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mosslack

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Yes and Yes

It's pretty much like editing the DTSD directly but not really.

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That's the file I converted to Hex form then inserted in to the org.chameleon.Boot.plist

Very similar to your route

Interesting, so basically you are using PCI strings in the boot.plist file. I guess if it works that is all that matters.
 

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I was just trying to determine when I purchased my MSI Wind PC system (December 2008) and went back to page 30 of this thread to find the info. Very interesting to see just how dumb I was back then. Not that I'm the smartest person today, but at least I'm not as ignorant as I was back then! :)
 

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This was a system I started working on right before my accident. I had pretty much abandoned it until a short time ago when UniBeast was released. I decided I would try one more time to get a successful install of some OS X version on this system.

The original problem I had with Snow Leo was that the system would boot, but only using the iBoot legacy CD. Whenever I tried to boot from the hdd, the system would KP and then reboot itself in an endless loop.

After a successful install of Lion using UniBeast, I used MultiBeast to install the non-DSDT option, which installed the necessary files in /Extra as well as installing Chimera 1.60. I used the same hdd which I had been using for all my previous installation attempts. Big surprise, on the reboot attempt from the hdd, the system KPed and started it's reboot loop.

Frustrated I posted my failed attempt on HQ-A and was promptly informed that there is a problem with the H, P67 systems which have to have a clean hdd for a successful boot from the drive. I used another drive I had available, wiped using Gparted in Ubuntu and then used Disk Utility to setup just one partition.

Did the entire re-installation using the method I used previously and this time when I booted from the hdd, the system booted just fine! Updated to 10.7.2, installed network and sound drivers, system works great. I have a Geforce 210 PCIe (512 Mb) card in it, which works great with graphics enabler.

I have since cleaned the original hdd with the same procedure and this time setup 2 partitions using Disk Utility. Repeated the install to the first partition, working fine. Tried install on second partition, back to the reboot loop. Anyone have an idea of what causes this?

EDIT: The problem turned out to be that MultiBeast didn't install enough kexts with the DSDT install. NullCPUPowerManagement.kext was the one causing all the problems, installed that into /S/L/E and now it works fine.

Only thing that remains to fix is the wifi as it doesn't work with the card which came with the system. I have a DW1510 I plan to try first and hopefully that will work.

I do have one odd problem that the mouse is basically dead after booting sometimes, unplugging and plugging back in fixes it, but it's annoying.
 
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alfa147x

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Not sure, what version are you using and what kind of match are you talking about?

10.5.1

A match made in iCloud.
With iTunes Match, even songs you’ve imported from CDs can be stored in iCloud. And you can play them on any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC — whenever you want and wherever you are, without syncing. iTunes Match is just $24.99 a year.2

Here’s how it works: iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to iCloud for you to listen to anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 20 million songs in the iTunes Store, chances are, your music is already in iCloud. And for the few songs that aren’t, iTunes has to upload only what it can’t match. Which is much faster than starting from scratch. Once your music is in iCloud, you can stream and store it to any of your devices. Even better, all the music iTunes matches plays back from iCloud at 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality.
 

alfa147x

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This weekend:
Get my hackintosh up to 10.7.2 try and fix issues with the App Store and iTunes Match
OS X (10.7.1) Intel i7 2600k @ 4.5 GHz Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 | 16 GB RAM | Dual MSI N460GTX HAWK | 3x Dell u2412m

Hackintosh a friends machine:
ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo, Q6600, dual 6870's

I have very little experience with dual cards much less dual ATI. I would hate to have to make him remove a card just to boot into OS X.

The goal is to get at least one card working while having both installed.
 

alfa147x

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I can't speak about the 7000 series cards, obviously, but I am currently running a 6850 and 6870 in Crossfire. OS X (10.7.2) detected both cards, loading up the necessary frame buffers and whatnot. They work flawlessly for me. I had been using them to drive three monitors, which worked quite well. In OS X though, Eyefinity doesn't work obviously, so the three monitors are treated independently and you won't be able to run games, even those supporting Eyefinity, across all three. Also note that OS X can't harness the extra power that your primary GPU would gain running them in Crossfire (or SLI). OS X will see them as two independent GPUs.

Good news :D
 

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Have a 560Ti, thinking of getting a 2500k for BF3.

Question: what is the most 'hackintosh' friendly motherboard in case I decide to go OS X on my new PC build? Likely won't, as my household is already full of Macs, but just in case :)
 

alfa147x

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Have a 560Ti, thinking of getting a 2500k for BF3.

Question: what is the most 'hackintosh' friendly motherboard in case I decide to go OS X on my new PC build? Likely won't, as my household is already full of Macs, but just in case :)

Gigabyte H55M-S2V
Gigabyte H57M-USB3
Gigabyte P67A-UD4
Gigabyte P67A-UD7
Gigabyte X58A-UD9
Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
Gigabyte Z68MX-UD2H-B3
Gigabyte H67M-D2-B3
MSI P55M-GD45

http://www.kakewalk.se/compatibility/
 

suklee

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Thanks alfa, I'll probably go for one of these:

Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
Gigabyte Z68MX-UD2H-B3
 

alfa147x

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I love my Gigabyte board. Plus the black PCB just makes it look so bad ass lol
(Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3)
 

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FYI: Chimera 1.7 on big drives (>1Tb) sometimes cannot boot properly and you will get a "boot0 error". This can be solved by resizing the GPT partition to ~300GB (probably any value less than 1TB, haven't tried though) and installing Chimera 1.7, then the bootloader will actually work and you can just resize your partition back to full size.

I needed to do this with a Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB drive.
 

alfa147x

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Dual 6870's working well:
| | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@0 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002c2, registere$
| | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@1 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002c3, registere$
| | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@2 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002c4, registere$
| | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@3 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002c5, registere$
| | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@0 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x10000028a, registere$
| | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@1 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x10000028b, registere$
| | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@2 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x10000028c, registere$
| | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@3 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x10000028d, registere$
 

suklee

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I love my Gigabyte board. Plus the black PCB just makes it look so bad ass lol
(Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3)

I ended up getting the Z68XP-UD3 board. Which would be the closest one to select when doing the Kakewalk boot disk?
 

alfa147x

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I ended up getting the Z68XP-UD3 board. Which would be the closest one to select when doing the Kakewalk boot disk?

I would not recommend using Kakewalk for a non compatible board. It's easy to use only if you stay withen their specifications.

You should start with this:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/11/building-sandy-bridge-customac-buyers.html

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/10/unibeast-install-mac-os-x-lion-using.html

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/09/dsdt-database-gigabyte-socket-1155.html
 

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FYI I have successfully updated my DS3L to this latest update. Just had to do the AppleHDA rollback for sound is all I've found so far. Just in case anyone is still reading this thread...
 

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FYI I have successfully updated my DS3L to this latest update. Just had to do the AppleHDA rollback for sound is all I've found so far. Just in case anyone is still reading this thread...

Nice! My bro's DS3L just bit the dust, so I gotta disassemble & update it.

lol, oh this thread...I was going to update late last year, but Tonymac has done so much in the way of getting things rolling really nicely with automation...eh...what do you think?
 

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Nice! My bro's DS3L just bit the dust, so I gotta disassemble & update it.

lol, oh this thread...I was going to update late last year, but Tonymac has done so much in the way of getting things rolling really nicely with automation...eh...what do you think?

Prior to posting about my DS3L I was tempted to post about sticking a fork in this thread b/c it's done, but whatever you think. I do check here almost daily to see if anything new comes up, but I think you are right about Tonymacx86, especially the UniBeast for Lion. I have used that to install on several systems and it just works great!
 
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