Hackintosh install on 650i ultra

[jallardyce]

Hi, my setup is as follows;

 

xfx nforce 650i ultra motherboard

intel quad core 2.66 gHz cpu

geforce 8600 GTS grapics card

8Gb RAM

 

I followed this guide to install snow leopard 10.6 http://lifehacker.com/5351553/hackintosh-b...lery//gallery/1 using, where required, a friends borrowed macbook for the terminal bits. I have set up an external HD as the snowleopard install disk.

 

After some initial display problems, i managed to set up my graphics card using the "snow leopard support files 2.2" archive, allowing me to view the install process via the vga output from the graphics card.

 

However, during the darwin/install process, i am still encountering some problems...

 

Using the verbose-mode install, the following is stated:

 

>> boot cache control could not unlink playlist\var\bootcache.playlist read only file system

 

- this is inspite of returning to the mac to set the file as read/write for all users

 

 

>> panic cpu caller ( 0x...) "CPU 1 has no HPET assigned to it"\sourcecache\appleintelcpupowermanagement\appleintelcpupowermanagement-90\pmthread.c:164

 

followed by output from the debugger.

 

>> BSD process name corressponding current thread-kernel_task

>> Mac OS Version

>> 10A432

>> kernel version:

>> Darwin Kernel version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:46:25 PDT 2009: too:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_X86_64

>> system model name: MacPro3.1

 

>> system uptime in nano seconds: ....

 

and at this point the process hangs.

 

 

Any help in identifing what has gone wrong, and how to correct it would be appreciated. Thanks.