Installing OSX 10.8 on my P8H77-I, i3-3225 system

Hi Everyone. I'm not new to compute hardware and windows systems, and I have some light experience in Linux, but I AM new to the world of Mac / Hackintosh / OSX. I'm building a hackintosh desktop system for my wife who is returning to the world of freelance graphic design and prefers a Mac system for that type of work.

Well, I've got all of the hardware I need and went about setting up things on the software side last night but ran in to serious difficulties. A lot of this stuff gets tricky very fast and makes me feel like a computer illiterate in a hurry! I'm going to go back and for a second attempt at this tonight, but figured others might benefit (or might be able to help me!) by seeing my process on this thread.

Here are my hardware components:

Motherboard - ASUS Intel H77 mini ITX - P8H77-I
CPU - Intel Core i3-3225
RAM - Crucial (8GBx2) DDR3-1600 1.35V UDIMM 240-Pin BLS2C8G3D1609ES2LX0
Hard Drive 1 - SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB SATA 6.0 Gb-s2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SDSSDX-120G-G25
Hard Drive 2 - WD 1TB 7200rpm drive (taken from a PC build)
Power Supply - Silverstone Tek 450-Watts SFX Form Factor Full Modular Power Supply with 80 Plus Gold, SFX+12V single rail, ST45SF-G
Case - Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced - Mini-ITX Computer Case
WiFi - Rosewill Wireless N Dual Band Adapter IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n PCI Express Upto 450Mbps Data (RNWD-N9003PCe)

So last night I followed the 10.8 Tonymacx86 guide. Put UniBeast on my thumb drive, was able to boot the computer, format / partition both hard drives, and install OSX. The trouble started when I ran MultiBeast. As it was installing the drivers, OSX ran in to a kernel error and forced me to reboot. I'm not 100% sure what went wrong, except that I simply checked ALL of the drivers when making my selection in Multibeast rather than looking up each one with my hardware. My thinking was to simply get everything and the incorrect ones would not be used, but this maybe wasn't the case. (To those savvy, would that have been a problem?)

My plan tonight is to duplicate the steps I took last night but try and choose only the correct drivers I will need. (Can anyone with a similar setup to me share their driver selection?)

I'm also going to flash the bios which I skipped last night. I don't know if this is a critical step or only necessarily to get sleep mode working though. And I'm not sure if I *need* to do it before I install OSX or not (anyone?)

Here is my plan for the bios:
1st, flash bios for motherboard using this guide: http://biosrepo.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/how-to-flash-unsupported-motherboards-via-ftk-and-dos/

use these bios for this motheboard: http://bios.zmac.net/asus/flashrom/P8H77-I-ASUS-0904_modified.zip


this info comes from this thread: http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...asus-p8h77-i-itx-10-8-hd4000-100-success.html


FTK for DOS http://www.mediafire.com/?alkk51r6xd3nbdq
from: http://forums.overclockers.ru/viewtopic.php?p=9776728#p9776728

2nd attempt this evening failed! Here is what I did and what I got...

- Clean install (grr..)
- BIOS settings as follows: Sata - AHCI, advanced,USB,Intel xHCL mode to "Auto", set graphics to iGpu, mem 64m
- Installed OSX 10.8.2
- ML - Multibeast settings as follows: EasyBeast, Voodoo HDA 2.7.3, RealTek Lnx2Mac, Disk Trim 8.1-8.2 (ssd), Boot options 1080

At this point in my install everything is working fine except my display is stuck at 1280x1024! (Monitor is 24" 1080 and I've used it at 1920x1080 before)... So I deduced that the HD4000 graphics on my CPU must not be functioning(???)

I went in to the org.chameleon.boot.pli file and toggled GraphicsEnabler to "Yes". As soon as I do that and reboot, my display gets cut in half and the video becomes interlaced and garbled. See attached image... it looks better there than it really does- you can barely make out what's happening on the screen. I'm able to open the display settings at that point and there indeed is a much larger range of resolutions- but as soon as I click on one it becomes infinitely more garbled and goes across the entire monitor. At that point I have no choice but to do another fresh install.........

Please help this newbie! Thanks