My long way to a working Hackintosh.

[DarkMio]

Hello, I'm Mio and want to know how to open a new thread.

Ah, come on, I'm just joking.

 

I have the following system:

 

Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

Intel Core i7-2600k (still on 3.9 GHz maximum)

Nvidia 550 TI (2GB - Zaotec)

2x SATA Seagate 1TB HDD

1x SATA DVD/RW Device

0x Floppy (We won't need it anymore)

8 GB RAM (obviously only 4 GB installed for the installation)

USB Wireless Microsoft Mouse & Keyboard

 

The Board ist connected with 2 Front-USB from the Tower and AC97 is there connected too.

All of my SATA-plugs are connected to the BLUE Connectors on the board.

The Mainboard Settings are changed to AHCI & 64Bit HPET. S3(ACPI) Suspend Type is changed too.

 

So, I followed the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]+[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Tutorial for this system and still don't have any chances.

I'm not that much new, but never managed it to boot OS X from a HDD. So, maybe I need some extra advantage to understand the problem.

The first try was:

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] + Retail ROM 10.6.7 (? not exactly sure) boot like on the guide. Failed with a kernel panic.

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] + Retail ROM + PCIRootUID=1 - failed, OS X Kernel Panic without printed events.

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] + Retail ROM + PCIRootUID=1 -x - failed, OS X Kernel Panic without printed events.

 

It seemed that the PCIRootUID still works somewhat longer, I've seen the grey bootscreen. But still it won't boot this easily.

I think there could be a problem with the displayed 8-cores. For all not knowing:

The Processor does it job from 1604.7 MHz Quad Core x16 Mulitplier to 3910.2 MHz Quad Core x39 Multiplier with Hyperthreading.

 

Now I'm asking for help, what I could do.

(There was surely a manual command to force a single CPU-Usage or something to get this work... But I can't find it right now.)

And is there a problem with 2TB when they are on two different HDDs?

 

 

Thanks!

Mio

 

Ah, edit:

I forgot something, I have a Laptop here:

i5-2410m

Nvidia 540m

4 GB RAM

1x HDD 500 GB

 

Which system you would try first for a hackintosh? I read yesterday, that there isn't any really well running system with that hardware-specs from the laptop.

 

Editedit:

If there is no Kernel-Panic, there could be no print-out.

I deleted the screens and applied one, when my system does nothing anymore.

It boots upto

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waiitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

Then one HDD shuts down and the DVD-Device does the same, after ... 20 - 30 seconds.

 

 

I tried to boot following:

C3/C6-State ENABLE (not auto)

Hyperthreading ENABLE / DISABLE

EIST ENABLE (not auto)

EFI ENABLE / DISABLE / AUTO

 

And following boot-line:

PCIRootUID=1 cpus=8 busratio=34 -v -x ; WITH Hyperthreading

PCIRootUID=1 cpus=4 busratio=34 -v -x ; WITHOUT Hyperthreading

[DarkMio]

So, I managed to boot and install with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] LE 2.7.2.

The problem now is, I cause a KP every time on a fresh, untouched OS X 10.6 when I ran the 10.6.7 update. As mentioned on the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Tutorial.

The kernelpanic caues too, that the system is completly {censored}'d up and won't boot anymore.

 

Picture of the day:

[Hangten]

Why don't try another method? Use a friends Mac and put into place the proper"boot" file & kext's for your board and DSDT (ssdt ?) also. Extra/Extension folder. Don't forget to boot in safe mode -x -v

 

Make sure your org.chameleon.Bootplist or com.apple.Boot.plist has the proper info too.

 

example: (warning I have nativepowermanagement and milage may vary)

 

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>DSDT</key>
<string>/Extra/dsdt.aml</string>
<key>DropSSDT</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>EHCIacquire</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>ForceHPET</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GenerateCStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1920x1080x32</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>arch=x86_64</string>
<key>PciRoot</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>SMBIOS</key>
<string>/Extra/smbios.plist</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>UHCIreset</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>USBBusFix</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Wait</key>
<string>No</string>
</dict>
</plist>

[DarkMio]

Ah, I got it already.

The system was running fine, nothing was found, but this was okay.

 

After some googleing, I found someone with the same Motherboard + CPU and retried it.

The problem was the update helper, which I needed. This caused the kernelpanic + systembrick, of course from the sandybridge-problem.

Anyways, the system ist now working, with mainboardsupport, as Mac Pro.

The CPU is recornized and the sound and LAN is working fine.

 

Now we're coming to the next problem:

My Nvidia 550 TI isn't working and I read, that this chipset is only working on 10.7+ ...

I'm downloading atm the image from the appstore - maybe it has only something with luck to do.

The image is on the last 2min downloadtime and then I give it a new try!

 

And thanks for your tip - but I still don't really know, how to do that. The next problem is, the next Mac Pro near to me, is an half of an hour away and he's a busy designer.

 

With enough patience and time, I got everything to work, except the Graphics.

 

Question: Can I put my old 8800 GTX on the PCIe x4 Slot, run OS X with that, if I stuck with 10.7, and have a working 550 TI for windows, or is this a {censored} idea?