killjoy42 Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 So I've been struggling with getting OSX86 to work - and I have a dedicated IDE HDD for that purpose. So far I've tried the following images with the listed results: uphuck_10.4.9_universal_dvd_v1.3.cdr - 4.5GB Installed via VMWARE - Black screen with blinking cursor uphuck_10.4.9_v1.4i_r3.iso - 1.4GB Installed via DVD & VMWARE (image mounted w/ daemon tools) - Black screen with blinking cursor Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2].iso - 4.5 GB Installed via DVD & VMWARE (image mounted w/ daemon tools) - Boots to grey apple screen and comes up with a friendly message asking to reboot the system. Cannot get past this point. I tried giving the hard drive a boot tag with GParted Live, but it didn't seem to do anything. I tried several install configurations suggested by various guides as well as a few of my own. I guess I'm wondering what the best version/configuration would be for me to make one of the above images work. Any help will be greatly appeciated. My hardware is as follows: MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard 2 SATA Drives 2 IDE Drives Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory XFX PVT84GUDF3 GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card Also, some info from CPU-z: Processors Map ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Number of processors 1 Number of threads 2 Processor 0 -- Core 0 -- Thread 0 -- Core 1 -- Thread 0 Processors Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Processor 1 (ID = 0) Number of cores 2 Number of threads 2 (max 2) Name Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Codename Conroe Specification Intel® Core2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz Package Socket 775 LGA (platform ID = 0h) CPUID 6.F.6 Extended CPUID 6.F Core Stepping B2 Technology 65 nm Core Speed 2400.1 MHz (9.0 x 266.7 MHz) Rated Bus speed 1066.7 MHz Stock frequency 2400 MHz Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T L1 Data cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size L1 Instruction cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size L2 cache 4096 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size FID/VID Control yes FID range 6.0x - 9.0x max VID 1.238V Chipset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Northbridge NVIDIA 650i SLI SPP rev. A2 Southbridge NVIDIA 650i SLI MCP rev. A3 Graphic Interface PCI-Express PCI-E Link Width x16 PCI-E Max Link Width x16 Memory Type DDR2 Memory Size 2048 MBytes Memory Frequency 400.0 MHz (2:3) CAS# 5.0 RAS# to CAS# 5 RAS# Precharge 5 Cycle Time (tRAS) 18 Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 22 Command Rate 2T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Two things I can see that are probably causing your problems. Do some research on NVidia chipsets as they are notoriously unsympathetic to OSX86. There are a lot threads in this forum that may be of some help to you. The second thing is your video card. Although great for Windows, there is very little driver support for the 8xxx series cards for Hackintoshes since they aren't used in any real Macs. There are a couple of lengthy threads devoted to whatever progress is being made in this and the hardware forum. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisbadenov Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Always look at the HCL before you buy http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killjoy42 Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 Two things I can see that are probably causing your problems. Do some research on NVidia chipsets as they are notoriously unsympathetic to OSX86. There are a lot threads in this forum that may be of some help to you. The second thing is your video card. Although great for Windows, there is very little driver support for the 8xxx series cards for Hackintoshes since they aren't used in any real Macs. There are a couple of lengthy threads devoted to whatever progress is being made in this and the hardware forum. Good luck. I did hear that there was little to no support for 8xxx series, but I guess I was hoping my card didn't apply and/or I misunderstood. My next step is to dig a little deeper in the forums and see what I come up with. Thanks for your help. ;-) An afterthought: what kind of effects would an incompatible graphics card result in exactly? should I be able to get that grey apple boot screen if my card isn't working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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