Anyone running a Hackintosh?

[Shardie]

Hi all

Is anyone running a Hackintosh here?

My specs:
Intel 2.8 Core 2 Duo
Inno 3D 9800GT 1GB VGA
Gigabyte EG31M-S2 Motherboard
2X 500GB Seagate SATA Drives
4GB Kingston Ram
Snow Leopard 10.6.1 - 64bit mode

Geekbench benchmark score : 4630

New Hackintosh (2010)
Intel 3.06 Core 2 Duo
Inno 3D 9800GT 1GB VGA
Gigabyte GA-G331M-ES2C Motherboard
1.5TB Seagate
4GB KingMax DDR2 800
Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2

 

[ponder]

Tried it before and it works 100% fine. Will try Snow Leopard next but OSX does not do much for me.

 

[Nuro]

Had it running on my laptop, but there are no working drivers for my wireless card, which pretty much killed OSX for me. Everything else was working 100%.

 

[Synaesthesia]

Yes, I've had several over the last 2 years. Running one as my main rig.

@ Nuro, you can replace the wireless card in your laptop with a compatible version if you really want.

 

[Shardie]

Had it running on my laptop, but there are no working drivers for my wireless card, which pretty much killed OSX for me. Everything else was working 100%.

Or you could try making your own driver using EFI built in.

 

[WiT8litZ]

I tried it last week. Failed at the installer, due to no dvd rom activity. It seems that I would need a dvdrom with s-ata interface to get further than now. I tried the boot132 loader and installing from original leopard discs. Otherwise, I might try to get a iDeneb or similar to try again, but would like to run vanilla kernel.

 

[Nuro]

Yes, I've had several over the last 2 years. Running one as my main rig.

@ Nuro, you can replace the wireless card in your laptop with a compatible version if you really want.

Tell me more? I have an Intel 4965AG wireless card, and while drivers exist, they don't really work. I spotted the wireless card in my laptop when I upgraded my ram. It does not look too hectic to replace.

 

[chris2.0]

I've got a few WLAn internal cards from laptops I've bought for scrap - lemme know waht you want then I can see if I have it?

I've got SL on 1x Macbook pro & 1x Macbook at home, tried it on a HP lappie, but no go...

Get SL Family pack - 5 licenses for R530...

 

[Synaesthesia]

Broadcom chipset wireless cards work well basically. Not Intel. There aren't any drivers for Intel wireless cards. Some other chipsets also work, but broadcom is the easiest.

@ Chris, if you have a broadcom card mini PCI-E I would like to buy one!

@WiT8litZ, I recommend using like iDeneb or something as a starting point. Then install Snow Leopard via USB or seperate partition rather than DVD - it works better.

 

[Shardie]

I made my own boot cd and installed from Retail SL DVD. Rebooted with boot cd and installed Chameleon 2 v3. Not using dsdt.aml. Only using facesmc and a few other 64bit kexts like CPUManagement etc etc.

 

[Shardie]

Anyone running a i7 hackintosh? Im finding really difficult installing on an Intel mobo with an i7 chip.

 

[fighthall]

Anyone running a i7 hackintosh? Im finding really difficult installing on an Intel mobo with an i7 chip.

I am
I used the iAtkos 7 disc, vanilla kernel...

My specs:
X58 MSI Pro-e
i7 920
4870 XFX 1gb
9GB DDR3
Separate HDD for osx

Whats the problem?
Best solution is to load the disc with the cpus=1 busratio=20


oh and wireless the best thing to do is buy an atheros based card.

funny thing is osx scored better in geekbench than windows 7 did... by about 600 points....

 

[Pooky]

I am on my MSI Wind.

Tried on my desktop, could get everything working except the graphics properly... No QE and CI.

 

[Synaesthesia]

The vanilla kernel doesn't work well with Core i7, except in Snow Leopard. Use the Voodoo kernel or some other hacked kernel instead.

Ya, OS X only works with certain graphics cards, but the list is ever-growing!

I'm now running Snow Leopard on all my hacks, except my Pentium 4, but I'm trying to get Snow on that as well!

 

[WiT8litZ]

Snow Leopard vanilla also here. Working sweet as a button

 

[TheBossMan]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL howz it finding you guys also trying it on here..
I am also currently trying this with a retail disc, just for fun and out of boredom
I am still failing before the installer comes up

I am making small steps at getting there.
I am currently sitting with a error about " IOATABlockStorageDevice not compatable with its superclass"
Will get there eventualy

As I said this is just for fun and to see if I can get it working on my PC.
I am happy with Windows 7 and not planning on buying a Mac anytime soon or till all my games are designed for mac

For those interested I found this site to be very helpful with Hackint0sh problems:
http://www.insanelymac.com/
Go to forum and register there.

 

[subxero]

Actually, it's really easy. For Leopard, I used the boot 132 method and had to physically install kexts for lan and audio. Graphics on Geforce 9600 gt using efi strings.

Snow Leopard is a little trickier. You have to compile a DSDT.aml in Leopard. DSDT is so important as Apple now use this as a standard to get your hardware info for SL (Same as BIOS). Without it you will get kernel panics pre-installl; or during install.
I used the Boot-think method on usb. All you have to do is copy DSDT.aml and com.apple.Boot.plist from Leopard to the usb drive's relevant directory and you can boot and install from the retail DVD. ( you have to enable cd boot install option using the command in the .pdf that comes with boot-think) Only kexts needed are also copied to the Boot-Think relevant directory. This bootloader also gives you the option of booting into XP or 7 if installed on seperate HD's.

Unfortunateley, Insanelymac have way too many install methods that are not correct. The method where you install SL from L is incorrect. It's like installing Windows on one PC to be used on another. The other thing is that they are obsessed with the chameleon method which forces you into 64-bit mode resulting in driver and software failiure. The Boot-think method is standard (vanilla). SL in 32 bit runs 64 bit kexts anyway,

 

[Pooky]

I do not think my graphics card is fully supported. GeForce 7900GTX...

 

[WiT8litZ]

I used this for my vanilla installation

http://osx86.sojugarden.com/downloads/

Most nvidia / ati cards are supported. I used Voodoo HDA for sound, everything else standard. Exept my PATA DVD rom which seems I can't fix with anything, so no optical drive at this stage unless I share a drive over network or something I think.

 

[Reaper84]

Hi Guys

I have the following specs

Intel Q9400 CPU
Intel G31 motherboard
4g RAM
Geforce 9800GT
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs sound card - sure won't work

I am really keen to try getting OSX to work on my pc, will I be able to do it and what is the best method

I also cannot download the iso needed as I have severely limited bandwidth

Please PM me if you can help with another method of getting the iso

Thanks Guys