[HOW TO] INSTALL ON GIGABYTE/ASUS/COMPATIBLE BOARDS

[amb7247]

Also mto, why did you choose to not to install the P5W sound and the Intel SSE2 under cuztomize during the install?

[Todd C]

Hello alls,

 

I have a P5W DH Deluxe Motherboard with a xfx 800gt and 2 gigs of ram. All went mostly well through in the install and I got 10.5.1 running great. So, I then went about upgrading to 10.5.2 with the directions in this thread, everything is MOSTLY ok, but I seem to have lost the sound. I have read posts that just say re-install the ktext's, ok, I am fine with that and know how to do that, but where would I find them to re-install them? I did see the ALC package in the Kalyway dvd and ran that with no results, does this package just move the ktext's onto my drive somewhere and I need to replace them myself?

 

I am sure this is a stupid question, so I am sorry. Other than this little quark everything is fricken awesome.

 

Thanks,

-T

[mtotho]

@amb, I did say to install sound in customize.. on the p5w dh.pdf.. not the main guide.. i guess i can add it to make it more clear.. select it. Also.. you do not need to select sse2 unless ur cpu only has sse2. Core 2 processors should not select sse2 in customize

 

@Anyone with this question. The ethernet cord really only needs to be unplugged during the initial set up. Select "my computer does not network" as a networking option.. finish the setup.. and then you can safely put the ethernet back in.

 

@Todd C. No worries, this happened to me as well. I tried reinstalling the package.. was a no go. Eventually got it to work withALC882_0x1043e601.txt

 

Download Taruga's HDA Audio patcher (link in post 1) and drag the text file to the patcher.

[amb7247]

thanks bud

[Todd C]

@mto - I am assuming that file is for me. Ok, maybe my knowledge of Ktexts is not as good as I thought. I have been given ktexts and I have used the ktext helper to put them in. I am not sure what I am supposed to do with the txt you supplied.

 

Thanks for any help and sorry for my ignorance.

[mtotho]

@Todd, it is explained in the section of my guide for installing audio.. albeit it is not for the asus p5w dh.. but it is the same process.

Save the 882.text to ur destkop. Download the AppleHDA patcher 1.20 (in post 1). Extract it.. you will then have the icon of a green frog. Simply Drag the .text file to the icon.. it will prompt you for a password. supply it, restart when the processor appears finished.

[K2`]

I'm sorta having the same problem as Bob TK..

 

i have crucial ballistix ram DDR2 - 1066.. and on bootup in the bios.. it shows as 1066.. but when i check on the system profiler and "about my mac" .. it shows as 800 mhz...

 

in windows xp.. with cpuid.. it shows up as pc6400... and not pc-8500..

 

i am running the following

 

DS3L

Q6600

8800 GT

500 gig paritioned as MBR, AHCI off

2 gig ballistix dual channel DDR2 PC-8500 ram

dual booted with xp

 

 

i've tried palying around with the timings but coudlnt' get it to work... i'm a noob at this ram stuff.. so dunno what to do exactly...

 

any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

[Todd C]

@mto- I was almost there, I had the app just want not sure what to do with both peices. Thanks for the help and everything works great now. Awesome thread and awesome help.

 

-T

[MrHicks]

Just built my hackintosh with:

 

GA-P35-DS3 v2.1

e2160

2gb ddr2 800

7900gt

efi_mbr

ahci enabled

 

10.5.2 installed

 

I'm getting a nice 230 xbench score with the disk check disabled.

Strangely, shutdown works perfectly for me, but restarting does not, I just get a blank screen with all the fans still running?

[mtotho]

@tod, it isnt that dificult. drag the file to the icon, authenticate, restart.

 

@K2, in windows it only shows up as 800mhz? did you go into the bios and manually change the ratio of the memory to make it 1066 (if it wasnt already)? this obviously is not a leopard problem, you may want to take it to somewhere else

 

@mr hicks, can i please see the results to ur video benchmarks in xbench? (open gl, quartz, user interface)

[guh]

Hello i just did a new install following this guide Vanilla Kernel, guid efi. After the install and reboot i get error loading operating system. Any Ideas?

 

-guh

[K2`]

mtotho: the ram in bios shows up as 1066...

[MrHicks]

@mr hicks, can i please see the results to ur video benchmarks in xbench? (open gl, quartz, user interface)

 

sorry it's a bit large.

 

 

Any ideas on why shutdown works fine and restart doesn't? The roles were reversed before I updated to 10.5.2.

[mtotho]

Hello i just did a new install following this guide Vanilla Kernel, guid efi. After the install and reboot i get error loading operating system. Any Ideas?

 

-guh

 

did you make sure that you formatted ur drive as guid? what are your specs?

[guh]

did you make sure that you formatted ur drive as guid? what are your specs?

 

Yes sir i made sure i selected GUID.

 

Specs

e8400

ds3l

WD 500GB SATA (Shows up as an external drive in Disk Utility)

2GB GKill

8800GT

SATA DVD Drive

 

-guh

[mtotho]

@guh, gooh. Did you make sure that ur hard drive with leopard is set to boot in bios.. and the primary partition on the hard drive.. that sounds as simple as it isnt the active partition.. in which case you will have to go through a series of terminal commands on the install disk or use windows to make it active.. or a boot disc.

[guh]

@guh, gooh. Did you make sure that ur hard drive with leopard is set to boot in bios.. and the primary partition on the hard drive.. that sounds as simple as it isnt the active partition.. in which case you will have to go through a series of terminal commands on the install disk or use windows to make it active.. or a boot disc.

 

I think i figure out what the problem is by looking at the bios as you suggested. Since my hard drive shows up as external. I had to enable boot off of external hard drive and that seem to work. I guess after i do your orange drive fix it solve this probelm.

-guh

[GIGANTOID]

Ok an update, after plugging in a USB keyboard install works perfectly all updates applied perfectly.

 

Sound...check

Networking...check

System running like a charm...

 

System Specs

P35-DS3RQ6600 (9x333) 3ghz

2x2gb OCZ PC80001x

36Gb raptor INSTALL DRIVE - SATA

1x 80gb Raptor VISTA DRIVE - SATA

2x 300gb NTFS storage - SATA

1x USB external drive1xSamsung - SATA DVDr

1xPioneer IDE DVDr

8800 GTS (G92) 512 @ 1680x1050

Creative Extreme Music - not recognized by OSX86 but installed for Vista

 

Thanks alot for the guide, i haven't posted much felt no need until my system matched compatibility. Now I just gotta make a clone of the OSx86 drive for backup and then get the nerve to migrate the ofther drives to Mac FS unsure if I want to trust Paragon NTFS for mac.In fact I'll probably dump the 2 300Gb drives for a single WD Tb drive since all it'll do is file storage. Along with the 36Gb raptor thats been humming along but its due for a failure after all these years.

 

i did not install the kalyway 10.5.2 kernals is that reccommended? I've done the system update, thats the only thing I wasn't sure about.O

 

nly issues I have are the ubiquitous shutdown/sleep and the orange drive icons. Has anyone quantified the performance hit if any using the fix from post one does to the drives if AHCI is on?

[mtotho]

the performance, is not the big increase.. but the drive is detected as external.. thus changing permission and what not.

[luh3417]

It may be safe to say that the JMicron, which drives 1 IDE plug (can put a master and slave on it) and 2 SATA plugs, is not really useful or has drivers on OSx86. Correct me if I'm wrong. So I would say to avoid all the JMicron related plugs. This means use a SATA DVD drive. If we had a disk image reader/writer program and shared disk images that might be one workaround for IDE DVD users. Actually I'm wondering if IDE HDDs are at all kosher, if you have a SATA DVD and an IDE HDD.

 

Re: AHCI on Windows. This is a hassle even on a straight windows install, in which the least painful way is to turn on AHCI from the very start and load AHCI drivers during the initial install (or find/create/use an XP install disk which has been modified to slipstream in SATA and SP2 and AHCI drivers). If you fail to do it from the git go, the workaround is to move your boot drive over to the JMicron ports (purple on most Gigabyte mobos) and then enable AHCI on the ICH9 SATA ports (oragne on most Gigabyte mobos) which have no drives on them yet. Now you are in XP and the Intel driver will let you install it. Then you move the drive back to the ICH9 SATA ports. Actually you may need some JMicron AHCI drivers installed in there somewhere, I think they are not as anal as the Intel drivers about installing. Now, how this interacts with a dual boot is not clear to me, except maybe take care of all your XP SATA plug/driver dance before you bring OSx86 into the party. Having said all that, I'm not sure why everyone has such a hard-on for dual boot, why not just single boot into mac and then run VMware (or parallels but I hear VMware is better) for those few Windoze apps we need. Or just get a hot-swap bay and trade back and forth between your XP drive and your OS X drive.

 

Mtotho, I am like cruising on my new Mac, many heartfelt thanks for patiently sharing your expertise with us. I am so done with Linux its sick. They had their 10 years and its still a hassle. Yes, it took a day or two of wrestling to get the hackintosh going, but now with the EFI and the vanilla kernel the wrestling is over. With linux it seemed like every day I had to spend an hour or two trying to figure out why the printer died, why printed graphics looked so bad, why printer sharing flailed, and which klingons on PCP wrote the sound control panel. Those linux guys should be forced to support having their parents install and run linux over the phone so they can grasp how mired they are in l33t confusion. The beauty of the hackintosh is that all the brainpower is focussed on the install, rather than spread out and diluted over thousands of apps like on Linux. No wonder mac is gaining market share at the expense of linux as recent surveys show. And now we can also run on powerful hardware; Apple still does not sell a proper desktop computer, simply dressed up immobile mobiles called iMacs.

[amb7247]

Ok an update, after plugging in a USB keyboard install works perfectly all updates applied perfectly.

 

Sound...check

Networking...check

System running like a charm...

 

System Specs

P35-DS3RQ6600 (9x333) 3ghz

2x2gb OCZ PC80001x

36Gb raptor INSTALL DRIVE - SATA

1x 80gb Raptor VISTA DRIVE - SATA

2x 300gb NTFS storage - SATA

1x USB external drive1xSamsung - SATA DVDr

1xPioneer IDE DVDr

8800 GTS (G92) 512 @ 1680x1050

Creative Extreme Music - not recognized by OSX86 but installed for Vista

 

Thanks alot for the guide, i haven't posted much felt no need until my system matched compatibility. Now I just gotta make a clone of the OSx86 drive for backup and then get the nerve to migrate the ofther drives to Mac FS unsure if I want to trust Paragon NTFS for mac.In fact I'll probably dump the 2 300Gb drives for a single WD Tb drive since all it'll do is file storage. Along with the 36Gb raptor thats been humming along but its due for a failure after all these years.

 

i did not install the kalyway 10.5.2 kernals is that reccommended? I've done the system update, thats the only thing I wasn't sure about.O

 

nly issues I have are the ubiquitous shutdown/sleep and the orange drive icons. Has anyone quantified the performance hit if any using the fix from post one does to the drives if AHCI is on?

 

I havn't seen a performance hit at all with AHCI on. Though if you do have ACHI on you should no longer get the orange drives.

[luh3417]

Thanks alot for the guide, i haven't posted much felt no need until my system matched compatibility. Now I just gotta make a clone of the OSx86 drive for backup and then get the nerve to migrate the ofther drives to Mac FS unsure if I want to trust Paragon NTFS for mac.In fact I'll probably dump the 2 300Gb drives for a single WD Tb drive since all it'll do is file storage. Along with the 36Gb raptor thats been humming along but its due for a failure after all these years.

Having just slammed SuSE linux, just wanted to note that if you have an old linux box laying around, its a useful place to do a dd clone of the 10.5.2 install. linux also lets you mount both hfsplus and ntfs drives read/write (not clear to me this is possible or solid on OS X). For hfsplus you might find this handy, need to turn off journaling or linux won't let you write to them. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3...=repair+hfsplus I was then able to copy over my firefox and thunderbird profiles and jam them into place on the mac. I went with the consensus on newegg that the WD 1TB seems more reliable than the Samsung, reliability is more important to me than performance. Another good solution for fast boots and application loading is a solid state drive. Maybe OS X would fit on 8 or 16GB, I forgot to check before I loaded up a bunch of other software. As far as the sleep of death goes, just turn off sleep?

 

@amb7247 1. Its the opposite. AHCI is what causes the orange drives, which means they're removable drives. I have AHCI on , and I have orange drive icons. 2. AFAIK, the reason they're orange is because they are in fact removable, because AHCI confers hotswap (and NCQ) to the drive. IMHO this is in fact true and correct. I'd like to see some tests before I sign up for any superstitions about orange drives.

[ninetto]

RE: Orange/External/AHCI drives...

 

Just like luh3417 I too would like someone's concrete experience, why/what advantage the revised SataKext offers... I don't care about the color and shape of the icons, but if this is really effecting how OSX deals with permissions, etc. then there would be a good reason to switch kexts.

 

As far as I know the external drive issue with permissions refers solely to USB drives.

 

Where did the revised SataKext originate, are there really performance advantages over the standard kext?

 

thanks +

regards, ninetto

[Lord Norr]

Ok guys. Please, Im begging now. Can someone please shed some light on whats going on with my system??

Ill try to explain best I can.

If I boot from the 10.5.2 DVD it hangs on "waiting for root device".

If i try 10.5.1 it boots the installer, but its VERY slow, takes 10 minutes to even recognise my hard drives and when I try to erase my partition I allocated for Leopard, it just doesnt do anything. Ive yet to actually install it and its driving me MENTAL!!!

 

Please PLEASE someone help!!

[luh3417]

RE: Orange/External/AHCI drives...

 

Just like luh3417 I too would like someone's concrete experience, why/what advantage the revised SataKext offers... I don't care about the color and shape of the icons, but if this is really effecting how OSX deals with permissions, etc. then there would be a good reason to switch kexts.

 

As far as I know the external drive issue with permissions refers solely to USB drives.

If you change kexts, so the AHCI SATA drives are no longer orange, are you then forfeiting your ability to hot-swap them? And does it affect NCQ? Does Apple actually yet sell any computers that let you hot swap... maybe this will be a new issue for the non-hackintosh Mac community too. Seems orange icon means you can remove it, but remember its not only USB drives that can be removed its hot-swappable AHCI SATA drives too. Hot swap bays can be inexpensive; try the icy-dock brand.