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[Phorte]

macdaddy1, on May 30 2010, 10:43 PM, said:

Have you tried post #14 from this forum for the sleep??

http://www.insanelym...p...t=0&start=0

so i gave everything in this thread a shot and it still does the exact same thing i have a feeling something changed in my rev2.0 and everyone else with the x58a-ud3r has rev1.0 still...

i'll just continue to wait and see. thanks again for the headsup on that one!

[Phorte]

Update: Saturday 5th of June, 2010

no real updates... still haven't resolved my sleep issues. i read somewhere that sleep might work if you disable legacy usb support. i gave this a shot and used a ps2 adaptor for my keyboard but the apple keyboard would not play ball with the ps2 adaptor.

ive also since added another 6gb of the exact same RAM so i'm now running 12GB (6x2GB) of G.Skill NQ DDR3-1600 RAM.

i also added a brand new 160GB WD SATA drive and have successfully installed windows7 onto using previous instructions (unpluged all OSX drives, to the windows install, then plug back in using main OSX bootloader to select OS's).

nullspot has create a new thread for the limited number of users who have the same X58A-UD3R rev 2.0 board as me here: http://www.insanelym...howtopic=220199

[Chynaman]

Hi Phorte,

I have a very similar setup as you do, ex58a-UD3R, Reve 2, i7 920. Sleep is also an issue, though not on the very top of the list. My problem is that I have 8 gigs of ram, under 32 bit (so that I can have network recognized), my system can only recognize 2 gigs of ram (check under both iStat widget and Activity Monitor) regardless of what "About This Mac" sez, and when I switched to 64 bit, I get 4 gigs of ram working.

Another major issue I have is that in iStat, my CPU temp ranges around 54 C and peaked at 64 C.

I am wondering what is your situation, have you noticed the same issue? And what is ur CPU temp?

I work on photoshop with very large files (most of time around 700 mb files, and quite often file size hopped over 1 gig), working with 2 gigs of ram slows the system significantly, and at high temp cpu, the system might run a tap slower.

please shine some light on me.

Thank you.

[Mackilroy]

With an X58 motherboard your RAM should come in triplets, not pairs - so you'd have either 6 GB or 12 GB. That's just for better speed, though - AFAIK that doesn't mean 8 GB won't work. Perhaps your RAM is faulty? I'm running Mac OS X in 64-bit and all six gigs of RAM that I have is recognized.

[Chynaman]

Hi Mackilroy, I did realize the ram came in trips, so in my pursue of finding a solution, I have taken out one stick of ram, and still only 2 gigs were recognized.

It is posible that my ram might be faulty, I will check with my supplier this weekend.

I do just want to confirm that when you said all 6 gigs of ram were recognized, you do mean that in activity monitor, it is showing 6 gigs?

Also, I know wer are running 2 quite different mobo and cpu, but what is your average temp of cpu?

[Mackilroy]

Odd. Yes, in Activity Monitor it shows six gigabytes, in System Profiler, in iStat – anywhere it's possible to see how much RAM I have, 6 GB is how much shows up.

I have the stock cooler, so right now I average ~130 F, or about 54 C. Planning on adding a nice cooler here to drop temperatures 15-20 C or so.

[AaronDCanuck]

THANK YOU!!  I have spent ALL day trying to get it to boot from the USB drive and I tried the same physical USB port you mentioned and it worked!!

Do you still have the Kakewalk 2.2 dmg you mentioned?  I had to use the EX58-UD5 drivers from the list in order to get it to boot.  The X58A-UD3R install seems to be missing the boot file and does nothing.

[Phorte]

UPDATE: Saturday 1st of October, 2011

ok so it's been over a year since i've been on here and i basically sat on 10.6.4 because it was working just fine. hackintosh has been running great EXCEPT for sleep and i just didn't bother tackling it any further because it isn't exactly a life-death need lol...

with the release of BF3 on PC (which i play in my windows partition), i've decided to upgrade my video card to a GTX580 (haven't installed yet) and thought it would be a good opportunity to upgrade to Lion.

process was all done in a span of just 2hrs or so and could not have been anymore easy!!! i was considering a fresh install but because so many people (hack and real apple) have been going the route of UPDATE to Lion, i thought i'd give it a go.

in summary:

• upgraded my MBP to 10.6.8 and purchased Lion (download) from app store
  
  
• downloaded Kakewalk 4.1 (thanks for such an amazing product) and created a kakewalk USB. took a few tries but I found that if i mounted a COPY of the install DMG from within the Lion app first, then createad the kakewalk USB from the original Lion install app, then the USB install wouldn't bomb out (it was complaining about unmounting the USB).
  
  
• i then performed the 10.6.8 update on my hackintosh, then applied kakewalk 4.1 to the HDD before rebooting.
  
  
• made sure everything was all hunky dory and confirmed again that my backups were all functioning.
  
  
• updated my BIOS to version FF (found some thread that had the FF bios DSDT but havent applied yet). this reset all my BIOS settings so i made sure they were all correct again.
  
  
• rebooted and booted off the kakewalk USB. ran the Lion install and installed it to my main system drive. left the install going for a while and came back to find the login screen.
  
  
• it finished at the login screen, so i logged in and immediately ran the kakewalk app again and applied it to the HDD. rebooted again just to make sure its ok to boot by itself.
  
  
• performed the 10.7.1 update and of course, applied kakewalk 4.1 to the HDD again before rebooting.

everything seems to be running fine now. i previously had issues with sleep and i havent tested it yet... but it seems that sleep has been resolved for a lot of people with the rev 2.0 of the X58A-UD3R board, so finger's crossed!

next thing to tackle is swapping out my GTX285 for my new GTX580. need to research a bit but it SEEMS that it should be straight forward and just a direct swap???


UPDATE: A little later...

damnit, i just installed a 10.7.x sleepenabler kext into /e/e/ but failed to read other threads that it causes kernel panics with 10.7.1.

also, didnt know i could use install disc to open up terminal to simply delete the kext. instead, im now re-running the Lion install/update all over again ahwell, lesson learned! no sleepenabler yet for 10.7.1!

[Phorte]

UPDATE: Sunday 2nd of October, 2011

sleep now works!! i used the following kext: http://www.kexts.com...do=file&id=1707. finally, my hack can go to sleep for the first time ever...

[Phorte]

UPDATE: Monday 3rd of October, 2011

video upgrade success! changed from the GTX285 to a GTX580, using the following kext: http://www.kexts.com...do=file&id=1699 and the following simple steps:

1. installed to s/l/e/ (drag directly into Kext Utility)

2. Edited com.apple.Boot.plist in /e/e/ and added the following tags:

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string></string>

3. shutdown and install the new card.

that's it...

next issue is that i find that when i go to sleep and wake up, the next time i reboot, my BIOS has been reset. ive noticed this happen to a few people so hopefully there should be a simple fix. apart from that, going to sleep and waking up works flawlessly each time. i notice that the BIOS has reset though because the full screen logo appears (i always have this turned off) so its easy to spot that its reset itself...

[Phorte]

Update: Tuesday 4th of October, 2011

ok the BIOS no longer resets after going to sleep after following this thread, more importantly, this post

in summary,

1. copy AppleRTC.kext from /s/l/e/ into /e/e/

2. open terminal and typed:

sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x75\x30\x44\x89\xf8|\xeb\x30\x44\x89\xf8|; s|\x75\x3d\x8b\x75\x08|\xeb\x3d\x8b\x75\x08|' /Extra/Extensions/AppleRTC.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleRTC

3. quit terminal, ran Kext Utility then rebooted.


HOWEVER, ever since doing this, ive been getting some random mouse freezing from time to time.. not sure if its due to this or not. it's stopped now so we'll see. so far, nothing else is outstanding. everything is running just as i intend for it to run!!!

this is the current specs:

Intel i7 920
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R (Rev 2.0)
12GB (6x2) DDR3-1600 G.Skill
1.5GB Inno3D GTX-580
Dell 3008FPW
Apogee Duet
OSX 10.7.1 via Kakewalk 4.1 USB

and the only additional kext's apart from what kakewalk install are the modified AppleRTC.kext for BIOS reset after sleep, the sleepenabler.kext for 10.7.1, and the GTX580 kext.

[Phorte]

Update: Thursday 17th May, 2012

Over half a a year later and running 10.7.1 with no issues, i've been playing Diablo3 in OSX (instead of my windows partition) because it runs fine. Got a few warnings to say that the new OSX updates will allow Diablo to run better so I decide to update via 10.7.4 combo. Only problem is, it crashes just at the end (when it prompts to restart) and I can't run Kakewalk.app prior to rebooting...

So I re-run my existing USB stick, and reinstall Lion over the top of my existing OS drive. Update to 10.7.4 combo, re-run Kakewalk and reboot. Everything is fine again. Nothing lost.

Managed to get a new 10.7.4 specific NVIDIA driver for my GTX580 and also fixed sleep again (this time, by removing NullCPUManagement.kext from /e/e/ and not using a sleepenabler.kext). Works fine! No additional kext's this time! BIOS does not reset after going to sleep anymore either.