Snow Leopard Install for Asus P6X58D Premium

[Slamminman756]

All of your problems revolve around the graphics card. GTX 4XX SERIES AND ATI RADEON 5XXX are not yet supported by Mac OSX. You must use a Radeon 4xxx or GTX 2xx to get installation working.

 

learn2read.

[rlf]

USB 3.0

It appears that LaCie has written a USB 3.0 driver compatible with this board. It displays correct information in the IO Registry but I don't have any USB 3.0 devices available to test it.

 

Read about the driver here: http://www.lacie.com/more/index.htm?id=10112

 

The link for the driver is about half way down that page, here: http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/LaCi....0%20Driver.dmg

 

 

 

10.6.5

Would be interested in any info about installing 10.6.5. Member mac.5 had this to say:

 

Mostly works on P6X58D-E using the combo update. Audio, as usual, is affected. My USB speakers still work so it looks like my USB is OK too. About this mac shows 10.6.5. I do not notice any performance increase.

[daskog]

All of your problems revolve around the graphics card. GTX 4XX SERIES AND ATI RADEON 5XXX are not yet supported by Mac OSX. You must use a Radeon 4xxx or GTX 2xx to get installation working.

 

learn2read.

 

What do you mean by ATI RADEON 5XXX do not work? i am typing this from a machine with 5770 card!

 

 

To boot with a unsupported card, try booting with GraphicsEnabler=n

Then you can go all the way under installation.

[A320]

What do you mean by ATI RADEON 5XXX do not work? i am typing this from a machine with 5770 card!

 

 

To boot with a unsupported card, try booting with GraphicsEnabler=n

Then you can go all the way under installation.

 

Is this why no matter what I do I keep getting "still waiting for root device" when attempting to install?

 

I have a 5870

 

I am using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] "Unified" 2.5.1 (for ALL vid cards)

 

and a copy of 10.6.3 (Hotiso's)

 

and ANY help would me much appreciated, I can't get it to the installation screen.

[A320]

I tried HotISO's v10.6.3 today and get the following when trying to install, after using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 'unified' 2.5.1

 

[agentemo1]

I tried HotISO's v10.6.3 today and get the following when trying to install, after using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 'unified' 2.5.1

 

 

same problem with all the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] versions.

[daskog]

Have you even looked here? Link

[MiddleBrooker]

Hi,

sorry for the question but I would like to install snow leopard on my P6X58D-E with BFG Nvidia 8800GTX and 2TB WD hard drive.

 

I've attached the SATA DVD on port1 and the hard drive to the port2, the boot-123 CDROM is loading fine but after the (5 min) initial extension loading the system reboot every time.

 

I can't get into the installation procedure with the language selection menu.

 

Any idea?!

THANKS!!!

[Pakun]

Wow. I'm glad to see this thread has been so helpful to so many people! I remember posting way back before I owned the board and even knew how to create a hackintosh. I have spent many long nights trying to get my rig just right... I am very close. Essentially all that is left is getting sleep and microphone to work as well as adding to more SSDs to my RAID 0 array.

 

My current setup that I will be making a Step-by-step guide for within the next two months is:

 

ASUS P6X58D Premium logic board

Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.2 GHz - 4.1 GHz

2 x 40 GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD (Apple Software RAID 0 - 32Kb cluster size)

12 GB Crosair DDR3 @ 1600 MHz

Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity Edition

300 GB WD Velociraptor Windows 7 x64 (for SC2 and FFXIV gaming)

 

Awesome sauce:

-10.6.5

-USB 3.0 works

-64 bit kernel works

-Boot from RAID

-HD 5870 rocks

-geekbench ~14,000 points

 

Losersauce:

The logic board doesn't support RAID with the Sata III controller (hardware)

Microphone in SL?

Sleep? It worked a long time ago before my rig was at the point its at now.

 

Future outlook:

-Improved performance from two more OWC SSDs in RAID 0 (4x40GB)

-Core i7 980x when the price drops!

[Stofchi]

Pakun I have almost the exact same setup as you, but how did you get it to work in 64bit mode?

 

That one still escapes me?

 

Also do you have your 5870 running in 64 bit as well? Where did you find Kext for that?

[Pakun]

It isn't a modified kext. It is Apple's ATI kext that was released in 10.6.5. What you have to do is use the graphics enabler to inject your info at boot up (luckily this is handled automatically with graphics enabler). The only tricky thing is you need to use a newer chameleon boot file that supports the 5XXX series. Someone added the newer card models and recompiled the source code. If you download the latest [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] from Tonymac86's website you will see the "experimental" ATI 5XXX boot-loader as an option. Use that one, remove ATY_Init, and set GraphicsEnabler=Yes in your boot.plist, and of course, set a kernel flag for 64 bit mode. Rebuild your mkext and repair permissions. Also, you may need to toy around with AtiFb flag. I have the Sapphire 5870 and use AtiFb=Uakari. Zonalis and Baboon also worked for me. Sorry for the sloppy message but I am in a hurry! Peace.

[Stofchi]

Thanks Pakun, I think I can do most of it. I will download the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], I've been looking at it anyway, but I'm not too sure about setting the kernel flag. Is that arch=x64 or something like that?

 

When you get a chance.

 

Actually it worked, without having to set anything on my part. I'm in 64bit heaven baby. Gotta run a speed check and see what I get.

[Pakun]

I got around ~13,800 score on geekbench. That is overclocked to 3.9 GHz. Now, a very interesting thing I notived with these geekebench results (or your hackintosh running in general) is that if your smbios isn't configured properly you can experience very low scores.

 

For instance, if I messed up my ComputerType and have it set at iMac1,1 or MacPro1,1 when it should be MacPro 4,1 I will reach a ceiling of 8k on geekbench. As soon as I switch it to MacPro 4,1 (I think this chooses the correct useable cores or the CPU type.. not sure maybe just an API) I break that ceiling by a lot. So, it's safe to say you should be using MacPro4,1 in your system bios file. Just some FYI that I learned the hard way :-)

 

Glad you are in 64 bit heaven!!

[banini_jeque]

So you guys have speedstep working on these and you can boot without NullCPUPM right? I have the EVGA X58 SLI3 right now and it can't do that, so I'm looking to maybe switch to one of the P6X58Ds, or the P6T6, but from what I've seen, all the guides are running NullCPUPM, so I hope it's not a requirement on those boards too. I guess I could get a Gigabyte, but I don't like the looks right now.

[Achromatic]

My current setup that I will be making a Step-by-step guide for within the next two months is:

 

I'm still struggling. Using r651 of [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]... "-x -v arch=i386 GraphicsEnabler=no" on my i7 950 with a 5870 I can't even install, kernel panic... "pmap_steal_memory"...

 

Not even sure where to try from here... any thoughts, anyone?

[J0EJITSU]

So has there been any new updates yet?

Still looks a little complicated for this board and graphics card.

I have a P6X58D Premium, 12GB Corsair Dominator DD3 ram, (2) 2TB Samsung F3 hard drives, Saphire Radeon 5750HD Graphics Card and 650w Corsair PSU, i7 920.

Im hoping there is a simpler way to do this. Thanks guys

[A320]

I'm still waiting for that guide 'Pakun' mentioned he'd make last month. I have a 5870 graphics card as well and want to get this {censored} runnin.

[smidge]

hey guys i've got a similar setup

 

p6x58d-e / i7 930 / 1600mhz Kingston Hyper X

 

but i can't seem to get above 9000 on geekbench with stock settings (apart from ram timing)

 

temperature sits around 45idle / 65load

 

should i delve into overclocking this beast or am i better off doing a proper DSDT re-install with the latest stuff around here, is that likely to affect my geekbench scores?

[A320]

ok so it has taken me weeks of trial and error to figure out how to get past the "still waiting for root device" error.

 

Turns out your SATA DVD drive MUST be in Port 1 on your mobo.

 

So now I make it all the way to the installation screen (FINALLY!) but I have a new issue now, my mouse doesn't work and right after the first screen where you select your language, it all freezes up on the next one.

 

Anyone come across this? I searched this thread and other places and could not find the answer.

 

Is it something in my BIOS? USB Settings perhaps? I tried a PS2 mouse too but same problems.

 

Thanks all for the good info/guides here.

 

-I'm using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 2.6 with 10.6.3 disk.

-I have an ATI5870 with 'Eyefinity' (3 monitors hooked up)

[A320]

ok so I've gotten past my mouse/keyboard issue. Now yet another obstacle! The drive I intend on installing 10.6 on is a Seagate 80GB. I cannot erase/format the drive to "Extended Journaled", after I start the process it seems like it's working for awhile, then when it gets to "partitioning" the progress indictaor gets a quarter of the way up and never moves again.

 

Someone help please. The drive is formatted as NTFS prior.

 

****UPDATE, SOLVED once I unplugged my Logitech webcam from the back, these errors all went away! Lesson learned, remove ALL extra hardware/peripherals from your PC until you have COMPLETED installation first.

[A320]

Finally Success!

 

ASUS P6X58D-E w/i7 950 and ATI 5870

 

Running Leopard 10.6.6 with 950 OC'd to 3.8 Ghz and 3 monitor setup on the ATI 5870

 

Key ingredients:

 

- [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 2.6

- Chameleon RC5 700 ATI Experimental

- [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 3.2

[verdi1987]

Has anyone gotten the SPDIF (either optical or digital) outputs to work on this motherboard? I am running 10.6.6 and tried the Realtek 889 kext along with HDAEnabler and the AppleHDA 10.6.2 rollback in the latest [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. VoodooHDA works, but I'd like to get AppleHDA working if possible.

[this.impetus]

Finally Success!

 

ASUS P6X58D-E w/i7 950 and ATI 5870

 

Running Leopard 10.6.6 with 950 OC'd to 3.8 Ghz and 3 monitor setup on the ATI 5870

 

Key ingredients:

 

- [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 2.6

- Chameleon RC5 700 ATI Experimental

- [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 3.2

 

Could I trouble you to walk me through what you've done fairly explicitly? I have identical hardware but I'm a bit of a nub when it comes to computers at the OS-installation/hardware configuration level (I do web development). I've been trying for weeks off and on and can never get fully set-up. I've got all the software you reccomended. What, exactly, was your procedure?

[A320]

Could I trouble you to walk me through what you've done fairly explicitly? I have identical hardware but I'm a bit of a nub when it comes to computers at the OS-installation/hardware configuration level (I do web development). I've been trying for weeks off and on and can never get fully set-up. I've got all the software you reccomended. What, exactly, was your procedure?

 

 

I'll see what I can do, it's been some time since I did the install. Give me a day.

 

 

 

**********Here you go! Took some time but hope it helps.

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=253501

[Chamezz]

Hi guys, first post here!

 

I'm trying out hackintosh, and everytime my Snow Leopard install finishes I get the "Cannot start up from partition 'System'". Now that this has happened 4 times, my systemhdd won't show up in the Chameleon that comes with BootCD. So now, everytime after I choose to run the Snow Leopard-install from the USB-drive, it results in kernel panic since it can't find any hdd.

 

I'm running both the BootCD and Snow Leopard install from USB-drives, the hdd is partitioned with GUID as filesystem and Mac OSX Extended (Journalled) since the previous tries.

 

What I've tried is:

 

*Switch from the Marvell- to the Intel-controller for SATA-drives

*Reset bios to default and only change the SATA-mode to AHCI, since the OSX-install wouldn't recognize any harddrive with the default mode which is IDE.

 

My setup:

*Intel Core i7 930

*Asus P6X58D-E

*3x2GB Corsair Dominator GT

*Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD4670 1GB

 

Now all I get is kernel panic after choosing to run the Snow Leopard-install from my USB-drive.

 

If anyone has suggestions on how to fix this, that would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Kind regards,

Chamezz