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So I am a long time mac user who recently had to settle for a windows machine. Its an asus q550lf notebook with a touch screen. Im dying to run osx on my machine, but I am a bit curious about how the touch screen data would be handled. would it just be ignored or is there some driver i install to make mavericks touch capable? Im entirely new to the hackintosh world so bear with me if this is a stupid question.
 
I won't post any details on how to get a driver that works. What you are using is an ELAN Touchscreen. I have the same laptop, I have not been able to get it to work yet. But I am working really hard on finding a solution. If I find one, I will post how I get it to work. Have you successfully installed OSX on your Q550?
 
I am also working on my new Asus Q550LF (BB edition). I have successfully installed OSX on a new partition. I currently have it booting with Clover (r2652)/Multibeast. I have Native Boot Manager working with Clover/Multibeast as well. This was an incredibly complex experience. I will do my best to document it if anyone else is going to try to attempt this.

Please keep in mind that the only things I currently have working OOB are Native UEFI booting, built-in keyboard support and USB. USB will crash if you hot-plug anything while it's operating in OSX.

What works and what doesn't, but I'm working on it and will keep the thread updated:

(PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_08B1&SUBSYS_41708086) Wi-Fi Intel AC 7260 = Not Yet
(PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_200F1043) Realtek GBE NIC = Nope
(PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0A16&SUBSYS_12DD1043) Intel HD 4600 = Kind of, It shows, but I don't have QE enabled. Only shows 64MB regardless of whats chosen in UEFI (BIOS).
(PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0FE3&SUBSYS_12DD1043) GeForce 745M = Not even close
(USB\VID_04F2&PID_B3FD&REV_6954&MI_00) USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam = It Works in Facetime and Camera utility
(ACPI\VEN_ATK&DEV_3001) PS2 Keyboard = Works with Multibeast -> Voodoo PS2
(HID\VID_045E&PID_077B&REV_0044&Col02) Trackpad = Still can't get this to work, I thought it was PS2 and I was wrong.
(PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_9C31&SUBSYS_12DD1043) USB 3.0 = Also, Kind-of works. Will work if something is plugged in at boot.

My UEFI settings that make this work are:
Virtualization = OFF
Secure Boot = OFF
Booting CSM = OFF
Fast Boot = OFF

These settings will still allow you to boot into stock OS natively. Without these settings you cannot boot into the installer or ever hope to get your computer booted correctly.

Here's the catch... There is probably a better way to do this than what I had to do, In order to get this working right I ended up wiping my drive and starting from scratch. I made a 16GB USB stick loaded with OSX, a copy of Another OS recovery flashed onto another 8GB USB stick and 1 CD burned with GParted (bootable), but it turns out OSX Disk Utility works fine. Just make sure you format the other partitions to (MS-DOS - FAT).

First I formatted the Drive with GPT. I then gave myself 1GB first partition formatted FAT32, 200MB FAT32 used for Microshaft system stuff, 250GB for OSX and remainder for Other OS. This will give you the correct number of partitions bare minimum to install OSX and other OS back to the machine.

Next I booted my Clover OSX USB. Clover works, and Unibeast worked as well. I'm still not sure what I will end up with in the end, but it looks like a mix of both.

Install like normal.

It should boot normally. I'll get to how to install what you need in the next post. If your interested in attempting this, I will try to get into extra detail, just let me know I'm not
writing this for no reason.

I look forward to helping out,

~AsusQ550LF User
 
I also have a asus q550lf and Im interested in dual booting any help will be greatly appreciated
I am also working on my new Asus Q550LF (BB edition). I have successfully installed OSX on a new partition. I currently have it booting with Clover (r2652)/Multibeast. I have Native Boot Manager working with Clover/Multibeast as well. This was an incredibly complex experience. I will do my best to document it if anyone else is going to try to attempt this.

Please keep in mind that the only things I currently have working OOB are Native UEFI booting, built-in keyboard support and USB. USB will crash if you hot-plug anything while it's operating in OSX.

What works and what doesn't, but I'm working on it and will keep the thread updated:

(PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_08B1&SUBSYS_41708086) Wi-Fi Intel AC 7260 = Not Yet
(PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_200F1043) Realtek GBE NIC = Nope
(PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0A16&SUBSYS_12DD1043) Intel HD 4600 = Kind of, It shows, but I don't have QE enabled. Only shows 64MB regardless of whats chosen in UEFI (BIOS).
(PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0FE3&SUBSYS_12DD1043) GeForce 745M = Not even close
(USB\VID_04F2&PID_B3FD&REV_6954&MI_00) USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam = It Works in Facetime and Camera utility
(ACPI\VEN_ATK&DEV_3001) PS2 Keyboard = Works with Multibeast -> Voodoo PS2
(HID\VID_045E&PID_077B&REV_0044&Col02) Trackpad = Still can't get this to work, I thought it was PS2 and I was wrong.
(PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_9C31&SUBSYS_12DD1043) USB 3.0 = Also, Kind-of works. Will work if something is plugged in at boot.

My UEFI settings that make this work are:
Virtualization = OFF
Secure Boot = OFF
Booting CSM = OFF
Fast Boot = OFF

These settings will still allow you to boot into stock OS natively. Without these settings you cannot boot into the installer or ever hope to get your computer booted correctly.

Here's the catch... There is probably a better way to do this than what I had to do, In order to get this working right I ended up wiping my drive and starting from scratch. I made a 16GB USB stick loaded with OSX, a copy of Another OS recovery flashed onto another 8GB USB stick and 1 CD burned with GParted (bootable), but it turns out OSX Disk Utility works fine. Just make sure you format the other partitions to (MS-DOS - FAT).

First I formatted the Drive with GPT. I then gave myself 1GB first partition formatted FAT32, 200MB FAT32 used for Microshaft system stuff, 250GB for OSX and remainder for Other OS. This will give you the correct number of partitions bare minimum to install OSX and other OS back to the machine.

Next I booted my Clover OSX USB. Clover works, and Unibeast worked as well. I'm still not sure what I will end up with in the end, but it looks like a mix of both.

Install like normal.

It should boot normally. I'll get to how to install what you need in the next post. If your interested in attempting this, I will try to get into extra detail, just let me know I'm not
writing this for no reason.

I look forward to helping out,

~AsusQ550LF User
 
Sorry to everyone interested in the Asus Q550LF - Mavericks Thread. I will do a better job of responding to all questions. I have made great strides in installing Mavericks to this laptop.

You will need a working OSX Machine, preferably a pure blood mac, running at least OSX 10.7+.

This is due to updating your pure Mac to Mavericks and using the Installer to create a USB thumb drive with the newest version UniBeast.

If you haven't already done so, please subscribe to this thread.

I have successfully installed Vanilla Mavericks on my lappy and used MultiBeast to keep it booting. What a process, over the next days I will document my work to the best of my ability and make edits as I write.

Thank you everyone for your interest and I hope I can answer everyone's questions.

~Q550LF Owner (Lets call me Ken)
 
Please Help Me Hack My Asus q551

PLease help!

I'm attempting to hackintosh my asus q551.
i7-4510U
Nvidia Geforve 840m (I'm not expecting this to work)
Intel HD 4400 Graphics (it might be intel HD 4000)
1 TB 5400 rpm HDD (instea of CD Drive)
480 GB SSD (In Primary HD spot)

I have successfully created a boot disk using these instructions with Unibeast instead of the method describedabove. I have patched the kernal and the disk boots into the installer. When running in verbose mode my install appears to freeze up after loading bluetooth. I have tried combinations of these bootflags: -x -v -f GraphicsEnabler=No GraphicsEnabler=Yes CPUs=1. I'm giong to post a picture of where verbose mode stops.

Please help, I'd really love to get Mavericks running, I know that my laptop is slightly different from the Q550, but I think the only difference is the dedicated graphics card, which I don' plan on using. Thank you so much and thanks for making this easy for guys like me!

Screen SHot Of Verbose Mode:
http://picpaste.com/...80-UDM9r2ld.JPG IMG_0880.jpgIMG_0880.jpg
 
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