iMatt84 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Dual boot PC with Snow Leopard 10.6.6 and Windows 7 Ultimate My working specs: Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q83001 2.5GHz Graphics Card Asus Geforce 8400GS 512mb Graphics Card Memory 4GB DDR3 Memory Hard Drive 640GB SATA hard drive3 Optical Drive 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti Drive Audio High-Definition Audio with 5.1-channel Surround Sound Support Available Expansion Slots: 1 - PCI-E x16, 1 - PCI-E x1 Motherboard Systemboard with Intel® G43 Express Chipset Graphics Card (I suggest this card to save headaches and works 100% out of the box, if you have 10.6.6 you may have to refortmat and do a fresh new install for OS X to automatically detect it) http://www.amazon.com/Geforce-8400GS-Graph...duct/B002YOVYBY Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ2vW4Tc2PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmdale1984 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 I would really like to know more about how you accomplished this. I'm wanting to turn my SX2800-07 into a dual boot machine. I have done some significant upgrade to it, but I'm still hoping to make it work. Here's my specs... Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 8GB DDR3 RAM Kingston SSDNow V+100 96GB Internal SATA II 3GB/s 2.5" SSD Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB Internal SATA II 3GB/s 3.5" HD HIS Radeon HD 5570 Silence 2GB (128 bit) DDR3 HDMI PCI-Express 2.1 x 16 Video Card No Optical Drive! 350w Power Supply Any help you have to offer would be awesome! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryRex Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I've had very few problems with Snow Leopard but can't get Lion to Boot even into the installer. Any Luck with Lion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMatt84 Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 I've had no luck with lion... I'm sticking with Snow Leopard anyways because it's more compatible with various apps.. I still use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to boot my hackintosh up, I edit in Final Cut 7 and it works perfectly... glad I got the video card when I did because technology moves so fast... they aren't selling it as much anymore. My desktop is only 2 years old or so and gateway doesn't carry it anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryRex Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Are you booting 64bit? I have the same system and Snow Leo runs fine but I can't get it into 64bit mode. I think the same issue may be preventing me from installing Lion. If you've managed 64 would you mind sharing your DSDT and/or /Extra folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMatt84 Posted September 8, 2011 Author Share Posted September 8, 2011 Yes I am running 64 bit, I made this video on my thoughts about Final Cut X which works perfectly on my hackintosh... no issues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWy73rJtWh4 you can get this desktop refurbished for only $335, if you add OSX Snow Leapord and the Nvidia card it's $400 for something that runs as fast as a quad-core mac pro..... not only is it a clean install but detected my pc as a mac pro as well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manofmany Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 Which bootloaders have you tried? Can't imagine Chimera not working. Really not 100% until you can boot into the OS without [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. I've got 10.6.8 running flawlessly on an old Toshiba C2D but I'd like to find a cheap desktop that that is almost fully compatible with Lion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iciconnect Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Hello, has anyone tried this machine with any recent OS past Snow Leopard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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