Problem fixed, was a hardware issue...I had bent sata power wires some how...just bent then back, now it has been running dreamly...

Thanks to this community a thousand times...

Ben

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EVGA x58 SLI
i7 920 @ 3.8GHz
CoolerMaster V8
OCZ Reaper/XMP 9GB Combo (8-8-8-24)
EVGA GTX 260 SC
EVGA GTS 250 (dedicated physX)
WD Caviar 500GB x2
Windows 7 64-bit PRO (MSDNAA)
Rosewill 750watt

First off, thank you immensely for making this guide. I had tried previous installs in the past without much success at all. I just upgraded my PC, and this guide worked great, once I finally stopped messing things up and screwing myself over. I figured I'd post this because everyone likes to be appreciated. Also, I know a lot of people look for successes from other people with the same hardware. I did not upgrade my computer specifically for OS X, but since I had a had a new board and chip, I thought I would try.

For those who are curious/have similar hardware and want to know:

- Core i7 920
- eVGA x58 LE (141-BL-E575)
- 6GB (3x2GB) Crucial Ballistix DDR-1600
- GeForce GTX 275 1GB
- WD Raptor 75GB
- WD 500GB
- Seagate 500GB
- SoundBlaster X-Fi

I used iATKOS v7 to install Leopard to the WD 500GB drive I had lying around, with one partition for the Snow Leopard image. After booting Leopard, I installed according to the guide, and everything worked out perfectly for the most part. Full graphics acceleration with just the EFI string, CPU/RAM properly recognized. Initially I tried using my USB drive, but iATKOS was very unhappy about that. Once Snow Leopard was up, I removed the WD 500GB from my system.

Various settings that might be applicable to others:

- Memory profile for my RAM is set to XMP Profile 1.
- HyperThreading is turned OFF.
- CPU is not overclocked in any way.
- Hard disks are set to AHCI (duh!), with no special RAID or anything.
- On-board audio is turned OFF. I have an X-Fi, which obviously doesn't work in OSX. I just decided to not worry about the audio. Might see about getting on-board audio working later, but I don't want to screw with my cables every time I switch OSes.
- ACPI HPET set to 64-bit mode and enabled.
- I did not use someone else's DSDT, and instead went through the process to create my own.

Caveats:

- For network support, use this kext. Works great.

- iATKOS v7 requires "cpus=1 busratio=20" to boot on this MB/chip combo.

- iATKOS v7 seems to not like the Seagate drive. When it's plugged in, I would get the dreaded "Still waiting for root device...", so I disconnected my target Snow Leopard drive until after Leopard was installed and then reconnected it and it worked fine. However, I noticed that iATKOS did not always do this; I had to boot from it to fix my com.apple.Boot.plist, and about 10% of the time it would actually work. Kalyway would boot fine, but wouldn't install.

- Chameleon 2 RC3 would not install properly using the GUI installer. Even after making sure the right partition was marked active using fdisk, it simply wasn't seeing a boot sector. I ended up doing a "manual" install of Chameleon 2 RC4, which worked. Just make sure you write to the right places when you install it (yes, I screwed it up and had to start over once).

- Occasionally I would get hangs during the various install processes because it was waiting on a response from a USB device. For the most part, I just unplugged any USB devices I didn't need for the install to get around it. I plugged them all back in once Snow Leopard was up and running, and after 10+ reboots, it hasn't happened at all.

Again, thanks for making this guide, it was a huge help.

you should tack on a screenshot of your bios or specify AHCI or IDE mode on the top controller setting and clear the UUID part up of this guide...just followed and got system to boot up fine but i can see how others would be confused




*and my red ports still dont work lol

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EVGA x58
6GB DDR3 1600MHz
74gb raptor
9800gt
i7 920 @ 3.2GHz Corsair H60

Thanks for the screenshot

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EVGA x58
6GB DDR3 1600MHz
74gb raptor
9800gt
i7 920 @ 3.2GHz Corsair H60

Hello everyone Long time no chat.

Just a little update on my system. Recently I sold my old macbook pro and baught a new macbook pro unibody and a mac mini and of course I have my monster i7 machine. After getting the mac mini I wanted to use it as a media center. So I got a qam tuner installed Plex and eyetv and use PS3 remote and works great. However one think I noticed what that Bonjour was not working correctly .

The solution that I use to get bonjour to work correctly on our motherboard is by way of IONetworkingFamily.kext I have updated the extra folder and uploaded megaupload since the file size is greater than the max now.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XT3LQY7Z

Whats the deal with sleep !!! any solutions no luck on my side yet

msf5042


For TEMPS in iSTAT try fakesmc v2 ir download the latest extra folder I posted today on megaupload. Mine works

JaE-V


The red sata ports are the jmicron controller did you try the ACHIPortInjector

and use JMicronATA.kext for the IDE ports

works for me. check the latest extra folder I posted today

Also make sure in the bios you have the J363 and J362 set to ACHI + IDE and IDE

otherwise you will never see the red ports even if you have the correct KEXT

did anyone update to the new BIOS that supports HPET

I attempted to and it works great but the Temp. goes up by 5%

anyone else see this ?

Set bios to IDE again boot into windows and then search google on how to set up windows 7 registry for ACHI support. once you make the change reboot then go bios 1st then set it back to ACHI and should be able to boot windows 7 properly

i'll look into this....i picked up a macbook as well looks like they got sleep working on the gigabyte x58 variant

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EVGA x58
6GB DDR3 1600MHz
74gb raptor
9800gt
i7 920 @ 3.2GHz Corsair H60