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has Yosemite stopped the old graphic cards, like nvidia Geforce8600gt?


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Hi,

 

I am trying to hackintosh my antique PC, here is the hardware:

 

CPU - intel Xeon 3210 (lga775)

Mainboard - unika UP35, the chipset is Intel P35 (ICH 9) 

Graphic card - unika Geforce8600gt 256mb

Monitor - Dell U2417H

HD - WD 1TB 

Keyboard - PS2

Mouse - USB wired

Sound - integrated, ALC 

Ethernet - integrated, Yukon 8088

 

Boot: clover v3192

Partition: MBR (tried GPT as well)

Installation: Yosemite 10.10.5, on 16GB usb drive 

 

[remarks: I've already hackintosh my thinkPad E431 with clover boot/10.10.5, so I have an os system which allows me to perform many attempts.. like, install os x in an usb drive then burn the dmg file to HD.]

 

problem:

1. system reboot automatically when loading the installation / or the installed os x (on usb drive)

[resolved: when adding NullPowerManagement.kext under Clover\Kext\10.10, and set "NV_disable=1" in config.plist. the installation (and the installed os x) can be loaded now.]

 

2. can't load HD.

[the HD is not loaded neither in the loaded installation, nor in the installed os x, under many attempts]

 

3. can't load the USB wired mouse.

[the PS2 Keyboard is okay with the VoodooPS2*.kext, while the USB wired mouse is not okay.]

 

anyone here can discuss these issues?

 

 

 

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Guest ricoc90

As for the title: I think the Geforce 8600GT *should* work... I've seen others running yosemite on it.

Are you injecting the card (Inject->NVidia->True)?

 

As for the other questions:

I'm not sure what you mean with "can't load HD", because in your first question you said you can boot the installed os x if you're disabling the nvidia driver.
However, take a look at this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/319-yosemite-mbr-patch/

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thank you, ricoc90, and my apologize for the confusion.. the situation is: 

I m trying to hacintosh my PC with os x 10.10.5, while my laptop (thinkpad e431) have been installed 10.10.5 already -- which allows me to try many methods.

 

my attempts were (in os x environment):

1. make a bootable USB os x installation to run on PC -- the regular way;

2. install the system on USB drive firstly, boot PC with it, draw a dmg file from the installed system on USB, then write this dmg file into a HD partition -- learned from another hacintosh bbs.

 

my problem were:

1. before loading the NullPowerManagement.kext, the system reboot automatically in both attempts above. this has been fixed after the kext loaded.

2. when I put "nv_drv=1" (or Inject NVidia=true) in config.plist (clover), the loading always stick after NV** loaded. if i replace these items with "nv_disable=1", either the installation or the system on USB was successfully loaded;

3. the USB wired mouse can't be loaded in both way, however, my USB wireless mouse worked fine -- WEIRD.

4. the HD can't be loaded in both way -- this may be because i plugged the HD on the 6 sata interface (1-6), i am still looking into this problem.

 

additional issue, the unika mainboard was really a bad purchase -- generated so many weird problems, like when i change the HD to the 1st sata, the mainboard CAN NOT load it at all, but, after I shut it down and put it there for a while (some 10 - 20 minutes), the HD is RECOGNIZED..

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i guess the HD problem is figured out -- since the mainboard is too old, there is no ACHI option for the SATA, only IDE, this might cause the HD can't be recognized in OS installation.. but, i don't have a solution yet

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