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Hey, I have seen posts on the forum that report success in getting an ASUS motherboard to work - but I've never had much good luck with them. It seems most of the plain and simple installs use Gigabyte motherboards - just check the Buyer's Guide for a list of known good components. With...

OK, good you've got the auxiliary power connector on the motherboard. The only other thing I can think of - are the bios settings correct? There's a really detailed build post that uses the same motherboard at...

Just one idea after watching your video - does your motherboard have a 4 pin connector near the CPU? If so, you need to connect the 4 pin cable from your PSU to it - it's usually has two black and two yellow wires. Good luck!

Downloaded the combo update, followed the instructions - bingo - everything working correctly. Even got the troubled GTX 560 working correctly with this update on my test build GA-B75M-D3H / i5 3570K / GTX 560.

OK. I finally did get a GA-G31M-ES2L build up to 10.8.4. Here's how I was able get the build to go. First of all, my g31m-es2l is a Rev 2.0 board, also I used an asus gs8400 gpu. So, the bios setting that worked for me were: Integrated Peripherals -> On-chip PCI IDE [Enabled]...

Fix SSD Speed in Mountain Lion This worked for me. Thanks!

Yet another change. Man, I'm just getting 10.7.3 to run in a stable fashion...

Great message thread... I built one as well. I ordered the IR receiver (part number 922-7195 - originally for a Macbook Pro) and spliced on a USB A end, using a four pin connector pair. Works very well with Plex - even wake via IR is all good!

Great post. Worked for me.

I agree; :thumbup:

GT9800 on dual Dell 23" monitors - works like a champ under both 10.6.8, and Lion.

Great post - love those low end builds! Good luck!

Hey, Looks like a solid build. As far as the optical drive goes, I've had good luck with the Sony Opticarc SATA drives. I've seen other references to them in the forum as well. As long as you've got a Gigabyte motherboard and the ATI 5770 GPU (or nVidia 8400 or 9800) you're pretty much set...

Hey, I've built a couple of really low end machines using the nVidia 8400 GPU, and had good luck. One worked perfectly out of the box, the other took just a little bit of hacking to add the device ID to the appropriate kext file. Good luck!

Software update worked for me. No problems at all.

Hi, Here's another one! This is for the Gigabyte P43T-ES3G Rev. 1.3 motherboard with F7 Bios. Thanks in advance.

Hey, I agree with the post above, the HD 5770 is a great choice. Completely working out of the box in OS X 10.6.6. Good luck!

Hey, I bought an Intel 80G SDD - OS X installed no problem at all. Good luck!

Hey, I agree with the post above. For out of the box support, the ATI 5770 is one of the best GPU's I've found. Good luck!

My favourite thing is to 'make something out of nothing'. Also, more operating systems = more fun. When I first stumbled across the hackintosh idea - I though, 'let's see if I can build one out of the junk already in the basement'. I bought a retail copy of OS X 10.6 and went from there.