Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[Kaido]

Anybody with an intel q9550 getting os x reporting the CPU as an i5 instead? Should I worry?

Anybody has a sleep fix (10.6.4) for gigabyte p45 motherboard?

Mine's not - which board? And which version of Chameleon?

 

[alfa147x]

Got my Apple Trackpad in yesterday
Before installing the update for it my Magic Mouse worked perfectly fine
Now I can't any either the mouse or the trackpad to connect :\

Doing a fresh install on a separate HDD

It was a crappy $1 bluetooth adapter
Got a used DBT-120 for $10 and it works perfectly

 

[Kaido]

It was a crappy $1 bluetooth adapter
Got a used DBT-120 for $10 and it works perfectly

Woo to the oot

 

[Zaap]

Anybody with an intel q9550 getting os x reporting the CPU as an i5 instead? Should I worry?

Nope, not here. I wouldn't worry- Hacks are notorious for the CPU not recognizing correctly in ATM. To my knowledge, it's mostly cosmetic. You should be able to fix it by running a tool like AboutThisMac (google it).

Anybody has a sleep fix (10.6.4) for gigabyte p45 motherboard?

Which exact board? Sleep works for me, and on P45-UD3P systems I've set up for others.

 

[Hmongkeysauce]

Nope, not here. I wouldn't worry- Hacks are notorious for the CPU not recognizing correctly in ATM. To my knowledge, it's mostly cosmetic. You should be able to fix it by running a tool like AboutThisMac (google it).


Which exact board? Sleep works for me, and on P45-UD3P systems I've set up for others.

Its the EP45-UD3R.

Also, anybody else notice that text is less sharp compared to Windows? It may just be my eyes but it seems a tad blurrier.

Really dumb question but I'm booting into the 32bit kernel. Can I use all of my 8GB of ram (it lists 8GB in the About Panel) or am I limited to 4GB?

 

[Zaap]

Its the EP45-UD3R.

I've never used that board myself, but my guess would be it's probably a matter of creating a custom DSDT file for your hardware if you haven't already. I find a proper DSDT can fix a lot of the 'glitches' sound issues, graphics, and sleep/restart/shutdown issues.

There are a number of good tutorials floating around for how to do this. I learned a lot about DSDT patching my systems using this guide. I'm no expert, but I usually manage to futz my way through and get the systems I build working properly- it's mostly just following instructions and figuring out a few things that will be unique to your hardware.

Also, anybody else notice that text is less sharp compared to Windows? It may just be my eyes but it seems a tad blurrier.

Obvious question- but your graphic card is properly patched and you have hardware acceleration and native resolution on your monitor? Otherwise, it may just be the difference between OSX's font smoothing and Windows clear type.

Really dumb question but I'm booting into the 32bit kernel. Can I use all of my 8GB of ram (it lists 8GB in the About Panel) or am I limited to 4GB?

My (highly simplified I'm sure) understanding is that in OSX, apps coded for 64bit can still address more than 4GB of RAM even if the system kernel is only 32-bit. Macs prior to SL were able to make use of more than 4GB of RAM due to this. Also, if the app isn't coded in 64 bit to begin with, it will make little to no performance difference running in 32 bit or 64 bit OSX.

 

[alfa147x]

Any one know how hackintosh-able the GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3LR is?
I need something with more SATA ports my DS3L is lacking

 

[alfa147x]

Ended up buying a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3LR
Wish me luck

 

[Emulex]

so this motherboard is good enough to allow endless updates without any issues? which webcam has best quality lens and is facetime compatible?

 

[Kaido]

so this motherboard is good enough to allow endless updates without any issues? which webcam has best quality lens and is facetime compatible?

No such thing as endless updates without issue in the Hackintosh world. It's not called "HACKintosh" for nothing :biggrin:

I personally like the Dynex DX-WEB1C webcam. You can get them on ebay for under $20 shipped. They are overly sharp, but it ends up looking a lot better than most of the other webcams on the market. Looks WAY better than my $99 Logitech. And the Dynex is Facetime-compatible, at least with the current beta release.

 

[Emulex]

Is that the same as the $5 shipped rocketfish RF-web2c?

I just ordered one for a friend. essentially the original cams (isight) are so dumb that a complex auto focus/ev/2mp will slow down OSX so bad. it just wants 640x480 to do facetime lol. so they gutted the quickcam 9000 features and charge more for the mac version.

 

[Kaido]

Is that the same as the $5 shipped rocketfish RF-web2c?

I just ordered one for a friend. essentially the original cams (isight) are so dumb that a complex auto focus/ev/2mp will slow down OSX so bad. it just wants 640x480 to do facetime lol. so they gutted the quickcam 9000 features and charge more for the mac version.

Definitely go with the Dynex. I think I've got 10 or so of them - all on my family's hacks. We're all across the country but can iChat/Facetime/Skype no problem.

 

[smokozuna]

I picked up one of these on ebay last week for $16.98 shipped and it works great, full Mac compatibility.

http://www.amazon.com/HP-KQ246AA-8-0.../ref=pd_cp_e_0

I found this very helpful also.

http://www.mac-compatible-web-cam.com/

Good luck in your search.

 

[muskie32]

Ended up buying a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3LR
Wish me luck

Good luck


I kinda want to hackintosh my hp touch smart ^_^

 

[KeypoX]

got my old laptop updated snow, with everything working, except when i come out of sleep my wifi is dead and i need to restart.

heh can only go so long without some osx. Though its a bit slow on this 1.7ghz pentium dual core, gma 950.

 

[mohkahn]

Fellas, What's getting broken with the latest update 10.6.5?
I am still on ep35-ds3l. this MB got quite some life in it.
anyone updated yet?

 

[mosslack]

Fellas, What's getting broken with the latest update 10.6.5?
I am still on ep35-ds3l. this MB got quite some life in it.
anyone updated yet?

Working on it now, but I got a bad copy of the delta update with the first download, so I'm having to do it again. Looks like simply changing the pmVersion in the Boot.plist file to 21 may do it, as well as reapplying the audio fix after you reboot from updating to 10.6.5. Don't forget if you get a KP from a PM mismatch, try booting by typing in pmVersion=0 at the boot prompt to disable sleepenabler.kext. HTH

 

[Tyranicus]

The only thing I needed to do after installing 10.6.5 was reinstall my graphics drivers. Since I just bought a new GPU and spent two days getting it working, I had that process down pat.

 

[mosslack]

I have 10.6.5 up and running on my DS3L, but I can't get sleepenabler.kext to work. I've tried changing the pmVersion=21 as suggested, but I still get KP's. I even tried a 10.6.5 version of sleepenabler which also produced a KP on boot up. Anyone else have any luck?

 

[KeypoX]

I have 10.6.5 up and running on my DS3L, but I can't get sleepenabler.kext to work. I've tried changing the pmVersion=21 as suggested, but I still get KP's. I even tried a 10.6.5 version of sleepenabler which also produced a KP on boot up. Anyone else have any luck?

you shouldnt need sleepenabler anymore... for a while now. DSDT fixes and chameleon should take care of sleep.

I dont have that board anymore though.

 

[mosslack]

you shouldnt need sleepenabler anymore... for a while now. DSDT fixes and chameleon should take care of sleep.

I dont have that board anymore though.

That would be welcome news, I don't use sleep myself, but I thought if it helped I would include it. Guess we can try without it and see what happens.

 

[Kaido]

That would be welcome news, I don't use sleep myself, but I thought if it helped I would include it. Guess we can try without it and see what happens.

Sigh. My wife's rig is still on 10.5.6...lol. Yes, that's Leopard. Not the Snow kind.

 

[mosslack]

Sigh. My wife's rig is still on 10.5.6...lol. Yes, that's Leopard. Not the Snow kind.

I completely understand, I just resigned from doing the 1201N thread on Insanely, just don't have time for it anymore. Too many other things I want to do. Oh well, long as it still works, what's the difference?

 

[scootermaster]

I completely understand, I just resigned from doing the 1201N thread on Insanely, just don't have time for it anymore. Too many other things I want to do. Oh well, long as it still works, what's the difference?

Some of us poor bastards have [barely] 2 year old DS3Ls's and C2D e7200's! No P55/i5 for us!

On the one hand, no sleepenabler would be nice. On the other, having to redo my install (if that's what's needed) would not be nice. But I guess if it's just a matter of swapping a DSDT and/or upgrading Cham, that's not so bad [I think].

 

[Emulex]

say if you spent 1 hour upgrading on a periodic release.

low $50/hr (average between ipod developer and sys admin)

10.5.6
10.5.7
10.5.8
10.6
10.6.3
10.6.4
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+$300

$305 boxen + $300 time suckage (rather than just hitting apply update) isn't such a hot deal any more. I'm not trying to pick a fight but with family and heavy workload an hour is precious and maybe it's worth more than $50/hr to you. so that mac tax - isn't so bad. especially when you can pick used macbook air's for $500 now.

I wonder if anyone's got a decent ESXi working version. I've got a spare 24gb dual E5540 server laying around. With some raid-0 love on SSD it might be fun to see how well you can remote into osx and do the deed.

(rdp7 to rdp7 is insane. 1080p with no dropped audio WMP on a 100mbit lan, could probably do 4K video on gigabit) I wonder if mac has a super accelerated RDP protocol and client for pc?