P9X79 Pro Guide (still a work in progress)

[magonzalez112]

I have a GA- X79 UP4 + i7 4820K + gtx 560, and i get the same black screen. after read all thread, i think it would have native support at 10.9.2. the best option is to wait, i think, in less than two months ,it will arrive.

Sorry for my English i am Spanish

 

[Leumas1311]

I've posted my exact bios settings.
* Fast boot => disabled
* XMP => profile 2
* Intel VT => disabled
* legacy usb 3 => disabled
* marvel => disabled
* bluetooth => disabled
* secure boot -> os type => other os

As I said it boots using those bios settings and the files from files.zip (match_kernel and /Extra/ folder)

You only need to delete:
[usb_drive] / match_kernel
[usb_drive] / Extra / Extensions / IONetworkingFamily.kext
[usb_drive] / Extra / Extensions / NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

Add:
[usb_drive] / Extra / Extensions / VoodooTSCSync.kext
[usb_drive] / match_kernel
[usb_drive] / Extra / Extensions / IONetworkingFamily.kext
[usb_drive] / Extra / Extensions / NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

FROM the archive.

When the Installer GUI appears it gets nasty, choppy and so on, BUT it does work

Changing the cpu, IMO, It's not the way to do it.
You can also try cpus=1 but that doesn't change anything regarding the installer's performance.

Guys! I got it to boot! I followed the above instructions but with one added detail.

Delete all files with NV* in front which are these files:

[usb_drive] / System / Library / Extensions NVDAGF100Hal.kext
[usb_drive] / System / Library / Extensions NVDAGK100Hal.kext
[usb_drive] / System / Library / Extensions NVDANV50HalTesla.kext
[usb_drive] / System / Library / Extensions NVDAResman.kext
[usb_drive] / System / Library / Extensions NVDAResmanTesla.kext
[usb_drive] / System / Library / Extensions NVDAStartup.kext
[usb_drive] / System / Library / Extensions NVSMU.kext

With these modifications I was able to load the installer and install Mavericks, but during the install process it has to restart, and when it restarted it booted up and then when blank black screen, again!
My question is how do I install the modded files onto the final SSD drive.

Many thanks
-Leumas

 

[meukers]

Leumas, have you tried booting with GraphicsEnabler=No ? I don't think you need to remove those Nvidia kexts..

I've got an GTX 760 and I HAVE to use that option during install, otherwise you get a hang when the GUI of the installer starts. It's logical since Mavericks has support for the Kepler architecture.

If you want to boot using the new kernel, just make a folder called something like 'bla' on the USB stick with the installer and copy the proper mach_kernel in there.. Do this on another mac!

When you are in the installer, open up terminal and type the command:

cp /bla/mach_kernel /Volumes/NAME OF HARDDRIVE WHERE YOU INSTALLED MAVERICKS/

For example (in my case):
cp /bla/mach_kernel /Volumes/HD/

Et voila!

So please give your installed drive a simple name without spaces.. otherwise you have to use escape codes in terminal and blah bah blah.. difficulty all around. You can change it after you have copied the kernel and it boots into mavericks

 

[edmoncu]

A bit of an off-topic, but I tried installing the latest P9X79 Pro BIOS 4607 (released 01/03/14: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P9X79_PRO/#support) and restored the changes I made for my build on the BIOS (because it apparently reset everything to defaults) after BIOS update... So far, my P9X79 Pro Hackintosh remains usable

 

[Leumas1311]

Leumas, have you tried booting with GraphicsEnabler=No ? I don't think you need to remove those Nvidia kexts..

I've got an GTX 760 and I HAVE to use that option during install, otherwise you get a hang when the GUI of the installer starts. It's logical since Mavericks has support for the Kepler architecture.

If you want to boot using the new kernel, just make a folder called something like 'bla' on the USB stick with the installer and copy the proper mach_kernel in there.. Do this on another mac!

When you are in the installer, open up terminal and type the command:

cp /bla/mach_kernel /Volumes/NAME OF HARDDRIVE WHERE YOU INSTALLED MAVERICKS/

For example (in my case):
cp /bla/mach_kernel /Volumes/HD/

Et voila!

So please give your installed drive a simple name without spaces.. otherwise you have to use escape codes in terminal and blah bah blah.. difficulty all around. You can change it after you have copied the kernel and it boots into mavericks

Thanks for the input! I will be trying this in the morning. One question, do I have to copy all the modded files or just the mach_kernal?

 

[Leumas1311]

Success! I have installed Mavericks! But it is unusable After attempting to install the multibeast settings it still takes 30+ mins to boot and once it does it's slow and glitchy. So will someone help me out in finding the correct drivers for my system? My specs are in my profile. Thanks. I will continue to do research and will post a guid for my system once it is working. I think it has the potential to be very good with the right tweaking.

 

[Leumas1311]

Hay so I tried reinstalling mavericks this time with the nvidia drivers and when it comes time to copy the mach_kernel I get the 'no such file or directory' message. I am typing the command EXACTLY the way you showed in your post and it's not working. I have tried formatting the drives, I've tried using different drives, and still nothing. Please help I'm turning into hulk!

P.S. I was following meukers post.

edit* idk what it was but after I formatted my drive in windows and then again in the installer I was able to copy the modded kernel onto my system. Unfortunately when booting into the drive I installed mavericks to, using the SAME boot flags I get black screen after the code.

 

[jacobweile]

Hi Leumas!

I am currently trying to install Mavericks on an almost identical system. I have the i7 4820K cpu and Asus P9x79 Pro and an EVGA gtx 660 FTW signature 2 3GB GDDR5. I am following your thread with great excitement and hope that you will succeed in doing a stable installation of Mavericks.

Good luck

Jacob

 

[Leumas1311]

Hi Leumas!

I am currently trying to install Mavericks on an almost identical system. I have the i7 4820K cpu and Asus P9x79 Pro and an EVGA gtx 660 FTW signature 2 3GB GDDR5. I am following your thread with great excitement and hope that you will succeed in doing a stable installation of Mavericks.

Good luck

Jacob

Good I'm glad my troubles are helping someone around here! I have made some progress! But unfortunately I ran into a road block.

 

[edmoncu]

Just an update again, I am able to update to the latest firmware as of this post: P9X79 PRO BIOS 4608.
Posting this one on a Hackintosh on this motherboard on this version... No issues so far both Windows 8.1 x64 (UEFI boot) and Mavericks (Legacy).