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[Professor Piff]

ronnie42055, on 06 October 2011 - 03:41 AM, said:

okay I have followed the guide right and booted -v
it hangs up on
ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin: :Start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement ) timed out

any and all help greatly appreciated

Having the same problem here... i've read and re-read and re-read some more. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Would really like to make something out of this $15 computer.

[LatinMcG]

Professor Piff, on 24 March 2012 - 10:44 PM, said:

Having the same problem here... i've read and re-read and re-read some more. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Would really like to make something out of this $15 computer.

blacklisted = u are using a kernel hats modified.
fakesmc isnt loading.
wrong smbios.plist model
secondary ide channel disabled is the IOATA panicfix needed on sat1 in dsdt.. or bios settings

[franko776]

Thanks for the great guide.

I am a total noob to this, but thanks to you and this forum ive been doing ALOT of learning on regards to hackintoshing!

I wanted to add, that I was able to drop a Pentium D940 3.2Ghz dual core in the GX520, and it runs it without problems (My GX520 originally came with a crappy centrino D chip LOL). It is actualy detected as an intel 3.19ghz intel core 2 duo (weird huh?) so, if anybody wants to push these little machines a bit more, I highly recommend dropping 4 gigs of ram, an additional low pofile card and a pentium d940. total cost for ram and chip is less than $100, so its a worthwile upgrade. I was able to fix the app store not working by using another guide here that uses EFI Studio, and everything is running like a charm. I actually have 2 gx520's and I could have just copied the drives and that would have been easier, but I wanted to learn how to do it from scratch. So I used the "eye boot" legacy disc with the Snow leopard 10.6, (if your GX520 has a dvd rom its alot faster this way, rather than wait for the mpkg file to transfer over on a usb key) loaded everything on the guide to the USB key and installed Ihack with your recommendations, copied over to the desktop and applied all kexts as per your instructions and added all kernels after the updates. Can honestly say the second hack was way way smoother than the first one, and much easier. Im still learning about the differences between chocolate and vanilla kernels, and im sure i'll ruin a couple of more installs before I get it right LOL. Can you tell me what the mayor differences would be between the 2 and if the performance is really that much better or worse?

Thanks.

Dell Optiplex GX520 (Hackintosh running SL 10.6.8 with all updates)
3.19 intel Dual Core 2 Duo (Pentium D940 processor)
2 gigs of ram
Stock intel 950 graphics

Second Unit
Shuttle XPC SB77G5 (Hackintosh running SL 10.6.8 with all updates) (about this mac window not working LOL, everything else runs perfect)
Pentium 4 3.2 ghz processor
2 gigs of ram
Nvidia 8400GS graphics

[franko776]

Professor Piff, on 24 March 2012 - 10:44 PM, said:

Having the same problem here... i've read and re-read and re-read some more. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Would really like to make something out of this $15 computer.

Did you check in your BIOS your hard drive options and set it to combination mode? I had that happening to me also and as soon as I changed it in the Bios Everything worked without a hitch.

[ideo]

So i put the DSDT.aml to make the graphics work and now i boot up to a grey screen. Any ideas? GX520 SFF with Pentium D.

[ideo]

So the DSDT.aml wont work even if i have a tiny little bit different hardware. That's fine. I'll use the framebuffer until i figure out how create a DSDT. Next thing is how can i force a resolution of 1336 x 768? My monitor is 1024x768 but i want to be able to get anamorphic output into it.

[Thirddevil]

Hi, I have a quick question, I have just succeeded in hackintoshing my gx520 mini tower, and am about to follow the update instructions but I was wondering if there is a quicker way of doing it? ie: can I change to vannilla kernal first and then just run software update? Or can I just run the latest update part of the guide? Or does it have to be step by step? Currently it is running the 10.6.3 version that came on my retail disk, it took me a good few attempts to make it work and is now running well so I dont wanna muck it up. One other thing I was wondering was if anybody had succeeded in getting lion on one of these?

Many thanks.
Ps: this forum has been my sole resource for making this work so thank you guys.

[redneck]

help please>10.6.8  legacy kernel>
I got everything to work update 6.7  then 6.8 but now after 6.8 I can only boot in the safe mode. or black screen.

[darkcompgeek]

Hello

I've followed this guide, and everything worked perfectly! I'm now on 10.6.8 with the legacy kernel. I decided to install iLife '11 and it worked (by changing the date to something before 2011)

Point is, is it safe to use software update to install the full Garageband loops? or for that matter, any other non-system software?

Just making sure in case the system gets a kernel panic/loading error later on.

[OscarLondon95]

Hi,
I followed your exact procedure but in verbose it's stuck at a screen which updates (increases the number - here it is 1055 to 1059 and so on) every 5 s or so.

localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[1055]: Login Window Application

I get this when I boot from the USB.
Thanks for any help

[FransNetwork]

cactusjack901, on 16 November 2011 - 01:35 AM, said:

10.7 requires a 64-bit processor which you do not have

Wrong.

The Europe/UK version of the GX520 (small form factor) are:
Intel P4 HT 3.00GHz and
Intel Pentium D 3.06GHz and they are both 64 bit and also come with an CD drive (Not DVD's)

More info can be found at: http://forum.pfsense....html#msg306278

Has anyone attempted to install Lion yet? If so what version?

[Cerastez]

darkcompgeek, on 21 September 2012 - 02:47 PM, said:

Hello

I've followed this guide, and everything worked perfectly! I'm now on 10.6.8 with the legacy kernel. I decided to install iLife '11 and it worked (by changing the date to something before 2011)

Point is, is it safe to use software update to install the full Garageband loops? or for that matter, any other non-system software?

Just making sure in case the system gets a kernel panic/loading error later on.

It is safe to use Software Update after you have installed 10.6.8.  I have a GX620 (pretty much identical to a  gx520) and using Software Update worked perfectly, no problems.

[FransNetwork]

Cerastez, on 25 January 2013 - 05:04 PM, said:

It is safe to use Software Update after you have installed 10.6.8.  I have a GX620 (pretty much identical to a  gx520) and using Software Update worked perfectly, no problems.

The only way is to try it so ny advise would be:

1) backup everything!
2) Dont tick the Java update thing

Report back to help the community i would have a bash at it but i dont have a DVD ROM drive/USB stick yet.