New to Hackintosh - Building an i7 beast

[macguitarm]

As of last night, everything is working 100% -- including sleep. Previous to my discussion on IRC last night, my machine was running great, except when I woke from sleep the beast would reboot!! Apparently the fix is simple enough though. Go into System Preferences -> Enegery Saver and turn on Start up automaticly after power failure. (altho this was the only change I needed to make, they also mentioned that under Security you need to ensure Use secure virtual memory is turned off... )

 

Anyway, everything else works, its running like a dream, dual booting w/ Win7.

 

If anyone is interested to hear more, or has any questions, let me know! Thanks!!

 

I PM'ed you, great stuff!

[Guri]

Hi, I'm thinking of getting the same gear. Wondering exactly what steps you followed to get this working. Also wondering if Firewire is working as well as on board audio and dual monitors. I'd like to do a vanilla install with retail 10.6 DVD and do a software update to get to 10.6.2. Is it stable? I really don't want to have to deal with kernel panics in the middle of work. Thanks!

[tonhe98]

I have not tested Firewire, or Dual Head on my system as of yet. OnBoard Audio functions quite well. I recently wrote a blog post detailing my install process..

 

http://tony.mattke.net/2010/02/22/the-holy-hackintosh-build/

 

 

Let me know if I can help.

 

Hi, I'm thinking of getting the same gear. Wondering exactly what steps you followed to get this working. Also wondering if Firewire is working as well as on board audio and dual monitors. I'd like to do a vanilla install with retail 10.6 DVD and do a software update to get to 10.6.2. Is it stable? I really don't want to have to deal with kernel panics in the middle of work. Thanks!