Hi Moarfish, thanks for the advice!
The lock-up is not during boot, but either in the login screen, or after log-in and using Chrome or iPhoto.
The wireless I use is the Atheros Wifi mini-PCIe AR5BHB92 (AR9280 chip which has two antenna connections) with adaptor. I think this is...
So.. I've been running the system for a while and here are some oddities I've noticed.
First, this is purely cosmetic, but in the log-in screen, I see a flickering box on the top left. I heard that sometimes you see graphic glitches with integrated graphics - not sure if this is it. So far...
Thanks Moarfish for the advice! I now have internal drive icons :)
I have also updated my build with a Firewire card on the PCI bus (it was on blowout sale) and I built the roll-you-own Airport Extreme PCIe card with a Mini-PCIe adaptor and a Atheros WiFi card.
By the way, did you ever...
Thanks for the updated guide! It's great to look at the future upgrade options.
The link for Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H is not correct, but I concur that it is a great budget board for Ivy Bridge Hackintosh :)
Great build and write-up! I was able to build a mostly similar system as well and it's running beautifully.
I used the same motherboard (it was readily available and economical in Japan), same CPU, and only using onboard graphics with Mountain Lion.
Just some detailed caveats:
- as...
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