Comments on: Snow Leopard on the MSI X58 Pro-E

By: Al'n

Al'n — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:56:48 +0000

This has been the best help I’ve found online.

I followed all your steps and actually got into the installation screen. My only problem right now is that I get stuck on the screen that has the scrolling bar that says “Preparing Installation…”

It keeps scrolling. I’ve left it like that for some time with no changes. Any ideas?

Thanks for this post. Great work

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:12:37 +0000

You have given me hope, sir, for my Hackintosh. I have the regular Pro version of this board.

I can’t even get Rebel EFI to install, though. I think the problem is I’m using an “upgrade” disc from Apple, that my brother got to upgrade his Macbook. Do you know if this is a problem?

Also, did you leave hyperthreading on the whole time?

Thanks.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:20:53 +0000

Thank you for this posting, it was excellent and set me on the correct path for my MSI Pro board. I tried a different boot loader and could not get it to work. The MyHack worked perfect.

I cannot get the Voodoo KEXT to load via the KEXT Helper utility. I have enabled the ROOT account, set a password and tested it works via Terminal. But when I run the KEXT Helper, it complains the password I am giving is bogus.

Can you give any advise on how best to get past this issue without going through the elaborate manual steps to do it old-school?

Thanks!

By: Vinny

Vinny — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:08:09 +0000

Matt Great work !

I just ordered a PC with MSI X58 Pro-E mobo. Other than my GPU which is Nvidia all other specs seems to be same. will it be possible to upload and ISO image of your build somewhere _;) with BIOS setting you used ?

By: Matt Gadient

Matt Gadient — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:46:49 +0000

xSmurf:

I’m afraid I don’t

The MyHack installer put up just about everything I needed.

A quick google for _CST showed a lot of results having to do with ACPI. You may want to check the BIOS and see if ACPI is turned on (it’s on for me – I never tried with it off).

Sorry that I can’t be of much more help, but if an ACPI setting change works, or if you find another solution, feel free to post whatever it was.

Best of luck!

By: xSmurf

xSmurf — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:51:26 +0000

I’m trying to achieve the same on a friend’s MSI X58 Pro-E, but I get _CST errors on boot and it freezes ;/ Do you have a custom dsdt with proper CPU definitions??

By: Matt Gadient

Matt Gadient — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:51 +0000

Federico:

All 4 cores are working. Activity Monitor is also showing that HyperThreading is working (if you click Window/CPU usage it shows 8 cores).

Good luck!

By: Federico Lang

Federico Lang — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:33:17 +0000

I’ll try tomorrow, i have almost the same specs. Hope it works!! I’m having trouble witj iatkos v7 running Final Cut. I hope that with a retail installation this won’t happen.

BTW, how many cores are working on your system at the time?