hackintosh build

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  • 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

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