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

[delite]

OK, all the people with EP45-DS3, what board did you select when creating iso? Also, what method were you following. I really hate it, google and everony (kakewalk.se forums too). Guy asks for ep45-ds3 bla bla, then comes back and says he did it but doesn't tell how. Really frustrating, so please is there any 1st hand info on this board?

[leafhound]

With that method I think you need to boot with kakewalkCD after install and select Verbose under the Mac install volume to reach the desktop, obviously then install the bootload from the CD.

[mohkahn]

kakewalk, Possible to get necessary files for GA-EP35-DS3L integrated into your package?

 

It was the most common board before people started using EP-45-UD3P.

 

My build is running fine at 10.6.6, using PC-EFI method, made by a nice guy called mosslack and it was mosslack, who recommended I try your simple solution. But when I tried the kit, you made, I realized it does not support my motherboard G(A-EP35-DS3L).

 

Thanks and only if it's not too much trouble.

[delite]

I used tonymac [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and followed his procedure. Nailed it on 2nd try, wasn't really that complicated. Used the dstd autopatcher for dstd.aml compiling.

[balthisar]

Intermittent GT 240 hardware acceleration (Quartz Extreme and/or Core Image) not working?

 

Anyone have an intermittent problem like this with their GT 240 or any other graphics card? My configuration is still as listed in my sig, and I kind of asked about this back on page 171, but now it's bugging me more. Here's what's up when it doesn't work:

 

• There's no translucent menu bar. In System Preferences' desktop settings, there's no option for the translucent menu bar, either.
  
• The Chess application does work.
  
• Coverflow in iTunes does work.
  
• Widgets in Dashboard do not have the water effect.
  
• Screen saver previews do work.
  
• Front Row does work.
  
• Trying to start Eve-Online results in a message that I don't have hardware video acceleration.
  

Usually completely powering down (not just restarting) will fix things, but the machine's being picky today.

 

I'm using the stock Apple drivers that were added in 10.6.3 or so. System is still at 10.6.4 (no need to update). GraphicsEnabler is set to YES.

 

Any ideas?

[Cruxado]

Can someone confirm if the GA P55-UD5 MB works now with the new 3.1 revision?

[Flaystus]

I used another method to install but it didn't give me all the stuff to get up and running.

 

So chameleon is already on my drive.

Two questions.

 

 

1.) Can I use this to install the specific stuff for my board since its supported by this? And if so any special steps I must take since chameleon is already there?

 

2. Once installed I don't suppose there is an easy way to transfer everything to a thumb drive is there? I'd much prefer to boot from one.

[Flaystus]

Just got up and running with 10.6 base and a previous version of kakewalk.

 

What steps do I have to use to get to 10.6.6 and the latest stuff?

[leafhound]

Just got up and running with 10.6 base and a previous version of kakewalk.

 

What steps do I have to use to get to 10.6.6 and the latest stuff?

 

just update through system preferences, but by default I would uncheck the auto update feature.

[Flaystus]

just update through system preferences, but by default I would uncheck the auto update feature.

 

 

10.6.6 is not going to overwrite anything or require me to update Chameleon?

 

I thought I read somewhere about it messing up sound drivers and stuff?

[Flaystus]

just update through system preferences, but by default I would uncheck the auto update feature.

 

 

BTW did that and now I can't boot OSX.

[SomniusX]

Anything on the 965P-DS3 that came to my hands a week ago, i had 10.5 and somewhat 10.6 on it,

 

will kakewalk support it ?

[ollvin]

Hi everyone,

 

I have a Hack pro based on a Gigabyte X58A UD3R running with kakewalk and it has been working fine for nearly one year now. But yesterday it jammed while powering off so I needed to shut it down with power supply.

Now it displays at reboot:

EBIOS read error: Device Timeout

Block 0x406cfc60 Sectors 0

And ends up with

Memory allocation error ! Addr= [etc.]

This is a non recoverable error! System HALTED

I tried to reboot with my old kakewalk 2.2 boot cd and it gets stuck with nearly the same error:

Reading ramdisk image bt(0,0)/Extra/Preboot.dmg

no ramdisk config...

mounting: done

EBIOS read error [etc.]

 

I found almost nothing about this error on the forum. I tried to remove the ram sticks (3) one by one but it doesn't change anything.

Any idea?

 

I see latest version of kakewalk is now only available on USB key but what to do with no mac is available? Last time I needed someone to send me the right generated disk image for my mobo to burn it on a Windows pc.

Anyway I don't know if latest kakewalk would solve this error.

 

Thanks

[GrootWitBaas]

that looks like a Hard drive failure you have there. Have you a spare HDD to do a fresh install on with your boot cd and osx dvd ? then you can see if you can recover.

[ovo]

I to have problems AGAIN, probably a dead mobo. All the money I saved to build my hackintosh has pretty well been spent on {censored} around with fixing problems constantly in the year Ive had it if I charged an hourly rate.

 

Im probably going to go buy a mac pro so I can get back to being productive for long after I forgot how much the thing cost me, yeah pc and mac hardware are almost the same now a days which is why we can all do hackintosh but a dodgy video card, click of death hard drive, un supported video cards and now finally a dead mother board later shows there are still somethings that ARE different.

 

While no one could describe a mac pro as 'value for money', its just a tool like any other and I have to ask my self 'am I a user of the tool' to create 'x' or am I merely a 'maintenance man' for the tool.

 

Its just par for the course in pc land which is the reason why the majority of creativity is made on mac hardware.

[CM690 II Advanced]

This is the proposal :

• 2X CM R4-S4S-10AK-GP 140mm Fans
  
• CM Blade Master 120mm
  
• Antec Truepower 650W
  
• CM Hyper 212+
  
• EVGA 01G-P3-1366-TR GeForce GTX 460 SE (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5
  
• Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
  
• Rosewill RCR-IC001 Card Reader
  
• LG GH22NS50B OEM DVD/CD Reader
  
• OCZ Obsidian Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3
  
• 2X Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB
  
• Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB
  

 

Can kakewalk handle that?

[ollvin]

that looks like a Hard drive failure you have there. Have you a spare HDD to do a fresh install on with your boot cd and osx dvd ? then you can see if you can recover.

 

Ok. I finally solved the problem by removing the hard drive. Then, kakewalk managed to boot from cd and I went with my Clone HDD, then I could plug my broken drive in USB with an external box, format it and recover my system with the clone. Don't understand exaclty why the drive was jamming kakewalk even without booting on it...

 

I also made the update to Mac OS 10.6.7 (I was still under 10.6.4) and everything seems to work fine so far... But I didn't updated kakewalk (2.2) to 3.1 and I'm not sure I'll give it a try as everything is working fine now.

 

Thank you for your answer.

[GrootWitBaas]

Ok. I finally solved the problem by removing the hard drive. Then, kakewalk managed to boot from cd and I went with my Clone HDD, then I could plug my broken drive in USB with an external box, format it and recover my system with the clone. Don't understand exaclty why the drive was jamming kakewalk even without booting on it...

 

I also made the update to Mac OS 10.6.7 (I was still under 10.6.4) and everything seems to work fine so far... But I didn't updated kakewalk (2.2) to 3.1 and I'm not sure I'll give it a try as everything is working fine now.

 

Thank you for your answer.

 

Your Welcome. If I were you I'd do a full check on that drive, and do regular backups. It might be starting to fail. It could also have been that it just needed a reconnect of the fiscal connector itself, and in that case it makes more sense for me why it was preventing boot, but it is hard to tell.

 

I am just glad all is working for you again.

 

Groot

[hughythomas]

Hi there!

 

I have had success with a Leopard install in the past (iDeneb 1.5 iirc). I have since upgraded my hackintosh to

 

Intel i5 750

MSI GD65 (P55)

4GB G.kill DDR3 1600Mhz RAM

8800GT

 

I was wondering if Kakewalk would install with minimum fuss? Or should I simply sell on my MSI and nab a second hand Gigabyte board?

 

Many thanks in advance

 

Tom

[aldmo87]

I am having trouble booting the kakewalk.iso CD.

 

It works fine if I do not enable AHCI mode, it allows me to get the point where it askes

 

"eject the CD, insert the Snow Leopard retails CD and press f5 then enter"

 

The next screen is the white background with apple logo and then greys out with an error saying to reboot your Mac.

 

If I enable AHCI I just cannot get anywhere, I cannot boot from the CD/DVD anymore.

 

I also tried extracting the kakewalk.iso to a USB stick a and booting from that, but still no luck.

 

Tried the usual F12 and select CD/DVD or USB but it just skips straight over them.

 

Anyone got any ideas? I followed the guide and set the bios all correct I think.

 

Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR

 

8GB DDR 2 RAM (removed 2 sticks so only 4gb)

 

1tb HDD SATA

 

Q6600

 

Pioneer DVD-RW SATA

 

 

 

Pulling my hair out here!

[GrootWitBaas]

on what ports are your drive and dvd connected ?

What bios ver you have, and have you any other DVD drive than this one.

[JGKC9AYC]

OK...i'm having a problem.

I'm building my second Hackintosh and am in the initial process. I put my SL disc in & created an image & saved it to the desktop. I then put my (16GB) thumb drive in & followed the instructions in step 2. My problems begin with step 3. When I attempt to scan my SL image for restore, it goes through the process, but when it gets done, the SL folder pops up & I get the message "Unable to scan Mac OS X install DVD.dmg (internal error)".

I'm using the newest Kakewalk & I still have an older version on another thumbdrive. I was wondering if the bootloader would be the same for a EP45-UD3L as it was for the EX58-UD4P that I originally installed it on last year.

Even if the old thumbdrive would work, i'm still curious as to the problems i'm having now.

Thanks.

[aldmo87]

on what ports are your drive and dvd connected ?

What bios ver you have, and have you any other DVD drive than this one.

 

on what ports are your drive and dvd connected ?

What bios ver you have, and have you any other DVD drive than this one.

 

 

They are both connected to SATA, HDD on Sata 1 and DVD on Sata 2.

 

 

 

Not sure on the version of BIOS I think it is F4, I will double check tonight, I tried to upgrade the bios once before but I am running 64bit windows 7 and couldnt find a bios flashing utility that was compatible, I will throw another HDD in and run win7 32bit if needed. Do you know exactly which bios version works the best? Just the latest?

 

The only other DVD I have is an IDE drive, is IDE compatible with AHCI? is it worth a go?

 

 

 

Thanks for your help

[ollvin]

Your Welcome. If I were you I'd do a full check on that drive, and do regular backups. It might be starting to fail. It could also have been that it just needed a reconnect of the fiscal connector itself, and in that case it makes more sense for me why it was preventing boot, but it is hard to tell.

 

I am just glad all is working for you again.

 

Groot

 

It wasn't a connector problem since I plugged/unplugged it several times in my tests and it produced the same error even in external usb box connection.

I also make a disk check but nothing wrong appears, seems a software mess, cleaned up by fresh install.

Anyway, all working fine now.

 

Thanks

[GrootWitBaas]

They are both connected to SATA, HDD on Sata 1 and DVD on Sata 2.

 

Not sure on the version of BIOS I think it is F4, I will double check tonight, I tried to upgrade the bios once before but I am running 64bit windows 7 and couldnt find a bios flashing utility that was compatible, I will throw another HDD in and run win7 32bit if needed. Do you know exactly which bios version works the best? Just the latest?

 

The only other DVD I have is an IDE drive, is IDE compatible with AHCI? is it worth a go?

 

Thanks for your help

 

Put your DVD drive on the SATA2_0 plug and your HDD on SATA2_1. F4 is VERY old bios, I will suggest update to something newer. You update your bios from the bios, not from windows. all you need is windows to extract the file for you, and that can be done in any version. Extract it to a usb drive. remember bios flashing is risky any time, so make sure you have the right file for your board. Gigabyte have many fail saves build in so it should be ok.