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Kakewalk: Minimal effort install (EP45, EX58, P55, G41)

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wigy69
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Hi Guys,

 

Just tried a new build with the latest version of Kakewalk and I have 1 Major problem and 1 small problem.

 

Every time I hold and drag a window, the computer will lag. I was watching a movie and tried to movie the playlist to the other side of the screen and the video froze for a few seconds. It also happens sometimes if I am downloading a file. Every time it lags I can hear the hard drive access.

 

The small problem is the orange icons which I have read a fix for, but it does seem to work. My main issue is the lag, as it becomes unworkable. Any ideas. Thank you

 

Here are my specs:

 

EX58-UD3R Motherboard

i7 930 2.8Ghz

6 GB DDR3 ram

9500 Nvidia Graphics

4x Hard drives

Main drive is a WD VelociRaptor 300GB

Others are Seagates and WD drives

 

My other Hackintosh which runs perfect has the same specs besides a EP45 board and C2Quad. Same graphics, and the rest.

 

Desperately need help with this one. The lag is killing me.

 

Just added my xbench score.

 

Results 63.15

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.6.2 (10C540)

Physical RAM 6144 MB

Model MacPro3,1

Drive Type WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U0

CPU Test 201.19

GCD Loop 307.95 16.23 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 178.51 4.24 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 116.99 3.86 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 402.56 70.10 Mops/sec

Thread Test 941.06

Computation 997.51 20.21 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 890.66 38.32 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 373.12

System 409.62

Allocate 501.13 1.84 Malloc/sec

Fill 294.11 14300.26 MB/sec

Copy 518.62 10711.96 MB/sec

Stream 342.59

Copy 357.71 7388.40 MB/sec

Scale 332.53 6869.93 MB/sec

Add 353.30 7525.95 MB/sec

Triad 328.67 7031.03 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 280.75

Line 219.71 14.63 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 282.98 84.48 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 241.54 19.69 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 254.25 6.41 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 605.72 37.89 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 129.59

Spinning Squares 129.59 164.40 frames/sec

User Interface Test 12.22

Elements 12.22 56.08 refresh/sec

Disk Test 110.92

Sequential 188.14

Uncached Write 202.80 124.52 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 197.44 111.71 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 145.45 42.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 227.78 114.48 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 78.64

Uncached Write 29.22 3.09 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 244.09 78.14 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 125.48 0.89 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 218.38 40.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]

wigy69
wigy69
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I had to install IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext and the orange icons were gone. Did some other bios tweaks etc and the lag is now gone. I also re-installed the 9500 kexts for good measure.

 

So all happy now! I am now on to my wireless PCI card which freezes the whole system. It's a TP-LINK Draft N.

But that's another day.

 

Thanks guys

PoloBear
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@xmachine

 

NO NO NO Bootcamp on a hackintosh... just use another harddisk and boot with kakewalks bootmanager, with the correct flag in com.apple.boot.plist you can choose which disk to boot....DUALBOOT....

 

The XFX is flashed with the apple 4870 Rom, I used it in my Macpro, the problem is, that the applerom is optimized for the Macpro case with good airflow. The card is super quiet, but in a PC-case running Win7 and without good ventilation, it runs superhot, over 100°Celsius in notime...->reboot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

freezes

Ratz1
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Ok so I've tried an older version of Kakewalk and this newer one, I've gotten it to work on a GA-EP43-UD3L for someone else, but I just got a new GA-EP45-UD3L and every time it starts to boot the Snow Leopard disc the Apple shows up, has the spinning circle under it, then just goes to a blank white screen, occasionally it will show some weird artifacts and nothing happens. Any ideas what the problem is?

 

Specs:

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

MSI Radeon HD4850 512MB

 

edit: Scratch that, after much going back and forth between installers I got it installing in Safe Mode and am now confident I can get my graphics and everything working through safe mode when I'm done.

Lynge
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OK, this time I am sure there is a real problem.

I just found out that I have no sound (no earphones before now) and I have googled aroud a bit, but with no luck.

 

There is no sound device in system profiler (no builtin sound, is the message given) and thus I cannot select any sound device in systemsettings.

 

Its on a GA-X58A-UD7

 

Does anyone have any idea what to do?

Xisle
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There is no sound device in system profiler (no builtin sound, is the message given) and thus I cannot select any sound device in systemsettings.

 

Its on a GA-X58A-UD7

 

Does anyone have any idea what to do?

 

Visit post #677 here for:

1. Changes you need to make to your /Extra/DSDT.aml (using iASLMe then TextEdit - Don't copy/paste and then iASLMe again)

2. LegacyHDA.kext you need to place in /Extra/Extensions. Be sure to drop the /Extensions folder onto "Kext Utility" after copying the LegacyHDA.kext into it to rebuild Extensions.mkext.

3. Reboot.

 

~X

tilllt
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I have a test partition running SL on the EP45-UD3P and just recently i tried to update to 10.6.2 ... the original installation was done using kakewalk and a vanilla SL image.

 

Unlike many others i didnt have problems with the graphics card (nvidia 9500gt) after the update, but the sound is kind of acting up now. some programs can play sounds (like system preferences) others cannot. i wanted to take a look what kext you install with the kakewalk package on the UD3P but there doesnt seem to be a comprehensible list of extensions that are actually installed by it, or was i just blind?

 

cheers

pmahoney
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Hey guys, I need some expert help here. Here's the setup I got

 

GA-G41M-ES2L F6

Core2Duo E6550

9400 GT

500 GB SATA

 

I've been using any possible bootdisk to get snow leopard to install properly. Unfortunately, no matter what disc I use, whether be kakewalk or Darwin, I either get a Panic mode from boot menu or I do get to Snow Leopard installation screen. BUT after reaching about 41% - 46%, my installation would halt and give me a Error (!) stating something went wrong with my installation and asks me to restart my installation. This is story for the past two days of doing this. Please keep in mind, I've been using the Boot CD method and have no tried the USB method. Can anyone enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong?

 

 

I have that same board, check your BIOS settings, if you have anything set for 64-bit (like the HPET), try dropping down to 32-bit and see if that solves it.

waldo_pepperjack
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I have that same board, check your BIOS settings, if you have anything set for 64-bit (like the HPET), try dropping down to 32-bit and see if that solves it.

Yes, repukken, I too have the same board. I installed via the KakeWalk CD method. No real problems, though I did have to add in the nullcpupowermanagement.kext & 10.6.2 sleepenabler.kext, and I tinkered with the com.apple.Boot.plist a bit.

 

Everything works perfectly except for:

1. Something w/ Bonjour+ScreenSharing is not quite right

2. I don't have Wake by Ethernet as a checkbox in Energy Saver.

 

Sleep wasn't quite right, in terms of going to sleep after a preset length of inactivity, until I added PleaseSleep.app. That fixed it.

 

Otherwise everything is _perfect_.

xmachine
xmachine
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@xmachine

 

NO NO NO Bootcamp on a hackintosh... just use another harddisk and boot with kakewalks bootmanager, with the correct flag in com.apple.boot.plist you can choose which disk to boot....DUALBOOT....

 

The XFX is flashed with the apple 4870 Rom, I used it in my Macpro, the problem is, that the applerom is optimized for the Macpro case with good airflow. The card is super quiet, but in a PC-case running Win7 and without good ventilation, it runs superhot, over 100°Celsius in notime...->reboot.

 

Thanks for the info PoloBear. I didnt realize kakewalk had a bootmgr, Im pleased to hear that!

 

As for the 4870...thats just crazy, I have great airflow in my case but I have a huge overclock on the card which Im sure I'd lose at those temps... back to the drawing board!

 

Thanks again,

mike_a
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Current Hack:

Gigabyte ep45-ud3l

2.93 dual core 2

pny 9800gt 1 gig ddr3 dual dvi (also attempted on biostar 9400gt 512k with same issue)

8 gigs ram

(2) Nec ea231wmi ips display 1920 x 1080

 

 

Having an issue with my video card not displaying correct resolution with the dvi cable.

Seems like the card thinks its a tv-display panel with the options for display. 480p/640p/1080p options.

The card is working fine with an dvi to vga adapter (although has some artifacts in finder menu).

 

Ive read forum post on fixes but attempted them with no solution.

 

Attempted the following:

OsX86tools method with adding string.

EFI studio methods.

Added strings in both extras/com.apple.plist and main system com.apple.plist.

injector kewts.

Pretty much all the kewts available for nvidia.

video enabler yes and no.

Changed bios settings as well.

 

I've tried all of these individually and combinations. Attempted in OSX 10.6 and 10.6.2.

 

Only thing I haven't tried is the custom dsts.

 

Is there anyone who can assist me?

 

 

Thank you,

Mike

pepechuelo79
pepechuelo79
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I just installed and it won't boot from hdd. Won't move from Verifying DMI pool data......

sl retail

ex58-ud5

9800 gt

6 gb ram

4 wd 1.5 tb 2 raid o 3 tb each

 

Is Snow Leopard in a partition of < 1TB?

pepechuelo79
pepechuelo79
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1.5

 

May be I'm wrong, but I remember that some pages ago somebody said that Kakewalk can't support the installation of Snow Leo in a disk or partition biggest than 1TB.

In my case (I have the same mobo than you), I partitioned my boot up disk in two partitions. One of 200 MB and one of 1.78 TB for Video. In the one of 200 MB I installed Snow Leopard.

And everything was perfect.

Again, may be that 1TB limit is a matter of the initial stages of Kakewalk and may be it was corrected in the present version.

Try going a search in previous pages.

Good luck, trboteg

crtz
crtz
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still having problems with the magic mouse, its so glitchy that its unusable. i have tried several different bluetooth dongle and get the same errors. i rolled back from the most recent update to the standard snow leopard and it works fine but minus the magic mouse swipe scroll features etc. as far as the standard mouse goes its smooth and clicks exactly as it should (but obv minus the magic features lol)

i then updated the mouse update on its own which required a software update (not the newest the one just before) and it went glitchy again. after a further update to the newest version (which doesnt require the additional magic mouse update) it is still glitchy.

i really dont know what i can do to get it working properly. ive tried repairing disk permissions etc but this causes kernel errors when i start/restart

 

 

Also i have recently started experiencing bios read errors and it wont load properly. i currently have 2 hdds installed, one with osx and the other i use for data. when i boot up my machine i can see the hdd i use for data says that something doesnt load or it misreads it with a load of random letters and symbols, if it then loads osx the hdd is not shown and cant be seen.

this problem doesnt happen everytime i use it but is happening more and more frequently (like every 3-4 times it gets booted up)

is there anything i can do to fix this? is there a problem with the hdd or should i format it and start fresh?

 

any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

i am using....

 

gigabye ep-45-ud3lr with q8300

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