The Hackintosh 101 Thread

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: K6IIIFan
Zaap,

Have you been able to get sound-in working on your ga-g31m-s2l?

I believe line-in works, but not Mic in.

If you need Mic in, a good solution is a cheap USB audio adapter, IE: $8 Syba USB:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16812186035

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Zaap

Originally posted by: K6IIIFan
Zaap,

Have you been able to get sound-in working on your ga-g31m-s2l?

I believe line-in works, but not Mic in.

If you need Mic in, a good solution is a cheap USB audio adapter, IE: $8 Syba USB:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16812186035

Does that respond to keyboard volume up/down commands?

 

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Does that respond to keyboard volume up/down commands?

The Syba USB adapter? Absolutely. Keyboard volume commands work fine. It shows up in the Sound panel as C-Media USB Audio Device. The sound output isn't half bad either.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Zaap

Originally posted by: Kaido
Does that respond to keyboard volume up/down commands?

The Syba USB adapter? Absolutely. Keyboard volume commands work fine. It shows up in the Sound panel as C-Media USB Audio Device. The sound output isn't half bad either.

That's awesome, thanks for the info! Passed it along in the Bad Axe 2 thread (onboard sound is limited to stereo output, minus the Mute feature lol).

I've got the Gigabyte DS3L installation down to a science. Takes roughly 20-25 minutes from a bare drive to a fully-working 10.5.4 installation with the latest updates and all drivers. I use a USB stick now, cuts installation time down to 10-15 minutes, plus you don't have to wait for the DVD to boot up (it takes less than 60 seconds on the USB stick). Everything works great, just slapped together another one last night with good success :thumbsup:

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Before I take the plunge, can anyone here quickly tell me if there are any red flags in my hardware?

CPU: Opteron 165 (dual 1.8 GHz)
Mobo: DFI Lanparty Ultra-D
RAM: 1 GB Mushkin Redline
Video: EVGA 7900 GS
Sound: SB Live! 5.1
Drives: 74 GB Raptor and a 320 GB WD SATA
Optical: 16x DVD+R Plextor PATA

From my own investigations it seems my mobo and video card are well supported and those are the major hurdles, but I can't find info on the cpu. It's SSE2 but not SSE3.

Upon further investigation I came across this:

If you have a newer Athlon64("Venice" or "San Diego")/Athlon64-X2("Manchester", "Toledo", or "Windsor") (check for pni in cat /proc/cpuinfo) you can also add -msse3 to your CFLAGS to enable SSE3 support. Any chip using the 90nm process except for the "Winchester" class Athlon64 supports SSE3.

So apparently the Opty 165 is SSE3 capable. I thought I remembered that, but on my old ubuntu install cat /proc/cpuinfo only said sse and sse2. Apparently pni means sse3

 

[mshan]

Would a tv tuner card that doesn't have OS X drivers (VBox DTA150) prevent successful Hackintosh install, other than giving some error message about an unidentified component?

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: mshan
Would a tv tuner card that doesn't have OS X drivers (VBox DTA150) prevent successful Hackintosh install, other than giving some error message about an unidentified component?

It shouldn't... I have a pcHDTV 5500 linux HDTV card in my hackintosh. It's as though it isn't even there.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: mshan
Would a tv tuner card that doesn't have OS X drivers (VBox DTA150) prevent successful Hackintosh install, other than giving some error message about an unidentified component?

It shouldn't... I have a pcHDTV 5500 linux HDTV card in my hackintosh. It's as though it isn't even there.

Yeah I have a couple Hauppauge 1600 cards in my HTPC Hackintosh and it doesn't even see them.

 

[fyleow]

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[Joony]

Are there any decent micro ATX motherboards with full compatibility?

 

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: Joony
Are there any decent micro ATX motherboards with full compatibility?

Sure.
My faves I've built with are:

4GB DDR2 800 max:

Intel DG31PR
Fully compatible- just the on board VGA doesn't support QE/CI, so use a supported PCIe card. Tricky wolfdale only after BIOS update using a 65nm processor.

Also:

GIGABYTE GA-G31M-S2L

Also fully compatible- same deal with the on board VGA. Wolfdale OOB.


8GB DDR2 1066 max:

ASUS P5K-VM

Same deal with the video, but this board has faster/more RAM support, onboard Firewire, Wolfdale.

There are other good boards, but these are the ones I can vouch for having built with them.

 

[mshan]

I need a PCI firewire card to use my Apogee Duet with an Intel BoxDG31PR.

There are two Syba firewire cards at Newegg, one with the NEC chipset, the other with a VIA chipset.

Is one better than the other, and more importantly, more Leopard compatible?

 

[Zaap]

mshan,
I've used the following Firewire cards with Leopard, no problems:

Syba 4 Port (Lucent) $12

Syba 4-port SD-PCI-4F $10

Link Depot AGERE 4-port (Lucent) $10

 

[ColdFusion718]

Does the chain0 method still work?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
Does the chain0 method still work?

For dual booting? Yeah.

 

[ColdFusion718]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
Does the chain0 method still work?

For dual booting? Yeah.

Cool thanks! I have almost all the parts for my hackintosh. I just need to get the Q6600 CPU and a case. So far, I bought the GA-P35-DS3L Rev 2.0, 8GB of ram, and the 8800GTS 320MB video card.

I'm thinking of trying the boot-132 install method as outlined here.

Have you tried doing the boot-132 install method (on another drive)?

 

[silverpig]

So I have a bit of an issue here, and I think it's one of my last ones.

System:
AMD Opteron 165 (SSE3)
1 GB RAM
DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D
GeForce 7900GS

Running 10.5.4 with the 9.4.0 modbin kernel

Pretty much everything runs great. Drivers work, CI/QE work. I do have random app crashes from time to time though.

Quicktime crashes instantly when I load a file to play. Quicktime will sit there happily by itself with no file loaded, but once I open something it crashes. This can be fixed by running it in Rosetta mode, but then it's really slow (way too slow for hd video).

Firefox runs perfectly for about 2 hours, then crashes 3 or 4 times in 2 minutes, then runs great for 2 hours.

Transmission crashes about once per day.

The crash logs for these events say that thread 0 crashed, and thread 0's first listing is libSystem.B.dylib.

 

[Zaap]

Did you have these issues before updating to the 9.4.0 modbin kernel?

I'm guessing your issues stem largely from a system that's just so far off-spec it's a wonder it works at all. (AMD processor, nVidia chipset). Both of those are probably asking for trouble. That said, I do have an AMD system on a Gigabyte nVidia SLI board (3 strikes against Mac-compatibility) myself running 10.5.3 pretty much flawlessly. I used Leo4Allv2 and checked the "AMD System fix" on install, and upgraded to 10.5.3 using an updater compiled for AMD.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Did you have these issues before updating to the 9.4.0 modbin kernel?

I'm guessing your issues stem largely from a system that's just so far off-spec it's a wonder it works at all. (AMD processor, nVidia chipset). Both of those are probably asking for trouble. That said, I do have an AMD system on a Gigabyte nVidia SLI board (3 strikes against Mac-compatibility) myself running 10.5.3 pretty much flawlessly. I used Leo4Allv2 and checked the "AMD System fix" on install, and upgraded to 10.5.3 using an updater compiled for AMD.

Yeah I did. I'm managing okay for now though as I've switched over to safari with no problems. Transmission still goes down once a day but it's not a huge deal. The quicktime issues are still around but I can manage without.

I'll eventually get a mac mini for my htpc and serve all my media up over the LAN through this machine so this one won't be doing much in terms of media playing anyways.

 

[between]

 

[Zaap]

Nope, not at all. :roll:

 

[Ka0t1x]

well I've tried to trade my laptop for a MacBook... and then I gave up.

Soo I decied to hack a Leo install...

Dell Inspiron 9400 1.73 CD/2GB 533mhz/7900GS/WUXGA(19x12)

Leo4allv3
NVinjectorGO (after leopard graphic fix) CI/QE and 1920x1200 res
AppleHDAPatcher w/ Linux codec gives working sound

The only thing that doesn't work is that I can't get Wifi over the Intel 3945ABG (horrible driver support)


Can anyone suggest a better wifi (good driver support or native) and hopefully internal (Mini-PCIe)


Want screens? Ask

 

[Tyranicus]

http://www.ifixit.com/MacBook-...Extreme-Card/IF185-038

Go with the real deal and you can't go wrong.

 

[Ka0t1x]

Actually, the Dell 1390,1490 and draft n cards are picked up as 3rd-party Airport-Extremes.. Anyone have one they want to dump on me cheap?

 

[silverpig]

Okay so after using it for a while I decided to change some things due to some issues I was having.

I was running an Opteron 165, DFI Lanparty NF4-UltraD, and 7900GS on 10.5.4 with the 9.4.0 modbin kernel. All of my hardware worked pretty much. I had the following issues:

1. Random app crashes. Transmission, adium, and my web browsers (firefox, camino, and safari) would crash every 3 hours or so. I managed to get decent stability out of firefox by running it through rosetta, but still.

2. Weird sound issues. I know my onboard sound is hardly supported, but I used the ALC850 drivers and got sound. However, the sound would come out of random connectors on the back. Sometimes I'd get sound out of the front channel analog out, sometimes it'd come out of the rear channel...

3. Mouse jumps. The mouse works beautifully for about 2 hours. Then it starts jumping around all funny. It happens every time. I've tried other mouse drivers and no dice. A reboot fixes the issue.

4. I hosed it. I'm doing some iPhone development and had the sdk for iPhone OS 2.0. I upgraded to the newest sdk and I guess it installs something that kills the hackintosh. It made it almost all the way through the install, then it froze. I could not get back into the OS. I'm having trouble re-installing the OS from the same DVD so I'm just gonna give up on this hardware.

I'm not too sad as having a system I had to reboot every 2 hours to have work properly wasn't much fun anyways.

So I went out and got a Q6600, 2x2 GB DDR2 and a Gigabyte EP45-DS3L. I'll report on my success with this hardware as soon as I can get the system to POST


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