sammy0090 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 First off, thanks for looking at this and sorry if its been posted before but i couldn't find it. I'm new to this and excited to be setting up a hackintosh... I've built the memory stick and I belive set up the bios correctly according to; http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow...acking-required When i do put the stick in and boot i do get the mac logo and i do get a selction of what to load from.. i select and then i do see "darwin loading".. and the logo gif spinning etc.. but after about 20 seconds..the screen goes off and nothing after that... I get this feeling that it could be the video card because its DMI.. what can i do to get around this and get things running.. i'm excited to start. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196263-issue-with-hackintosh-setuphelpppp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalel83 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 it would help if you listed what kind of system you are using. and boot the installer with -v (verbose) and let us know what it says before it goes blank Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196263-issue-with-hackintosh-setuphelpppp/#findComment-1322286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammy0090 Posted November 7, 2009 Author Share Posted November 7, 2009 it would help is you listed what kind of system you are using.and boot the installer with -v and let us know what it says totally understood.. here is what i got; system: Icore7 -motherboard: Gigabyte ultra durable 3 GA-EX58-UD5(p) .. (not sure if its p or not) -video card: GTX 260 PCI-E 2.0 896 MB DDR3 (using DVI) (tried using VGA but it keps on say its out of range when i use the monitor in the hackintosh install process -12 gig RAM DDR3 -1TB Wester Digital HD See i was thinking it was a video card issue but i think its a video card output at a point.. let me explain. when i boot with the memory stick.. i do get the apple logo (video fine), it does prompt me to instal from screen.. (as well as show me my NTFS HD and a reserve drive (not sure on that but ok).. when i select the key withOS on it it does give me the screeen where it says Darwin loading and the gif doing its spin thing.. and then after 20 seconds it goes into VDI power saver mode it looks like the sytem hangs..its still on..but not doing anything as for as i can see regarding your question wth "boot the installer with -v" I dont know how to do that becuse the tutorial i used to build the usb key didn't have that option..when i boot with the usb key.. it POSTs and then goes right to the apple screen to where you select where to install from and then the "loading darwin" screen and thats where it goes blank.. if anyone can help..its most appreciated. thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196263-issue-with-hackintosh-setuphelpppp/#findComment-1322458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalel83 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 I have AMD so am not familiar with i7, but there are tons of people that have snow working on your motherboard. you might wanna read all of those. I did a search, this is only a small amount of them http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/how-to-inst...-on-a-pc-t3137/ http://www.infinitemac.com/search.php?searchid=189028 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=194640 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=194640 http://www.insanelymac.com/search.php?cx=0...p;q=GA-EX58-UD5 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196263-issue-with-hackintosh-setuphelpppp/#findComment-1323133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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