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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RogJohn wrote:
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

If you are concerned that you can mess up laptop or something you won't.

You will always be able to reinstall Windows at any point.

Usually the best practice would be for you to do dual boot with Windows and just work with OSX part on a separate drive so you always have Windows available.

However, no matter what you do you will always be able to run DISKPART with Windows 8.1 USB drive to wipe your disks and install fresh installation of Windows if something goes wrong.

I just need to stress that this thread is PRIMARILY for ASUS G750JX-DB1 as that is the one I have and I found it work great.

Prerequisities for all this to work are:

1. Non-Optimus based GPU (JX750-DB1 has a dedicated Nvidia GPU)
2. The specific Bluetooth and Wifi chip that are present in JX750-DB1 are different from other laptops and you might have issues with other configs as they have different chips.

[Areosjc]

@gazzacbr
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Contact me to give you a Full working AppleHDA with subwoofer working (sounds great), my DSDT and SSDT for CPU power management, my dsdt inludes fixes for battery so no ACPI kext roll back, fix to get Fn keys working with keyboard backlight working, great touchpad multi gesture support (Thanks to EMlyDinEsH for his kext). And an EFI string to get brightness management working (only tested in NO 3D screens). I give you all this to you cause I don´t have the time to make guides or give support.

Ohh I also have a patched 209 Bios so no more kernel patch.

Good Luck

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Areosjc wrote:
@gazzacbr
@Bozzified

Contact me to give you a Full working AppleHDA with subwoofer working (sounds great), my DSDT and SSDT for CPU power management, my dsdt inludes fixes for battery so no ACPI kext roll back, fix to get Fn keys working with keyboard backlight working, great touchpad multi gesture support (Thanks to EMlyDinEsH for his kext). And an EFI string to get brightness management working (only tested in NO 3D screens). I give you all this to you cause I don´t have the time to make guides or give support.

Ohh I also have a patched 209 Bios so no more kernel patch.

Good Luck

Hey man that sounds like dream come true..

You mind sharing it with me in PM ?

Also I'm assuming you have g750jx-db1 like me without the 3d screen?

Let me know if you need access to my google drive I can add you and you can upload there all the files including the patched bios for unlocking MSR ...

You can also add me on twitter or Google plus if you need to so we keep this conversation out of ASus board since this is something that will void the warranty and don't want this thread locked.

Thanks.

[Billyp813]

@Areosjc

Tried to pm you, could you add me to the list.

Thanks

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Hi, what a command for the fix Kernel panic please ?

My mechine:

Model ASUS G750JX-T4179H
17,3“, 4700HQ 2,4GHz, 750GB, RAM 6G, DVD, grafic NVIDIA® GeForce with CUDA® GT 770M 3GB VRAM, BT, OS Microsoft® Windows® 8 64 bit

[CurtiSRustY]

Please make video tutorial on youtube. How to Install Mac OS Mavericks Asus G750JX. Thak you!

[gazzacbr]

Hi,
@RogJohn: you really need to dual/multi boot to be safe.
a hackintosh is quite a delicate thing requiring more or less work to keep it running.
it will vary between mostly all working and completely broken requiring a rebuild from an image.
with some care and a whole lot of online reading it can be done.
see my sig.
i use an independant boot loader (BootIT) which manages the many partitions on 2 disks and multiple systems and (after many years of practice) its fairly easy.
but i still keep full backups and at least 3 working versions of OS X in case my main one breaks.
good luck.

[Ernie89]

And the sound doesn't work with VoodooHDA 😕

When i use guide with those multibeast "drivers" the installation fails when it tried to install "Boot options" section..

[lftort]

Hi, I have an ASUS N550JV, and realized that the G750JX it's preetty the same but upgraded.
The ASUS N550JV has:
i7 4700HQ, 2.40 GHz turbo to 3.40
8 GB ram
intel HD 4600, NVIDIA GT750M 2GB
wifi card atheros AR9485

also i put a 250GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD on the optic bay. (this laptop dont have the space for a mSata ssd so i remove the dvd-writer)

I want to do a dual-boot, with windows on the SSD and OSX on the HDD.
I'm new at computers so i don't have much experience, and I need help 🙂 .

1- u recomend to install maverick with clover or unibeast? after reading a lot i got lost 😞 . (my native languaje is spanish)

2- also, do you have like a clean guide to install it? (sorry if a didn't see in the post)

3- multibeast have all the things to replace after the installation, like drivers and that of then i have to add more stuff?

at the moment i have these guides, but his are from 2013 and i don't know if the process have changed.
clover : http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-probook-mavericks/112383-guide-install-mavericks-clover-bootloader.html

unibeast: http://www.tonymacx86.com/374-unibeast-install-os-x-mavericks-any-supported-intel-based-pc.html


THANKS A LOT!! sorry if a spelled someting wrong! 🙂

[cruzin_cruzing]

I found two kexts that work great. One for the Elantouchpad and one for AppleHDA. It may not be necessary but it certainly makes the experience better. I can now use gestures and audio overall sounds better.

http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1948-elan-touchpad-driver-mac-os-x/
http://www.osx86.net/files/file/3933-alc282/

Using the latest 3.7 version.



EDIT: Just noticed the post above me. Well, I guess this is unnecessary.