Thread: Installed Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 near perfect! P5Q-E

This isn't going to really be a full guide on how to do it but I thought I would share my steps for getting this working on my computer since the motherboard was pretty illusive to find any proper steps on.

My specs are:

P5Q-E
Core2Duo Quad Core Q8400 at 3.37 ghz (overclocked)
4 GB Ram
EVGA Geforce GTX 560 (not ti)
3 hard drives

For Bluetooth I'm using a Rocket Fish Bluetooth Dongle with a Magic Trackpad, all functions work perfectly
(Model number: RF-MRBTAD)

Start, Shutdown, Restart work, Sound works, network works (only on one network port), all usb ports work with no issues that I've encountered thus far.

I installed the OS using UniBeast and a copy of Lion downloaded off my Mac Book Pro this had no problems and I could boot into the OS without doing any kind of mucking around in command lines.

For the graphics card (Geforce GTX 560 (NON TI) I used this
http://www.osx86.net/view/2074-gtx_5xx_enabler.html
I only installed the GTX drivers but I didn't install the ATY_Init (or whatever it's called) since when I did it gave me a kernel panic upon boot. After wards I couldn't get my display on both of my monitors so I followed this guide
tonymacx86 Forum • Information
and that got it to start working properly.

**Update**
Since this post I ended up adding my deviceid to the that nvidia kext thing (this method can be found easily just google it), at first for some reason my video card wasn't detected so I ended up installed ATY_Int from those threads and it detected it fine. The reason for this is because I would get bad lag in video games like Day of Defeat Source and whenever I did the 4 finger swipe to my dock screen there would be white boxes everywhere on the windows. Sometimes transparency would randomly flash as well and it was getting on my nerves.


For the ethernet I had to follow the instructions located here
Snow Leopard OsX on Asus P5Q-E
Scroll down to the bottom where it talks about editing the System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleYukon2.kext/Contents/Info.plist file it should all be there.
Remember that this only enables one of the ethernet ports and to turn on show hidden files, I didn't initially and couldn't find the info.plist file that they were talking about.
-Edit- First time I did this I didn't have to go into System Preferences > Network but this time I did I just hit ok and then it loaded fine on its own after that


Sound was the hardest part and unfortunately I don't remember where I found the drivers but it was on one of these helpful forums. probably somewhere on insanelymac but I still have the download link as I wrote it down
Archive.zip (1,53 MB) - uploaded.to
I installed this using KextWizard and redid all the permissions and after that it worked every time.

My only problem was that when I gave sleep mode a shot my entire computer became unresponsive I ended up having to reinstall it from scratch because trying to boot wouldn't yield any results, freezing at the firewire loading and going into the disc utility to repair permissions or do anything of that sort didn't do anything.

Sorry if this is a bit messy to read but I hope that I at least helped someone get their computer working, thanks!

I ordered this Bluetooth dongle from this site:
$7.26 Super-mini Bluetooth 3.0 USB dongle - SuperGadgets.ca
and received it from Hong Kong 3 weeks later.
Dongle worked right out of the box ! I bought a Magic Trackpad and worked also perfectly.
I strongly recommend this dongle , cheap ( $7.26 CAN$ including delivery !) but flawless and working !
My Hackintosh OS X 10.7.2 is now perfect !

i also got p5q-e and i got a problem booting iatkos l2 usb.. (it crashes/restarts computer on boot attempts no matter what boot options i use). can You please tell us what method did u use for installing 10.7.2 on p5q-e and what bios u are using?

Originally Posted by nekicowek

i also got p5q-e and i got a problem booting iatkos l2 usb.. (it crashes/restarts computer on boot attempts no matter what boot options i use). can You please tell us what method did u use for installing 10.7.2 on p5q-e and what bios u are using?

I never used iatkos so I'm not sure, what I did is just follow this guide tonymacx86 Blog: UniBeast: Install Mac OS X Lion Using an All-In-One Bootable USB Drive Didn't use any boot options other then that.

My bf gave me his old mac book pro (core2duo) I already had lion and stuff installed so I just ended up using the app store download to install it on. Although iatkos l2 should work I'm not too sure, the main problem is probably because you aren't using a custom BIOS. There's some definitions or something that make it break when loading up I'm not too sure on the details. You're lucky that I happen to have it on this mac book pro since I'm at work 2001-BIOS-Asus_P5Q_E_for_MAC_OS_X___all_OS__incl._by_Juzzi.. ROM.zip
Uploaded the bios for you here, word of notice though it's a bit old so you'll be using an old version of express gate (oh no.)

I haven't had any issues using this BIOS though.