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

[InsanelyLost]

RTM!! Restore image of DVD to thumb drive. Mount the Kakewalk package, double click on it and point it at the thumb drive and let it install. THEN you reboot. Enter bios and make sure the USB is the 1st drive in the boot order, f10 and save and let it boot up. If it fails to boot (usually hangs at Verifying DMI pool data, CTRL-ALT-DEL and this time F12 at the post screen and select the thumb drive to boot from. It should work.

 

Ah but see there was a reason I asked that because I did exactly THAT and it still didn't work, lol (kept getting the cannot install on this machine error). So I figured maybe I RTM wrong.

 

But no matter, the method I came up with worked fine for me. Graphics work fine, ran Bioshock with no hiccups, audio I'm running through my M-Audio Fast Track. Well I'm off thanks for the help guys, good luck everyone else.

[cscheat]

Is is safe to update to 10.6.4?

 

Here is my setup:

 

EP45-UD3L

Q6600

4GB Ram

8600 GT

 

Got a KERNEL PANIC here !!! mine also EP45-UD3L

[p0wnzr]

Got a problem.

My computer just reboots if installed on premade DVDs

Using kakewalk the video becomes "corrupted" and it doesnt do anything, even the reboot button doesnt work (have to switch i/o cable)

is ex58-ud5 + i930 compatible or what?

thx in advance

[jaysee54321]

Hey guys.. hope this doesn't come across as spam, but just figured this may be the best way to notify people most likely to know about Kakewalk... I've just posted a bounty for my problem..

 

Kakewalk Help Needed, $100 USD Bounty

 

Thanks!

John

[leafhound]

I've used kakewalk to get to the point where I can use Snow Leopard on my EX58-UD5, i7 920, Nvidia 9500 GTX, and I'm really loving it. I think my ssd was the best choice of the whole thing...

 

But I have no Audio.

 

Now let me first say: I'm not afraid to learn. But I've spent most of the day trying to learn what a kext is, how it's properly installed, and come up with a lot of differing views and a whole lot of Kernel Panics. When I couldn't boot without a kernel panic, I just started over-- and I'm sure there was a way to fix it more simply but I didn't know it.

 

So, that said: I was wondering is my problem 10.6.4? I did a software update immediately after getting my first boot.

 

If so, is there a "kakewalk approved" method for taking care of that? I really loved your straightforward way of explaining things (although I must say that I would have loved to have known that I needed to let the BIOS know in the peripheral settings to change one setting to ACPI-- whatever that means-- so that the installer could see my internal hard drives, that was a long 3 hours... )

 

So that's my question... I'd love to find something as simple as kakewalk (meaning I just learned the word "kext" like 2 weeks ago, but still no nothing about EFI strings or any of the stuff that I probably should know) to keep myself current and able to do updates and keep my machine stable?

 

To turn on the sound have you tried going to System Preferences, Sound

 

And on the "output" tab check Internal-Speakers as your source.

 

 

 

btw running 6.4 with no problems on EP45-UD3LR

[Jeff.H]

Successfully updated to 10.6.4 using the full combo update from Apple. I did have to reload the AppleHDA kext to get sound back though.

 

Upon the reboot the speaker icon in the menu bar was originally black then as it was loading went to grey. Sys prefs showed no audio device again, reinstalled AppleHDA and the icon went from grey to black and operational without having to reboot.

 

Funny thing though, it appears as if 10.6.4 actually removed Apple HDA because as kext utility was running, it showed that AppleHDA was not found.

 

My setup.

 

EP45-UD3L (using Mac Edition BIOS)

Q9550 (standard clocking)

2 x 2GB Corsair 1066

EVGA NVIDIA 8400GS

1TB WD Black (single partition)

[wigy69]

Just updated to 10.6.4

 

Sound is the only thing not working.

 

GA-EX58 UD3R

 

Anyone have a fix/download?

 

Thanks

[skidman]

Updated my EP45-UD3LR based rig (see signature for specs) to 10.6.4 without problems: Removed old SleepEnabler.kext to avoid KP. Used online update, restored patched AppleHDA.kext (1.8.4) after reboot and installed the new SleepEnabler (Very fast release. Bravo!).

[Ashe]

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

Anybody have any ideas on this?

[ALIAS360]

Ok so my system has been running great until this morning I did a restart on it and now it won't boot up does anyone have any suggests I get the Apple screen were it's trying to load but nothing is happening it's stalling and won't do anything! I even tried restarting it.

[Donw35]

Ok so my system has been running great until this morning I did a restart on it and now it won't boot up does anyone have any suggests I get the Apple screen were it's trying to load but nothing is happening it's stalling and won't do anything! I even tried restarting it.

 

 

boot with -f -v and see if it hangs and if so what its hanging on

[ALIAS360]

sorry I'm new but have been looking in this forum for a while but I don't recall what -F -V is. Can you please explain??

[Donw35]

sorry I'm new but have been looking in this forum for a while but I don't recall what -F -V is. Can you please explain??

 

 

when you machine boots hit the enter key or F8, the screen will tell you, then type in -f -v, it will flush the cache and boot in verbose mode allowing you to see whats loading

[ALIAS360]

when you machine boots hit the enter key or F8, the screen will tell you, then type in -f -v, it will flush the cache and boot in verbose mode allowing you to see whats loading

 

Thanks so much I will try this today when I get back home!!!

[delmar1978]

How do I get sound on my X58UD7??

 

Please help me!

[maccompaq]

Just updated to 10.6.4

 

Sound is the only thing not working.

 

GA-EX58 UD3R

 

Anyone have a fix/download?

 

Thanks

I have the same system as you. 10.6.4 killed my sound and my Internet video. Waiting for someone to help us out.

 

New info: I plugged my headset into the computer, and now video and audio works. I can understand that audio should work with USB, but I cannot figure out why video works.

[apple_core]

Ok so my system has been running great until this morning I did a restart on it and now it won't boot up does anyone have any suggests I get the Apple screen were it's trying to load but nothing is happening it's stalling and won't do anything! I even tried restarting it.

 

 

I wonder if you have your system set to automatically download and install updates. It is possible that you downloaded and installed 10.6.4 which has known problems with the sleepenabler.kext.

 

Try what Donw35 said. I've read in another post that someone couldn't even get single user mode to boot and he had to resort to using some Windows utility to mount his OS X drive to remove the sleepenabler kext.

 

Good luck.

[ALIAS360]

Thanks for the input but I'm almost positive that I disabled the auto update when I had been setting everything up. But it's worth a look at if I can get it running again without having to reinstall that is just going to be a big pain in the ass it really doesn't take that long it's just a pain to reload the OS!!!

[5star]

To turn on the sound have you tried going to System Preferences, Sound

 

And on the "output" tab check Internal-Speakers as your source.

 

 

 

btw running 6.4 with no problems on EP45-UD3LR

 

I'm so embarrassed... I guess that proves what a noob I am. I didn't realize I had to do that... Totally works, but I am at 10.6.3 now... (I woke up to a computer that was turned off-- even though I had it set to never sleep. Any ideas what that was all about?) Upon rebooting, I got about 30 seconds of usage before everything hung again, so I just re-installed the OS via kakewalk and did the 10.6.3 combo update.

 

BTW- what is the proper way to deal with a kp on boot? I see you can boot in -f-v mode, but then what? Is it normal to have to keep re-installing the OS?

[phlox55]

I upgraded my EP41-Hackintosh without any problems.

 

But I use an USB-iMic for sound... a bit chichen I know...

 

But if you get bored trying to get sound to work the USB-solution is a great choice.

[zawx]

I'm so embarrassed... I guess that proves what a noob I am. I didn't realize I had to do that... Totally works, but I am at 10.6.3 now... (I woke up to a computer that was turned off-- even though I had it set to never sleep. Any ideas what that was all about?) Upon rebooting, I got about 30 seconds of usage before everything hung again, so I just re-installed the OS via kakewalk and did the 10.6.3 combo update.

 

BTW- what is the proper way to deal with a kp on boot? I see you can boot in -f-v mode, but then what? Is it normal to have to keep re-installing the OS?

You shouldn't ever need to reinstall to solve a kernel panic. It may be the easiest solution but it's usually not the most favorable. You should boot up with the -v parameter and try to figure out on what it panics, usually you can then google on the error that you are getting to come up with a solution. Otherwise, you can try to boot with -s or -x and delete the faulty kext, it all depends on what you are getting.

 

On the subject of 10.6.4, safe to upgrade? Netkas said that nothing interesting were in it, but has anyone tried yet? Don't want to be stuck without audio or something.

[5star]

You shouldn't ever need to reinstall to solve a kernel panic. It may be the easiest solution but it's usually not the most favorable. You should boot up with the -v parameter and try to figure out on what it panics, usually you can then google on the error that you are getting to come up with a solution. Otherwise, you can try to boot with -s or -x and delete the faulty kext, it all depends on what you are getting.

 

On the subject of 10.6.4, safe to upgrade? Netkas said that nothing interesting were in it, but has anyone tried yet? Don't want to be stuck without audio or something.

 

Cool. Last time I booted in safe mode, deleted what I thought were all the kexts I'd been putting in, and then the kernel panics didn't stop, so I thought that the damage was done... Great tip. Thanks.

 

I'll keep checking in on 10.6.4... not sure I want to mess up a good thing. Everything is seeming pretty stable at this point.

[ALIAS360]

Ok so I haven't been able to boot up yet but I did the -f -v procedure and this is what I'm getting! I don't really understand it but I think it might be the sound kext????? Anyone have any thought or can tell me exactly what they see from this pic!!

 

And thanks in advance for the help!

[XLR]

On G41M-ES2L "rev 1.0" it works almost perfect with 10.6 and 10.6.3, but for some reason the installer deletes AppleHDA from S/L/E so i have to install it manually. Another thing that i don't understand, is why does it has an SMBIOS.plist for Mac Pro? The bootloader should identify the model automatically depending on configuration, shouldn't he?

 

On G41M-ES2L "rev 1.1" it gives random KP's right when i trying to boot from retail DVD. I've tried adding NullCPU to the preboot image, then removing everything except FakeSMC and NullCPU but nothing helps. The only thing i didn't tried yet it to remove the DSDT, or replace it with a new one.

[Going Bald]

How do I get sound on my X58UD7??

 

Please help me!

 

What is your hardware? Graphics card, i5? i7? Please create a sig with your info so we don't have to ask. What version of OS X are you running?

 

Cool. Last time I booted in safe mode, deleted what I thought were all the kexts I'd been putting in, and then the kernel panics didn't stop, so I thought that the damage was done... Great tip. Thanks.

 

I'll keep checking in on 10.6.4... not sure I want to mess up a good thing. Everything is seeming pretty stable at this point.

 

I just updated to 10.6.4 via the standalone pkg file - not the combo. At end of update it wanted to reboot - OK - rebooted. No sound and nothing to select in preferences/sound, but I kinda expected that - had my trusty AppleHDA.kext file from 10.6.2 stashed in another folder. Dropped it onto KU, let it do its thing, then opened a terminal and ran pfix because i've noticed that sometimes KU puts in the wrong permissions. Rebooted and sound is back - you can see the speaker is black in the command bar in the pic. Went ahead and updated Safari and Java to get them out of the way and update center says I have no updates so I'm good to go for awhile.