NEW Intel P55 Mobos & Core i7 860 / i5 750 CPU LGA1156

[jhenley01]

Now it works, but in 32bit Mode (bootflag arch=i386)

i think we need an 64bit RLT8111D Driver, ??

 

 

Are your apps running in 64bit mode? According to Apple there isn't much difference between booting into 32bit and 64bit mode. The only systems that boot a 64bit kernel by default are the Xservs. I'm booted into 32bit and all my 64bit apps seem to be running fine. You can check to see if you have the 64bit EFI by running the following command:

 

ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi

 

My i5 Hackintosh shows a 32bit EFI while my unibody MacBook shows a 64bit EFI but it still can't boot to 64bit mode due to a limitation imposed by Apple. I don't think it really matters unless you are running more than 32BG or RAM honestly.

[lmaurad]

How did you guys get Audio working in GA-P55-UD3R(10.6.2)?

 

After adding dsdt.aml provided by tonymacx86

System Profiler Shows:

 

Intel High Definition Audio:

 

Device ID: 0x1458A002

Audio ID: 887

Available Devices:

 

As you can see it shows no device available(Also in System Preference).

I also have LegacyHDA_ALC888B.kext in my E/E folder.

 

Can anyone help me out?

[cwestpha]

Yay I got OS X working correctly with the RTC and AMD GPU working just fine. Seems like the problem was the kernel that Tony and most others recommend for Snow Leopard. modbin 432 fixed almost all of the problems I have ever had with Snow Leopard and allowed me to even use and keep the netkas 10.5 EFI /w the nice graphicsenabler that works with AMD too. Not only that I was able to re-enable several BIOS options and re-enable firewire support as those too were fixed by using modbin.

I am now sitting at 10.6.1 and will try an update to 10.6.2 soon with this rig. my firmware-abi shows as EFI64 so I should be able to force 64 bit mode or work in 32-bit /w full 64bit app support freely thanks to netkas' PC EFI. My next post or update will be about 10.6.2 compatibility and if the vanilla kernel is supported by the P55 and i5 platform.

 

Thanks Tony for all of the files and walkthrough and KOleg for pointing to the fix for the RTC issue fixed by modbin.

 

Update #1: Vanilla kernel "works" but once again the RTC is broken so going back to modbin. looks like I dont need to force 32/64-bit either since the combination of PC EFI 10.5 and a 64-bit supporting kernal works just fine. Had to use Netkas' legacy Radeon kext (see his website) since the update overwrites. One important note, if you don't have PC EFI 10.4.1 OR 10.5 your Radeon WONT WORK CORRECTLY. So for those of you putting around on i5boot or generic patched RC3 then your Radeon card will never want to work properly. I hope someone will apply the core i5 patch to 10.5 soon but until then there is no hopes of vanila if you have AMD graphics. Guess this is what we pay for less buggy GPU drivers. ^.~ Then again I shouldn't be talking because my MacPro uses Nvidia. x.x

[tonymacx86]

Edit: (11PM) Vanilla Kernel worked! Sound is back due to overwriting AppleHDA with old 10.6.1. Will continue testing.

 

Edit 2: (10AM) Had to revert to 32bit mode (arch=i386) for ethernet to work (realtekr1000.kext). I guess with the patched kernel (-Force64), they loaded, but now with Vanilla they will not. Still booting with i5boot. Will continue testing.

 

Edit 3: (12PM) Replaced old realtekr1000.kext and nvenabler.kext to 64 bit versions, and booted with arch=x86_64 boot flag, and everything works, and all kexts are 64 bit! Working on sound with vanilla AppleHDA now.

[cwestpha]

Did you remove the old sleep enabler? If you use the sleep or hibernate enabler from 10.6.1 it will panic. Also you should have no need to swap AppleHDA.kext. Keep all of the audio vanila and use your dsdt along with the legacy enabler. No need to overwrite anything in your Extentions directory.

Netkas has a new sleep enabler that has been patched for 10.6.2 on his website.

Took the plunge to 10.6.2 hoping for the best...

 

1. Vanilla Kernel did NOT work- reverted to Qoopz kernel

2. new AppleHDA.kext killed my sound- replaced with 10.6.1 AppleHDA.kext- Fixed!

 

Otherwise, everything is fine. Hope this helps!

 

I'm suprised there wasn't support for the i5 in the kernel this time. I wonder if it would make a difference if our smbios.plists were the same as the new iMac? I guess we'll have to wait for someone to receive and upload the new iMac build of SL.

[386]

I think the best bet for the RTC issues currently is to run the old i5boot (based off chameleon 2.0rc3).

 

What do i5 users need with a more bleeding edge EFI hack that is less tailored to their hardware. Why PC_EFI 10.5 instead of i5boot, ya'll?

 

edit: AMD/ATI GPU owners might need it. I understand. I think my contention is for nvidia p55 combo, i5boot with vanilla 10.6.2 is money for the current.

[wlp5]

Hi all, just registered to say thanks to everyone in this thread for the great help.

 

I just ordered a bunch of parts to build a new machine, planning to use OSX as my primary OS. I have some small experience by OSXing a netbook some time ago.

 

I tried to follow the specs of the new 27 iMac as closely as possible, so I got an i5 with Gigabyte P55 UD2, an ATI 4850 and then threw in a new OCZ Vertex SSD. After the whole Atom support fiasco in the latest OSX update, I thought I'd play it safe by "copying" the components of the iMac.

 

Anyways, it will be some time till I get it running, I'm still missing some parts but I'm sure I'll find lots of great information in this thread when the time comes. Keep it coming .... and thanks.

[constil]

Edit: (11PM) Vanilla Kernel worked! Sound is back due to overwriting AppleHDA with old 10.6.1. Will continue testing.

 

Edit 2: (10AM) Had to revert to 32bit mode (arch=i386) for ethernet to work (realtekr1000.kext). I guess with the patched kernel (-Force64), they loaded, but now with Vanilla they will not. Still booting with i5boot. Will continue testing.

 

Edit 3: (12PM) Replaced old realtekr1000.kext and nvenabler.kext to 64 bit versions, and booted with arch=x86_64 boot flag, and everything works, and all kexts are 64 bit! Working on sound with vanilla AppleHDA now.

 

Hallo, tonymacx86

 

where can i get the new realtek1000.kext from ?? must i install both ?? (nvenabler to)

 

thanks

[lmaurad]

Hallo, tonymacx86

 

where can i get the new realtek1000.kext from ?? must i install both ?? (nvenabler to)

 

thanks

 

You can find it here http://www.kexts.com/view/133-realtek_r100...4_bit!.html

 

Can anyone provide me with the AppleHda kext from 10.6.1?

[cwestpha]

Since Geo asked for it I will repost how I got this rig working so far here too:

 

go to netkas.org and get the ATI4800Controller.kext from under 10.6.2 subject (NOT the exotics package) and also the boot from under PC EFI 10.5

The kext will go into your extentions and the PC EFI will go to your root or to your EFI director if you have chameleon installed to your EFI partition. Remember you MUST have already installed Chameleon RC 2 using the installer from their website first (no extra options or kexts enabled).

Next go to tony's post here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1316984

Download his .zip attachment and extract it into your downloads.

lastly go to kexts.com go under Kernal and download the latest modbin....

 

Now to make everything work. use the PC EFI 10.5 boot and place it in the root of your hard drive or EFI partition if you selected that route when you used the chameleon installer. from Tony's extra folder you are going to want his dsdt.aml and his smbios.plist

as for his Extra/Extensions use them all. Just make sure you copy your main drives UUID string from the Disk Utility and place it into the right are of the plist in the UUID kext.

For your System/Library/Extentions folder you are going to want the ATI4800Controller.kext and the RealtekR1000.kext in there. The former you got from netaks' site the latter you got from tony's zip.

You now can edit your apple.com.Boot.plist thingy and add <key>Graphics Enabler</key> <string>yes</string> to it.

Once you are this far you need to run the Kext Utility to repair your kexts both in your S/L/E and E/E folders. Lastly copy the mach_kernel.432 from the zip to the root of your hard drive. chmod 655 and chown root:wheel it.

Now just reboot with the following options in the bootloader... mach_kernel.432 -x32 busratio=20

 

At this point I have a few words of warning. Until either a good i5boot that supports AMD GPUs are released OR a modbin for 10.6.2 is reloaded DO NOT update to 10.6.2 as I cant assure your stability. Right now I am trying to hunt down a few instabilities and random crashes to my rig not related to issues with my OS X install and if you encounter problems too it doesn't help to mix and match kernel versions with support files for a different kernel.

I also HIGHLY recommend before doing this you grab the F4 final bios for this mobo and apply it with the clear DMI and clear cmos options enabled. After this boot into your BIOS, load optimized settings, and switch your controllers back to AHCI and disable turbo. Everything else should be fine to leave on.

 

A few notes:

*With a kernel (modbin) or bootloader (i5boot) that supports i5 and i7 funky timings (it has multiple buses, even more then the original i7 platform did) you technically don't have to set busratio and can feel free to enable the turboboost feature, but I am going to leave it off until full vanilla

*If your sleepenabler.kext doesn't work go to netkas.org and download the one that does under the 10.6.2 topic. it is right above the ATI kext I instructed you to download.

*If you use NVIDIA you have my sympathy, see Tony's stuff on how to get everything working.

*If you have a less then 4800 controller (ie 47xx or lower) netkas now has a QI exotics package you can install to enable most 4 and some 3 series Radeons. Again it is on his netkas.org site under the 10.6.2 topic.

[constil]

You can find it here http://www.kexts.com/view/133-realtek_r100...4_bit!.html

 

Can anyone provide me with the AppleHda kext from 10.6.1?

it works, very nice.... thank you

[tonymacx86]

@cwestpha: Good stuff there- if you have an ATI graphics card that needs something other than Chameleon RC3 boot to enable it, and if you are comfortable on 32bit only, that would be the way to go.

 

If you're like me, and have an Nvidia graphics card, and want to take the plunge to Vanilla kernel and pure 64 bit goodness, you still must use the i5boot file.

 

Here are the kexts I am currently using in /Extra:

 

EvOreboot.kext (instead of Psystar's openhaltrestart.kext)

fakesmc.kext

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext

JMicronATA.kext

LegacyHDA_ALC888B.kext

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

SleepEnabler.kext (not working yet, but testing)

 

 

Also in /System/Library/Extensions I have:

 

NVEnabler_64.kext (64 bit)

RealtekR1000SL.kext (64 bit)

AppleHDA.kext (from 10.6.1)

 

In com.apple.boot.plist, my kernel flag is arch=x86_64 -v. And everything is working! I am using the same i5boot file as before, and haven't made any additional DSDT changes. Good luck to all!

 

As requested, here's the 10.6.1 AppleHDA kext. AppleHDA.kext.zip

 

...Will continue to test. I'd definitely like to put the 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext back if I can, but can't get sound to work in 64 bit mode without it.

 

EDIT: After testing, it seems NVenabler didn't recognize dual displays in 64-bit mode for my graphics card. For now, I restored the 4 old NV kexts to 10.6.1 in S/L/E, and my TV-out is working as it did before. I'll continue to test- don't really like the idea of patching S/L/E with old kexts. I'm sure another method will emerge...

[Nach0 Stallion]

I have the GA-P55-UD6 all seems to be working with the exception of sleep - this might me my video card too. Not a big deal to me so I haven't tried to figure it out.

 

I know a lot of people will appreciate this guide - so good work!

 

Hi, I have been trying to find the ultimate hackintosh board, now i see a review for the GA-P55-UD6 and it seems to have everything, was your setup complex to get going? can you use all 10 SATA ports or just the 4 white jmicron ones?

 

thanks!

 

Nach0

[rekursor]

Thank you guys for the valuable info here.

 

I'm glad to report a successfull install of a new i7/P55 configuration as follows:

MotherBoard: GA-P55-UD3R

CPU: Core i7 860 2.8Ghz overclocked @ 3.5 Ghz & rock stable (tested with Prime95 for 3+ hours)

(CPU at 35 degreeC with Zalman CNP10X Heatsink: a must !!)

Memory: 2x2GB DDR3 1333 Skill @ 7-7-7-21

Graphics card: MSI NV 8400GS 512MB

HDD: 1 Seagate 7200RPM 1TB for main config, 1 Seagate 500GB TB for system config full backup.

 

2 external pci + pcie fw cards

 

Bios config: enable AHCI, disable SATA native mode, bus overclock from 133 to 166Mhz.

 

Mac OSX 10.5.8 with iDeneb Lite 1.6 default config plus the following changes:

Kernel: Qoopz Voodoo 9.8.0

Pacthes:

AppleSMBIOSEFI (Recommended by the Voodoo team with Qoopz)

 

Drivers:

Intel SATA/IDE

JMicron SATA/IDE

Voodoo HDA

Realtek R1000

Nvidia Enabler 0.2.1 512MB

 

Added kernel flags:

cpus=4 busratio=21

Added other chameleon flags:

USBBusFix=Yes

 

Geekbench score : 7644 !

 

Not Working Yet:

Sleep Mode (if someone finds a fix/workaround please report!)

[jhenley01]

Edit: (11PM) Vanilla Kernel worked! Sound is back due to overwriting AppleHDA with old 10.6.1. Will continue testing.

 

Edit 2: (10AM) Had to revert to 32bit mode (arch=i386) for ethernet to work (realtekr1000.kext). I guess with the patched kernel (-Force64), they loaded, but now with Vanilla they will not. Still booting with i5boot. Will continue testing.

 

Edit 3: (12PM) Replaced old realtekr1000.kext and nvenabler.kext to 64 bit versions, and booted with arch=x86_64 boot flag, and everything works, and all kexts are 64 bit! Working on sound with vanilla AppleHDA now.

 

Tonymac you are the man! Using your steps I am now booting into 64bit mode and everything seems to be working perfectly on my spare drive so running the update on the primary disk now. Myy DVD drive is even working now which did not in 10.6.1! One thing I did discover is that my USB audio to my cinema display was not working with the audio kexts listed. I had USB audio listed but it kept defaulting back to the headphone port. To fix that I used version #2 from the link below and now it's working great!

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1279042

 

Keep up the good work guys!

[johnjingle]

Can someone help me. I plan on buying the following, because with a combo deal it's under $700 at Newegg right now:

 

CPU: i5-750

MB: GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2

RAM: CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB)

GPU: GIGABYTE GV-R485MC-1GI Radeon HD 4850 1GB

PS: COOLER MASTER Silent Pro 700 RS-700-AMBA-D3 700W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Certified CrossFire

Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP Black Steel + Plastic and Mesh Bezel ATX Mid

(haven't decided on hard drive size yet)

 

1. Are Cooler Master cases and power supplies decent and quiet?

2. I don't play games, I mostly program and do multimedia stuff. Is the graphics card overkill? If so any recommendations would be appreciated!

 

I think maybe the MSI R4670-MD512 Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express for $55 and getting 8 GB of RAM might be a better choice. Please some feedback would be helpful. I want to run Windows 7 and SL at the same time if possible.

 

I want to buy this in the next week or so. My iMac is broken and all I have is an old HP laptop with a dim screen to use, so any feedback would be immensely appreciated!!

 

Thank you.

[rhassinger]

I want to buy this in the next week or so. My iMac is broken and all I have is an old HP laptop with a dim screen to use, so any feedback would be immensely appreciated!!

 

LOL! I have a brand new, loaded, company-issued HP laptop that exceeds the specs of my 2-year-old MBP. It's slow, thrashes about randomly, freezes up every few minutes, has a dim screen and a tiny little trackpad. The MBP flies and is smooth as silk. WTF is HP thinking selling this {censored}.

[vetters]

I have been following the thread and am interested in seeing the p55 progress. I am thinking of getting a p55 Gigabyte board soon, but just wanted to make sure I could get optical audio output. Do the ud2 or ud4 have optical out working? Also, is sleep working? I apprecaite your help

[profdre]

I just can say that the Cooler Master Pro Silent power supply must be a good pick, just decided to buy the 500 W version after digging through some reviews and forum threads...I just don't know why you should need 700 watts...I'll get the power hungry Radeon 4890 and want to overclock my i750 and 500 watts will be more than enough.Without OC'ing my system will consume around 400 watts, not more!

 

Can someone help me. I plan on buying the following, because with a combo deal it's under $700 at Newegg right now:

 

1. Are Cooler Master cases and power supplies decent and quiet?

[jhenley01]

I have been following the thread and am interested in seeing the p55 progress. I am thinking of getting a p55 Gigabyte board soon, but just wanted to make sure I could get optical audio output. Do the ud2 or ud4 have optical out working? Also, is sleep working? I apprecaite your help

 

I'm pretty sure that the optical audio is listed as an output in the sound preferences but I haven't tested it to ensure that it works, sleep should be working but I have not tried it since the update since I never use it. I'll try and give those a shot when I get home later and let you know.

[jhenley01]

Can someone help me. I plan on buying the following, because with a combo deal it's under $700 at Newegg right now:

 

CPU: i5-750

MB: GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2

RAM: CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB)

GPU: GIGABYTE GV-R485MC-1GI Radeon HD 4850 1GB

PS: COOLER MASTER Silent Pro 700 RS-700-AMBA-D3 700W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Certified CrossFire

Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP Black Steel + Plastic and Mesh Bezel ATX Mid

(haven't decided on hard drive size yet)

 

1. Are Cooler Master cases and power supplies decent and quiet?

2. I don't play games, I mostly program and do multimedia stuff. Is the graphics card overkill? If so any recommendations would be appreciated!

 

I think maybe the MSI R4670-MD512 Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express for $55 and getting 8 GB of RAM might be a better choice. Please some feedback would be helpful. I want to run Windows 7 and SL at the same time if possible.

 

I want to buy this in the next week or so. My iMac is broken and all I have is an old HP laptop with a dim screen to use, so any feedback would be immensely appreciated!!

 

Thank you.

 

Looks like it's not a bad system to run SL, I'm using the same PROC, MB and myself as well as several other members can confirm that it works very well. Not sure if you will have any trouble with the ATI card though. I'll list the specs of my system if that helps at all.

 

GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2

Intel Core i5-750

APEX TM-302-3 Black/ Silver Steel MicroATX Mid Tower Computer Case 300W Power Supply

SPARKLE SFPX95GT1024U2H GeForce 9500 GT 1GB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0

CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333

2x Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM (RAID 0)

I shopped around and was able to build this system for around $650 from various sources ebay, Amazon, Tiger Direct, Newegg.

[dorkiaa]

Looks like it's not a bad system to run SL, I'm using the same PROC, MB and myself as well as several other members can confirm that it works very well.

 

What installation method did you use? Does the optical audio output work? 

[VGM10000]

Another update on the parts list and otherwise...

 

> I will be including a few builds based on budget using the p55 platform.

 

> There will also be plenty of updates, including refreshed stats and possibly a couple more motherboards

 

As for news updates if you do not know of them:

 

> Apple's 10.6.2 release has neither the LGA 1156 nor the Atom kernels needed for a hackintosh; Meklort is working on a fix and expects it to be "a few weeks" until Atom compatibility is released. As for the new i5's and i7's, it appears as if the iMacs that are shipping now have a specialized OS, version 10.6.2, with the kernel included.

 

> Although the i5's have already started to ship, the i7's are now leaving Apple HQ as we speak.

 

So, basically, if you want to make a p55 hackintosh, wait a few more days until someone hosts the kernels for both chipsets. As stated earlier, the complete parts guide should be released by then, and I hope to collaborate with a few people to get the process as automated and simple as possible.

 

- VGM10000

 

EDIT: My findings that 10.6.2 did not have the kernel were completely false; most people on this thread corrected me that it in fact does work. Great news though!

[DomiNathan]

Edit: (11PM) Vanilla Kernel worked! Sound is back due to overwriting AppleHDA with old 10.6.1. Will continue testing.

 

Edit 2: (10AM) Had to revert to 32bit mode (arch=i386) for ethernet to work (realtekr1000.kext). I guess with the patched kernel (-Force64), they loaded, but now with Vanilla they will not. Still booting with i5boot. Will continue testing.

 

Edit 3: (12PM) Replaced old realtekr1000.kext and nvenabler.kext to 64 bit versions, and booted with arch=x86_64 boot flag, and everything works, and all kexts are 64 bit! Working on sound with vanilla AppleHDA now.

 

Tony, are you saying that you got 10.6.2 running vanilla on your machine?

[tonymacx86]

Tony, are you saying that you got 10.6.2 running vanilla on your machine?

 

That is what I'm saying. The 10.2.0 kernel works. You just need the i5 boot file. Here's my System Profiler:

 

 

> Apple's 10.6.2 release has neither the LGA 1156 nor the Atom kernels needed for a hackintosh; Meklort is working on a fix and expects it to be "a few weeks" until Atom compatibility is released. As for the new i5's and i7's, it appears as if the iMacs that are shipping now have a specialized OS, version 10.6.2, with the kernel included.

 

Hey VGM10000-you are 1/2 correct. The 10.2.0 kernel works for me! Atom has been killed however.