10.6.5 on P5Q Pro Turbo

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Apple released the 10.6.5 update today. As usual, if you have a vanilla system, go ahead and update but replace SleepEnabler with the 10.6.5 version. Update: If you forgot to replace SleepEnabler before updating and you’re getting a kernel panic, boot into single user mode, type /sbin/mount -uw /, and then type rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/SleepEnabler.kext [...] Read more »

How to Install Retail Snow Leopard on a Gateway NV53A24U

I finally installed OS X on my laptop, and it runs better than I thought it would. You can thank John, who commented on my previous post, for making me want to do this. I’ve had two other AMD hackintoshes, and this is the quickest one I’ve had. However, there are a few things you [...] Read more »

Almost Got OS X on a Gateway NV53A

I was looking at Prasys’ blog, and I found a post about a newer EFI Boot CD that’s supposed to be better than Empire EFI called ModCD. I saw that it supports both Intel and AMD machines, so I tried it out on my laptop and actually got the Snow Leopard install disc to boot. [...] Read more »