10.5.7 on Shuttle Hackintosh

[racolvin]

well I sucked it up and did the software update on my Hackintosh and got rewarded with a brick.

The machine still boots into OSX but nothing I've been able to do in the last few hours will get my sound or ethernet working again.

Just FYI folks ....

 

[JSt0rm]

i dont think no sound and no ethernet = brick but I'm sorry for your loss

 

[silverpig]

Definitely not a brick... just re-patch and you should be good to go.

 

[smokozuna]

How exactly do you re-patch?

 

[timswim78]

Overly dramatic title maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricked

 

[racolvin]

Without working ethernet a modern computer isn't much of a useful device, so I called it a brick.


I spent several hours trying to get it running again, using the same kexts that I used before for both audio and ethernet - no dice. It boots into OSX, I can run local programs except for Itunes and no connection to the net at all.

 

[Kaido]

Spend $18 and buy these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16833180026

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

Both are natively-supported by Leopard, plug-and-play, 100% working, no drivers.

 

[racolvin]

No can do .. the 2nd slot in the shuttle chassis is blocked by the cooling unit of the video card.

 

[Zaap]

So reinstall the system and restore it to the point where it did work. 'Brick' is not the term to use, so long as it's possible to do that.

This is a good illustration of why you should have more than one MacOSX partition and install on a Hackintosh- apply system updates to a test install first. 10GB or so of disk space is a small price to pay for the ease of testing things out first.

 

[racolvin]

Sure I could do a full re-install and go back to 10.5.6. Pain in the tail but certainly do-able. As for having a small test partition with a bare OS, that's a very good idea.

But I've decided I enjoyed using OSX well enough that I'll just go out and buy a real one

 

[Ka0t1x]

You learn to love a spare drive and Super Duper! very quickly when dealing with OSX86