Installing Snow Leopard on PC with Biostar h 55hd and core i3 540 from USB

[Tatao]

Hello everyone.

 

Im pretty new to the hackintosh world and have been trying to install Snow Leopard on a PC with the following specs:

 

Biostar H 55HD MoBo

Intel Core i3 i-540 processor

500 GB HDD

 

It doesnt have any graphics card or sound card, I just use the MoBo for graphics and sound for now.

 

So far, I've tried installing Snow Leopard from a USB Flash drive. In order to do so, I followed a tutorial from here: USB Tutorial

 

Basically, I took an 8 GB Flash drive, created one partition which was formatted and restored using an image from a retail 10.6 Installation disk from a friend's Macbook Pro. Then I installed something called Stella's Snow something which added a boot file and an Extra folder to the USB drive. All this was done in my friend's Mac.

 

I then went into the BIOS setup and changed Boot Priority to USB, SATA Mode changed from IDE to AHCI and in ACPI setup changed from S1 to S3(STR) and set ACPI version features to ACPI v2.0. I saved and exit and waited for it to boot, but it never did. So I went back to BIOS setup and changed the Boot from drive priority and set the USB Hard Drive as 1 and my 500 GB hard drive to number 2.

 

I saved and exit and it booted to the screen where it says press any key for boot options and a little timer bar is there. I let the timer run out and it just rebooted. I then went into the boot options in Chameleon and selected MAC OS X Install DVD (which is the USB Drive) and in the corner it shows: Starting Darwin....then it says "Starting Darwin 86_64" and it reboots.

 

So then I searched the forum and found this thread where it is a very similar setup and downloaded the files attached there. So I replaced the "Extra" folder in the USB Drive with the "Extra" folder found in the WorkingFiles.rar which in the extensions folder has FakeSMC.Kext, IONetworkingFamily.kext, and OSXRestart.kext and tried loading again, but the same thing happened, it just gets to Starting Darwin 86_64 and reboots.

 

I've researched what kexts are and have found other tutorials that show how to install Snow Leopard from a USB Drive, but they all seem to be for a specific MoBo + CPU combination which is different from mine, so I would guess it has something to do with the "Extra" folder in the USB Drive. I must say, that I am completely new to the Mac world and am completely ignorant as to what the Extra folder does and what it has to do with the installation.

 

I've researched and dont know what to do anymore, so I've posted this to see if anyone can refer me to a tutorial or site that can help me with my issue. Or if someone can tell me what I have to include in the Extra folder or the Extensions folder to get this OS to install in my PC. It seems it can be done as in the thread mentioned above, it seems several people with this MoBo and a very similar setup are already running it on their PC.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated and welcomed.