Benjudas Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 After a long fight with my old, but big machine, I finally managed to work correctly Yosemite 10.10.5 in my XW8600 workstation. Again the problem was IOPCIFamily and ACPIPlatform, but overwriting the Yosemite IOPCIFamily binary with the old one from my other post (Mavericks 10.9.2 on HP XW8600 - Complete Desktops - InsanelyMac Forum), I could rebuild the cache and detect all devices. The balance of damage is: The processors are running a bit more warm than in Mavericks. Firewire did not want to work with the old IOPCIFamily, so I had to rescue IOFirewireFamily from 10.9.5. I lost AppleHDA functionality, so I'm using vooodoohda. Still can not sleep. (Same as in Mavericks) The rest is fully functional as I had at Mavericks. I am quite happy because even though lately I have not much time to play with my hackintosh, I finally got a fairly stable installation. The good thing was, that I found that is running AGPM (without mod plist) whenever using only two monitors. It breaks when I connect the third. I upload the kexts I've used. Good Hack! Kexts 10.10.5 XW8600 .zip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjudas Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 It does not work for me. Patched DSDT with layout 28, but no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjudas Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Amazing Rockey12!!! I just have to change codec id from your dsdt code, from 1 to 28, and it works like a charm. Lot of thanks. Have you got sleep working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjudas Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 ur welcome BenJudas let's make some noise did u try the EvOreboot.kext hahahaha! Let´s do it! No, I didn´t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjudas Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 What would you like to patch exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 HI Benjudas I see your first post I dont know if you have bios option FSB Optimisation = ON But for my DELL Precision 690 2X Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 (8M Cache, 2.66 GHz Before the change My first CPU 1 and 2 is at 61 to 65 and some time 71 with a big app running I just find a good solution today Enable in bios FSB Optimisation = ON And I put a Fan to the low back of the Computer to squeeze out the hot air. Now my result 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaggah Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 After a long fight with my old, but big machine, I finally managed to work correctly Yosemite 10.10.5 in my XW8600 workstation. Again the problem was IOPCIFamily and ACPIPlatform, but overwriting the Yosemite IOPCIFamily binary with the old one from my other post (Mavericks 10.9.2 on HP XW8600 - Complete Desktops - InsanelyMac Forum), I could rebuild the cache and detect all devices. The balance of damage is: The processors are running a bit more warm than in Mavericks. Firewire did not want to work with the old IOPCIFamily, so I had to rescue IOFirewireFamily from 10.9.5. I lost AppleHDA functionality, so I'm using vooodoohda. Still can not sleep. (Same as in Mavericks) The rest is fully functional as I had at Mavericks. I am quite happy because even though lately I have not much time to play with my hackintosh, I finally got a fairly stable installation. The good thing was, that I found that is running AGPM (without mod plist) whenever using only two monitors. It breaks when I connect the third. I upload the kexts I've used. Good Hack! That's great news, now i have hope that I could run Yosemite on mine. I'm just having a hard time getting my usb installer to be recognized though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamebox Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Thanks this work nice, but one problem no usb 2 or 3 working, anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjudas Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 Thanks this work nice, but one problem no usb 2 or 3 working, anyone help? Try to boot with "-F" option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdryyz Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Good work, Benjudas & Rockey! I didn't expect to see anything beyond Mavericks on this machine. I am not sure if I really want to install it after all the trouble with just getting Mavericks to work, but I may do so if I am bored some day. Incidentally, I am able to hot-swap my Firewire drives under Mavericks despite this being a known issue. I do not know when/how this started to work. It wasn't always this way. I still have no HDMI audio working. I know that will require a DSDT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaggah Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 @jdryyz How did you manage to install Mavericks on your xw8600? it seems like clover is no go with this workstation. Whats the proper settings for bios? I just updated my bios last night to version v1.46. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebysam Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Does anybody know a decent but cheap graphics card i can buy off ebay for osx yosemite? i don't mind second hand ones as long as it is compatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdryyz Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I followed Benjudas' steps in the xw8600 Mavericks thread for the most part. I had to do some things differently and it was kind of a pain to get through all the steps correctly but the end result was finally a stable system (could never get HDMI audio working). Problem is Mavericks is old now and I don't like getting Security Updates that break the system. I am happy to have recently found a real Mac Pro. That is not to say I have given up on Hackintoshing. You never know if the right hardware comes along....I may be temped to tinker again. @jdryyz How did you manage to install Mavericks on your xw8600? it seems like clover is no go with this workstation. Whats the proper settings for bios? I just updated my bios last night to version v1.46. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaggah Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I followed Benjudas' steps in the xw8600 Mavericks thread for the most part. I had to do some things differently and it was kind of a pain to get through all the steps correctly but the end result was finally a stable system (could never get HDMI audio working). Problem is Mavericks is old now and I don't like getting Security Updates that break the system. I am happy to have recently found a real Mac Pro. That is not to say I have given up on Hackintoshing. You never know if the right hardware comes along....I may be temped to tinker again. Oh ok, I love hackintosh(es). I refuse to buy a real mac. The esthetics are nice indeed but i think they're over priced imo so to each his own. Now, that doesnt mean if i found one at an unbeatable price, that i won't buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaggah Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Has anyone managed to get clover to work on this workstation yet? I'm not sure if this is really hard to do because my HP Z400 was the same issue with Clover or so i thought. But the devs here have made it possible to run latest MacOS El Capitan 10.11.5 via clover bootloader. After i initially installed and booted up to set my name and stuff with chameleon bootloader, I can't seem to ever get the machine to boot.. I'm always reaching this iobluetooth transport kernel panic every time. And if i so choose to boot with -v -f UsekernelCache=Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyolent Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 well you're doing better than i - i can't even get my xw8600 to boot off USB to do an install - keep kernel panic i've tried several different methods now but the chamelon/enoch seems to at least 'boot' so i can select options on my usb boot, only to receive a kernel panic anyway. my machine is an xw8600, x5470v2 xeon, 32GB, quadro fx5800 alot of folks use that 'other place' methods to boot ; however ; using that other places method - that 'uni****' will not even boot off USB! thoughts / advice, very welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyolent Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 so made some progress. after reading peoples experiences i grabbed 'myhack' down and mavericks. and i actually get to an installer (which still fails) but it fails because it doesn't see a hard disk. but at least i have some feedback to tell me what the heck is going on now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaggah Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Someone made a post earlier yesterday about getting Sierra on this workstation and it seems as though the trick to getting the hard drive to show is to use the AHCIPortInjector kext and to format the usb thumbdrive as mbr and not guid scheme. I've yet to turn on my workstation in over a year and change since yosemite days because i just simply couldn't get it to work no matter what i tried.. I'll definitely give it a try again because it's such a beautifully made machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaggah Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 I followed Benjudas' steps in the xw8600 Mavericks thread for the most part. I had to do some things differently and it was kind of a pain to get through all the steps correctly but the end result was finally a stable system (could never get HDMI audio working). Problem is Mavericks is old now and I don't like getting Security Updates that break the system. I am happy to have recently found a real Mac Pro. That is not to say I have given up on Hackintoshing. You never know if the right hardware comes along....I may be temped to tinker again. As soon as i change to an SSD, my xw8600 will be almost identical as yours. I've just managed to finally get Mac OS X El capitan to install on my workstation. After owning this machine for amost 2 years, I can honestly say that im quite happy with the outcome. It's fairly stable aside from proper sleep/wake issue. It goes to sleep just fine, but upon waking up, it just reboots. One interesting thing is that when the machine goes to sleep, the power led just stays lit and not blinking like the usual way on other machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaggah Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 well you're doing better than i - i can't even get my xw8600 to boot off USB to do an install - keep kernel panic i've tried several different methods now but the chamelon/enoch seems to at least 'boot' so i can select options on my usb boot, only to receive a kernel panic anyway. my machine is an xw8600, x5470v2 xeon, 32GB, quadro fx5800 alot of folks use that 'other place' methods to boot ; however ; using that other places method - that 'uni****' will not even boot off USB! thoughts / advice, very welcome You have the same CPU(s) as me. Which heatsink are you using? The tall single fan high performance ones or the regular ones that came with the machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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