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finbarqs said:
what does it do then?
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I only tried it once, on my UD3P system, and basically it didn't do anything that I know of. It was originally supposed to make our hack systems able to use vanilla OS X, complete with "no problem" updates, but I think the project fell short of that goal.

The last post on the BIOS blog was last year, so I'm not really sure where that project is in terms of it being viable anymore. It was a neat idea, but as Carti points out in several posts on his blog, Apple tries it's best to keep people from using other hardware by implementing features in a way that prevents them from easily duplicating the results. This is a paraphrase, but that is the jest of what he is saying.

Also let me say that Apple has every right to protect it's property by any legal means necessary and I have no problem with that. I'm am grateful they left just enough room to allow the brightest members of the Hackintosh community to provide for the rest of us a way to install OS X on generic PC hardware. I am fully supportive of Carti's efforts and hope he continues to improve the BIOS to finally achieve his goal.
 
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come to think of it, i'll probably leave it as a regular hack instead of a BIOS hack... mainly because what if I want to upgrade the graphics? all this other wonder stuff...
 
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finbarqs said:
come to think of it, i'll probably leave it as a regular hack instead of a BIOS hack... mainly because what if I want to upgrade the graphics? all this other wonder stuff...
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Yeah, that's why I haven't done it - stuff changes so frequently that I'd rather just do it software-based than BIOS-based.
 
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mosslack said:
I am fully supportive of Carti's efforts and hope he continues to improve the BIOS to finally achieve his goal.
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Cartri has stated some months ago that, for whatever reason, he's totally given up trying: modding Gigabyte bioses for OSX compatibility. He said that Gigabyte themselves still use an outdated Microsoft bios compiler, which Cartri needed to also use to maintain both Windows + OSX boot-ability. Basically, Cartri wasn't able to acquire enough of a quality + up-to-date Intel bios compiler and/or his own programming skill, to actually achieve the original goal of directly booting a retail OSX boot disc. Not without Apple lawyers breathing down his neck, anyway.
 
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mosslack said:
How goes 10.6.8 for everyone? My MSI didn't fare so well, but my DS3L came through with flying colors! Of course the Mac mini did fine also.
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No work Saturday, going to try it tomorrow on my rigs! Glad to hear the DS3L pulled through, going to test it on my UD3P as well.
 
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Kaido said:
No work Saturday, going to try it tomorrow on my rigs! Glad to hear the DS3L pulled through, going to test it on my UD3P as well.
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From what I've read about it, the multiple video cards are my MSI problem. I tried a couple of fixes, but it gets stuck after DSMOS arrives. Guess I'll stay with 10.6.7 for awhile. Do a verbose boot after the update, at least it worked better for my DS3L as I tried it first without, but ended up with a blue screen. Of course it breaks audio as well.

Weird no spinning clock on the Hacks, but still got one on my Mac mini. Good luck.
 
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Just curious as to what kind of board people would be looking at next. 1155 (Sandy Bridge), 1156 (i3/i5/i7), 1136 (i7)?
 
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I've told myself to wait until I can go 1155 otherwise its a waste.

However, I don't see myself gaining too much from that unless I pick up an SSD that can use the SATA3 to its potential. My 775 system has lasted me a very long time, truthfully I should really just replace the SSD with a bigger one and get a new video card for triple monitors and lower power usage, prob 6850ish range.
 
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My multi video card/6 monitor MSI system is now up on 10.6.8, thanks to the legacy kext available from Prasys' blog here: http://bit.ly/kTkTxG Had to use MultiBeast to roll back the audio once the update was complete, but everything is working fine now. May tackle the GA-945GCMX-S2 next...
 
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on my high end system, gonna keep it with W7. on my low end, i'm gonna run Lion on it! (q6600, 8gb DDR2 1000MHz, 8800gtx, 600GB Velociraptor)
 
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New site:

http://www.appleknacks.com/

Will be consolidating this thread & the pinned Hackintosh 101 thread at some point in the future. Working on migrating the wiki right now. Discussion will be primarily for Lion & Snow Leopard, I think it's safe to leave Leopard 10.5 in the dust ;)
 
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Also, 300k views on this thread - holy crap!

175 pages with a total of 4,365 posts. We're turning into the official neffing thread of ATA :D
 
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mosslack said:
New site looks good, totally agree on leaving Leo behind. Can't wait to get started, what's first?
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Doing some heavy research right now. A lot has changed since I last released a kit. The bugs in the Snow Leopard kit have been fixed (C-States & P-States in particular), so I'll probably toss those up first. Catching up on the boot CD's at the moment.

Baby comes tomorrow, so I'll be a little quiet this week, and then probably start posting at really random times during the nights lol ;)
 
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Kaido said:
Baby comes tomorrow, so I'll be a little quiet this week, and then probably start posting at really random times during the nights lol ;)
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Hmmm, wasn't aware these came in on a schedule, but then it's been awhile since I experienced a new arrival. Perhaps medical science has progressed since I've been inactive. :)
 
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Hmmm, wasn't aware these came in on a schedule, but then it's been awhile since I experienced a new arrival. Perhaps medical science has progressed since I've been inactive. :)
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Yup, 2:00PM sharp :D He's breach - hasn't flipped yet!

Got 10.6.8 up on the DS3L tonight. Working great so far! ES2L is next on the chopping block - I think it still has 10.5.5 on it, haha (my old Plexbox).
 
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