EP45-UD3P MyHack Success & Rough Guide

[ainsleyclark]

Started of trying to boot my leopard drive the other day and I had been locked out, it didn't love me anymore.

I tried for days trying to install Mavericks on to my HDD with no avial; I finally succeeded last night. So I thought I would share the method I used to see if it helped anybody.

I'm no expert but hopefully someone will use this. 

 

Setup:

 

1 x Samsung 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter Black.

1 x Coolermaster 500W Extreme PSU with 12cm.

1 x Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Quad Core CPU 2.83GHz L2 Cache 12MB 1333MHz LGA775.

1 x Gigabyte 9500GT SLI 512MB GDDR2 PCI-E DVI.

1 x Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64Bit OEM with Windows 7 upgrade voucher.

3 x ELIXIR memory 2GB DDR2 800 PC6400 RAM.

1 x NZXT Case Apollo black ATX midi tower NO PSU.

1 x Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Ultra Durable 3 Motherboard (P45 Express Chipset).

2 x Western Digital 500GB hard disk drive Caviar SE16 SATA II 300 7200rpm 16MB.

1 x Opti-ups Internal Card Reader UCR36IN1B USB2.0 BLK for CF/SD/MS/Micro

2 x Akasa SATA II Silver HDD cable with Secure Latch.

 

Installing OSX using MyHack:

 

1) Download Mavericks from the App Store:

I tried for hours to get AppStore working, as it my computer wasnt verified. I ended up downloading it on my friends MacBook.

Make sure Install OS X Mavericks.app is place in /Applications Folder. 

 

2) Download and follow MyHacks Guide to create a Bootable USB:

Found here: http://myhack.sojugarden.com/guide/

Note - I tried to partition my thumb drive as MBR and patched MBR support at the end of instillation of my hack.

This gave me huge errors when trying to install 10.9 so I went back and partitioned it as GUID and selected NO when MyHack asks you for MBR support.

Ensure your BIOS settings are the way Mavericks wants them to be. All listed in the above link and boot from the USB.

 

3) Installing Mavericks:

I tried my luck at booting Mavericks just with -v boot flag but my screen went blank, after it had loaded.

Presumably it was something to do with the graphics card. After lots of combinations.It finally worked with this (I also only used one stick of ram):

-v -x -f GraphicsEnabler=Yes IGP=Enabler=No PCIRootUID=1

 

I was seriously bored at work and emailed the following to myself, its success stories from other posts.

If yours doesnt work try some of the combinations at work:

-v PCIRootUID=0 GraphicsEnabler=Yes IGPEnabler=No

GraphicsEnabler=Yes PciRootUID=0 -v

I did it on my friends PC, with PCIRootUID=1 GraphicsEnabler=Yes .

boot: -x GraphicsEnabler=Yes IGPEnabler=Yes

I solved this issue on my parents' build by using "GraphicsEnabler=Yes, IGPEnabler=No" 

PciRoot=0 npci=0x2000 GraphicsEnabler=Yes -

 

Proceeded into the install page and used disk utility to format my leopard drive to GUID and installed.

At this point it hanged with 'less than a minute' to install. So I waited and waited and waited. Then it rebooted. Boom.

I booted from the USB drive and then into the Mavericks HDD.

 

4) Post Install

As expected nothing worked out of the box apart from my Graphics Card funnily enough.

Nvidia 9500GT 512GB seemed to be looking great. full QI/CE, in spite rumors that there's problems with it. 

After the boot I used something to install lnx2mac RTL81xx support and the DSDT attached; which can be found here:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-lion-desktop-support/62630-ep45-ud3p-success-2.html

I didn't have the knowledge or patient to patch my own DSDT and this one seems to be working fine (F8 BIOS).

Downloaded and installed the 10.9.4 combo updated, rebooted.

Done - just fiddled around with the themes and chameleon boot preferences. 

The Mac Pro 3.1 profile is working like a dream. does anyone know if this influences Mac App Store validity?

 

The only problem I'm having is an authorization message in IMessage, I have seen tonymacs huge long thread but cant find the answer im looking for. Any Ideas?

Thanks again Hackintosh community!

 

 

 

[nghthien]

I'm patched dsdt working fine (EP45-UD3P F10 Bios )

DSDT.aml.zip