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fellow hackintoshers: i've been a member since 2010. my current mojave build is in my signature. i'd used a EVGA GTX 1050ti with viewsonic 4K monitor in high sierra. due to the lack of nvidia web drivers for mojave, i upgraded to a sapphire pulse RX 580. i recently purchased a matias...

Sorry if this was already answered/explored on another thread ... My build is a i7-3700K w/ Maximus V Gene (Z77 chipset) using the SMBIOS profile of MacPro 3,1. I'd changed the profile to iMac 14,2 and installed Sierra successfully. My issues are: 1. Speedstep not working -- under MacPro...

greetings. i use a KVM (keyboard/mouse only) to toggle between my OSX and win7 machines. other than logitech, does anyone have recommendations (or personal experience) for a gaming keyboard and/or mouse that supports both OSX (basic) and windows (gaming)? thanks. -dh-

hello all. i'd just rec'd a gigabyte 6870. now i want to buy a new apple display. after reading the forum threads i found re the these displays, i'm at a cross road. [1]. buy the led display and use the 6870 card on my built. [2]. buy a 27" imac (i7 likely) (aka thunderbolt display with...

just installed XFX 6850 (HD-685X-ZCFC) 1GB DDR5 in my i5-2500K setup. seems to work OOB (QE/CI, GraphicsEnabler=Yes) with my UserDSDT setup. sleep/wake continues to work. dh22r

does anyone have of a working dsdt.aml file (bios 0606) where sleep/wake is working for this MB in 10.7? i've tried multitude of methods -- auto patcher, dsdt editor -- to extract/patch a DSDT file for my setup to get sleep (sleeps ok but won't wake up). any other course of action? thanks in...

Ok, apologies if it's already answered/discussed in other postings ... Using iBoot 3.1x, I've installed 10.6 onto my P8Z68-V Pro setup via EasyBeast. When I tried booting from the HD directly, I get a kernel panic. Boots with iBoot. I'd used DSDT auto patcher to build a dsdt.aml file for my...

ok, don't laugh ... i've a sony vaio desktop that has a 2.8Ghz pentium 4 & 1.5GB of DDR RAM. the motherboard is an asus p4sd-vx. there's no SATA support nor AHCI mode. it does have a radeon 9200 (faster than 5870??? ha, ha) surprisingly, it runs windows 7 pretty well. also unbuntu. any...

my i5-750 -- overclocked to 3.36GHz -- currently gets a geekbench 64-bit of ~ 9200. i'm interested to doing more video editing, photoshop, handbrake -- will an i7 930/950 or i7 870/875K give me much of a boost? how about hyperthreading? my i5 setup has 4GB of ram. will 8GB deliver much...

ok, i've updated to 10.6.5 via the combo update i'd downloaded on tony's. applied the update to my Q6600 system (spec in signature) and everything is fine -- graphics, network, audio. i noticed in com.apple.boot.plist: Kernel=mach_kernal Kernel Flag=i386 when i changed the flag to x86_64...

can anyone recommend an 2-port USB DVI KVM? i'm using a MS natural keyboard 4000 and a logitech mx310 optical mouse. desktop#1 is a AMD phenom 955 running windows 7. desktop#2 is my Q6600 hackintosh. any help appreciated.

folks: my p55a-ud3 (rev.1) was working fine with bios F6. after i upgraded to F11, i got a kernel panic on the reboot. i subsequently restored back to F6, but the KP remains. any ideas? i'm hoping not have to reinstall 10.6.4. thanks. ***SOLVED*** i'd forgotten the BIOS update had reset...

i recently purchased an EVGA GTS 250 (512MB) video card ($49 AR). should i spend more and get the 1GB version instead? does the extra RAM affect performance or only to drive displays 24" or higher? any advice much appreciated.

i have an external USB drive with 3 GUID partitions named "MyMac HD BK1", "MyMac HD BK2" and "MyMac HD BK3". i use carbon copy cloner to image "MyMac HD" to these backups. do i need to install chameleon/bootloader to each of the partitions or just the first one? how do i go about doing this...

here's my setup: i5 750 gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 4GB corsair DDR3 pioneer DVD-RW zotac nvidia 9800GT 1GB seagate 500MB SATA HD i d/l'd and burned the P55 boot cd. the burn is valid as i've verified this on my IP35/Q6600 hackintosh (10.6.3). i've set the SATA to AHCI for both the SATA2/SATA3 on...