OS X Lion 10.7 and 10.7.4 with P8Z68 Pro/Gen3 nvidia 560Ti
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:05 am
Parts List 
USB Keyboard and Mouse bug
Many times in hackintosh installs over the years, it has been noted that running your keyboard or mouse off of the hard soldered usb ports doesn't work in the install with chameleon, but right off of the usb pin outs does. In the case of OS X Lion 10.7 and the P8Z68 it installs using on board pin out headers. So use your case's front USB connections for the keyboard and mouse, as in the HAF-X 942, the front usb2.0 headers connected to USB1-2 internal works fine for the install. The onboard rear ones did not for some reason while the usb drive with 10.7 installer worked fine on the usb2.0 rear head in conjunction with the key-mouse combo on the front pin out header. Strange.
This is the board
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_ ... V_PROGEN3/
and installation and creation of the OS X Lion installer couldn't be easier.
Backup your working hackintosh OSX system drive
So you noticed that 3x2 grid icon on the F4 key that does nothing on a generic PC keyboard? It is scripted to the "Launchpad" which is the OS X iOS iPhone looking grid of programs. To get a normal PC keyboard to do this, goto:
system preferences > keyboard > keyboard shortcuts > launchpad & dock
checkmark "show launchpad" and left click the text so it is grey for it
press ENTER to change the setting, and then press the F4 key and F4 will show up
then press the left and right arrow keys to dance between all available apps.
pairing to an Apple wireless bluetooth keyboard works right out the box. Pairing seems to work by running the bluetooth software for the motherboard in the windows 7 side and then starting the bt icon to find hardware. Pressing the power button on the keyboard seems to work, but used batteries in a refub made it not, so replace your batteries when pairing! After pairing and typing in the code to identify the keyboard to the motherboard, you can restart and go into OS X Lion mode and then the bluetooth icon should come up at the top near the clock and you can pair it again the same way. It seems to work best by pairing in windows first then os x, or at all. No extra KEXTS were needed, and the batch KEXT for the P8Z67 crashed the entire OSX Lion install so don't add it trying to do that KEXT for bluetooth, it's a pairing issue.
- Asus P8Z68 Pro/Gen3 rev 1.03
Bios update to 3402 2012.05.29 update
Vertex4 256gb SSD vtx4-25sat3-256g x 2
Seagate ST3000DM001 3TB 7200rpm 64mb cache sata 6.0gb/s 3.5" internal drives x 2
apple wireless mc184ii/b bluetooth keyboard
g skill ripjaws x series 16gb 2x8gb ddr3 1600 pc3 ram F3-12800CL10D-16GBXL
Asus 12x blu ray writer BW-12B1ST 8mb cache
MSI Geforce 560Ti 2gb card N560GTX-TI twin frozr Pci-e 3.0 GPU
i7-2600K 3.4 ghz processor
Cooler master Hyper 212 EVO heatsink and fan
Corsair Enthusiast TX850 V2 850W power supply
HAF-X 942 rc-942-kkn1 case
USB Keyboard and Mouse bug
Many times in hackintosh installs over the years, it has been noted that running your keyboard or mouse off of the hard soldered usb ports doesn't work in the install with chameleon, but right off of the usb pin outs does. In the case of OS X Lion 10.7 and the P8Z68 it installs using on board pin out headers. So use your case's front USB connections for the keyboard and mouse, as in the HAF-X 942, the front usb2.0 headers connected to USB1-2 internal works fine for the install. The onboard rear ones did not for some reason while the usb drive with 10.7 installer worked fine on the usb2.0 rear head in conjunction with the key-mouse combo on the front pin out header. Strange.
This is the board
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_ ... V_PROGEN3/
and installation and creation of the OS X Lion installer couldn't be easier.
Backup your working hackintosh OSX system drive
- Make sure your system drive doesn't have user folders full of projects, music, video, pics
Leave all your user files on another drive in the system or externally on usb,fw400,fw800,esata
Get a drive at least the size of the space used and then some
56GB used? Get an 80GB~240GB backup
Connect the drive and use disk utlity to reformat it with 1 partitoon HFS+
Make the drive GUID not MBR and format it with the partition
Download and install Carbon Cloner or preferably SuperDuper
Make your OS X drive the base and your new drive the target
Super Duper will format, copy, and hack the drive to be ready to boot with one more step
Run Multibeast on it and choose the same settings on your OS X install you did when building it
EasyBeast works great, try choosing your SSDT and 12.2 iMac for i7-2600K
Target your new drive and install multibeast on it
Drag the drive into the trash and unplug it if it is external
You now have a completely bootable OS X drive you can swap out, start externally, etc
So you noticed that 3x2 grid icon on the F4 key that does nothing on a generic PC keyboard? It is scripted to the "Launchpad" which is the OS X iOS iPhone looking grid of programs. To get a normal PC keyboard to do this, goto:
system preferences > keyboard > keyboard shortcuts > launchpad & dock
checkmark "show launchpad" and left click the text so it is grey for it
press ENTER to change the setting, and then press the F4 key and F4 will show up
then press the left and right arrow keys to dance between all available apps.
pairing to an Apple wireless bluetooth keyboard works right out the box. Pairing seems to work by running the bluetooth software for the motherboard in the windows 7 side and then starting the bt icon to find hardware. Pressing the power button on the keyboard seems to work, but used batteries in a refub made it not, so replace your batteries when pairing! After pairing and typing in the code to identify the keyboard to the motherboard, you can restart and go into OS X Lion mode and then the bluetooth icon should come up at the top near the clock and you can pair it again the same way. It seems to work best by pairing in windows first then os x, or at all. No extra KEXTS were needed, and the batch KEXT for the P8Z67 crashed the entire OSX Lion install so don't add it trying to do that KEXT for bluetooth, it's a pairing issue.