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Kaido

Kaido

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Building one tonight - basic DFI setup. 2ghz Allendale + 2gb ram.
 
shortylickens

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Okay?
What the heck is this doing in the Apple forum?

Or did they finally allow people to start building their own from scratch?
 
Kaido

Kaido

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Originally posted by: shortylickens
Okay?
What the heck is this doing in the Apple forum?

Or did they finally allow people to start building their own from scratch?
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It's here because it's Apple-related. Apple did not allow people to start building them from scratch; hackers have come up with patches to let you run it on PC, however. Read this:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=y&keyword1=hackintosh
 
Tyranicus

Tyranicus

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My DFI Hackintosh works great. The Kalyway 10.5.1 release installed without a hitch. The only driver I needed to find was for the onboard sound, and that took all of 5 minutes with Google. :)
 
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@Kaido: welcome to DFI hell! J/K! Did you get your rig finished? You know, its your fault I got into this to start with! :)

At least, thats what I told my wife:)
 
Tyranicus

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@bigmacattack, I have had no problems with my sound or any UUID errors. I did get some permissions errors that Disk Utility couldn't repair for some inexplicable reason, but a reinstall solved that problem. It's been running fine for over a week now with all the updates installed.
 
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@Tyranicus: I see that you are using a Kalyway distro. That may be the issue. I am running a retail copy of Leopard.

Is anyone running a retail copy of Leopard?
 
Kaido

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Originally posted by: bigmacattack
@Tyranicus: I see that you are using a Kalyway distro. That may be the issue. I am running a retail copy of Leopard.

Is anyone running a retail copy of Leopard?
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Care to elaborate?
 
Kaido

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Originally posted by: bigmacattack
@kaido: loaded my unit with a retail copy of leopard using Karaakeha1 and LTL's instructions.
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Got a link? :)
 
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roastin nugs

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havent had a chance to use the Kalyway or retail install steps yet but i got my dfi dk p35-t2rs with 4gb pc8000 e2160 @ 3.0 installs with Leo4All no issues upon reboot no apple logo only a blank screen after darwin loader. thinking of giving up with this approach trying a diff one havent been able to find a solution yet.
 
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bigmacattack

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@roastin nugs: post your sig so that others can see what you have. could be that you have incompatible hardware. too hard to tell without knowing what you have.

BUT DON'T GIVE UP!!
 
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roastin nugs

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leo 10.5.2 installed from leo4all dvd. didnt select any extra drivers when installing. installed video after with nvinstaller v.41 for my 8800GT 512. resolution changes work great soemtimes tho it doesnt save what i had it set to on a reboot. reboot works, shutdown worked at first(case fans shut off) after installing sound/audio it stopped working right.. lan worked after install. havent tested time machine. weird thing on wake from sleep machine sometimes locks up? still playing with other stuff.
 
Tyranicus

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Mine has the lockup on waking issue too, but since I use it as a torrent box and file server, I disabled sleep anyway.
 
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bigmacattack

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the sleep/ wake issue is well documented. The Gigabyte crowd had the same issues. The new Netkas 9.2.0 kernel is supposed to fix it. Haven't had a chance to test it out.

If you do experience UUID errors when trying to use SuperDuper or other issues when trying to use Time Machine, there is a IONetworking fix that corrects the Time Machine and SuperDuper errors.

Michael
 
Kaido

Kaido

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Originally posted by: bigmacattack
the sleep/ wake issue is well documented. The Gigabyte crowd had the same issues. The new Netkas 9.2.0 kernel is supposed to fix it. Haven't had a chance to test it out.

If you do experience UUID errors when trying to use SuperDuper or other issues when trying to use Time Machine, there is a IONetworking fix that corrects the Time Machine and SuperDuper errors.

Michael
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FYI the latest Netkas kernel release breaks S3 sleep, so you have to set it to S1 in your BIOS, which is essentially the same as display sleep - the fans still run etc. So it's pretty useless lol.
 
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bigmacattack

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since my last post, i have reloaded my machine about a million times. Finally got it all figured out. Time Machine, superduper, etc. working great. Reset and shutdown are flaky, but who cares. all updates are on it, MS Office just for kicks...happy as a clam in sand.
 
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roastin nugs

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well im going to try the new kalyway 10.5.2 just for kicks. still doin a bit of readin on how to do a retail install before i do that. kaido, what was your preferred method, or most successful method installing leo on your wifes dfi machine?
 
Tyranicus

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The only annoying thing with the Kalyway install (at least the 10.5.1 image I used) is that all the folder icons are 3rd party icons instead of the system defaults. I had to use Candy Bar to fix it.
 
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