apoutwest Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Hi everyone. I am interested in setting up my first hackintosh and luckily for me I think I have all (or almost all the parts I need). The issue(s) are that... 1.) I'm not really sure and I'm having a bit of trouble finding a nicely laid out guide to what components will and wont work. I have... *Evga nfoce 680i LT SlI motherboard *Evga 7900 GS graphics card *Core 2 duo E6750 2.66 GHz *2 Hard Drives (not sure about make or model) *4 Gigs of corsair DDR2 Ram *Rosewill Wireless Card *Optical drive uses SATA but not sure about make model So are these components likely to work and if this the inappropriate place for the question could you direct me in the right direction . 2.) Installation I am really still not sure where to start here, just looking for a good first time guide I suppose. Some questions do I need to erase XP from my system before I install OSx86 or can I install it on another partition or even better on my 2nd HD? Now I'll stop embarrassing myself. What I'm trying to get across here is that I'm lost and could use a shove in the right direction. Thanks for any help .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224402-hi-where-do-i-start/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsdelirious Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Hi everyone. I am interested in setting up my first hackintosh and luckily for me I think I have all (or almost all the parts I need). The issue(s) are that... 1.) I'm not really sure and I'm having a bit of trouble finding a nicely laid out guide to what components will and wont work. I have... *Evga nfoce 680i LT SlI motherboard *Evga 7900 GS graphics card *Core 2 duo E6750 2.66 GHz *2 Hard Drives (not sure about make or model) *4 Gigs of corsair DDR2 Ram *Rosewill Wireless Card *Optical drive uses SATA but not sure about make model So are these components likely to work and if this the inappropriate place for the question could you direct me in the right direction . 2.) Installation I am really still not sure where to start here, just looking for a good first time guide I suppose. Some questions do I need to erase XP from my system before I install OSx86 or can I install it on another partition or even better on my 2nd HD? Now I'll stop embarrassing myself. What I'm trying to get across here is that I'm lost and could use a shove in the right direction. Thanks for any help .. I would definitely install OSX on your 2nd hard drive.. if you don't have another working mac/hack then t can be a pain to fix things if you don't know how to use the terminal. Atleast with a working XP, you could install MacDrive and delete or copy kexts if you mess something up where it wont boot (just make sure you repair permissions in OSX after MacDrive touches the drive). Also you can use XP to easily look up your vendor and device IDs if you are having a hard time finding kexts (drivers) You might try Leopard (10.5) first before you attempt Snow Leopard. My training wheels were iAtkos (10.5.5). I had to attempt a few installs before I figured out which extra kexts I needed to get it up and running stable, but now that I understand what the options do I've had no trouble installing to 4 different machines. When you're installing be sure to use the -v boot flag so you can see any error messages. Just google them and you should find out what the problem is. If you really look around (this is only 1 of many hackintosh sites) I'm sure you can find someone with your board and see what kexts they needed. Also pay attention to your bios settings, sometimes they can have unexpected effects (example: with STAC9274D audio on DX48BT2 board, audio will appear to work but give no sound if the Marvell Secondary Sata controller is turned off in the bios!) My Final advice is once you get up and running and get things just right, get an extra drive and make time machine backups. That way if something gets wiped out during an update and you can't figure out how to fix it, you can just go back to the point BEFORE you updated and not update or do better research first. Oh and I would seriously doubt that Rosewill wireless card is gonna work.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224402-hi-where-do-i-start/#findComment-1507504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apoutwest Posted July 9, 2010 Author Share Posted July 9, 2010 I would definitely install OSX on your 2nd hard drive.. if you don't have another working mac/hack then t can be a pain to fix things if you don't know how to use the terminal. Atleast with a working XP, you could install MacDrive and delete or copy kexts if you mess something up where it wont boot (just make sure you repair permissions in OSX after MacDrive touches the drive). Also you can use XP to easily look up your vendor and device IDs if you are having a hard time finding kexts (drivers) You might try Leopard (10.5) first before you attempt Snow Leopard. My training wheels were iAtkos (10.5.5). I had to attempt a few installs before I figured out which extra kexts I needed to get it up and running stable, but now that I understand what the options do I've had no trouble installing to 4 different machines. When you're installing be sure to use the -v boot flag so you can see any error messages. Just google them and you should find out what the problem is. If you really look around (this is only 1 of many hackintosh sites) I'm sure you can find someone with your board and see what kexts they needed. Also pay attention to your bios settings, sometimes they can have unexpected effects (example: with STAC9274D audio on DX48BT2 board, audio will appear to work but give no sound if the Marvell Secondary Sata controller is turned off in the bios!) My Final advice is once you get up and running and get things just right, get an extra drive and make time machine backups. That way if something gets wiped out during an update and you can't figure out how to fix it, you can just go back to the point BEFORE you updated and not update or do better research first. Oh and I would seriously doubt that Rosewill wireless card is gonna work.... Luckily I do have another Mac. I also have a copy of Snow Leopard that I was planning to use for a first try, do you really think that would be a bad idea? I would prefer to avoid downloading an illegal copy of OSx. I pretty much expected the Rosewill card to be incompatible its a pretty old card and is was never widely used when it was a new card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224402-hi-where-do-i-start/#findComment-1507776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsdelirious Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Luckily I do have another Mac. I also have a copy of Snow Leopard that I was planning to use for a first try, do you really think that would be a bad idea? I would prefer to avoid downloading an illegal copy of OSx. I pretty much expected the Rosewill card to be incompatible its a pretty old card and is was never widely used when it was a new card. It's not necessarily a bad idea, it just might be easier for a first timer... with 10.5 there's a larger pool of experience and kexts to draw from having been around for a few years longer... and no 64 bit issues to worry about. But if you already have Snow Leopard then might as well go for it, and if you cant get it to work then try a Leopard install. Just my Good Luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224402-hi-where-do-i-start/#findComment-1507922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unwin Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 I think these are really enough to install the software. it training Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224402-hi-where-do-i-start/#findComment-1529694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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