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• Motherboard Configuration
• OS Installation
• OS Post-Installation
• Fix: Ethernet Port
• DSDT Installation and Editing
• Fix: USB 2.0 Devices in USB 3.0 Ports
• Fix: Automatic Sleep
• Fix: Orange Hard Drive Icons

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Motherboard Configuration

1. After assembling your components, turn the computer on via the power button on the front. Make sure the switch on the power supply is turned on too. You should see something like this:
   
2. Press F2 to enter the ASRock UEFI Setup Utility
   
3. We will be loading custom ASRock firmware to solve sleep / wake issues, sources from Buckeyes1995. Copy the Z77E.180 file onto a USB thumb drive formatted as FAT32. Plug the thumb drive into a USB 2.0 port.
4. Switch to the Advanced section and choose the Instant Flash option near the bottom:
   
5. You should see a prompt similar to the one below. Choose the Z77E.180 file from the list and press Return to start the flash.
   
6. The custom firmware is loaded:
   
   
7. When the flash is completed, you should see this message:
   
8. Reboot, and press F2 immediately when you see the ASRock logo to enter the UEFI Setup again:
   
9. Switch to the Advanced section and choose the North Bridge Configuration. Choose the Share Memory option and set to 64MB:
   
10. Press the Escape key and arrow over to the Exit option. Save and exit to reboot.

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OS Installation

1. Prepare a boot disk using a USB thumb drive that is 8 GB or larger. I used myHack 3.2 BETA 8. myHack instructions:
   http://myhack.sojugarden.com/guide/
2. Insert USB boot disk into a USB 2.0 port (not USB 3.0!) and startup computer.
3. You should be greeted with the myHack boot screen. Either let the startup option timeout to boot from the USB drive or press any key to choose the myHack USB disk.
   
4. The OS X Mountain Lion installer should launch, prompting you to choose a language:
   
5. The internal SSD needs to be formatted. From the menu bar, choose Utilities > Disk Utility…
   
6. Select the disk and click on the Partition tab. From the Partition Layout: menu, choose 1 Partition. Click on the Options… button below the partition box and select GUID Partition Table:
   
7. Press OK to return to the main Disk Utility window and choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format popup list. Name your drive and press the Apply button. Choose Partition when prompted. When done, your disk should look like this:
   
8. Quit Disk Utility to return to the main installer. Briefly, the rest of the steps:
1. Continue
2. Agree
3. Choose the disk ("Hackintosh SSD" in my example) from the list and press the Install button
9. Installation should take about 15 minutes. myHack will ask you the following:
1. "Do you want to use the generic Extra that comes with myHack or specify your own?"
   Choose "Use Generic One" and press OK.
2. "Do you want to remove ApplePolicyControl.kext?"
   Choose "Yes" to continue.
3. "Do you want to remove AppleTyMCEDriver.kext?
   Choose "Yes" to continue.
4. "Do you want to remove AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext?"
   Choose "Yes" to continue.
10. When complete, the system should restart automatically.
11. Run through the rest of the standard Mountain Lion setup. You may be prompted to select a wireless network to get online immediately if your card is recognized - it is recommended to do this to more easily facilitate the remaining setup steps, especially since your ethernet port is not yet working!
12. When Mountain Lion's setup assistant is complete, you should be brought to the Mac OS X desktop. You may now eject your USB thumb drive.

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OS Post-Installation

1. Select Apple Menu > About This Mac. You should see something similar to this:
   
2. Click on More Info… to double-check your hardware:
   
   You'll notice that things might be a bit off. That's OK, this information will change very soon.
3. Navigate to your main hard drive root location and open the Extra folder. You should see these files, installed by myHack:
   
4. Move the selected files to the RemovedExtensions folder, as they are not needed with our configuration and reboot. You will need to authenticate when you move them.
   
5. Make a quick trip to System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Change the "Allow applications downloaded from:" setting to "Anywhere". If you're making a Hackintosh, you are should know where your applications are coming from and if you can trust them or not without Apple's security settings getting in the way:
   
6. Open MultiBeast 5.3.1 and install these items:
   
• UserDSDT or DSDT-Free Installation:
  UserDSDT or DSDT-Free is a solution for those desktop systems who have a pre-edited DSDT on the desktop with an .aml extension or a motherboard that works without a DSDT. Installs your DSDT if found as DSDT.aml, a org.chameleon.Boot.plist with GraphicsEnabler=Yes, Apple Boot Screen, UseKernelCache=Yes, GenerateCStates=Yes, GeneratePStates=Yes and darkwake=0 kernel flag, MacPro3,1 smbios.plist with a unique serial number, Desktop power management hibernate mode and tonymacx86 black theme in /Extra. Installs FakeSMC.kext in /System/Library/Extensions. Installs Chimera v2.0.1 r2109 so the system will be bootable from the hard drive and ready for sleep with all hardware recognized in System Profiler. Patches /System/Library/Extensions/AppleRTC.kext to prevent CMOS resets. Does not include any Network or Sound drivers.
• Drivers & Bootloaders > Drivers > Audio > Realtek ALC8xx > With DSDT > ALC898:
  Replaces the current AppleHDA.kext in /System/Library/Extensions with a patched 10.8.3 AppleHDA.kext to enable full functionality for the Realtek ALC898 high-definition audio codec. Edits by toleda. Patches /Extra/DSDT.aml to replace layout-id 382 with layout-id 1.
• Drivers & Bootloaders > Drivers > Disk > TRIM Enabler > 10.8.3 TRIM Patch:
  Patches the 10.8.3 version of /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext to enable TRIM on non-Apple SSD drives.
7. Reboot your computer. You will notice that you now have an "Early 2008" Mac Pro instead of an iMac if you check About This Mac. This is due to an updated smbios.plist file in /Extra.

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Fix: Ethernet Port

The onboard Broadcom BCM57781 chip is not natively supported in Mountain Lion.
Kext source: http://www.osx86.net/view/3089-broadcom_netlink_bcm57781.html

1. Launch Kext Wizard and drag the IONetworkingFamily.kext file into the window. Make sure the destination is set to "Extra":
   
2. Click the Install button and authenticate.
3. You should get a message saying "Done / Selected tasks were finished." Quit Kext Wizard and reboot.
4. After reboot, go to System Preferences > Network and click the icon and choose "Ethernet" from the Interface: drop-down list. NOTE: You may have to delete your Wi-Fi interface and add Ethernet first to make things work properly! If the Ethernet interface was successfully added, you should be able to establish a network connection:
   

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DSDT Installation and Editing

A DSDT.aml file bridges the gaps between your hardware and OS X, and is stored in the /Extra folder.
MaciASL can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/maciasl/files/
Creating a DSDT using MaciASL: http://pjalm.info/creating_a_dsdt.php

1. Open MaciASL and go to Preferences from the menu bar.
2. Click on iASL and make sure the ACPI 5.0 complier option is selected:
   
3. Click the Sources button and add the PJALM sources to the Patch Sources list:
   
4. Close and relaunch MaciASL.
5. When MaciASL launches again, your "clean" DSDT should load on the left column. MaciASL will show "System DSDT" in the title to indicate a clean DSDT. Click the purple Patch button in the top toolbar:
   
6. When the patch window drops down, look for Z77E-ITX (your motherboard) in the PJALM ASRock list. Click it to to load the patch:
   
7. Click Apply. The patch will be applied to your DSDT and the two text areas on the right should be cleared.
8. Look for Intel HD4000 (your CPU's built-in graphics) in the PJALM Graphics list. Click it to load the patch:
   
9. Click Apply. The patch will be applied to your DSDT and the two text areas on the right should be cleared. Click Close.
10. Click the Compile button on the top toolbar.
11. Close the window and MaciASL will prompt you to save the changes. For the file format, make sure ACPI Machine Language Binary is selected, and save the file as DSDT.aml and save to somewhere convenient, such as the desktop:
    
12. Move the DSDT.aml file to your /Extra folder. You will have to authenticate. Here is the final destination of the file:
    
13. Reboot your computer.

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Fix: USB 2.0 Devices in USB 3.0 Ports

The Intel Z77 USB ports are supported natively in Mountain Lion, with the following exception: USB 2.0 storage devices do NOT work in USB 3.0 ports. The DSDT file already helped to fix this. The ASMedia ports require two kexts.

1. Launch Kext Wizard and drag the CalDigitUSBxHCI.kext and CalDigitFastIO.kext files into the window. Make sure the destination is set to "Extra":
   
2. Click the Install button and authenticate.
3. You should get a message saying: "Done Selected tasks were finished." Quit Kext Wizard and reboot.

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Fix: Automatic Sleep

Putting your computer to sleep manually should work by now, but if you have your computer set to sleep after a certain amount of time (System Preferences > Energy Saver), it may not fully work. Follow these steps to fix:

1. Copy org.chameleon.Boot.plist to the desktop for easy editing.
2. Open org.chameleon.Boot.plist in TextEdit.
3. Find where it says "darkwake=0" and change it to "darkwake=1":
   
4. Save, copy to the original location in /Extras, reboot and test by setting the sleep time to 1 minute. Keep in mind that Auto Sleep is more finicky than manual sleep, and can take several minutes longer to sleep!

Remember that Auto Sleep will not work if you have a USB storage device that is NOT self powered (ie. it is powered by the USB port only.

If you still have problems with Auto Sleep, open Terminal and type "pmset -g assertions" to see what is hanging you up.

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Fix: Orange Hard Drive Icons

If you prefer to show hard disks on the desktop like me, you may see that they show up as an orange removable drive. This is because the PC-TU200 case features hot-swappable hard drive bays, which is cool, but if you want to avoid accidentally ejecting a drive, you may want to disable hot-swapping for that drive. You can adjust this on a drive by drive basis…

1. Reboot and enter the UEFI setup.
2. Navigate to Advanced > Storage Configuration and select the disk(s) you want to display as internal drives.
3. Change the Hot Plug setting from "Enabled" to "Disabled".
4. Escape, save and exit, and boot up the computer.

NOTE: Make sure to disable the Hot Plug feature for your optical drive. Otherwise, DVD Player will give you an error message and not launch with the following error:

There was an initialization error. A valid DVD drive could not be found. [-70012]