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

[Gurnemanz]

You'll see this over at MrJanek's site as well.

 

Success story, with a moral: Don't go on Update Autopilot until you consider the possibilities for Hackintosh owners running Kakewalk. I twitched before I thought. But there's a happy ending.

 

In April we built a good machine running plain vanilla SL, with the addition of the Voodoo audio fix. The Apple 10.6.4 update wiped out my sound at the end of June.

 

I read the InsanelyMac Kakewalk forum over again, starting in April. Proceeding cautiously, based on advice, I copied (saved to Documents) and removed AppleHDAkext prior to reinstalling VoodooHDA.

 

But I didn't re-install Voodoo. I read about Bansaku's ALC888 HD audio 10.6.3, and the success Hack24 reported with it on the EP45 mobo under 10.6.4:

 

"When you install 10.6.4 download the kext here: http://www.kexts.com/view/328-alc888_hd ... 0.6.3.html, then drag it on top of a application like kext utility.Then restart the computer and you have sound!"

 

I decided the cautious path was to put AppleHDAkext back where it belonged. Surprise! The system reported it damaged, along with other related kexts.

 

So I downloaded the 10.6.4 Apple update and re-installed, hoping it would replace damaged files, and planning to run the alc888_hd_audio package after that.

 

Re-installed the Apple update, but the kexts were still reported damaged at the end of the update. Well. Nothing to do but restart and regroup.

 

Restart; blue screen; grey screen with icon; blue screen; speakers clicked twice; and audio was back before I installed the alc888_hd_audio package.

 

No one could be more surprised than I am at this moment.

 

MrJanek, many, many thanks for all your hard work. Kakewalk is an amazing accomplishment.

[cfox]

Okay, maybe I'm tripping, but I downloaded kakewalk2.2 for cd/dvd... And the OP said to burn kakewalk.iso... But I don't see a "kakewalk.iso" in the zip file. Does the OP mean to burn "kakewalklegacy"? That's the only other image file I can find that has "kakewalk" in the filename.

[ProjectY]

Okay, maybe I'm tripping, but I downloaded kakewalk2.2 for cd/dvd... And the OP said to burn kakewalk.iso... But I don't see a "kakewalk.iso" in the zip file. Does the OP mean to burn "kakewalklegacy"? That's the only other image file I can find that has "kakewalk" in the filename.

 

Hi cfox

 

In the Guide.pdf it has the following ::

Step 1 - Burning Kakewalk.iso to a disc

 

Using Mac OS X:

1. Start KakewalkCD, select your motherboard and hit Create

2. Insert an empty disc (any kind)

3. Locate Kakewalk.iso on your desktop right-click and

open it with Disk Utility

4. In the left pane right-click Kakewalk.iso and click Burn

Using Windows:

Note: The KakewalkLegacy iso is known not to work with P55 and EX58

chipsets.

1. Insert an empty disc (any kind)

2. Download, install and start ImgBurn

3. Click the button "Write image file to disc"

4. Browse, select and burn KakewalkLegacy.iso

Leave the disc in the drive as we will be using it shortly.

 

Ray

[avddreamr]

Configuration is as follows.

EP 45 UD3R.

9800 GTX.

Q6600@3.2ghz.

 

There are two categories of issues relating to this nearly functioning installation.

Since its orignal fresh installation utilizing kakewalk a few months ago, sleep never worked, but that was a tolerable problem. Outputting via dvi/hdmi to a secondary monitor does not work, a more significant annoyance that's rectified with booting into windows 7 to get the desired functionality.

 

Post 10.6.4 Auto update.... shut down does not always work.

sleep, doesn't work, and outputing to the tv via dvi doesn't work either.

 

Any solutions? Remarkably sound continued to work, go fig.

 

Thanks a bunch.

[radcat]

hello there!

 

so here's where i'm at:

 

1. created the kakewalk.iso for ep45 ud3lr on mac

2. burned the image to a dvd

3. changed the bios settings to AHCI - 64 bit - S3(STR)

4. changed boot sequence to cdrom -> hdd

5. rebooted with disc in drive

6. pc tries to boot into windows - bsod (fair enough)

8. revert from AHCI to IDE

9. reboot, disc loads properly

10. take out kakewalk, insert SL, press F5, select SL

11. Apple logo appears for a couple of seconds

12. I am told to restart my computer. This is where i'm stuck, i can't restart obviously because it will terminate the process.

 

What do i do here guys?

[ProjectY]

hello there!

 

so here's where i'm at:

 

 

8. revert from AHCI to IDE

 

 

What do i do here guys?

Hi Radcat

 

Please provide in your signature ALL of your hardware it will help to get answers.

 

Line 8 is the answer if you have a spare HD (SATA) then only have that in your system, remove all other hard Drives to get the install started and the revert back to AHCI in the bios.

Ray

[jramos03]

Hi Guys,

 

 

I'm new in here and I badly wanted a Mac Os because I heard it's suitable for developers like IPhone and web developers. I just wanted to know if the following specs of my desktop will work if I try installing Snow Leopard.

 

Processor: Intel Core2duo E8400

RAM : 2gb

Board: G41M-ES2L Gigabyte

HD: 320gb Western Digital

Video Card: Nvidia Geforce 7900GS

 

 

Any suggestions and instructions would be highly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[ProjectY]

Hi Guys,

I'm new in here and I badly wanted a Mac Os because I heard it's suitable for developers like IPhone and web developers. I just wanted to know if the following specs of my desktop will work if I try installing Snow Leopard.

Processor: Intel Core2duo E8400

RAM : 2gb

Board: G41M-ES2L Gigabyte

HD: 320gb Western Digital

Video Card: Nvidia Geforce 7900GS

Any suggestions and instructions would be highly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi jramos03

 

Go to post 1 and grab the software Both USB and Hard drive and Please read the Guide.

 

If you have SATA devices that would be a help HD & Cd/DVD drives

Ray

[jramos03]

Thanks Ray!

 

I'll try it now..

[GrootWitBaas]

hello there!

 

so here's where i'm at:

 

1. created the kakewalk.iso for ep45 ud3lr on mac

2. burned the image to a dvd

3. changed the bios settings to AHCI - 64 bit - S3(STR)

4. changed boot sequence to cdrom -> hdd

5. rebooted with disc in drive

6. pc tries to boot into windows - bsod (fair enough)

8. revert from AHCI to IDE

9. reboot, disc loads properly

10. take out kakewalk, insert SL, press F5, select SL

11. Apple logo appears for a couple of seconds

12. I am told to restart my computer. This is where i'm stuck, i can't restart obviously because it will terminate the process.

 

What do i do here guys?

so i see 2 problems ...line 4 .....it should be boot from CD only

Line 8 - as projecty pointed out, should be AHCI else install WILL fail

also like he said, best to have the drive separate, ie only the drive you want osx on in the system connected during set-up. Make sure again of ALL bios settings, running from the 1st page to the last and double check all. If you have one setting wrong this could give a KP.

Good Luck

[radcat]

Hi Radcat

 

Please provide in your signature ALL of your hardware it will help to get answers.

 

Line 8 is the answer if you have a spare HD (SATA) then only have that in your system, remove all other hard Drives to get the install started and the revert back to AHCI in the bios.

Ray

 

ok

 

MOBO: EP45 UD3LR

HDD: 500gb WD Sata

GPU: Asus 8800gt

CPU: e7200 overclocked to 3.40ghz

 

is that enough info?

 

 

Also i do NOT have a spare harddrive, i was hoping to be able to make a partition for OSX during its installation.

[ProjectY]

ok

 

MOBO: EP45 UD3LR

HDD: 500gb WD Sata

GPU: Asus 8800gt

CPU: e7200 overclocked to 3.40ghz

is that enough info?

Also i do NOT have a spare harddrive, i was hoping to be able to make a partition for OSX during its installation.

Hi Radcat

 

Below is an old text file that covers most of the points for a Good install.

 

{{{{{{ Before starting a Kakewalk install Please use MINIMAL hardware EG:

 

Gigabyte Motherboard as per Kakewalk List

 

Please don't OverClock until you have a stable install ( MacOS )

 

Minimum of 2 Gig Ram

 

Only ONE -- SATA Hard drive SMALLER than 1GIG eg: 320 gig. Formatted, Partitioned GUID

 

SATA DVD Burner Sony Optiarc AD-7240S as is used by Apple or Similar

 

Graphics Card NVIDEA GeForce 9800 GT 1 Gig (This works) or Similar

 

Power supply at least 550Watt

 

USB (NOT Wireless) Mouse and Keyboard

 

Please use a RETAIL copy of MacOS 10.6.0.

 

Please read the Guide's that go with The USB or Hard Drive Installation }}}}}

 

Ray

[BillyTurner]

This is my system specs will osx86 work on my system? And if so, then which distro should I get?

 

System Model : Hewlett-Packard HP Workstation xw6200

Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition Version 6.1 (Build 7600)

Install Language: English (United States)

Enclosure Type: Mini-Tower

Processor : 2 physical 3.40 GHz Intel Xeon x64 HT to quad, 16 kB Primary, 1 MB Secondary

Board: Hewlett-Packard 08B8h

Bus Clock: 800 MHz

BIOS: Hewlett-Packard 786B7 v2.10 09/05/2006

Drives : Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) (2 TB)

Optical Drives : HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B, LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5239V

System Memory : 4 x 2 Gb DDR2 @ 400 MHz, 8 GB Usable Installed Memory

Graphics Card : Galaxy NVIDIA 8400 GS @ 512 MB of DDR3 VRAM

Audio : Onboard Soundmax HD

Network: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (Comcast 25 Mb/s)

 

Please feel free to email me at frogboygreen@comcast.net Thanx Billy Turner

[InsaneNutter]

Hey,

 

I have just installed OSX 10.6 on an Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR, everything was working perfectly until I installed the auto updates which updated OSX to version 10.6.4.

 

Sound just doesn't work now, can I fix this or will I have to re install and just not upgrade?

 

If I have to re install what would be the best version of Snow Leopard to update to, or would it be best not to upgrade?

 

Sorry the the newbie questions

[jramos03]

Hi Guys,

 

I've successfully installed Snow Leopard on 10.6.3 on my G41M-ES2L (f6) board. But after I installed the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] my ps2 keyboard and mouse didn't work anymore so I'm currently using USB mouse and keyboard. Do you have any idea on how I can make my ps2 mouse and keyboard work on my board?

 

Thanks!

[ProjectY]

Hey,

 

I have just installed OSX 10.6 on an Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR, everything was working perfectly until I installed the auto updates which updated OSX to version 10.6.4.

Sound just doesn't work now, can I fix this or will I have to re install and just not upgrade?

If I have to re install what would be the best version of Snow Leopard to update to, or would it be best not to upgrade? Sorry the the newbie questions

Hi InsaneNutter

 

The files here that will suit your Motherboard

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6098673/10.6.4%20T...EP45T-UD3LR.zip

 

Ray

[InsaneNutter]

Hi InsaneNutter

 

The files here that will suit your Motherboard

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6098673/10.6.4%20T...EP45T-UD3LR.zip

 

Ray

 

Hi Ray,

 

That worked perfectly, thanks very much!

 

Since last posting I have discovered one more problem I hope someone can advise about.

 

When i installed Kakewalk I unplugged my other hard drives, now if I try to boot OSX with my other drives connected OSX will take a long time to boot. After it has booted it will then hang on the desktop saying it can not mount either of the drives, the mouse and keyboard will not respond either.

 

I have 2x 250gig drives in Raid 0 with Windows 7 Installed and an additional 500gig drive with just downloads / backups on, all the drives are NTFS formatted.

 

Is it possible to just make OSX ignore the other drives?

 

At the moment I can only boot OSX successfully by unplugging the other 3 drives.

 

Thanks for any help.

[Homecoming]

Hi

 

I'm just about to embark on my very first build. I think I have everything in place but wonder about one issue. Some people have mentioned about CPU temperature and a piece of software to reduce it installed in OSX. Is this included in the Kakewalk package and if not can someone please tell me where i can obtain it?

 

Thanks

[eew]

I am running 920 stock speeds, with 6gb of ddr3 1600 on 10.6.4 via kakewalk 2.2 usb.

the ram is showing speeds of 1079 and seriously effecting performance when running geekbench.

does this mean i have bigger problems? what is the resolution? i have been searching like crazy,.

Thanks.

Eugene

[AkalPh00la]

Hey guys, I followed Going Bald's tutorial thing. I have an x58-ud3r motherboard, used the ud7 to make the SL disk boot. I installed SL and updated 10.6.2 and then 10.6.4. However, my ethernet is not working. I even tried to manually enable it in the system preferences, but it isn't even detecting or allowing me to add an ethernet connection, all it has is a firewire connection.... can you guys help me out.... Thanks....

[lion]

Hey guys, I followed Going Bald's tutorial thing. I have an x58-ud3r motherboard, used the ud7 to make the SL disk boot. I installed SL and updated 10.6.2 and then 10.6.4. However, my ethernet is not working. I even tried to manually enable it in the system preferences, but it isn't even detecting or allowing me to add an ethernet connection, all it has is a firewire connection.... can you guys help me out.... Thanks....

Did you try to switch off the unit wait for 1 mn and switch on again ,

 

Mine is sometimes buggy and i've to do this.

 

Good luck

[apple_core]

I am running 920 stock speeds, with 6gb of ddr3 1600 on 10.6.4 via kakewalk 2.2 usb.

the ram is showing speeds of 1079 and seriously effecting performance when running geekbench.

does this mean i have bigger problems? what is the resolution? i have been searching like crazy,.

Thanks.

Eugene

 

What motherboard are you using?

 

For my GA-EX58-UD5 I had to go into the BIOS and choose the option for the XMP profile for the RAM. That was all I did, enable that option. Then my RAM was detected pretty close in speed to the 1333 that it should be.

[lion]

Hi all,

 

Hackint0sh is working well, no KP for the time being...

It has sleep issue, it never goes to sleep on its own despite setting up to do so.

 

When i put it to sleep manually it does it but wake up 5 sec after, if i put it again to sleep manually then it works, till i reboot manual sleeping works, after reboot same cycle starts ...

 

Any idea ?

 

Thanks,

[Going Bald]

Hey guys, I followed Going Bald's tutorial thing. I have an x58-ud3r motherboard, used the ud7 to make the SL disk boot. I installed SL and updated 10.6.2 and then 10.6.4. However, my ethernet is not working. I even tried to manually enable it in the system preferences, but it isn't even detecting or allowing me to add an ethernet connection, all it has is a firewire connection.... can you guys help me out.... Thanks....

 

Look in S/L/E and see if you have the RealtekR1000SL.kext. If you don't, go to:

http://www.kexts.com/view/117-realtekr1000...!!.html

 

and download it. Drop in on kext utility and reboot.

[Going Bald]

Hey guys, I followed Going Bald's tutorial thing. I have an x58-ud3r motherboard, used the ud7 to make the SL disk boot. I installed SL and updated 10.6.2 and then 10.6.4. However, my ethernet is not working. I even tried to manually enable it in the system preferences, but it isn't even detecting or allowing me to add an ethernet connection, all it has is a firewire connection.... can you guys help me out.... Thanks....

 

 

Is that EX58-UD3R or X58A-UD3R??