VooD Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Well, I guess not many people is going to try this, but yesterday I installed a Protools HD Core card on a hackintosh and surprisinly got recognized by Os X after installing the drivers. This is pretty weird since there is no Intel Macs with pci interfaces and so Digidesign shouldn´t have compiled PCI support in the Intel version of the drivers. The bad part is I had no audio interface at that moment and couldn´t completly test Protools 7 running, but I will in the next days. It may work...but given Protools uses a such low-level hardware approach to process audio I´m not too confident about, and in addition to this maybe the drivers have endianess problems. More news, next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safnight Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Cool Very good news. I've tryed to install it with OSX 10 4 8 With no success. Only the 10 4 6 Wok for me. What is you're PC And You're OSX 10 4 X? Thanks safnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooD Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 Yep, 10.4.8 with lastest semthex kernel, I have´nt been able to test audio yet, I just have the core card at the moment, but you can see the systems recognizes the card, and protools pass the "Hardware Check" when you load it. The PC is a Carrillon AC1D but with different specs (don´t know why). It haves a Intel 945 board, a cheap Radeon x550 (no qi ce :/ ) and a couple of sata disks. About you, you say you have already tested Protools HD with real hardware in 10.4.6, and worked? Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safnight Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Thanks, Yes it works for me. I have PT HD 2 With 196 I/O. All it work fines.( without my graphique card: ATI RAdeon X 3OO) No Pb with the 10 4 6. ( In 10 4 8 Pro tools crash : error DSi and Digidesign core audio crash to and i don't know why ) Hope it help U. Safnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safnight Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Hi what about U're audio in Pro Tools? All working fine for U? Safnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooD Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share Posted March 25, 2007 Finally I got the chance to test audio and yep, worked for me. No problem at all. Digidesign loves hackintoshes lol. I never thought a Protools HD Core card would work on a hackintosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Are you using the PCI or the PCIe hardware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooD Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 It´s a PCI card. As I said is incredible this works, as there´s no real intel mac with PCI slots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Cool, I hope they support their M-AUDIO cards as well but they seem to not care anymore about M-audio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safnight Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 It´s a PCI card. As I said is incredible this works, as there´s no real intel mac with PCI slots. HI VooD Could U tel me what exactely osx DVD u installed? For me 10 4 8 don't work thanks Safnifgt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooD Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 I used JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSe2.SSe3.v1p.diskutility7.iso. You can download it from demonoid, in addition to a more recent version with ichr7 patch applied. Mine has 073eb015d77bbf5e4a97d0d37ceb3855 MD5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vokator Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 I have HD3 working with 10.4.7 with IOPCIFamily kext from 10.4.4 Still can't make it work with 10.4.8 (tried different kernels) It seems that PCI cards can not be detected by OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooD Posted March 27, 2007 Author Share Posted March 27, 2007 Mmmm, the Protools HD Core card I tested didn´t show at PCI section in System Profile, (even after installing the drivers) but the card itself works perfectly once you install them. Also I can use a pci firewire card without any trouble in 10.4.8. Maybe is a chipset/hardware specific problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vokator Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 But do you have any of pci cards shown as presenting in System Profiler? Or there's smth like "No Pci cards installed in you system" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooD Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 Shows exactly that: "No Pci cards installed in you system" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I will tell you that the M-audio delta 44 PCI slot doesnt work with any drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vokator Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I got it working now! 7.3.1cs2 solved the problems. Many thanks to VooD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safnight Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Thks Vokator Now Pro Tools HD II V 7 3 2 Cs2 WOrks And My UAD Works too So cool Safnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooD Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 Great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kydicarus Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Anyone here had success using an Protools HD PCIe Card in leopard? So far i cant get it to be recognized on my hackintosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackface1176 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Hi, ProTools 8 HD1 PCIe on ASUS P5B Core2Duo 2,76MHz , nVidia GeForce 7600 GS, 6GiG RAM, Vanilla OSX 10.5.5. :-) WORX LIKE A CHARM.:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typhoonman Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Hi all does anyone of you has tried with a PT HD Accell PCI-X version ? do you have PCI or PCI-X version ? do you think i have any chance to get it working on a hackintosh ? i would like to save big $$ avoiding the crossgrade to pcie thanks for any advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PasteEater Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Hi alldoes anyone of you has tried with a PT HD Accell PCI-X version ? do you have PCI or PCI-X version ? do you think i have any chance to get it working on a hackintosh ? i would like to save big $$ avoiding the crossgrade to pcie thanks for any advice I'm trying to run PCI-X cards on my GA-EP45C-UD3R board without any success in OS X 10.6. Vista SP1 works fine, but I can't get it to run under OS X. It wouldn't be such a big deal to run PT under Windows, but I would lose a TON of Mac only plug-ins that would cost quite a bit of money to replace. Anyone have any advice on getting the PCI cards recognized? Anyone have any success in 10.6? I know the card is getting power, as my 196 changes to green when the PC is powered on. It's just that OS X is not seeing the card. Help please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typhoonman Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 I'm trying to run PCI-X cards on my GA-EP45C-UD3R board without any success in OS X 10.6. Vista SP1 works fine, but I can't get it to run under OS X. It wouldn't be such a big deal to run PT under Windows, but I would lose a TON of Mac only plug-ins that would cost quite a bit of money to replace. Anyone have any advice on getting the PCI cards recognized? Anyone have any success in 10.6? I know the card is getting power, as my 196 changes to green when the PC is powered on. It's just that OS X is not seeing the card. Help please! GA-EP45C-UD3R does not have any PCI-x slots so i presume you have PT HD PCI not PCI-x. By the way have you tried in Leopard and maybe with both pro-tools 7 and 8? Also hackintosh install should be done with Vanilla kernel to maximize compatibility Anyone with a working PCI-X hackintosh configuration ?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PasteEater Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 GA-EP45C-UD3R does not have any PCI-x slots so i presume you have PT HD PCI not PCI-x. By the way have you tried in Leopard and maybe with both pro-tools 7 and 8? Also hackintosh install should be done with Vanilla kernel to maximize compatibility Anyone with a working PCI-X hackintosh configuration ?!? The PCI-X cards work fine in PCI slots. Although, I have an HD3 Accel system, and the board will only hold 2 of the cards (there is a heatsink in the way at the end of one of the PCI slots). I'm using a vanilla kernel. I have tried PT 7, but only under Snow Leopard. No dice. I did eventually get Snow Leopard and Pro Tools 8.0.3pr running, but it's pretty sketchy. I'm not sure if it's PT or my install; too many variables at this point. I'll have to wait for the official Snow Leopard release of Pro Tools to do more testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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