Recent content by steve19137

So, I've been running Mountain Lion on my Z68MX for quite a long time without the new BIOS. I guess it's been slightly sluggish, but I find that it is less so after I reboot (which I do maybe once a week). Would you recommend upgrading to the new BIOS? I feel like the setup I have now is...

I've been running ML with the installation parameters I outlined above, and everything has been perfect. This is basically the best operating system I've ever used.

So, I was able to get things to work rather satisfactorily with this exact build. I installed MultiBeast with UserDSDT, got PciRoot error at boot. Booted with -f to ignore cache, boot successful. Installed EasyBest over UserDSDT, can boot without passing flags and all hardware is recognized, for...

Unfortunately, it doesn't really help. I already have a fully functional system, and I just recently added the iHAS drive. I don't want to reinstall my entire system just so one peripheral can be recognized. As of right now, it's not really important that I make this work in OS X. I also can...

I got this drive yesterday and installed it this morning. It works perfectly fine in my Windows installation, but not in OS X. I read in another post here that IOATAFamily.kext needs to be installed, but I'm not really sure what that means, considering I already have that kext in S/L/E. I am...

Where does one find IOATAFamily.kext, and what does it do? I can't find it in MultiBeast. I am having the same problem.

I see in your signature that you have a LiteOn iHAS 124. I just purchased one and installed it, but I cannot get it to recognize in OS X like it does in Windows. Did you do anything special? Also, as this might be a problem, this would be the second optical drive in my system, so if OS X can't...

That's incredible! How often does something like this happen in the Hackintosh scene? WOW!

We (my family, I'm only 17) have a MacMini (2009 I believe) that we use as a media server and Netflix machine. It's hooked up to our TV in the living room. My dad has an early 2011 MacBook Pro that he uses for development, all speced out. We just sold a PowerBook G4 that ran Leopard...

Ah, that makes sense. It certainly does kill the boot sector whenever I did it in the order you specified. I would have never though to to unplug the Lion hard drive. I really don't like going into my case to unplug things anyway (three hard drives makes it a tight squeeze), so I always choose...

I have a very similar build, except the motherboard and the brand of gfx card (I have a Gigabyte 6850). I was wondering why you didn't install Windows first. In my experience, I was never able to get Windows 7 SP1 to install if I had installed OS X and Chimera first, on account of the boot...

Actually, the common way to get dual displays (not sure if dual DVI, I use HDMI/DVI) is to use AtiConfig=Bulrushes.

I am using the Gigabyte 6850 with dual displays, but the dual displays part came much later due to my lack of research... As for the simplicity of setup, I can't really say. The pieces I have for my build didn't seem too difficult to make work perfectly, but I have tons of patience when it comes...

I decided to drop by and say thanks for this simple thread. I read TONS of info about making the Sapphire 6850 work, and I foolishly followed those directions which were far more complicated and did nothing in the end. Then I found this page, and it worked perfectly. Thanks :D

I don't know if you guys have a custom DSDT installed, but for my system, nothing mentioned above would work without the DSDT. But as of now, I have a dual monitor setup working with Bulrushes, AtiPorts=4, and GE=Yes in my boot.plist