Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #11,018 · 2009-08-31 → 2009-09-13
#476 by Dispatches #338 by Thread Reach Member #11,018 ASUS P5K / P5Q Retail DVD / USB Chameleon / Boot-132

@Cee

InfiniteMac community contributor with 16 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 1,469,802 historical readers.

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Member Number #11,018 Joined 2009-08-30
Active Window 2009 2009-08-31 → 2009-09-13
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#476 of 6,691 by Dispatches (16 notes) · #338 by Thread Reach (1,469,802 cumulative reads)
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Member #11,018 · Joined 2009-08-30
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ASUS P5K / P5Q (2) · Retail DVD / USB (1) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1) · ALC889a / Audio (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Snow Leopard 10.6
16 (100%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (15)

Direct links into threads where @Cee contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“instal chameleon 2 see attached file place on it a smbios file, i attached my smbios file but you need to modify it with your configuration ( SMUUID, RAM , CPU ..) google is your friend I have been using chameleon for quite a while but it s…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-04
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Read Omargoa's post . many thanks . It might sound stupid but I just dont know where this Extra/smbios.plist is located !? I strictly followed this guide. would be nice if anyone could point me into the right direction!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-02
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“now could anybody tell me how I can get system profiler and about this mac to show correct processor speed? I suspect that I have to edit some file to get it to show 2.4 GHz instead of the wrong 3.8GHz its currently displaying. (cpu-x shows…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-02
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“is anybody successfully repairing permissions via disc utility ? It always fails for me. p5k q6600 8g ram all Sata”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“@Renira I basically installed it like its described in the guide. - I installed from my working 10.5.8 with a usb stick (I previously restored 10A432 to) - moved all the kexts as described in the guide -repaired permissions on my Snow Leo d…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Walterav: Could my harddrive issue be related to pcefi? I used the one supplied in the guide on page 1. "Bootloader Chameleon_v1012" Netkas wrote : "known issues: sata ports 5-6 doesnt work, so I disabled scanning of those." on his post abo…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thanks for your answer. All Sata. 1 NTFS ( thats the drive snow leo sees) 1 HFS+ with one 10.5.8 partition, and another for HFS+ stuff 1 HFS+ with a mirrored 10.5.8 partition, and also another partition for stuff seems like snow leo wont de…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“all is working pretty well -- exepct that osx only sees one of my other internal drives ! P5K Q6600 8GB RAM”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
808,277 dossier reads
ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“I take back my word. Got full analog 5.1 to work on my onboard alc888! Here's my modified AppleHDA.kext as reference Can you / or anyone else upload this AppleHDA.kext again ? I tried to unzip it on 4 machines ( 3 macs , pc ) and all of the…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
497,008 dossier reads
Software Update asking me to update Macbook Pro EFI Firmware
“or could post how exactly you achieved this? i.e how to edit smbios and put it to extra folder etc. would be soo nice”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-04
91,771 dossier reads
How to Install OS X 10.6 (10A432) on P5 series mobo.
“hi, could you please uploade archive.zip again? the mediafire link only downloads smbios.plist.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-31
52,013 dossier reads
Wrong CPU info
“"Add "SMexternalclock" and "SMmaximalclock" strings to your Extra/smbios.plist with the correct info for your CPU Exemple for my CPU Q6600 2,4 GHz :" Could anyone tell me how exactly I can edit my smbios? I dont even know wheter I have this…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
20,733 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“try reinstalling the bsd.pkg from the install dvd seems like that did the trick Big thanks!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-02
808,277 dossier reads
How to Install OS X 10.6 (10A432) on P5 series mobo.
“hi, could you please uploade archive.zip again?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-31
52,013 dossier reads
Wrong CPU info
“come on, somebody help me out”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-04
20,733 dossier reads