Comments on: ASUS P6T on 64-bit Snow Leopard 10.6

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:55:53 +0000

I am running the identical setup as you Jan but may have missed something on the install as everything seems to have installed properly and I am running a 10.6 with excellent video once I swithched to a BFG GTX 260 video card. Sleep mode works flawlessly but I am unable to get the system to Restart or Shutdown properly. The other issue I have is that when running the Disk Utility it takes awhile to get all of my drives to show up. I am also going to try moving my SATA DVD drive to one of the jmicron ports as I get slow response from the other SATA ports.

I am very hesitant to upgrade to 10.6.2 until I get my other issues resolved first. After that my ext plan would be to get a dual boot to work with my Win 7 x64. I currently have to press F8 to select which OS I am going to as the Chameleon R3 will show my Mac OSX properly but shows my Windows RAID as two seperate HDs.

Thank you so much for all of your guidance and help.

Cheers,

Michael

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:01:18 +0000

Pete, it’s not the BIOS as I just updated to 1201 and everything still works as with the older version.

Cheers,
Jan

By: shifter

shifter — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:31:36 +0000

I forgot to mention, I needed to boot x32bit because I have a RME soundcard with only 32bit mac kext. The monitor ressolution was wrong though so I used nvinject kext and all was good.

By: shifter

shifter — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:17:40 +0000

Good News! I got everything working and I’m on 10.6.2. I went from scratch and used your kext but made my own DSDT.aml. I didn’t modify it though (need to study that a whole lot more). I used the same usb stick for the install with the method you linked in the 4th post but used Chameleon V2 RC4. I didn’t end up with an /Extra folder so I made one and put the DSDT in there along with your com apple boot plist that I modified because I’m dual booting with Windows 7. I dont have a smbios plist though. Is this a big deal? I’ve heard its mostly cosmetic but maybe theres more to it. At any rate everything is running great! I have not done so yet but I’m assuming its ok to use software update for safari and other things. Please let me know if its not. Thanks for yours and everyones informative post here :)
shifter

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:27:45 +0000

I have successfully built two hack pro’s to 10.6.2 with the i7-920 on the ASUS P6T with no problems.

My current build (third machine) is using the new i7-930 with new 1201 bios from asus. 10.6.0 loads great, but when I upgrade to 10.6.2 I get a kernel panic on reboot. I am not doing anything different other than CPU and Bios… Any thoughts or help???

Thanks.
Pete
P6T, i7-930, 12gigs Corsair 1600, Corsair 60gig SSD

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:51:45 +0000

shifter, I’m afraid I can’t help because I’m not familiar with this installation guide. I know that if you use the kexts and DSDT from my post and do a vanilla install (I admit that this is pretty hard for a beginner) it just works. Never had any issues when updating.

Cheers,
Jan

By: shifter

shifter — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:23:24 +0000

Jan, I used the guide and kext from eric r’s post. Maybe thats the reason? When I went to follow the 3rd link of his for the update, I couldn’t really figure it out. I am a complete beginner and had SL up and running in a week but only because I followed instructions here. On my own it would have taken months also. Hence, why I really need to understand what I’m doing. I’m still trying to get my head around everything. If I get another kernal panic I’ll try and post it.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:09:33 +0000

shifter, I’ve never experienced a KP with this board, not in 10.6.0 nor .1 or .2. Are you sure you don’t have any kexts installed from a previous installation? Are you using the kexts from the package above, including DSDT? Can you post the KP message?

Cheers,
Jan

By: shifter

shifter — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:39:13 +0000

Jan, thanks for your help and everyone else’s to. I’ve got Snow Leopard 10.6 up and running. I’ve been unable to update to 10.6.2 successfully, always kernal panic. How did you do your update?

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:54:28 +0000

can someone upload an iso of the boot loader

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:14:36 +0000

After further research and snooping i was able to get my hackintosh working fully with Snow Leopard retail, Asus p6t, i7 920 CPU, Egva 9800 GTX 512 mb, 12 GB ram and two SATA drives.
Thanks to all you guys and dolls out there, i finally used EMPIRE EFI to reboot into SL after the install. For my Nvida card to work correctly download Netkas -Enabler_for_Nvidia_and_multiple_ATI_cards.pkg from his web site.
That’s it in anut shell.

Happy hackintosh,
AB

By: OPG

OPG — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:53:34 +0000

P6T
I7 920@3.6
GTX 295
12 gig OCZ Gold ddr3 1600
4 SATA drives all working in IDE mode
but for some reason I cant get my SATA DVDRW drive to be seen by Snow Leopard I even hooked up a regular IDE DVDRW and it dont see it but if I switch to AHCI the SATA DVDRW works fine are any of you aware of a kext that will solve this?

Oh yeah and thanks to Jan for posting the kexts once I get this drive working in IDE mode Im going to run some benchmarks and il post results

By: OPG

OPG — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:46:23 +0000

I found a link that explains how to do it but its all gibberish to me

the link is http://www.insanelymac.com/for.....pic=184318

By: OPG

OPG — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:43:48 +0000

Ok im at 10.6.2 seems like all that dont work is video i can use the card but get crap res

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:52:29 +0000

As I said, I don’t think the GTX 295 is supported.

Vanilla means the original kernel, not a recompiled kernel. If you’re using the retail DVD you’re automatically using the vanilla kernel.

By: OPG

OPG — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:10:46 +0000

thank you very much I was able to boot SL by using the method here http://www.insanelymac.com/for.....pic=187151 but have isues with video

I a lil cunfused on what vanila kernal is is the method im using, using the vanila kernal?

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:00:27 +0000

OPG, you’ll find the kexts I’m using here:
http://trick77.com/2010/01/19/kexts-for-asus-p6t/

There’s no guarantee that they work on your system as well though. I haven’t seen many reports from users who got a GTX 295 running in OS X, as this card is not present in any Mac today.

Cheers,
Jan

By: OPG

OPG — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:08:37 +0000

btw the previus post about brokem link was not directed twords anyone of you its directed tward another website that has many tutorial with links to kext files that are all broken unfortunaly there the links to the kext files i think i need.

would it be posable for one of you with a 100% working system to post a link to a zip that includes:
boot loader thats being used
all kext files needed to make P6T fully functional at 64 bit
a brief install guide?

By: OPG

OPG — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:51:43 +0000

what would realy be awsome is if someone with a normal P6T board (not se not delux) would make a link with only the files needed to make all the components of the board work i have gotted it to install with remakable spped using sata not ahci but it dosnt see the dvdrw drive and i had no ethernet I was able to get sound to work using the voodoo kext but never was able to find a kext for my GTX 295 also it recognised that i had a I7 920 cpu and the clock it was at but couldnt get all the cores to show up.

Im willing to trade secrits and help the comunity but someone who has a working setup needs to start posting there own links instead of posting old broken links!!

Im so tired of reading through an install guide just to find out all the links to the files needed are broken.

also Im not using a premade cd I own my own retail copy of SL and I think everyone should!

By: TheCONDOR

TheCONDOR — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:11:36 +0000

@ Luca, are you sure to use the correct bios version and the correct settings?

By: ben

ben — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:47:28 +0000

sorry man, no idea

By: luca

luca — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:41:34 +0000

Help!!!

..when i boot usb stick with dsdt.aml given in this site…boot stops with this message:

IOAPIC: Version 0×20 Vectors 88:111

what can i do?

help me please

By: luca

luca — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:34:58 +0000

Hi!

When I boot and the USB drive initiates, I get the legacy boot screen and not the spinning circle..and it doesn’t go on…it freezes…why?

HD is in sata port #1!

instead…using p6t essentials original files of http://www.insanelymac.com/for…..pic=189052 guide…all goes on and start utility disk..installatio goes well but kernel is 32 bit..not 64 bit!

HELP ME please..THANK YOU!

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:13:04 +0000

You just need to copy the file named boot to the root directory of your OS X partition (and to the USB stick) to use RC4. That’s it, no need to compile/build. You have to modify the plist if you want to use the RC4 features though.

Cheers,
Jan

Btw. it took me months until I figured what was really going on with kernels, kexts, bootloaders, DSDT and all that stuff. A working vanilla install from scratch in just one week is quite an achievement :)

By: ben

ben — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:25:28 +0000

using RC4, i read somewhere that the only difference was replacing the .boot file, and then being able to add extra lines of code in your com.apple…. files in the extra folder to enable themes, and hiding unwanted drives. i’m wondering if that’s the case or do you need to “compile/build and reinstall” thanks for the time.