Hackintosh tutorials and various other tech stuff
Apple recently released the 10.7.3 update for Mac OS X. I tried to update my hackintosh; at first I had the usual SleepEnabler problems so I rebooted and typed pmVersion=0 at the bootloader and it hangs. It seems to be an issue with FakeSMC. I would recommend not updating yet, I’ll post here when I [...] 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 bought myself one of these Sapphire Radeon HD 6870s a couple weeks ago for my new hackintosh. When I first booted it using the “GraphicsEnabler”=”Yes” flag in Chameleon, it booted fine and recognized the card as a 6870 in System Profiler but only one monitor worked. I disabled GraphicsEnabler and rebooted, and surprisingly it [...] 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 »