Shanems3 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 After about 2 weeks of Trying... I have finally succeeded in installing leopard on this pc. before i get into it.. Here are the Specs Asus z7s ws Dual lga771 motherboard (bios rev. 401) 2 Intel Xeon 5110 1.6ghz CPU Overclocked to 2.1Ghz 8Ghz FBDIMM DDR2 667mhz ram (overclocked to 1.068Ghz) Ati 1900GT (fully working) ALC 888 Audio( applied kext from Ideneb Disk) Lan (works out of box) Koolance Watercooling kit with Thermaltake Radiator ** another radiator is on its way, along with a Northbridge waterblock Thermaltake Computer case* on its way, not in yet October 30 is due day for delivery 750watt PSU (thermaltake toughpower) 4 Sata 250HDDs (will soon do a strip software raid between them) 1 Sata TB HDD (Swap drive, where windows shares with mac) 2 SCSI 147gb Striped raid (windows vista 64 Drive) 2 SCSI 73GB Striped raid (windows storage, For games) Soon to change will be the video card. Havent decided on what Video card. Bios settings need to install mac Disable Firewire Disable Serial port ACPI APIC must be disabled ACPI 2.0 must be Enabled Sata controller set to ACHI I used IDeneb 10.5.5, but Kalyway 10.5.2 works to. Used vanilla kernal ACPI-FIX must be used. This is what fixed my booting problems(freezing at Mac Framework Successfully Initialized) Added ALC888 Driver Installed Various software Booted just fine into Mac from there. Everything worked except for my video card, (no kext loaded yet) Searched forum for files for x1900gt, Used Kexthelper to install them. Rebooted. Everything supported. Here some pictures. First_SCreenshot.tiff hard_drive.tiff videocard.tiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanems3 Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 Just swapped out CPU's for some x5450 3ghz Quad cores... so thats a grand total of 8 cores.... wow. this thing now moves!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX_ZWS Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Hey I appreciate your post. I tried installing OSX on this motherboard a few months back, and was unsuccessful. It would freeze during Darwin boot. I beleive the ACPI-FIX would take care of my problem. I am new to the OSx86 project, and was wandering if you could explain exactly what that is, and how you apply it. Thanks!!!! Sorry, I meant what the ACPI-FIX is. Last post read a little confusing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Munkey Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Ok, so 1. I disabled fire wire and serial 2. disabled ACPI APIC 3. ACPI 2.0 already enabled 4. sata set to ACHI 5. Installed with vanilla kernel and ACPI patches from Kalyway 10.5.2 and rebooted after installed. Problems i encountered. 1st boot: no commands = Apple logo > Restart Error 2nd Boot: -v = Black screen 3rd Boot: -x = Apple logo > Restart Error Any help here? Mobo Asus Z7S WS Cpu's: Dual(2) Intel Xeon E5420s 2.5GHz Quadcore Ram: 2Gb FBDIMM DDR2 PC2-5300 Gfx: Nvidia Geforce 9800 GX2 1Gb Sound: Creative X-fi Fatal1ty HDDs: 2X 250Gb Sata 2X 200 Sata 1X 500Gb Sata 1X 120Gb IDE Im installing on the IDE also as i've heard sata's have problems. Please, any help would be so much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byteryder Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 I Assume you are using bios 4.0. You will have to boot with the cpus=1 otherwise you get the gray screen from my experience. Once you are able to get the login you should install the latest EFI v 9 so you can use a DSDT file. I am working on a procedure for this. I have a DST.asl moded to enable all 8 cores but you have to install efi v9 first. I will post the guide when complete I hope this helps Ok, so 1. I disabled fire wire and serial 2. disabled ACPI APIC 3. ACPI 2.0 already enabled 4. sata set to ACHI 5. Installed with vanilla kernel and ACPI patches from Kalyway 10.5.2 and rebooted after installed. Problems i encountered. 1st boot: no commands = Apple logo > Restart Error 2nd Boot: -v = Black screen 3rd Boot: -x = Apple logo > Restart Error Any help here? Mobo Asus Z7S WS Cpu's: Dual(2) Intel Xeon E5420s 2.5GHz Quadcore Ram: 2Gb FBDIMM DDR2 PC2-5300 Gfx: Nvidia Geforce 9800 GX2 1Gb Sound: Creative X-fi Fatal1ty HDDs: 2X 250Gb Sata 2X 200 Sata 1X 500Gb Sata 1X 120Gb IDE Im installing on the IDE also as i've heard sata's have problems. Please, any help would be so much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Munkey Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Hi, Thanks for the reply I tried the cpus=1 command and it just froze on the apple logo screen. also, whats a dsdt and where can i get efi v9? thanks so much! I Assume you are using bios 4.0.You will have to boot with the cpus=1 otherwise you get the gray screen from my experience. Once you are able to get the login you should install the latest EFI v 9 so you can use a DSDT file. I am working on a procedure for this. I have a DST.asl moded to enable all 8 cores but you have to install efi v9 first. I will post the guide when complete I hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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