[Guide] A Hackintosh How to: From the Ground Up - Page 8

On July 31 2009 12:03 maleorderbride wrote:
run the build in ram tester in windows.

type "memory diagnostic" into the run bar. run it, and allow it to restart your computer.

On August 01 2009 11:30 maleorderbride wrote:
Hmmm..that is odd. You can download seatools to check the HDD as well. Although, it does not sound like a HDD problem we still need to rule it out. Did you run OCCT for at least 4 hours? Preferably 8.

After that you should really get a spare PSU to test with. If the RAM/HDD/PSU/CPU all test OK then that really just leaves the motherboard =/

i want the boot partitions to be 50gigs and the rest will be dedicated to the shared files (movies, music, etc), but i dont know what file system can be shared for windows and mac. i know FAT can, but thats a 4gig file limit and most HD movie files are larger than that. any other ideas?

On August 03 2009 00:36 maltice wrote:


i actually run a windows pc next to the TV as a windows media center pc and threw a few 1tb drives in it, formatted them as NTFS drives, and made them completely accessible through my network. Once you do that OSX and windows can read/write to them without any troubles.

Not sure if thats an option for you but basically if you can make the drives network drives then you can bypass the file format problem. Other than that you're stuck with FAT.

On August 02 2009 12:11 tgrokz wrote:
i just was able to get OSX. after a day of frustration, most things are working. my wireless card (linksys WMP4g PCI) works only if theres no WPA/WEP set on the router. id like to be able to fix that, but after much internet searching, it doesnt seem likely.

my bigger problem is audio. i patched the appleHDA.kext file, but now it just says "HD Audio Output" under the sound devices. i was using the spidif and line-out on windows (spidif for gaming), but neither work now. i dont know why its just me having this problem, seeing as we have the same hardware.

also, im having some issues with dual booting. i had win7 running great, but when i tried installing OSX on the partition i made for it a while ago, it completely destroyed my windows partition. eventually ill try to reinstall it, but i dont want to damage the OSX boot partition. i dont feel like going through that mess again haha. i want to separate the drive into 3 parts. osx, win7, and shared file storage. i want the boot partitions to be 50gigs and the rest will be dedicated to the shared files (movies, music, etc), but i dont know what file system can be shared for windows and mac. i know FAT can, but thats a 4gig file limit and most HD movie files are larger than that. any other ideas?

either way, its great to have this baby running OSX.

On August 02 2009 03:45 maltice wrote:
Welp, got the cooler master fan installed, installed it all correctly, and it seems completely fine, however, when i run OOCT my temps definitely go up to 73-74 degrees and then i have to turn it off... (it even makes my bluetooth mouse stop working).

Everything on my system is set exatcly the same way you have it in the guide...

Maleorder, you did say in the guide that it shouldn't really go over 68 right? Mine goes past 68 within a minute or two.... My temp in bios is about 48 degrees...

Am I running too hot even at idle? I put what seemed like the right about of paste an everything on the cpu... etc etc...

-malt

On August 01 2009 13:59 Dead9 wrote:

Blehhh I just closed seagate on accident after it ran for a few hours on long drive self test >_<
Running the short self drive test now
But it passed the SMART test

I ran OCCT for 7 hours and 40-something minutes
I don't really have any spare computer parts; the only ways I could get another PSU would be to buy another or steal one from someone :[

Edit: apparently the short tests run really fast, both of my HDDs passed the SMART check, short drive self test, and short generic

I'm probably just going to give my extra two sticks of RAM to my friend and buy another motherboard in a few years =\

Did you have an E8400, or the Q9550? I forget...anyway, both idle and load temps are a bit high on your comp. Start off just lowering the voltage until you lose stability. If that does not solve your problem then I would wager you did not mount the HSF correctly and need to take the motherboard back out of the case =/

Make sure the four screws are tightened all the way down. A tiny bit of the screws peek out past the nuts if you do it correctly.

On August 05 2009 06:41 tgrokz wrote:
i have it dual booting totally fine. its just getting one of the OS's to read the either the NTFS or mac journaled format for the misc. data partition (460 gigs). for some reason, windows with MacDrive installed reads the OSX boot partition, but not the 460g partition while formatted as journaled. same goes for OSX and ntfs3g. it reads the windows part, but not the NTFS formatted large partition. its frustrating only because theres a whole lot of media i need to put on this computer from my old one, and i cant do that until i have that huge partition formatted so both OS's can read it. i tried a bunch of different formatting programs in windows and the OSX disk utility on the boot disk, but nothing seems to work.

no dice with the audio drivers. i reinstalled the essentials and mobo kexts and restarted, but im still seeing no audio outputs. weird stuff. should i be checking anything other than apply kext package?

thanks