EverestDreams Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 I am really new to the whole hackintosh scene, so let me say thank you in advanced. I have combed through so much information over the last 3 days as I have tried to get a fully working hackintosh up and running and I am running out of patience. All I am looking for is some step by step help. I have a: Gigabyte EP45 UD3P F9 motherboard Intel Q9550 Quad Core processor running at 2.83 ghz 8 Gigs of OCZ Ram I have been using the iPC 10.5.6 PFF Final DVD for my initial install and have had no problems with that. When I install I have been using these customized options: Kernel: no kernel Video: Whatever suits your video card (mine is 8800 GT EFI Studio for display driver) Chipset: ICH10 SATA and JMirconATA for JMircon IDE Audio: ALC 889A and the patch doesn't work , use HDAEnabler.kext later Ethernet: Realtek R1000 USB drivers: Patched USB driver Fixes and patches: Shutdown/restart fix My question is that after the install, what are my next steps. For those of you that have this board, what do I do first right after I boot? What do I need to do in order to prepare things to apply the 10.5.7 update? Any advice would be helpful as I have just done my 4th re-install today to get things working right, and I am getting kind of fed up. Thanks again. Oops...just realized that the customized info that I copied and pasted was not accurate...I have an ATI 4870 PCI video card that will be a pain in itself to get working. But from my understanding, I need to get to 10.5.7 to be order to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ainsleyclark Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 I have this exact same board, and pretty much the only reason I bought it because i know it was really really compatible with OSX. Take a look at this thread http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=180619. some very nice people took the time out to talk to me about my options. Originally I wanted an ASUS Board to boot Kalyway with it. Broken (the guy that helped me) said that I would be very foolish to install a Distro, and that retail installs are the way to go ahead, anyway he explains that in the thread. I have literally only just got this board working after 1day of trying, which I thinks really good. Compared to my last attempt where it took me 2 weeks and it still didn't work right (on a hp laptop). I really recommend using retail 10.5.6. To install it, you boot from a CD that is in a package (I will show you in a minute) to make it think its the apple boot loader, then swap the CD for the retail disk install, then install PC_EFI v9 (which is the boot loader to boot OSX without the fake boot loader). Here are some guides: http://auzigog.com/2008/12/23/hackintosh-20/(I tried this guide and it didnt work out for me, I think I was installing chameleon wrong instead of pc efi.) Or this one (which I thinks better, the guys a genius). https://leopardsoup.pbworks.com/session/log...ge=ud3p_welcome If you get a login thing on the second one, let me know and I will be happy to send you the package. I hope you go for the right decision Peace out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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