ASUS G750JX / OSX Mavericks INSTALL GUIDE

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NEW INSTRUCTIONS FOR 10.9.2:
I posted new instructions and all the stuff you need for 10.9.2 pretty much vanilla install here
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?39406-ASUS-G750JX-OSX-Mavericks-INSTALL-GUIDE/page20

PREFACE:

This is not 100% final installation as I'm still working with audio and wireless radios and I'm trying to get the Chameleon bootloader to show up from the BIOS when I boot so I don't have to use USB stick to get boot loader.
THIS IS FIXED and working - SEE UPDATE

A great thing about installing on ASUS G750JX is that almost all things that were in previous installation guides here on TonyMac forums under Laptop Mountain lion support > G750JX are unnecessary. This is as close to vanilla installation as I could get.

Touchpad also works. You will however need to hook up ethernet cable to laptop so you have ethernet until I figure out how to get wireless radios working.

One thing to note is that you will need to have on one of the hard drives Windows 8 installed and on that installation of Windows 8 you will need to download some kind of NFS+ support for Windows 8 (I use bundle from Paragon with NFS+ and NTFS support so I can have NTFS support in OSX and NFS+ in Windows 😎 but I think since that's a paid product you can use anything else that will just read NFS+ partitions in Windows 8.

ASUS G750JX I have flashed a bios 208

So without much writing here's what I did.

BIOS SETTINGS
go to ADVANCED and disable VT-d
go to BOOT and disable Fast Boot
Underneath Fast Boot, enable Launch CSM
You should now see a new option: Launch PXE OpROM policy. Enable this option. This allows your computer to boot via Legacy BIOS not UEFI.

INSTALLATION:

Standard Unibeast preparation:

1. On a mac download the Mavericks installation from App Store
2. Follow the steps for Unibeast and create a USB stick - Select Laptop support in addition to OSX 10.9 Mavericks App Store install
3. Once you have created and finished Unibeast USB stick preparation make sure you download the patched 10.9 kernel from step 13 and replace the mach_kernel on the USB stick with the one you download (you might have to show all files in OSX you are working on to see mach_kernel file on the root of USB drive), put the USB stick into your ASUS 750JX and boot from it
4. On bootloader screen, pick Unibeast Installer (no flags needed) and hit enter
5. It will take a bit, so be patient and OSX installer will show up
6. Go to Disk Utility > Do the standard Create Partition on a second drive > Make it GUID Partition > MacOS Extended Journaled and call it Mavericks
7. Exit Disk Utility and continue with installation



8. Once the installation finishes you will get a message how OSX Mavericks can't set the startup disc. This is FINE! Don't worry.
9. Now, restart and boot back into Windows 8
10. Install in Windows 8 NFS+ support
11. Restart and boot again into Windows 8
12. Once you have booted into Windows 8 now you should see the Mavericks volume and all the files there
13. Download this patched kernel (UPDATE: this is now recommended patched kernel by RehabMan: http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks-laptop-support/114677-haswell-early-reboot-mavericks-locked-msrs... ) as it allows Sleep and UseKernelCache to work properly (OLD one - do not use this unless you have problems with RehabMan's http://www.osx86.net/files/file/3631-kernel-os-x-mavericks-109-amd/ )
14. Open Mavericks volume in Explorer and overwrite mach_kernel with the one you downloaded
15. Restart and boot from the USB stick
16. Pick OSX Mavericks HDD volume and hit enter
17. OSX Mavericks will welcome you with the setup screen - follow through on standard process (iCloud might give you a funky message but that's not a big deal)



18. Welcome to OSX Mavericks on ASUS G750JX! 🙂





UPDATE:

Once you install the Mavericks you want to run the latest Multibeast 6.0 (see TonyMac) before the restart.

What you will be installing is the following:



The idea here is to have Chameleon and everything else installed into S/L/E, modify the SMBIOS.plist and have local hdd Extra folder.

If you are going to use Clover as boot see install notes in the post later in this thread so you can take out USB stick booting completely and adjust some location of some kexts and how to use the config file I included in the files.

Thanks to PeanutButterSpice and slayer2333 from TonyMac forums for trying as well on this and giving me ideas on what to do to get this working without it I would have probably not been able to look at the right place to make this work.


UPDATE 01:

Got audio and wifi working fine now!

The trick was that ASUS G750JX is using Broadcom chip.. in order to to make it recognized in Mavericks you have to update the IDs in the IO80211Family kext.. You go in and go into Plugins and update the IDs inside AirPortBrcm4360.kext > info.plist to include the following:

pci14e4,43b1
pci14e4,4331
pci14e4,4353
pci14e4,432b

Adding these will enable your Wifi.

The audio is working with VoodooHDA 2.84.

The problem I'm having is with hardware acceleration on GTX770M.. the card it properly recognized and working just fine but when I play videos HTML5 or Flash it doesn't matter it crashes it.. I can watch videos just fine if I disable hardware acceleration in Flash but H.264 HTML5 videos will not work for some reason.

Suggestions are welcome!

CUDA installs fine though.

UPDATE 2:

And I finally solved the last issue with hardware acceleration. I changed the System Definition to Mac Pro 5.1 and now everything works great.


The only last thing that remains is to get BIOS to recognize the SSD with the OSX Mavericks installation so I can boot without the USB stick boot loader. But that's really a minor issue.

Amazing! This ASUS G750JX is now an OSX Mavericks BEAST!


UPDATE 3:

The loading without the USB stick has been resolved now. I am using Clover. I will write up the guide for this as I'm still fine tuning things.

UPDATE 4:

I have used RehabMan's patched kernel (here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks-laptop-support/114677-haswell-early-reboot-mavericks-locked-msrs...) and indeed things are working MUCH better. UseKernelCache is working and I have increased my boot times now to desktop in about 10 secs instead of 30+. One side effect is that I don't see USB 3.0 recognized after installing GenericXHCI kext. Looking into this.

UPDATE 5:

Bluetooth 4.0 is now working as well. You have to enable the ASUS G750JX broadcom bluetooth IDs in BroadcomBluetoothTransport kext. We are fortunate because the Bluetooth in this laptop is BCM4352 so it's compatible fully with OSX Mavericks.

To enable go:
0. Find the IOBluetoothFamily.kext in S/L/E and copy it to desktop
1. Show Package Contents on it
2. Go into Plugins and show package on BroadcomBluetoothTransport
3. Open info.plist file and locate this entry:

Broadcom2045FamilyUSBBluetoothHCIController_P

CFBundleIdentifier
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
IOClass
BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
IOProviderClass
IOUSBDevice
idProduct
33293
idVendor
1452


4. Right above this entry and after

IOKitPersonalities


(So in between those put the following)

Broadcom2046FamilyUSBBluetoothHCIController_3404

CFBundleIdentifier
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
IOClass
BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
IOProviderClass
IOUSBDevice
LMPLoggingEnabled

idProduct
13316
idVendor
5075



5. This is it, SAVE and use Kext Wizard or similar to install and overwrite the existing IOBluetoothFamily.kext in S/L/E

6. Reboot and voila.. You have Bluetooth 4.0


NEW INSTRUCTIONS FOR 10.9.2:
I posted new instructions and all the stuff you need for 10.9.2 pretty much vanilla install here
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?39406-ASUS-G750JX-OSX-Mavericks-INSTALL-GUIDE/page20

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HINT:

If you want to install Windows. When you create the 2 partitions on the 1TB HDD you formatted as MBR.. you can

A) Create 3 partitions instead of 2
B) Use the 992gb partition not as HFS+ but as Empty Space or FAT32 and you install WIndows on it.

This is actually great for 2 reasons.

1. You now have 8gb OSX Mavericks partition for recovery
2. Windows install will work fine as the disk is marked as MBR and you can select it from Chameleon boot screen with no issues.


I forgot to give you the link for all the new necessary files on new Google Drive I posted. Get it while it's hot:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B38K6L6i3r5cckJjX25lcGdUR28&usp=sharing

ExtraG750JX10.9.2.zip - is the Extra folder for your Unibeast USB or HDD Boot install (read instructions above)

ModifiiedKextsG750JX-10.9.2.zip - are the kexts you want to install with Kext Utility that are modified for G750JX 10.9.2 and you install them once you installed OSX for the first time.

NVDA10.9.1.zip - NVIDIA Drivers 10.9.1 you will need for your Unibeast installs and you copy/overwrite the NVDA*.kexts in your Unibeast S/L/E folder

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In case you can't see EXTRA folder and stuff on Unibeast stick and stuff make sure you show all files in OSX

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

to hide the files back again just change YES to NO

and then type

killall Finder

to reboot the finder and you should now see all files.

[gazzacbr]

Hi,
(edit: started writing this last night and didnt see your post above so duplicated much of what you said)
i updated 10.9.2 with the latest apple patch Security Update 2014-002
(er, well, just because i can 😉 )
this comes with a new kernel and i think it sets the graphics drivers back to standard (from Nvidia ones)
i can only boot my 3D screen with the Nvidia drivers
this is what i did:
update the 2014-002 patch from apple
re-patch the new kernel (use rehabmans perl script)
change smbios to Mac Pro 3,1 (Nvidia will not update an iMac, which is what i have in my smbios)
removed nvda_drv=1 from org.chameleon.Boot.plist
remove all NV*.kext from S/L/E
boot in safe mode (-x)
install Nvidia web driver latest (331.01.01f04)
change smbios back again
put back nvda_drv=1
reboot
now version is OS X 10.9.2 (131021)
oh, just remembered i didnt put the original NV kexts back but i dont need them anyway.

this was a bit more effort for because of having to use only the Nvidia web drivers.
the web drivers would not update before the security update

my personal method (i have said this before)
get rid of uefi, this is still an early adopter and is not ready for multiboot.
and also gpt for the boot disk. you dont need it unless you have a 3tb+ drive.
however, it is a great way for micro$oft to make it look like you cannot boot anything other than windows on your new laptop/pc.
i have many os's, including windows, linux and 3 os x
all together on a 'normal' mbr disk, windows with ntfs, mac with hfs+, linux with ext4
(i am using BootIt to manage startup and swapping the boot partition).
multiboot like this is very easy for me.
my 2nd data disk is actually gpt (which i used to try clover)

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Just some results for the curious with 10.9.2

[gazzacbr]

Bozzified wrote:
Just some results for the curious with 10.9.2

oooooh, nice 😄

good to see the GTX 770M out running the Quadro's.

mac owners, eat your heart out 😉

also, are you saying that the system profile in smbios doesnt matter now?
it was needed before for power management but is that because we have a modified kernel?
i have left mine as Mac Pro 3.1 and nothing seems to have changed.

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gazzacbr wrote:

also, are you saying that the system profile in smbios doesnt matter now?
it was needed before for power management but is that because we have a modified kernel?
i have left mine as Mac Pro 3.1 and nothing seems to have changed.

I have not seen any major changes.. however considering that in the near future Mac Pro 3.1 might be outdated Mac for future OSX updates.

I will probably eventually use MBP 11.2 SMBIOS. That is SMBIOS for Mac Book Pro Retina with Haswell CPU. I've tried it and i saw no difference really.

Mac Pro 3.1 is convenient though as you don't have switch out smbios every time you want to upgrade the Nvidia official web drivers.

[access9]

Thanks for the thorough guide. I have a G750JS; I think the only difference is the gfx card (870m). My problem is that I can only boot in safe mode, otherwise it hangs. Any ideas? Also, the WiFi only sees 2.4ghz access points, not 5ghz. Unfortunately the Nvidia kexts don't seem to make a difference with this chip.

Thanks!

[gazzacbr]

@access9: i think the new G750s come with Optimus dual graphics.
if you cannot disable it then sorry, you are stuffed...
check in bios.
try a search for hackintosh 870m around the usual sites.

[access9]

gazzacbr wrote:
@access9: i think the new G750s come with Optimus dual graphics.
if you cannot disable it then sorry, you are stuffed...
check in bios.
try a search for hackintosh 870m around the usual sites.

This isn't my first hackintosh laptop so I knew this would be a fun challenge. I've tried just about everything. At this point, since I only boot into safe mode (however the gtx870m is detected properly) I'm going to have to throw in the towel for now. Boot gets stuck right after bluetooth initializes. I should have known better than to attempt this install with such a new gfx card.

[RogJohn]

Before i do this any one pls elaborate the problems could occur if i wanted to revert back to windows / install side by side with ubuntu eg,
disadvantage
hardware problem

Im gonna do this in 2 laptop both running on g750j 1 for my partner who wants to start learning illustrate and the other one for me just the sake of it.

thanks