[SUCCESS] Old School - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P / Q9650 / 8GB DDR2 / GTX280

First Post -
I've been using ML 10.8.5 since it came out.
Downloaded Mavericks.
Followed instructions to create USB Mavericks boot thumb drive.
Copied Multibeast, Kexttool, ALC889a.fix.kext, ApplePCIIDE.kext, to thumb drive (these files can be found here on this site)
ALC889a.fix.kext will "fix" 5.1 sound on the mb integrated sound chip
ApplePCIIDE.kext will enable you to use an IDE DVDRW - leaving all of your SATA ports open for HDD use.
Before moving forward - since I'm old school - I fixed what TonyMac fixed.back to so I don't have to manually input crap at boot.
Opened terminal, navigated to /Volumes/<usb drive name>/Extra
changed GraphicsEnabler=yes
changed PCIRootUID=1
saved and exit

made copy of my /Volumes/<primary hdd disk>/Extra directory to timemachine drive.... just in case.

Boot into Unibeast and proceeded with dirty install (no formatting, just install it over ML)
install success
reboot (change bios back to Hackintosh friendly setting)
boot unibeast stick, then select hdd - boot to desktop.
Back to system settings and allow running programs from "anywhere"
Run multibeast - no DSDT settings required, choose Apple RealTek driver, PCIRoot fix, non-DSDT 889a sound (which install HDAenabler).
After done, kick off kext utility.
install ApplePCIIDE.kext and ALC889a.fix.kext
reboot machine without unibeast (yes, it worked on a 2TB hdd)
put back smbios.plist and chameleon.boot.plist
reselect sound source - works like a champ.
check network - works like a champ
boot once more.
Update Avast, Reinstall Jjava 6 JRE (for Adobe CS), Update Dropbox, Update GoogleDrive, open Mail and reindex mail content.
And wala - done.

Total time: 1hr 22 minutes. (45 minutes for Mavericks install)

Verdict:
Mavericks is better than SL and ML - and the multi-monitor support is kick butt. So good - worth the upgrade even if were the only improvement.

Everything works (sleep, hibernate, and auto wake-up).

All in all - this version of OS X is the best yet.

This gets TonyMac a beer, some pizza, and a donation.

To be honest - the only thing necessary to run multibeast after a dirty install was the FakeSMC install (new version), and the boot loader (new version). I was just being anal by reinstalling the other drivers.

whats a dirty install? i'm looking to up grade my sig rig to mavericks but, i hear the MSI GTX480 isn't working.

dirty install !0 clean install

That is to say, a clean install is when you format or erase your hard drive and start from scratch.

A dirty install is when you install the OS on top of the older OS (Mav over ML) without formatting or erasing the old data.

Hope that helps.

I have the same mobo and am in the process of upgrading now that I got the install screen to appear. I did not copy any of the old kexts over. I did back up the ones you mentioned JUST IN CASE

startxjeff said:

First Post -
I've been using ML 10.8.5 since it came out.
Downloaded Mavericks.
Followed instructions to create USB Mavericks boot thumb drive.
Copied Multibeast, Kexttool, ALC889a.fix.kext, ApplePCIIDE.kext, to thumb drive (these files can be found here on this site)
ALC889a.fix.kext will "fix" 5.1 sound on the mb integrated sound chip
ApplePCIIDE.kext will enable you to use an IDE DVDRW - leaving all of your SATA ports open for HDD use.
Before moving forward - since I'm old school - I fixed what TonyMac fixed.back to so I don't have to manually input crap at boot.
Opened terminal, navigated to /Volumes/<usb drive name>/Extra

Code:

sudo nano chameleon.boot.plist

changed GraphicsEnabler=yes
changed PCIRootUID=1
saved and exit

made copy of my /Volumes/<primary hdd disk>/Extra directory to timemachine drive.... just in case.

Boot into Unibeast and proceeded with dirty install (no formatting, just install it over ML)
install success
reboot (change bios back to Hackintosh friendly setting)
boot unibeast stick, then select hdd - boot to desktop.
Back to system settings and allow running programs from "anywhere"
Run multibeast - no DSDT settings required, choose Apple RealTek driver, PCIRoot fix, non-DSDT 889a sound (which install HDAenabler).
After done, kick off kext utility.
install ApplePCIIDE.kext and ALC889a.fix.kext

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I've been trying and trying to get this thing installed. For some reason I might have the bios hooked up wrong because my system won't recognize the volumes when i get to the "select volume to install screen" I only see UNIBEAST. I double checked my bios settings , i was wondering if you could share yours, maybe I missed something. Any help would be appreciated. Also out of curiosity do you modify your installer with any extra kexts (unibeast USB installer ) that is...

Thanks again

Congrats on your success! I have the same old school motherboard and ran into a really strange snag. I created the unibeast USB installer, no problem and installed to a newly formatted HDD and rebooted. Everything looked fine, but at the end of the boot the display inexplicably powers down and then just sits there. Nothing. I rebooted and my BIOS was all screwed up, so I had to reset all of those settings, tried again with the -v flag, and seemingly there is no problem that I can see in the startup sequence, but something goes wrong when it tries to hand off to the login screen (the verbose boot screen doesn't hang as far as I can tell)

What mobo/BIOS version are you using?
Did you use a DSDT?
Any idea why the CMOS reset (that really freaked me out, and not in a good way)?
Any thoughts on what's going on with the display powering down?

Thanks mate!

sound 898?

MajorMeatintaco said:

I've been trying and trying to get this thing installed. For some reason I might have the bios hooked up wrong because my system won't recognize the volumes when i get to the "select volume to install screen" I only see UNIBEAST. I double checked my bios settings , i was wondering if you could share yours, maybe I missed something. Any help would be appreciated. Also out of curiosity do you modify your installer with any extra kexts (unibeast USB installer ) that is...

Thanks again

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Try the BIOS settings laid out here: http://lifehacker.com/5351553/hackintosh-bios-gallery/

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MajorMeatintaco said:

I've been trying and trying to get this thing installed. For some reason I might have the bios hooked up wrong because my system won't recognize the volumes when i get to the "select volume to install screen" I only see UNIBEAST. I double checked my bios settings , i was wondering if you could share yours, maybe I missed something. Any help would be appreciated. Also out of curiosity do you modify your installer with any extra kexts (unibeast USB installer ) that is...

Thanks again

Click to expand...

Try the BIOS settings laid out here: http://lifehacker.com/5351553/hackintosh-bios-gallery/

I got the same problem, mobo is GA-EP45-DS3. No apparent errors, login screen just won't come up. SL and ML always worked for me. I guess MultiBeast (6.0.0) installed a bad kext.