Asus P6T / i7-920 (ACPI KP on Install, Can't Proceed)

[CraigKC]

I'm a very experienced PC tech/engineer but new to trying to get OSX installed. I've lurked, searched, and tried for days every tutorial, boot, and BIOS setting and I can't even get the OSX 10.6.3 install past a ACPI KP right off the bat.

 

My error is the "unable to find driver for this platform" ACPI KP that I seem to find plenty of people talking about, but most of them I find are dated in 2009. I can't tell if I need to follow that info since it seems so old (old Chameleon releases, old kernel extensions, broken links to old tools, etc)

 

Can someone at least point me in the right direction? I don't mind putting plenty of work and research in but I'm just blown away that I can't even get the install to start. I've started researching DSDT and XPC UEFI-Boot stuff but feel like I'm going in the wrong direction... ?

 

System Specs:

i7-920 (1366)

Asus P6T

X58/ICH10R

JMicron JMB363 southbridge

EVGA GTX-470

12GB RAM

SATA Optical (HP 1270d)

SATA HDD (300 GB WD Velociraptor)

 

BIOS Settings:

AHCI SATA

Tried both HT On/Off

Tried both 1 Core and All Cores Settings

A20M: Disabled

On-Board Audio: Disabled (Not Needed)

Intel VT-d: Enabled

PnP OS: No

Repost Video on S3 Resume: Tried Yes and No (Conflicting Tutorials I Found)

ACPI 2.0 Support: Enabled

ACPI APIC Support: Enabled

 

Things I've Tried:

Bare system

single SATA HDD (no partitions)

single SATA Optical

no PCI cards

GTX470 in first PCI-E 16x

4GB RAM (2 sticks, rest removed)

Only USB devices are mouse/keyboard

 

OSX 10.6.3

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (3/1/2011)

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-Legacy (3/1/2011)

132 Boot v1.15 (from P6T Deluxe Tutorial Here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=208724)

-x

PCIRootUID=1

-x PCIRootUID=1

 

Both [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] methods yield the ACPI KP, and the 132 Boot method gives me a "can't find mach_kernel" error using v1.15 of the ISO from the thread.

 

Totally stuck...