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Little update for anybody who may be interested: I got this little PCIe SATA3 board for 22 euros with the chipset ASM1061 that I have read here on tonymac was compatible out of the box with our hackintosh. And also a brand new Crucial MX100 512Gb (which I wanted as a replace to my previous...

update #1: I deactivated my ATI HD5450 and used the onboard HD3000 and despite what some benchmarks said, I couldnt notice any practical difference in my normal usage. Scrolling, fluidity etc are the same as before, playing HD video too, and most importantly no lag or anything annoying when...

Ok another good advice. I was going gung-ho and buy this PCI-SATA3 card but yeah I can wait a bit longer and try how is the situation for my normal everyday tasks with the HD3000. I won't delete my amazon wishliist of haswell cpu and motherboards just yet....

Like the other guy said, I think you'll be fine. My upgrade (actaully it was a brand new install) of Yosemite went relatively smooth.

YWO, thanks very much for your feedback. My system feels very much alive and competent for my normal usage, so yeah, if that's a strategy to make it last for another 2 year then I will try that, also considering the very low cost of this upgrade. My concern is about the graphics card; I have...

I would definitely increase the ram to 8Gb minimum, considering the little "video" work you're planning.

Wow I didnt even know something like that existed! Yeah that would be the cheapest way to use the SSD but I have read somewhere that it's unlikely I would get full SATAIII 6Gb/sec speed: http://superuser.com/questions/309605/adding-a-sata-6-gbit-s-pci-express-controller-card Also I don't...

Hi all. I've been happily using my hackmini since april 2012. Happily except for those 2-3 days of cursing when I wanted to upgrade O.S. for some silly reasons, that is. Anwyay, I moved all the way from 10.8 to 10.10.1 Yosemite. My system as you can read from my sig is a Sandy Bridge (core i5...

Good info. I'll also have a look at the system logs.

Thanks for the reply Wonkey. Yes for the time being I see no particular issue in pluggin the disk in only for backups. But still I was wondering whether this problem could be related to some mechanical problem which are still undetected by Disk Utility or what. Anyway, the upgrade to 10.9.4...

My system is fairly well used. It's a beautiful(*) little hackintosh with an i5, 16Gb of ram, an internal SSD and a 2Tb hard drive, plus I've had for 1 year now this other 2Tb disk connected externally via USB2. No major issues so far. I've recently upgraded to 10.9.4 and all works perfectly...

Answer goes also to jonnyfive. Yes I did try clearing the cmos by shortcircuiting the appropriate jumper and also removing the battery, wait a few minutes, then reinstall it. Nothing changed unfortunately. I will get a replacement board soon and I won't mess around with updating the bios for...

Hi rbob, maybe it was a mistake from my part; I saw F7 and thought that it was supported by the newest DSDTs. Anyway, do you think the combination of a more recent bios with the installation of Lion could have caused such a permanent damage?

thanks for the reply Mieze. I thought about handling all with the proper care (i.e., touching metal parts of the case before installing/removing components) but evidently something slipped out (and yes, there were lots of bumping to install m/b and components into these tight cases). so I guess...

Until last week this would have been a *SUCCESS* post. Not anymore, as you can imagine from the subj. So the story goes like this: I have built 2 hackintosh, one for me (A) one for a friend (B): (A) cpu: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3Ghz mb: Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3 ram: Corsair 2x4Gb XMS hd: Corsair...