Anyone running a Hackintosh?

[Smiley_lauf]

@Syn: How to do this? I have iATKos Leopard 10.5.6. Help very much appreciated.
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[Synaesthesia]

Well try installing iAtkos, Vanilla kernel will work, obviously try to select X3100 drivers, there were/are all kinds of tricks to get graphics and things working. Basically check Insanelymac.com and stuff...

 

[Flashgear]

Smiley, are you using the graphic card drivers from the disk? If so don't, download them from either the manufacturer site or InsanelyMac only once you finished installing the OS and you're in it.

 

[Smiley_lauf]

I will try again--one really n00b Q: how do I check what hardware I have (website has rudimentary specs)--I did not even know the graphics card was Intel X3100?? Wireless card, ethernet card, etc.

Ok, how many of you are using the hackintosh without any hassles and problems, and as a main OS?? is it worth the trouble?

 

[Shardie]

Hi

Ive been using Hackintosh from Tiger, and as a main OS. YES it is worth the trouble. The best and easiest board are Gigabyte like mine : G31M-ES2C, LAN dont work tho - but I got a 10/100/1000 SMC lan card which works perfect. Running the latest apple software from Final Cut Pro, Logic and Aperture to adobe CS4 master edition. I use it as my main machine and is VERY VERY VERY stable - not a single crash. Watch blueray disks, handles 7GB AVI's no problem and NO VIRUS PROBLEMS.

Why dont I get a real Mac? Because I have a hackintosh and give HACKINTOSH support.

 

[subxero]

Shardie,
That motherboard is one of the easiest and more cost effective boards to use. Your onboard LAN (RTL 8102E chip) works fine with the latest RealtekR1000.kext. Some say it works in 64-bit too, but 64-bit does'nt interest me at the moment so can't tell. I have the same m/board as you and connect fine to our network hub at home. It sees all PCs and the router on the network. Only thing is the PC's cannot connect to me for some reason. But, we have the same issue at work with the real Imacs not being accessable to the PCs either.

OSX is my main operating system of choice too. I only use Windows when absolutely needed or when gaming.

Wonder what the 10.6.3 update has in store for us - all fun and games...

BTW How did you enable onboard sound? I used VoodooHDA only to find that the MIC does'nt work and sound becomes distorted after wake from sleep. The latest VoodooHDA enables MIC and stops the sound distortion problem, but has an audible background noise when the volume is raised to maximum. (kind of like the noise an amp makes when turned up too loud) It's not bad, just not perfect.

I get the latest kexts from here http://www.kexts.com/ The newer kexts are lower down in order.

 

[Synaesthesia]

I will try again--one really n00b Q: how do I check what hardware I have (website has rudimentary specs)--I did not even know the graphics card was Intel X3100?? Wireless card, ethernet card, etc.

Ok, how many of you are using the hackintosh without any hassles and problems, and as a main OS?? is it worth the trouble?

I googled it. I've also been using hackintosh as my primary OS since Tiger - it's been way more stable than Windows, and just a brilliant OS overall. If you have the right hardware for compatibility I totally recommend it.

 

[Peder]

can a person dual boot mac and windows?

 

[Zyzzyva]

The new snow leopard released tailored specifically for the msiwind or similar netbooks has been released. You can read about it here: http://www.insanelywind.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1801&start=0

Everything should work out the box.

http://dalton63841.webs.com/index.htm

 

[Zyzzyva]

can a person dual boot mac and windows?

yes you can

 

[LFX]

Hi

Ive been using Hackintosh from Tiger, and as a main OS. YES it is worth the trouble. The best and easiest board are Gigabyte like mine : G31M-ES2C, LAN dont work tho - but I got a 10/100/1000 SMC lan card which works perfect. Running the latest apple software from Final Cut Pro, Logic and Aperture to adobe CS4 master edition. I use it as my main machine and is VERY VERY VERY stable - not a single crash. Watch blueray disks, handles 7GB AVI's no problem and NO VIRUS PROBLEMS.

Why dont I get a real Mac? Because I have a hackintosh and give HACKINTOSH support.

as far as logic is concerned, would you then need a pci firewire adaptor card for this mobo in order to use a fw audio interface . . . or usb etc... my current card is pci and I doubt that it would work... also looking to build a toshy with either this mobo or the ep45-ud3 in 1 of the L/P/R variants. those also have excellent support. in the meanwhile I'm gonna get a spare hdd and toy around with my asus m2f mobo, I've read a guide but it just seems way too trivial.

 

[Synaesthesia]

Ya I doubt your PCI card will work. Firewire or USB will work yes. There are some PCI Firewire interfaces which work as well.

Another option for more power is an Asus P7P55D motherboard + Core i5 750 or Core i7

 

[Brenton]

Anybody in Cape Town have a copy of iATKOS v7 10.5.7? The 3+ Gigs download will kill my cap for the month.

 

[Shardie]

Shardie,
That motherboard is one of the easiest and more cost effective boards to use. Your onboard LAN (RTL 8102E chip) works fine with the latest RealtekR1000.kext. Some say it works in 64-bit too, but 64-bit does'nt interest me at the moment so can't tell. I have the same m/board as you and connect fine to our network hub at home. It sees all PCs and the router on the network. Only thing is the PC's cannot connect to me for some reason. But, we have the same issue at work with the real Imacs not being accessable to the PCs either.

OSX is my main operating system of choice too. I only use Windows when absolutely needed or when gaming.

Wonder what the 10.6.3 update has in store for us - all fun and games...

BTW How did you enable onboard sound? I used VoodooHDA only to find that the MIC does'nt work and sound becomes distorted after wake from sleep. The latest VoodooHDA enables MIC and stops the sound distortion problem, but has an audible background noise when the volume is raised to maximum. (kind of like the noise an amp makes when turned up too loud) It's not bad, just not perfect.

I get the latest kexts from here http://www.kexts.com/ The newer kexts are lower down in order.

Hi sorry for taking so ling to reply. My board doesnt have the Realtek LAN onboard- different revision from yours. I used the Realtek 833 kext and make your you hace dsdt.aml in the root of OSX - thats how I got my sound to work.

 

[Shardie]

can a person dual boot mac and windows?

Yes you can dual boot on one harddrive BUT i never install OSX and Windows on the same drive - i feel its just safer. I normally install OSX on one drive and Win on another and then use F12 or a bootloader to choose the OS to go into. Just really afraid of windows destroying my OSX partitions. Alos drives are quite cheap these days.