ASUS P5w DH E6600 Install

[BigVee]

I have read and took so much from this sight I think it's only fair that I put back some information. I know this has been covered, so this document is just to reinforce what has already been said. My installation was not straightforward. My first two days I spent trying to figure out why I was getting an EBIOS error from a new LG DVD drive. I finally replaced it with a newer LG Drive and it started working. I no longer trust these drive to read for Mac every time now, so I made a boot 132 USB boot thumb drive. The drive works great and cuts a couple of seconds of the boot time.

 

The following are problem I do see right now:

1. WILL NOT WAKE: Like a lot of other I see out here is having problems with the system waking out of sleep.

2. KEYBOARD: I will also try another keyboard but it appears that the USN dongle for the keyboard keeps falling asleep and will not wake unless it's unplugged and plugged back in.

3. GPU: The system info still reports a 256 VRAM video card when there is a DDR3 512mb card in the machine

4. Can not read CPU Temp from MAC OS. I have installed iStat Pro

5. I must configure my Zoom USB bluetooth

6. I also would like to install my motherboard wireless antenna and get it working (card is installed no detection)

 

Any suggestions on books would be great. I am an avid windows user who is now trying MAC as I have heard so much about it. I also own a ABIT IP35 Pro E8400 with 4GB Windows XP box. I would love to give this up to my son and just use the one box for both Mac and Windows. any advice would be helpful

 

 

 

Main Board $99 Ebay

ASUS P5W DH Temp: (33c Degrees)

 

Processor $79 Ebay

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 (Over Clocked @ 3.12 x 3.12 Stable)

Cool Master Hyper TX 2 CPU Cooler (34c Degrees Under mild load)

 

Memory

Banks 1 and 3 $40 Micro Center

Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model PEP22G6400EL * CAS Latency: 5 / Timing: 5-5-5-12 / Voltage: 2.0V / Heat Spreader

 

Banks 2 and 4 $29 Micro Center

Crucial 2GB kit (1GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC2-6400 memory module

CT2KIT12864AA800 * CAS Latency :6 / DDR2-800 / Voltage: 1.8V / 128Meg x 64

 

Kingston 2GB USB Thumb Drive Boot 132 $19

 

DVD Drive $60 Frys

LG HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55L: Light Scribe PATA DVD Burner

 

Camera

iSight $62 Ebay

 

Monitor

Acer AL2216W $179 Office Depote

 

Keyboard

BTC Wireless Keyboard $42 Frys

 

Hard Drive $95 Frys

Seagate 850GB SATA 300 Hard drive (Temp: 38c Degrees)

 

GPU $106 Frys

BFG GeForce 9600GT DDR3 512MB (Graphics Display Info still shows Only 256 May be new kexts)

 

PSU $19 Micro Center

Cool Master RP-500-PCAR 500 Watt

 

Case $99 Monarch Computers

Antec P180 with 3 120cm Fans 2 case fans set to low and HDD PSU fan set to Med

 

Printer $69 Circut City

HP 8250 PhotoSmart

[cyberdog_sk]

The following are problem I do see right now:

1. WILL NOT WAKE: Like a lot of other I see out here is having problems with the system waking out of sleep.

 

I have this board and sleep is working good. Check your bios settings. I recently installed the new chameleon with dsdt override. I made a mkext of my audioeneabler kext, dsmos, smbiosenabler which I put in the /Extra folder--leaving the rest of my install vanilla.

 

 

 

 

3. GPU: The system info still reports a 256 VRAM video card when there is a DDR3 512mb card in the machine

 

Try using efi strings on your com.apple.Boot.plist

 

 

 

4. Can not read CPU Temp from MAC OS. I have installed iStat Pro

 

Thermo (attached) works.

 

 

 

6. I also would like to install my motherboard wireless antenna and get it working (card is installed no detection)

 

Download the driver from Realtek. Your card is/should be detected under USB devices.

 

 

 

I think the P5W DH Deluxe is a really good choice for a hackintosh. Mine runs perfectly on a vanilla install.

thermo.pkg.zip