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- Mar 23, 2013
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- Motherboard
- ASUS P8Z77-V (LGA 1155)
- CPU
- i7 2700k (Sandy Bridge)
- Graphics
- EVGA GTX 660Ti
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
So I'm going to describe the steps it took me to install OSX Mavericks successfully on my ASUS P8Z77-V mobo with a Sandy Bridge 2700K
As you probably know, ASUS mobos have their PM locked and because of that OSX cannot control the mobo's power for the cpu or the hardware and cause all kinds of kernel panics... And apparently combined with sandy bridge =
The issues I had were:
I now have everything working fine by doing a combination of things that I found here on tonymac forums and I will explain step by step the issues I encountered and what I did to fix them so you guys that are having trouble with similar systems can hopefully get your Hackintoshes running like they should.
ASUS P8Z77-V
2700K overclocked to 4.4
EVGA 660ti (x2 SLI for Windows)
16GB RAM
As you probably know, ASUS mobos have their PM locked and because of that OSX cannot control the mobo's power for the cpu or the hardware and cause all kinds of kernel panics... And apparently combined with sandy bridge =
The issues I had were:
- sleep
- speed step
- boot(kernel panics)
I now have everything working fine by doing a combination of things that I found here on tonymac forums and I will explain step by step the issues I encountered and what I did to fix them so you guys that are having trouble with similar systems can hopefully get your Hackintoshes running like they should.
ASUS P8Z77-V
2700K overclocked to 4.4
EVGA 660ti (x2 SLI for Windows)
16GB RAM
- Flash your mobo with a modified bios found at Asus Modified BIOS Repository..... For me, I would always get a "security verification failed" message when trying to flash my mobo with the usb flashback feature so I then tried to flash with FTK for DOS, as described in the link above, but then got a message saying "failed to disable bios write protection"... I found out that asus implemented a write protection for their latest bios updates which I already had installed... so then what I did was flash my mobo with a BIOS from ASUS one update earlier from the one I downloaded from the bios repo... example, the moded bios was 1805 so I flashed it with 1708.. I then retried flashing the modified bios with FTK for DOS and IT WORKED!
- Install Mavericks with your USB Bootable Drive.... after i did this and installed drivers with multibeast and chose the DSDTfree option and i still got kernel panics and couldn't log on.... I was able to get in mavericks only with the USB Bootable Drive and only in safe mode(-x)... I found out that I needed a SSDT and SMBIOS
- Generating SSDT and SMBIOS.... I came across this great tutorial on youtube done by milxterstechcorner link here .... download SSDT Install and Chameleon Wizard.... Open Chameleon Wizard and click on the SMBios tab... click on edit (if you don have one you can make one and put it in the Extra folder).. under Premade SMBioses select MacMini 5,1 for sandy bridge(if that's what you have) and click save...
- Restart the computer with your USB Bootable Drive... The SMbios has to load up and could only enter in safe mode(-x) again... Open up SSDT Install folder and open up ssdtPRGen and then run it again if you have stock clock (if you have overclock watch the video).. it will read and recognize your processor to generate the ssdt... then save the ssdt to Extra folder... reopen Chameleon Wizard and click on the org.chameleon.boot tab and under CPU have Drop SSDT selected ONLY..
- Reboot Normally without usb bootable drive.... Everything should now work.. you can use MSRDumper to check all the speed step frequencies...