tehsusenoh Posted October 7, 2007 Author Share Posted October 7, 2007 some guy on demonoid has a video card like mine and said that he used some kexts to get video working correctly. Plus 10.4.6 is the only version that seems to work with my VIA ethernet (i think, not actually tried yet) but i'll get my cable tomorrow so i can try it. PS CPU-Z says that my chipset is intel i915P. does that need patches? and it says that my mobo is an ms-7046. is that compatible? the dvd boots fine natively. EDIT: i was looking at the kexts in vmware and found a kext called "AppleIntel915.kext". and then a bunch more with "GA" and "GLDriver" before the ".kext" could that be my chipset's driver? maybe i'll post a screenshot of the kext list. EDIT2: i just found "AppleVIA.kext" and "AppleVIAATA.kext" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Everything looks OK for now, if you get any problems we can solve them one by one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 8, 2007 Author Share Posted October 8, 2007 one thing what kexts handle graphics and ethernet? i archived all of the kexts then put the zip on my windoze desktop so i could find them without vmware EDIT: nevermind, i'll see what happens w/ a normal install i really appreciate all the help edit2: skip the graphics driver. i found a universal installer for all geforce cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 Yeah, install without any drivers (except patch for your CPU if it exists). You can always sort out the minor problems later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 8, 2007 Author Share Posted October 8, 2007 my cpu uses sse3 so i dont think i have to patch it you changed ur sig where do you get those pics? PS it's really hard typing all this on my psp ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 You may still have to select a patch. Choose an Intel SSE3 patch if there is one. Yep, I changed by sig. Like it? You get the user bars pics from either www.userbars.org or www.signaturebar.com Download up to 10 and save them in a folder. Then go to http://www.signaturebar.com/animate/ and select all the userbars you made to animate them into a single user bar! I L O V E it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 great! it's installed i haven't actually booted it yet (school tomorrow) i looked at my video card and geuss what it was agp, not PCIe! my dad is gunna get a wireless card the NG311T which works out of the box in 10.4.9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Why don't you boot it now? Doesn't take long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 my dad set a strict "electronics off" rule for 7:30 i still use my psp though ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Well it only takes like 30 secs, I'm sure your dad wouldn't mind if you turned it off at 7:31 Anyway, tell me if it boots or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 i booted it without any options and got the restart error so i restarted, wanting to go into verbose mode the computer wont boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 What do you mean the computer won't boot?? You mean it won't even turn on and you can't even access Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 after the error the computer would turn but do nothing i took out the osx hd and windumb started i problably needed to use the titan driver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Oh, OK try using Titan drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 i think i'll get a ide to usb cable and install the drivers w/ vmware PS i found a barebone kit on tigerdirect with the badaxe 2 mobo $509.99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 OK, do as needed. And the barebone kit ain't that cheap. The Bad Axe 2 MoBo is only about $200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 12, 2007 Author Share Posted October 12, 2007 i found one without the CPU, so i will go with that one. any suggestions for nvidia video cards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 There are several cheap video cards that are supported under OS X. I recommend: GeForce 7300GS and 7600GS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 14, 2007 Author Share Posted October 14, 2007 what about ati cards? PS I'm an a pretty tight budget. Maybe my dad will surprise me on my birthday with a REAL mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 The ASUS EN7600GS card is cheap ($79) and it works well and is fully supported under OS X. For ATI cards, they're more expensive than the 7600GS card so I don't think you want to go that route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 hey guess what! i was google-ing for usb boot and found the answer to my usb boot problem! i had the usb-zip boot option, and that is the correct one! i have award bios settings finally. going to use the titan drivers do those go on after i install like - install without titan then boot from dvd and only install titan? PS windumb is sooooo dumb. it's been to slow for me to really do anything online except download torrents so ive been surfin' the web with backtrack2 (hacking maybe, i got the REAL ip address of runescape. no seriosly ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Yeah, install w/o drivers first and then go back and install them once you have it all working. What version of Windoze are you using? I have Windoze XP SP2 Professional and its not slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 i have XP MCE SP2 probably because of all the um cough*cracked* cough stuff on my pc my bios didn't have the usb-zip option, but it had usb-fdd and usb-cdrom (that cant be it ) plus, there are no more updates for my bios I have the Medion3 Director 5100 fast w/ linux, slowish w/ windoze would be great to have imovie (not in the ungodly-slow pearpc) THE LAST HOPE: i found this $200 computer on tigerdirect that is fully supported by 10.4.8 (i even has a DVD+/-RW DL drive and a 3.5 ghZ CPU) get this 256 PNY nvidia card w/ titan drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 There are guides on InsanelyMac to build a fully working hackintosh for $200. This thread is a couple years old but check it out: Build Your Own Mac for $199 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=274 I'd say thats a pretty good deal. Some of the parts you can't buy anymore but I'm sure that there are newer alternatives for about the same price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 the parts are too old to find anymore yesterday i broke the computer but...i fixed it! it's even in my room! i may go out and buy a sata hard drive and put it inside are there any special guides for 2 hard drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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