HP Compaq DC7900 Convertible Minitower

[luckmartin]

Hello
I'm thinking of doing a hackintosh installation on my new cheaply bought HP Compaq DC7900 Convertible Minitower.
The Motherboard is a Intel Q45. It has 4GBs of RAM and a

Intel GMA X4500 GRAM.
I wanted to know if i can hackintosh it.
Can anybody of you help me and tell me the settings. Thanks!​

 

[nobodynose]

Hello
I'm thinking of doing a hackintosh installation on my new cheaply bought HP Compaq DC7900 Convertible Minitower.
The Motherboard is a Intel Q45. It has 4GBs of RAM and a

Intel GMA X4500 GRAM.
I wanted to know if i can hackintosh it.
Can anybody of you help me and tell me the settings. Thanks!​

You're going to need (at the least) a separate graphics card; Intel GMA graphics are not supported in Mac OS X. Beyond that, I don't know enough to give you any further advice - see if you can find the specs on the motherboard (i.e. what audio & network chipsets it uses, how many and what type of SATA ports and PCIe slots it has, that kind of information).

 

[luckmartin]

Okay im going to look for a solution. Thanks a lot!

 

[Vip]

Hi

Did you manage to get this working?

Thanks

 

[hainque]

I've successfully installed Mavericks on a DC7900 SFF (which should be fairly identical to the CMT).

Installation can be made using the built in VGA adapter, although you'll want to add a graphics card later, because graphics performance is horrible since the built in graphics is not supported.

Followed the Mavericks guide, did not need to use any boot flags.
After reboot I ran Multibeast, and also added the DSDT and audio fix as found in this post:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/dsdt/64741-hp-compaq-dc7900-dsdt.html

Running these will kill the usb ports; shut off the machine and boot using the -x flag; this will make the machine boot up fine with the usb ports working, you can then reboot the machine in normal mode with usb functional.