like it normally does when it's starting then...nothing. No display output at all (not even BIOS), just a bunch of fan noise. After about 20 seconds the CPU load lights on the motherboard start to go off, which was normal last night, but that's it.

 

Any suggestions?

 

The only possibly non-standard thing is that it was reporting the 2.6 Dual Core as a 1.7 last night so I changed the multiplier in the BIOS utility to give 13x bus speed rather than 8x, after which it reported 2.6 properly.

 

Have I fried it? Anything I can try?

 

Many thanks in advance for any help.

 

Doesn't sound good, have you tried locating jp11 jumper and clearing bios settings? Something else you can try is removing the video card, try to boot up and hear for beeps for an unseated video card error, power off put back in and try again. I had a similar problem with the older gigabyteosx 1.6 release. Also make sure that your video card is placed in the secondary peg2 slot not primary peg1. Hope this helps!

[zaxour]

I'm sure this has been covered before, but this forum software doesn't appear to have the ability to search in a thread. My audio works on my rig (ep45-ud3p w/ 8800 GT) but I always have to set it from the headphone (front panel) output to the "internal speaker" output. How do I make this change permanent?

[GrootWitBaas]

Could you clarify how this should be used? Would it be together with the bios project somehow?

 

Yes ... a basic install to go with the Bios hand in hand .... It might be use full to read about it and even try it If you are brave ... I'm using it. Here is the link but most up to date info is on his blog.

[JGKC9AYC]

Yes it is,

 

If you load up SL the first time and greated with a very low resolution run that app and it should fix it up.

 

So I just copy this file to the desktop & double-click it to install?

[Clausewitz]

Hello - I am hoping someone can help me with a problem I am having.

 

I am running an EX58-UD5 and got everything running perfect. Then I decided to experiment...

 

Installing a .pkg version of Chameleon had me dual-booting with Win 7 no problem. However, soon I started to get the screen freezing up (excluding mouse) with flickering or black portions. So I wiped the OSX/boot drive clean and reinstalled OSX (SL). However, I am still getting these crashes.

 

Would the .pkg have adjusted by bios in some way to make this happen? Is there a way around this? Or is it possible I am misdiagnosing a problem with my GPU (or another component)?

 

Trying to update with the Combined Update, but it regularly freezes up well before I can install it.

 

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

[tag1]

So this may be a stupid question but...

 

I am about to order the Snow Leopard Retail Install disc and was wondering if I might run into any problems using the family pack in kakewalk. Other people in my family would like to upgrade to Snow Leopard and it would make a lot of sense to just install off that multi-license disk than spending an addition $30 for a single license.

 

Does anyone have any experience/issues installing iLife to a hackintosh?

 

Finally for overclocking, are there any issues using 1.6V RAM?

[egawish1]

Hello all,

I've a stable installation of 10.5.2 with these specs:

 

- Core 2 Quad Q6600

- Gigabyte EP45-UD3L

- nVidia 8800 GT

- 4 GB Kingstone RAM

 

I've downloaded the snow leopard retail version, burn it on a DVD DL (Using Disk Utility at 4x Speed) and I've tried everything possible to install it using Kakewalk.

I've burnt the kakewalk.iso on a CD and at the point when it asks me to insert the snow leopard installation DVD, i do that, click F5 and it actually appears on the list but after i click on it, it just gives me that grey apple background and keep loading forever.

I tried to boot directly to the Installation DVD and it either stuck at Booting from CD, or it passes on to my current OS.

 

I doubled checked all instructions (Including BIOS settings) but nothing really works !!

Please help me with that i need to start using Final Cut 7 ASAP

[hoskoau]

Yes

 

So I just copy this file to the desktop & double-click it to install?

[AkalPh00la]

Greetings hackint0sh g0ds (or as I like to call you, 'those whom shall save me many monies')

 

I hate to n00b all over your forums but I have these 'questions three' if you guys could help me out

 

1. Can this way (Kakewalk) of installation can be used with ATI 4870 card (They use these in the new mac pros and I would assume they should work natively, but then again.... I dunno)

 

2. Is there a way to triple boot with OSX/Windows 7/Red Hat Linux (This is kinda a real concern for me, and before I buy all the proper hardware I need to know that this can work

 

3. Is there a Kakewalk (type) way to get GA-X58A based motherboards to work (I am eyeing the usb 3.0)

 

Thanks.....

[Vectra]

I just tested it on my on my real drive now. It doesn't work.... upgraded to 10.6.3, rebooted, installed kakewalk 2.1 bootloader. In system profiler it shows that there is an audio device but in Sounds, it says there isn't one...

 

I had to do a re-install of 10.6 again but thank god for Time Machine cause it transfered all the files and settings back to way it was before I upgraded. So it seems with my G41-ES2L, I can only go as high as 10.6.1. Since I can update to this without issues.

 

 

I have the same issue on my G41-ES2L. After updating to 10.6.3 no sound. I tried installing Kakewalk 2.1 on 10.6.3, still no luck.

 

Anybody managed to get the sound working after 10.6.3 update?