Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[jalaram]

Macpalace7 has upped the prices on the MBs on eBay. Any other place to find them?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: jalaram
Macpalace7 has upped the prices on the MBs on eBay. Any other place to find them?

Get an EP45-UD3P. Much better board.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: chrome01
To mosslack: Yes, i used external USB enclosed to setup my harddriver in my mac, then I take my hard driver out and plug it into my hackintosh computer.
But i got every work okay now, After update to 10.5.5, i did to run the uinstaller again. But when i used "OSx86 Tools Utility by PCWiz Computer " To change "About this Mac". Now every in there is mess up.
IS where anyway to fit that. Thanks

I had the same problem once before but I ended up doing another reinstall anyway so I never did figure out how to fix that. Maybe someone else?

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: jalaram
Macpalace7 has upped the prices on the MBs on eBay. Any other place to find them?

Get an EP45-UD3P. Much better board.

Thanks. Looks excellent, but it seems like overkill for me (2x PCI-E x16 slots, wow). Even an open box one at Newegg is $100. I was hoping for a cheaper option like the EP45-DS3L, but you wiki doesn't specify that one.

I guess when I get more cash, I'll get that one.

 

[mohkahn]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: jalaram
Macpalace7 has upped the prices on the MBs on eBay. Any other place to find them?

Get an EP45-UD3P. Much better board.

Support, Guide, necessary kext are all ready for this board? I am thinking about getting a new board, but only if you are going to support it. If not, then never mind. And i do prefer UD3P to
DS3L, since I can get UD3P more easily locally.

I am also gunning for a better card. Will 9800gt be good in 512 or 1gb version? It also seems to be available in GT, GTX and GTX+ versions (i think) here in Asia. Don't know he difference between the 3 kinds. Anyone knows? Which version and memory is supported for this card?

Snow leopard seems to be out on the tpb's in many varieties.. will we be playing with it anytime soon? has anyone got their hands dirty with it or not yet? : ) good luck..

 

[Kaido]

Try this for your 10.5.6 Nvidia mouse lag:

http://pcwizcomputer.com/weaksauce12/?p=841

 

[leglez]

Thanks that works perfect! For some reason I knew as soon as I setup a trade for a 3870 the fix would be found haha and I am suppose to get my 3870 in today.

 

[Zaap]

Hey Kaido,
How about a new Hackintosh 10.5.6 thread, and retiring this one?

It's hard to point noobs toward this thread and have them start with the latest info, because it's grown so unwieldy. Just a friendly suggestion.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Hey Kaido,
How about a new Hackintosh 10.5.6 thread, and retiring this one?

It's hard to point noobs toward this thread and have them start with the latest info, because it's grown so unwieldy. Just a friendly suggestion.

Yeah I have one in the works, but I've just been super crunched on time. The February thread was supposed to be the December thread :laugh:

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Hey Kaido,
How about a new Hackintosh 10.5.6 thread, and retiring this one?

It's hard to point noobs toward this thread and have them start with the latest info, because it's grown so unwieldy. Just a friendly suggestion.

Amen brother, some people just starting here are still trying to use the USB stick method Kind of difficult to be helpful when you have no idea of what guide/kit they are using. We know you are stretched pretty thin what with the Wiki, blog, Insanely and this forum. My only question is, when do you find time for sleep? We'll keep answering questions best that we can.

 

[mohkahn]

Apology, if my questions made you feel that they had been answered before. I thought they were a bit new and timely. Well. Anyway... to making it easy for newbies not to go down the USB route, it will be helpful to write something like this on the very first page next to:

v1.0 release of the Leopard Soup 2.0 kit and then... (Download this, find the .pdf, guide within it, then read it, understand it and if any of your questions are still unanswered, then come back here and start reading after my very first message as shown below, as the message shown below is not updated):

Or some wording to this effect. That way, newbies will not be confused and won't keep asking the same question and won't go down the USB way and perhaps also won't have to ask same questions that had aleady been answered within the last 72 pages. Just a suggestion. might work for the time being, till the 10.5.6 new thread is ready.

by the way kaido, I have little bad prediction for you. if you keep up with these projects, pretty soon you will start to look like mosslack's avatar... just kidding. keep up the good work and let us know if we should start preparing for snow leopard. I am already dreaming about ep45-ud3p and 9800gtx+... with snow leopard of course.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: mohkahn
Apology, if my questions made you feel that they had been answered before. I thought they were a bit new and timely. Well. Anyway... to making it easy for newbies not to go down the USB route, it will be helpful to write something like this on the very first page next to:

v1.0 release of the Leopard Soup 2.0 kit and then... (Download this, find the .pdf, guide within it, then read it, understand it and if any of your questions are still unanswered, then come back here and start reading after my very first message as shown below, as the message shown below is not updated):

Or some wording to this effect. That way, newbies will not be confused and won't keep asking the same question and won't go down the USB way and perhaps also won't have to ask same questions that had aleady been answered within the last 72 pages. Just a suggestion. might work for the time being, till the 10.5.6 new thread is ready.

by the way kaido, I have little bad prediction for you. if you keep up with these projects, pretty soon you will start to look like mosslack's avatar... just kidding. keep up the good work and let us know if we should start preparing for snow leopard. I am already dreaming about ep45-ud3p and 9800gtx+... with snow leopard of course.

Oh mama mohkahn, I wouldn't wish that on anyone! But you are on the right track with your suggestion. Something at the beginning of the thread which will point noobs down the correct path. Of course the Wiki will go a long way towards that end. I have my UD3P board, but I haven't got the necessary $$$ for the CPU and RAM yet. Darn bills...

 

[mosslack]

@ Zaap: Just curious, what kind of backup software do you use for Vista? I've been playing around with DriveImage XML as it is free. Still haven't managed to get a bootable backup just using the software, but I was able to make it bootable using the repair option on the install DVD. I tried Ghost when it first came out, but haven't used it lately. I think part of the reason I can't get a bootable image is because I switched from GPT to MBR partitioning on the drive I was trying to copy to.

 

[Zaap]

Mosslack, funny you should ask, because late last year I was really searching for a good backup solution for Vista. I've since been using Acronis True Image and I highly recommend it. It's been easy to clone the system + all the apps and settings, and also keep files incrementally backed up to network storage. It has raw image support, so I think it should be able to make a bootable backup of just about anything- I know it worked for me making a bootable Linux install backup. (I have yet to try to backup an OSX install with it just out of curiosity). There's a trail version, so maybe give it a spin.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Mosslack, funny you should ask, because late last year I was really searching for a good backup solution for Vista. I've since been using Acronis True Image and I highly recommend it. It's been easy to clone the system + all the apps and settings, and also keep files incrementally backed up to network storage. It has raw image support, so I think it should be able to make a bootable backup of just about anything- I know it worked for me making a bootable Linux install backup. (I have yet to try to backup an OSX install with it just out of curiosity). There's a trail version, so maybe give it a spin.

Thanks, I will definitely give it a try. DriveImage XML does a good job of copying everything, but I've yet to make a bootable copy just using the software alone. As a heads up, I have used BootIt NG to successfully copy partitions on MBR partitioned drives, it works very well, but I have yet to try it on GPT drives.

 

[Kaido]

Fanless 256mb Zotac 7300GT back in stock at Newegg for $28.99 shipped:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814500025

Get it while it's hot! This card is 1080p-capable (no problem with HD files) and works great with EFI Strings.

 

[Kaido]

Sample $1,000 Hackintosh recipe:

http://pcwizcomputer.com/weaksauce12/?p=853

 

[Braeburn]

Has anyone updated to Security Update 2009-001 yet? Any issues to report?

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Braeburn
Has anyone updated to Security Update 2009-001 yet? Any issues to report?

I installed it on Friday the 13th and no issues here. Of course it does howl at the moon every now and then.

 

[anarquee]

Hi!
finally i got my hackintosh up and running.
Everything is working fine exept for the annoying mouse lag.
I'd like to change my video card, anyone tried the new 9800GTX+ 1GB?
Thanx!

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: anarquee
Hi!
finally i got my hackintosh up and running.
Everything is working fine exept for the annoying mouse lag.
I'd like to change my video card, anyone tried the new 9800GTX+ 1GB?
Thanx!

Have you tried this?

http://pcwizcomputer.com/weaksauce12/?p=841

I believe this is supposed to cure the mouse lag problem. HTH

 

[volcs0]

I have an overclock questions.

My setup is the Q6600 and GA-EP45-UD3P.

I used the Gigabyte utility form within XP to overclock to the lowest setting (above default) of 3.2. Things ran amazingly well for most tasks. But when I would do a heavy-lifting exercise, like compressing a blu-ray for 8 hours, I could get random quits, memory errors, and freezes. This would happen randomly. Sometimes, things would work fine and at others, I'd come back to a frozen machine. The crash log would have some weird memory heap error or the like. Since setting the speed back to default, I've had no issues, so I assume that it was the overclocking....right? Could it be my memory?

Any advice about how to try this again? If I don't use the gigabyte utility, I'm sort of lost with regards to the settings in the BIOS.

Thanks for the recommendations.

 

[dbk]

Macpalace7 is now selling the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L for $95 - figures for a discontinued model.
Might as well go for a ga-ep45-xxxx instead for that price.

I've been looking at g31 motherboards since they're around $50.
Specifically looking at Asus P5KPL-AM and Gigabyte G31M-ES2L to pair with either e5200 or e7400 ($70, $100 @ Microcenter).

 

[timswim78]

When do we get the Feb/March version of this?

 

[TheStu]

Anarquee raises a question that I wouldn't mind seeing an answer to as well. If one upgrades their graphics card, what is the process here? Also, i think I saw that the 9800GTX+ is supported is that true?