bubbahotep Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 HI, I am wondering if installing osx86 on a notebook makes changes to the bioses7efi ? Id like to buy a notebook and install osx to see if i can get everything working. if i cant get it to work, id like to return it. cheers bubba Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235515-does-installing-a-hackintosh-make-changes-to-the-biosefi/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 HI, I am wondering if installing osx86 on a notebook makes changes to the bioses7efi ? Id like to buy a notebook and install osx to see if i can get everything working. if i cant get it to work, id like to return it. cheers bubba No operating system has the power to change the bios, even Hackintosh. The only thing that can happen, with some systems, is the reset of the bios on every startup of Snow Leopard, but is resolved with an apropiate DSDT.aml Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235515-does-installing-a-hackintosh-make-changes-to-the-biosefi/#findComment-1571227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbahotep Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 thanks for the quick reply, maybe i misformulated my question. i thought more like the osx86 install steps have the necessity to change/flash the efis or other bios on a hackintosh notebook... (I had to flash my asus 7800 gtx to work with my mac pro...thats why i ask) so just to verify: there is no flashing involved in installing osc86 on a notebook? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235515-does-installing-a-hackintosh-make-changes-to-the-biosefi/#findComment-1571237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 thanks for the quick reply, maybe i misformulated my question. i thought more like the osx86 install steps have the necessity to change/flash the efis or other bios on a hackintosh notebook... (I had to flash my asus 7800 gtx to work with my mac pro...thats why i ask) so just to verify: there is no flashing involved in installing osc86 on a notebook? With some laptops need to flash the bios, but does not affect the other operating systems (i.e. Windows) Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235515-does-installing-a-hackintosh-make-changes-to-the-biosefi/#findComment-1571240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svenmike Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 No it will not affect your bios. The reason you had to flash your graphics card is because real Mac's use EFI on their graphics cards so that OS X can understand what the card is and how to use it. On PC's we only add a EFI emulator to the first partition of the hard drive (i.e. making OS X think it is being run on a real Mac) but this emulator is on the hard drive and not on the ROM of the motherboard where the bios lives. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235515-does-installing-a-hackintosh-make-changes-to-the-biosefi/#findComment-1571386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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