Rwild Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Hi Mac heads! I'm sure you must get an overwhelming amount of these every week, so, I am sorry, but I must ask. Vista is killing me as my new SATA drive is not detected by the OS... No matter how many different drivers, it won't work. So, I have been playing with a live disk of Debian and transfering my files over to the SATA drive so I can install my new OS on my IDE drive. So, here is the legenday question. Which "hackintosh" will work best with my system? MSI K8T NEO FISR2 mobo AMD Athlon 3700+ nVidia GeForce 6600 GT ... Creative SB Audigy 1 Gig DDR RAM (2) Sony DRD-RW drives (2) 180 Gig IDE (1) 500 Gig SATA (1) 500 Gig external I don't do too much downloading but I did find this one. the kernel is Toh kernel 9.1.0.It's 32bits until a kernel allow to boot without "-legacy". Does that look like something I can use? Is there anything you can see that I would need to do before attempting to install this in a partition? Thanks for reading my rant... Kind of new to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megamixman Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 If you can't get simple SATA drivers to work on Vista, i wouldn't suggest you embark on the Hackintosh journey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rwild Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 I'm not a totally idiot when it comes to computers. I even brought it to my local computer shop and they said, "My hardware is too old...". Bologna. So, I am yet another victim of the horrible Vista drivers. All I would like to know is which patch would be best. If I mess it up or it doesn't work, no big deal as I will make Ubuntu my main OS again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rwild Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 Nothing? All I get is someone shooting me down before I can even begin? That sure is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifeforce Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Nothing? All I get is someone shooting me down before I can even begin? That sure is nice. Check my sig out. I've had great success installing JaS 10.4.8 AMD SSE2 / SSE3, Tubgirl 10.4.10 and Zephyroth 10.5.1 on my AMD system. All ran natively. Currently, my Leopard install is running natively and without any problems. Of course, I installed Tubgirl 10.4.0 then Z's 10.5.1 (don't think it's necessary -- but I was being redundant). Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtomek Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I agree with the computer store, your hardware is too old. A new mobo for your processer should be less than $50, have you even though that all of the time you've spent trying out different things is probably worth more than $50. Considering OSX has less hardware support for PCs than Vista, why would you think that OS X would be your solution? Good luck... I say either upgrade or use PCLinuxOS or Ubuntu or your favorite flavor of linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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