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"Also, i couldn't find AHCI mode in the BIOS. My mobo is a Gigabyte G41M-ES2L. "

 

your motherboard does not have that option, you will need to either find another method of install or use 10.5.8 Leopard.

 

Go into the BIOS settings and make sure the IDE option is disabled. Save, and try again. It works for me.

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I tried installing it like this:

 

-Download and burn retail Snow Leopard 10.6 DMG using PowerISO to a DVD+R DL 8.5 GB

-Download and burn KakewalkLegacy ISO to a CD-RW 700MB

-Succesfully putting BIOS settings OK

-Booting Kakewalk disc

-Eject disc

-Put in Mac disc

-Wait until green light is off (spinning finished)

-F5

-Hit Enter on the Mac disc (its name is: Mac OS X Snow Leopard)

And then i got a black screen, totally black, and my DVD drive is spinning at a too high speed, so i hear the noise of it, which i usually don't, really. It just keeps spinning and spinning and nothing happens for like 5mins.

 

My specs:

Intel Core i5-750

ASUS EAH5770

Gigabyte P55M-UD2

Kingston 2x2GB Dual Channel Memory

Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S223C

Samsung SpinPoint F3 Desktop Class HD502HJ HDD with 3partitions: Win7, a logical partition for games, and the mac partition what was formatted as NTFS, which i was thinking of formatting again with the DVD in Disk Utility to Mac OS X Journaled.

 

Can anyone help me? What's the problem? What's the solution? :D

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Everything is working great on 10.6.3 using my EP45-UD3LR, just a small problem...

 

I can't get Speedstep to work... I've tried the VoodooPowerMini.kext and ACPI kext but no luck. Anyone manage to get Speedstep to work?

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I tried installing it like this:

 

-Download and burn retail Snow Leopard 10.6 DMG using PowerISO to a DVD+R DL 8.5 GB

-Download and burn KakewalkLegacy ISO to a CD-RW 700MB

-Succesfully putting BIOS settings OK

-Booting Kakewalk disc

-Eject disc

-Put in Mac disc

-Wait until green light is off (spinning finished)

-F5

-Hit Enter on the Mac disc (its name is: Mac OS X Snow Leopard)

And then i got a black screen, totally black, and my DVD drive is spinning at a too high speed, so i hear the noise of it, which i usually don't, really. It just keeps spinning and spinning and nothing happens for like 5mins.

 

My specs:

Intel Core i5-750

ASUS EAH5770

Gigabyte P55M-UD2

Kingston 2x2GB Dual Channel Memory

Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S223C

Samsung SpinPoint F3 Desktop Class HD502HJ HDD with 3partitions: Win7, a logical partition for games, and the mac partition what was formatted as NTFS, which i was thinking of formatting again with the DVD in Disk Utility to Mac OS X Journaled.

 

Can anyone help me? What's the problem? What's the solution? :D

 

That is not your DVD you hear spinning - it is the fan on your 5770 video card. There is NO support for 5xxx series cards. The only options you have are 1. a new video card or 2. a custom made kext file for your video card. I started with a EVGA HD 5770 and had to replace it.

 

WARNING - if you install OSX on the same HDD as Win7, you WILL break the Win7 MBR and have to repait it. Search this forum on dual booting before you try it and save yourself alot of time and frustration.

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I've searched this vast thread but i still cant find the solution. My dvd drive wont show up at the boot menu. All of my hard disks and volumes will though. Is it a hardware mistake on my side, or is it a software issue.

 

EDIT: forgot to mention that it will show up on the desktop.

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gdscei
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That is not your DVD you hear spinning - it is the fan on your 5770 video card. There is NO support for 5xxx series cards. The only options you have are 1. a new video card or 2. a custom made kext file for your video card. I started with a EVGA HD 5770 and had to replace it.

 

WARNING - if you install OSX on the same HDD as Win7, you WILL break the Win7 MBR and have to repait it. Search this forum on dual booting before you try it and save yourself alot of time and frustration.

 

 

I am trying to use EmpireEFI now, which actually boots the DVD :)

Though it doesn't want to partition my partition....

 

I'll look for a dualbooting guide.

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gdscei
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Try this one.

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/dua...-os-x-snow.html

 

But until you replace that 5770 Graphics card you're not going to have much success.

I actually did :D

I have now been in Mac OSX Snow Leopard, though my internet and audio doesn't work. (yes, i've tried to edit the audio output thing - put theres no option :superman: ). I must say that it only accepts 1024x768 resoltion, but that doesn't really matter to me.

Where can I get the best kexts, so i can get my internet to work?

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I actually did :D

I have now been in Mac OSX Snow Leopard, though my internet and audio doesn't work. (yes, i've tried to edit the audio output thing - put theres no option :lol: ). I must say that it only accepts 1024x768 resoltion, but that doesn't really matter to me.

Where can I get the best kexts, so i can get my internet to work?

Never mind, I got my internet kext from www.kexts.com and used KextHelper. It works :) (on mac now :P)

I'll post a guide on the forum.

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can't make my hackintosh make to see the pci-slot (not pcie). tried with two different cards- no luck. doesn't even show up in the system profiler...

what can i do?

 

what type of pci-cards did you try? do you run 64bit kernel? if yes, pci-slots will not work in 64bit kernel, only 32bit.

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Urgent help needed! Thanks in advance.

 

I’ve been using Kakewalk on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3L for about 4 months. Everything worked great. I was using the first version with 10.6.2.

 

Recently I wanted to update my 10.6.2 to 10.6.3, so I proceed to download and install Kakewalkboot2.2.zip, so that I could do the 10.6.3 update.

 

After installed the 2.2 updates. I restarted my computer and the AIRPORT CARD is no longer detected or working. Did I do something wrong? Wrong order? Did I need to install the 2.0, then 2.1, then 2.2 updates? in that order???

 

Any help would be of great help icon_smile.gif

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Urgent help needed! Thanks in advance.

 

I’ve been using Kakewalk on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3L for about 4 months. Everything worked great. I was using the first version with 10.6.2.

 

Recently I wanted to update my 10.6.2 to 10.6.3, so I proceed to download and install Kakewalkboot2.2.zip, so that I could do the 10.6.3 update.

 

After installed the 2.2 updates. I restarted my computer and the AIRPORT CARD is no longer detected or working. Did I do something wrong? Wrong order? Did I need to install the 2.0, then 2.1, then 2.2 updates? in that order???

 

Any help would be of great help icon_smile.gif

 

edit your com.apple.boot.plist to 32bit kernel.

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=i386</string>

 

then pci-slots will work again.

 

it may happen, that the audio driver provided with kakewalk 2.2 will not work with 32bit kernel so you will lose sound. but thats no problem, you can install another audio.kext which is running with 32bit kernel.

 

if all that fails, look here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1477317

 

i had the same problems and finally got it working with this solution.

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Just planning to try this out, but for some reason I can't see the EP45-DS3L motherboard listed in the CD creator application, although it is listed as supported in the first post.

 

Any ideas? - thanks ;)

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I've searched this vast thread but i still cant find the solution. My dvd drive wont show up at the boot menu. All of my hard disks and volumes will though. Is it a hardware mistake on my side, or is it a software issue.

 

EDIT: forgot to mention that it will show up on the desktop.

 

If you boot from a HDD your DVD will not show up in boot menu normally (there is a way to get this done I think)

 

If you boot from a boot CD then it will show, then the drivers for the CD/DVD is loaded. It is a bios thing, basic bios drivers don't get loaded unless the drive is needed for boot

 

Hope this helps

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Need help with ethernet!

 

Just got a Gigabyte X58A-UD5 rev.2.0 mobo. now, how do i get ethernet working? on my X58A-UD7 no problem, but with the new one there are no ethernet interfaces in networksettings that i could add...

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Need help with ethernet!

 

Just got a Gigabyte X58A-UD5 rev.2.0 mobo. now, how do i get ethernet working? on my X58A-UD7 no problem, but with the new one there are no ethernet interfaces in networksettings that i could add...

 

 

OOOh you have been hit with the "chipset change syndrome" in the revisions race!

 

Rev. 1 of the UD5 used the RealTek 8111D chipset (see http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-p...spx?pid=3304#sp )

 

Rev. 2 has the RealTek 8111E chipset (see http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-p...spx?pid=3450#sp )

 

However, all is not lost. Go to the RealTek download site here:

 

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...3Cbr%3ERTL8105E

 

and scroll down to the very bottom for the OS X driver for all of the chipsets listed at the top of the page (the 8111E is in the list). It says it's for 10.4 and 10.5 but I saw on another forum that it also works for 10.6. Download and install as usual, repair permissions and reboot and you should have ethernet working.

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Hello, First Post here woot!

 

Thanks for the great set of tools to get OSX up and running quick.

 

I have built a very nice and stable hackintosh using kakewalk and a retail 10.6.3 DVD.

 

I am using a GA-EP45-UD3L Board, Core 2 Duo, 4Gb Corsair 800, Sparkle 9800gt video, Western Digital Black 500gb disk drive.

 

Everything worked perfect out of the box except for the sound. I have been trying for a couple days to get the sound working, tried every fix I could find on google to no avail.

 

System profiler correctly detects the audio chipset as 888, but there is "no output device" found in the preferences.

 

I just did a clean install again because I've been manually fooling with the Kexts with no avail and wanted to start fresh.

 

I ran this automated tool appleHDA installer from http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/03/mac...063-update.html thinking it may work by rolling back to 10.6.2 drivers but still get nothing.

 

Here is an excerpt from the dmesg:

 

Sound assertion "0 == pathMap_aDriverInstance" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDA/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 1656 goto Exit

Sound assertion "0 != createAudioEngines ( fPathMap_aDriverInstance )" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDA/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 203 goto Exit

Kernel is LP64

 

Maybe one of the gurus can help me out, I need to get at least some output. Not really worried about input at this point.

 

-Js

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many many thanks!! it works great!

 

Maybe one of the gurus can help me out, I need to get at least some output. Not really worried about input at this point.

 

-Js

 

Hi, I am not sure which sound chip is it on your board, mine uses ALC889a or something along that line. I got output working right of the box except the mic which I need. Don't really have time to looking into modifying DSDT, I ended up using VoodooHDA for the time being. Maybe u could check it out.

 

http://osx86.net/f7/alc88x-voodoohda-patch...n-v2-5-6-t5931/

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thanks for the effort! finally a hackointosh tool for X58A UD3R!

 

but i have problem with audio and internet after the installation.

 

i cant even find a out/in put in the System Preferences/Sound (ALC889)

 

and the machine still cant recognize my internet card (RTL8111D)

 

I used a OSX 10.6.3 to install, is it why i got the problem?

 

thanks soso much!!

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thanks for the effort! finally a hackointosh tool for X58A UD3R!

 

but i have problem with audio and internet after the installation.

 

i cant even find a out/in put in the System Preferences/Sound (ALC889)

 

and the machine still cant recognize my internet card (RTL8111D)

 

I used a OSX 10.6.3 to install, is it why i got the problem?

 

thanks soso much!!

 

I have the same problem with sound, can't choose "internal speakers" because there is nothing to choose.

 

Have a X58-UD7, running 10.6.2

 

ALso my i7 turns up as a quad core Xeon is that normal?

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Mainboard GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-UD3LR with quad core CPU

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

DDR3-RAM KIT 4096 MB,

All drives SATA

 

 

Installed Kakewalk using the thumb drive method of install, went very smoothly. Imported user and programs from my old Leo machine hard drive. No sound even after applying the boot loader. Applied the VoodooHDA-0.2.56 fix and now have sound. Applied 10.6.3 update and reapplied the boot loader. All working smoothly.

Now the confusing part. Cloned the drive to another drive (tried both SuperDuper and CC with the same results), applied boot loader and booted from new drive. Kernel panic? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Cumbrian.

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