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

[iwcham1979]

Can someone help me out on a hardware choice. Im running the kakewalk install and I must say I love it! I currently got a Geforce 8600GT and planning to upgrade to a graphics card more suitable for gaming. A 1GB-something card.. Any suggestions? Anyone?

Well, i am running Gtx260 and it works falwlessly

[Crabhunter]

Updated to 10.6.3 on my EP45-DS3R, no problems.

I too have the ep45-ds3r and would love to know your install method.

Kakewalk has got me nearly there, I have got sound now although I then lost shutdown.

Since 10.6.3 I have lost ps2Keyboard/mouse.

Mike

[infiction (swe)]

And thats on the regular install? No extra things involved?

 

Do you think I need to re-install after I switched to a Gtx260?

 

Well, i am running Gtx260 and it works falwlessly

[mwilloam]

mwilloam

 

"Will this work for an EP43-UD3L setup? I'm wondering if the EP45 will work for the EP43 version."

 

 

using the EP43-UD3L with great success, follow the process and choose the EP43-UD3L boot loader and you are good to go, see my sig and site for more info..

 

Thanks for the reply. I didn't see an option in the Kakewalk installer for the EP43-UD3L or any other EP43 boards just EP45's?

 

Thanks again

[trwoolley]

Upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.3 - no issues. My procedure:

 

1) Disconnect all externals except mouse, keyboard, and monitor

2) Repair permissions

3) Restart

4) Install Mac OS 10.6.3 Combo Update

5) Restart

6) Repair permissions

 

Done! Nothing else required - everything still works! See my hardware signature below for configuration.

 

As far as I can tell no Apple applications or Utilities were touched. Several things were updated in the System Folder, including a few extensions in the attachment below:

 

 

[tsponge]

read from page 97 to 100. should be the same as getting sound on a ud3r

 

 

So I have sorted out all problems, including the issue of beng unable to boot from the 3.5" HDD. here how for other users that may experience the problem with the x58a-ud5 board.

 

I disabled the following in the BIOS:

CPU Enhanced Halt

CPU C3/C6/C7 State Support

 

I also used the CD method as apposed to the USB method and I now have analogue audio + 10.6.2 update, with no messing around with files or kexts, just works!!!

 

Thank you all.

 

one question I have regarding audio.... Getting 5.1 working and digital audio out... Anyone have a trick to getting that working?

 

BTW I have overclocked the i7 930 to 3.4Ghz, no sweat..

 

As a reference @ stock 2.8Ghz, did cinemark multiple cpu rendering in 1 minute and a CB +-13000 score.. Now overclocked to 3.4Ghz, did the same rendering in 46 seconds with a CB 17765 score. Which is just short on a 25% improvement.. not bad for a one time bios entry overclock?

 

Only thing I have to get sorted is my Kingston DDRIII 1600 hyper X RAM is running @ 1280Mhz.....

[real_sinjon]

Just reporting in. Updated my GA-EP45UD3LR Rev1.0 (Full spec in sig) to 10.6.3 this afternoon. After reading about issues with ALC888 sound I downloaded updated AppleHDA kext just in case. Ran the combo update on a test partition, after 2nd restart booted ok but sound menu bar icon greyed out and nothing in sound pref pane. Replaced stock AppleHDA kext in S/L/E with modded version, repaired permissions, rebooted and all good. So far everything appears to work. Think I'll leave my working partition at 10.6.2 for now as it's solid and wait to see if a sound fix appears that keeps the base install vanilla.

[ProjectY]

Hi real_sinjon et all

 

I have just completed the same update to 10.6.3 which made the sound WORK on an EP45T-UD3LR MOTHER BOARD

 

I have a standard Kakewalk Install Version 2.0 (CD). Upgrades to 10.6.3. DID NOT REBOOT yet , Used Kext Utility (V2.3.2) and dropped AppleHDA.kext (Dated 01/08/2009) onto it, Let it do its update, and then REBOOTED.

It apears to work, Thanks to a range of people on the forum

Yours Ray.

 

Just reporting in. Updated my GA-EP45UD3LR Rev1.0 (Full spec in sig) to 10.6.3 this afternoon. After reading about issues with ALC888 sound I downloaded updated AppleHDA kext just in case. Ran the combo update on a test partition, after 2nd restart booted ok but sound menu bar icon greyed out and nothing in sound pref pane. Replaced stock AppleHDA kext in S/L/E with modded version, repaired permissions, rebooted and all good. So far everything appears to work. Think I'll leave my working partition at 10.6.2 for now as it's solid and wait to see if a sound fix appears that keeps the base install vanilla.

[paulo dourado]

So I have sorted out all problems, including the issue of beng unable to boot from the 3.5" HDD. here how for other users that may experience the problem with the x58a-ud5 board.

 

I disabled the following in the BIOS:

CPU Enhanced Halt

CPU C3/C6/C7 State Support

 

I also used the CD method as apposed to the USB method and I now have analogue audio + 10.6.2 update, with no messing around with files or kexts, just works!!!

 

Thank you all.

 

one question I have regarding audio.... Getting 5.1 working and digital audio out... Anyone have a trick to getting that working?

 

BTW I have overclocked the i7 930 to 3.4Ghz, no sweat..

 

As a reference @ stock 2.8Ghz, did cinemark multiple cpu rendering in 1 minute and a CB +-13000 score.. Now overclocked to 3.4Ghz, did the same rendering in 46 seconds with a CB 17765 score. Which is just short on a 25% improvement.. not bad for a one time bios entry overclock?

 

Only thing I have to get sorted is my Kingston DDRIII 1600 hyper X RAM is running @ 1280Mhz.....

 

get that thing to 4.0+ and it'll bump your mem up too. be sure to bump up your QPI to sustain the memory going up.

 

mine's at 4.2Ghz and I now have the second fastest Mac, ever according to Xbench, with a score of 535

[stalk:er]

PS: Which is your graphic card, stalker?

GIGABYTE 9800 GT

[GT PFT]

I have a EP45-UD3LR MOTHER BOARD sound gone after 10.6.3 but all I did was

DL updated Apple HDA

HDA

Dated March 27 2010

 

Just dropped it in on S/L/E

Ran Kext Utility

then all of a sudden the Speaker icon gray became bold

 

Hi real_sinjon et all

 

I have just completed the same update to 10.6.3 which made the sound WORK on an EP45T-UD3LR MOTHER BOARD

 

I have a standard Kakewalk Install Version 2.0 (CD). Upgrades to 10.6.3. DID NOT REBOOT yet , Used Kext Utility (V2.3.2) and dropped AppleHDA.kext (Dated 01/08/2009) onto it, Let it do its update, and then REBOOTED.

It apears to work, Thanks to a range of people on the forum

Yours Ray.

[tsponge]

get that thing to 4.0+ and it'll bump your mem up too. be sure to bump up your QPI to sustain the memory going up.

 

mine's at 4.2Ghz and I now have the second fastest Mac, ever according to Xbench, with a score of 535

 

 

Sounds awesome.

 

Will try that today. What cooler you using? And what you use in SL to monitor temps? iStat?

 

My overall Xbench MArk is 163.24 , not so happy I think...

Break down of that is:

 

CPU Test - 196

Thread test - 1018

Memory test - 451

Quartz Graphics test - 293

Open GL Graphics test - 113

User interface test - 420

Disk test 50

 

 

I have nothing to compare these too, but they do seem low if you are scoring 535.. Was that overall score?

[NagasakiJones]

This is an AMAZING install, incredibly easy. Thank you mrjanek for your work.

 

So far just one problem. I'm missing Digital Out/SPDIF option under Sound Output. I have an EP45-UD3R with the latest BIOS (f12). This is a fresh install of 10.6.0 via the CD method. System profiler lists "S/P-DIF Out: Connection: Combo". Oddly enough Digital In is listed under Sound Input.

 

Anybody know how to get Digital Out working on this board? It was working on a previous install of Leopard 10.5. Do I need an earlier BIOS or do I have to install some kexts or something?

 

Much thanks for any help.

 

Problem solved. Digital Out working on EP45-UD3R on 10.6.3 now. For anyone else that may find this helpful, here's what I did:

Fresh install 10.6.0 via Kakewalk. Updated to 10.6.2. Updated to 10.6.3. Patched DSDT via:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1229762

 

System Profiler info changed - It now lists "Speaker:Internal, Internal Microphone:Internal, Line In:1/8-Inch Jack, Headphone:1/8-Inch Jack, S/P-DIF Out:Optical, S/P-DIF In:Optical".

Completely different from what it should be and I haven't tried the other input/outputs, but hey Digital Out works.

[paulo dourado]

Sounds awesome.

 

Will try that today. What cooler you using? And what you use in SL to monitor temps? iStat?

 

My overall Xbench MArk is 163.24 , not so happy I think...

Break down of that is:

 

CPU Test - 196

Thread test - 1018

Memory test - 451

Quartz Graphics test - 293

Open GL Graphics test - 113

User interface test - 420

Disk test 50

 

 

I have nothing to compare these too, but they do seem low if you are scoring 535.. Was that overall score?

 

yup istat, here's a video of the system

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvcrd-w1bUw

 

and here's the xbench leaderboards

 

http://db.xbench.com/comparesubindex.xhtml...;minVersion=1.3

 

im using an h50, i got my overclock stable about a week before going to osx in windows 7.

[hoskoau]

Does the ATI tool work in 10.6.3?

 

I have a XFX 4890 GFX card and I'm about to install OSX using Kakewalk and just want to know if I can immediately upgrade to 10.6.3 and then use the ATI tool. Or if I need to use Netkas methods including the QE CI Exotic cards 10.6.3.pkg

 

Thanks

[invisiblesurfer]

I installed OSX 10.6.3 on my EX58-UD3R - no problems at all.

 

Two questions:

 

1) The various partitions created during installation are not hidden - I can see them when opening finder. As far as I can recall these partitions used to be hidden. Is this something that can be fixed by me?

 

2) How can I check for sure that QE/QI for my 8800GT is enabled? The interface feels very fluid and all but how can I be certain?

 

Cheers

[phlox55]

I got bored with these constant problems with ALC888 so I bought an Imic for $30, it came to life even without a reboot

 

Imic

[the_gael]

I appear to have a problem with display after updating to 10.6.3.

 

My Kakewalk Box is connected to a 42" Toshiba TV and after updating from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3 the displayed image on the screen is too big and the menu bar is not visible while part of the dock is also hidden. If I deselect overscan the image displayed becomes too small.

 

I have just re-installed on a fresh HD and installed Kakewalk, no other installation - then used Apple update to update to 10.6.3 - the issue is repeated. EDITED - Just done another clean install and the issue is repeatable.

 

My Display Card is a nVidia 9500GT 1gb.

 

I have done a search but can't locate any pointers on what the issue may be - any help gratefully accepted.

 

Edited to add: I have never had any other display connected, it has worked flawlessly with Kakewalk in the past.

[pepechuelo79]

Upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.3 - no issues. My procedure:

1) Disconnect all externals except mouse, keyboard, and monitor

2) Repair permissions

3) Restart

4) Install Mac OS 10.6.3 Combo Update

5) Restart

6) Repair permissions

Done! Nothing else required - everything still works! See my hardware signature below for configuration.

 

Hi trwoolley,

I followed your steps in my test partition (not in my main one) but I can't reach the 6) item. I got a "Version mis-match between Kernel and CPU PM"

Anybody know how can I solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Ah! My graphic card is a GTX 260. And I downloaded and installed the Combo version, not the Delta one.

[rphoto]

rphoto, have you lost DVI or HDMI connectivity after OS upgrade?

 

My graphics card has 2 DVI outs and 1 S-Video (which it calls HDTV Out on the packaging). My DVIs still work great (even remembered my second monitor settings), but I have yet to test the S-Video on any OS build since the S-Video cable I have doesn't reach my TV from my machine and my 23" Samsung HD monitor is so much more pleasant anyways.

If anyone wants to donate a REALLY long S-video to me, I'll be happy to test for them.

[mR.GeeK]

Why is the Ep45-Extreme not on the list???? its similar to each n every other board on the list! but only has a problem with Ide dvd-roms when when you update to 10.6.3

[trwoolley]

Hi trwoolley,

I followed your steps in my test partition (not in my main one) but I can't reach the 6) item. I got a "Version mis-match between Kernel and CPU PM"

Anybody know how can I solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Ah! My graphic card is a GTX 260. And I downloaded and installed the Combo version, not the Delta one.

 

 

Does your Extra and Extra/Extensions folder look like mine from my attachment with only one kext (fakesmc.kext), or are there some other KEXT or mkext files. If so, I suspect they need to be updated. Since I don't use them, I am not sure how to help you.

 

Best of luck!

[dham]

Hey guys tried to install last night

 

i5 750

msi gd-80

gigabyte ati 4670

 

I used the only msi package to created the boot thumb drive. It got all the way down to 9% and then it said MacOSX cannot be installed on this computer.

 

I've tried tony's [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and that always gives me : still waiting for root device. Any ideas on this guys? thanks a lot.

[the_gael]

Hi trwoolley,

I followed your steps in my test partition (not in my main one) but I can't reach the 6) item. I got a "Version mis-match between Kernel and CPU PM"

Anybody know how can I solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Ah! My graphic card is a GTX 260. And I downloaded and installed the Combo version, not the Delta one.

 

I am pretty sure that this is caused by having sleepenabler.kext

So to resolve your issue you would need to remove, disable or update the sleepenabler.kext.

 

I am aware of a new version of sleepenabler.kext that is 10.6.3 compatible - I would suggest a Google search.

[zawx]

Hello, I'm using a EP45-DS3L with a XFX Geforce 9800GT, 2 DVI-outs. After my previous update to 10.6.2 windowserver started crashing on boot, resulting in a permanent black screen.

 

Unplugging my TV solved this (was using a DVI-HDMI cable to connect it) and I later fixed it by replacing the nvidia kexts for 10.6.1 ones. I am imagining that this new update will cause the problems to surface again.

 

I'm wondering if anyone has got a cleaner fix for this issue? It seems that replacing the kexts with old ones isn't the best solution.

 

Anyone encountered this? Thanks.