Success H55, i3-540 and nvidia GT240

[andynotts]

Thought I'd share my new build with everyone.

Thanks to Tonymacx86 and Macman for [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url].

Thanks to Conti for MyHack

Thanks to everyone who wrote guides and forum posts I've trawled for this.

What's in the box...

 

Gigabyte H55M-S2H motherboard

Intel i3-530 processor

Zotac GT240 1GB Zone Edition graphics card

Samsung F3 1TB hard drive

Samsung Blu-Ray drive

Seasonic 330W PSU

Big Shuriken CPU cooler....real bugger to fit

SilverStone Grandia GD04 Case

 

I used the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Supported bootloader

Retail OS X 10.6.0 install disc

Updated to 10.6.4 then ran a combination of MyHack and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] with the DSDT from this site.

Actually that's pretty much all there was to installing. It took a lot of trial and error. I could not get [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to work properly, I think it's a case I need to RTFM.

 

I followed the standard method to begin with, installed OS X then immediately ran the 10.6.4 combo update. After the update rebooted still using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], not essential but I knew the update hadn't killed anything and everything still worked.

At this point I had tried a few different methods, Easy and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], neither would boot after running, it was stuck in a reboot loop, I think I had the wrong kernel because it couldn't get to the grey Apple screen even or possibly an issue of me using a 1TB HDD.

If I just ran MyHack it would load but with no USB, and then I could't reboot using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] because it would kernel panic.

So I used MyHack to install the Chameleon bootloader and sort out the kernel, it seems to do that automatically and very well. Then without rebooting I ran [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for the DSDT and kexts. End result a fully working system.

 

Im running this as a Plex media centre, the graphics card is 1 of the few fanless HDMI cards I could find and PSU and CPU fans are very quiet, you can hear it but you have to be listening. I don't think it looks out of place under a TV.

 

Only problem I've had was when I added an extra HDD it refused to boot, took the drive out and ok. I need to look at that some more not an issue today but in a month I'll be dying for more space. I don't think it's a Hackintosh issue actually not sure the BIOS is trying to boot off the correct drive.