well that didnt work. i formatted the win 7 partition and reinstalled. then, i went into the osx part with boot 132 and reinstalled chameleon. i set the osx partition to active from the win7 install disc command prompt, but now it wont boot. nothing happens when it goes to boot from the partition, which is where it would usually go to the loader gui. like i said, i can get into osx from the boot 132 disc, but i cant seem to get chameleon to work. any ideas?

maleorderbride

United States2916 Posts

November 16 2009 19:13 GMT

#222

Hey! I would suggest disconnecting the OS X drive, THEN wiping/re-install Win 7. Win 7 is a bit more problematic than other versions of windows because it likes to put header information on the active drive (which is the OS X drive sometimes) which can be problematic.

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

November 16 2009 22:01 GMT

#223

is there a way to do it that doesnt involve me wiping everything out, because thats something i 100% cant do, seeing as my windows and osx partitions are on the same drive. i had it set up perfectly before using the one drive, so i dont see why it wouldnt work now. bummer

maleorderbride

United States2916 Posts

November 16 2009 22:38 GMT

#224

Oh, well you can still do it. But it might need some repair work done after.

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

November 17 2009 01:12 GMT

#225

fixed it. i manually reinstalled chameleon using the binary files and terminal and repaired the windows boot sector from the win7 dvd.

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

November 17 2009 01:22 GMT

#226

Do you have macdrive installed? Is that what is doing it? If so, there is an option to turn that off (within Macdrive) I am pretty sure..

tgrokz

United States30 Posts

November 17 2009 02:17 GMT

#227

theres no option to turn off auto-play or anything like that, but i looked up how to selectivly turn off auto-play and i edited the registry to not auto-play fixed drives. the problem started well after i first installed macdrive, so i figured it was something else. as long as i dont have to see the stupid autoplay box every time i boot up, im good. thanks

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

November 17 2009 18:48 GMT

#228

That is not actually a "problem", but a feature. Win 7 and Vista will use more and more RAM, thus running slightly faster. I have had a 3+GB idle with 16GBs of total system RAM before.

FuRRie

Belgium815 Posts

November 17 2009 19:06 GMT

#229

I'm thinking of making a Win7 + Mac OS "hackintosh.
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

November 19 2009 18:58 GMT

#230

As of a few days ago the new i5/i7 socket 1136 CPUs are supported by OS X. This means you can go DDR3 and current gen-architecture with a $90 motherboard and a $200 CPU instead of $240 for a good motherboard and $270 for the CPU. All the P55 boards support SLI/Crossfire, RAID 0/1/5/10, and similar high-level features that used to cost $200+.

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

November 19 2009 21:00 GMT

#231

For hackintosh builds do I have to buy the leopard CD or can I just buy the snow leopard upgrade? (I know that Windows 7 upgrade can be used for a fresh install).

shreepy

United States121 Posts

November 19 2009 22:47 GMT

#232

I finished building a hackintosh last night using your guide runs beautifully, thanks!

maleorderbride

United States2916 Posts

November 20 2009 05:00 GMT

#233

You can just use the SL upgrade DVD.

Thanks shreppy! Glad to hear it!

bacteria

Canada2 Posts

November 24 2009 08:36 GMT

#234

Hey guys,

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

November 28 2009 23:39 GMT

#235

Sounds like you do not have a retail 10.5 DVD?

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

November 29 2009 18:06 GMT

#236

Hey maleorderbride,

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

November 30 2009 04:39 GMT

#237

I've tried several bootloaders (incl. the SL one in this thread and the Chameleon one) to install 10.6 on the Gigabyte EP45-UD3R motherboard. I have the ATI 4870 video card as well as three independent hard drives (one of them has windows, the other 2 are empty).

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

December 02 2009 01:35 GMT

#238

I'm having the same issue as well with the EP45-UD3R and 4870. Seems to hang on the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement when booting off the 10.6 retail DVD. Any tips?

bean3669

Canada2 Posts

December 02 2009 19:03 GMT

#239

Hey,

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

December 03 2009 05:52 GMT

#240

hi bean3669. i'm actually looking to sell my 4870 if you are interested.