Comments on: Hackintosh part 8

By: basshead

basshead — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:45:52 +0000

All the information you need was covered in the hackintosh articles. Try searching on google for the installation disks mentioned in hackintosh parts 5 and 8. Then visit http://www.osx86project.org, which has all the information you need to build a working hackintosh.

By: Frank T

Frank T — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:53:17 +0000

I’d love to try hackintosh. I’ve even purchased a copy of mac os x 10.5.1 to be legit (somewhat). But I cannot find any way to modify the dvd that was purchased or the recommended torrents of cracked 10.5.1 dvd.

Any ideas?

By: basshead

basshead — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:24:30 +0000

I plan at some point to add another hard drive with windows and linux , then select the hard drive to boot via the bios. Makes sense to me to avoid having lots of operating systems on the same drive as mac os. I may be able to use this drive in vmware or parallels, but I would think the different hardware seen would cause an issue.
There are some good guides to setting the bios on the P35-DS3R so I followed those, mainly setting ACPI and a few other things. I installed using the kalyway disk so nvinject was part of this and I had no problems.
I got my sound working following instructions like the one shown at

http://forum.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t69627.html

Sleep is intermittent, it worked perfectly once but not since. Shutdown usually works but sometimes I have to hit the power button myself. There are reports of replacement kernels curing this so I will be trying one of those as soon as I can backup my hard drive.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:52:21 +0000

Re the playing games thing …

I’m sure I’ve read somewhere that you can install windows on bootcamp (although just realised that I’ve not checked that that will work on a hackintosh) and then run the bootcamp install in vmware – advantage of this is that you can normally use the windows install under vmware (with unity!), but if you want to play a game, you can boot it directly.

And couple of other points/questions:

My components arrived so I’ve now got a working hackintosh very similar to yours. Had a few problems on the way – the installer wouldn’t complete till i tinkered with the bios, and the first go with NvInject broke the install too. But its getting there now.

I still haven’t got the sound going – wondering whether I need to adjust some bios options here too (followed the instructions you linked to). And sleep doesn’t work, which seems to be a common issue with hackintoshes – does sleep work on yours?

By: basshead

basshead — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:28:50 +0000

To be honest the only time I have found memory a bit tight was when running Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP under VMware on top of Mac OS. I gave both virtual machines 512Mb so Leopard only had 1Gb. I was driven by budget so intend to buy another 2Gb after this months pay day. Dual boot is nice, but running both operating systems at the same time is more convenient for me. I just wish VMware had better game support for if I did want to play.
My next concern is data security so I will probably get another 500Gb hard drive as well and blog about the backup options open to a hackintosh owner, as I suspect some of the better software may not work using the EFI emulation.
I agree with you that the Macbook’s speakers are lame. I tried watching a film once using the built in speakers and they just aren’t up to the job. I think this is where Apple falls over in its cheaper offerings compared to windows laptops.

By: Ben Hicks

Ben Hicks — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:11:41 +0000

Thanks. I have enjoyed your series on the hackintosh and like #8 as a summary. I would have used 4 gigs of memory. I have heard some complaints of the recent quality of the Gigabyte boards on the newegg reviewer comments but that may be a small minority. Hopefully, I will put together a hackintosh after paying US taxes in April. Like you cost is a motivation and the lack of flexibility in components. I set up my daughters Mac Book this past summer and was struck by the fact that there were only 2 USB ports. I thought the speakers were poor compared to my wife’s Toshiba. However, the Mac OS was wonderful and that is the attraction. Actually a dual boot with Mac and Windows is what I am hoping for.