grigoramb Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 im going to be buying the parts for a hackintosh soon i was thinking of getting these. Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128344) Intel C2D E8500 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115036) EVGA 9800GTX+ (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130420) PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W power supply (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703009) OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227269) Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218) Antec Nine Hundred case (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021) SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151173) Is this fully compatible with almost no patching needed? I will be dual booting with Vista and be using it for gaming too. I will be using the 10.5.2 Kalyway install or the iAtkos v4i your help is much appreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigoramb Posted December 6, 2008 Author Share Posted December 6, 2008 I'm pretty sure most of it will work, but im not sure about the DVD drive, anyone have any recommendations on what DVD drive i should get? thank you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-990234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalUser Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 any SATA dvd drive should work fine really, including the one linked there. looks like a fine build, that mobo is a very common choice on these boards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-990241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigoramb Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 Ok, thank you LogicalUser I will be ordering today or tomorrow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-990254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigoramb Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 I bought the case, mobo, cpu, and video card at Fry's and put it together, now just waiting for the rest of it to arrive from newegg. this was my first computer build. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-993427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigoramb Posted December 13, 2008 Author Share Posted December 13, 2008 Okay, I've built it its running great in Vista Ultimate. I updated the bios to the F8 one, but when i put in Kalyway 10.5.2, it reads my 640 gig hard drive as a 120gig, anyone know how to fix this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-997170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaaseyRacer Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 Do you have any jumpers on your drive? Read the jumper specs I know on the Seagate's if you have the jumpers on the drive speed is limited. Also some jumpers enable/disable Speed Spectrum Clocking (SSC) try different jumper settings, and see if that helps. Try to repartition the drive too, and not format. It could have a small partition already on it. Try that and let us know if you have any success. One last note, I put the F10 Bios on my DS3R and had no issues. You may want to try that and see if it works. I have the same built the same build that you have (with an 8800GT). I run the optimized defaults, enable AHCI, and set the appropriate boot order. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-997857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Okay, I've built it its running great in Vista Ultimate. I updated the bios to the F8 one, but when i put in Kalyway 10.5.2, it reads my 640 gig hard drive as a 120gig, anyone know how to fix this? Make sure you've got the latest bios and dont forget to put your sata mode in AHCI in the bios before you boot into installing Leo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-997884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigoramb Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 turning on the AHCI thing fixed it. I installed Kalyway 10.5.2 and I tried following Aquamac's guide for the 9800GTX, but it didnt work, it said the kexts werent working. It also screwed up my hard drive when I installed it and I lost everything, I had most of it backed up though. I'm not going to be trying it again until I get another hard drive for osx86 and a retail copy of leopard, i heard that one is working better than kalyway and the other ones. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-1002097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaap Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Try using GFX strings, IE: EFIStudio, or OSx86 tools for the graphic card. The strings method works so much better than the old kext hacking {censored}. Oh, and although I definitely agree with going to retail, you might try a newer distro like iatkos or iDeneb. You should start at at least 10.5.4 rather than the old Kalyway stuff (unless they've finally updated it, I haven't checked lately.) The last I did a distro install with iDeneb 10.5.4, everything worked perfectly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-1002369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigoramb Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 Thank you zaap the iDeneb 10.5.5 worked perfectly then all i had to do was install the appleHDA.kext from another thread and used osx86tools to get graphics card to work. all of my hard drive partitions are showing up like external hard drives, it has the image of the usb drive without the usb symbol on top of it. I have to go to bios and disable AHCI every time i want to use vista. is there a way to fix this without reinstalling vista while ahci is enabled? and also on this board there is all that {censored} between post and darwin, any way to get rid of that? like the thing where it lists all the sata drives and such Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-1010182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaap Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Glad you got things working. By 'USB drives' do you mean orange 'external drive' icons? If so, this is a common thing with AHCI and Hackintoshes. Basically, from what I gather, it won't hurt anything- it just means that a drive could accidentally be 'ejected', since the system is seeing hard drives as externals. (Drive speed isn't effected). You can copy/paste any icons you want if you don't mind it. The fix for it, I think is to use the AHCIFix. Try this thread, and read all instructions. In my own builds, I've used guides that had fixes for the problem already worked out. As for AHCI in Vista- All versions of Vista should support AHCI out of the box. I assume you get a blue screen every time you try and boot it? Try the fix to enable ACHI in Vista here. I've not had this problem with Vista on my own systems. Basically, I recommend installing Vista with AHCI already turned on, if that's now how you did it. It should load and activate the drivers itself. XP if you use any version of that can be a real PITA with AHCI. Basically, you need to install the AHCI drivers on install from the third-party RAID F6 prompt- using a floppy disk. (USB drives or anything else won't work.) Otherwise, XP has to be installed with AHCI off, and then there's a way to manually install the drivers afterwards. As for the '{censored}' between post and Darwin, I assume you mean the basic BIOS screen, then the AHCI BIOS. You can disable a few things like memory tests on startup, make sure there are no halts on any errors enabled, etc- but basically, there's no escaping some delay. The AHCI BIOS in particular on Gigabyte boards is sloooow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-1010267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigoramb Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 Arg... I already reinstalled Vista before i saw your reply. oh well, but at least i have it working with acronis OS selector now and its all good, i just have to reinstall all my stuff on vista. Yeah I was getting that blue screen when I tried to boot, should have searched before reinstalling, that would've made things a lot easier. Thanks for the help now I have a perfect dual boot. Do you know how to get read and write access to my other partitions though? I only get read access to my other partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-1010453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaap Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 OSX can't nativly write to NTFS formatted disks. To share files across the platforms, a common solution is to format a shared partition with FAT-32 which OSX and Windows (and Linux if you use it) can all write to. Otherwise, you need a tool like Paragon NTFS or MacFuse to enable the Mac to write to NTFS. I haven't tried either of these, as I actually like to keep OSX from writing to the PC side, and also spewing annoying ._ DS-Store files all over Windows directories. (I use BlueHarvest to keep it from spewing these on my NAS server). Conversely, you can use MacDrive for Windows to read/write the Mac partitions. Personally, I prefer the Fat 32 shard drive method, and to keep the OS's from screwing with the other. VMWare Fusion is good to bridge the gap also- it can boot your Windows install as a boot camp partition inside OSX, and then you can read/write/transfer files on the Windows side. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-1010552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m16 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Make sure you can burn DVDs in OSX. You might be disappointed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-1010615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaap Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 To avoid disinformation: Why would there be any problem with DVD burning in OSX? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139781-my-build-is-it-compatible/#findComment-1011475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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