I don't want to shell out for a standalone Hackintosh machine, and I have no experience outside of Windows and Linux. Is there anything here that I would have to replace, or anything I need to buy to run OS X?
I have a Snow Leopard (10.6.4) disk.
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz 1066MHz) Socket 775 (Seems to work according to OSx86)
- Asus Maximus Formula - Intel X38 Chipset (I read some reports on the OSx86 Wiki for older OSX versions reporting some issues, but I don't know if there are any patches/Kexts out to fix them)
- Samsung SH-S202J 20X DVD±RW IDE (I read that it works. I have a USB stick to install though.)
- Nvidia GTX 260 (Zotac)
- 2x Corsair 2GB 1066MHz DDR2 & 2x OCZ 1GB 800MHz DDR2.
- The HDD I will be using of OS X - Western Digital 1.5TB Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm
Also, is it possible to keep my installation of Windows 7 and add OS X to the boot loader?
I posted this on another thread so I will just c/p it here.
Install Chameleon 2.0 to a thumb-drive.
Boot from Thumbdrive
Select your Retail Snow Leopard DVD when the menu loads
Install OSX on HDD.
Boot from Thumbdrive
Select Installed HDD when the menu loads
Install Chameleon on the Installed HDD
But I'm not sure if you can keep all your W7 stuff, but you might be able to if you get another HDD and I'm not sure if making a partition would work as well.
Thanks. I probably have a spare hard drive somewhere. I'll just have to try it and see what doesn't work.
1.5TB at 5400 rpm... Ouch. Anyways, Stable is correct. I used that to install OSX on a friend's hackintosh and it worked. Just please make sure you get a decent looking case. My friend had a crappy old second hand one and every time I saw OSX running out of that hideous box I died a little bit inside.
[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;22829523]1.5TB at 5400 rpm... Ouch. Anyways, Stable is correct. I used that to install OSX on a friend's hackintosh and it worked. Just please make sure you get a decent looking case. My friend had a crappy old second hand one and every time I saw OSX running out of that hideous box I died a little bit inside.[/QUOTE]
It's super quiet and stays cool. It's really efficient too, and the speeds aren't bad for what I've been using it for. I might actually use a different HDD though, if stablemist is correct and OS X doesn't work well when installed onto a second partition.
You have to be worried more about your chipset and motherboard compatibility. I have an Nvidia 680i chipset on my desktop, and without AHCI, it's almost impossible to hackintosh. I need to swap my DVD drive with an older IDE, unplug all other SATA devices except my primary HDD, and even then I get kernel panics regularly on 10.5.6. I've heard there's a way to enable AHCI by setting my hard drive to RAID and installing some Intel utility. I'll try that later. Worst comes to worst though, I'll grab a PCI card that has it's own AHCI-enabled chipset and it will work.
I gave that up and started working on my netbook. 10.6 vanilla install works fine, I just inject trackpad, graphics, and a few other kexts with chameleon. I also needed a dsdt patch for the power button, but it's pretty close to 100% working now. So it really depends on the system.
Anyways:
-processor and RAM will work 100%
-chipset, I haven't researched at all, but IIRC Intel chipsets are pretty easy
-DVD drive will most likely work, dependent on chipset though. And you should be able to install from your DVD drive unless you are going for a non-modified version of snow leopard, which requires a dual-layer DVD drive, in which case use a flash drive.
-graphics card should work after installing a kext, an enabler, and then downloading the GTX280 drivers off the nvidia website or something like that, I can't remember how I got it working on my desktop.
-HDD should work, again dependent on chipset.
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