Recent content by mhbalough123

Had to check in on you all to see your progress :) I now have the 171 built with Win 8 .. boo! Methanoid, good job on starting the guide for this specific laptop V5-171 build. Keep it going. In effort to help you guys out and to answer some of the questions, here are several more snippets of...

Methanoid, yamete, and others -- I've got it !!! Finally. At least for myself, and a huge one for you guys I'm about to divulge. First, let me say I've spent days obsessively trying to get this working. Dealing with various panics, getting past them, seeing other issues, etc. I've even...

yamette -- thanks for posting your (3) BIOS screenshots. Can you also please post the only remaining one - the one on your 'Boot' BIOS tab? That's the one that I'm very interested in. I still have a feeling when I make my install attempts with Unibeast, it's making it all the way up to the hard...

Yamete888, Methanoid, and others on this 171 topic -- thank you for trying to get the A5-171 going. I have an Aspire v5-171 as well. It does in fact seem like the perfect hackintosh for what it is, right? I've probably built over 10 hackintoshes in the past several years (mostly desktops for...

Yes, I also run Motion on my hackintosh with my 9800GT and it has not crashed on me. I use After Effects CS6 more, but on occasion I'll use Motion as well. With both those applications, the card performs very well, even working with the particle emitter in Motion. I think perhaps because my card...

I agree with Turnipio. I also have an NVidia 9800GT (1GB RAM) - Zotac, and cannot say enough great things about this card. I do After Effects work, as well as editing in Final Cut Pro, and I still don't think there is a better card for the money. I know that will be disagreeable to some fellow...