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I currently have this build (roughly the same motherboard, Intel Core i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz, built in HD 4000, USB audio device, 16GB RAM, Western Digital SSD). It's running High Sierra, with Clover. (Originally built it running Mountain Lion. Feels like forever ago.) The HD 4000 is "Metal"...

I have this build (more or less; Intel Core i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz, built in HD 4000, using a USB audio device because I was tired of restoring the onboard audio constantly). It's running High Sierra, and it's been a great workhorse. But now I need to hook up hardware (an HDMI input) that...

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I have a Core i5 rig I built in 2012, very similar to the Moarfish GA-B75M-D3H i5 3570K build. It originally ran 10.8 and was updated to 10.9, where it stayed, but now I need to upgrade to 10.13. Is it possible on this box? (Stock Ethernet and Intel HD 4000 graphics, USB, etc; nothing fancy.)...

Thanks! I ended up using the macOS Extractor method with a beat up old black MacBook4,1 (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz) I forgot I had. The graphics support (ATI X3100) is as abysmal as you'd expect (missing title bars on windows, visible redrawing on some screens), but for my very limited purpose (running...

I have a Core 2 Duo MacBook (MacBook2,1), updated with an SSD and 3GB RAM. Officially, of course, this machine tops out at OS X 10.7 ("Lion"). I want to dedicate it in a remote location to a single task, running some proprietary software to periodically update a flash card with new databases...

Okay, this is bizarre, but, with the camcorder hooked up through the Maxtor Firewire external hard drive (daisy-chained), QuickTime Pro 7 sees the camera and captures footage fine. Weird. Not ideal (would have preferred to plug the camera directly into the Firewire port on the back of the...

No one has any troubleshooting suggestions? Update, I found an old Firewire hard drive and hooked it up, and that worked fine (automatically mounts, etc). So it appears to be just the camera (which works, with the same cable, with the built-in Firewire on an ancient MacBook...)

I have a 'hack (GA-B75M-D3P, Core i5-3570K, 8GB Corsair RAM, built-in HD4000 graphics, etc, no other cards installed, built-in audio/Ethernet/USB, etc.) running 10.9.4. Works perfectly. I added a Syba PEX30016 PCIe Firewire card (TI chipset), that at least one Amazon reviewer identified as...

I've loved my "moarfish" Core i5 Mountain Lion build, but a new job beckons, so I'm going to have to build a new Hack. What's the scuttlebutt regarding Mavericks compatibility? (I note the build I currently have is reported to have serious issues with Mavericks, or even 10.8.5 - I'm currently...

Windows? What's that? /me googles it ... Oh, that Microsoft operating system? No idea. This is just a Hackintosh. But the answer is, no, it's not a hardware issue. If I reformat and reinstall 10.8, sound works perfectly again. Still works after an update to 10.8.2. After a couple of days...

Help ... Have this build (with the D3P), it's been working perfectly for months. Now, however, I get no sound. It just went away. I still have the speaker icon in my menu bar, I can still turn up/down the volume with the keyboard controls (Unicomp SpaceSaver M), but nothing comes through the...

Article: Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide February 2013 I'm using a Sandisk Extreme 240GB disk (SDSSDX240GG25, revision R201) as the only drive in a Hackintosh. It's hooked up to a Marvell 88SE9172 6Gb/s SATA-III controller on a Gigabit GA-B75M-D3P motherboard. Worked out of the box. GUID...

Is there a highly compatible (at least as close to turn-key as the Gigabit GA-B75M-D3P) smaller-than-fullsized ATX board that has Thunderbolt on board? Thanks!!! (I want to shoehorn this into a Quicksilver G4 case, FWIW.)

Is there a mini-ITX mainboard that's as compatible as the Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3P, that has (with the right processor) integrated HD4000 graphics? I love the build I have at the office (micro-ATX HA-B75M-D3P, i5 3570K, gobs of RAM with heatsink, etc), but it's too big for home. Want to build a...