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

[james728]

have you changed the raid setting in bios to AHCI? it should have something along the lines of RAID, AHCI, Native IDE, etc. this has to be set to AHCI

I can't seem to find that either on g41m-es2l

[tsponge]

unplug all your other drives

plug your drive into regular sata2 port

try again

 

 

I did try that.. No luck..

 

I then went ahead and disabled all unnecessary things in the BIOS.

Tried the installer again and same result

At this point I popped my W7 32Bit disc in and got to the installer and it did its thing, but after system restart, when the Windows booting GUI is present the system reboots... Same as on the Kakewalk installer... Upon starting the system in safe Mode I noted the system freezes/restarts on the disk.sys driver. This confirms my suspicion about it being a disc problem.

 

I had a thought that it may be the PSU, but according to the following link " http://support.asus.com/PowerSupplyCalcula...SLanguage=en-us "

 

My system is only using 550W of the 750W available... Despite this I changed the Graphics card for a smaller and power sipping Geforce 7300GS. With that config it should be using 350W

 

So I try boot with this config and same result as before in both Windows and Mac.. This is not looking good so far..

 

at this point it is point it is close to midnight so I decide to call it a day...

 

Then early this morning I quickly run through what I have done and all the outcomes so far and I decide that the next step is to change the HDD. So I swop the 160GB Samsung drive for a 250GB Seagate.. Also note that both HDD's appear to be working 100% as I can copy files both to and from them in a Ubuntu Live Environment.

 

The new HDD yields the same sad results as before..... Now I only have one other HDD that is empty. Its a 80GB 2.5" drive from a laptop upgrade I did a while back. I install the drive, boot the system up into the Kakewalk installer. I select my language, and go though all the required pages... Next thing I know the HDD is ticking away and the installer estimates that in 31 Minutes time I will have a new Hackintosh.. and it was right! I came back 30 minutes later and I have the a SL environment waiting for me to tell it my name, language and a couple other random pieces of info..

 

So I am glad this is sorted...

 

Wat has got me puzzled though is why the 2.5" drive worked while the 3.5" drive does not??? The only thing I can think of is that the 3.5" drive is using more power and for some reason the 12V rail in my psu that provides it with power is not doing its job so well.. I will test this later by using an external power source on a 3.5" drive and report back....

[invisiblesurfer]

Very much doubt that a 750W psu can't support a 3.5" drive. It should be able to carry dual SLI, 3 HHDs and at least 2 IDE/SATA drives (blueray / dvd-r / whatever)

[gvim]

I've had Snow Leopard running happily on a GA-EX58-UD5 for a few weeks now, thanks to Kakewalk. The only issue has been sleep. On waking it will perform normally for while then the system crashes randomly within about half an hour. So, I've had to forgo using sleep and the system has been stable so long as I don't activate sleep.

 

After a few weeks of stable use I've had a recent incident during which focus was switching rapidly between widgets in OpenOffice. I closed the app only to find the same thing in Thunderbird then in Finder. When I rebooted the Chameleon bootloader bypassed the 3 second default boot and went straight into the manual boot menu. It's never done that before and I haven't been able to recover the default boot since. Also, for the first time, the mouse began flickering at the login screen. As soon as I log in the flickering stops.

 

I've repaired permissions but the initial flickering mouse persists and there's still no default boot after 3 seconds in Chameleon. The 3 second default boot is no big deal it's just that I'm concerned about how it got that way and whether some underlying instability is starting to rear its ugly head.

 

Any ideas?

[tsponge]

Very much doubt that a 750W psu can't support a 3.5" drive. It should be able to carry dual SLI, 3 HHDs and at least 2 IDE/SATA drives (blueray / dvd-r / whatever)

 

 

I have to agree with you... and yet here I sit with a working SL hack that was only possible by using a 2.5" Sata drive

 

I connected a 3.5" drive back up while using a separate PSU and reboot still occurs, so the PSU is not the problem

 

I am running out of options here.... My thought now is that it may be the SATA controller or something?

[Donw35]

install issues resolved

 

I worked on a friends converted HP DC7700CMT, the problem was freezing on DMI and not continuing onto booting from the DVD after the initial install of SL. We identified two problems that caused this. In the bios the floppy disk was enabled, selecting "none" solved the stuck on DMI. The other problem we ran into that kept the process from continuing was the DVD drive, replacing it solved the boot issues and we were able to finish the process.

 

Hope this helps someone out there.

 

HP DC7700CMT convert process is just replacing the existing motherboard with the Gigabyte EP43-UD3L and a little case modification for fitment. see my site for details.

[tsponge]

I just wanted to post my success with Kakewalk CD Method. =)

 

I'm currently running my Hackintosh with -

 

Intel i7 920 2.66 ghz OC to 4.2 ghz 1.360v

Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 6 GB

Gigabyte X58A-UD5 with F5 BIOS

Western Digital Velociraptor 300 GB HDD

BFG nVidia Geforce GTX275 OC

 

All I did was use Kakewalk CD, popped in my Snow Leopard disk, installed OSX, installed Kakewalk in OSX for the Gigabyte X58A-UD7 (improperly typed as the EX58A-UD7), and then ran Apple's Update Software utility on 10.6.2. All is running well in my camp. Thank you so much for your hard work!

 

Only thing is that while I can choose between my front and rear channel speakers, they won't output to both for 5.1. But nevertheless, I have audio working, and the OS loves the components =3 Hopefully something will be done about this!

 

 

I am glad to see that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel... I ran the same x58a-ud7 and it would appear that I have no audio

 

I have not installed the 10.6.2 update though. Did your audio work before installing the update?

 

If so could you post you kexts?

[gvim]

I've had Snow Leopard running happily on a GA-EX58-UD5 for a few weeks now, thanks to Kakewalk. The only issue has been sleep. On waking it will perform normally for while then the system crashes randomly within about half an hour. So, I've had to forgo using sleep and the system has been stable so long as I don't activate sleep.

 

After a few weeks of stable use I've had a recent incident during which focus was switching rapidly between widgets in OpenOffice. I closed the app only to find the same thing in Thunderbird then in Finder. When I rebooted the Chameleon bootloader bypassed the 3 second default boot and went straight into the manual boot menu. It's never done that before and I haven't been able to recover the default boot since. Also, for the first time, the mouse began flickering at the login screen. As soon as I log in the flickering stops.

 

I've repaired permissions but the initial flickering mouse persists and there's still no default boot after 3 seconds in Chameleon. The 3 second default boot is no big deal it's just that I'm concerned about how it got that way and whether some underlying instability is starting to rear its ugly head.

 

Any ideas?

 

Dunno if this is what did it but I removed the hidden attributes on /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist and the 3-second autoboot has now restored itself. No more mouse flicker at the login screen either. Someone please explain, though, if you can. I had previously repaired permissions but that made no difference.

[PrinceDwi]

I am glad to see that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel... I ran the same x58a-ud7 and it would appear that I have no audio

 

I have not installed the 10.6.2 update though. Did your audio work before installing the update?

 

If so could you post you kexts?

 

I did not have audio until I updated to 10.6.2. No complications from updating, go right ahead and update =)

 

I also notice that even though the standby settings are set, it did not standby. It did, though, however, standby when I told it to through the apple menu. Apart from that, everything looks good, QE/CI working fine from what I see. Anyone know if Mac OSX supports CUDA HD playback through drivers or through an application? I'd like to test to see if that's working properly.

[san1ty]

Hey Great post detailing the steps you took on your GA-X58A-UD3R. I have the same motherboard and followed the steps outlined in your post and others to try and fix the audio issue. I have a question about the dstl.aml file part of your post. Did you just import Lyle's created dstl.aml into DSDTSE and not make any modifications to his code install it into your system? I'm a little fuzzy on the exact process to work with the dstl.aml files and I'm trying to get my head around them. Thanks for any info. Doug

 

I just followed that info also and got my sound working on my UD3R, thanks!

As for the DSDTE steps do this (I was a lot fuzzy on this also when I was doing mine, a little trial and error and I figured it out though).

 

1. Open DSDTE

2. Click Compare at the bottom

3. Click load 1 at the top and load your current DSDT.aml file from /Extras folder

4. Click load 2 at the top and load lyle's dsdt.aml file from wherever you saved it to when you downloaded it.

5. In the Locate drop down box at the top choose "Sound HDEF"

6. Copy everything from the right window starting at line 5683 to 5763 (should end in a right bracket } ) into the clipboard buffer (cmd-c).

7. In left window select from Device (HDEF) to the final right bracket of the Method DTGP,5 NotSerialized (this may vary depending on your current DSDT) If you hit "Name (BUFA, ResourceTemplate ()) then you went to far, back up just a line or two and you got it.

8. Paste over what you just selected (cmd-v) in the left window.

9. Click Compile DSDT in the left window

10. Check output for errors, fix any if needed (mine had no errors).

11. Finder window pops open with new dsdt.aml file in it, grab that and copy it over your old DSDT.aml file in /Extras (MAKE A BACKUP of your old DSDT.aml file FIRST!!!!!)

12. I then installed the 2 kexts and rebooted, sound showed up right away and worked perfectly, like the other posters I have no idea if I needed the kexts or not I just did them as per the directions from Lyle and it all worked.

 

Hope that helps all the DSDTE newbies since it was not super clear at first for me either.

[paulo dourado]

I just followed that info also and got my sound working on my UD3R, thanks!

As for the DSDTE steps do this (I was a lot fuzzy on this also when I was doing mine, a little trial and error and I figured it out though).

 

1. Open DSDTE

2. Click Compare at the bottom

3. Click load 1 at the top and load your current DSDT.aml file from /Extras folder

4. Click load 2 at the top and load lyle's dsdt.aml file from wherever you saved it to when you downloaded it.

5. In the Locate drop down box at the top choose "Sound HDEF"

6. Copy everything from the right window starting at line 5683 to 5763 (should end in a right bracket } ) into the clipboard buffer (cmd-c).

7. In left window select from Device (HDEF) to the final right bracket of the Method DTGP,5 NotSerialized (this may vary depending on your current DSDT) If you hit "Name (BUFA, ResourceTemplate ()) then you went to far, back up just a line or two and you got it.

8. Paste over what you just selected (cmd-v) in the left window.

9. Click Compile DSDT in the left window

10. Check output for errors, fix any if needed (mine had no errors).

11. Finder window pops open with new dsdt.aml file in it, grab that and copy it over your old DSDT.aml file in /Extras (MAKE A BACKUP of your old DSDT.aml file FIRST!!!!!)

12. I then installed the 2 kexts and rebooted, sound showed up right away and worked perfectly, like the other posters I have no idea if I needed the kexts or not I just did them as per the directions from Lyle and it all worked.

 

Hope that helps all the DSDTE newbies since it was not super clear at first for me either.

 

i gave this a shot but still no luck

edited the DSDT file to your specifications and got no errors

replaced both the KEXTS and then ran kext utility

then updated to 10.6.2 and ran again and still no luck

could you post your dsdt file so we could give that a shot?

also my motherboard has 2 cables that can be connected for audio one is labeled HD Audio and the other Realtek AC'97 which one should be plugged into the motherboard for the sound to work?

 

thanks a bunch in advance, paulo

[ddorbuck]

I just followed that info also and got my sound working on my UD3R, thanks!

As for the DSDTE steps do this (I was a lot fuzzy on this also when I was doing mine, a little trial and error and I figured it out though).

 

1. Open DSDTE

2. Click Compare at the bottom

3. Click load 1 at the top and load your current DSDT.aml file from /Extras folder

4. Click load 2 at the top and load lyle's dsdt.aml file from wherever you saved it to when you downloaded it.

5. In the Locate drop down box at the top choose "Sound HDEF"

6. Copy everything from the right window starting at line 5683 to 5763 (should end in a right bracket } ) into the clipboard buffer (cmd-c).

7. In left window select from Device (HDEF) to the final right bracket of the Method DTGP,5 NotSerialized (this may vary depending on your current DSDT) If you hit "Name (BUFA, ResourceTemplate ()) then you went to far, back up just a line or two and you got it.

8. Paste over what you just selected (cmd-v) in the left window.

9. Click Compile DSDT in the left window

10. Check output for errors, fix any if needed (mine had no errors).

11. Finder window pops open with new dsdt.aml file in it, grab that and copy it over your old DSDT.aml file in /Extras (MAKE A BACKUP of your old DSDT.aml file FIRST!!!!!)

12. I then installed the 2 kexts and rebooted, sound showed up right away and worked perfectly, like the other posters I have no idea if I needed the kexts or not I just did them as per the directions from Lyle and it all worked.

 

Hope that helps all the DSDTE newbies since it was not super clear at first for me either.

 

Hey san1ty. Thanks for the info. I will give it a shot this evening. What I did to get my sound working was visit the www.tonymacx86.com site and download the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] tool and insert the proper audio kext files into my system.

Check it out here. http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=401

 

I do question the stability on doing it this way over creating a clean DSDT file from my system and modify my settings uniquely like you just outlined. I have a feeling the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] tool may lead to some system instabilities once Apple releases a new 10.6.x update but I really do not have any proof on that. Im sure there are other more knowledgeable folks here who can talk on this.

 

Anyway thanks again for your message. Doug D

[mach_y]

Hi, I have the following setup:

 

EP45T-UD3LR motherboard

E6600 core 2 duo processor

SPARKLE|SXT240512D5-NM GT240 R video card

OCZ Agility 60GB SSD

 

I followed all the instructions, made the bios changes. Setup the USB thumbdrive exactly per instructions.

 

Boot begins off the USB drive, then I get the grey screen with apple logo and small spinning circle, about 20 seconds later, the screen goes dark. About 30 seconds later, the computer restarts.... and repeats the whole process.

 

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[ProjectY]

Hi, I have the following setup:

 

EP45T-UD3LR motherboard

E6600 core 2 duo processor

SPARKLE|SXT240512D5-NM GT240 R video card

OCZ Agility 60GB SSD

 

I followed all the instructions, made the bios changes. Setup the USB thumbdrive exactly per instructions.

 

Boot begins off the USB drive, then I get the grey screen with apple logo and small spinning circle, about 20 seconds later, the screen goes dark. About 30 seconds later, the computer restarts.... and repeats the whole process.

 

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

Hi mach_y

I have used the CD Method on the same Motherboard

and it worked first time ( I had to change to the other Video output on my video Card )

My config is at the bottom of this page

Good luck Ray

[mach_y]

Hi mach_y

I have used the CD Method on the same Motherboard

and it worked first time ( I had to change to the other Video output on my video Card )

My config is at the bottom of this page

Good luck Ray

 

Thanks Ray, I'll try it if I have to, but I don't see why a CD would be different from USB?

I chose both PCI and PEG for video out options in the BIOS... same result

 

Anyone else have any ideas? thanks!

[Shaolyen]

A nearly flawless installation on my EP45-DS3R (I selected Gigabyte EP45-DS3L during the install process).

 

The only issue is that I always get a kernel panic as soon as I wake it from sleep. Any ideas what might be the cause?

[paulo dourado]

Hey san1ty. Thanks for the info. I will give it a shot this evening. What I did to get my sound working was visit the www.tonymacx86.com site and download the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] tool and insert the proper audio kext files into my system.

Check it out here. http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=401

 

I do question the stability on doing it this way over creating a clean DSDT file from my system and modify my settings uniquely like you just outlined. I have a feeling the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] tool may lead to some system instabilities once Apple releases a new 10.6.x update but I really do not have any proof on that. Im sure there are other more knowledgeable folks here who can talk on this.

 

Anyway thanks again for your message. Doug D

 

 

did you try this with the X58A UD3R as I'm still having problems with that

[onthemoon.art]

HI everybody,

I have a i7 980x, with X58A UD3R, 12go DDR OCZ, 8800gt and 2x samsung raid edition 1TO.

I try to install SL with kakewalk, but when i start with the USB key, the install freeze directly at the APPLE screen (grey screen with the apple in center) after nothing.... i wait but NOTHING

 

i try with the bootloeader, and when a select a cd SL, the computer reboot... or message : EBIOS read error

 

I'm very desesperate, someone can help me ??

 

PLEEAAASSEEE

 

PS: sorry for the english

[ddorbuck]

did you try this with the X58A UD3R as I'm still having problems with that

 

Yeah, Full install with kakewalk selecting the X58A-UD7 motherboard in the kakewalk setup since the UD3 is not on the list and I made sure my X58A-UD3R was using the lastest bios F5. After the kakewalk install I updated to 10.6.2.

Next I installed [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] with the default tools selected along with the audio drivers for the ALC889 (not the A)

and make sure you select the 6 port config for your hardware outputs and deselect the 5 port one. I had to use the legacy drivers along with the HDA selection.

 

 

I rebooted and all was well for the audio.

[mach_y]

I tried again using the CD method, exact same result. -v shows nothing out of the ordinary... its like it gets to the part where it should initialize the display after the grey apple screen, and instead goes blank, followed by restarting the computer about 15 seconds later. USB and CD methods give exact same results.

 

Might this be an issue with the GT240 video card? I tried the myHack loader, and it got to a display, but it explicity sets nodisplay.

 

Sure enough, I replaced the GT240 with an 7600GS, and it got straight past the part it was restarting previously. Do I need to do something special for this card, or could it just be a bad card?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[mwilloam]

Just purchased parts for a Hack attempt and I'm stuck, not able to boot into the 10.6 installer. Here are my parts:

 

EP43-UD3L

e3200

Asus 8400gs

320g Sata drive

LG optical

2gigs crucial ram

500w PS

 

I used the Lifehacker guide with the Snow Leopard guide.

 

1. Created an Image of the 10.6 DVD

2. Restored it to a 8gig SanDisk flash drive

3. Ran the Kakewalk installer and selected the EP45-UD3L (figure it's compatible to the EP43)

4. Set bios accordingly

5. Plugged in Flash USB drive and started up and "Verifying DMI Pool Data ..... Update Success" is as far as I can get.

 

I've read every post possible online but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. This guide makes it seem pretty straight forward. Any assistance appreciated.

[propower]

New Build -- recovering efix user looking to improve.....

 

Gigabyte EX58-UD3R

i7 920

6G OCZ DDR3

Sony Optiarc

EN8400GS Silent

128G Kingston SSD (also tried 640G WD Caviar black)

$29 Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD

 

Using Kakewalk CD or USB same problem...

At 25 minutes left to go

"Install Failed..... Mac OSX could not be installed on your computer.... The installer could not copy the necessary support files.....

 

If I do custom install and leave off languages and printers get same problem at ~17 minutes to go

 

I used another SSD drive and did a "Digital Dreamer basic install that was successful.

 

Any ideas?????

 

Thanks,

-Lee

[paulo dourado]

Got the auido working on the UD3R, it shows my speakers as internal speakers so it's not perfect. Give [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] a shot guys. just be sure to click BOTH the drop down boxes and select 889 not the one with "a" at the end.

 

if that doesn't work try my DSDT.aml as well, just rename yours to DSDTbackup.aml so if you run into a kernel panic you can boot into your old one instead

 

here is mine

 

http://www.paulodourado.com/OSX/DSDT.zip

 

edit i ran into an error when i was first installing [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] saying the AppleHDA was messed up or something. i moved both appleHDA and legacyHDA out of their folders and then re-ra [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. currently AppleHDA isn't in its folder but I dont see any problems. this is what my sound output looks like now

 

[twa2009]

thanx a lot !!!

 

it works great , but i still have problems with mouselag...

 

i cant find a sollution for it.

 

i use the ATI4870 !

 

the pointer stop and go for seconds ...

 

i dont know because

 

Do you´ve got any sollutions???

 

greetz

 

RED

[paulo dourado]

thanx a lot !!!

 

it works great , but i still have problems with mouselag...

 

i cant find a sollution for it.

 

i use the ATI4870 !

 

the pointer stop and go for seconds ...

 

i dont know because

 

Do you´ve got any sollutions???

 

greetz

 

RED

 

try updating to 1.6.2