hackintosh build
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- Hombre_Lobo0
^awwww mate! DO IT!!!!
That would be so cool. Would have the old school looks, but Modern power!!
- kalkal0
If I ever do it, I'd like to mod an old G5 case from ebay to fit an ATX motherboard. I have no idea how to do that though, so I'm not going to.
- Hombre_Lobo0
^show off!!
making me very tempted! :P
you imaged it yet? (take a copy of your hard drive so you dont have to faff about again?)
- no, not yet.johnny_wobble
- DO IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!kalkal
- Also, it's nice to do it before you fill up your system with crap.kalkal
- yeh kalkal!
i do an image on a fresh install, then do another when ive got my shit installedHombre_Lobo - that did make sense, but sounded like bs!Hombre_Lobo
- johnny_wobble0
monday morning bump for those of you who missed it over the weekend. this thing is running great. :)
- Hombre_Lobo0
@tymeframe
"how much work & effort goes into setting up something like that?"well first you have to do adequately put together a computer, which can be very daunting, but its quite easy.
The harder part i imagine is getting MAC OSX installed on your system, which from what ive read isnt that difficult as long as you're prepared for somethings not to work right away and spend some time trouble shooting them to get them working.
I expecting installing a hacked OSX would take a maximum 2 days, including all the problems you could face. which to most is worth the money saved as well as the better hardware available for a higher performance machine.
ask johnny wobble how long it took!
- johnny_wobble0
- YOU CHEEKY MONKEY!! :D
nice tower, good cooling on that bad boy!Hombre_Lobo - It's the law :Pkalkal
- YOU CHEEKY MONKEY!! :D
- Hombre_Lobo0
what beast -
- What a loser, real Macs are soooooooo much better.kalkal
- holy crapmonospaced
- lol kalkal!
its not often monospaced is shocked. This must be serious business!Hombre_Lobo - how much work & effort goes into setting up something like that?tymeframe
- i'm about to find out, i'm building onescarabin
- brodster0
is it posible to upgrade iMacs g5? does newegg have parts for it?
- The hard drive and RAM only reallykalkal
- Actually, I'm not sure it was easy to update the HD on an older mackalkal
- Brodster I am about to do this. You can only upgrade the drive and max out the ram.VikingKingEleven
- Hombre_Lobo0
^Ahh right. Good to know.
The efi thing rang some bells and I remembered I spotted this when choosing my components for a new machine -
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/sh…
that has UEFI bios.
What the hell is efi and uefi? Wikipedia here I come!!
- kalkal0
This whole thing could potentially become easier when standard PC motherboards start shipping with EFI instead of BIOS.
It's the biggest real difference between Macs and PCs still, other than the pretty factor.
- Oh and price :Pkalkal
- OH SNAP!!
You've open the gates now!!Hombre_Lobo - need some silver spraypaint too....vaxorcist
- haha. :-)akrok
- kalkal0
I think iBoot+multibeast is one of the cleanest ways other than just using iBoot and getting all of the kexts and stuff by youself
- the iboot cd you use is a handy thing to get you into the system if things fuck up too.johnny_wobble
- Hombre_Lobo0
Thanks for that link kalkal.
There seem to be many ways to hackintosh. I wonder which is the best / most stable.
- from my looking around, this seemed like the cleanest method.johnny_wobble
- raf0
How many hours did you put into it, including research?
- quite a bit including research. but I was mostly on the clock. :)johnny_wobble
- kalkal0
Btw, I'd suggest a disk image when it's all setup and working so you don't have to feel the pain again.
- Ha. My obsessive imaging habits made me think the same.
Good point dude! :)Hombre_Lobo - probably a good idea.johnny_wobble
- Handy if you ever mess up a system update too.kalkal
- Ha. My obsessive imaging habits made me think the same.
- kalkal0
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2…
It's great if you have the right hardware
- Hombre_Lobo0
@Johnny
did you use iatkos v7?
What's multibeast?- multibeast is a post-install tool for this install method. iboot + multibeast.johnny_wobble
- VikingKingEleven0
I want to upgrade my imac 2ghz intel core to duo drive to 1 or 2 TB.
Is western digital the model of the drive?
Where can I find this information? I read somewhere if you upgrade the drive you should stick with the same brand because of the cooling sensors?
What drives do you guys suggest?
- ST3250820AS Q - I guess its a seagate?VikingKingEleven
- yeah, western digital is the brand of hard drive I used, if that's what you're asking.johnny_wobble
- akrok0
i remember i heard something about that i5 was faster then a i7, which is funny cause it's cheaper too. it that right? Hombre_Lobo.
- That's right dude!
The generation i5 2500 is faster than the old i7's and as you said is cheaper!Hombre_Lobo - The new gen i5 is a different socket (1155) so it uses differen. Motherboards which cost a bit more than old gen CPU moboHombre_Lobo
- thank you. :-)akrok
- ...good info.akrok
- That's right dude!
- vaxorcist0
For my hackintosh (Q6600, made almost 2 years ago)
I have found that I had to get a USB sound stick on ebay for $5
and a USB wifi reciever, both worked once I got the right drivers for the wifi reciever...
- johnny_wobble0
it wasn't a perfectly smooth install. it froze a couple of times, it rebooted when it wasn't supposed to once and caused problems, a couple of times it's had no keyboard or mouse control after rebooting...
the power supply problem was like this:
I put everything together, plugged it in and pushed the power button. the lights on the motherboard flashed and then nothing. so I start unplugging things and seeing if it'll run. first with no sata drives hooked up and only 1 stick of ram and it runs fine, got video, bios screens, keyboard, etc. hooked them both back, nothing. hooked only the sata dvd drive up and turned it on, it runs and is ready to boot from my iboot boot disc, but no hd to install to. hooked up just the sata hd, runs fine and sees the hd, but no OS. so it's gotta be the power supply, but is it bad or too small? according to research, it's big enough. I unplug everything, plug it all back in and the fuckin' thing runs! both drives. ok, boot from iboot, swap out for retail cd, it's starting to install... then I get the gray screen that says "you must turn your computer off" or whatever. I'm still thinking it's gotta be the power supply, so I go buy a bigger one today, plug it in and everything powers up. it didn't take long to install after that.i'm not sure if sleep is working or if the mouse and keyboard problem is gone yet or if it's only after restarting or powering down or a hard reset with the power button? I only have the power button hooked up right now, so I need to hook up the rest of the front panel wiring before closing it up, hopefully the front usb ports work. I need to research opening up stuff on the motherboard like usb3 and sata 6gig ports for the future.
if this thing stays stable, I can always stick an i5 or i7 cpu in it and some more ram.
apparently the way to see if you have full video acceleration is by adding a new widget in dashboard, if you get trippy wripples around it when adding, your video is good. mine does that, so I guess video is all good. looks good to me.
- and that's why it's so cheap...betelgeuse
- and the cheap part makes it worth the trouble to me. *shrug*johnny_wobble
- Not cheap. But smart In the future will by the blueprint and build it themselves.VikingKingEleven
- Sounds like a pain in the arse. Alright though if your time isn't worth muchanimatedgif