Need Help, ECS 945 gct 1333 v3 Almost fully working

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Hey all, so a few years back i built a few of those osx hackintosh boxes from the 80 dollar Fry's special's they were running forever. I had 4 going, running osx 10.5.2 rock solid, sleep, shutdown, restart, time machine, dual display video cards with geforce 7300 gs 256mb. Pretty much everything worked.

 

I had been using my macbook pro 13 as my main computer for a while now, and i figured the leopard 5.2 needs upgrading since it can't run most of the stuff like safari 5 etc. So i figured i'd try my luck at Snow Leopard, instead of wasting time trying to figure out how to update leopard without breaking the install.

 

I read a lot of the great threads on this board and others, lots of "how to" guides. etc. Then I went out and bought an SSD yanked out the Sata drive I had in the machine, disconnected the ATA DVD/CD since I figured SL wouldn't have any native support since no mac hardware since SL has had any ATA connections. Anyway most of this was just guesswork. I went into Bios as well, turned of ata controller, changed some settings to reflect what other users of this board had recommended. I made a thumb drive restore of OSX SL 10.6 on one part of the partition and left a bit of room for a bootloader. I used kakewalk to prepare the thumb drive. and Oh i did this all on one of the other leopard machines.

 

Boot loader fired up, I saw the OSX Install icon, waited and within a moment installer had launched. I partitioned the drive, named it, and told it to install, and 12 minutes later it gave me a green thumbs up. I restarted, had ethernet working so i dled 10.6.5 update package, installed it, applied kakewalk patch, restarted and now I'm at 10.6.5.

 

I did this reinstall 2 more times just to make sure it really wasn't a fluke, and the subsequent times I downloaded and applied 10.6.7 and 10.6.8 ver 1.1

 

Now I am at 10.6.8 app store works, everything is great so far, monitor displays proper resolution . etc

 

Only one problem, When I restart the computer and allow the bootloader to initiate on the SSD osx fires up and trips out and stalls.

 

When I run the thumb drive, then at that point I have Install OSX and SL SSD when I select SL SSD it says cannot find kake_Kernel, then takes me back to both drive choices, and when I click install OSX it fires up the installer, at the installer I select select startup disk, select SL SSD 10.6.8 and restart the computer, and 20 seconds later I'm at my desktop. ????

 

What am I missing.???

[aceshigh]

Hey all, so a few years back i built a few of those osx hackintosh boxes from the 80 dollar Fry's special's they were running forever. I had 4 going, running osx 10.5.2 rock solid, sleep, shutdown, restart, time machine, dual display video cards with geforce 7300 gs 256mb. Pretty much everything worked.

 

I had been using my macbook pro 13 as my main computer for a while now, and i figured the leopard 5.2 needs upgrading since it can't run most of the stuff like safari 5 etc. So i figured i'd try my luck at Snow Leopard, instead of wasting time trying to figure out how to update leopard without breaking the install.

 

I read a lot of the great threads on this board and others, lots of "how to" guides. etc. Then I went out and bought an SSD yanked out the Sata drive I had in the machine, disconnected the ATA DVD/CD since I figured SL wouldn't have any native support since no mac hardware since SL has had any ATA connections. Anyway most of this was just guesswork. I went into Bios as well, turned of ata controller, changed some settings to reflect what other users of this board had recommended. I made a thumb drive restore of OSX SL 10.6 on one part of the partition and left a bit of room for a bootloader. I used kakewalk to prepare the thumb drive. and Oh i did this all on one of the other leopard machines.

 

Boot loader fired up, I saw the OSX Install icon, waited and within a moment installer had launched. I partitioned the drive, named it, and told it to install, and 12 minutes later it gave me a green thumbs up. I restarted, had ethernet working so i dled 10.6.5 update package, installed it, applied kakewalk patch, restarted and now I'm at 10.6.5.

 

I did this reinstall 2 more times just to make sure it really wasn't a fluke, and the subsequent times I downloaded and applied 10.6.7 and 10.6.8 ver 1.1

 

Now I am at 10.6.8 app store works, everything is great so far, monitor displays proper resolution . etc

 

Only one problem, When I restart the computer and allow the bootloader to initiate on the SSD osx fires up and trips out and stalls.

 

When I run the thumb drive, then at that point I have Install OSX and SL SSD when I select SL SSD it says cannot find kake_Kernel, then takes me back to both drive choices, and when I click install OSX it fires up the installer, at the installer I select select startup disk, select SL SSD 10.6.8 and restart the computer, and 20 seconds later I'm at my desktop. ????

 

What am I missing.???

 

So I layed around with the system a bit longer and I believe that I've found the following too be true:

 

Something is wrong with the dsdt.aml file (I know nothinging about what this does or how to fix it.

(In kakewalk I selected a gigabyte motherboard when i restarted booting from the SSD, the bootloader kicked in, chameleon loaded, and when I let it load osx it goes until it gets to a blue screen (right before the desktop pops up) and hangs there.

 

I tried modifying the apple.boot.plist but that just prevented the computer from hanging at the [pci configuration] segment of boot.

 

There's something on the kakewalk/OSX SL install disk that is allowing me to get to the desktop so what is causing this and how can I transport it to the SSD so it boots from HD and do I need to use a dsdt.aml for my configuration???

 

I'm using a E2200 with ecs 945gct-m1333 board, 7200 gs and 7300 gs vid cards (have both)2 gigs of 800mhz ram, and a SSD.

 

Ethernet was working from the get go. I used voodoohda and sound is working, and i could only get 1024x768 on the on board graphics. when I inserted the video card, it gave me 7300 SE in system profiler and full resolutions. I played chess so I imagine QE works.

 

PLS any Help