MacAllah Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Hello! So, a year ago I built my first Hackintosh with Leopard and a 945G chipset board from Foxconn. Everything worked perfectly with the generic boot-cd install method. My best friend built a computer, too, and we want to put Snow Leopard on it, but for the past two weeks everything we've done has failed. Please read ahead and help: Computer specs: - Asus Maximus II Formula (P45) - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 - EVGA GTX 260 896 MB - On-board "SupremeFX X-Fi" Audio Today Chameleon 2.0 RC Three (http://chameleon.osx86.hu/articles/chameleon-20-rc3-with-snow-leopard-and-large-disk-support) was released and I'm pretty sure we need these for the video card (http://netkas.org/?p=105), but beyond that we don't know which kexts we need and where to put them. I know there's like FakeSMC and dsmos and all of that, but if anyone knows what is needed for the mobo and if anyone else knows what's needed for the videocard that would be great. I've read countless step-by-step walk throughs and none of them work. They all assume I know which kexts I need, but I don't. Help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richtig Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Hello! So, a year ago I built my first Hackintosh with Leopard and a 945G chipset board from Foxconn. Everything worked perfectly with the generic boot-cd install method. My best friend built a computer, too, and we want to put Snow Leopard on it, but for the past two weeks everything we've done has failed. Please read ahead and help: Computer specs: - Asus Maximus II Formula (P45) - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 - EVGA GTX 260 896 MB - On-board "SupremeFX X-Fi" Audio Today Chameleon 2.0 RC Three (http://chameleon.osx86.hu/articles/chameleon-20-rc3-with-snow-leopard-and-large-disk-support) was released and I'm pretty sure we need these for the video card (http://netkas.org/?p=105), but beyond that we don't know which kexts we need and where to put them. I know there's like FakeSMC and dsmos and all of that, but if anyone knows what is needed for the mobo and if anyone else knows what's needed for the videocard that would be great. I've read countless step-by-step walk throughs and none of them work. They all assume I know which kexts I need, but I don't. Help? There's no OSX drivers for the X-Fi, AFAIK. Probably best to disable that (in bios setup). Replace with an external USB audio device. I recommend installing iDeneb 10.5.8, on the 2nd partition (if planning to use a single HD), with the 1st partition reserved for later (Snow Leopard). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gounah Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 There's no OSX drivers for the X-Fi, AFAIK. Probably best to disable that (in bios setup).Replace with an external USB audio device. I recommend installing iDeneb 10.5.8, on the 2nd partition (if planning to use a single HD), with the 1st partition reserved for later (Snow Leopard). There is a driver for the AD2000B under Snow Leopard... And it works VERY WELL... Look HERE... Even the digital out works pretty well... Snow_Leopard_AD2000b.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yehia2amer Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 i have the same problem i cant install SL on this MB the problem is not the audio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacAllah Posted September 16, 2009 Author Share Posted September 16, 2009 i have the same problem i cant install SL on this MB the problem is not the audio So, we finally figured out a work around: 1) Use USB thumb drive or HD as a Chameleon rc3 + Snow Leopard "restore" 2) REPLACE the GTX 260 with another video card 3) Boot up and install Snow Leopard w/ Chameleon on the HD for booting without USB/external HD 4) Download and install the GTX 260 drivers from netkas 5) Shutdown, swap out alternative video card for the GTX 260 and reboot 6) If all goes well, you'll boot up into OS X with QE/CI enabled After all that install the drivers for the audio and onboard LAN and you're good to go. Took us about two weeks and the purchase of a $50 ASUS 9600 GSO 1 GB, but it worked and I'm using the videocard in a computer for another friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yehia2amer Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 i found this link it contain all kexts for the MB for snow leopard it may help Maximus II Formula Drivers for Snow Leopard (32bit) enjoy , and if it work well please tell me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gounah Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 i found this link it contain all kexts for the MB for snow leopard it may help Maximus II Formula Drivers for Snow Leopard (32bit) enjoy , and if it work well please tell me Its 32bit and 64bit... Megaupload don't display the whole description... Too much characters... i have the same problem i cant install SL on this MB the problem is not the audio Have you tried the "fixes BIOS"? http://www.osxcores.site50.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oSxFr33k Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 I have the Maximus Formula X38 chipset. The Audio is the same as the MFII and most likely the SATA etc but I am sure the chipsets are different. Yours is P45 mine is X38. Is there a link for the Lan drivers for mine? I have the Dual GB Lan. Maybe they are the same as yours not sure? What about your DSDT, did you create one which I have heard you need to do to get Snow Working? There are like 4 methods I have seen so far to install Snow and not sure which is best? 1) Looks like a Good one and maybe similar to your method? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183751 2) Boot CD Maker (General One) 3) Boot Think 2.3 4) Boot 132 method by kdetech 5) Boot 132 method by FlashGX 6) The Retore Method as you did but with making a DSDT. 7) A Gigabyte board with the same chipset as mine P45 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=186065 8) Very Complex method for the P45 Gigabyte way http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181903 9) Generic Install Method http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182227 You can see a lot of methods out there. I need to know which is best to use for the Maximus Formula X38 Board and a link for the drivers. Using a Nvidia 7300GT for now and an MSI 9800GT in my other. I heard the 9800GT should work real well. The 7300GT should also work really well. So I guess I am asking which method to install and which drivers and is a DSDT necessary or can I just use the injectors or Voodoo for Graphics and Audio? What about the kernel? Vanilla kernel works fine? Will the new qoops 9.8 v2 work well? I Like running the Voodoo kernels. I heard that DSDT can screw up the Bios? I need to read up more on the DSDT and Chameleon RC3 to really get a general Idea why DSDT and why an /extra folder with your own kexts? Also the Kernel 32/64 bit? the ACPIPlatform and Sata/JMicron Pata 32/64 bit wise kexts as well as Intel ICH9 Hub, which you may be at ICH10 Hub? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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