Dysphoria Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 DX58SO GUIDE - Revision 02 Hello everyone! - I will be posting in the New Users Lounge until I can post elsewhere Over the last few months (years?) I have been trying to get this motherboard working using various methods with various forms of success. I have compiled quite a bit of trial-and-error knowledge about this motherboard and quite a bit of interesting information and help form other users on this forum and thought it might be a nice idea to gather all this information here. Thanks go out to: Juiceman, User_02, Raul Fernandez and tonymacx86 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- My System: - Intel DX58SO - 3x DDR3 1333MHz - 2x NVidia GeForce 260GTX (216 variety) - TSSCorp DVD-Drive - WD 1TB S-ATA harddisk - Intel 80GB SSD 1 What you need - An Intel DX58SO Motherboard with an Intel i7 CPU (I used the latest 5456 BIOS) - A retail OS X Snow Leopard DVD (I used the retail 10.6.0) - A working bootcd to boot the Snow Leopard DVD (Scroll down for more information) - A USB stick or CD to contain needed drivers and packages for after installation. - A Spare harddisk for installation, I did not have any other OS on my OSX harddisk. 2 Bios Settings Lots of guides advice to only use 1 core and no HyperThreading. My system installed fine with ALL 4 cores active and HyperThreading active. I also enabled VT, Turbo/Speedstep, and ALL power management features including those for the PCIe. Be sure to configure your S-ATA controller to use AHCI! I have not tried IDE but I do know that setting it to RAID made the Installation unable to detect my harddisks and dvd-drives. UEFI boot is turned off on my system but it might work when it's on. 3 The boot CD I've tried multiple installation methods in the past but found that this one worked best for me. I stumbled upon the blog of a guy called tonymacx86 who released a bootCD compatible with the DX58SO called [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. You can visit his blog for more information and download links. I'm not sure if I am allowed to post links on this forum but if you google for tonymacx86 you'll find his page. The bootcd that worked for me is called [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-supported. The [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for NVIDIA gave my cards some trouble and wouldn't show any video. [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-supported worked fine. I have 2 GeForce 260GTX cards in my system connected with an SLI bridge. The boot CD will NOT work with both of the videocards in the system. With only one card though it boots up fine and even uses the correct resolution for my screen. You can fix the second videocard after setup. Download the CD image and burn it to a CD. Boot up your PC from the CD and wait for the disk selection menu to show up. Take out the boot CD and insert your Retail OSX DVD. Wait a few seconds for your DVD drive to spin up and press F5 to refresh the disk selection screen. It should now show the OSX DVD as a boot disk. Select the OSX DVD and press enter to boot (You can boot with -v if you want to see whats happening). 4 Installation Installation is pretty straightforward, use the Disk Utility to format your harddisk. I used GUID partitioning. Follow the steps on screen to setup OSX, you might want to customize the setup to save yourself some diskspace. Once the setup has finished you can reboot your system. Be sure to boot from the bootCD again as there is no bootloader installed yet! 5 Booting your system Boot from the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] CD and select your harddisk from the boot menu. You can boot it with -v to see what's happening. In my case the system booted just fine and even had full videocard support. Follow the onscreen instructions to create your user account. Once the system has booted you will notice a lot of things already work! In my case the on-board network card was working too. 6 Updating OSX and installing drivers and the bootloader Since we installed a 10.6.0 system we need to update it to 10.6.4. We also need to install a proper bootloader to boot the system without having to use the bootCD and we have to install all the drivers. You can download the 10.6.4 combo update from the apple website. Install it, but do not reboot the system yet. Next, we need to install a bootloader and driver kexts. A very friendly forum-user has supplied us with an installer package for this! Thankyou Raul Fernandez! http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=231993 Download the driver package and install it, the installer will suggest you to download the Chameleon RC5 bootloader first. Click the link, download it and install it. After that continue the driver package installation. I selected the following packages Essential - DSDT - FakeSMC 2.5 com.apple.boot.plist - 64-bits Apple Boot Screen smbios.plist - DDR3 1333 Mhz Please note that I did not try the network card driver contained in this package. I used the Network and Audio drivers from this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...9712&st=120 If you cannot get the audio to work you might try VoodooHDA. Which has worked for me on this motherboard. After installation, reboot your system and remove the bootCD. Your system should boot from the Chameleon bootloader! If you have trouble with your videocard you might want to edit your com.apple.Boot.plist in /Extra. By default, GraphicsEnabler is set to Yes. This might cause troubles on some systems. For my single GTX260 it worked perfectly though! If you are using 2 GTX260 cards you will have to use an EFI string. This is the first guide I've written and the first revision of this guide. If you find any mistakes in my guide or have suggestions/questions, feel free to PM or reply to this topic. EDIT: Performance in geekbench is pretty good after installing the drivers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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