Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[KeypoX]

I'm running the latest stable version which is F9, I'm sure the DSDT was created based on F9 so might not be a bad idea to update and see what happens.

Just to confirm on the ds3l? You never have programs crashing, giving that damn beachball of death? On this fresh install, fresh HD, everything went great till Textedit crashed, then installer upon next restart, installer keeps crashing. Finally everything running great, got my espn 360 going, some youtube, some webpages, varies apps, then first KP. Actually every boot i have had a lock up. Just the one KP though.

Im gonna try but just curious about your stability?

 

[mosslack]

Sorry, I was speaking about my UD3P. I'm not sure what my DS3L is running, and I have not tried Kaido's package for Snow Leopard on it as of yet. I will check when I do though.

Edit: Yep, my DS3L is at F9 also. IIRC I was having problems with the later 10.5 Kaido installs is the reason I upgraded to the later BIOS. The same applies as I'm sure the DSDT was based on a later BIOS. HTH

 

[KeypoX]

ok, did you notice the new fine tune multiplier setting? In the new bios? It said it set mine up by 0.5 but cpuz says it didnt. I was so excited about that.

 

[mosslack]

Can't say that I did. I never mess with any of the OC stuff, just leave it where it is by default. Only reason I updated was to be current with the install and I believe it did fix whatever problem I was having at the time.

 

[KeypoX]

Man you hae to many computers. I was like that in high school lol. Anyways i updated bios, in snow so far so good i hope for no more crashes.

I have same processor as you o nyour <2>

 

[Jack Flash]

Typing this on my HP Mini 311 with 10.5 installed. Stella's the man for sure. I see he says that 10.6.2 will mean no more Atom support. That will limit me a bit on this and other systems I have, but I will just stay where I am before I go over to the dark side. Looking forward to the new stuff when you get it ready.

How are you liking that Mini? I'm really thinking about picking one up. My Mini 10v didn't have the screen real estate I needed and my Quad Core desktop really is vastly overpowered for what I do, so this ION netbook seems a nice fit, especially with the 3GB DDR3 Potential.

 

[mosslack]

That's what I have in mine, picked up the extra 2 Gb at NewEgg. The specs are great on this little wonder, but the ones leading the charge to hackintosh it have hit some snags. PC EFI's graphics detection picks up the video just fine with 1366x768 res and QE enabled. Stock wifi card is a no go in Snow which is weird as it works great in 10.5. Workaround is to install Dell card in full sized PCIe slot with a taped pin 20 and antenna cable extensions which I don't care for. Sound is the biggest problem, VoodooHDA produces sound, but with lots of static. HTH

 

[KeypoX]

well with new bios F9, no crashes or anything so far. But im ready to play some games so i need to reboot .

Sound still poping on first sound after a short period of time.

 

[KeypoX]

finally had a KP... dunno if its because i changed somethingin the smbios.plist to fix sound or not. Changed back and will see. I dont want ot make another dsdt but i prob should...

edit:
wow crashed quick again after reboot. Gotta make the new dsdt now i guess...

 

[Kaido]

http://j.mp/8GpQn

 

[mosslack]

Stella's on a roll! Can't believe he released a package for the GCMX-S2! My original Hack shall be updated...

 

[suklee]

http://j.mp/8GpQn

Which board is this?

 

[mosslack]

I believe it's his UD3P using Stell's installer, but I could be wrong.

 

[mosslack]

No joy in 10.6.2 territory for me and my UD3P. I did manage to get it to boot a few times under 10.6.2 using Stella's installer, but since copying the installer to the HD it no longer boots. I can set it to PEG or PEG2 and still get the You need to restart message. During the times it did successfully boot, I noticed that 2 graphics cards are detected, a 7300 and an 8400 and one is listed as slot 1 and the other slot 2. But the memory of the one listed as an 8400 is way off. Also both cards in this system are 8400 GS with 256 Mb of RAM. So it looks like some progress has been made on the dual video card front, but it's still not quite right. At least this 10.6.1 install on the same HD still boots okay.

 

[DougoMan]

My computer suffered a cataclysmic failure last night. This morning I could not get it to boot at all. I think the hard drive might have died, or else I don't know what the hell happened.

I'm going to see if I can read the hard drive at all later. If it was not the hard drive then I don't know what could have happened. I wonder if I accidentally updated to 10.6.2 and screwed it up.

 

[Ka0t1x]

Used the v3 Installer, then applied the combo updated, works great, seems performance has picked up a bit as well. Still no secondary graphics card support just yet, Im thinking about trying out an injector, unless there's a way to pull the gfx string and modify it for Peg & Peg2 like I did with Leo?

Also, in using the onboard Ethernet, it doesn't auto-detect the link speed (setting it manually works, but I'd rather avoid this). Is there any way to fix this? I usually just hook up my MBP directly to my hack to transfer files and to run a weekly Time Machine.

 

[Kaido]

which board is this?

ud3p

 

[Kaido]

No joy in 10.6.2 territory for me and my UD3P. I did manage to get it to boot a few times under 10.6.2 using Stella's installer, but since copying the installer to the HD it no longer boots. I can set it to PEG or PEG2 and still get the You need to restart message. During the times it did successfully boot, I noticed that 2 graphics cards are detected, a 7300 and an 8400 and one is listed as slot 1 and the other slot 2. But the memory of the one listed as an 8400 is way off. Also both cards in this system are 8400 GS with 256 Mb of RAM. So it looks like some progress has been made on the dual video card front, but it's still not quite right. At least this 10.6.1 install on the same HD still boots okay.

Yeah, dual video cards is still kind of a black art in Hackintoshland. Heck, video cards in general are - I wish the developers would release a real support list so we could pick & choose which cards to get, but there's not really a master list of what's really compatible anywhere to be found

 

[Kaido]

My computer suffered a cataclysmic failure last night. This morning I could not get it to boot at all. I think the hard drive might have died, or else I don't know what the happened.

I'm going to see if I can read the hard drive at all later. If it was not the hard drive then I don't know what could have happened. I wonder if I accidentally updated to 10.6.2 and screwed it up.

Rule #1 of Hacks: Always keep a backup (because life happens)

Do you have another machine you can plug the drive into & test it? What happens when you boot the drive? If it as the .2 update that killed it, it should at least boot up & Kernel Panic while loading. If it just hangs after BIOS, without any bootloader info, then the drive is probably deadsies.

 

[Kaido]

Used the v3 Installer, then applied the combo updated, works great, seems performance has picked up a bit as well. Still no secondary graphics card support just yet, Im thinking about trying out an injector, unless there's a way to pull the gfx string and modify it for Peg & Peg2 like I did with Leo?

Also, in using the onboard Ethernet, it doesn't auto-detect the link speed (setting it manually works, but I'd rather avoid this). Is there any way to fix this? I usually just hook up my MBP directly to my hack to transfer files and to run a weekly Time Machine.

Manual seems to be the only way to get it to go Gigabit. Personally I just use a $7.99 PCI Ethernet card (Encore 1320 from Newegg) because it doesn't require a driver. I'm sure along the way, someone will update the SL R1000 kext, but until then, yeah, it's manual-only.

 

[mosslack]

Used the v3 Installer, then applied the combo updated, works great, seems performance has picked up a bit as well. Still no secondary graphics card support just yet, Im thinking about trying out an injector, unless there's a way to pull the gfx string and modify it for Peg & Peg2 like I did with Leo?

Also, in using the onboard Ethernet, it doesn't auto-detect the link speed (setting it manually works, but I'd rather avoid this). Is there any way to fix this? I usually just hook up my MBP directly to my hack to transfer files and to run a weekly Time Machine.

Did you notice thought that now it at least says one is in slot 1 and the other is in slot 2? That is a positive step I think. RAM is still way off on the second card though, not sure if this is the problem for sure or not. Wish it worked, funny seeing my 3rd monitor dark all the time.

 

[Ka0t1x]

Actually I can't get the machine to boot AT ALL with two cards in, I have to have a single only.

 

[mosslack]

I got it to boot a couple of times, long enough to check system profiler to see what it said. Now it no longer boots into 10.6.2, but this 10.6.1 install on the same HD works just fine with BIOS set to PEG.

 

[Ka0t1x]

Thanks, I might give that a try, as I think I'm just going to image my 10.5 install to a storage drive and install 10.6 on my Black drive, once I get my MBP back from Apple Care.

 

[mosslack]

Thanks, I might give that a try, as I think I'm just going to image my 10.5 install to a storage drive and install 10.6 on my Black drive, once I get my MBP back from Apple Care.

Always nice to have a backup plan!