Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: mosslack
Took the plunge and updated my GA-945GCMX-S2 Hack to 10.5.6 after doing a complete backup. Went very smoothly, lost sound, but got it back after installing the ALC-888 package. No other issues that I could tell. Still no sign of the firewire fix for the P35, but I will keep on searching...

Read the thread on Insanely about the firewire problem and decided to try removing the DSDT.AML file. Did so and now I have firewire once again. No other issues that I can tell so far, but I'm keeping an eye on it. Just thought you might like to know.

Yeah I've removed DSDT from the package. What a waste of time lol. Although we'll probably need it for the future or something

 

[randomlinh]

wait, was the FW issue tied to just the FW on the chipset, or any FW?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
wait, was the FW issue tied to just the FW on the chipset, or any FW?

My advice, stick with 10.5.5. It's perfect. Snow Leopard is out soon (Q1 2009 according to reports), so I'd just hold off and enjoy the current iteration as-is, rather than upgrading to the somewhat buggy .6 release.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: randomlinh
wait, was the FW issue tied to just the FW on the chipset, or any FW?

My advice, stick with 10.5.5. It's perfect. Snow Leopard is out soon (Q1 2009 according to reports), so I'd just hold off and enjoy the current iteration as-is, rather than upgrading to the somewhat buggy .6 release.

I'm not planning to update it yet, just curious if the issue is tied to FW as a whole or not. I'm REALLY hoping snow leopard doesn't break anything that isn't fixable, heh. I'll be awaiting the 10.6.1 release....

 

[BigBadWolf]

Hi Kaido,

I've been watching this thread for a few weeks and have successfully used the guide with an Asus P5W DH Deluxe board (just needed an additional driver for sound). Great Job!

I am planning to set up a new rig and was wondering if you have any up-to-date recommendations as far as hardware is concerned. The specs in the first post seem a bit outdated. I guess you are going to recommend components in your new guide, but with the recent release of 10.5.6 that might take a bit and I would love to start tinkering over Christmas.

Keep up the good work!

 

[leglez]

BigBadWolf wait till later today and his updated specs should be posted.

 

[Sophie424]

Originally posted by: BigBadWolf
I've been watching this thread for a few weeks and have successfully used the guide with an Asus P5W DH Deluxe board (just needed an additional driver for sound). Great Job!

How did you go about doing this with a different mobo? Steps, if possible

I would love to re-install my flakey Intel Box DG31PR hack so it is more solid like my GA-P35-DS3L. (In fact, I would even replace with a different mAtx mobo if needed! Sadly for me, no mAtx options on Kaidos setup currently

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Sophie424

Originally posted by: BigBadWolf
I've been watching this thread for a few weeks and have successfully used the guide with an Asus P5W DH Deluxe board (just needed an additional driver for sound). Great Job!

How did you go about doing this with a different mobo? Steps, if possible

I would love to re-install my flakey Intel Box DG31PR hack so it is more solid like my GA-P35-DS3L. (In fact, I would even replace with a different mAtx mobo if needed! Sadly for me, no mAtx options on Kaidos setup currently

I'm working on a Developer's Guide that I'll release later this week. Current order = DS3L Guide, MSI Wind plugin, UD3P plugin, Developer's Guide. Busy week

 

[antol111]

Kaido,

Take your time, enjoy the holiday season and release the final package on Christmas I'm sure that would be the best gift some of us will get for Christmas... well at least me.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: antol111
Kaido,

Take your time, enjoy the holiday season and release the final package on Christmas I'm sure that would be the best gift some of us will get for Christmas... well at least me.

DS3L Guide is going out today if it kills me :Q

 

[BigBadWolf]

@ Sophie424

Originally posted by: Sophie424
How did you go about doing this with a different mobo? Steps, if possible

Was surprisingly easy actually.

I used the bios settings from this site:
http://lifehacker.com/348653/i...pc-no-hacking-required

I also found a sound driver for this board (can't exactly remember where but can dig deeper if anyone needs it).

Other than that, I followed Kaido's guide to the letter. I was a bit of a stab in the dark since it was not supposed to work with this board, but it worked nicely.

@ Kaido

Great to hear that. Please include the specs for your reference machines.

Thx

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: BigBadWolf
Great to hear that. Please include the specs for your reference machines.

http://pcwizcomputer.com/weaksauce12/?page_id=2

 

[leglez]

Got an SATA DVD Drive, and 2 1TB hard drives in today. Couple of questions. First is there anything I can turn off in my bios now that I have no IDE devices? With time machine I formatted both 1TB drives and then on the second one chose to use it as a backup drive. Now will it backup everything off my 150GB Raptor and then start backing up whatever is on my 1TB hard drive or what?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Kaido
DS3L Guide is going out today if it kills me :Q

Yeah okay it's not going to kill me, it's just going to take a day longer. Why does everything take so dang long to do! lol.

 

[Sophie424]

Take it easy, Kaido. Don't feel pressure from us, we are all plenty grateful to you as it is !

And hope your exams went well

 

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Not really, just security fixes & some software bugfixes.

I'll be firing up my UD3P this week after I get the 10.5.5 guide out.

Cool, yeah, I'm sticking with 10.5.5. If it ain't broke, don't 'fix' it.

I look forward to see how your UD3P build goes- I'm going to be helping a friend build a UDP3-based Hackintosh over the holidays. Can't wait to get my hands on one of these!

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Sophie424

Originally posted by: BigBadWolf
I've been watching this thread for a few weeks and have successfully used the guide with an Asus P5W DH Deluxe board (just needed an additional driver for sound). Great Job!

How did you go about doing this with a different mobo? Steps, if possible

I would love to re-install my flakey Intel Box DG31PR hack so it is more solid like my GA-P35-DS3L. (In fact, I would even replace with a different mAtx mobo if needed! Sadly for me, no mAtx options on Kaidos setup currently

I have my GA-945GCMX-S2 running nicely on 10.5.6 at the moment, used Kaido's original USB stick method for booting, works great and it's a mATX.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Kaido, any wordz?

Thanks for all your work so far!

 

[leglez]

Qurazy, I got a preview copy of the guide today, I believe the only thing he has left to do is the Video and clean up a few parts of the guide then it should be out. Trust me though its worth the wait

 

[randomlinh]

Yeah, Kaido's guide is insane. It's more than I personally need, but I feel like I can give it to almost anyone on these forums and they can walk away with a hackintosh, haha.

I almost say we make it a wiki so we can have some communitive effort at updating the parts that 10.6 might break, heh

 

[imported_Roel]

Thanks Kaido for the extensive explanation. Not able to get all the parts you mentioned here in Poland. This is how my set is gonna look like. Do you guys think it will work with this, or am I missing something?

Regards and thanks, Roel

Case Asus TA861
Motherboard GA-P35-DS3L
Processor Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 2.5 GHz S-775 BOX
Graph card Zotac GeForce 8600GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E TV/2xDVI
Mem GoodRam DDRII 2GB/800 CL5 / DDRAM2 :: Kingston :: 2048MB 800MHz CL5
DVD Lite-On :: iHAS220 SATA BOX
HD SATA II :: Western Digital - Caviar :: 160GB 7200obr. 8MB

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Roel
Thanks Kaido for the extensive explanation. Not able to get all the parts you mentioned here in Poland. This is how my set is gonna look like. Do you guys think it will work with this, or am I missing something?

Regards and thanks, Roel

Case Asus TA861
Motherboard GA-P35-DS3L
Processor Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 2.5 GHz S-775 BOX
Graph card Zotac GeForce 8600GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E TV/2xDVI
Mem GoodRam DDRII 2GB/800 CL5 / DDRAM2 :: Kingston :: 2048MB 800MHz CL5
DVD Lite-On :: iHAS220 SATA BOX
HD SATA II :: Western Digital - Caviar :: 160GB 7200obr. 8MB

Perfect!

 

[Kaido]

Ahem:

http://www.pcwizcomputer.com/w...ce12/files/DS3Lkit.zip

 

[SpandexAssasin]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Ahem:

http://www.pcwizcomputer.com/w...ce12/files/DS3Lkit.zip

I just wet myself

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: SpandexAssasin

Originally posted by: Kaido
Ahem:

http://www.pcwizcomputer.com/w...ce12/files/DS3Lkit.zip

I just wet myself

I haven't made an official thread on Insanely since the video isn't done (must...slay...the monster), but I figured people can read so why not just put up the package & guide? I'll post back when the whole official thread is posted!