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The Merged Hackintosh Thread

What describes you?

  • No way would I build a hackintosh

    Votes: 349 23.0%

  • I'd consider it if Apple doesn't provide a new Mini or headless iMac in the next three months

    Votes: 185 12.2%

  • I'm considering it right now

    Votes: 578 38.2%

  • I already built one

    Votes: 403 26.6%
  • Total voters
    1,515
MidgetArcher said:
sweet, time to do some research😀
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wow, looks like I can turn my Dell into a hackingtosh
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GeForce 8600 GT 128 bit GDDR3 PCI Exp x 16

nanofrog or anyone.

I bought the above video card instead of the GeForce 8400 GS and installed it today. Installed the video driver so now my new 20 inch monitor displays at the native 1600 x 900 on Windows XP with a DVI connection. It looks great.

Now I have to go find the kext for the video board. A year ago when I built my first Hackintosh, I had spent so many hours doing research that I was up to speed on the project. Now, I have forgotten much of it and have do research all over again. Any suggestions?
 
maccompaq said:
nanofrog or anyone.

I bought the above video card instead of the GeForce 8400 GS and installed it today. Installed the video driver so now my new 20 inch monitor displays at the native 1600 x 900 on Windows XP with a DVI connection. It looks great.

Now I have to go find the kext for the video board. A year ago when I built my first Hackintosh, I had spent so many hours doing research that I was up to speed on the project. Now, I have forgotten much of it and have do research all over again. Any suggestions?
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Look near the end of this post:
http://www.infinitemac.com/f7/nvidia-8400-gs-256-mb-t2181/

Someone got it working with NVInject, but every system is different lol
 
Has anyone done an update to 10.5.7? What are the kexts i need to backup? Or do I just have to copy the extensions folder back after rebooting?
 
steviem said:
Has anyone done an update to 10.5.7? What are the kexts i need to backup? Or do I just have to copy the extensions folder back after rebooting?
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I have a retail boot 132 install now and didnt have to do anything special. Just make sure to have a time machine backup just in case.
 
thegoldenmackid said:
Hello All, I was wondering where the best place to buy a hackintoshed netbook?
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I don't know where you can buy one, but it looks like the Toshiba NB205 is hackintosh-friendly. Looks like just about everything works, including wifi, cam and sleep. It's based on the single core Atom/GMA950.

I was hoping that by now there'd be an ION-based netbook out (dual core Atom on the nVidia 9400m chipset) but I haven't seen one yet. Lenovo announced the S12 but I don't know if it's shipping.
 
Looking out into the future...

I will be editing a small indie film I shot myself with some friends. Time frame is to start in November of this year. My idea is to use the latest FCP (so far, I've worked pretty extensively with FCP 4.5... yes, I'm still on a PPC mac, ha!). Now hardware - I'm on an pretty tough budget, and looking over the official Apple options is pretty depressing. I looked at the mini, but although it'll run FCP (barely), I keep dreaming of the non-existent mid-range desktop... but not the iMac. More and more I'm thinking hackintosh.

My idea is that I'll get the hardware late October. It will run Snow Leopard. I'm looking to spend $1K on the hardware - just the box, and crucially, without the hard drive as yet (I also have the keyboard, mice, monitor, speakers etc.). So how much hackintosh can I buy for around $1000 come October? I'd love to have at least 1 FW400 and 1 FW800 or better still, 2 FW400 and 1 FW800. Plus some 6-8 USB ports. What Mobo would that be? It should take a quad core, at least 2.33 or better... whatever Intel comes up with by late October. Again, what kind of a rig can I get for $1K in hackintosh parts (also: not interested in bluray, but the dvd drive should burn DL DVDs). Thanks!
 
OldCorpse said:
I will be editing a small indie film I shot myself with some friends. Time frame is to start in November of this year. My idea is to use the latest FCP (so far, I've worked pretty extensively with FCP 4.5... yes, I'm still on a PPC mac, ha!). Now hardware - I'm on an pretty tough budget, and looking over the official Apple options is pretty depressing. I looked at the mini, but although it'll run FCP (barely), I keep dreaming of the non-existent mid-range desktop... but not the iMac. More and more I'm thinking hackintosh.

My idea is that I'll get the hardware late October. It will run Snow Leopard. I'm looking to spend $1K on the hardware - just the box, and crucially, without the hard drive as yet (I also have the keyboard, mice, monitor, speakers etc.). So how much hackintosh can I buy for around $1000 come October? I'd love to have at least 1 FW400 and 1 FW800 or better still, 2 FW400 and 1 FW800. Plus some 6-8 USB ports. What Mobo would that be? It should take a quad core, at least 2.33 or better... whatever Intel comes up with by late October. Again, what kind of a rig can I get for $1K in hackintosh parts (also: not interested in bluray, but the dvd drive should burn DL DVDs). Thanks!
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I've been seeing the latest core i7 machines going for less than $1000.

It requires a bit of work to get it going, but you should see performance somewhere between the low end Mac Pro (4 core) and High end Mac Pro (8 core) depending on video card etc.

I'm running a blu-ray drive in my rig (dual boots windows), but OS X won't do much in terms of blu-ray. It will still use the drive for burning dvd's though.
 
If you wait until October you can probably build a pretty nice i7 rig with $1k. Right now i7s are a bit of a pain, but progress is being made and you shouldnt have a problem building a stable rig. Even if i7s are still wonky you can just build with a core2quad and use a very high-end gfx card seeing as snow leopard will use the gpu quite a bit.
For $1k you can easily build a machine that holds its own against the mac pro.
 
My success on a dv6000t

I would like to share my success, as this is the furthest I've ever gotten.

Dual Boot with Vista and OS X 10.5.6
Started with installing Vista Home Premium (native to the HP dv6000t)
Followed a guide to install and partition (120GB HDD, split into 55.6, the rest for formatting)
Used iPC for my base system. The retail wouldn't work, as it didn't load my video driver (or something) and I constantly got a blue screen, but not a waste of a licence 😉

I checked the boxes in Customize:
iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Base System
Drivers - Natit
Intel - Intel GMA950 (I have the GMA 945, but it's working well).
Other Audio Drivers - Conexant HiDef Audio (Partically works, but keep reading).
Ethernet Drivers - Intel PRO100/VE
Power Management - PowerManagement Package; Clamshell Display Support
Fixes and Patches - Dual Boot Time Sync
PS/2 Device Support - PS/2 Keyboard Fix
DSDT Patches - Patch DSDT

With using these settings, the OS recognizes most everything EXCEPT the Ricoh 5in1 Card Reader and my Eithernet port. The Ethernet port does light up and physically responds, but I can't get it to recognize it in "Network". I don't have anyway of testing the phone modem because I don't use it. VGA out will send on boot, but as soon as the desktop loads, it drops signal. S-Video is unknown, I can't find my cable :\. Firewire does work, it's a mini port and reads at 400 (normal). My wireless light will change from pink to blue depending on what I install. The USB ports disconnect upon sleep/wake. I have a bluetooth adapter, it works fine. (Synaptics)Trackpad works, but has no settings. F-Keys work like normal for light/dim screen, sleep, etc., as well as my QuickLaunch volume buttons (but not the "launch" button).

What I installed to make things work better:
No startup/shut down sounds: I used a program called "System Sound", it works now.
Audio Out/SPDIF and Microphone: I installed VoodooHDA.kext By Thireus.
Trackpad: I used ALPSGlide Pad Windfix and FFScroll, these together work okay. It's not great and I'm looking for something better. These enable two-finger scrolling, 360-scrolling but the tap to click is finicky and the program all together is weird and slow.

All-in-all, this is STABLE 🙂. It could be better of course, but it's functional for my last semester of school. If all goes well, I'll shrink the Vista partition 😉. I hope this helps someone, as to get this far took weeks. Sorry for not providing links, but I Googled everything and never thought to save links.

Happy Hacking :apple:
 
Thanks a lot, pilotError and noSmokingBandit. I am definitely interested in doing this, though I am uneasy reading about how much functionality it might lose compared to regular Apple hardware (weird things like USB connectors suddenly not working etc.). Unfortunately I'm not that savvy a computer user - I built one PC many years ago - Windows 98 - and I can put in a new hard drive and memory in my mac mini, but I'm not exactly a whiz with this stuff. A hackintosh is a bit intimidating. So I'll be cautious and go slowly most likely, with lots of questions.
 
OldCorpse said:
Thanks a lot, pilotError and noSmokingBandit. I am definitely interested in doing this, though I am uneasy reading about how much functionality it might lose compared to regular Apple hardware (weird things like USB connectors suddenly not working etc.). Unfortunately I'm not that savvy a computer user - I built one PC many years ago - Windows 98 - and I can put in a new hard drive and memory in my mac mini, but I'm not exactly a whiz with this stuff. A hackintosh is a bit intimidating. So I'll be cautious and go slowly most likely, with lots of questions.
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The only thing not working well is wake from sleep. It's kinda like me, doesn't want to wake up! LOL Since I'm running a desktop, it doesn't really matter to me, so I never bothered researching it. I just turned it off in the power settings.

I haven't seen any of those crazy issues at all, and it's installed with a minimal set of kexts. I did the last two software updates without issue. I'm still kind of surprised that it is as solid as it is.

I think the recommendation to stick with mainstream hardware (asus or gigabyte motherboards) is a good one. Find something that everyone is using, and it makes it much easier to do.

The truth is that all the variation you use to see in PC hardware is converging. You use to see 10 different types of video cards, now it's mainly Intel, Nvidia and ATI. Sound chipsets are starting to converge as well. I guess you can say the same thing with ethernet and wireless chipsets, as everyone is sourcing from the same 2 or 3 places. Once someone builds a driver or Apple supports it natively, anything that uses that chipset can be used.

I'm starting to see a lot of official 3rd party support for Mac OS X, so half the time you don't even need to get a hack to get things working.
 
The key is to build smart. A lot of people find old parts laying around and then complain that they dont work. I built a hac a while ago after reading the IM forums quite a bit. I carefully picked the parts i wanted and it has been running osx flawlessly since 10.5.2. Its all about research and picking the correct parts.
 
Thanks guys for all the encouragement. I'm now super pumped up to do this... I have a hard time resisting waiting until the end of October. Damn it's hard to wait. I'm so sick of my underpowered gear (iBook 1.33 and mini 1.5Ghz - both PPC!). And I really cannot stomach the thought of an iMac with all those laptop components inside and stuck to that screen. If this works, I think I may never go back to Apple for a desktop... portable, is a different matter - those unibodies are sweet 🙂
 
phpmike said:
you guys think I would be able to run osx on this guy?

http://cgi.ebay.com/INTEL-CORE-i7-9...18ba5e0dc&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_7411wt_1438
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• Asus P6TSE X58 Core i7 Motherboard
Mobo has had mixed results, but it is possible..

• nVidia GeForce 9400GT 1GB DVI/HDTV PCI-Express Video Card
easy to setup, but why would you have such a powerful computer with such a weak GPU?

• REALTEK 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet Network Card (onboard)
Not sure, will probably need a kext modificaiton

• REALTEK 8-CHANNEL DIGITAL SOUND ONBOARD
Not sure, again willprobably need a kext.

other then that it should be fine. what installation method were you thinking of using??
 
Cave Man said:
...I was hoping that by now there'd be an ION-based netbook out (dual core Atom on the nVidia 9400m chipset) but I haven't seen one yet. Lenovo announced the S12 but I don't know if it's shipping.
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The Nvidia Ion version of the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 netbook is suppose to ship sometime in August. (Lenovo began shipping the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 version of the the IdeaPad S12 in July.)

There's also the Samsung N510 11.6' Nvidia Ion netbook expected soon. The N510 is available for pre-order in France.
 
10.5.8!! Woooo! Apparently its a completely safe update for hackers.


Also, i sold one of my hacs today. A Q9400, 4gb ddr2, 3870, 500gb for $600. Everything worked great on it, but the fellow didnt seem to know his way around the tech side a bit. I almost feel bad selling a hac to someone who doesnt know how an OS works, but its a 99% vanilla system so hes not going to have many problems, and if he wanted something perfect he could just by a mac, right?
 
localoid said:
The Nvidia Ion version of the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 netbook is suppose to ship sometime in August. (Lenovo began shipping the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 version of the the IdeaPad S12 in July.)

There's also the Samsung N510 11.6' Nvidia Ion netbook expected soon. The N510 is available for pre-order in France.
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Finally a 11.6" Netbook that doesn't use the dog GMA 500 and a slowpoke Z520.
 
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