[Guide] A Hackintosh How to: From the Ground Up - Page 7

On July 26 2009 07:15 Dead9 wrote:
I think I have everything plugged in correctly, but nothing's appearing on my monitor
Graphics card's fan is spinning, motherboard lit up, all the fans are on
I tested the monitor by connecting to my laptop (via vgaand it worked fine
I'm pretty sure the graphics card is plugged in all the way; it clicked when I pushed it in
My monitor only has a VGA port, so I plugged it like this: monitor -- VGA cable -- VGA->DVI converter -- graphics card
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Edit: Also, I waited for a few minutes and my motherboard isn't beeping

On July 25 2009 16:12 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
holy shit amazing guide

This stuff is so incredibly beyond me rofl.. even if I followed this I'd end up lost asap.

On July 26 2009 09:19 maleorderbride wrote:



Sounds like it is not POSTing =/

One of the most annoying things because it can be ANYTHING. The best move is to just relax and disconnect everything. Replug-it all in. Pay special attention to the motherboard plugs, the RAM, and the video card. Leave any non-vital parts out of the comp for now :no DVD, HDD, firewire, wireless,etc needed.

If still no go then plug in just a single RAM stick and try again (try at least 2 of the sticks, one at a time). Then if no go, unplug the power from the PSU, remove the round CMOS battery and then mash the power button for a few seconds. Leave the battery out for an hour or so. Go play some SC. Put the battery back in, power cord connect, and try to boot the system again.

If that does not give any results then you want to swap in a different video card and power supply. =/ Hope you have spares somewhere. If that still yields no results then you need to take the motherboard out of the case, then try it on a non-conducting surface with a box underneath the motherboard to protect the pins. You can turn on a motherboard without a power button connected by shorting the pins that you would normally connect the cord to. Just complete the circuit with a steady hand and any non-magnetic screwdriver with a plastic handle.

If that does not work, then you need to re-seat the CPU and try one last time. Then you have to RMA your motherboard =/

On July 26 2009 12:50 madnessman wrote:
jk i found it mb.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC094Z/A/Mac-OSX-Leopard?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA&mco=MzgxNDk3OQ

but thats 10.5.6 not 10.5.7

On July 26 2009 23:47 maleorderbride wrote:
If that was your first boot then it might just be the RAM voltage. Some RAM does not get auto-downclocked by the motherboard to run at 800MHz so the computer will not POST when a bunch of sticks are in at once.

Try manually setting the RAM voltage then plug in all the sticks again before assuming one is bad. You can use memtest86+ (burned onto a CD) to check RAM. DL the .iso and use nero or the like to burn it as an image cd.

glad to hear your comp boots now though ;p

On July 28 2009 06:10 Dead9 wrote:


I've managed to install windows 7, update the bios, and input the settings, but now the computer restarts after the windows splash screen :[
It worked fine before I updated the bios and input the settings too
I don't have a CD burner at home (my laptop one broke >_<), so I can't try memtest til later

Edit: I think one of my sticks of RAM is broken; could that be the problem? =S
Edit: Also, one stick of RAM in each red slot works fine, but the same sticks in the yellow slots doesn't work
Edit: Actually, apparently all my RAM works, after testing them all one by one
Could it be that the motherboard is broken?
Edit: The yellow slot closest to the fan doesn't load anything at all (just stays at a black screen), and the other yellow slot gives me the blue screen of death as soon as win7 loads :[

On July 31 2009 08:28 maltice wrote:
Hey maleorder.... I finally got my cpu cooler and my additional 4gb of memory...

I put in the two sticks of memory (identical to the previous ones) and booted up but osX hangs...

It gets past the apple screen and then goes to that bluish screen right before it shows you the desktop and the hard drives stop thinking and nothing ever comes up....

I literally took the two sticks out and rebooted and now I am writing this.....

Any suggestions?

Jacktheripper:
How did you end up with the overclocking and all?

I assume the RAM settings are all manually set? Nothing else has changed in your system? You can try doing the same thing and changing the FSB down while maintaining 1066 on the ram.

Otherwise check using memtest86+.

Also, you can try using the BOOT-132 CD to make sure something else weird, like a driver issue, is going on. Press enter at the first boot 132 screen, then type 80 and press enter, then type -x -f and press enter.

On July 31 2009 08:54 maleorderbride wrote:



It could be the overclock. Try changing the FSB to 333 and then adjust the RAM ratio to end up at 1066MHz. Double check the BIOS settings also. Did you enable load-line calibration?