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Mac OS X 10.6.8 UpdatePosted by tonymacx86 on Thursday, June 23, 2011

Labels: Lion, Mac, news, OS X, Sandy Bridge, Snow Leopard, Software Update

Today Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.8 the 8th (and final?) major update to Mac OS X Snow

Leopard. To update for any supported CPU, we recommend that you download the entire

standalone Combo installer here.

Download the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Combo Update

Be sure to back up any important data, and if possible clone your hard drive before applying the

update. Testing is underway. Report your results in the forum here.

All updated information will be posted here.

What we know about 10.6.8 so far...

10.8.0 Darwin kernel with native Sandy Bridge support. This means that going forward, all

Sandy Bridge systems can use default iBoot + MultiBeast method.

SATA3 6gbps now recognized and functional on Sandy Bridge.

Includes drivers for Sandy Bridge Intel HD 2000/3000 Integrated Graphics (No Injector Yet)

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Includes drivers for AMD 6xxx Graphics cards

Identifies and removes Mac Defender malware

App Store Update to "Get Ready for Lion"

Still no NVIDIA 4xx Fermi support by default

IMPORTANT: For Socket 1155 Sandy Bridge users, installing the 10.6.8 update is causing

crashes, or kernel panics. Use UpdateHelper before applying the update to solve this issue.

Details here.

Graphics - The update will replace your NVIDIA drivers.

If you're using a NVIDIA 4xx "Fermi" card, you will have to update to the latest official

drivers BEFORE rebooting. Download here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-

macosx-256.02.25f01-driver.html

If your system is stalling in verbose mode on [ PCI configuration begin ], install the

IOPCIFamily FIX available in MultiBeast 3.8.0.

Audio - The update will replace your AppleHDA.kext.

If you use ALC8xxHDA for audio, you will have to reinstall AppleHDA

Rollback using MultiBeast. If you're using VoodooHDA, you will not need to make

any modifications.

USB - The update will replace your IOUSBFamily.kext.

To restore full USB functionality on a Non-DSDT or EasyBeast system you may

need to install USB Rollback using MultiBeast before reboot. Download MultiBeast.

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Anonymous said...

Cheers tony! Thank you for all the fantastic work from you and MacMan and everybody else who

contributed to the community! You guys rock!

June 23, 2011 4:17 PM

regae said...

thank you tonymacx86

June 23, 2011 4:19 PM

Anonymous said...

Yay! Now looking forward to seeing Tony's recommendations for new CustoMacs :)

June 23, 2011 4:26 PM

FlightSuit said...

Thank your for the comprehensive info on this update! I still haven't built my Sandy Bridge

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Last week Mac OS X was updated to

version 10.6.8, with native kernel

support for Sandy Bridge. It's now a

snap to get these systems up and r...

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post-installation solution. It is designed

for users who want their system up and

running quickly...

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Introducing my latest

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boot from hard drive, and install...

Dual Boot Windows 7

and OS X Snow Leopard

Using Chameleon

Using Chameleon as

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systems on your PC. It's simple to use

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Lion: Update to 10.6.8 on

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Performing a Combo ...

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Discovered in OS X Lion:

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Onboard, NVIDIA

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Now that the cat is out of the bag, we

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Today MultiBeast was

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ati (8) audio (16) chameleon (43)

Hackintosh, but this sure will help me when the time comes.

June 23, 2011 4:27 PM

Norbs said...

Update worked just fine but I had to disable sleepenabler.

pmVersion=0

June 23, 2011 4:32 PM

Anonymous said...

Just updated via software update, got a kernel panic, rebooted (then got an automatic reboot after

chimera bootscreen), gave it another tried, worked flawless. Only had to use the AppleHDA

rollback to get back the sound.

i5 2300

GA-H67MA-D2H-B3 (rev. 1.1)

8GB Ram

XFX 6850 Dual fan

June 23, 2011 4:36 PM

Anonymous said...

Better response, quieter sound and a nicer rendering after 10.6.8

i5 2300

GA-H67MA-D2H-B3 (rev. 1.1)

8GB Ram

XFX 6850 Dual fan

June 23, 2011 4:55 PM

Anonymous said...

looking forward to seeing the news Sandy Bridge customacs . Yay!!!!!!

June 23, 2011 4:59 PM

Peter said...

I attempted this update on two computers... each of them aren't booting at the moment, one is a

kosher mac and one is a vanilla hackintoish built at the begging of this year. the hackintoish seems

to stop at loading FakeSMCDevice, why do i feel i reinstall coming on for both

June 23, 2011 5:25 PM

Anonymous said...

Worked for me on older hardware...

Installed the update via software update (forced reboot by update process).

Once in, rolled back to the AppleHDA and USB along w/ 32-bit graphics enabler=no.

Works great.

Q6600 / Older Gigabyte Board (unk model off top of head)

6 GB of Ram

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guide (37) H55 (15) iBoot

(16) installer (26) leopard (19) Lion

(6) Mac (116) MultiBeast (32)

news (63) nvidia (18) OSX (116) P55 (46) PSA (8)

Sandy Bridge (16) SnowLeopard (105) Software

Update (11)

Utilities (27) Video (13)

1

ATI 5790 1GB Video Card

June 23, 2011 5:47 PM

Derrick Bathory said...

So did this update just automatically update my kexts for my radeon 5870? My displayport is dead

after update. I switched over to DL-DVI and it seems to be working great at 2560x1440. I really do

like displayport though :(

June 23, 2011 5:50 PM

Anonymous said...

updated and all okay with:

GA-P55-USB3/i5-750/ATI5770.

Backup AppleHDA kext and copy back to /S/L/E or using rolback to get sound working again.

June 23, 2011 5:59 PM

Anonymous said...

Will an XFX 6970 Card work now do we think?

June 23, 2011 6:07 PM

Camaro said...

I thank Tony for the beautiful work of all community...

June 23, 2011 6:15 PM

Anonymous said...

No meant to rush, but is there any date to see our customacs based on SB. I need it! :D. Thanks to

all this great community/site.

June 23, 2011 6:23 PM

fixxxer said...

update hosed my system, cannot even use iboot.

June 23, 2011 6:28 PM

Anonymous said...

intel graphics support update is great news! i've been deliberating for weeks about components for

my hackintosh. but now it's final...i'm going with the Intel 2600K + gigabyte Z68X

thanks tonymac!

June 23, 2011 6:31 PM

alycannn said...

if you have sleepenabler.kext problem change pmVersion=23

June 23, 2011 6:53 PM

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Anonymous said...

i need some help please!

i was on snow leopard 10.6.7 every thing works fine. After updating i got a kernel panic becose of

the sleepEnabler, then i reboot with command "pmVersion=0" then it went to the white screen with

the apple logo, but no spinning wheel on the screen, so no loading. I reboot with command

"pmVersion=0 -x -v" to show me more infos while booting, as i saw the computer stops at the line:

"PCI configuration begin". nothing happends after that. Any idea or advice is very welcome. thanks

Gigabyte x58a-ud3r rev.2

intel i7 960

Gigabyte GTS 450 oc

6GB Ram corrsair

June 23, 2011 6:55 PM

thadrumr said...

Is anyone else having problems getting to the main tonymacx86.com website? I ca't get to it

June 23, 2011 7:08 PM

Anonymous said...

Looks like tonymacx86 is down for me too.

June 23, 2011 7:18 PM

Vaibhav Bajpai said...

My ethernet stopped working after the update.

Now it cannot even a link-local IP address, I am wondering if it's related to

IONetworkingFamily.kext?

June 23, 2011 7:25 PM

Anonymous said...

i3 530

msi h55

ati 5770

Works all good except the sound had to reinstall with easybeast

June 23, 2011 7:40 PM

Anonymous said...

Ethernet works fine on my Gigabyte G31M-ES2L board but Wi-Fi doesn't work any more. Using a

Broadcom PCI card.

June 23, 2011 7:44 PM

Anonymous said...

The 10.6.8 update hosed my XFX 5770 video, can't get to desktop anymore. Previously was using

10.6.7 with GraphicsEnabler set to yes with latest Chimera/Multibeast and everything was fine.

I tried disabling GraphicsEnabler, but that just results in a corrupted display. Not sure where to go

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from here. Anyone else running an XFX 5770 on 10.6.8?

June 23, 2011 8:01 PM

Anonymous said...

no luck with pmVersion=23, it starts the white screen with apple logo, but no spining wheel, (no

booting up) hangs on the white screen with apple logo, strange.

Gigabyte x58a-ud3r rev.2

intel i7 960

Gigabyte GTS 450 oc

6GB Ram corrsair

June 23, 2011 8:04 PM

Anonymous said...

Hosed my system as well ... kernel panic during update!!!! Now nothing works.

Worked okay on a MBP though.

Seems like alot of systems got messed up.

June 23, 2011 8:08 PM

Subcell said...

My USB ports are frozen... but the clock still works...

what should I do?

June 23, 2011 8:08 PM

evstratios said...

the guy earlier was right about the notice you see when you boot verbose: "PCI configuration

begin". The computer apparently was fine but _I_ panicked and rebooted thinking it wasn't going to

work as this is a classic sign that the boot has failed. DON'T GIVE UP SO EASILY!!! I tried it again

and the phone rang and I noticed it came right up and worked fine after this mysterious message.

No more verbose messages appeared but soon the blue screen came up and then my user

showed up. It's fine. We have to learn not to panic ourselves as apparently the kernel is fine!!! I

have GA-P55A-UDP4 with i7-875 with DSDT.

June 23, 2011 9:02 PM

Finzel said...

everything was fine, now with the update i'm stuck at [ pci configuration begin ] and nothing. im

running a gigabyte s2v board, i5, and nvidia 8400gs card

June 23, 2011 9:23 PM

Gary said...

10.6.8 update worked on my system, but not without some very basic troubleshooting... 2010

lifehacker build, EasyBeast install. To get it to work I had to re-install MultiBeast after the update.

To get full graphics working I had to install the Nvidia update Tony posted in the notes. To get

SleepEnabler to work I had to add pmVersion=23 to the kernel flag. All is working great now.

Thanks Tony!

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June 23, 2011 9:53 PM

RHB said...

i have the same problem as someone above...

i was on snow leopard 10.6.7 every thing works fine. After updating i got a kernel panic because of

the sleepEnabler, then i reboot with command "pmVersion=0" then it went to the white screen with

the apple logo, but no spinning wheel on the screen, so no loading. I reboot with command

"pmVersion=0 -x -v" to show me more infos while booting, as i saw the computer stops at the line:

"PCI configuration begin". nothing happends after that. please help. Any idea or advice is very

welcome. thanks

June 23, 2011 10:26 PM

Roy1971 said...

Hello,

For owners of XFX 5770, before do the update back up the 10.6.7 drivers ATI5000Controller.kext,

ATIFramebuffer.kext & ATISupport.kext, install the combo update (DO NOT USE SOFTWARE

UPDATE), install the three ATI kexts with Kext Helper, repair permissions & reboot.

Good luck!

June 23, 2011 11:23 PM

Anonymous said...

stuck on "PCI configuration begin"

June 23, 2011 11:53 PM

bigpigroy said...

Everything works fine with GA-P55A-UD3R F13 ♪

Thank you Tony :-)

June 24, 2011 12:17 AM

Dave Joyce said...

For the "PCI configuration begin" people...

This is a crappy fix, but it's better than nothing for now.

add "maxmem=4096" to the boot args. (I'm guessing that most having this issue have 8GB)

It worked for me, at least until I find a real fix.

June 24, 2011 12:24 AM

Anonymous said...

ALC889a with MacMan's Unified Audio Injector stopped working. Reinstallation doesn't helped :X

June 24, 2011 1:13 AM

Anonymous said...

Another hosed system. I installed 10.6.8, and it worked fine (except for disabling my audio) then I

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reinstalled the latest MultiBeast (to get audio as indicated above) and now I can't even get past the

Apple boot screen. GA-P55M-UD4 motherboard, Core i5 750.

June 24, 2011 1:19 AM

Rage said...

ALC889a support is now killed for unkown reasons. So no sound for ALC889a users without

AppleHDA rollback.

June 24, 2011 1:22 AM

Anonymous said...

have a quadro 4000 for mac and nvidia has not as yet issued a new driver... any suggestions?

June 24, 2011 2:00 AM

Anonymous said...

Just updated via software update, during installation got a kernel panic and reboot, now the system

does not boot

June 24, 2011 2:01 AM

David said...

Ack you guys are scaring the frack outta me lol, I have a gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R V2.0 Bios FF

with a GTX 480 and I'll be darned if I update after the pain is the arse time I had getting it to work

properly! Only major reason I'd want to update is for the Mac Defender update.

June 24, 2011 3:35 AM

Anonymous said...

My Config:

i5 2500K

Asus P8H67-M PRO

HD 6950 2G

4 GB RAM Kingston

Snow Leopard 10.6.7 to 10.6.8

At first run of the update I got the kernel panic. Then I restart in safe mode and this time update

successfully installed.

But built-in HD3000 graphics still not working and I'm stuck with the native resolution.

Did anyone able to enable QE in the HD3000?

Thanks

June 24, 2011 4:04 AM

aizat said...

thanks tony! i have tested it on my i7 2600 on msi mb and it works! cheers again man!

June 24, 2011 5:20 AM

Anonymous said...

hello my sistem is slow after update!!extensa 5620.solution??

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June 24, 2011 5:46 AM

Kirill Kushpel said...

Forum is still down( Any idea when the problem will be fixed? Can't install Mac Os until i see

screenshot with MB options)))

June 24, 2011 7:30 AM

momavujisic said...

yep looks like this update killed my hackintosh, getting the "pci configuration begin" just like

everyone. gtx 470, looks like this thing is only affecting nvidia cards?

June 24, 2011 8:55 AM

Anonymous said...

Also getting stuck at PCI configuration begin

June 24, 2011 9:35 AM

Perry said...

GA-H55M / i7-870, kernel panic on a dependency in VoodooHDA. Booted in safe mode (-x),

removed VoodooHDA kext from S/L/E, ran Multibeast and selected the ALC8xxHDA kext +

HDARollback and System Utilities. Everything is now working just fine.

June 24, 2011 10:06 AM

und3rf0rce said...

To avoid [PCI Configuration Begin] use this kexts from 10.6.7:

http://www.mediafire.com/?u6sietuh5b0rh6t

June 24, 2011 10:15 AM

JayDar82 said...

I have had this exact same problem as Anonymous.

"Anonymous said...

no luck with pmVersion=23, it starts the white screen with apple logo, but no spining wheel, (no

booting up) hangs on the white screen with apple logo, strange."

June 24, 2011 10:15 AM

injectx said...

GA-P55A-UD3 with 6870: only had to run AppleHDA audio driver rollback.

June 24, 2011 10:16 AM

aizat said...

this update work for me.

th way i did it is that

i install the update.

then run multi beast to install easybeast.

i then run the nvidia update

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and install bridgesupport for my i7

all driver works fine and no problem yet.

June 24, 2011 11:00 AM

DeviceTutorials said...

Updated from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8, but also [PCI configuration begin].

My config:

- CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 2,66GHz

- RAM: 4GB 800MHz DDR2

- Mainboard: Asrock G31M-S R2.0

- GPU: Gainward GTX 460

I think this is caused by the driver for my graphics card, used tonymacx86 Nvidia Update and

MultiBeast.

June 24, 2011 11:02 AM

Anonymous said...

I have a full standard Apple Mac Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.8 and I am using the NVIDIA Quadro

4000 for Mac with the NVIDIA drivers from the NVIDIA website, can I use with my system the

"tonymacx86 NVIDIA Update 2.0" drivers ?, are they newer, faster or better ?, thanks

June 24, 2011 11:51 AM

Anonymous said...

@und3rf0rce: how do we install these kexts if we can't boot, not even in safe mode?

June 24, 2011 11:59 AM

Tim Harper said...

Success here. I had to install the HDA rollback, also. My ATI drivers were updated from the latest

multibeast provided ATI driver set version 1.6.34.13 (9707) to 1.6.36.10 (9792)

June 24, 2011 12:06 PM

Tim Harper said...

Worthy of mention: I updated using the Mac OS X software update utility

June 24, 2011 12:07 PM

Tim Harper said...

@Anonymous (addressing und3rf0rce) check out this post: http://mymacbookmini.wordpress.com

/tag/manually-install-kexts/

You can manually install kexts in single user mode. If you can't get the kext on the disk from single

user mode, try using a linux rescue disk. It seems that you should be able to install a kext from

linux (although I haven't done it personally), just so long as you clear the kextcache by booting with

-f.

I have reverted kexts back from time machine using Single User mode. That has been a big

time-saver for me.

June 24, 2011 12:21 PM

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Tim Harper said...

@Anonymous also see this wiki page for more info on manually installing kexts

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_.kext_Patching_List#Testing_your_new_.kext

June 24, 2011 12:22 PM

freaki said...

My System crash's on reboot (while installing this update). Now i have a crash on booting.

What can i do?

-x -v PCIRootUID=1

does not work... :-(

June 24, 2011 2:32 PM

Anonymous said...

So, tried doing a fresh install using the 10.6.8 Combo Update (cause I was finishing building my

Mac anyways) and ended up hitting the same issue that alot of people hit with the

PCIConfiguration stall. Leaving it up didn't allow it to eventually progress. Eventually just switched

back to using 10.6.7 and staying there for now. Here's my set-up:

i7 960, X58A-UD3R 2.0 FE, GTX 480, 12GB RAM

June 24, 2011 3:21 PM

Anonymous said...

multibeast error after run after 10.6.8 combo update. all seems to work fine but multibeast says at

the end intallation "error run again", don't appear lan driver setup window

June 24, 2011 3:29 PM

mrx said...

Thanks @Tim for the suggestions. I booted into Terminal on my Snow Leopard install disk to install

the kexts suggested by @und3rf0rce but all it got me is a kernel panic.

I wasn't able to boot in safe more or single user mode, nothing works. Going to revert to the

previous kexts and keep working.

June 24, 2011 4:52 PM

Anonymous said...

Kernel Panic while installation, nothing work, i came back to 10.6.6, happy that way!

June 24, 2011 4:53 PM

und3rf0rce said...

@und3rf0rce: how do we install these kexts if we can't boot, not even in safe mode?

you can use MacOS X Retail Disk, to run Terminal, and copy this kexts from usb flash to S/L/E.

then boot with -f key in chameleon

June 24, 2011 4:57 PM

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mrx said...

Turns out und3rf0rce's suggestion worked. I hadn't correctly copied the kexts; I backed up these

kexts in my /System/Library/Extensions folder (changing the extensions of AppleACPIPlatform.kext

and IOPCIFamily.kext to .bak) but needed to create *new* AppleACPIPlatform.kext and

IOPCIFamily.kext folders, then used "cp -r (source) (dest)" to copy the kext folders.

Now to get graphics working

June 24, 2011 5:07 PM

Anonymous said...

Using VirtualBox 4.0.8 w/an i5-2500k (asus p8p67), OSX 64bit, setup with iboot no efi, applied

10.6.8, restart with EFI and no iboot, SUCCESS! booted all the way into the OS no problems!

"About this Mac" works...not sure about anything else, still testing...

June 24, 2011 5:12 PM

Anonymous said...

GA-H55M-S2V F3

i3 540

8 GB RAM

DA ATI 5750 1 GB

only had to run AppleHDA audio driver rollback,thanks

June 24, 2011 7:14 PM

steal998 said...

GA-H55M-UD2H

I5

8 GB RAM

gigabyte gts 450

i stuck at PCI configuration begin

June 24, 2011 10:54 PM

Anonymous said...

P5KPL AM EPU

I C 2 E8300

Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670

4 GB Ram

OS X 10.6.8

All things work perfect.

I use my monitor with VGA input on DVI port.

June 25, 2011 1:06 AM

EyeRIS said...

Just updated

Gigabytes H58A-UD3R rev2/i7-950/ATI5870

Lost Displayport... That's too bad.

Everything else works with AppleHDA.kext backed up.

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Tim Harper said...

I suppose I really lucked out, looking at all the issues... or maybe most people who have success

don't report :)

In other news, it looks like the latest ATI drivers properly detect HDCP on my Sapphire ATI Radeon

HD 6850 video card! So I can now watch all those HD movies I bought in iTunes. Yay!

June 25, 2011 2:48 AM

hoschi said...

GA-H55M-UD2H

I5 760

4 GB RAM

Nvidia 8400GS

stuck at PCI configuration begin

June 25, 2011 3:15 AM

Anonymous said...

I've done update and after reboot, usb ports are unavailable (keybord and mouse don't work and I

can't login). Any idea to resolve that ? Thanks

June 25, 2011 5:08 AM

G1ya said...

Stucked on PCI configuration begin as well. Help!

June 25, 2011 5:26 AM

Anonymous said...

GA-P55A-UD4

Core i5 750

ATI 4870

DWA-131

Using Software update. All is perfect, just replace AppleHDA.

June 25, 2011 7:54 AM

Anonymous said...

Hopefully, this will mean we are a step closer towards new Sandy Bridge CustoMacs.. Yay!!

yippy, yay, yay, yippy; yay, yay, yippyyy, yippy, yayyyy!!!

June 25, 2011 7:56 AM

jpa said...

See this

Custom Mac Sandy Bridge Z68 and others - Build now (Hot)

http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=23036&start=0

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Anonymous said...

I too had the PCI configuration error but after a couple of reboots my system came back up! No

Audio though so I'll try the AppleHDA rollback. I still get the "boot to black screen" and have to

unplug then replug the DVI to get the desktop (30" @ 2560x1600). Anyone know how to fix this

issue?

ga-z68a-d3h-b3 / i7 2600k / xfx 5770

June 25, 2011 11:48 AM

TK said...

I have a NVidia GTS 450 Card and 10.6.5. I tried to use "tonymacx nvidia update and failed with

10.6.7(using FULL HD(1080p), so I reinstalled the whole new Mac OS X (with iBoot and Multi

Beast) and upgraded to 10.6.5.(using 1080p)

SO MY QUESTION IS CAN I UPGRADE TO 10.6.8??

PS sorry for my ugly English( I'm a Korean...ㅋㅋㅋ)

June 25, 2011 12:37 PM

Hozey said...

Everything works on my Gateway laptop except the broadcom card isn't being recognized. Had no

problem upgrading from 10.6.0 thru 10.6.7. Any suggestions? Thanks, Hozey

June 25, 2011 1:10 PM

Anonymous said...

LOST NETWORK

10.6.8 combo

MB 3.7 AppleHDARollback & RTL81XX

Network Prefs says Ethernet "Connected"

10.6.7 was OK

GA-P55a-UD3 F11-i5-650 Nvidia 8400[ASUS]

June 25, 2011 1:20 PM

Anonymous said...

anyone else having problems with 'self-assigned IP" after update of 10.6.8?

June 25, 2011 1:31 PM

Anonymous said...

Caused an error report from FakeSMC :

6/25/11 PM 06:33:46 kernel FakeSMC: key not found MSTf, length - 1

How do you fix this?

June 25, 2011 2:23 PM

Chri said...

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Chri said...

Crash at boot fixed by using kernel option pmVersion=23

"PCI configuration begin" hang issue fixed by installing kexts from http://www.mediafire.com

/?u6sietuh5b0rh6t

I am using an HP dv3-2130ef 64 bits. Everything works except integrated wifi (Intel Wifi 5100 agn)

and hibernation.

June 25, 2011 2:39 PM

bubble_gum said...

Updated successfully, but networking is broken. Both WiFi and LAN doesn't work, also hangs for a

while before login (although both devices are working perfectly on hardware level). Obviously a

software bug. Seems like Apple has done some "improvements"

The real fix is to use

SMboardproduct

Mac-F4208CC8

in SMBIOS.plist plus newer Chameleon version that is able to load SMboardproduct key correctly.

For me it was latest Chameleon trunk (1052).

June 25, 2011 5:31 PM

Anonymous said...

OK Finaly!!!!! it Works

That was my porblem:

i need some help please!

i was on snow leopard 10.6.7 every thing works fine. After updating i got a kernel panic becose of

the sleepEnabler, then i reboot with command "pmVersion=0" then it went to the white screen with

the apple logo, but no spinning wheel on the screen, so no loading. I reboot with command

"pmVersion=0 -x -v" to show me more infos while booting, as i saw the computer stops at the line:

"PCI configuration begin". nothing happends after that. Any idea or advice is very welcome. thanks

This is the Solution:

1- I used iBoot and run it from External HD.

2- also i have a USB Stick with iAtkos on it.

3- I went to Disk Utility and rund iAtkos again (Snow Leopard 10.6.3) a downgrade in other words.

4- ShutDown Machine.

5- BootUp the machine and select HD with Snow Leopard 10.6.3 with Flag "pmVersion=0" (becose

the SleepEnabler from 10.6.7 don't work anymore and give a cracy Kernel Panic).

6- Install MacOSXcombo 10.6.8 (do NOT ShutDown the Machine).

7- Run Multibeast and costumize it to your choice.

8- Delete SleepEnabler from the Extra Folder

9- Install the latest Nvidia driver

10-ShutDown the Machine

Now it should start up like a charm!

"""Everything Works! only the "SleepEnabler" needs to be Updatet to 10.6.8!""" - this is the

Problem that most of the People have with this OSX Update.

Hope that a good Guy can put a hand on it!

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Thanks to all People here around that makes this Project Possible!

Gigabyte x58a-ud3r rev.2

intel i7 960

Gigabyte GTS 450 oc

6GB Ram corrsair

June 25, 2011 5:37 PM

Anonymous said...

Are this customacs posted by jpa the ones that were going to be posted by tonymac? Will tonymac

release another cusomacs? I would like to thank jpa for its infinite work, but, prefer to wait for

tonymac suggestions if he will release diferent configurations.

Thanks.

June 25, 2011 6:51 PM

Anonymous said...

OK Finaly!!!!! it Works

That was my porblem:

i need some help please!

i was on snow leopard 10.6.7 every thing works fine. After updating i got a kernel panic becose of

the sleepEnabler, then i reboot with command "pmVersion=0" then it went to the white screen with

the apple logo, but no spinning wheel on the screen, so no loading. I reboot with command

"pmVersion=0 -x -v" to show me more infos while booting, as i saw the computer stops at the line:

"PCI configuration begin". nothing happends after that. Any idea or advice is very welcome. thanks

This is the Solution:

1- I used iBoot and run it from External HD.

2- also i have a USB Stick with iAtkos on it.

3- I went to Disk Utility and rund iAtkos again (Snow Leopard 10.6.3) a downgrade in other words.

4- ShutDown Machine.

5- BootUp the machine and select HD with Snow Leopard 10.6.3 with Flag "pmVersion=0" (becose

the SleepEnabler from 10.6.7 don't work anymore and give a cracy Kernel Panic).

6- Install MacOSXcombo 10.6.8 (do NOT ShutDown the Machine).

7- Run Multibeast and costumize it to your choice.

8- Delete SleepEnabler from the Extra Folder

9- Install the latest Nvidia driver

10-ShutDown the Machine

Now it should start up like a charm!

"""Everything Works! only the "SleepEnabler" needs to be Updatet to 10.6.8!""" - this is the

Problem that most of the People have with this OSX Update.

Hope that a good Guy can put a hand on it!

Thanks to all People here around that makes this Project Possible!

Gigabyte x58a-ud3r rev.2

intel i7 960

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Gigabyte GTS 450 oc

6GB Ram corrsair

June 25, 2011 7:20 PM

hackintosh builder said...

To All of you with the stuck on "PCI configuration begin" problem as I was here is my success

story.

After using apple update to update to 10.6.8 my build would freeze at the grey apple screen with -x

or not it did not matter. Verbose revealed that the boot hung on "PCI configuration begin". Here is

my fix:

I opened my computer, removed my Geforce210 and hooked my monitor up via VGA to my

onboard video.

Reboot

Fail

Related to VoodooHDA....

Reboot

Safe mode (-x)

Run newest multibeast 3.7.3 (make sure to check VoodoHDA in audio section as well)

Open Disk Utility

Repair Permissions

Shutdown

Reinstall nVidia card and reconnect via DVI

boot

Back to normal, QE/CI etc everything back to normal 10.6.8

June 25, 2011 10:54 PM

George said...

I Just update from Software Update. It need to install again Nvidia drivers and reinstall AppleHDA

Rollback using MultiBeast.

My System is

Gigabyte GA GA-X38-DS5

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 9550

Nvidia GTX 470

June 26, 2011 12:31 AM

Anonymous said...

Hi,

after upgrade, CDs inserted in CD-Rom player are not available (no picture of them on the

desktop).

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All was fine under 10.6.7

Any idea ?

thanks

June 26, 2011 3:16 AM

Anonymous said...

It works perfectly. To only reinstate the audio one.

GB P55 USB3 2.0 F8, i5 8gb RAM, GeForce 9800 GT.

Thanks for its effort and dedication.

June 26, 2011 4:24 AM

Anonymous said...

I didnt installed the fermi driver before restart, so my system will not boot anymore. is there a

possibility to install the drivers without booting?

gtx 460, i7 950, ga-x58-ud3r

June 26, 2011 9:56 AM

Anonymous said...

extensa 5620 wifi not woring after 10.6.8 update reinstalled hda Voodoo PC starts but remains an

all slow.reinstall iousb start ok but wifi not work reinstall broadcom kext and does not work.

Now restart and system run slow another one.

someone has a solution?

sorry for the English!

June 26, 2011 12:48 PM

Anonymous said...

Thanks for all the hardwork, I just updated using the softwareupdate, it KPed during last second of

the install, I rebooted the first time it went to a reboot loop, I used -x -v, it boot normally, then I

repaired permissions, used multibeast to fix sound driver, and then booted normally.

GA-P67A-UD3-B3

4 Gigs ram

Sandybridge install 64 bit

June 26, 2011 1:35 PM

Leo Telles said...

got kernel panic during update, now it stuck on apple white logo,

i used another mac to make a 10.6.8 combo update in this hack, and then reinstalled chimera.

I`m still stuck, i can boot with safe mode, i repaired the permissions already

with verbose it says that i need to convert a file etc/match_init........plist to lauchd.

any solution?

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i5 2500

5770 radeon

16gb corsair xm3

June 26, 2011 7:49 PM

Leo Telles said...

forgot to say ,

motherboard

h67ma-ud2h-b3

June 26, 2011 7:56 PM

Anonymous said...

I use Chameleon RC5 747 following an initial iBoot install (TonyMac BoortRom Version)

10.6.8 installed like a charm... did not need to overwrite any of my kexts,,, only removed

AppleHDA.kext as Voodoo is the only kext that plays nice with my sound card. All works fine but no

SleepEnabler. None of the SleepEnablers our there have ever worked with my set up so I simply

don't use one, Internet/Ethernet, Video, USB, Sound... all fine

Simply downloaded and installed the combo update... did not reboot... reinstalled chameleon.. did

not log off,,, ran kext utility on both The Sys/Lib/ Extensions and Extra/Extensions folders,,,

rebooted and all is well.

The only thing though that I seem to have an issue with now though is that there is no progress

wheel at all, even in safe mode... but the systems boots fine. Anyone else had this?

Intel DP43TF

Q8200 Core 2 Quad 2.33 Ghz

4Gb DDR 2 888MHz SDRAM

NVidia GeForce GT 240 !Gb DDR3

June 26, 2011 8:24 PM

Rob Rod said...

Hi folks,

Can i use this update to do a full clean install?

June 27, 2011 4:43 AM

Olix said...

Hello,

10.6.7 worked flawlessly so far (including sleep). However, after updating via combo update to

10.6.8 the system does not recognize by graphic card anymore (Nvidia 9500 GT). Any ideas?

Already added EFI string, did not help.

On 10.6.7, I get full resolution 1920x1080 QE etc. I'm using a good old 945 gcmx-s2 motherboard

,4G memory, Intel dual core

Thanks lot.

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aizat said...

olix

try install the tonymac nvidia update.

it works for me!

June 27, 2011 5:01 PM

Anonymous said...

Hey, Thanks a lot, guys,

Fish.

June 27, 2011 5:17 PM

Olix said...

aizat

Can' install the tonymac nvidia update because I can't log in anymore after the update (get a black

screen), VNC does work either…

will try the following:

start with 10.6.7

tonymac nvidia (old version, newone needs 10.6.8)

efi string in comp.apple.boot.plist

Multibeast

reboot

update 10.6.8

...

June 28, 2011 4:14 AM

Oka said...

Also a PCI configuration begin -problem. But now I can't even boot to SL install disk with iBoot

(snow, legacy) anymore? It only goes to singe user mode, but I cant mount anything from CD

(unable to use the Diskmanagement framework).

The hd is stuck in pci configuration also with -s. Someone bypassed the PCI conf. with switching to

integrated graphics, but I dont have one. Is this a possible solution?

June 28, 2011 4:41 AM

Sam said...

Worked great for me. I installed the delta update, then installed Easybeast, IOUSB Rollback and

the new nVidia Graphics drivers.

I'm on a relatively old-ish setup:

Asus P5KPL/1600

nVidia 9800GT

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (3GHZ)

June 28, 2011 4:46 AM

Oka said...

Ok, now I managed to boot with an old iBoot to an old USB stick with SL. Combo updated to 10.6.7

and worked like a charm. Then, when updating to 10.6.8 and tried to run multibeast, it crashed at

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the end, and I ended up with same PCI configuration enabled freeze.

P5Q q9550 gtx470

June 28, 2011 9:32 AM

Anonymous said...

atualizando de 10.6.7 para 10.6.8

core i7

dx58so tudo ok

evga 460 gtx lenta como sempre mas sem kernel panic até agora

June 28, 2011 10:14 AM

OMIGHTY1 said...

That fixed my graphics problems right up, even after I installed the update! Now, if they would find

a way to get my wireless working... xP

June 28, 2011 11:50 AM

Anonymous said...

Hi, If you want to use the 10.6.8 applehda for (889a) you can search google for

ALC885_889a_LION it leads to another forum and read the included text file instructions. It work

for me. I have legacy enabler in e/e and dsdt edits. No rollback need but the same process will

need to be repeated if hda is updated.

June 28, 2011 11:42 PM

notation84 said...

in the middle of updating i got a KPanic... then panic'd one more time before it was able to fully

boot again. then I installed the update, successful this time. Opened up multibeast and then I lost

my display n everything....forced to reboot, thankfully comp still worked/booted without multibeast

yet... but got no USB support anymore obviously,,,,

.... soooo luckily I had my iphone and mobile mouse app and my pci wifi card (airport) still worked. I

used iphone as a mouse to install easybeast... immediately after install my USB works :D

My in-board audio goes all the way up without crackling now, woohoo! :)

after 15-20 minutes of scared sweating and a nifty iphone app for workaround, everything works

fine now, if not better :D

Thanks, Tone!

June 29, 2011 3:58 PM

Mike Hathaway said...

GA-EP45-UD3r Core 2 Quad. Everything works except my Nvidia 9600GT 1GB card. Have tried

the TonyMac Installer that worked for others to no avail. Any ideas out there. I am thinking of just

buying the cheapest possible ATI Card, to keep the system going.

June 29, 2011 6:55 PM

Anonymous said...

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Installed without checking here first :( doh!

Afterwards USB didn't work.

Took out hard drive and connected it via sata/usb to my mac mini.

Ran Multibeast and ran USB and audio rollback.

Now it works fine except for one thing: my CD/DVD drive is no longer detected. Any ideas on how

to fix that?

June 29, 2011 9:13 PM

Anonymous said...

installed 10.6.8 on my hackintosh. And got the dreaded freeze "PCI configuration begin" on a

verbose boot. I had a fully functional 10.6.7 running using iBoot+vanila install+multibeast.

My configuration is Gigabyte GA-H55M-USB3 MB with 8 gb ram with a GeForce 9500 GT video

card.

I have tried a clean install and combo update to 10.6.8 + multibeast to no luck.

Any insight/fix is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

June 29, 2011 11:13 PM

Vercetti757 said...

Just updated smoothly with no problems or KP, I ran combo updater, than Multibeast installing only

System Utilities, AC889 kext, and Apple HDA Audio Rollback. Installion of Multibeast failed the first

time, but after rebooting and running multibeast again it was successful. Previously installed as

User DSDT with 64 bit graphics and kernel. Standard Customac Pro 2010 MB settings.

Gigabyte X58-UDR3

Intel i7 950

Sapphire ATI Radeon 5770 OC Edition

June 29, 2011 11:50 PM

majikfraug said...

Is there any way to just downgrade to 10.6.7?

I installed 10.6.8 and my USB didn't work anymore. Ran my HD as an external and ran multibeast

to change the usb and audio kexts.

Now it's not picking up my DVD drive nor my Firewire 800 card, both of which worked flawlessly

prior to this stupid upgrade.

How can I reset my kexts back to what they were before the upgrade?

I am running:

x58a-ud3r FF

i7 960

5770 Batmobile

Please help!

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June 30, 2011 1:10 AM

Anonymous said...

Fix for PCI Configuration Begin freeze:

It is all fixed now. I am up and running on 10.6.8 on my GA-H55M-USB3 motherboard with

GeForce 9500GT graphics Card. This is how I got it working.

Followed the advice in Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update - The Official Thread on page 6 as recommended

by bmas. The link http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22882&start=50

******Important******

Before attempting to install 10.6.8 copy

1. /S/L/E/AppleACPiPlatform.Kext

2. /S/L/E/IOPCIFamily.Kext

from your working 10.6.7 Snow Leopard to a safe directory.

Then

1. download the 10.6.8 update combo bundle

2. Get Multibeast 3.7.3 if you don't already have it

3. Install the update but do not reboot

4. one the install is done fire up Multi Beast

5. install Kext Helper B7 from OSx86 software

6. launch kext helper b7

7. drag the previously backed up AppleACPIPlatform.Kext and IOPCIFamily.Kext into the kext

helper b7 tool and instll it.

In my case the AppleACPIPlatform.kext had not been updated by 10.6.8. Not sure if this file is

required. I put back both kext files anyway.

8. fired up multi beast and installed Audio-->Realtek ALC8xx --> ALC8XXHDA

--> AppleHDA Rollback

-->NonDSDT HDEnabler-->ALC889

also installed Realtek Gigabit Ethernet 2.0.6

and USB 3.0 from the misc section

9. once done then hit the reboot from the OSX updater window.

Then the system booted up fine with no issues have audio/network/graphics.

Thanks for all the help.

June 30, 2011 1:50 AM

Anonymous said...

I install what combo 10.6.8 update, before finishing the installation appears kernel panic, and there

when I restart the computer it goes, but I can not access the finder.

MSI P67A GD55

Corsair 8GB

ATI HD 5670

June 30, 2011 8:59 AM

lamborghiniguy said...

i have a question, my video card is a GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI

Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card, and before i bought it i went on

apple's website and checked out what kind of video card does the mac pro use, now that i have

bought it will the update to 10.6.8 work with my video card by the way it's a ATI

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June 30, 2011 10:53 AM

Spartan089 said...

Upgraded to 10.6.8 no problem as long as you install the 2 rollbacks BEFORE you restart. Only

thing that isn't working is the little grey swirly on the grey apple start up screen. It disappeared, but

I still booted fine.

June 30, 2011 2:50 PM

Olix said...

Success! with Fix for PCI Configuration as described above. Now full operational again, Nvida

9500 GT. Thanks for your help.

June 30, 2011 6:11 PM

Anonymous said...

Do you install the two rollbacks while mounted on DSDT or just run multibeast only?

June 30, 2011 7:07 PM

Toto said...

I'm on DSDT, however I installed the HDA rollback + HDEnabler for ACL888 + did the trick with

AppleACPIPlatform and IOPCIFamily.

July 1, 2011 2:10 AM

Anonymous said...

My fix for not being able to boot (stuck at apple logo during boot).

I noticed that booting with the -v flag (verbose) works. At first it seems booting freezes at 'PCI

Configuration Begin', but after about 15 seconds or so, it will continue booting. So i added:

Kernel Flags

-v

In the "com.apple.Boot.plist", so now it will allways boot in verbose mode.

In order to get here i had to swap videocards (took out my Nvidia gtx285 and put in an old ati) and

boot using -x -v (verbose safe boot). Install the nvidia update (the one from the nvidia website).

Reboot and run the AppleHDA Rollback with multibeast. Reboot again. From this point on only

booting in verbose mode works. So for that i used the fix as i described above.

I hope this will help someone.

July 1, 2011 8:51 AM

OLEG_TR said...

At the forum, I already wrote that the message "PCI configuration begin" caused by an error in the

file DSDT.aml. In the section Device (PCI0) must remove the line: "Name (_ADR, Zero)" and

corrected following the first in: "Name (_UID, Zero)". This will be enough so that the system

worked, as expected.

July 1, 2011 9:07 AM

Akos Maroy said...

I did a new re-install of my system, with the 10.6.8 upgrade, the factory nvidia drivers and the

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AppleHDA roolback. all works sort-of fine on 32 bit - but when trying to boot in 64 bit, it hangs at

the "PCI configuration begin" message. (it stays there for a number of seconds in 32 bit mode as

well, but in 64 bit, it just never moves on)

what could be 64 bit specific that makes the boot process stop there?

July 1, 2011 4:55 PM

emax4 said...

Installed with no trouble at all, no kernel panics, no PCI config issues. I'm using an older system

though:

ASUS P5B

Intel Core2Duo 3.0 GHZ (E6850 I beieve)

4 GB RAM

GT220 1GB video card

First I downloaded and burned iBoot to ensure that it would work, and it did before and after I

updated. I still had my IDE drive and two other SATA Drives installed but 10.6.7 and Windows XP

are on a Kingston 64 GB SSD.

I had d/l the combo update earlier to a secondary internal drive. I ran the update, restarted, closed

my eyes, and saw the Mac booted normally and showed the update. I was already using the

Voodoo for audio and the USB Rollback, so maybe that's what kept it going.

July 2, 2011 12:14 AM

Riad said...

So what else can I try to get the sound working? Multibeast roll back and attempting to restore

from 10.6.7 /s/e/l did not work. Any help is much appreciated

July 2, 2011 11:35 PM

Anonymous said...

Thanks Anonymous, putting the kexts in a safe place and reinstall with

kext helper saved me, I was getting the pci kernel panic also. Asus

P7P55, Nvidia GTS 250.

July 3, 2011 12:50 AM

RiffsOnFire said...

Everything went fine here. Just needed the AppleHDA Rollback to get the sound working again.

- Gigabyte H55M-UD2H

- Intel Core i5 760 @ 2.8 Ghz

- 4 GB Ram

- ATI HD5870 Sapphire 1GB GDDR5

July 3, 2011 9:24 AM

Anonymous said...

After upgrading from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8 everything works fine..

I deleted my Extra folder, opened the 10.6.8 Combo Update and opened Mulitbeast.

After installing the Combo Update and not rebooting. I ran multibeast and selected the the same

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options as before incl. VoodooHDA for audio but this time i also included the IOUSBFamily

Rollback otherwise my USB devices would not work.

After rebooting, i only had to reinstall my Networking with a Marvel Yukon 88E805 fixed kext and

now all good as before.

July 3, 2011 6:53 PM

Anonymous said...

Hi all, I have 10.6.8 fully working except for the app store. When i log in i get this message"No

GUID Available". If I boot into 10.6.7 on the same drive, different partition app store works fine. Any

ideas?

July 3, 2011 7:38 PM

Cruxado said...

Just updated my 10.6.7 Mac OSX Server build to the 10.6.8 update, remotely about 3,400miles

away via Screen Share! Hazzah!

I did the safe update, the NVidia fix (just in case), updated and ran MultiBeast 3.7.3 with DSTS

patching.

Thanks a million TonyMac and crew.

Intel GA-P55-UD5 (F10 BIOS) :: Core i5

4GB Ripjaw PC16000 DDR3 @ 2000mhz

NVidia GTX 8600

40GB 10K Raptor

1.5TB Green Cavalier

July 4, 2011 12:42 AM

Cruxado said...

Just updated my Mac OSX Server to 10.6.8 using the safe install guide, the NVidia fix (just in case)

and then MultiBeast 3.7.3 with DSTS patch... all done remotely via Screen Share about 3,400

miles away! HAZZAH!

Thanks TonyMac and crew!

---------------

GA-P55-UD5; F10 BIOS; Intel Core i5 @2.8ghz

Ripjaw PC 16000 DDR3 @ 2000mhz

NVidia GT8600

40GB 10K WD Raptor

1.5TB WD Green Cavalier

July 4, 2011 12:48 AM

thehobbo said...

Thanks and credits goto @und3rf0rce for posting the solution to PCI Configuration for me with

Gigabyte GA H55M S2V board.

Downloaded combo 10.6.8, MultiBeast 3.1, KextBeast and kexts from und3rf0rce.

Run MultiBeast installer but leave on first screen as per TonyMac and MacMan instructions.

Run combo update and install but don't restart.

Run KextBeast with kexts from und3rf0rce on desktop.

(Installer may crash after this - no worries)

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Run MultiBeast - check System Utilities and IOUSBrollback and reboot.

Many thanks

July 4, 2011 1:53 AM

behzad said...

hi.. i update to 10.6.8 and after restart i got the black scree .....

i7920.

gtx295

please help.. i've got a lot of file on my screen..

July 4, 2011 6:45 AM

macnyac said...

Hi All.

Thanks Tony and Macman. After several trials to update to 10.6.8, I finally succeeded.

I backed up all my stuff on another 1TB HDD using time machine. Cleaned up my install HDD.

Used iBoot 3.0.3 followed the 10.6.8 iBoot-Multibeast steps.

For multibeast I used the latest one 3.7.

Followed the DSDT install for Mac Pro 2010 since my system has same configs

Only difference used , realtek for ethernet and 64 bit apple enable, in addition to the audio and

USB recommendation for 10.6.8.

Rebooted, got panic, nVidia video card not found. I dont use nvidia

Restarted used verbose- it showed the same issue and booted to my desktop.

Under apps I clicked on kext utility. It fixed the isuue!

My computer is fully functional now. Boots no problem.

The wheel on apple logo boot up screen rotates unlike some postings posted earlier.

Only issue my eject button on my apple keyboard is not working. Other shortcut keys are fully

functional. I probably need to unplug it and or switch usb ports.

I just need to plug in my time machine HDD and restore my files and folders.

Hope this posting helps these forum.

Lion here we come! Bravo! Viva Tonymacx86

GA-X58_U3DR Rev. 2, FF, Batmobile, OCZ 6GB, 1TB spinpoint, i7-950, 1000W Thermalteck PSU,

Zerotherm-95 CPU cooler

July 4, 2011 12:33 PM

Anonymous said...

Hi

I have the same board, but it's rev 1.0. I couldn't get sleep fully functional. I can't come back from

sleep. How bout you?

July 5, 2011 2:10 PM

Anonymous said...

I did this and it helped. I tried booting by holding 4 and 6 button. More you will find here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3773

Hope it works for you too :)

July 5, 2011 3:37 PM

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RandemThoughtsHurt said...

PS: CHUD from 2006 also causes Kernel Panic

LoL

Developer Tools - single boot with SHIFT Key down

go to

\Developer\Applications\CHUD\removeCHUD

Bingo SOLVED

July 6, 2011 3:17 PM

Anonymous said...

Successful update to 10.6.8 for me but not after some trouble. Here is my experience of updating

without doing PCI Configuration Fix.

I reinstalled Snow Leopard to the Retail DVD of 10.6.3. I came back 30 minutes later and it had

restarted and worked fine with all my previous kexts (NV Enabler) but no audio. No problem

because I had my USB and ethernet to fix the previous damage.

I used the PCI Configuration Fix and restarted and now I have 10.6.8 working perfectly. Thanks to

all those above my comment who helped!!

July 10, 2011 7:18 PM

cain said...

Firstly, I would really like express my appreciation for the efforts that have gone into the support for

this community – I have gone through mountains of information from users saying that OSX cannot

be installed on M/B to finally having a 99% fully functioning Hackintosh …So for other users giving

it a go, don’t give up!

…I do also come seeking advice, I cannot seem to get 10.6.8 to enable 64bit mode, after checking

in terminal, i get “EFI32″ …Could anybody advise what may be preventing me to fully enable

64bit?

I used iBoot to install retail 10.6.3, ran combo update 10.6.8, installed Kext’s with Kextbeast. I just

cant find any possible solutions to try???

Asus P5Q Pro Turbo

Intel C2d-E8400

nvidia GTS250

4GB Corsair Dominator 8500-1066Mhz

July 11, 2011 5:58 AM

Anonymous said...

Doesn't work for me.

Earlier I have 10.6.3 with everything works including my 8400GS.

After 10.6.8, I have nolonger QE/CI support. All kexts loaded (Nvenabler64, NVDREsman,

NVDANV50Hal) but no Qe/Ci. NVRAM size is identified correctly.

So, No Video, No translucent bars, No frontrow.

Sound is working fine after DSDT and rolling back the HDAEnabler.

Its been weeks trying to find out the solution.

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Javen

GIGABYTE G31M-ES2L, Sparkle NVidia 8400GS 1GB.

July 13, 2011 2:41 PM

Kshitij said...

Does not work for me. Please help!! I have 10.6.3 installed from Retail DVD. Then i so update

Combo 10.6.8, install Multibeast then Reboot and after i reboot i come to the white screen that

stays there forever. :(. Please suggest.

July 14, 2011 10:59 PM

Anonymous said...

Even after removing ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext I still get a kernel panic *during* the upgrade

from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8 and end up with a non-booting system. My specs:

ASUS P8P67 Motherboard

i5 2500K

8 gig ram

XFX Branded 6870 graphics card

Can anyone offer any advice?

BTW, I've got the gfx card working nicely at full resolution with DVD Player and geek bench able to

run without crashing so I'm pretty happy with it anyway. I had to use Andy's CD to get this far

though.

July 15, 2011 4:01 AM

Anonymous said...

Finally up and running after alot of hard work! I have a ga-h55m-usb3 board with an i7-870. My

only problem now is that when the computer wakes from sleep it loses its internet, and sometimes

when I boot I have no usb ports, have to restart and then they come back. Any suggestions

anyone?

July 18, 2011 8:05 AM

Anonymous said...

@ASUS P8P67

After using the UpdateHelper you have to reboot. That worked for me.

July 19, 2011 6:29 AM

Anonymous said...

So I finally, after cloning my HDD, plucked up enough courage to install the update to 10.6.8.

Never really am quite confident about these things after the ordeal of getting OSX to run. But

here's what happened:

Installed the combo update and rebooted fine. No audio though. Ran multibeast and checked a

few selections including the apple audio rollback, USB3.0, Apple 64bit load screen and one or two

others.

So glad I cloned my HDD as now the thing won't boot up. It goes black, or more like the screen

goes to sleep, after the Chameleon boot screen. Managed to get it to the Apple logo screen once

with iBoot CD, but it always freezes.

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Attempting to restore from image now, but as it's on an External HDD it's taking forever just to

imagescan. Did attempt to restore from Time Machine but encountered the problem of being

unable to restore as it's from a '...different version of mac...'

Will be formatting the Time Machine disc and use a different backup tool in future.

Really like using OSX but this kind of thing is so frustrating.

No idea what the problem was.

Am at work right now, but the specs of the machine I can remember are:

Intel Core i7 960/970(?)

Gigabyte X58-UD3R

6gb Memory

Graphics... unsure...

Will update more once I get it working.

July 19, 2011 4:37 PM

filosofo said...

h55-UD2H gigabyte nvidia 9800 1G 4G core i5 660, thanks for all the effort, updated to 10.6.8 with

no audio or video kext, I put the kext in multibeast 3.7 and for the video I deleted the ati extension,

repaired permissions, all ok . Except for the app store "could not verify your computer" does not

allow me to enter password and download. I was the same with Team viewer, according to experts

not work on my hackintosh because I have an original mac, tonymac how we can solve these

problems. Thank you. Muchas Gracias a todos.

July 19, 2011 5:01 PM

Anonymous said...

I ran the UpdateHelper and upgraded to 10.6.8 today and now I'm running in to the "Could not

verify your device or computer" message. So now I can't buy Lion...

Is there a solution for this?

July 20, 2011 5:04 PM

Halfpint1210 said...

Everything was working with 10.6.7. Upgraded to 10.6.8 and lost Wi-fi. Searched the web and

found that this is not uncommon, but the solutions that were provided didn't help either. So, I

cannot upgrade to Lion until this is resolved.

Has anyone found a definitive Wifi solution?

Gigabyte P43T-ES3G

16G of RAM

Intel Q6600

Broadcom 94322 (Will try to Apple brand later)

July 21, 2011 8:32 AM

masterfu86 said...

Tried to upgrade to 10.6.8 from 10.6.4 and got a KP at the white Apple loading screen, and iBoot

does the same thing off the bat. Not sure what to do here, and I don't really want to wipe it and do

a clean install. Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks

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ASUS P7P55D

Intel Core i5-750

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB

July 24, 2011 2:41 AM

lfntmstr said...

Thanks a lot. the best support ever!

July 25, 2011 12:57 PM

FernandoCG said...

Please, any person with the dp43tf mobo can give me any help? I can't make the usb ports

besides the ones with the keyboard and mouse (I already try a lot of kexts for IOUSBfamily)and the

audio is off after the 10.6.8. Links will be appreciated

Everything else works fine. including a asus gtx 460 video card.

Thanks in advance

July 31, 2011 12:02 AM

cain said...

@FernandoCG -

'Family' KEXTs generally contain classes that are sub-classed, in other words they are not really

drivers and have dependencies. Have you placed your KEXT in the correct location?

- Install to: /Extra/Extensions folder, and in /S/L/E IOUSBFamily.kext & IOPCIFamily.kext should

also remain the originals??

If you wish to persist with the KEXTs, you can try this:

http://www.kexts.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1163

and the USB Fix from:

http://www.kexts.com/view/1010-usb_fix.html

Are you using a DSDT file with your build? ...If you are having no luck with kexts, I suggest trying a

DSDT file. If you have already, have you tried patching it?

There is a DSDT patch tool that Will solve some USB problems with broken USB EHCI, and USB

UHCI. Please do some reading on the following pages and I hope you solve your problem!

Use MaLd0n's DSDT Auto-Patcher to generate your DSDT:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=235523%20-%20auto%20patcher

Insert hacks and apply USB fixes to your DSDT with the tool here:

http://osx86.co/f36/evosx86-dsdtfixer-t6855/

Place your DSDT.aml in /Extra/Extensions folder of your install. Run User DSDT/System Utilities in

MultiBeast.

Hopefully everything is now working :D

July 31, 2011 4:47 AM

cain said...

@masterfu86

I also have a GeForce GTS 250 1GB, it has caused me a few issues, depending on the method of

installation I have tested with. Are you able to provide ANY more information than "Tried to

upgrade to 10.6.8 from 10.6.4 and got a KP"??

Boot your machine in verbose mode (-v) and check to see where it is panicking... Furthermore, did

you roll back any KEXTs, install any KEXTs, rebuild mkext and cache before rebooting after the

update to .8, if so did it complete successfully, did you try installing another bootloader along with

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the System Utilities?.....

July 31, 2011 5:01 AM

FernandoCG said...

Hello again, VoodooHDA.pkg work good with my DP43tf mobo. Still no solution for the usb ports.

I try the rollback with multibeast. Adding the USB fix in the com.apple.boot.plist. Turning USB

legacy of in the BIOS. Using the same kext used in the 10.6.6 version(extracted from time machine

drive). So far the best I can get is mouse y keyboard to work....

Help please.

July 31, 2011 11:42 AM

Anonymous said...

-Tony or MacMan

I am trying a clean install of Snow Leo using iBoot + Multibeast. In following the install instructions I

run the 10.6.8 update prior to installing multibeast. The guide says not to restart after update.

However, I am forced to restart. A grey box appears telling me to hold down power button to

restart. Mouse and keyboard are dead.

What is my next Move?

July 31, 2011 2:57 PM

Anonymous said...

@Cain, I'm Fernando CG. You are awesome, man. I did the thing with the DSDT patch and fix that

you say and the USB and everything else works great. Thanks, again. This community is great.

July 31, 2011 5:15 PM

Anonymous said...

I am running OS X 10.6.8 and every now and then my screen locks up and goes to a blue screen

for a few seconds and then returns to the previous screen. There doesn't seem to be any harm but

I purchased a Mac so as to rid myself of the annoying problems with a PC. This is a random

occurrence. any suggestions??????

July 31, 2011 9:49 PM

Anonymous said...

Hi Tonymac excuse me my bad english

Tanks for these advices

But i can't login and post because i didn't receive my confirmation email after

many tries

Help me please [email protected]

Thanks a lot

August 1, 2011 4:32 AM

Jancy Navarro said...

Thanks,

my system is now fully working! thanks to you,.. its a great help!

Asrock Wolfdale 1333-667

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August 8, 2011 12:46 AM

Anonymous said...

running a ga-x58-usb3 gigabyte board with an nvidia 9500gt graphics card and 10.6.8. i can't get

QE activated. does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? i have tried everything it feels like. i

can't play videos or open photos in preview even. going crazy.

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