Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: renderingrocks
thanks, I will try it.

Will it affect the hackintosh experience?

Try booting OSX without AHCI and see. I've found it causes OSX to crash if it was installed with AHCI turned on. I'm curious if this is different for others.

XP will bluescreen every time with AHCI turned on- it has no native AHCI drivers. If you use AHCI with XP, you have to install it first without it, hack the AHCI drivers (there's some links to how to do this elsewhere in this thread- sorry, I can't find the exact page) then turn AHCI back on.

Or, move to Windows 7 or Vista. Either has no problem with AHCI- just install them with AHCI turned on if you're using it.

 

[afoygel]

Hi there. I'm completely new to hackintoshing, and I'm just idly wondering if the Shuttle XPC SX58H7 is a possible hackintosh, and if anyone has attempted to hack it. I know that it's quite possibly incompatible, and more than likely untested, but it makes for an interesting dream.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the SX58H7, it's available as a barebone with a proprietary mini-ITX motherboard with the x58 chipset and ich10r southbridge. It also has four dd3 ram slots, and 2 pci lanes. The barebone version retails for about 600 and includes the case, a mini power supply, and the motherboard.

 

[renderingrocks]

thanks zaap, I am going to try windows 7 instead. less hassle.

 

[idlehands]

My hackintosh hardware is going to be here today! New case, new psu, udp, e6300, 8600gt. and some ram. Can't wait!

Here's where the questions begin, My current machine is amd64/1gb ram, xp with 500gb of data. I got some new drives with the hackintosh to put into that machine and turn it into a nas(freenas). I'm going to pull out the drives from the xp machine and use them for the hack.

any hints on how to stage the data? the amd machine will end up with 3 2tb drives, and the hack will end up with 2 100gb drives and 1 500gb drives. the drives for the hack already have data on them, I should be able to clean up 1 of the 100gb drives, but it seems to me until i have the nas up, I won't be able to preserve the 500gb of misc data.
I'm half thinking I need to setup the new hardware on the 1 empty drive, with xp, setup the nas, migrate the 500gb of data, and then do the hackintosh

I'm hoping for a more elegant solution!
Thanks!

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: afoygel
Hi there. I'm completely new to hackintoshing, and I'm just idly wondering if the Shuttle XPC SX58H7 is a possible hackintosh, and if anyone has attempted to hack it. I know that it's quite possibly incompatible, and more than likely untested, but it makes for an interesting dream.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the SX58H7, it's available as a barebone with a proprietary mini-ITX motherboard with the x58 chipset and ich10r southbridge. It also has four dd3 ram slots, and 2 pci lanes. The barebone version retails for about 600 and includes the case, a mini power supply, and the motherboard.

Peter over on the HQ-A list does a lot of work with Shuttle Hacks. I'll pass this along to him and see what he says.

Peter's reply:

The ICH10/ ICH10R will become officially supported with Snow Leopard (10.6), which will be out very soon.

Right now, the ICH10/ICH10R works well with Leopard (10.5), in the few mobos which have it, such as some Gigabyte EP45 models.

I am presently running a Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DS3R-based Hackintosh, and it has a P45 Northbridge and an ICH10R Southbridge. It is also DDR3 only, with up to 8 GB (in the DDR2 versions of this mobo, the GA-EP45T-DS3L, up to 16 GB is supported ... go figure).

(The T after P45 simply means that the model has the Infineon TPM Trusted Computing chip, which is what Apple uses for trusted computing in a "Mackintosh", but which is simulated by one of the kexts in a Hackintosh. TPM contains a DES-based encryption/decryption engine, and some parts of the OS X kernel are encrypted thereby requiring decryption, plus the user's passwords are encrypted, of course, and the ciphertext is stored in the appropriate spot).

The X58 Northbridge is for the i7 series, and it supports SLI, which Apple does not support at the present time.

Remember, most Hackintosh activity has been focused on the Core 2 series of processors, and the i7 series of processors is Intel's next generation beyond the Core 2.

I would not expect a "Vanilla" install to work without a hiccup until at least Snow Leopard is out, and the OSx86 folks have had a chance to hack at it.

A non-Vanilla install might work right now, however, but I have no specific info on that.

 

[idlehands]

This may be a dumb question, but does the ud3p kit work with a ps/2 keyboard?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: idlehands
This may be a dumb question, but does the ud3p kit work with a ps/2 keyboard?

Nope! There's a PS/2 driver floating somewhere around InsanelyMac that you might be able to get working, but the last time I tried it, it stopped working after 10.5.6 I believe. If you want to use a PS/2 keyboard, then you'll want to pick up a USB-to-PS/2 adapter.

 

[idlehands]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: idlehands
This may be a dumb question, but does the ud3p kit work with a ps/2 keyboard?

Nope! There's a PS/2 driver floating somewhere around InsanelyMac that you might be able to get working, but the last time I tried it, it stopped working after 10.5.6 I believe. If you want to use a PS/2 keyboard, then you'll want to pick up a USB-to-PS/2 adapter.

Thanks!
Off to the attic I go digging in boxes of accumulated electronic rubbish. Fingers crossed. Onlyl tech store near me is best buy, I'm betting there a cable tax on a usb-ps/2 adapter.

 

[scootermaster]

NEW THREAD!!!

ARRRRRRG!!! This thread has more teases than a sports book in Vegas!

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
NEW THREAD!!!

ARRRRRRG!!! This thread has more teases than a sports book in Vegas!

To quote Michelangelo, "WHEN IT'S FINISHED!!"

Seriously though, a small update:

1. InsanelyMac deleted my UD3P thread, which I typed out a whole "newbie 101" guide for, then linked to the more advanced sections on my Wiki. Too bad I didn't save it (wasn't expecting them to delete it, like, ever). Oops.

2. So I decided to create my own Forum. Will be launching tomorrow. The new thread for 10.5.7 will be here on Anandtech, but the threads for each specific board will be on the new forum. Not a replacement for Insanely, just a place to discuss *my* guides in particular.

 

[iztech]

Very strange with Plex. I see a thread of Plex Media Server and Plex Helper but event after the server is enabled in preferences it doesn't show up in the Login Items.

Also no luck with Plex seeing the itunes content via network. plex://ip/music/iTunes doesn't work for me.

I don't think it is port issue either.

 

[afoygel]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: afoygel
Hi there. I'm completely new to hackintoshing, and I'm just idly wondering if the Shuttle XPC SX58H7 is a possible hackintosh, and if anyone has attempted to hack it. I know that it's quite possibly incompatible, and more than likely untested, but it makes for an interesting dream.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the SX58H7, it's available as a barebone with a proprietary mini-ITX motherboard with the x58 chipset and ich10r southbridge. It also has four dd3 ram slots, and 2 pci lanes. The barebone version retails for about 600 and includes the case, a mini power supply, and the motherboard.

Peter over on the HQ-A list does a lot of work with Shuttle Hacks. I'll pass this along to him and see what he says.

Peter's reply:

The ICH10/ ICH10R will become officially supported with Snow Leopard (10.6), which will be out very soon.

Right now, the ICH10/ICH10R works well with Leopard (10.5), in the few mobos which have it, such as some Gigabyte EP45 models.

I am presently running a Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DS3R-based Hackintosh, and it has a P45 Northbridge and an ICH10R Southbridge. It is also DDR3 only, with up to 8 GB (in the DDR2 versions of this mobo, the GA-EP45T-DS3L, up to 16 GB is supported ... go figure).

(The T after P45 simply means that the model has the Infineon TPM Trusted Computing chip, which is what Apple uses for trusted computing in a "Mackintosh", but which is simulated by one of the kexts in a Hackintosh. TPM contains a DES-based encryption/decryption engine, and some parts of the OS X kernel are encrypted thereby requiring decryption, plus the user's passwords are encrypted, of course, and the ciphertext is stored in the appropriate spot).

The X58 Northbridge is for the i7 series, and it supports SLI, which Apple does not support at the present time.

Remember, most Hackintosh activity has been focused on the Core 2 series of processors, and the i7 series of processors is Intel's next generation beyond the Core 2.

I would not expect a "Vanilla" install to work without a hiccup until at least Snow Leopard is out, and the OSx86 folks have had a chance to hack at it.

A non-Vanilla install might work right now, however, but I have no specific info on that.

Very interesting, thanks.

 

[Kaido]

Okay, got home a bit late, but the forums are up, I've added the basic Stickies, and I'm working on restructuring the Wiki for easier access & better organizational layout. Once I'm done re-linking that, then I'll post up the new thread! Should be either tomorrow or Monday night

Also FYI, I will be replacing the "Hackintosh 101" thread and this thread with a new master thread - I'm managing this thread, the 101 thread, the InsanelyMac threads, my blog, Twitter, Wiki, PM's, emails...I'm a tad overloaded :shocked: :laugh: So I want to consolidate things down - I'll have an Anandtech thread, and then the board-specific threads for my guides will be on my Proboards forums when I launch it. Nice and easy to manage

 

[mohkahn]

Howdy Kaido and Mosslack,

Firstly I am sorry to hear that some Aholes deleted your huge and (must have been) painstakingly made udp3 guide. there is no lack of Aholes on the planet, so do remember to back up your stuff bro..

It's been a while since i have posted. In fact been a while since I have played with my macintosh "cough". Makes you wonder why we do the things we do. : )

Anyway, just wanted to share (with newbies, "cough" a noob myself here) that recently replaced one cheap case with another cheap case (to make space on my desk) and after that for a while pc won't boot at all, then I removed everything except cpu and finally tracked down the culprit to be the fact that I had plugged in my 2 HD in wrong sata plugs.

For e.g. if HD #1 with Leo1 was suppose to be on sata1, it now was on sata2 and the same scenerio for hd2 with leo2 on it. So I guess the system remembers on which HD did you put what system and on which sata drive it was plugged it, before you pulled it out......at least that's what i think..... ;(

After playing with them for a while I finally got the correct combination, so if any of you guys experience total blackout inside your pc after changing your case, pull and test everything one by one to pinpoint the problem.

by the way the snowleopard's images floating around johnny depp's "bay" are they any good for initial testing purposes? if we acquire the latest version, will they work with the current boot132 cd and uninstaller and on my EP-35-ds3L MB?

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MACHAC-
GA-EP35-DS3L
C2D EG6XXX CPU.
2GB X 2 GIGS RAM
GT6600 GRAPHIC CARD.

 

[renderingrocks]

Sorry to hear about that deletion. You have helped so many with it and the painstaking work to put it together is (was) appreciated by many. I'm sure the new guides will be wonderful.

 

[idlehands]

That's a bitch about having posts removed! Especially helpful ones.

anyone tried a ud3p rev1.6 board? Didn't even realize that's what I ordered, had everything working in 10.5.6, updatd to 10.5.7 and audio broke per, the guide. Powered off last night, powered on this morning and mac says, please reboot by holding power switch. not so helpful.

Going to try again with the sound fix today and see if i can power it on and off. I did a memtest 2 days ago over night so. kinda baffled.

Thanks

 

[renderingrocks]

I have the ud3p v1.6 board and it has been fine. Follow the BIOS set up guide http://leopardsoup.pbworks.com/ud3p_bios

Time machine is giving me issues all of a sudden, but maybe I caused it.

 

[idlehands]

which bios version?
I'm going to toss up my issues to the the combo update after the driver update instead of before.

Did you leave all the bios settings not in the guide to defaults?

 

[renderingrocks]

I have bios version FA Apparently gigabyte stopped using numbers for their bios version and doesn't even mention v1.6 on their website. (i can't find anything) All the bios settings not in the guide I left to default. Install 10.5, run the updates and the leopard soup.

 

[idlehands]

Ok cool. I'm on fb, left all the other settings there.
The version goes by so fast it took me 15 minutes to get it to show me what version, and then I was confused, cause i saw fb, and wasn't sure if my eyes went bad it it was f8.

is there some kind of fix for the audio? I downloaded the 10.5.7 boot disk, and thought that if i applied those after the combo update from 10.5.6 I would be ok; is there a step i'm missing?
thanks

 

[slugg]

Kaido,

I've consulted with members of the female sex. They all agree that it's not about the SIZE of your thread, but about how you use it.

With kind regards,

Gerry

 

[renderingrocks]

I used the leopard soup kit unistaller Kaido provided. Make sure you use the waikiki download. The audio does work. He describes it in his UP3P guide.

I also have a retail 10.5.6 disc and only applied the 10.5.7 update. It workes fine.

Are you using the leopard soup guide?

 

[idlehands]

@renderingrocks
I am indeed, to the T i thought.

pulled files from :
http://www.mediafire.com/file/...g3mgj/ud3p_waikiki.zip

As I'm traveling this week, and don't want to leave the wife without sound i'm going back to 10.5.6 where I had sound; but I installed 10.5.6, installed combo update from network, performed uinstall; no audio devices at all, when i do uinstall on 10.5.6, audio shows up.

 

[renderingrocks]

make sure your output in the sound pref panel is set to internal speaker. also, the alert sounds need to be set to internal. I am on 10.5.7 now (fresh install) I botched the system messing around and just started from scratch, and I have audio on the green port in the back.


Repair permissions also, lots of system stuff to be fixed

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: idlehands
@renderingrocks
I am indeed, to the T i thought.

pulled files from :
http://www.mediafire.com/file/...g3mgj/ud3p_waikiki.zip

As I'm traveling this week, and don't want to leave the wife without sound i'm going back to 10.5.6 where I had sound; but I installed 10.5.6, installed combo update from network, performed uinstall; no audio devices at all, when i do uinstall on 10.5.6, audio shows up.

Just curious, does it always give you the You need to restart message under 10.5.7 or can you get to the desktop? Reason I ask is because I had a similar problem, but mine turned out to be the monitor refresh rate that kept it from booting to the desktop. Mine uses an Acer X223W monitor. It has to be set to 60 Hz to let it boot into 10.5.7. Also FWIW, I did boot up once after installing 10.5.7, but noticed the resolution was off. Changed the resolution to the correct setting and then I got the You need to restart message each time after that. HTH