A Successful Build

[Diskdoctor]

Mother Board = Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R

CPU Core 2 Quad 2.33 Ghz

RAM 8 GB DDR2 1366 MHz

Graphics Card = nVidia gforce 8600GT 512 MB

Sound Card = Sound Blaster Audigy 2

2 X 700GB SATA Hard Drives

2 X SATA Super CD/DVD Drives

 

Install source is "iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Universal PPF5 (Final).iso"

Note: I do not use any FLOPPY, IDE, PS/2, COM, PARALLEL PORTS, and disabled them in bios. As Vanilla as possible!

Kernel: Vanilla, no kernel selected

Video drivers: None, Nvidia - 8600GT 512MB Used EFI String

Chipset drivers: Intel ICH10 SATA (don't select any other SATA icon fix)

Audio: ALC889a I couldn't get this to work so I used a old Sound Blaster Audigy 2

Ethernet: Realtek R1000 onboard / Netgear GA311 (native OS/X support)

USB drivers: Patched USB driver

Power management: PowerManagement Package

Fixes, patches: Dual Boot Time Sync; Shutdown/Restart fix

DSDT patches: nothing

AppleSMBIOS patch: SMBIOSResolver

Bootloaders: nothing

 

Graphics Follow this link...http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=91755

Sound Card follow this link...http://redirectingat.com/?id=292X457&url=http%3A//download.kxproject.lugosoft.com/downloads/kXAudioDriver-1.2b1.dmg

 

Just to add my own touch to it I download a pic of the apple boot screen edited it in paint. I Put Hackintosh under the apple logo.

Then with this Mother Board you can load the pic into the BIOS and that becomes your boot screen so now it starts like a mac to.

Then I added the boot sound Follow this link .. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=160963

 

I have been using my system now for 3 months. It's never crashed. It updates from apple ok.

I can plays games on it with no problems (Call of Duty 2)

I run MS office, Toast, Desktop Parallels (windows XP), iLife, Stuffit, and loads more..

I installed vista on my second hard drive. I just press F12 at start up to get my boot menu and them I can boot OSX or Vista.

Its a great mac that works well...

I hope this helps anyone who is looking to build a mac

Good Luck

Dave

[Scottapotamas]

and if anyone is wanting a better hackintosh experience that is closer to a real mac, try the retail install... The bast way to run mac on pc. For the giga EP45 boards, try my sig for the guide.