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- Dec 16, 2011
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- Intel Core i3-3240
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GTX 650
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Introduction
It seems like there aren't many guides out there for peeps with an Acer Aspire 4750G laptop, so here, with time to spare 'cause my final exams are over and graduation draws near (pa petiks-petiks na lang), I made a guide. It is also my solemn responsibility to keep this guide updated as much as possible and user feedback is highly appreciated. Questions are entertained but please, use also your common sense, its for your own good too. Anyways, my laptop specs as follows:
- i5-2410M
- Intel HD3000
- GeForce GT 540M 2GB
- 2GB DDR3 1333Mhz (expanded mine to 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz, Tanya + Kingston)
- AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter
- Netlink BCM57780 NetLink Gigabit Ethernet
- Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller
- NEC uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller
Prerequisite
1 8GB USB thumb drive or flash drive
Mac OS X Lion Application or OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive
An existing MAC or Hackintosh
And a lot of patience and humility
Installation, for the installation guide just follow tonymacx86's UniBeast Method.
NOTE 1: Don't follow Tonymacx86's guide about partitioning/preparing your computer's hard drive for OS X Lion installation because the BIOS in Acer is based on UEFI, a laptop BIOS firmware that doesn't support the GUID partition table so MBR must be used in this guide.
NOTE 2: Better make sure you ticked "Laptop Support" or else the USB wont be bootable.
If you're done making the bootable USB, replace the needed packages with the patched ones you downloaded so dual-booting and installation on a MBR partition table is possible. After doing those, restart, at POST press 12 and choose your boot device, the one that you just made. Then at the Chimera screen, choose the drive whatever you named.
By now you'd be impended by the "before we begin" screen that prompts you that your keyboard is not detected. In that case, then there are two options to do, buy a cheap USB keyboard or follow this shi**y guide I found on other forums.
Reboot into the Lion partition again but with the arguments -x (for safe mode) and -s (single-user mode for privileges, rights, etc) and navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup\ Assistant.app/Contents, open the file info.plist and delete the following lines from it.
Reboot, problem is gone and you are now free to create a user for your new hackintosh. So enter a username, password, user picture (don't use the webcam yet or else your computer will hang) and so on.
Post-installation tuning, use the latest MultiBeast available.
There are the necessary drivers that should be installed prior to the installation of OS X Lion on an Acer 4750G. Double check if you ticked the following before moving on to the next step.
>System Utilities
>>Repair Permissions
>Drivers and Bootloaders
>>Kexts and Enablers
>>>Miscellaneous
>>>>ElliottForceLegacyRTC
>>>>EvOreboot
>>>>FakeSMC
>>>>FakeSMC Plugins
>>>>>Motherboard Plugins
>>>>NullCPUPowerManagement
>>>>USB 3
>>>>PS/2 Keyboard/Mice and Trackpad(s)
>>>>AppleRTC patch for CMOS Reset
>>>Bootloaders
>>>>Chimera (lastest)
>Custimization
>>Boot Option
>>>PCI Root ID Fix
>>>PCI Configuration Fix
>>>Use KernelCache
>>System Definitions
>>>MacBook Pro
>>>>MacBookPro 8,1
>>Themes
>>>Tonymacx86 Classic
>OSx86 Software
>>Kext Utility
>>ShowAllFiles
Download Andre.ncs's Kext pack for Acer 5750G HERE. Yes I know, it's for 5750G but we're only after for the IO80211family.kext and VoodooHDA.kext, so just install them both with your preferred kext installer.
Download the GenericBrightness.kext attached here and install with preferred kext installer.
Download the SleepEnabler.kext attached here and install with preferred kext installer.
Then after installing those, run MultiBeast again and tick "extension migration tool" at the bottom, this is for the purpose of using kernel cache. And lastly, close MultiBeast, launch it again, tick repair permission and reboot.
Conclusion and Summary of Findings
If everything goes smoothly, congrats! You now have bragging rights and should have the following in working order too.
1. Trackpad - Gestures
2. Keyboard - Full mapping
3. BRIGHTNESS - Resets on startup but adjustable anywhere. Use Fn + directional buttons in adjusting the brightness.
4. WIFI - Doesn't auto-connect.
5. SLEEP (works with SleepEnabler.kext) - BE PATIENT!
6. USB3
7. Ethernet
8. Sound
9. KernelCache
10. Battery
11. CPU power management
12. CPU Turbo Boost feature
13. Full graphics acceleration (QE/CI)
Not working so far...
1. AR5BBU12 Bluetooth module
2. nVIDIA GeForce 540m - Detected and memory allocation is right but doesn't work
3. HDMI - haven't tested this out yet.
Not Working
1. VGA - ...
Acknowledgement
Credit belongs to the programmers/hackintosh enthusiasts who share their time and put effort in helping others and the community. And special thanks to Andrei.ncs for helping me achieve reasonable functionality on my laptop, even though its his forum that got my first account smacked by the ban-hammer.
Screenshots!
It seems like there aren't many guides out there for peeps with an Acer Aspire 4750G laptop, so here, with time to spare 'cause my final exams are over and graduation draws near (pa petiks-petiks na lang), I made a guide. It is also my solemn responsibility to keep this guide updated as much as possible and user feedback is highly appreciated. Questions are entertained but please, use also your common sense, its for your own good too. Anyways, my laptop specs as follows:
- i5-2410M
- Intel HD3000
- GeForce GT 540M 2GB
- 2GB DDR3 1333Mhz (expanded mine to 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz, Tanya + Kingston)
- AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter
- Netlink BCM57780 NetLink Gigabit Ethernet
- Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller
- NEC uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller
Prerequisite
1 8GB USB thumb drive or flash drive
Mac OS X Lion Application or OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive
An existing MAC or Hackintosh
And a lot of patience and humility
Installation, for the installation guide just follow tonymacx86's UniBeast Method.
NOTE 1: Don't follow Tonymacx86's guide about partitioning/preparing your computer's hard drive for OS X Lion installation because the BIOS in Acer is based on UEFI, a laptop BIOS firmware that doesn't support the GUID partition table so MBR must be used in this guide.
NOTE 2: Better make sure you ticked "Laptop Support" or else the USB wont be bootable.
If you're done making the bootable USB, replace the needed packages with the patched ones you downloaded so dual-booting and installation on a MBR partition table is possible. After doing those, restart, at POST press 12 and choose your boot device, the one that you just made. Then at the Chimera screen, choose the drive whatever you named.
By now you'd be impended by the "before we begin" screen that prompts you that your keyboard is not detected. In that case, then there are two options to do, buy a cheap USB keyboard or follow this shi**y guide I found on other forums.
Reboot into the Lion partition again but with the arguments -x (for safe mode) and -s (single-user mode for privileges, rights, etc) and navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup\ Assistant.app/Contents, open the file info.plist and delete the following lines from it.
Code:
<string>DeviceSection</string>
<string>KeyboardTypeSection</string>
Reboot, problem is gone and you are now free to create a user for your new hackintosh. So enter a username, password, user picture (don't use the webcam yet or else your computer will hang) and so on.
Post-installation tuning, use the latest MultiBeast available.
There are the necessary drivers that should be installed prior to the installation of OS X Lion on an Acer 4750G. Double check if you ticked the following before moving on to the next step.
>System Utilities
>>Repair Permissions
>Drivers and Bootloaders
>>Kexts and Enablers
>>>Miscellaneous
>>>>ElliottForceLegacyRTC
>>>>EvOreboot
>>>>FakeSMC
>>>>FakeSMC Plugins
>>>>>Motherboard Plugins
>>>>NullCPUPowerManagement
>>>>USB 3
>>>>PS/2 Keyboard/Mice and Trackpad(s)
>>>>AppleRTC patch for CMOS Reset
>>>Bootloaders
>>>>Chimera (lastest)
>Custimization
>>Boot Option
>>>PCI Root ID Fix
>>>PCI Configuration Fix
>>>Use KernelCache
>>System Definitions
>>>MacBook Pro
>>>>MacBookPro 8,1
>>Themes
>>>Tonymacx86 Classic
>OSx86 Software
>>Kext Utility
>>ShowAllFiles
Download Andre.ncs's Kext pack for Acer 5750G HERE. Yes I know, it's for 5750G but we're only after for the IO80211family.kext and VoodooHDA.kext, so just install them both with your preferred kext installer.
Download the GenericBrightness.kext attached here and install with preferred kext installer.
Download the SleepEnabler.kext attached here and install with preferred kext installer.
Then after installing those, run MultiBeast again and tick "extension migration tool" at the bottom, this is for the purpose of using kernel cache. And lastly, close MultiBeast, launch it again, tick repair permission and reboot.
Conclusion and Summary of Findings
If everything goes smoothly, congrats! You now have bragging rights and should have the following in working order too.
1. Trackpad - Gestures
2. Keyboard - Full mapping
3. BRIGHTNESS - Resets on startup but adjustable anywhere. Use Fn + directional buttons in adjusting the brightness.
4. WIFI - Doesn't auto-connect.
5. SLEEP (works with SleepEnabler.kext) - BE PATIENT!
6. USB3
7. Ethernet
8. Sound
9. KernelCache
10. Battery
11. CPU power management
12. CPU Turbo Boost feature
13. Full graphics acceleration (QE/CI)
Not working so far...
1. AR5BBU12 Bluetooth module
2. nVIDIA GeForce 540m - Detected and memory allocation is right but doesn't work
3. HDMI - haven't tested this out yet.
Not Working
1. VGA - ...
Acknowledgement
Credit belongs to the programmers/hackintosh enthusiasts who share their time and put effort in helping others and the community. And special thanks to Andrei.ncs for helping me achieve reasonable functionality on my laptop, even though its his forum that got my first account smacked by the ban-hammer.
Screenshots!