TX3RN0BILL Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Hi guys! I've recently acquired a hackintosh - well, I've bought the parts and official Snow Leopard OS and built the machine but I didn't install the machine, had someone at my computer shop install the OS especially because it's a multi-boot rig, but still a curious thing happens - the RAM isn't being recognized properly... I'm provisionally using 3 x 2GB of Kingston DDR3 RAM and it indicates that I'm using DDR2 RAM although it is of the correct amount and speed... is that an issue or just one of those cosmetic things? I'm planning on buying Corsair Dominator 1600 12GB DDR3's... Also, My graphics card isn't being properly recognised, I still haven't found out if this issue really is troublesome or not, my graphics card is the XFX 6870 2GB Dual Fan, being shown as being a ATI Radeon NI40... So far I haven't found any issue with it although Final Cut's rendering time has been somewhat appallingly slow, although that might have something to do with the fact that I haven't installed proper Capture Scratch and Render discs... On that issue, I've had two 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green drives with which Snow Leopard didn't want to boot but didn't mind to accept once booted. I've now gotten a pair of 1TB drives, and I was wondering how to format them... My idea was to assign 1 disc to each OS, and I wanted them to be in a format that both OS's could read and write to if possible... any suggestions? Many thanks in advance for all help!!! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274315-ram-not-recognized-properly-under-snow-leopard-1068/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 The fact your ram isn't displaying properly is just cosmetic, this can be edited in smbios.plist. I have no idea about ATi/AMD graphics and render speeds. Have you tried benchmarking in windows and in OS X to see if there are any driver issues in OS X? Have you got QE/CI working? OpenGL? As for your disks and formatting them. OS X must be formatted as OS X extended (HFS+) Windows must be formatted NTFS You may be able to put a dual storage drive/partition in there formatted to FAT32 so both can write to it/read from it. Use MacDrive8 to access your OS X disk from windows. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274315-ram-not-recognized-properly-under-snow-leopard-1068/#findComment-1783901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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