Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[neni]

I need X1900 XT EFI VGA Installer 0.1.pkg for my Ati X1900XT id:7249
I can not find in the internet, all links ar dead,
can someone put on rapidshare or megaupload or anywhere else for download, please

Thanks

neni

sorry for my bad Englisch

 

[Kaido]

FYI, I have updated the DS3L guide to go directly to 10.6.3 with a section at the end for updating from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3. This new method uses VoodooHDA instead of AppleHDA to avoid future update problems hopefully. I'm not a big fan of VoodooHDA, but if it makes future updates easier than I am prepared to put up with it's initial install quirkiness. I'm beginning to think those who use the USB dongle for sound are the smart ones.

The new guide can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a/web/install-guide-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-usb-10-6-x

Yeah - I've switched to VooodooHDA on my non-USB Soundcard Hacks. I don't like it as much either, but it does make updating way easier. And it's not so bad in SLE since it's a unique kext, so it doesn't get overwritten. I also like having only one kext to worry about and not having to control versions with each update. Sound will always be a finicky area though, I think.

 

[mosslack]

Yeah - I've switched to VooodooHDA on my non-USB Soundcard Hacks. I don't like it as much either, but it does make updating way easier. And it's not so bad in SLE since it's a unique kext, so it doesn't get overwritten. I also like having only one kext to worry about and not having to control versions with each update. Sound will always be a finicky area though, I think.

Yeah, as I said, the only problem I have with it is installing. As I noted in my guide, 2 out of 3 attempts caused a KP. Things were fine on the reboot, but I just don't like it when things like that happen. AppleHDA doesn't cause it either, as I tried it with and without it. I suppose as long as it works that is all that matters.

So when you gonna get back in it big guy, we sure miss you around here!

 

[Kaido]

Yeah, as I said, the only problem I have with it is installing. As I noted in my guide, 2 out of 3 attempts caused a KP. Things were fine on the reboot, but I just don't like it when things like that happen. AppleHDA doesn't cause it either, as I tried it with and without it. I suppose as long as it works that is all that matters.

So when you gonna get back in it big guy, we sure miss you around here!

Yeah, I still think USB audio is a better solution haha.

Well, school lets out end of next month and I haven't signed up for any summer courses yet, so hopefully late May or early June. Will be nice not to be going 24/7

 

[Kaido]

If anyone needs a single-DVI video card, here is a cheap one for $29 that is supported in Snow Leopard (including sleep!):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130098

Just got one for another hack I'm building & works great!

 

[vailr]

If anyone needs a single-DVI video card, here is a cheap one for $29 that is supported in Snow Leopard (including sleep!):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130098

Just got one for another hack I'm building & works great!

Why not an 8400GS 256 MB card?
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=...ess-Video-Card
Price about the same, but adds DX10 support for Windows.
Works fine in Leopard 10.5.8.
(Can't comment about SL support/sleep).

 

[Kaido]

Why not an 8400GS 256 MB card?
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=...ess-Video-Card
Price about the same, but adds DX10 support for Windows.
Works fine in Leopard 10.5.8.
(Can't comment about SL support/sleep).

Ooh nice price!

 

[mosslack]

If anyone needs a single-DVI video card, here is a cheap one for $29 that is supported in Snow Leopard (including sleep!):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130098

Just got one for another hack I'm building & works great!

64 bit work?

 

[mosslack]

Why not an 8400GS 256 MB card?
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=...ess-Video-Card
Price about the same, but adds DX10 support for Windows.
Works fine in Leopard 10.5.8.
(Can't comment about SL support/sleep).

The card should work well in SL as I have an 8400 GS in mine. I did hear someone comment about avoiding the low profile card as the VGA port has issues b/c of the ribbon connector. Can't verify that though.

 

[Kaido]

64 bit work?

Yessir.

Only bug I've noticed is that Expose/Stacks is slow compared to my 8800GTX. Not like slow slow, just slower. Still fast. Just...not as fast as my 768mb card It does play 1080p just fine and also does the Ripple effect in Dashboard, the Flurry screensaver, etc.

 

[renderingrocks]

Hi all

I finally decided to try to go snow. On a new drive I gave it a spin. Had the bonjour issue which the R1000 kext took care of, but I ran into a roadblock with 10.6.3. I used the HQ-A method (Lifehacker/stellerola) with mosslacks DSDT. Ran fine on 10.6. After the combo 10.6.3 it boots to the blue screen and stalls. I did try booting in safe mode and it makes it tot he finder ok. Is there a simple solution? I kinda miss Kaidos guides that explain things, which tools to use, etc so a forgetful guy like me can get these things working.

oh, btw its a UD3P (1.6) q9400, 4GB, 7200GS

mosslack - you have a thread on HQ-A about your no joy on 10.6.3, did you ever figure it out?

and, what were the problems going from 10.5.7 to .8? was it just audio or something else?

 

[vailr]

I did hear someone comment about avoiding the low profile card as the VGA port has issues b/c of the ribbon connector. Can't verify that though.

My XFX version of the 8400GS 256 Mb (low profile) card runs fine under Leopard 10.5.8 using the VGA port. I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of any 8400GS cards that AREN'T low profile.

 

[mosslack]

Hi all

I finally decided to try to go snow. On a new drive I gave it a spin. Had the bonjour issue which the R1000 kext took care of, but I ran into a roadblock with 10.6.3. I used the HQ-A method (Lifehacker/stellerola) with mosslacks DSDT. Ran fine on 10.6. After the combo 10.6.3 it boots to the blue screen and stalls. I did try booting in safe mode and it makes it tot he finder ok. Is there a simple solution? I kinda miss Kaidos guides that explain things, which tools to use, etc so a forgetful guy like me can get these things working.

oh, btw its a UD3P (1.6) q9400, 4GB, 7200GS

mosslack - you have a thread on HQ-A about your no joy on 10.6.3, did you ever figure it out?

and, what were the problems going from 10.5.7 to .8? was it just audio or something else?

Try removing the SleepEnabler.kext from the /Extra/Extensions folder. Be sure to rebuild the kext cache afterwards, (run Kext utility). That is the only thing I can think of.

 

[Kaido]

Some equipment updates:

If you need Bluetooth, my favorite is the MSI/Cubix Mini Bluetooth adapter: (Class 2)

http://www.cubix3c.com/news_detail.php?number=10&bbs_id=13

http://www.tocitycom.com/mana_php/prod/pic/big/2236.JPG

It's available for $9 shipped: (works great with my Apple Aluminum Wireless Bluetooth keyboard)

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11825

If you need Wifi, this is an excellent card to get: "DELL 1505 802.11N Wireless PCIe desktop card antenna" from eBay ($50 shipped from seller asiapchubpg). This shows up as an OEM Airport antenna and is B/G/N compatible.

 

[smokozuna]

Hi all

I finally decided to try to go snow. On a new drive I gave it a spin. Had the bonjour issue which the R1000 kext took care of, but I ran into a roadblock with 10.6.3. I used the HQ-A method (Lifehacker/stellerola) with mosslacks DSDT. Ran fine on 10.6. After the combo 10.6.3 it boots to the blue screen and stalls. I did try booting in safe mode and it makes it tot he finder ok. Is there a simple solution? I kinda miss Kaidos guides that explain things, which tools to use, etc so a forgetful guy like me can get these things working.

oh, btw its a UD3P (1.6) q9400, 4GB, 7200GS

mosslack - you have a thread on HQ-A about your no joy on 10.6.3, did you ever figure it out?

and, what were the problems going from 10.5.7 to .8? was it just audio or something else?

With a 7200GS you must boot SL in 32 bit mode, 64 will KP every time.

 

[mohkahn]

hope's everyone doing great, summer and humidity is here in asia. guessing from the last few pages, SL Hacks are not as cool as Leo hacks.. still but not for long i hope, so crossing fingers and praying for the new guides kaido will hopefully be releasing in 1-2 months time...aneways...

finally gave SL a try today. using mosslack's guide here; (how you doing old buddy?

http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a/web/install-guide-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-usb-10-6-x

and happily at Snow Leopard as of now.. and what is working/not working:

after installing I installed the motherboard necessary files and then installed the macosxupdcombo10.6.3v1.1.dmg, (using the file that I had downloaded earlier) and restarted, but can only reach blank-blue screen after which system goes no further. I tried to wait for it for about 10 minutes few times but no result. so did a fresh install (installed motherboard files again, no problems so far, many restarts, no problem) just now and am wondering, what should I do different this time for the update to 10.6.3 to be successful?


further edit: sorry, just saw smokezuna's comment above, you mean to say that I have to reinstall using 32bit.. but how do i do that? cos system never gave me choice to install 32 or 64 bit, or do i have to change this in bios first and then do a fresh install? thks.

also my graphic card's info is incorrect. i remember in kaido's guide there is a software called "uninstaller" to install all these drivers, just click and install sorta thing.. you guys have tried using uninstaller install some of the needed software, like for graphics card, etc?

 

[Emulex]

man after reading this thread i'm glad i have my crappy old imac. so much work to keep up the patches

 

[Kaido]

With a 7200GS you must boot SL in 32 bit mode, 64 will KP every time.

I'm on 64-bit Snow Leopard with my 256mb 7200GS and it works great!

 

[Kaido]

hope's everyone doing great, summer and humidity is here in asia. guessing from the last few pages, SL Hacks are not as cool as Leo hacks.. still but not for long i hope, so crossing fingers and praying for the new guides kaido will hopefully be releasing in 1-2 months time...aneways...

finally gave SL a try today. using mosslack's guide here; (how you doing old buddy?

http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a/web/install-guide-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-usb-10-6-x

and happily at Snow Leopard as of now.. and what is working/not working:

after installing I installed the motherboard necessary files and then installed the macosxupdcombo10.6.3v1.1.dmg, (using the file that I had downloaded earlier) and restarted, but can only reach blank-blue screen after which system goes no further. I tried to wait for it for about 10 minutes few times but no result. so did a fresh install (installed motherboard files again, no problems so far, many restarts, no problem) just now and am wondering, what should I do different this time for the update to 10.6.3 to be successful?


further edit: sorry, just saw smokezuna's comment above, you mean to say that I have to reinstall using 32bit.. but how do i do that? cos system never gave me choice to install 32 or 64 bit, or do i have to change this in bios first and then do a fresh install? thks.

also my graphic card's info is incorrect. i remember in kaido's guide there is a software called "uninstaller" to install all these drivers, just click and install sorta thing.. you guys have tried using uninstaller install some of the needed software, like for graphics card, etc?

Snow Leopard has just about gotten to the point where I'd recommend it. Right now there's a big, glaring problem with 10.6.3 that causes your USB keyboard or USB mouse to stop functioning after wake-from-sleep; you have to do a manual unplug/replug to get it working again (annoying).

 

[Kaido]

man after reading this thread i'm glad i have my crappy old imac. so much work to keep up the patches

Yeah...but it's not too bad if you don't update. For a lot of people, that's actually a viable option...the Hack I built for my mom has been on 10.5.6 for a long time and is still working great & meets all her needs because she doesn't have upgrade-itis like the rest of us nerds Same for the Plex rig in my media center...it's been on 10.5.6 forever.

I think that's what it really boils down to in Hackintosh-land: if you feel the need to upgrade on a regular basis, then Hackintosh is a personal research project. If you can live with either (1) the original kit update, or (2) go by the updates of whatever guide-writer whose kit you choose to follow, then it's pretty much set-and-forget. My kits aren't really the best for staying up-to-date without doing your own research because I don't update them on a regular basis. There's a big misconception out there about how "easy" this project is...it can be, if you personally stay up-to-date with all the patches, otherwise it can be a real headache.

But on the flip side, I just upgraded my primary machine to an 8-core i7 rig (4 cores, 4 HT cores) and it was only about $600 for the new board/cpu/ram. So I'm getting a lot of performance for 1/4 the cost of buying a new Mac Pro. So to me, it's worth the time investment to do it, because I have more time than money

 

[renderingrocks]

Yeah...but it's not too bad if you don't update. For a lot of people, that's actually a viable option...the Hack I built for my mom has been on 10.5.6 for a long time and is still working great & meets all her needs because she doesn't have upgrade-itis like the rest of us nerds Same for the Plex rig in my media center...it's been on 10.5.6 forever.

I think that's what it really boils down to in Hackintosh-land: if you feel the need to upgrade on a regular basis, then Hackintosh is a personal research project. If you can live with either (1) the original kit update, or (2) go by the updates of whatever guide-writer whose kit you choose to follow, then it's pretty much set-and-forget. My kits aren't really the best for staying up-to-date without doing your own research because I don't update them on a regular basis. There's a big misconception out there about how "easy" this project is...it can be, if you personally stay up-to-date with all the patches, otherwise it can be a real headache.

But on the flip side, I just upgraded my primary machine to an 8-core i7 rig (4 cores, 4 HT cores) and it was only about $600 for the new board/cpu/ram. So I'm getting a lot of performance for 1/4 the cost of buying a new Mac Pro. So to me, it's worth the time investment to do it, because I have more time than money

What method and tricks did you use? Im sure my solution has been posted but I can't seem to nail it down

 

[Emulex]

so what your saying is hackintosh is like ubuntu - pita to upgrade - gotcha.

i love to hack everything too - i can appreciate that.

you could just run osx in a vm on that primary machine - it would bench out like a mac mini - i mean osx is just a glorified bsd box if you think about it . not much different than a ubuntu linux box.

seems like 10.6 really has caused alot of issues with hackintoshers - 10.5.8 (latest security fixes) is what i rock on my dell mini-9 . it was too much to keep up and the ipad does everything i need now - jailbroken of course.

thats cool.

 

[Kaido]

What method and tricks did you use? Im sure my solution has been posted but I can't seem to nail it down

For what?

 

[Kaido]

so what your saying is hackintosh is like ubuntu - pita to upgrade - gotcha.

i love to hack everything too - i can appreciate that.

you could just run osx in a vm on that primary machine - it would bench out like a mac mini - i mean osx is just a glorified bsd box if you think about it . not much different than a ubuntu linux box.

seems like 10.6 really has caused alot of issues with hackintoshers - 10.5.8 (latest security fixes) is what i rock on my dell mini-9 . it was too much to keep up and the ipad does everything i need now - jailbroken of course.

thats cool.

More or less, yeah. It's built on a framework of hacked drivers, so you're at the mercy of whatever undocumented changes Apple makes in their system updates. Also, OSX in a VM isn't all that great (again...drivers).

10.6 works decently on Hackintoshes, my main complaint right now is just the 10.6.3 bug with sleep & USB input devices.

 

[Kaido]

Ahh, figured something interesting out about 10.6.3: it kills the USB device used to wake it from sleep! So if you use your USB mouse to wake the Hack from sleep, you'll have to unplug/replug the USB mouse back in. If you use the USB keyboard, same thing. So it's the calling device that it nukes...interesting...

Edit: might be limited to x58 boards. talked to users of p55 (i5) and older C2D/Q rigs on .3 and no reports of issues. hum...