Asus UL80J - Successful install

[hcmtnbiker]

@alucard179
Use Legacy iBoot and do not update beyond 10.6.6

I have not figured out a way to get the vanilla 10.8 kernel to play nice with my ul80. It hangs at the "PCI configuration begin" while in 310M graphics mode (with or w/o -x), but boots farther when in optimus mode with -x. Going to have to try some more DSDT edits eventually. If anyone has gotten any farther, please let me know.

 

[deadsoul]

Anyone knows if this works for an Asus U35JC which is almost identical I haven't tried anything yet but I would like to know.

This is awesome

 

[alucard179]

hi thanks for the help. i got it to boot and work but when i installed update 10.6.6
combo it gave me an error and does not boot anymore. i think is because was on optimus mode, il reinstall and try again in the other mode to c if it works. if everything works fine ill let u guys know.

 

[deadsoul]

Alucard,

Mine is a different model but it´s almost identical , when I perform the update to 10.6.6 I can´t boot anymore, i think this is because of the optimus video card, what version of bios is everyone using to get SL working?

Regards

 

[hcmtnbiker]

anyone tried lion on the ul80?

 

[flexgrip]

anyone tried lion on the ul80?

I am getting ready to. I have to get xcode 4.3 working. And I don't feel like hacking around on some snow leopard installer for it to work. Its made for Lion, so I am going to try and install Lion...

I will report back once I try it out.

 

[flexgrip]

well this sucks. I sat down to install lion on this thing and when I pushed the power button to turn it on, the fans powered up and all the lights came on, but the screen is black and it won't do anything.

I wish there was a way to test if it's the motherboard or the CPU. Non beep codes or anything.

A new board is $169. But it also looks like I could buy the board from the ul80j or ul50 which is 2.13ghz instead of 1.2ghz.

Anyway have any ideas? I may just buy a new laptop layer. You can run lion pretty easily in virtualbox and VMware. So I'm not sure why I need this laptop right away.

 

[hcmtnbiker]

Without POST codes is almost always the mobo, quite possibly failure of the nVidia 310M with your symptoms. Anyways, I have been able to install Lion on this laptop but the initial boot after it wont until the nvidia kexts are removed. This is obviously not what i want as Q/QE would be great.

 

[flexgrip]

Without POST codes is almost always the mobo, quite possibly failure of the nVidia 310M with your symptoms. Anyways, I have been able to install Lion on this laptop but the initial boot after it wont until the nvidia kexts are removed. This is obviously not what i want as Q/QE would be great.

Sorry, I got this figured out a long time ago and haven't had time to post. Regarding my laptop, it was the video chipset. But since the video chipset is integrated into the mobo, I had to replace the whole thing.

Lion boots fine for me. I had to use an older version of the NVIDIA kexts that were confirmed working for optimus 2 (even though we have the original)

 

[sanatar]

im having problems with my install. i can get the install for 10.6.3 working fine but when i update to anything other then that i am never able to boot again. is there something i should be doing after the update? or just leave as is.