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Just updated to 10.6.4

 

Sound is the only thing not working.

 

GA-EX58 UD3R

 

Anyone have a fix/download?

 

Thanks

 

Try one of the ALC888 HD Audio kext from http://www.kexts.com - there are 2 0r 3 of them patched by different people. Or you might try VoodooHDA and HDAEnabler in your E/E, repair permissions, reboot and see if that works. The tonymacx86 forum also has a couple of legacy alc888 kexts available you can try.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH MAKER/S OF KAKEWALK I LOVE HOW EASY IT IS TO INSTALL SNOW AND WORKS!

 

I am so pleased to be able to boot into snow leopard with only minor issues the following issues consist of this:

 

1. I cannot get audio in or out unless using USB.

 

2. I also have a Sitecom USB/Firewire card FW-008 which doesnt work.

 

Can anyone help me?

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I updated via combo update from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 and had only the sound problem reinstalled my sound kext and everything works great now.

 

My Config is:

EP45T-UD3LR

Intel Q6600

Geforce 8800 GTX

Corsair 4GB DDR 3 Ram

 

@Hack24:

Use this Sound Kext it should work for you as well. But i don't know if it works for you on 10.6.4 but i have no problems with it and we have almost the same Mainboard.

 

Good Luck

 

KEXT: http://www.kexts.com/view/328-alc888_hd_audio_10.6.3.html

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I decided last week I would try a Hackintosh out of sheer curiosity. I bought a 10.6.3 retail disc for the Kaktewalk 2.2 install - which worked perfectly first time.

 

I downloaded the 10.6.4 disk image (not combo) - no problems at all.

 

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P (V1,0 with latest BIOS)

Intel Core i7 920

ATi 4870 1Gb via HDMI to TV

Sound via the onboard Realtek sound chip

12Gb ram (6x 2Gb OCZ3G1333LV2G)

 

Somewhat ironically I've had problems with my MacBook Pro since updating it to 10.6.4.

 

I noticed it lists my PC as being a MacPro3,1 and I would like to run MSR Tools to check my i7 but I cannot get OS X to boot into the 32 bit kernel (tried 3 & 2 keys on boot) - please can anyone help?

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I decided last week I would try a Hackintosh out of sheer curiosity. I bought a 10.6.3 retail disc for the Kaktewalk 2.2 install - which worked perfectly first time.

 

I downloaded the 10.6.4 disk image (not combo) - no problems at all.

 

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P (V1,0 with latest BIOS)

Intel Core i7 920

ATi 4870 1Gb via HDMI to TV

Sound via the onboard Realtek sound chip

12Gb ram (6x 2Gb OCZ3G1333LV2G)

 

Somewhat ironically I've had problems with my MacBook Pro since updating it to 10.6.4.

 

I noticed it lists my PC as being a MacPro3,1 and I would like to run MSR Tools to check my i7 but I cannot get OS X to boot into the 32 bit kernel (tried 3 & 2 keys on boot) - please can anyone help?

 

I found the answer to the 32 bit kernel via Google, ran MSR Tools and it looks like Speedstep etc is working - shame about the higher CPU temperatures compared with Windows.

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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?

 

 

Done!:D

 

10.6.2

 

The GTX285 isn't installed yet, a 8400GS is installed for the moment.

 

Thanks!

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Issue with booting the Snow Leopard DVD from the Kakewalk CD. Here is what flashes by in verbose mode.

 

Loaded HFS+ File: [System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist] 475 bytes from .....
Loaded Darwin 10.6
Loaded kernel rd(0,0)/Extra/DDST.aml
Loaded HSF+ File: [Extra.DSDT.aml] 4096 bytes from .....
Loaded HSF+ File: [Extra.DSDT.aml] 14363 bytes from .....
Mach-O file has bad magic number
Mach-O file has bad magic number

 

Then the boot stops, and returns control to the Kakewalk install screen

 

Build: GA-P55M-UD2, i7-860, EVGA GeForce GT 220

 

Does anyone have a hint about what is wrong here?

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I'm having a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, i7-930, ATI HD-5870, I did the bios setup as explained in the kakewalk docs. Created a bootable Thumb Drive (8GB), an used the utility to configure the thumb drive for my motherboard.

My PC was not able to boot at all from the thumb drive!

 

Tryed the approach using bootable CD, the PC now booted into a scren with some text, telling me to replace the boot disk, with the Leopard DVD, and hit F5 when the DVD was spinning up. I never get any further than this. (No contact with the SL install DVD)

 

Any suggestions to help me out?

 

/Jan

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I'm having a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, i7-930, ATI HD-5870, I did the bios setup as explained in the kakewalk docs. Created a bootable Thumb Drive (8GB), an used the utility to configure the thumb drive for my motherboard.

My PC was not able to boot at all from the thumb drive!

 

Tryed the approach using bootable CD, the PC now booted into a scren with some text, telling me to replace the boot disk, with the Leopard DVD, and hit F5 when the DVD was spinning up. I never get any further than this. (No contact with the SL install DVD)

 

Any suggestions to help me out?

 

/Jan

 

 

How long did you wait before hitting F5 after swapping discs? - I had wait around 30 seconds before pressing F5, it can take a few more seconds to refresh the boot disk options.

 

I also found that Snow Leopard does not like my DVD drive (non-responsive after a short while) so I had to use the second (Blu-ray) drive.

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Done!:)

 

10.6.2

 

The GTX285 isn't installed yet, a 8400GS is installed for the moment.

 

Thanks!

 

1st thing to check, open preferences / sound and see if the text in sound effects is black or grayed out and click on output - if you have devices listed, select internal speakers and you have sound. If no devices are listed in output you need kext files. What do you have in E/E? The native 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext file will work if you have LegacyHDA.kext and HDEnabler.kext in your E/E. You might want to copy it somewhere else so you will have it to put back in S/L/E at the next update if you forget to back it up before updating. See pics:

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Hi,

 

How do we Update driver in Kakewalk method? Am new using snow, previously am using leopard, install and update driver easily with osx86tools. And how about this method? Thanks

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1st thing to check, open preferences / sound and see if the text in sound effects is black or grayed out and click on output - if you have devices listed, select internal speakers and you have sound. If no devices are listed in output you need kext files. What do you have in E/E? The native 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext file will work if you have LegacyHDA.kext and HDEnabler.kext in your E/E. You might want to copy it somewhere else so you will have it to put back in S/L/E at the next update if you forget to back it up before updating. See pics:

 

Thank you!

 

Sound effects are all greyed out, no devices listed.

 

I have legacyHDA.kext in E/E not HDAenabler.kext.

 

So I just download HDAenabler.kext and copy it to E/E?

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Thank you!

 

Sound effects are all greyed out, no devices listed.

 

I have legacyHDA.kext in E/E not HDAenabler.kext.

 

So I just download HDAenabler.kext and copy it to E/E?

 

It works for me. If you don't mind starting from scratch again on the USB method, you can go back to page 135 at Magnifico10's post #2695 and download an earlier version of Kakewalk and the sound kext that is known to work. I downloaded the files from his link and tested them on my system and they do work. The only thing he left out was a boot loader, but many people prefer Chameleon to AsereBLN's boot loader anyway because it gives them pretty icons instead of just a list. So, download the files and unzip them, restore an image of the retail disk to USB, start the Kakewalk pkg and point it at the USB, install 10.6.x to your HDD, update to 10.6.4, drag the KU file he includes in his download to Utilities (or where you want it), drop the sound kext on KU and reboot, open preferences/sound and select internal speaker. You should have sound. Install your boot loader of preference, unmount your USB and save it for emergencies (I copied the sound kext file to mine and stored it in the back of my desk drawer with a label taped to it to remind me not to erase it) and you're good to go. If you don't like orange icons on the desktop you can download the fix for that and put it in your E/E.

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Hi All,

 

I have noticed not many problems with ATI graphic card's here (unlike everywhere else). Could

 

someone please let me know more about the kakewalk ATI installer. Does it add kexts or an EFI

 

string or? is it specific to Gigabite and/or kakewalk or should I be able to use this with my system?

 

I have a Sapphire 4870x2 that I'm trying to run properly with Snow (hopefully 10.6.4 now) on

 

Asus P6T Deluxe V2 & dgobe 'Guide' based install (refer my sig.)

 

Any help here greatly appreciated

 

Thanks..

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How long did you wait before hitting F5 after swapping discs? - I had wait around 30 seconds before pressing F5, it can take a few more seconds to refresh the boot disk options.

 

I also found that Snow Leopard does not like my DVD drive (non-responsive after a short while) so I had to use the second (Blu-ray) drive.

 

I waited quit some time (several minutes).

After swaping disc's the activity LED on the CDROM is blinking, but otherwise the system seems "frozen".

4 large icons are present, with "Kakewalk" as the leftmost, and 3 HDD partitions. No mouse, no visible respons on keyboard.

 

/Jan

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I'm having a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, i7-930, ATI HD-5870, I did the bios setup as explained in the kakewalk docs. Created a bootable Thumb Drive (8GB), an used the utility to configure the thumb drive for my motherboard.

My PC was not able to boot at all from the thumb drive!

 

Tryed the approach using bootable CD, the PC now booted into a scren with some text, telling me to replace the boot disk, with the Leopard DVD, and hit F5 when the DVD was spinning up. I never get any further than this. (No contact with the SL install DVD)

 

Any suggestions to help me out?

 

/Jan

 

The first thing to do is send that ATI HD-5870 back and order an nVidia GTX285. There is no - repeat no- support for 5000 series ATI cards in OS X and probably never will be. The 4870 is the last ATI card the 2008 MAC Pro had as an upgrade over the GTX120. The new MAC Pro's coming out now have the GTX285 as the upgrade card of choice. The MAC edition can be had at Amazon.com for about USD$450 and the retail PC edition for about USD$350 - the PC version has S-video in addition to 2 DVI outputs. The GT120 MAC version is about USD$150 - 1 DVI + 1 mini HDMI. It all depends on how much you want to spend - the really high end QuadroFX 4800 card is about USD$1700 and you can generally find the nVidia 8800 or 9800 series cards for around USD$100-$150.

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Sound is working!!!

 

FIrst I removed AppleHDA.kext and the used [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to install VoodooHDA.kext and then reboot!

 

YES!! :o

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Do I just copy it or do I use some kind of kext installer?

 

And do I need to do something after, repair permissions or anything?

 

Drag the kext utility to where you can remember where it is in the future - I put it in Applications / Utilities - see screen.

Click once on kext utility to hi-lite it. Open another finder window to where you put the unzipped audio kext file. Drag the kext icon onto the grayed-out icon of kext utility - it will back up the kext already in S/L/E by adding a .bak to the file name, copy the audio kext you dropped onto it to S/L/E and repair permissions. All you have to do is wait until it finishes and re-boot. Don't forget that default setting is headphone out, so if you want to listen over your speakers you have to open preferences / sound and select internal speaker.

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Hey everyone, my mind is still reeling with the fact that this is possible, getting all my beloved mac goodness on the budget of a pc. I stumbled on this soon after realizing I won't have the money to shell out 2k for a macbook pro to upgrade my macbook.

 

So! I have started to read and research and it seems that kakewalk is a very good way to go about this. I do have a decent amount of computer knowledge but I have so many questions!

 

I want to build a hackintosh that can dual boot with windows 7. I love to game and think that another great bonus of this is being able to do both. Here is the list i've parted out so far.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3LR ATX LGA775 P45 DDR3 1PCI-E 2PCI SATA2 RAID Sound GBLAN Motherboard

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 Quad Core Processor LGA775 2.66GHZ 1333FSB 4MB Retail Box

Ram: Corsair XMS3 CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 4GB DDR3 2X2GB DDR3-1600 CL 9-9-9-24 Core i5 Dual Channel Memory Kit

HD: Western Digital WD10EARS Caviar Green 1TB SATA 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM

Video Card: ASUS GeForce GTS 250 Dark Knight 1GB DDR3 PCI-E Video Card

PSU: OCZ StealthXStream OCZ500SXS 500W ATX12V 24PIN Active PFC ATX Power Supply 120MM Fan Black

Case: Fractal Design Define R2 Black ATX Mid Tower Silent Computer Case 2X5.25 8X3.5INT No PS Front USB

 

Optical Drive: Some older one I'm taking from my old PC, if this probably won't work please tell me, it's from around 2004.

 

Since I haven't been in the pc world for a few years, my main questions are:

Will these parts work well with a dual boot hackintosh pc?

If they don't what others in their place will?

If I want to use Kakewalk, how do I go about making the windows side?

 

I'm sure more questions will spring up, but I at least have these to go from now!

Also If anyone could actually tell me the lasting quality of these parts that would be awesome, I don't want to build a computer on a budget that is ridiculously low end, I would rather put a few hundred more in now than rebuild completely later.

Thanks!

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