IDunnoAtal Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Hello fellow hackintoshers, I was wondering if I was able to install Mac OS X Mountain Lion on a custom built PC I am making/made (depending when I receive a reply), Here are the specs: MB: ASUS P5KC CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @2.4Ghz Non-OC RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR2-667Mhz (2x2GB) (Going to go 8GB or 4GB DDR3 soon (depending)) GPU: GIGABYTE NVidia GeForce 8400GS GDDR2 Sata DVD Drive HDD(s): 250GB Seagate (SATA), 160GB Hitatchi (SATA) I am open to installing either a distribution or retail depending which will work fast/best. Thanks for your reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Should be fine, use a retail install method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 OK thanks, I will reply when the main stuff comes. As some haven't come yet and most of it is coming from my old pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Amazes me that board can use DDR2 or DDR3. Pretty cool, and DDR3 is cheaper. Learn something new every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Amazes me that board can use DDR2 or DDR3. Pretty cool, and DDR3 is cheaper. Learn something new every day. My Gigabyte GA-EP45C-UD3R has that capability too. DDR3 is much faster although I seem to be limited to 8 gigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 Say I install it on DDR2 RAM can I upgrade to DDR3 and it would still work without needing to re-install Mtn. Lion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Say I install it on DDR2 RAM can I upgrade to DDR3 and it would still work without needing to re-install Mtn. Lion? No need to reinstall. The operating system doesn't care as long as the motherboard doesn't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 No need to reinstall. The operating system doesn't care as long as the motherboard doesn't care. Ah OK. Also is there any guides to creating a DSDT.aml for my system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Ah OK. Also is there any guides to creating a DSDT.aml for my system? What you want to do is to search this forum for the method to create a bootable USB stick with Linux on it. It will also tell you how to do a DSDT dump in Linux to create a virgin DSDT file. Then you bring that back over to the Mac side and edit it with a tool like DSDT Editor. Also look for the DSDT Auto Patcher thread for a guide on what you will need to edit, they talk about Asus boards over there. PS, keep a copy of the virgin DSDT archived somewhere, YOU WILL NEED IT as you learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 You can also dump your DSDT directly from DSDT Editor in OS X or if booting using Clover you can dump from the Clover screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 (edited) Ok, I could only get Snow Leopard in but I am trying to upgrade to Mountain Lion or Lion then to Mountain Lion... I create a backup OS of my Snow Leopard Installation as upgrading from 10.6.6 to 10.6.8 was a mountain climb for me.... but I managed to get it on... My Lion and Mountain Lion installer has locked me out of accessing it as shown below... The picture pretty much defines the problem.... Reply to this thread or drop me an email.... Email is more preferred as it is open constantly and this account isn't set up to my alternate email. My email is crisis.overlord@gmail.com That error is very weird plus my processor is an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 @ 2.4GHz if you haven't seen my other threads. Edited August 31, 2012 by Gringo Vermelho Image attached locally, topics merged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 FYI it's highly unlikely that someone would seek you out just help you, ie contact you via email. You'll probably receive some spam now that your email is live on a public forum that is trawled by spambots every day. An idea, not sure if it'll help - use champlist (google it) to build a proper smbios.plist using the MacPro3,1 model identifier. Place it in /Extra, reboot, then try again. Another idea; maybe your customized 'about this mac' has something to do with why it isn't working. Try to undo those changes if you can. It's recommended that you build your own installer and run it from a HDD partition or USB flash drive rather than running the Lion/Mountain Lion installer from inside your present installation like you would on a real Mac. It's a good thing that you have a backup of your working Snow Leopard installation, this means you are ready to experiment. There are plenty of guides on how to do it but only really one way - once you have looked at a couple of them you will see that they all outline the same basic steps. Pick one and go for it. You should be able to use the same boot loader configuration and /Extra folder setup that you are using with your Snow Leopard installation with little to no modification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 (edited) Sorry about the spam of forums.... Plus Champlist doesn't want to work... Edited August 31, 2012 by Gringo Vermelho Link removed, image attached locally, again. Please don't use external upload services. Use the full editor to attach files. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 As I told you via PM, spam is not the issue. The issue is keeping relevant information in the same place so that it can be easily retrieved and used in the future. We are in this together. If everyone sent emails and private messages back and forth, there would be no basis for a forum and we as a collective would not know even half of what we know about installing OS X on PCs. Taking this line of thought to the extreme, you could say that it's selfish to ask for experienced users to help you via email or private message - ie you get the information we have, but other users will not have access to it. For the same reasons, images should always be uploaded locally, in the same place as the content they are meant to describe. Also, although dropbox is not likely to disappear in the near future, upload services come and go. You're really putting me to work here! Here, take this: smbios.plist.zip It's a copy of my own MacPro3,1 smbios.plist, but it has no serial number. Use the information available here... http://prasys.info/2...-serial-number/ ...to create a valid, 11-digit serial number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 Thank you for your help and the valid serial help, sorry for running you ragged I'm doing it the long way and installing Lion then Mountain Lion... I am thanking you ever so much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 No problem, I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't feel like it. More importantly, did the smbios.plist help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 Yep it helped but now I can't see the drive where I was installing it too. Not even with an EFI disk called HackBoot.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Make sure the hard drive is connected to the ICH9. Look in your motherboard manual to see which SATA ports belong to the ICH9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 I installed a modded BIOS so all my satas could be AHCI as there is only 1 sata (without the mod) that could do it, which is the JMicron controller, which I have disabled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 That's very strange, if all your drives are connected to the ICH9 they should all be visible in Disk Utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 Sorry if I wasn't clear but the drive is on the same one as my Snow Leopard partition, but I can't see my Lion partition I was installing it from on the Lion installer.app So I am trying "######" (again) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDunnoAtal Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 So I got it installed, now it keeps rebooting in this order... >Loaded chameleon >Type in mach_kernel PCIRootUID=0 >Apple logo for a split second >Black Screen for 1 second >PC rebooted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Xtreme Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Ah OK. Also is there any guides to creating a DSDT.aml for my system? I found a DSDT on hackintoshosx.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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