Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[DougoMan]

Originally posted by: renderingrocks

Originally posted by: DougoMan

Originally posted by: renderingrocks
I decided to try the lifehacker guide. Followed the directions on my ud3p's and they work! Both nic's are full duplex. (I took the system to work and was on 2 networks at the same time with no trouble) audio is fine. the only issue was error 35 UUID. I added the 802.11 text to the networkspref file and it stopped that. Snow is fast on the hacks. But I then tried to upgrade an existing system that used kaidos guide. I had a working 10.5.7 with various apps, ran the lifehacker guide, and it all worked as if I tried it on a fresh clean HD. All the files were there, and they still worked! I felt it would work because snow would replace all the system files. Snow didn't have an upgrade or clean install option. Has anyone else tried an upgrade?

Which lifehacker guide? I'm going to upgrade to a UD3P and planned to use this lifehacker guide but it says you need to buy a seperate ethernet adapter.

yes, thats the guide. I left my bios settings the way kaido prescribed and the onboard nics work. The system prefs show 4 built in ethernet ports, i believe en5 and en6 were the 2 I was using. I only used it for a half hour, but both nics definitely worked. Now on the bios FA machine, i used it for 4 days. no crashes, sleep works fine also. The only quirk is when you restart, you need to set the audio output device again in the prefs. btw, firewire worked fine also.

That is good to hear, as I've really had it with my DS3L. Aside from the inability to get firewire to work reliably, no matter how many times I re-install I cannot get sleep and power-down to work well either. It used to work fine I don't know what happened..

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: DougoMan

Originally posted by: renderingrocks

Originally posted by: DougoMan

Originally posted by: renderingrocks
I decided to try the lifehacker guide. Followed the directions on my ud3p's and they work! Both nic's are full duplex. (I took the system to work and was on 2 networks at the same time with no trouble) audio is fine. the only issue was error 35 UUID. I added the 802.11 text to the networkspref file and it stopped that. Snow is fast on the hacks. But I then tried to upgrade an existing system that used kaidos guide. I had a working 10.5.7 with various apps, ran the lifehacker guide, and it all worked as if I tried it on a fresh clean HD. All the files were there, and they still worked! I felt it would work because snow would replace all the system files. Snow didn't have an upgrade or clean install option. Has anyone else tried an upgrade?

Which lifehacker guide? I'm going to upgrade to a UD3P and planned to use this lifehacker guide but it says you need to buy a seperate ethernet adapter.

yes, thats the guide. I left my bios settings the way kaido prescribed and the onboard nics work. The system prefs show 4 built in ethernet ports, i believe en5 and en6 were the 2 I was using. I only used it for a half hour, but both nics definitely worked. Now on the bios FA machine, i used it for 4 days. no crashes, sleep works fine also. The only quirk is when you restart, you need to set the audio output device again in the prefs. btw, firewire worked fine also.

That is good to hear, as I've really had it with my DS3L. Aside from the inability to get firewire to work reliably, no matter how many times I re-install I cannot get sleep and power-down to work well either. It used to work fine I don't know what happened..

Is this SL? Cuz I have a DS3L and FW works flawlessly, and sleep/powerdown do too, in 10.5.8.

 

[DougoMan]

Originally posted by: scootermaster

Originally posted by: DougoMan

Originally posted by: renderingrocks

Originally posted by: DougoMan

Originally posted by: renderingrocks
I decided to try the lifehacker guide. Followed the directions on my ud3p's and they work! Both nic's are full duplex. (I took the system to work and was on 2 networks at the same time with no trouble) audio is fine. the only issue was error 35 UUID. I added the 802.11 text to the networkspref file and it stopped that. Snow is fast on the hacks. But I then tried to upgrade an existing system that used kaidos guide. I had a working 10.5.7 with various apps, ran the lifehacker guide, and it all worked as if I tried it on a fresh clean HD. All the files were there, and they still worked! I felt it would work because snow would replace all the system files. Snow didn't have an upgrade or clean install option. Has anyone else tried an upgrade?

Which lifehacker guide? I'm going to upgrade to a UD3P and planned to use this lifehacker guide but it says you need to buy a seperate ethernet adapter.

yes, thats the guide. I left my bios settings the way kaido prescribed and the onboard nics work. The system prefs show 4 built in ethernet ports, i believe en5 and en6 were the 2 I was using. I only used it for a half hour, but both nics definitely worked. Now on the bios FA machine, i used it for 4 days. no crashes, sleep works fine also. The only quirk is when you restart, you need to set the audio output device again in the prefs. btw, firewire worked fine also.

That is good to hear, as I've really had it with my DS3L. Aside from the inability to get firewire to work reliably, no matter how many times I re-install I cannot get sleep and power-down to work well either. It used to work fine I don't know what happened..

Is this SL? Cuz I have a DS3L and FW works flawlessly, and sleep/powerdown do too, in 10.5.8.

No, it's just Leopard.. Which firewire card are you using? I've tried 3 and the only one that works causes additional sleep problems (for me and the computer!)

Did you need to use sleepenabler.kext or anything else to get sleep to work? And did you do the install with Kaido's DS3L kit?

 

[renderingrocks]

ok, I tried it again. On a system running 10.5.7 with 500GB of data and applications I ran the lifehacker installer. (rig 2) No bios changes from kaidos guide. (excep the boot order) Updated in about 40 minutes. Running fine with 2 exceptions. No bonjour, Machine is in a room with several G4's and the G4's cannot see my public folder. Both nics are working and say full duplex. Also have the error 35 UUID. I tried to install the platform UUId kext but I can't get a kext installer to work. THe UUID can be fixed by modifying the networkprefs.plist. Any simple solution for the bonjour?

 

[mosslack]

Just a quick note to let everyone know where I've been. Blytheville, AR for the arrival of my latest grandchild, a boy, born 1:42 PM yesterday, to my son and his wife. Mom and baby are both home now and doing fine. Out of a total of 8 grandchildren, this is only the 2nd boy so it's kind of a special occasion, especially for my son who has 3 daughters at home. BTW I'm typing this on my OCZ Neutrino, recently updated to 10.6.1 via a Dell mini community developed NetBookBootMaker app. Works perfectly for my Neutrino and I believe everything is working. Will be returning to Indiana on Sunday to resume normal activities. :thumbsup:

 

[Zaap]

Congrats, Mosslack!

 

[renderingrocks]

Congratulations Mosslack! No wonder you need 3 monitors, too hard to decide on which family picture to choose as background. Have a safe trip home.

 

[scootermaster]

Congrats buddy! I think as a celebration, you should probably make a D3SL kit/instructions for SnowLeopard. Especially for people with Miglia Audio and 8600 GTs.

 

[Gymnae]

Congrats from here too
Scootermaster, your scooter quote is gold.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack
Just a quick note to let everyone know where I've been. Blytheville, AR for the arrival of my latest grandchild, a boy, born 1:42 PM yesterday, to my son and his wife. Mom and baby are both home now and doing fine. Out of a total of 8 grandchildren, this is only the 2nd boy so it's kind of a special occasion, especially for my son who has 3 daughters at home. BTW I'm typing this on my OCZ Neutrino, recently updated to 10.6.1 via a Dell mini community developed NetBookBootMaker app. Works perfectly for my Neutrino and I believe everything is working. Will be returning to Indiana on Sunday to resume normal activities. :thumbsup:

Whoohoo, a new Hackintosher in the club Congrats!

 

[Kaido]

Just a quick update, wrapping up mid-term exams this week and still plugging away on the new guides. Putting the wraps on the new 10.5.8 kit (now with DSDT, for more fixes) and will release that before Halloween :thumbsup:

 

[mosslack]

:music: Back home again in Indiana :music: (Just be glad you could not hear me singing that!). Enjoyed the trip, but always sooooo good to be home. No work tomorrow for the USPS, so I have a day to relax before I have to go back to the grindstone. The Neutrino performed flawlessly and I have posted the guide to the OCZ forum: http://tinyurl.com/yzgupkq for anyone interested. Although I have my DS3L and UD3P both working fine under 10.6, I'm anxiously awaiting Kaido's guide for same. My hodgepodge install methods for the DS3L would be almost impossible to duplicate as I did not document anything. However the UD3P seems to run just fine using the lifehacker guide which I used until I stumbled onto the copy of the DS3L install working with my 3 monitors. Though not perfect (can't restart, have to shutdown and reboot), it's working well enough to get by until the master releases his awesome guide. Take it away Kaido... :light:

 

[mohkahn]

Yes..... Take it away Kaido..... before # 11 named Snow Godzilla comes out. ... just kidding as always. Anxiously waiting. But patience shall prevail.

Congratulations Mosslack. In my country they say.... Receiving interest (grand children) is usually sweeter than the principal (children). And I remember both my grand fathers loved me much when they were still around..

And yes.. please take kaido's advise.. make sure this new buddy in your family does become a hacker / cracker and a tinkerer..

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack
:music: Back home again in Indiana :music: (Just be glad you could not hear me singing that!). Enjoyed the trip, but always sooooo good to be home. No work tomorrow for the USPS, so I have a day to relax before I have to go back to the grindstone. The Neutrino performed flawlessly and I have posted the guide to the OCZ forum: http://tinyurl.com/yzgupkq for anyone interested. Although I have my DS3L and UD3P both working fine under 10.6, I'm anxiously awaiting Kaido's guide for same. My hodgepodge install methods for the DS3L would be almost impossible to duplicate as I did not document anything. However the UD3P seems to run just fine using the lifehacker guide which I used until I stumbled onto the copy of the DS3L install working with my 3 monitors. Though not perfect (can't restart, have to shutdown and reboot), it's working well enough to get by until the master releases his awesome guide. Take it away Kaido... :light:

Yeah, that's the trick...making it replicate-able, haha. It's so simple once I finish stuff, but it's so complicated to get it working smoothly on 100% of everyone's machines, lol.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mohkahn
Yes..... Take it away Kaido..... before # 11 named Snow Godzilla comes out. ... just kidding as always. Anxiously waiting. But patience shall prevail.

Congratulations Mosslack. In my country they say.... Receiving interest (grand children) is usually sweeter than the principal (children). And I remember both my grand fathers loved me much when they were still around..

And yes.. please take kaido's advise.. make sure this new buddy in your family does become a hacker / cracker and a tinkerer..

I know, right? Although I'm still not too keen on 10.6

http://www.engadget.com/2009/1...user-files-terrorizin/

 

[mosslack]

It grows on you after you use it awhile. I really like the apps, docs and downloads being in the dock like they are now, very handy indeed. And it is faster, which is always a plus. No doubt some quirks, but nothing so bad that it can't be overcome I'm sure.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack
It grows on you after you use it awhile. I really like the apps, docs and downloads being in the dock like they are now, very handy indeed. And it is faster, which is always a plus. No doubt some quirks, but nothing so bad that it can't be overcome I'm sure.

I've had some quirks & app problems. For me, 10.5.8 is 100% rock solid 24/7, all my apps work, so I'm not upgrading my main drive for a long, looooong time

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Congrats buddy! I think as a celebration, you should probably make a D3SL kit/instructions for SnowLeopard. Especially for people with Miglia Audio and 8600 GTs.

Scooter if you haven't already, read through this thread it has some good info and the guide does work for the P35-DS3L as well.

http://tinyurl.com/yg6x6gr

Warning! It involves making a DSDT file so beware. :evil:

 

[smokozuna]

I've had some quirks & app problems. For me, 10.5.8 is 100% rock solid 24/7, all my apps work, so I'm not upgrading my main drive for a long, looooong time [/quote]

I could not agree more, well said Kaido.

and

Congrats mosslack!

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: mosslack
It grows on you after you use it awhile. I really like the apps, docs and downloads being in the dock like they are now, very handy indeed. And it is faster, which is always a plus. No doubt some quirks, but nothing so bad that it can't be overcome I'm sure.

I've had some quirks & app problems. For me, 10.5.8 is 100% rock solid 24/7, all my apps work, so I'm not upgrading my main drive for a long, looooong time

I think 10.6.1 is 100% stable, but do you recommend anything to test for quirks and problems? (Serious question!)

 

[mosslack]

Uuhmm, did you read this?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/1...user-files-terrorizin/

It's a rather large quirk I would say.

 

[metzler555]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: mosslack
It grows on you after you use it awhile. I really like the apps, docs and downloads being in the dock like they are now, very handy indeed. And it is faster, which is always a plus. No doubt some quirks, but nothing so bad that it can't be overcome I'm sure.

I've had some quirks & app problems. For me, 10.5.8 is 100% rock solid 24/7, all my apps work, so I'm not upgrading my main drive for a long, looooong time

Is there a 10.5.8 package you can point me in the direction to? My 10.5.6 is a little flaky lately with it not falling to sleep and sometimes freezing up. Thanks everyone!

 

[SpandexAssasin]

Originally posted by: metzler555

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: mosslack
It grows on you after you use it awhile. I really like the apps, docs and downloads being in the dock like they are now, very handy indeed. And it is faster, which is always a plus. No doubt some quirks, but nothing so bad that it can't be overcome I'm sure.

I've had some quirks & app problems. For me, 10.5.8 is 100% rock solid 24/7, all my apps work, so I'm not upgrading my main drive for a long, looooong time

Is there a 10.5.8 package you can point me in the direction to? My 10.5.6 is a little flaky lately with it not falling to sleep and sometimes freezing up. Thanks everyone!

I've been looking for a 10.5.8 package for the DS3L and UD3P as well. Anyone?

 

[vailr]

This one works for me:
"iDeneb v1.6 10.5.8 Lite Edition" @ at the bay of pirates.

 

[Kaido]

For those of you with a UD3P, there's a pre-beta kit for Snow Leopard available here:

http://j.mp/2Rkcpg

Preparation Instructions:

1. Format an 8GB USB stick using GUID/Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2. Restore the Snow Leopard image to the USB stick
3. Install the package above to the USB stick

Installation Instructions:

1. Boot the USB stick & install Snow Leopard to your hard drive
2. Boot up to the hard drive and install the package to it (like you did to the USB stick)
3. Eject the USB stick & download all updates

Note: You can use a USB hard drive or a SATA hard drive for the 8GB partition as well, whatever you have handy.

Additional Notes:

This kit features:

* PC-EFI 10.4
* Auto-CPU detection (Silverlight now installs correctly)
* Auto-GPU detection (no EFI Strings or other drivers needed unless you have an oddball video card)
* Ethernet Fix built into bootloader
* DSDT file
* Legacy/DSDT Audio system (doesn't wipe out with updates! plus auto-sense headphones [beta])
* HPET Fix in DSDT (used in conjunction with Disabler.kext)
* CMOS Reset Fix (RTC bug) in DSDT
* USB Fix in DSDT (your USB drives won't eject on wake from sleep anymore)

The only bug is the onboard Ethernet - it doesn't have AFP/Bonjour support. I'll try to have a script to fix that available when the beta is released later this month. I'm also working on a BootCD with DSDT support. Much thanks to Stella for putting all of this together & doing massive work & testing! You can edit the Themes Plist for native boot resolution support; I'll cover this in the guide later on if you don't know how to do that.

Planning for a Halloween launch for the Snow Leopard betas for the UD3P, DS3L, and ES2L, as well as updated 10.5.8 kits for all three boards (with the new DSDT fixes), plus an updated Wiki launch. And yes, Scooter, a new thread Cheers!