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[Guide] HP 6300 Pro / HP 8300 Elite - A 100 percent Working and Easily Affordable CustoMac

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Amazing guide. Thank you. I built two identical Elite 8300's with Nvidia GT 1030 and SSD for others. One of the machines will go to a friend who lives too far for me to maintain it for him. I am worried that he may "mess" it up and won't be able to boot. What kind of a backup would you recommend that I ship the machine with so he could recover? BTW, he has a number of real Macs in his household.
 
taskrov said:
Amazing guide. Thank you. I built two identical Elite 8300's with Nvidia GT 1030 and SSD for others. One of the machines will go to a friend who lives too far for me to maintain it for him. I am worried that he may "mess" it up and won't be able to boot. What kind of a backup would you recommend that I ship the machine with so he could recover? BTW, he has a number of real Macs in his household.
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Yes, I know what you mean as I've built CustoMacs for family members that live halfway across the country. I generally say to not install any updates but inevitably they will forget my advice and do that. What I've usually done is just have them mail the SSD back to me then I fix the problem. Another better alternative is to make a small 15-20 GB partition on the boot drive for a 2nd install of macOS so that they can always boot into that if need be. You could also give them a CCC backup of the boot drive that has the bootloader installed too. Then they can simply swap the drives. That costs more for the extra drive though.
 
trs96 said:
Yes, I know what you mean as I've built CustoMacs for family members that live halfway across the country. I generally say to not install any updates but inevitably they will forget my advice and do that. What I've usually done is just have them mail the SSD back to me then I fix the problem. Another better alternative is to make a small 15-20 GB partition on the boot drive for a 2nd install of macOS so that they can always boot into that if need be. You could also give them a CCC backup of the boot drive that has the bootloader installed too. Then they can simply swap the drives. That costs more for the extra drive though.
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Adding to this, when you build for a friend, I recommend always use 2 disks. 1 for boot, for storage. Set up the profile so that all documents, music, photos are on a secondary drive. This way when they eventually mess it up, they just need to reimage the boot disk, and the documents should be fine. Alternatively, make sure they have a a solid backup strategy (like a paid service) as well.
 
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Hello everyone
small update, I received the USB audio adapter, the perfect volume and 'returned to be the original mac :thumbup:, and worked immediately!
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Which adapter did you go with?
 
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RescueDog said:
Which adapter did you go with?
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these cheap usb adaptors work without fault - the sound seems fine (but I dont have any hi-fi quality accessories to test with).

They come up in the hardware tree as
Product ID: 0x013c
Vendor ID: 0x0d8c (C-MEDIA ELECTRONICS INC.)
Which seems to mean it is based on the CM108 chipset.

The cases are fine but they seem to fall apart for want of a bit of glue and they always have an led on.
(Opaque sticky tape fixes both problems.)


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Good-USB...231251&hash=item1eb8997521:g:CO4AAOSwcL5XMVUp

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Mini...433602&hash=item3f78102e4a:g:0T8AAOSwWxNYz0Wx
 
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cripstak said:
https://www.amazon.it/dp/B018INVYOG/?tag=tonymacx86com-21

it works perfectly :thumbup:
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nicksoph said:
these cheap usb adaptors work without fault - the sound seems fine (but I dont have any hi-fi quality accessories to test with).

They come up in the hardware tree as
Product ID: 0x013c
Vendor ID: 0x0d8c (C-MEDIA ELECTRONICS INC.)
Which seems to mean it is based on the CM108 chipset.

The cases are fine but they seem to fall apart for want of a bit of glue and they always have an led on.
(Opaque sticky tape fixes both problems.)


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Good-USB...231251&hash=item1eb8997521:g:CO4AAOSwcL5XMVUp

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Mini...433602&hash=item3f78102e4a:g:0T8AAOSwWxNYz0Wx
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Do you have to disable anything or do you just plug these in? Page 1 of the installation guide states, "If your analog audio jacks won't work with any of the above options then purchase a Sabrent USB adapter for analog audio. Link is in the first part of this post. It requires no drivers and works 100 % of the time on these HP CustoMacs."
 
Hello
I did not have to do anything at all.
inserted the adapter and it immediately worked.
keep in mind that I use it with the Bose Companion 3 Series 2.1 and my problem was the volume too low compared to the mac mini, now it's perfect and also the quality of the product does not seem bad, and what matters ... no problem !!! plug and play ;)
 
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