Perfect Hackintosh with retail Leopard DVD

[mcsmart]

Hello everyone!

 

I thought I should share this wonderful experience with the rest of the community... I got everything on my GA-EP35-DS4 working, even the sound with optical SPDIF out and MIC in! The system was installed with a Leopard retail DVD image!

 

Here is what I did:

• Booted iDeneb 10.5.5
  
• Formatted my HDD
  
• Opened Terminal and mounted the Leopard Retail Image
  
• Installed munky's bootloader from Terminal
  
• Installed a few Extensions to /Volumes/EFI/Extensions
  
• Launched the Retail Setup (iDeneb was only needed to boot, not to install)
  
• Rebooted into my new vanilla Leopard and installed all of the updates from Apple Software Update
  

These are the only custom extensions I use (in EFI partition):

• AppleSMBIOS.kext (cosmetic thing)
  
• IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext
  
• OpenHaltRestart.kext (reboot fix)
  
• dsmos.kext
  
• Natit.kext
  

To get the audio working I used Taruga's HDA Patcher 1.20 with a codec-dump from Linux 2.6.27.7. I have attached the codec dump to the post, others might find this useful as well. It is from my GA-EP35-DS4 (v.2.1). It says ALC885 in there, but that is wrong!

I am using MIC in and SPDIF out - both work like a charm; I have no issues with the sound at all.

 

My Radeon HD 2600 PRO of course has full QE/CI and DVI. For more details see my signature.

 

- mcsmart

ALC889a.txt.zip

[CarlitosWay]

Hello mcsmart,

 

Can you post a guide on how you did this? And maybe post links for the files you used?

 

I have the same MOBO you have, but I installed Kalyway and left it at 10.5.2, since I keep on getting issues with Quartz Extreme not being recognized after updating to 10.5.4. I have a 8800GT Video card with 1GB Video RAM. Also, I have continious issues with my SATA DVD drive (LITEON). OSX detects the drive some times and some times not. I've tried booting with -x -f -v and any combination of the commands, but the system sporadically either mounts the DVD or not.

 

 

You also mentioned that you are updating your Hackintosh straight from the Apple Updates. I thought that Hackintoshes could not do download system updates from Apple without corrupting the OS? Is this correct?

 

By the way, Kudos on your install!

 

[MrBlomski]

Hello mcsmart,

 

Can you post a guide on how you did this? And maybe post links for the files you used?

 

I have the same MOBO you have, but I installed Kalyway and left it at 10.5.2, since I keep on getting issues with Quartz Extreme not being recognized after updating to 10.5.4. I have a 8800GT Video card with 1GB Video RAM. Also, I have continious issues with my SATA DVD drive (LITEON). OSX detects the drive some times and some times not. I've tried booting with -x -f -v and any combination of the commands, but the system sporadically either mounts the DVD or not.

You also mentioned that you are updating your Hackintosh straight from the Apple Updates. I thought that Hackintoshes could not do download system updates from Apple without corrupting the OS? Is this correct?

 

By the way, Kudos on your install!

 

 

 

In a working OSX installation I formated a new harddrive, made a partition voor OSX, used Munky's method and installed retail OSX on new drive within OSX.

 

munky -> http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127330

 

 

I placed the kexts from ls8v15 mentiod by mcsmart on the EFI partition

 

-> http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=77165

 

After that I used somed only some kext voor my videocard

 

 

Thats it.

 

 

ps Only sleep doesn't work. It just boot normally, not continue from sleep. Any Ideas mcsmart?

 

 

cheers