How to Upgrade Snow Leopard to Lion on the P5Q Pro Turbo

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Before following this guide, you must have a working installation of OS X Snow Leopard on your hackintosh. You can either upgrade your existing Snow Leopard installation or do a clean install, but you’ll need Snow Leopard to prepare for the upgrade. What you’ll need: -A working copy of Snow Leopard -A copy of OS [...] Read more »

10.6.5 on P5Q Pro Turbo

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Apple released the 10.6.5 update today. As usual, if you have a vanilla system, go ahead and update but replace SleepEnabler with the 10.6.5 version. Update: If you forgot to replace SleepEnabler before updating and you’re getting a kernel panic, boot into single user mode, type /sbin/mount -uw /, and then type rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/SleepEnabler.kext [...] Read more »

P5Q Pro Turbo Hackintosh BIOS Settings

This isn’t really anything new, I had it up on the wordpress.com blog but for some reason never transferred it over. I’ve been putting off re-posting it but here it is finally. Also, sorry if I don’t get to your comments right away. My blog isn’t sending me e-mails to let me know I have [...] Read more »

P5Q Pro Turbo OS X Sound Driver (VIA VT1708S)

Update: You can download the kext file using the link at the end of the post if you don’t want to follow these instructions. I finally got tired of having to manually change the sound output every time I started the computer, so I spent some time trying out different things and came up with [...] Read more »

How to Install Snow Leopard on an Asus P5Q Pro Turbo [Updated]

Introduction: This is how I got Snow Leopard working on my computer. Just like the other guide, if you somehow break your computer while trying to install OS X, it’s not my fault. Unlike the last one, I’ll post links to the KEXT files because you’ll need specific KEXTS to get some features working completely. [...] Read more »

Video: Snow Leopard on Asus P5Q Pro Turbo

I replaced the P5KPL-AM SE with the P5Q Pro Turbo. I will post a review and a how to for installing OS X. I will get around to the reviews I said I would soon, I’ve just been busy with school and haven’t had much time. Anyways, heres the video: Tweet Read more »