kasumi22 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Hi there. Well, I used to be a Mac user two years ago, then switched to Linux, now I use FreeBSD. But next to me, there is a computer which has to be hackintoshed. So here are some questions: Is my hardware fully compatible? ASUS P5Q Deluxe Intel C2D E7400 Nvidia GTS450/6600/GT140/8600/ATI 3650, I've more cards available. Sound card ... well I don't know, but that shouldn't be the problem. ... and a S-ATA connected 500GB hard disk by Western Digital, currently there's NetBSD installed on it. What do I do if there's incompatible hardware? Change it or live with it? I think you'd recommend Lion? What distribution should I use? (If I've informed me correctly ... ) Thank you very much in advance, and sorry for my awful English. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 The P5Q series are the ASUS equivalent of the Gigabyte EP45 series which are among the most compatible motherboards. We have a bunch of helpful P5Q topics here already. Feel free to dig them up. I have a P5Q-E myself, running 10.6.8. I'm not sure what on-board sound the P5Q Deluxe model has but whatever it is I'm sure there's a proven way to get AppleHDA to load for it, if not you can use VoodooHDA. Go with the Geforce 8600 (Or faster G92-based card) for compatibility, it should work well with unmodified drivers and Chameleon GraphicsEnabler. Make sure to use the monitor output that is closest to the motherboard, when looking at the back of the case. Once you get the hang of it you can try with a faster card. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasumi22 Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 Thank you very much. I searched the forum and the database now ... but couldn't find anything helpful. What you wrote sounds like there wouldn't be any major issues. What distribution should I use, or better, do you have a download link for me? And, is there a guide somewhere? That would exactly be what I need. Once the system has booted, most of the work is done, I think. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx66stangxx Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I did a quick search via google: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=213336 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Virtually every distribution or every install method will work with that mobo. It is what I had until a month ago. Lion will also install with zero problems. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 What distribution should I use None. It would be a shame to use a distro on hardware with such high compatibility. Your motherboard doesn't need any patches or modifications to boot OS X (except of course fakesmc.kext) as long as you enable AHCI and use SATA drives connected to the ICH10/ICH10R. Get hold of a 10.6.3 retail DVD and use a suitable boot CD to boot from it. This is buoo's topic in the Italian section with boot CDs made especially for P5Q series boards. There isn't much to read but you can almost turn it into human-readable English if you run it through google translate: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=234196 Check for a BIOS update on ASUS' download page for your motherboard before installing. Enable all advanced CPU features except CPUID Limit and set SATA to AHCI. Enable ACPI 2.0 and ACPI APIC. Use Apple Disk Utility on the install DVD to format and partition your OS X hard drive, GUID, HFS+J non-case sensitive. *WARNING* I did a quick search via google: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=213336 Don't use that guide, it contains obsolete files/solutions and is unnecessarily complicated. Plus it requires access to a working Mac or Hackintosh. Above all do not flash your BIOS, don't believe anything you read about P5Q boards needing a modified BIOS, it isn't true. Once the system has booted, most of the work is done, I think. Hehe, on the contrary my friend, booting and installing should be a piece of cake, once your'e done with that is when the real work begins. You will then need to install and configure the Chameleon boot loader, get hardware accelerated graphics, sound and ethernet working, kick the tires a bit...and prepare for the update to 10.6.8. Maybe even buy Lion from the App store and upgrade.. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx66stangxx Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Sorry about that I didn't catch that I was simply showing google is a good way to find what your looking for. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasumi22 Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 Thank you again. Retail DVD, is this like what's delivered with an iMac? Or the DVD you can buy in usual stores? Since my father has got an iMac, I'm sure we have both of them. And ... What comes next? Simply inserting the CD and booting OS X? Is this actually possible? I thought, MacOS X needs EFI in order to boot? EDIT: Okay, I've got a Retail DVD, Version 10.6.3. But, the DVD drive doesn't boot from this DVD, it just ignores OS X. But, there are no problems booting any Linux distro .. EDIT2: Forgot to mention, it's an IDE drive. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigifan Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Hi there. Well, I used to be a Mac user two years ago, then switched to Linux, now I use FreeBSD. But next to me, there is a computer which has to be hackintoshed. So here are some questions: What made you switch to Linux/FreeBSD? There are some pretty nice Linux distros but none that compare to Mac OS X Lion/Snow Leopard Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasumi22 Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 What made you switch to Linux/FreeBSD? There are some pretty nice Linux distros but none that compare to Mac OS X Lion/Snow Leopard Well ... That time I got my MacBook and a very powerful PC I hardly used. Someone told me about Linux and, after some time, I started to love it. It's open source, and .. just works! Later, I started programming and discovered, that Unix is waaaay better than Windows or MacOS X could ever be. It's open source, if there are bugs, they don't survive for long, there's lots of great software, it's fast, stable, scalable, reliable. And proprietary operating systems are not. But now I need some proprietary software which just doesn't run on Linux. Adobe CS, ViewNX, .. And I thought, I'd like to combine this with trying to install MacOS X on a PC. My main OS will ever be open source, Linux or BSD, both are amazing. When I found out about Linux, I discovered that Macs are just not what I was looking for. But, still better than Windows, as long as everything works ... Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 EDIT: Okay, I've got a Retail DVD, Version 10.6.3. But, the DVD drive doesn't boot from this DVD, it just ignores OS X. Did I just write all that for nothing...read my post again...you must use a Boot CD to boot with, then swap with the DVD. EDIT2: Forgot to mention, it's an IDE drive. As I said (read my post!) It will be a lot easier if you use a SATA drive connected to the ICH10 (red SATA ports). You can try buoo's P5Q deluxe boot CD in the PATA drive but I don't know if it has support for booting from the Marvell 6121 PATA controller. Use the forum search to find SuperVIAATA.kext (this is the driver for the Marvell controller) and add it to the boot CD's extensions folder on the RAM disk image (preboot.dmg, use Transmac on Windows or a real Mac) before you burn it, but I'm not sure if that will work. Try it and let us know. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasumi22 Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 Thanks, I'll give my best. It just took a few times to completely understand what to do. Sorry. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 There's a 3rd way. If you can't use a SATA DVD drive and buoo's boot CD can't boot OS X from your PATA drive, you can use Disk Utility on your dads iMac to 'restore' the retail DVD to an 8GB USB flash drive. Just click restore and follow the prompts, it's easy to do. The Chameleon boot CD by itself should work fine in your PATA drive, then just use the boot selector to boot from the USB flash drive and you should be good. If you are adventurous (and very very careful) you can use your dad's imac to install Chameleon to the USB drive that has the Snow Leopard DVD restored to it. Make sure the configuration matches buoo's P5Q Deluxe boot CD. Voila, portable hackintosh installer flash drive! Just don't install Chameleon on the iMac by mistake! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271970-my-very-first-hackintosh/#findComment-1769888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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