Hackintosh tutorials and various other tech stuff
This guide is for upgrading your existing Snow Leopard or Lion installation to Mountain Lion on the ASUS Sabertooth P67 (though it will likely work for a lot of other boards). The method described here seems to be the “old fashioned” way of creating an OS X installer drive, but it still works. There are [...] Read more »
I was having issues with my SATA controller and decided to see if updating my BIOS would fix it. So far that seems to be fixed, but onboard audio won’t work no matter what I try. Once you upgrade, you can’t go back. This may apply to other ASUS boards as well but I don’t [...] Read more »
I recently sold the computer that pretty much inspired me to make this website, my Asus P5Q Pro turbo hackintosh. Since building my Sandy Bridge system last year I really hadn’t been using the old computer. I tried to find some uses for it, but it was just taking up space. So now that that’s [...] Read more »
Things you’ll need: A blank CD OS X Snow Leopard Retail DVD A Core i3/5/7 processor An Account on tonymacx86.com 1. Download iBoot Legacy, UpdateHelper, and Multibeast Snow Leopard Edition from tonymacx86. 2. Burn the iBoot ISO to the blank CD and save Multibeast and UpdateHelper to another drive. 3. Reboot the computer, press F8, [...] Read more »
Apple updated Lion to 10.7.2 a few days ago. I updated without any problems. Surprisingly, SleepEnabler didn’t cause any problems. Tweet Read more »
I recently built a new hackintosh using the Asus P8P67 LE motherboard. I’m not going to write a full tutorial for it, it’s basically the same process as the P5Q Pro Turbo, except most, if not all, kexts can be found in Tonymacx86′s Multibeast. It works well except for IDE, USB 3, and sleep. It’s [...] Read more »
Yesterday Apple released the OS X 10.7.1 update. I updated and the only problem I had was with SleepEnabler, as usual. Before updating, replace the SleepEnabler.kext you are currently using with this one. Tweet Read more »
Before following this guide, you must have a working installation of OS X Snow Leopard on your hackintosh. You can either upgrade your existing Snow Leopard installation or do a clean install, but you’ll need Snow Leopard to prepare for the upgrade. What you’ll need: -A working copy of Snow Leopard -A copy of OS [...] Read more »
Apple released the 10.6.8 update today. I’ve got it running on my P5Q Pro turbo, but SleepEnabler is broken as usual. If a new one is released by tomorrow afternoon, I’ll try to update this post with a link but if not it will be about a week before I have time to mess with [...] Read more »
I installed OS X Lion Developer Preview 4 on my hackintosh a few days ago. It runs well, though it does feel a little slower than Snow Leopard does. All the kexts from my Snow Leopard installation tutorial work except SleepEnabler and JMicronATA. I found a working JMicronATA online, but sleep still doesn’t work. VoodooHDA [...] Read more »