Asus P6x58D-E success!

[niall111]

board: Asus P6X58D-E
CPU: I7-950
Graphics: EVGA Nvidia GTX460 Fermi
install drive: Vertex 2 60GB SSD
Ram: 6GB Corsair XMS Dominator

Extras: 1.5TB Seagate HD, 1TB Western Digital HD, Logitech USB headset


Install:
My starting point was obviously Tony's guide:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/ ... -x-on.html

I unplugged all of my Extras above, and the DVD + SSD drives needed to be on the SATA 3 (6GB/s) ports in order for the installer to properly recognize the SSD for formatting. The only required BIOS settings were setting SATA to AHCI, and Suspend Type to S3.

Booted from the iBoot disk and once loaded, replaced that with the OSX install disk. Pressed F5, entered "PCIRootUID=1 -x", and pressed enter for install.

When the installer is loaded and I had a menu on top, I went to Disk Utility, clicked on my SSD DRIVE (Not partition!), and by default I was at the Erase tab. Selected MacOS Journalled, and let it format. This part took many attempts to get right, with the final solution being to plug into the 6GB/s port as mentioned above. After formatting, the install continued without a hitch, and I was into OSX in safe mode.

I had MultiBeast on a USB stick, and copied it to a folder on my new OSX install. Ran Multibeast, selected EasyBeast, along with some select drivers. "HDA Audio" seemed to work right away. Same for the NVidia graphics driver. After a few attempts, the "AppleIntel network driver" turned out to be the proper one, and a Disk driver that "makes drives appear as internal", but I can't recall the name.

Once MultiBeast finished the install, I shut down the PC, plugged in my extra peripherals and off it went. A fully functioning OSX computer, with an overclock to 3.8 GHz thrown in for good measure!

 

[rulez007]

Hey,
did try to follow your guide, what works fine all the way until the installer goes about 2%, than it freezes. I'm getting pretty frustrated with this as its the 3rd day i'm spending on my hack.
i7 980x
6gb kingston hyper-x 1600mhz
asus p6x58d-e
asus engt240
2.5wd blue 1tb dedicated for osx

thanks

 

[mrosebro]

rulez007: i'm havin pretty much the same issue you are, but i do know your not supposed to have more than 4gb of ram in for the install, u can put it in later when ur done installing...

short of that trust me i'm feelin ur pain with the freezing install!

 

[jin410]

Just wanted to follow up and confirm that you can indeed install osx on an asus p6x58d-e
Running now with dual boot windows 7.

I can not confirm if usb 3.0, sata 6 or HDMI audio are working (i'm not using them in my setup) but everything else is up and running nicely.

Below are some notes I made/used while trying to get it all to work (this is not a step by step guide but hopefully it might help someone out?)

System: ASUS P6X58D-E LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
CPU: Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz
Graphics: EVGA 012-P3-1472-AR GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) SuperClocked 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130549
Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 6GB 1600 (PC3 12800) Model F3-12800CL8T-6GBRM
Hard drives:
60 GB OCZ-AGILITY2 (Revision: 1.23) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227542
1 TB Western Digital WD1001FALS - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
160 GB Western Digital WD1600BEKT - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136278

To start off, I already had windows 7 installed on the OCZ-AGILITY2 using the WD1001FALS for data storage.

I used the spare 120gb WD1600BEKT to install osx.
Before beginning, i disconnected all drives except for dvd and 120gb and made sure only 4gigs on ram were installed.
I also update my bios to Version 0701 (latest as of 2011.07.02) and followed the bios setup settings on:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

Note, i did not have anything hooked up into my sata 6 ports.

install with snow leopard 10.6.3 (other versions did not work for me)

boot using iboot with following command:

PCIRootUID=1 -x

once booted, use diskutil to format and then install os

reboot with iboot in drive

pick snow lepoard drive, kept getting white screen grey logo freeze

used the following to boot into osx:

Busratio=20 PCIRootUID=1

(in retrospect, "PCIRootUID=1 -x" would probably work)

found above from:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23637&hilit=acpi+table+not+found


installed combo update (10.6.8) be sure to follow instructions from step 3:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

Still had to reboot into safemode with "PCIRootUID=1 -x"

installed video card, (used drivers from nvidia's site http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.01.00f03-driver.html )
once the video card was installed, I had no more problems with computer hanging on boot

needed to download the Marvell Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8056 kext to get network card to work
http://www.kexts.com/view/669-marvell_yukon_88e8056.html


It took me a while to figure out how to get the onboard sound to work ( Realtek ALC889 ) tried several kext's but nothing worked for me after installing the 10.6.8 update.
When booting from iboot i had sound so i used "voodoohda" and finally got it to work.

found the following post which outlines the setting iboot is using, configured multibeast with similar settings:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-get-iboot-functionality-from.html

Finally osx was up and running, now to get windows back.
Hooked everything back up (hard drives and ram) went into bios and set my boot order to have the osx drive boot first followed by my win7 drive.

Bootloader saw all the drives and i was able to boot into both windows and osx without any issues.
Note, if you get "BOOTMGR is missing" try using "system reserved" instead.

To clean things up i edited my "com.apple.Boot.plist" (found in the extra folder) to hide some partitions and renamed my windows "system reserved" to "win 7"
Note, you'll have to google how to do this, i lost the links but here's my setup to help:

    <key>Hide Partition</key>
    <string>"Data" "MASTABLASTA" "SSD"</string>
    <key>Rename Partition</key>
    <string>hd(1,1) "Win 7"</string>

Anytime I booted into either windows or osx my time was really off so i used the follow to fix:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t67575.html
The step-by-step solution is as follows:
1. Boot Windows
2. Click Start --> Run and type regedit. Click OK
3. The Windows Registry Editor should pop up. Navigate within the explorer to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet
then to:
Control\TimeZoneInformation
4. Click on the TimeZoneInformation "folder" from the navigation pane if you haven't already done so.
5. This assumes the correct key doesn't exist. If it does, you will just change the existing key's value: Right click on the white space within the folder Select new --> DWORD Value. Title the key "RealTimeIsUniversal" (No quotes). Set the value to "1" (No quotes again). Hexidecimal should be fine.
6. Either reboot and set the clock in MacOS or set the clock in Windows. You should now be able to reboot into either OS and have a correct clock.

I had to reboot a couple of times into both os's and my bios to get the above to work right.

It took me about 2 days to get all of this working, the sound card caused me the most problems (maybe someone has a working kext?).

Hopefully someone finds this helpful.

Good luck to all.

 

[zzhiweii]

How I got my GTX 470 to work in 10.6.8

How I got my GTX 470 to work in 10.6.8

1. Boot to Iboot 3.1.1 to install Snow Leopard
2. Use "PCIRootUID=1 -x" to get to installation screen
3. Install 10.6.8 Combo update (Do not reboot yet)
4. Install Multi Beast 3.8 with "Chameleon RC5" Checked
5. Install "tonymacx86 NVIDIA Update 2.1"
1010110101/tonymacx86-NVIDIA-Update-2.1.0.zip
6. Reboot
7. Install CUDA 4.0.19 driver for MAC
http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cud ... river.html
8. Reboot
9. Install Quadro Mac OS X Driver Release 256.02.25
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-mac ... river.html
10. Reboot


Finally got my Graphics Acceleration and CUDA working after days of experimentation!!
I am also able to run in max resolution 1080p (1920x1080)
Hope it helps
Cheers


Specs: Intel Core I7 2.8ghz | ASUS
P6X58-E | 3GB DDR3 | Palit GTX 470
2 x 500 GB SATA

 

[WayneH]

Having a few issues with my build with the 10.6.8 update. I was able to get into OSX installer using iboot (-v PCIRootUID=1 arch=i386 was the only thing that worked so far). Once installed i rebooted with iboot using the same code. Back at the desktop i ran the 10.6.8 combo update ran multibeast and selected the easy beast Utility. i rebooted and installed the Nvidia Retail_256.02.25f1v1 drivers.

I later came across a P6x58D Files .zip which contained various kexts as well as a dsdt.aml file. I copied the replaced my extra folder in the root of my osx drive with the extra folder from the the download. moved the dsdt file to my desktop and ran multibeast under the user dsdt option along with both options under system utilities (rebuild/repair kexts).

I still haven't been able to get the audio to work. I have tried using the voodoohda kexts from the multibeast audio section but once installed my machine crashes on startup any suggestions. I am a complete noob to the hackintosh arena. My motherboard bios is version 0303.

additional link:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... pic=253501

 

[jin410]

WayneH,

Maybe you can try updating your bios?

I came across a zip file containing P6x58D Files as well, which also, did not work for me.

Updating my bios to 0701 and doing a clean install worked for me.

Is everything else working other than the sound?
Are you able to boot into osx with iboot?
if you boot from iboot, do you have sound?

 

[WayneH]

Updated my bios 0701 as suggested did a clean install and everything is working great. Thank you jin410 for your invaluable assistance.

 

[Lenny56]

Built my Hackintosh Asus P6X58D-E with updated bios version 0701 yesterday everything working including 2 monitors.

The only thing I am finding is when installing software or updating the system it takes forever to install or the software is hanging and I have to force quite. It seems very sluggish compared to Windows 7 64bit.

GeForce 9800 GT:

Chipset Model: GeForce 9800 GT
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz

VGA Display:
Resolution: 1280 x 768 @ 75 Hz
Not tried HDMI yet.
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M-Audio Delta 66 PCI card
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8GB memory.

 

[betojf]

How I got my GTX 470 to work in 10.6.8

1. Boot to Iboot 3.1.1 to install Snow Leopard
2. Use "PCIRootUID=1 -x" to get to installation screen
3. Install 10.6.8 Combo update (Do not reboot yet)
4. Install Multi Beast 3.8 with "Chameleon RC5" Checked
5. Install "tonymacx86 NVIDIA Update 2.1"
1010110101/tonymacx86-NVIDIA-Update-2.1.0.zip
6. Reboot
7. Install CUDA 4.0.19 driver for MAC
http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cud ... river.html
8. Reboot
9. Install Quadro Mac OS X Driver Release 256.02.25
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-mac ... river.html
10. Reboot


Finally got my Graphics Acceleration and CUDA working after days of experimentation!!
I am also able to run in max resolution 1080p (1920x1080)
Hope it helps
Cheers


Specs: Intel Core I7 2.8ghz | ASUS
P6X58-E | 3GB DDR3 | Palit GTX 470
2 x 500 GB SATA

I have this motherboard and a GTX465. I followed this and it worked. The only thing that is stopping me from having a 100% stable rig is my logitech unifying usb receiver, when booting up it stops and it hangs. It works fine when plugged after bootup, but does anyone have this issue?