[Guide] A Hackintosh How to: From the Ground Up - Page 12
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tgrokz
United States30 Posts
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maleorderbride
United States2916 Posts
After you finish the install plug it all back in, set the OS X/Cham drive to the primary booting drive and you should be all set! Remember, you need to boot Win 7 with the system reserved partition. | ||
tgrokz
United States30 Posts
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maleorderbride
United States2916 Posts
Just boot off the Win 7 DVD, install as normal, you just need to boot into win 7 after you finish and go to the diskmanagement utility and remove the active flag from the partition. That *should* be it! ;p | ||
tgrokz
United States30 Posts
that saved me a hell of a lot of grief haha. if i can just figure out this annoying problem with my partitions trying to auto-play every time i boot into windows, then ill FINALLY be set. im so glad this thread exists | ||
maleorderbride
United States2916 Posts
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tgrokz
United States30 Posts
also, just a quick question for anyone that has windows 7 x64 installed. what's your ram usage? with 4 gigs, im idling at 1.33gb, which seems too high. i have it installed on another computer with 2gb of ram and it idles at around 700-800mb. i turned off all unnecessary services, including superfetch (everyone with the same problem said it was their problem) but the ram usage stays at a little above a gig and a quarter. i know this is an OSX/hackintosh thread, but im just curious | ||
maleorderbride
United States2916 Posts
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FuRRie
Belgium815 Posts
Current desktop is getting in need of fresh install, and might aswell clean out the hardware and build it up again. | ||
maleorderbride
United States2916 Posts
As always, Gigabyte boards are superior for OS X builds. Something like this: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10011100&prodlist=celebros Then grab 8GBs of DDR3-1600Mhz (~$260ish right now, but should be ~$200 on black friday) or their other p55 boards. That board can go on sale/rebate to as low as $90. So long as you do not need 12GBs of RAM p55 is a more realistic solution than the X58 boards. If anyone wants to do a build with that board you can post in here and I will upload the files. The i5/i7 socket 1136 CPUs clock up to 3.8Ghz pretty easily as they are more mature than the socket 1336 920s and such. Basically, they use less power to do the same amount of work, so they overclock better. edit: my seminar papers are all due Dec. 17th, so the i5/i7 guide will come out after that date. 5 more months til I get my MA degree! | ||
haduken
Australia8267 Posts
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shreepy
United States121 Posts
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maleorderbride
United States2916 Posts
Thanks shreppy! Glad to hear it! | ||
bacteria
Canada2 Posts
Thank you very much for the post! i was so happy when i found it ! I have a little problem, i managed to boot with Leopard 10.5 but it says that it can not install it because i dont have 10.4 !? When i try it with my Sl 10.6, screen stays black, cant even boot it ... I even tried to boot with 10.4.10 that i got with my macbook, it restarts only!? I have an Wolfdale E8400, same mobo with Ati 4830, memory 1066 ... Thanks in advance for your comments update: i have bios upgraded to latest F7 ! | ||
maleorderbride
United States2916 Posts
Try booting the 10.6 installer with -x -f -v flags. If the install hangs somewhere for 10 minutes or so then take a pic of the screen (so I can read it) and post it here. Normally, a black screen indicates a video kext issue. Since I am using the 4870 I would have thought the 4830 would have worked, but I guess not. Do you have any GeForce cards you can use during the install? 6xxx-9xxx? | ||
bacteria
Canada2 Posts
Thanks for your reply. I already thought that this post is dead. I got my 10.5 dvd sent from Apple when i bought my macbook so it might not be the right one, i did not buy it in store. I will try to boot it with SL but i dont understand what u mean with -x -f -v flags ( newbie i guess, sorry). I wish i had geforce somewhere around Thanks a lot for all your help ! | ||
lylejensen
United States19 Posts
But every time I get the bootloaders to start up the 10.6 retail dvd, it shows the Apple splash screen and the little circular loading thing at the bottom. But after a minute or so, there's a "no symbol" that appears on top of the apple. And then the dvd stops spinning and it just hangs. Is there something I'm doing wrong? | ||
ssleung
United States2 Posts
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bean3669
Canada2 Posts
Fantastic guide been looking for something just like this for quite some time. About to buy my own hackintosh just one glitch, your video card is no longer available, just wondering for some good replacement cards and the steps i should change from yours. was thinking something like this(gigabyte nvidia geforce 9800 gt 1gb): http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125286 Thanks so MUCH!! | ||
ssleung
United States2 Posts
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