Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

EDIT 2: Found a place that has a X-Fi card fix. VoodooHDA link from here.

Now back to finding a drive solution. Even if I get another 300 VRaptor, I still have no place to put it in my machine without probably doing some customizing - thank god I got a dremmel kit. EDITING for an actual 4th time. Say I do get a new drive. How do I format it for a Mac OS

Partitioning and formatting can be done from the Leopard install DVD. As soon as it boots to the install routine simply choose Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. This is all covered in Kaido's guide, you did download it didn't you?

Do you mean at the beginning of the thread!? I seen some of the d/l kits. My board is a UD3R v1.1 F9 bios. I know they are very similar boards but couldn't something go wrong with it and the UD3P kit?

Also. I have a 300 VRaptor on the way. I'll be figuring out where to mount it in the meantime. In section - X. Preparation, I read That I need a constant USB drive installed on the machine and the Install has to go from an ISO file not straight from the external USB DVD drive I have: that I am familiar with in a Windows installation procedure. Are those two methods the only way or are there others? I don't understand.

so it doesn't get lost i just wanted to quote this... did some editing, thanks sorry

The first line of this thread is the most important one:

This is an OLD OLD OLD thread!

So many things have changed since then that none of the original thread really applies any more and as such you can ignore it and just use the info which applies to your board. In your case I would suggest the UD3P kit as it is very close to your UD3R, but still no guarantee it will work. If you click on the UD3P link it will better explain how to do this. HTH

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mdrace
It seems like their is a passion to develop these drivers for this community. It's just a matter of time for the developers to do their magic. Who knows, you may be re-writing those guides with a 64 bit section as our christmas present. It will be an exciting time when 10.6 is released.

Already have installer & guides ready for Snow, just waiting on the devs & official release

 

[f00b4r]

Want a beta tester for the snow kitty guide? i have ud3p and the d3sl boards

 

[fyleow]

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[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: fyleow

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Looks like I'm down to figuring out what to do about a sound card and a NIC card, i'll figure out the SCSI card later. My onboard NIC went to hell but I've been using Bigfoots Killer NIC and then my sound card isn't compatible (Xtreme Gamer.)

EDIT: Funny, I checked Adaptec first and this is what I found. Looks like for the most part Adaptec SCSI cards made for a PC can NOT work with a Mac

Sound:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16812186035

previous questions now irrelevant.

EDIT 2: Found a place that has a X-Fi card fix. VoodooHDA link from here.

Now back to finding a drive solution. Even if I get another 300 VRaptor, I still have no place to put it in my machine without probably doing some customizing - thank god I got a dremmel kit. EDITING for an actual 4th time. Say I do get a new drive. How do I format it for a Mac OS

So you have the sound card working in OS X now? That's pretty cool, never thought the X-Fi would ever work with OS X. Did you just install the Voodoo HDA kext? Any idea of digital out works?

No. All I have done is bought OS X 10.5.6 & Final Cut Express. I have an extra 1GB Attache flash drive ready & a new HD coming in cause my Adaptec card will not likely be supported for MAC. All I've done is get my Flash drive ready and figured out a spot to put my new 300 V raptor in. I'm actually going to screw in the HD cage right now.

...I found that while researching...

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

Originally posted by: fyleow

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Looks like I'm down to figuring out what to do about a sound card and a NIC card, i'll figure out the SCSI card later. My onboard NIC went to hell but I've been using Bigfoots Killer NIC and then my sound card isn't compatible (Xtreme Gamer.)

EDIT: Funny, I checked Adaptec first and this is what I found. Looks like for the most part Adaptec SCSI cards made for a PC can NOT work with a Mac

Sound:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16812186035

previous questions now irrelevant.

EDIT 2: Found a place that has a X-Fi card fix. VoodooHDA link from here.

Now back to finding a drive solution. Even if I get another 300 VRaptor, I still have no place to put it in my machine without probably doing some customizing - thank god I got a dremmel kit. EDITING for an actual 4th time. Say I do get a new drive. How do I format it for a Mac OS

So you have the sound card working in OS X now? That's pretty cool, never thought the X-Fi would ever work with OS X. Did you just install the Voodoo HDA kext? Any idea of digital out works?

No. All I have done is bought OS X 10.5.6 & Final Cut Express. I have an extra 1GB Attache flash drive ready & a new HD coming in cause my Adaptec card will not likely be supported for MAC. All I've done is get my Flash drive ready and figured out a spot to put my new 300 V raptor in. I'm actually going to screw in the HD cage right now.

...I found that while researching...

If you haven't checked Kaido's Twitter, here is the newly posted thread on Insanely:

http://www.insanelymac.com/for...x.php?showtopic=174663

Be sure to give this a look see before you go too far. HTH

 

[renderingrocks]

Will 10.5.8 require different video card drivers? Look at this advisory from nvidia. http://www.macworld.com/articl...64/2009/07/nvidia.html

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Can we pre-download 10.5.7? I bought 10.5.6 and have an ATI Sapphire 4870 vanilla 512mb card...

EDIT: and what speed does the fan run at in a Hackintosh?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: renderingrocks
Will 10.5.8 require different video card drivers? Look at this advisory from nvidia. http://www.macworld.com/articl...64/2009/07/nvidia.html

Nobody knows what's in 10.5.8 so far, but I can tell you 2 things:

1. Both of the cards mentioned in the article already require special drivers (not the standard Nvidia EFI string we're using now), so updating them for 10.5.8 won't be anything new

2. Snow Leopard works just peachy with existing drivers (Leopard's EFI string method = OK)

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: f00b4r
Want a beta tester for the snow kitty guide? i have ud3p and the d3sl boards

There's still a ways to go, but as soon as the devs patch a few more things up I'll hit you back, thanks!

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Can we pre-download 10.5.7? I bought 10.5.6 and have an ATI Sapphire 4870 vanilla 512mb card...

EDIT: and what speed does the fan run at in a Hackintosh?

Here's the 10.5.7 Combo Update, 729 megs:

http://support.apple.com/downl..._X_10_5_7_Combo_Update

Saves a LOT of time vs. downloading it from Apple Software Update!

Hackintosh doesn't support fan speed controls; just let the motherboard manage it. You can either setup a smartfan for auto-regulation in the BIOS, or you can install some manual rotary knobs for controlling the fan speeds yourself.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslackIf you haven't checked Kaido's Twitter, here is the newly posted thread on Insanely:

http://www.insanelymac.com/for...x.php?showtopic=174663

Be sure to give this a look see before you go too far. HTH

Finalizing the ES2L & DS3L guides this week as well, as soon as those are up, the new 10.5.7 Anandtech thread goes up and we can deep-six this beast of a thread here

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Can we pre-download 10.5.7? I bought 10.5.6 and have an ATI Sapphire 4870 vanilla 512mb card...

EDIT: and what speed does the fan run at in a Hackintosh?

Here's the 10.5.7 Combo Update, 729 megs:

http://support.apple.com/downl..._X_10_5_7_Combo_Update

Saves a LOT of time vs. downloading it from Apple Software Update!

Hackintosh doesn't support fan speed controls; just let the motherboard manage it. You can either setup a smartfan for auto-regulation in the BIOS, or you can install some manual rotary knobs for controlling the fan speeds yourself.

Gratzi!

 

[Shwymie]

Hackintosh virgin here...

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for their suggestions and advice (and especially Kaido for his great guides and tools!). Based on everything I have read from this thread I am now jumping into the waters of HTPC, hackintosh style! I have the following on order and hopefully, once all the parts get here, I will be able to follow the latest and greatest of Kaido's offerings! I'll let you know how everything goes!

Here's my list (with where bought and price; some prices include rebates/discounts). I'm a little bit worried about the video card (ASUS EN8400GS SILENT/HTP/512M), but the GeForce 8400 512 MB does appear on the list that Kaido linked to for the DS3L mtb (http://www.scribd.com/doc/7618558/Video-Cards).

GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L (from mwave; $111 for mtb and cpu combo)
PENTIUM E5200 (from mwave; see above)
ASUS EN8400GS SILENT/HTP/512M GeForce 8400 (from zipzoomfly; $28.99)
SAMSUNG Spinpoint 1TB SATA Hard Drive (zipzoomfly; $73.99)
CORSAIR 4GB PC2-6400 (DDR2-800) Dual Channel (zipzoomfly; $29.99)
Antec New Solution NSK2480 HTPC case with 380W PSU (newegg; $117.45)
LINKSYS USB 2.0 Wireless Adapter with Dual-Band (newegg; $34.99)
Sony Optiarc 24X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW SATA Drive (ewiz; $30.99)

I am thinking of overclocking the E5200 to 300 mhz, but other than that, everything will be as be (I think/hope!).

Thanks again to everyone!

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: mdrace
It seems like their is a passion to develop these drivers for this community. It's just a matter of time for the developers to do their magic. Who knows, you may be re-writing those guides with a 64 bit section as our christmas present. It will be an exciting time when 10.6 is released.

Already have installer & guides ready for Snow, just waiting on the devs & official release

Was the issue with the bios being reset fixed? On the ds3l?

 

[scootermaster]

New thread? HA!

I don't believe it. I think you'll just wait until the one year anniversary of this one.

But seriously...is the 10.5.8/whatever thingee for the DS3L up already?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

So my Adaptec SCSI replacement HDD setup came in today and it is defective. Didn't even plug it in. I took it out of the static bag to check it out before preping and you could actually hear loose parts inside the drive crashing around. Either bad packaging by NE or... don't know....

 

[tbooth]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Need Bluetooth?

http://tinyurl.com/6oxc95

-$2.50 shipped
-Class 1
-Natively supported (shows up in Menubar)
-No drivers needed!

I ordered one of these and my hack doesn't recognize it at all. It works fine in Windows though. Anyone else having a problem with these?

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: tbooth

Originally posted by: Kaido
Need Bluetooth?

http://tinyurl.com/6oxc95

-$2.50 shipped
-Class 1
-Natively supported (shows up in Menubar)
-No drivers needed!

I ordered one of these and my hack doesn't recognize it at all. It works fine in Windows though. Anyone else having a problem with these?

Ooooh! I need/want bluetooth since my hack doesn't really recognize the stick that comes with logitech stuff (although it still works).

The cheapest "supported" dongle I've seen is like $25 from newegg, and it's not worth that much to me. So any word on what's a good BT dongle that works under hack?

 

[fyleow]

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[mosslack]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
So my Adaptec SCSI replacement HDD setup came in today and it is defective. Didn't even plug it in. I took it out of the static bag to check it out before preping and you could actually hear loose parts inside the drive crashing around. Either bad packaging by NE or... don't know....

That sucks, but I've BTDT before also with items ordered from most all suppliers. Having worked for the USPS for 16 years now I can tell you that packages are NOT treated gently at most stages of the shipping process. I mostly have had good experiences with NewEgg though.

:gift:

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
So my Adaptec SCSI replacement HDD setup came in today and it is defective. Didn't even plug it in. I took it out of the static bag to check it out before preping and you could actually hear loose parts inside the drive crashing around. Either bad packaging by NE or... don't know....

That sucks, but I've BTDT before also with items ordered from most all suppliers. Having worked for the USPS for 16 years now I can tell you that packages are NOT treated gently at most stages of the shipping process. I mostly have had good experiences with NewEgg though.

:gift:

Sounded like there were loose marbles inside the drive - haah

Thanks

Cheers

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: fyleow
Use this dongle for bluetooth. It works fine for my Apple wireless keyboard and it was plug and play.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11825

Backordered. Anywhere else to get this one? Any others that'll work?

 

[Jack Flash]

Just wanted to chime in that three months later I am still so happy with my decision to sell off my iMac and build my Hackintosh. Thanks again to Kaido! Without him I'd never had done it.

Now, I wanted to know if there's a natively working 802.11b/g/n WiFi adapter. Don't want to use Ralink's utility, though it does work.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Just wanted to chime in that three months later I am still so happy with my decision to sell off my iMac and build my Hackintosh. Thanks again to Kaido! Without him I'd never had done it.

Now, I wanted to know if there's a natively working 802.11b/g/n WiFi adapter. Don't want to use Ralink's utility, though it does work.

On eBay, there's a PCI card that has a Mini-PCI card (or PCIe?) inside. You can use either a Dell 1505 or Apple Airport card in it. It's plug-and-play for 802.11n.

Glad to hear your system is working out for you