Recent content by Tom89

No, the mac partition should be at least 60 gb but you can make it as big as you want... however, you will not be able to use a partition ON the disk to format it to MBR if it's GPT! You will have to clear the disk first.

There's no need to install the hdd in another machine, you can use a windows installer to formato it to MBR and to install windows. Then you can run the restore program from that partition.

You have to use the windows program that was used to make the image, it's called R-Drive Image.. anyway yes, it is worth it as the latest image is nearly perfect, with turboboost, speedstep etc. You won't be able ever to use the wifi (without changing your card) or the Nvidia card, though.

I used a preconfigured image from an ukrainian guy, you can find a link to that somewhere in this thread... you just restore that image to a MBR partition and voilà, it works! This notebook is a difficult beast to hackintosh, I'd suggest you to try that one first.

The guide is unfortunately very simple: completely erase whatever on existence is on your HDD, change its partition to MBR, install everything again. I did this on a secondary disk installed in the bluray drive slot. There is no way to get the BIOS to boot from a mac GPT partition apparently.

I've discovered some neat tricks that make this PC a real beast with Mountain Lion, I suggest to use them to everyone that might attempt hackintoshing it :D 1) disable the paging: the disk driver is a bit weak and causes random lag... coupled with OSX's tendency to page out aggressively, it...

that "someone" was me :P I found out that disabling paging altogether reduces A LOT the stress on the disk, and makes everything faster... still, the problem remains!

The same russian user also provided a SSDT fully enabling SS and TB, thanks anyway :D

Hi, I'm trying to hackintosh this notebook... while it hasn't been easy, right now the results are very encouraging, so I wanted to try a SSDT to get SpeedStep working :) Currently, the CPU only works at 1188 or 2277 Mhz, with a very bad workload management (it lags for seconds before...

I had to reinstall with the image provided in that russian forum because my install wouldn't recognize iPods or anything else, and it worked perfectly! Just try to find the english version of that image and install that one, forget manual methods. BTW: disk access is still painfully slow...

You shouldn't have installed AppleHDA, it's not supported. Boot in safe mode (-x at boot) remove it, and install VodooHDA 2.7.4 :D It's not that hard, you just have to check every kext the thing wants to use!

I think you just have to format the disk as MBR so that it doesn't start as UEFI, I read elsewhere that it was the problem - but then you have to hack ML to let you install on MBR, don't know how. And you will need to reinstall windows. @jamas: a guide for the Fn keys? I'm miss that one, and...

nope, I've been using it as-is... I just discovered that starting with -f makes the HDD work faster. That might be worth some investigations... and should make no sense because -f just rebuilds the kext cache. I think this means that the CPU being in low-power mode is NOT the bug - rather...

The USB works*, in fact the trackpad works out of the box for me :D And those 2 kext cause KPs here, so no reason to install them. *only works for non-storage-devices such as mouses, xbox pads, etc, or USB3.0 storage devices. USB2.0 sticks do not work! Also, after I've installed 10.8.2 it...

yeah, I didn't mention it because I didn't know if it was spam, being another site. Anyway, I tried them and they broke the system beyond recoverability, so I had to format and start again. EDIT: I tried again now, and they all work except the PS2 ones and the CPUSensors.kext, all of which...