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- Dec 26, 2015
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H
- CPU
- Intel i7-4790k (Devil's Canyon)
- Graphics
- no graphics card - using onboard graphics
- Mac
- Classic Mac
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PLEASE DISREGARD THE BUILD IN MY PROFILE TO THE LEFT -- THAT'S A DIFFERENT HACKINTOSH!
I've resuscitated an old PC, running on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard with a Core 2 Duo CPU, and (mostly) successfully hackintoshed it.
The graphics card is a PNY GeForce 8500GT DDR2 512MB PCIe. I had to do the nv_disable=1 to get it to work, otherwise it would always hang at Verifying DMI Pool Data. Once I got past that, I could use it. It mostly works, with these caveats:
1) When I connect it via HDMI to my 1080p TV, it's horribly stretched. The Monitors control panel doesn't let me select any other resolution other than its native setting.
2) The machine always freezes on shutdown.
3) If I start up the machine without any monitor attached, it won't boot at all. (My assumption is it freezes sometime in the boot process, but for obvious reasons, I can't tell where in the boot process.)
Apart from that, it seems to work OK.
So my questions are:
1) Is there anything I can do to experiment to try and get it to work better/properly? Any drivers worth installing?
2) If I'm using this for an application in which graphics aren't important at all (this will be a 24/7 server machine which I'll occasionally VNC into), what's the super-cheapest-budget video card I could use on this motherboard that would work fine for a Hackintosh? I went through the latest build list (January 2016) but all of the suggested graphics cards are in the $100 range and up, and I'd be willing to spend $20-30 to get this right, but not a lot more...
Thanks in advance for any tips!
I've resuscitated an old PC, running on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard with a Core 2 Duo CPU, and (mostly) successfully hackintoshed it.
The graphics card is a PNY GeForce 8500GT DDR2 512MB PCIe. I had to do the nv_disable=1 to get it to work, otherwise it would always hang at Verifying DMI Pool Data. Once I got past that, I could use it. It mostly works, with these caveats:
1) When I connect it via HDMI to my 1080p TV, it's horribly stretched. The Monitors control panel doesn't let me select any other resolution other than its native setting.
2) The machine always freezes on shutdown.
3) If I start up the machine without any monitor attached, it won't boot at all. (My assumption is it freezes sometime in the boot process, but for obvious reasons, I can't tell where in the boot process.)
Apart from that, it seems to work OK.
So my questions are:
1) Is there anything I can do to experiment to try and get it to work better/properly? Any drivers worth installing?
2) If I'm using this for an application in which graphics aren't important at all (this will be a 24/7 server machine which I'll occasionally VNC into), what's the super-cheapest-budget video card I could use on this motherboard that would work fine for a Hackintosh? I went through the latest build list (January 2016) but all of the suggested graphics cards are in the $100 range and up, and I'd be willing to spend $20-30 to get this right, but not a lot more...
Thanks in advance for any tips!