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

[SBDJUK]

Typical; fresh morning and I now have my battery percentage up and audio working!

Will do some testing on CPU and GPU power management, make sure all video connections work and I'm happy!

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread 🙂

UPDATE: Everything seems to work for the most part - the only things that I can't get to to work yet are the Atheros card which I understand doesn't usually work anyway, and the DisplayPort/VGA ports which I assume is related to the EFI string in my config.plist. Any information on how to get the relevant info to generate this would be appreciated.

[AAndrei]

I still can't enable my display brightness for Asus G750JW with 765m.
I'm talking only about making the slider visible in the display settings in System Preferences.

So, I tried with the EFI String (basically tried all EFI strings I could find, hoping one of them will match my 765m card) and it just do nothing.
Also, I know that this EFI string can be produced (I mean I know they don't come out from nowhere), would be great if someone can provide the steps to do that.

[AAndrei]

Ok, enabled the brightness slider in System Preference, it seems the cause was some kext from rehabman I installed long time ago and I forgot about:
AppleBacklightInjector.kext

Now I need to figure out how to make it work when Fn+F5/F6.

Later edit: fixed the screenbrighteness by applying this patch to my DSDT:

# Patch by EMlyDinEsH (OSXLatitude)
# Patches for getting Asus Fn brightness keys to work with my driver AsusNBFnKeys

# Replacing method _Q0E for Brightness F5 key to work
# by removing the code which prevents
into Method label _Q0E replace_content begin 
             If (ATKP)\n
                {\n
                   ^^^^ATKD.IANE (0x20)\n
                }
end;

# Replacing method _Q0F for Brightness F6 key to work
# by removing the code which prevents 
into Method label _Q0F replace_content begin 
             If (ATKP)\n
                {\n
                   ^^^^ATKD.IANE (0x10)\n
                }
end;

[Baprice]

Has anyone had any luck being able to even reach the installer when trying to install the Yosemite public beta? I get tons of "In interface com.apple.*.* of _kernel_, couldn't find symbol _... Then it goes to waiting for root device

[pcfr33k]

Baprice wrote:
Has anyone had any luck being able to even reach the installer when trying to install the Yosemite public beta? I get tons of "In interface com.apple.*.* of _kernel_, couldn't find symbol _... Then it goes to waiting for root device

I was able to install it using Chris1111 install script.

You will need to change the name of the Beta 1 to "Install OS X 10.10 Developer Preview". Also make sure its in your applications folder.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299067-boot-usb-os-x-yosemite-v1cloverchameleon/

If your using clover then it should work. Let me know if you can get through the installer using his USB installer script. I chose both Legacy and UEFI. Try UEFI only first time if that does not work then maybe only Legacy. When I chose both I got a quick reboot but once I placed the kexts from Mavericks EFI 10.10 folder into the USB installer USB EFI 10.10 folder it started up perfectly.

Oh you will need a USB keyboard POST install. You have to copy ELAN touchpad and Asuskeys into /System/Library/Extensions. You also need to enable developer mode if you place those kexts in /S/L/E. If you use Clover Configurator GUI its under boot section just tick it (enable it). You will probably need a working hackintosh or real mac to tweak the config file. Once you place those kexts into /S/L/E your keyboard and partial Asus keys are working. Keyboard backlight works but not LCD brightness with keys. I do have the brightness slider working from System Preferences >> Display. There is a slider there.

To get 5Ghz working on your Airport PCIe Half Mini and Audio working:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292542-airport-pcie-half-mini/?p=2044555

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/296261-applehdakext-and-laptop-subwoofer-aka-21-audio/?p=2039...

[Baprice]

Thanks for the reply, I ended up getting everything to work before I saw this post though. I fiddled around with bios settings and clover settings. I essentially have everything working aside from iMessage and Facetime which I've never been able to get working on this computer (with Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite) even though I've tried every guide I could find online. iCloud and the app store work just fine but iMessage can't seem to connect to the internet. I'm assuming it has something to do with my serial number not injecting properly because when I click "About My Mac" it says the serial number is unavailable but everything else from my SMBios seems to load just fine.

[RogJohn]

Been reading the thread for a while now and just wanted to confirm this, for me to be able to install yosemite flashing bios is needed or something to do with bios? Is it possible to do it just like with mavericks??
Thanks

[Exaulted93]

Hey guys, great work on this project! I've been looking around and messing with some of this stuff on my G750JM, right now I can get chameleon to boot the install but It's getting stuck on "system uptime in nanoseconds" I'm assuming this is because the kexts are different for optimus chips. I've been looking around but does anyone actually have any version of OSX running on this laptop? I'm trying version 1.3.44 of the Mavericks installer.

Thanks!

[AAndrei]

If you modded the BIOS, just turn off the CFG Lock. Otherwise, you need to patch the kernel not to access the MSR 0xE2 registers.

[pcfr33k]

AAndrei wrote:
If you modded the BIOS, just turn off the CFG Lock. Otherwise, you need to patch the kernel not to access the MSR 0xE2 registers.

Turn of the CFG after modding the Bios? Can you explain further please? I modded my Bios and did nothing more. Is there a setting in the Bios after you mod the bios to turn CFG off? And what is CGF stand for?

Thanks