The Merged Hackintosh Thread

[MacFanUK]

Problem with 8800GT - OSX 10.5.8

I have just bought an nVidia 8800GT to use in my hackintosh because I wanted to get dual displays working, however, I can't even get the driver installed.

I am trying to use the NVinject (as recommended on the HCL), and have followed these instructions as well as these.

However, I keep getting an error saying the kext was not correctly installed.

Can anyone help please?

 

[MacUser2525]

I have just bought an nVidia 8800GT to use in my hackintosh because I wanted to get dual displays working, however, I can't even get the driver installed.

I am trying to use the NVinject (as recommended on the HCL), and have followed these instructions as well as these.

However, I keep getting an error saying the kext was not correctly installed.

Can anyone help please?

Forget Nvinject use either a graphics string in your com.apple.Boot.plist or an edited DSDT.aml if you use it. Now for anyone to be able to help you do this you need to give more information and since you got an 8800GT then you will want to install a Disabler.kext that includes the AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext in its blacklist as it causes funky problems with that family of cards.. You should probably head over to Insanely Mac to ask your questions about it they can get bitchie about it here. If you do so the information you should include is all hardware in the machine, method of install, version installed, .kext and boot loader used plus exact error message(s) with screen shots if you have them.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/

 

[nomar383]

Just an update on my build. Updated to Snow Leopard pretty easily. I had to manually copy everything from my TM backup though since Migration Assistant was having its period or something haha

 

[msjones]

Got mine all up and running stable on 10.5.8. Not really in any rush to update to snow leopard, 10.5 does everything I need it to.

Specs are:

Intel 2.6GHZ Dual Core E5300
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Motherboard
2GB DDR2 800 RAM
640GB SATA HD (160 GB HFS 500GB NTFS)
ASUS 9800GT (Using 8800GT EFI STRING)
80GB HD running Windows 7 (make shift bootcamp to play Left 4 Dead and VPN into work)

Everything is working except my line in, but I am looking into an external sound card for audio recording so not an issue.

Has anyone got any experience with running snow on this board?

 

[DoFoT9]

Got mine all up and running stable on 10.5.8. Not really in any rush to update to snow leopard, 10.5 does everything I need it to.

Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Motherboard


Has anyone got any experience with running snow on this board?

oh oh i have the same board as you! except i have an E4600 running (might upgrade to quad core soon). i would also like to know the SL status

 

[NoSmokingBandit]

I finally updated to 10.6.2. Everything works except the sound so i had to switch over to VoodooHDA and set up sleepwatcher to unload/reload the kext on wake/sleep so it doesnt get all distorted. Its not ideal, but theres not many options now with the stupid dsdt trend.

 

[Mac7]

so I read that the Dell 1490 is osx compatible, so I bought one for my Aspire One. But its kind of unstable. The aiport icon shows, and it says I'm connected but when I use firefox I can't connect to any pages. Sometimes it doesn't even connect to my network at all.
Any solutions?

 

[brewty]

please advise

Hello,
I have a fully functional dual boot MSI Wind hackintosh. I would like to purchase another MSI Wind from Newegg (or where ever) and make a second hackintosh. My question is this: can I do a full copy of my HDD and place the copied HDD in the second MSI Wind and have it work? Or, do I need to do the whole process over again? The reason that I prefer to do the copy is because I purchased the MSI Wind the way that it is, and am not all too sure of how to make an exact replicate on my own. Also, supposing that this will work, what program should I use to make the duplicate HDD. It does not have to be a free program, it just needs to work. Thanks. Please PM me with a response.
-brewty

 

[MacUser2525]

Hello,
I have a fully functional dual boot MSI Wind hackintosh. I would like to purchase another MSI Wind from Newegg (or where ever) and make a second hackintosh. My question is this: can I do a full copy of my HDD and place the copied HDD in the second MSI Wind and have it work? Or, do I need to do the whole process over again? The reason that I prefer to do the copy is because I purchased the MSI Wind the way that it is, and am not all too sure of how to make an exact replicate on my own. Also, supposing that this will work, what program should I use to make the duplicate HDD. It does not have to be a free program, it just needs to work. Thanks. Please PM me with a response.
-brewty

Yes you can use diskutil to do a restore onto the new machines hard drive. Just connect the new drive to the old machine with an external usb enclosure no need to install just use the connector with HD on anti-static bag. Once connected to your current machine open diskutil choose your install partition as the source in the Restore tab then new drive partition as destination click apply let it do its thing when done re-install the boot loader used onto the new drive. You would most likely want to boot the new machine with the usb drive first to make sure every thing went well if it did then shutdown and put the drive back into new machine.

 

[brewty]

Awesome! I will give this a try and post the results. It will be a couple of weeks though, as I have not purchased the second computer yet because I wanted to know how much trouble it was going to be!
-brewty

 

[MacUser2525]

Awesome! I will give this a try and post the results. It will be a couple of weeks though, as I have not purchased the second computer yet because I wanted to know how much trouble it was going to be!
-brewty

Not much trouble at all done it dozens of times testing upgrades. Only thing you may not like is since you cloned the first machine is the host/computer name will be the same so you will end up with for instance MyMacPro 2 if both are connected to the same network at the same time on one of the machines.

 

[brewty]

one more thing....

As I prepare to do this, can I upgrade to a larger HDD, or does the disc have to be the same size because it is already partitioned in a certain way.... sorry if this is a dumb question, you have all been so helpful!
-brewty

 

[MacUser2525]

As I prepare to do this, can I upgrade to a larger HDD, or does the disc have to be the same size because it is already partitioned in a certain way.... sorry if this is a dumb question, you have all been so helpful!
-brewty

Size does not matter nor the partitioning really as long as it is a large enough partition to hold the operating system, when you install a boot loader like Chameleon you can just install to the partition where the operating system is located and it should just boot. Now if OS X is going to be the only thing on the drive then in diskutil when you do the partitioning/formatting of the new drive before the Restore you should go with GUID partitioning scheme HFS+ formatted.

 

[andymodem]

Got mine all up and running stable on 10.5.8. Not really in any rush to update to snow leopard, 10.5 does everything I need it to.

Specs are:

Intel 2.6GHZ Dual Core E5300
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Motherboard
2GB DDR2 800 RAM
640GB SATA HD (160 GB HFS 500GB NTFS)
ASUS 9800GT (Using 8800GT EFI STRING)
80GB HD running Windows 7 (make shift bootcamp to play Left 4 Dead and VPN into work)

Everything is working except my line in, but I am looking into an external sound card for audio recording so not an issue.

Has anyone got any experience with running snow on this board?

I have the same board as you, except I have a Q9400 @ 3GHz. Snow Leopard is ridiculously easy as the guide has been updated recently.

Just follow this and if you have any questions, I'd be glad to help where I can.

http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/guide-retail-snow-leopard-dvd-install-for-g31m-t3672/

 

[andymodem]

Sorry if this has been asked already, but has anyone tried the usb plugin adapters from Best Buy to use the Magic Mouse on Snow Leopard?

 

[Ownage]

Chameleon Bootloader won't Boot at All (Dell Inspiron 1525)

EDIT: Attached specs do not seem to view correctly. You can check it out here: http://pastebay.com/73784

I am using this version of the Chameleon Bootloader http://macyourpc.com/2009/09/13/mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-retail-install-boot-132-method/

This and EmpireEFI once booted fine on my machine. I even successfully installed mac to a USB disk. Now this bootloader, the stock chameleon bootloader, and EmpireEFI will NOT make it to the bootscreen at all. I have tried the cdboot file from the latest version of chameleon to no avail. The following is displayed

reading ramdisk image bt(0,0)/Extra/PreBoot.dmg (sometimes with a \ at the end)
no ramdisk config.....

Mounting done..

and boom it freezes.

I am able to boot this fine in VMWare, but not on my PC. I have made no changes to my computer other than reformatting and repartitioning my HDD (to MBR). I also tried disabling all "unneeded options" in BIOS such as wifi, NETWORK, MULTITHREADING, ETC

What could be going on?

 

[Cave Man]

I'd like to add a Firewire 800/400 card to my hackintosh. I have PCI slots and would prefer 2x800 and 1x400 on the rear plate and also an internal header to connect to my tower's front panel. Any suggestions?

 

[NoSmokingBandit]

I have a cheap pci fw400 pci card that worked great. Its not even a brand name, just some junk i found laying around. It did work, then it stopped for no reason. It doesnt work on either of my towers so i think the card itself died No more recording audio to my fw drive

 

[pcs are junk]

try taking a look over at the insanelymac.com forums, they'll probably have better answers than we do.

 

[nullx86]

I'd like to add a Firewire 800/400 card to my hackintosh. I have PCI slots and would prefer 2x800 and 1x400 on the rear plate and also an internal header to connect to my tower's front panel. Any suggestions?

just google/ebay for a fw800 card thats supported for Mac OS X. Google it to confirm.

I have a cheap pci fw400 pci card that worked great. Its not even a brand name, just some junk i found laying around. It did work, then it stopped for no reason. It doesnt work on either of my towers so i think the card itself died No more recording audio to my fw drive

same as above.

 

[JackButler]

Anyone running a Wacom Intuos4 on their hackintosh? is it working properly with latest driver?

I'm looking at getting one soon (the medium).

any feedback please.... Thanks

 

[Cave Man]

I'd like to add a Firewire 800/400 card to my hackintosh. I have PCI slots and would prefer 2x800 and 1x400 on the rear plate and also an internal header to connect to my tower's front panel. Any suggestions?

I picked up a Dynex DX-PCI2PF (2xfw800/1xfw400) PCIe card at Best Buy for $30. Works great so far.

 

[Cave Man]

Now I'm looking for a USB bluetooth dongle. Does anyone know of a compatible device?

 

[giffut]

I have just bought an nVidia 8800GT to use in my hackintosh because I wanted to get dual displays working, however, I can't even get the driver installed.

I am trying to use the NVinject (as recommended on the HCL), and have followed these instructions as well as these.

However, I keep getting an error saying the kext was not correctly installed.

Can anyone help please?

You may give "natit.kext" a try, too: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showforum=129

The com.apple.bootlist string inject or dsdt method do not always work - at least with me and my native mac ready 7300GT.

 

[richard.mac]

Now I'm looking for a USB bluetooth dongle. Does anyone know of a compatible device?

im using a bluetooth 2.0 EDR mini usb from eBay. couple of bucks and it works fine! not 2.1 albeit, they are hard to find.

you can see my new Hackintosh in my sig. very stable and fast but a few things not working properly. will post some info and pics in the other thread when finished.