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;) I first want to thank the guys in the thread helping me with my Gateway p-7805u. It inspired me to get a desktop build going so I went with the XFX Geforce 9300 motherboard. I chose this motherboard since 1. apple was known to use this chipset for their mac minis and macbooks and 2. i figured it would be kinda easy since i was playing with aquamac geforce 9xxx drivers for my laptop.

 

okay first and foremost please go inside your bios and set your raid to ahci and disable legacy usb.

 

1. Boot-up with ideneb v1.3

 

2. Format your hard drive to a GUID/Mac Extended Journaled. (Please clean install).

 

3. Now when you go to customize your installation you want to check these to add to your install.

Under Patches you will find everything you need to check . . . . . . . 1. Chipset -> JMicronATA 2. Kernel -> Kernel 9.3.3 SSE3 3. Network -> Ethernet -> RTL8201CL 4. Fix -> ACPI-Fix and Cpus=1-Fix then AppleSMBIOS -> AppleSMBIOS 800 (I've used 1066 and 1333 by mistake and worked just fine. Even overclocked my processor to 3.6 i believe. Stock is 3.0GHz on E8400 Core 2.) 5. Finally Applications.

 

4. Start the installation and wait for it to complete. When it restarts, please boot up in safe mode (1-time thing) -x.

 

5. Setup your Hackintosh. Internet is now enabled so you can easily finish installing from this post. Once at your desktop install Aquamac drivers found here. Once done, restart normally. (safe mode not needed anymore)

 

6. Install the NVinstaller v.52 found here. Restart. Video done.

 

7. Now for the audio you're going to need the ALC888s kext found here. Install using kexthelper b7 or osx86 tools located in your applications folder. Restart.

Once back on the desktop you will need to download the AppleHDAPatcher found here and ALC888s linux codec dump found here.

 

8. Now simply drag the codec dump over to the AppleHDAPatcher icon and let it patch your AppleHDA.kext. Restart.

 

9. Done.

Great guide. Thanks for sharing!

 

Have you experienced any freeze or bug so far ? What about dual monitor using the HDMI and DVI port at the same time ?

 

 

Just the sleeping part but i keep my computer powered on at all times so i dont' worry about that. if anything, i'll probably let the screen go off. as far as dual monitor, i havent tried it yet. I need another monitor.

Just the sleeping part but i keep my computer powered on at all times so i dont' worry about that. if anything, i'll probably let the screen go off. as far as dual monitor, i havent tried it yet. I need another monitor.

 

Thanks for the info. If you can, try the DUAL DVI option. Not VGA + DVI. The first option is harder to get.

 

Cheers

  • 4 weeks later...

Great guide. I have the same board up and running, only having some issues:

 

Only using 1 core, when I change the settings to CPUS=2 system goes into reboot loop.

 

Cant get audio to work from the board so Im using an external usb device for sound.

 

Cant update to 10.5.6 or 10.5.7 system will crash during install. If I trie to use iDebeb 1.4 it wont boot up.

 

Any advice on how to upgrade to latest osx 10.5.7? Any modified BIOS and could use to get better results?

 

Thanks in advanced, again great guide!

  • 2 weeks later...
Great guide. I have the same board up and running, only having some issues:

 

Only using 1 core, when I change the settings to CPUS=2 system goes into reboot loop.

 

Cant get audio to work from the board so Im using an external usb device for sound.

 

Cant update to 10.5.6 or 10.5.7 system will crash during install. If I trie to use iDebeb 1.4 it wont boot up.

 

Any advice on how to upgrade to latest osx 10.5.7? Any modified BIOS and could use to get better results?

 

Thanks in advanced, again great guide!

 

 

 

Thanks a million. Was only my second time attempting to install. Those configurations is what i needed to do in order to actually get the damn mobo going. The cpu=1 option is needed otherwise i wouldn't have gotten this far lol. I also cant update either. This was made simply for someone who needs to have mac and kinda low-end with performance. Onboard video, no sound card needed and lan works. In addition, the ram slots can take the smaller cheaper ram like ddr2 800/667 so u can have mac withhout spending thousands of dollars. Lastly, just recently replaced my e8400 core 2 with a HT Penti4 processor (same Ghz speed 3.00Ghz). Booted in safe mode, rebooted again normal, wallah. Mac running on a P4. I didn't even have to reinstall. I love this motherboard. I heard there was a way on some standalone or possibly modded update. check ideneb sites to see.

 

Though I feel you where you're coming from, I also purchased an ASUS PQ5C motherboard about a week back from today. for 3 days I've been running 10.5.7 Original no distro (iatkos,ideneb,ipc,etc). Took me 4 days straight to do it but done :thumbsup_anim: . I understand fellow "MACker" nothing like the "Real Thing" :) .

 

**Boot Camp dont work though, but luckily the motherboard has a boot menu for my Win7

  • 5 months later...

Your guide looks fine, but the link in step 5 requires paying rapidshare and in step 6 is broken, can you tell me an alternative location?

Thanks a lot!

 

5. Setup your Hackintosh. Internet is now enabled so you can easily finish installing from this post. Once at your desktop install Aquamac drivers found here. Once done, restart normally. (safe mode not needed anymore)

 

6. Install the NVinstaller v.52 found here. Restart. Video done.

  • 3 weeks later...

If you try to upgrade or install from a new iDeneb (10.5.8 here) you might face the infamous "Bad framework 10573 buffer thing".

 

Use this DSDT on your installation / to fix it.

 

Tip: If you don't have another running osx use the install cd`s terminal.

 

Thanks DSDT Patcher!

DSDT.aml.zip

  • 2 weeks later...

snow leopard is running great on this board. Retal also. you can google my snow leopard install on this motherboard even tho still need to finish tutorial. i did the switch because its here. no need for going back and staying with leopard.

  • 4 weeks later...

Just figured that I would post this here, thanks for the tutorial it worked great for me... I found a modified upgrade package on another site that upgraded it quite nicely, so now running 10.5.8 with no issues (other than not being able to recover from sleep etc).

 

Trying to see how installing snow leopard works for me, I'm attempting to install retail right now from my 10.5.8 distro onto another disk in my system...

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