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Hey everybody!
I was spitting out issues 2 weeks ago with this laptop (which I had hackintoshed with Lion for a year already), and since then have worked out the kinks.
Being 5 months out already, I figured it was time to nuke the hard drive, and start over with windows 8 and mountain lion.
So far, I'm still doing easybeast (still a little uneasy on DSDT editing).
My Specs:
ASUS K53E-BD4DT
Intel i5 2430m (HD 3000)
8 GB 1333mhz DDR3
Atheros Ethernet
Atheros ar9285 WIFI
ELANtech Track Pad (version3?)
Realtek Audio?
Here's what I did so far:
-Installed via Unibeast. (usb, graphics worked OOB)
-After install (still booting with unibeast usb drive) I install the combo update to 10.8.2, then Multibeast (easybeast, macbook pro 8,1 definitions, voodooHDA 2.7.2, Athros Ethernet) Then restarted.
-When booting, I got the boot0:error
(not loading the bootloader, or windows for the matter. heres what to do: http://www.tonymacx86.com/25-boot0-error-official-guide.html -- check out this guide, where it says to copy the file from the unibeast drive to your drive. works like a charm. If you have more than one partition, make sure your output/destination is going to the right "diskXsX", this guide I don't think mentions it.)
-Reboot and bootloader should run fine, along with 10.8.2 working nicely.
-Audio:
---Delete Audioauuc.kext (will cause kernel panics)
---mic feedback will occur from the voodoohda (annoying, and harmful to your speakers) Heres what to do: in the voodoohda kext plist, turn the "iGain" to 0.
---if your audio clips or gets loud, you will hear awful crackling. Heres what to do: in System Preferences>VoodooHDA, then select 'Enable SSE2'.
-Install Kexts:
---Keyboard / Elan TrackPad: http://www.tonymacx86.com/laptop-compatibility/74051-elantech-touchpad-driver-mac-osx-2.html (current version: 1.7)
---Battery: VoodooBattery (version 1.3) ...google it.
---WIFI: download the attachment. I went through dozens of versions, many of them didn't give me wifi-n/wpa2 access. this one works perfect.
So if you do all of this, pretty much everything will work EXCEPT the following:
-Proper shut down (CPU will halt, but power will still be on, must hold down power for 3 seconds to fully shut off)
-Sleep/Wake
I'm sure you could have some success getting these issues solved if you dive into DSDT editing. But, it took me a while to get this far and am so satisfied at the moment with how well it works. Though, I will try it eventually.
Thanks for checking this out. Hope some of this information helps. Any questions, comments or augmentations to this thread, please don't hesitate to throw some feedback here.
-Notation
I was spitting out issues 2 weeks ago with this laptop (which I had hackintoshed with Lion for a year already), and since then have worked out the kinks.
Being 5 months out already, I figured it was time to nuke the hard drive, and start over with windows 8 and mountain lion.
So far, I'm still doing easybeast (still a little uneasy on DSDT editing).
My Specs:
ASUS K53E-BD4DT
Intel i5 2430m (HD 3000)
8 GB 1333mhz DDR3
Atheros Ethernet
Atheros ar9285 WIFI
ELANtech Track Pad (version3?)
Realtek Audio?
Here's what I did so far:
-Installed via Unibeast. (usb, graphics worked OOB)
-After install (still booting with unibeast usb drive) I install the combo update to 10.8.2, then Multibeast (easybeast, macbook pro 8,1 definitions, voodooHDA 2.7.2, Athros Ethernet) Then restarted.
-When booting, I got the boot0:error
(not loading the bootloader, or windows for the matter. heres what to do: http://www.tonymacx86.com/25-boot0-error-official-guide.html -- check out this guide, where it says to copy the file from the unibeast drive to your drive. works like a charm. If you have more than one partition, make sure your output/destination is going to the right "diskXsX", this guide I don't think mentions it.)
-Reboot and bootloader should run fine, along with 10.8.2 working nicely.
-Audio:
---Delete Audioauuc.kext (will cause kernel panics)
---mic feedback will occur from the voodoohda (annoying, and harmful to your speakers) Heres what to do: in the voodoohda kext plist, turn the "iGain" to 0.
---if your audio clips or gets loud, you will hear awful crackling. Heres what to do: in System Preferences>VoodooHDA, then select 'Enable SSE2'.
-Install Kexts:
---Keyboard / Elan TrackPad: http://www.tonymacx86.com/laptop-compatibility/74051-elantech-touchpad-driver-mac-osx-2.html (current version: 1.7)
---Battery: VoodooBattery (version 1.3) ...google it.
---WIFI: download the attachment. I went through dozens of versions, many of them didn't give me wifi-n/wpa2 access. this one works perfect.
So if you do all of this, pretty much everything will work EXCEPT the following:
-Proper shut down (CPU will halt, but power will still be on, must hold down power for 3 seconds to fully shut off)
-Sleep/Wake
I'm sure you could have some success getting these issues solved if you dive into DSDT editing. But, it took me a while to get this far and am so satisfied at the moment with how well it works. Though, I will try it eventually.
Thanks for checking this out. Hope some of this information helps. Any questions, comments or augmentations to this thread, please don't hesitate to throw some feedback here.
-Notation