Klipsch Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 After about a month of messing with my system and countless reinstalls and fixes. I now have a system that is rock solid. It has been over a week without any issues what so ever. I would like to thank RoberT_XeS as his thread helped me a lot in getting everything working. Here is my exact hardware: P5Q Deluxe Motherboard PNY 256MB GeForce 8600GT Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66ghz OC to 3.41ghz 4GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 1066 RAM 2 Seagate 500GB Hard Drives 1 LG Sata DVD Burner Netgear WG111v2 802.11g wireless adapter This guide is intended for those who want to run OSX only. This guide does not show you how to dual boot with Windows. Step 1: Downloads: You need to get Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 Retail and burn it to a Dual Layer DVD. And this file: http://rapidshare.com/files/213781967/OSX86_Stuff.zip Step 2: You need to flash your BIOS with a modified BIOS. This is the one I used: 1611_BIOS_Asus_P5Q_Deluxe_for_MAC_OS_X___all_OS__incl._by_Juzzi..ROM.zip Its included in the OSX86 Stuff.zip. You want to put that file along with OSX86B.CMO onto a flash drive or burn it to a CD. When you start your computer hit Delete to enter the BIOS. Goto Tools and then Click Asus EZ Flash 2. From here load the 1611 BIOS. Then Reboot. Now Go back into the BIOS. Go to Tools and select the ASUS O.C Utility. From here load the OSX86B.CMO That's It! Your BIOS is ready to go! Step 3: Install OSX Now open the OSX86 Stuff.zip that you downloaded and extract the Generic.iso. Burn that iso to a CD. Put that CD into your hackintosh and boot from it. ( you may need to set the CDROM to be the first boot device) Once it loads hit enter then take that CD out of the drive and replace it with the OSX Retail DVD DL. Let it spin up and then Hit ENTER. It should now load the OSX Setup page. Next Install OSX. ( You May Need to Partition your drive) Once that is installed put the Boot CD in the Drive again and boot to it. Once it loads Hit Enter. Then type in 80 and select your OSX Installation. It should then load OS X. Step 4: Once you are in OS X. Open up the OSX86 Stuff and install Chameleon_DFE_for_Hard_Disk.dmg Next Open up OSX86Tools. Click Install Kexts and install the AppleAzaliaAudio.kext. This will get your sound working! Next Open up the Asus_P5Q_RX_AHCIFix.1.3.cVaD.dmg.Zip in OSX86 Stuff. Extract it and install the package. Remove the boot cd and Reboot. You should now be able to boot into OS X without the use of the boot CD! Once in OS X again run the 9f23installer.pkg found in OSx86 Stuff. Once installed open up EFIStufio and add your Graphics card. Reboot. Once in OS X again. Your video card should now be installed and working. You can now go into OSX86Tools and enable Quartz GL. You can now run the software updates and update your OS X. Step 5: Increase Stability. If you are getting the following error in your logs "GetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35" You need to do the following: This error was all over my logs and was causing applications to hang and shutdown and restart to now work all the time. Go to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and edit NetworkInterfaces.plist and add a new dict with the IEEE80211 config.. <dict> <key>BSD Name</key> <string>en3</string> <key>IOBuiltin</key> <false/> <key>IOInterfaceType</key> <integer>6</integer> <key>IOInterfaceUnit</key> <integer>3</integer> <key>IOLocation</key> <string></string> <key>IOMACAddress</key> <data> ABbPoF5V </data> <key>IOPathMatch</key> <string>IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/P0P3@1C,2/ IOPCI2PCIBridge/pci14e4,4311@0/AirPort_Brcm43xx/IO80211Interface</string> <key>SCNetworkInterfaceType</key> <string>IEEE80211</string> </dict> Save and reboot... If once you open up Itunes or Quicktime and your mouse cursor is jumpy you need to do the following: In a Terminal window, type: sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext.BAK (Keep everything on the same line). You will probably need to type your password before the command will complete. That's pretty much it. Hope this helps. As of now I am not using my onboard ethernet since its to far away from my router so I do not have drivers/kexts for those on this page at the moment. I am going to work on getting my ethernet ports working within the next couple of days and will post results here. I just threw this together in about 20min but I think everything is there. I will be working on this post in the next couple of day. I will be adding screenshots and organizing it more. Any questions, comments or suggestions please post. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/159351-complete-noob-guide-to-retail-osx-on-asus-p5q-deluxe-mb/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
yourboyvic Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 thanks for putting this up, klipsch. I know you have DFE's chameleon in here but is the rest of this method based on boot-132? specifically, is the generic.iso in your osx86 stuff.zip actually boot-132? If it is, why did you use efi studio over osx86 tools to apply the efi string and QE? If you got information from Robert_XeS, why didn't you want to apply the ethernet texts and drivers he made available for your board? Speculate pls. If I use Boot-132, universal osx86 installer and osx86 tools along with Robert_XeS' ethernet drivers and I use a 9 series nvidia card I shouldn't run into any problems you think? thx for your time and your post Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/159351-complete-noob-guide-to-retail-osx-on-asus-p5q-deluxe-mb/#findComment-1128536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumpster25 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I would just like to know out of curiosity, why is the BIOS upgrade required? Is it really necessary to upgrade the BIOS with a modified version? I got BIOs version 1406 (not modified) at the moment on my ASUS P5Q Deluxe. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/159351-complete-noob-guide-to-retail-osx-on-asus-p5q-deluxe-mb/#findComment-1173251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egil S Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Great to find this guide! I was wondering if you (or somebody else) could repost the file package because they aren't accessible on rapidshare anymore. Maybe it would even be better to post to a different site like mediafire? Thanks for the guide and for posting the files Klipsch. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/159351-complete-noob-guide-to-retail-osx-on-asus-p5q-deluxe-mb/#findComment-1176192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
norus Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Could anyone share this OSX86 Stuff.zip file with me? The rapidshare link is no longer valid. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/159351-complete-noob-guide-to-retail-osx-on-asus-p5q-deluxe-mb/#findComment-1222000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
douirc Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 just wondering if it's necessary to flash the bios. i was able to successfully install osx on my p5q deluxe without a bios flash. i have a few problems but probably something simple to fix for those that know what they're doing. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=179002 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/159351-complete-noob-guide-to-retail-osx-on-asus-p5q-deluxe-mb/#findComment-1223037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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