Recent Discussions on Kakewalk

GA-Z77-DS3H Yes or No ? What is the release date of Kakewalk 4.5

okmacok — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:56:48 +0200

Hello,

can I use Kakewalk with a GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard ?

This motherboard is part of the Spring 2013's ideal computer : http://www.kakewalk.se/computer-builds/

but the last update of Kakewalk is 2012/07/23 and when I check here http://www.kakewalk.se/compatibility/

I dont see the GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard !

Please help me, I am lost ...

[Success] GA Z68X-UD3H-B3 + Nvidia GTX 460 + Kakewalk 4.5 + ML 10.8.2

rwickra — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:46:41 +0100

After a lot of struggling, I got this combination to work.

I did several installs and here's what happened:

INSTALL #1

Everything went well, until half way through the installation screen my monitor would fall go off. After searching I found out that I needed to manually force the "GraphicsEnabler=Yes" to force GPU injection. This resolved the issue.

INSTALL #2

Everything went very smoothly. Unfortunately, no internet. I manually installed the RealTek drivers and it worked nicely. The major problem was sleep wake. The computer will go to sleep, but cannot be woken up without a system reboot. I read in the forums to try deleting the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext and deleting this gave me a kernel panic that could not be resolved without a re-installation.

INSTALL #3

I went ahead and updated the BIOS to UEFI. Updating the BIOS to UEFI substantially increased the speed of the machine, and sped up the boot time. But now I would get kernel panic at the first screen. I thought this maybe due to Kakewalk issuing its motherboard specific DSDT when UEFI did not require a DSDT. So I tried to fix this by invoking "DSDT=/dev/null GraphicsEnabler=Yes" at the boot prompt and this did the trick. Then once everything was done, I had no internet, no audio, no sleep/wake. I then downloaded TonymacX86's MULTIBEAST and installed that. Deleted the "NullCPUPowerManagement.kext" and then rebooted. Voila, it works!

If anyone needs help with a similar config, always happy to share my experience.

Hackintosh Build?

kurtweinstein — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:26:23 +0200

So I'm planning on building a Hackintosh this summer.
My prospective build can be found here: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/kurtweinstein/saved/1AtU
Except I plan to use a GTX 770 instead of a GTX 670 (I know it's not out yet, that's part of the reason I'm building it this summer).

I have a spare copy of OSX Snow Leopard sitting around so I figure I can use that and then upgrade it to OSX Mountain Lion for $20 once it's installed.

Should there be any problems with the hardware/software with this build/OS?

Mountain Lion on Gigabyte G41M-ES2L?

dadgeo — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:14:01 +0200

Apple App Store tells me my system (which it thinks is a MacPro 3 1 with an Intel Core 2 Duo) is incompatible with Mountain Lion. Consequently, I can't even download it. Has anyone had success installing Mountain Lion on a Gigabyte G41M-ES2? And if so, how did you get Mountain Lion to download?

Installation and upgrade issue x58a-ud3r. Kakewalk crashed on upgrade, then tried mountain lion

jrummer — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:02:19 +0100

I had my machine working fine on 10.7.2. I tried to upgrade to 10.7.5 and cakewalk crashed. so it basically nuked that version. decided to try mountain lion. my machine hangs on the apple screen after the boot option screen comes up. the status bar went down, then goes to apple and sits there. my usb stick is flashing for a few seconds and then stops....keeps doing that. i can't tell if its working or not. seems to just sit there. not sure if i should just leave it for a while. hard drive isn't spinning either. lights on MB aren't lighting up. something is hanging the machine i guess.

White screen with loading circle? Forever?

joepshoulak — Sun, 05 May 2013 03:20:15 +0200

I recently tried putting Lion on a Gigabyte Z77-DS3H.

It goes to a black apple on a white screen, to a loading circle of the white screen, then just a white screen. What should I do next? How do I find out what the problem is?

Will the GTX 560ti be compatible?

snake345 — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:10:37 +0200

I've previously asked questions about this sort of thing except the previous was about the GTX 660Ti, I'm just wondering if the 560Ti will work? Anyone had success with it? I'm hoping to use it while I'm saving the money for the GTX 660/660Ti. Thank you.

Kakewalk 4.1 -> Kakewalk 4.5 when upgrading to Mountain Lion?

lemmy — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:42:04 +0200

Hi
My EX58-UD5 has been working well with Kakewalk 4.1 and Lion for some time now. I am considering updating to Mountain Lion. Should I use Kakewalk 4.5 for this or stick with 4.1?
Thanks.

Which motherboards and video cards work perfectly with Kakewalk 4.5?

hooskow — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:36:28 +0200

Though it appears that with some effort (which may be a little beyond me at the moment) it's possible to turn the listed Spring 2013 hardware build into a successfully running Hackintosh, I'd still like to travel the path of least resistance. Thus I'd like to ask if there is a motherboard and video card combination which works flawlessly with Kakewalk 4.5, so that following the instructions to the tee, I would be to get a Hackintosh up and running.

It so happens that I have on hand another motherboard, a GIGABYTE GA-H67M-D2-B3 along with a Core i3-2100 dual core 3.1Ghz processor. If I cannibalize the video card in the Kakewalk Lite Spring 2013 configuration, an EVGA GeForce GT 640, would I be able to build a Hackintosh using Kakewalk 4.5 without encountering any difficulties?

Sabertooth z77

macdja38 — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:05:15 +0200

An awesome motherboard but even better if it could easily be hackintoshed!

Please add this board!

Kakewalk Lite Spring 2013 Build not building

hooskow — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:43:11 +0200

Just as another poster indicated with Kakewalk Moderate for Spring 2013 Build, I am having trouble installing OS X 10.8.3 with Kakewalk despite having bought all the parts and components of Kakewalk Lite (Spring 2013). I settled on Kakewalk, because as a Hackintosh newbie, I've read that Kakewalk provided the simplest way to bootstrap a Hackintosh, without having to deal with MultiBeast, UniBoot, or fiddle with an assortment of kexts. Indeed, I thought the recommended Spring 2013 builds provided a turnkey system for assembling a Hackintosh. Unfortunately, I've found it to be much tougher going than I expected.

Consider for example the instructions at http://www.kakewalk.se/installation-guide:

Step 1 – Creating a Mac OS X USB stick

This was a snap; I had no problems with this step at all.

Step 2 – Setting up BIOS

Here things start to get a little confusing...

3. Change the Hard Disk Boot Priority to your USB stick as primary (Number 1) and set the harddrive you’re going to install to as secondary (Number 2)

This was easy...

4. Go back (ESC), go to Integrated peripherals

5. IMPORTANT: Set “SATA RAID/AHCI Mode” to “AHCI”

This I could follow as well.

6. Go back (ESC), go to Power Management

7. Set the ACPI Suspend Type to S3(STR)

This I could not follow. I have version 1.1 of the GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard of the Spring 2013 Build, and I could not find an entry for ACPI Suspend Type in the BIOS. I had to skip this step.

8. Set HPET Mode to 64-bit mode

On this motherboard, the only settings for HPET Mode are: Enable or Disable. I don't know how to set it to 64-bit mode. I can only hope that HPET Mode goes into 64-bit mode when enabled.

With these modest BIOS settings applied, I then tried to go to Step 3

Step 3 – Installing Mac OS X

Your system should now be booting from your thumb stick. The bootloader will greet you, and after 5 seconds it will start the Mac OS X installer.

1. Once the Mac OS X installer is up and running click Utilities and then Disk Utility

I couldn't even get this far. After the bootloader greets me with the Mountain Lion Symbol and an arrow pointing to the disk to install the OS, I simply see aBoot: prompt.I've tried to boot in verbose and single user mode, but as I gave up quickly as I did not know how to proceed.

As Kakewalk begins to support more motherboards and graphics cards, the installation process will inevitably begin to become more complex, but perhaps someone can help me with instructions to getting a reference build, such as the Kakewalk Lite (Spring 2013) up and running as effortlessly as possible---like a cakewalk.

Spring 2013 Moderate build. Stuck on boot from USB

raptor567 — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:30:02 +0200

I just purchased the Spring 2013 Moderate build, I have BIOs configured properly and I'm able to get the USB stick to boot, however I continually right after "[IOBluetoothHCIController][Start] -- completed"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

10.8.3

luigimcbz — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:55:08 +0100

Z68AP D3 Rev 2. / Update via appstore on 10.8.3.

No problems. Only audio Reinstall from multibeast. Newer cuda drivers for GeForce GTX versions.

Set-Up Question

Kyrt — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:23:34 +0200

Hey guys,

I'm really interested to build a Hackintosh with your project, cause a friend of me told me, that will be the most easiest way. He built his Hac' with your installation-construction 1 year ago and told me, thats the easiest way to the install Mac OSX. I looked in the forum for a similar configuration, but I couldn't find it. I would like to build myy Hackintosh with the following setup:

- i7 3770k (want to overclock, if its possible)

- CPU-Fan Alpenföhn Brocken (Think its maybe only available in germany/swiss/austria, but if you're interested: http://www.alternate.de/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?kind=pcBuilder&componentType=required&articleId=31283&className=cpufan&activeClassName=cpufan )

- Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H

- Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4×8 GB)

- Nvidia GeForce GTX660

- SanDisk Extreme 120GB

- Seagate Barracuda 2TB

- Corsair TX850

Will this setup work? Could you recommend this? Thank you guys so much.

Best greets from Germany

Kyrt