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Hi Giacomoleopardo,
I hope you dont mind, but Im in need of help and Ive picked on you, as I see one of your builds looks very similar to my current (and first) hackintosh attempt.
Basically Im confused.com at the moment and I dont mind admitting that alot of the processes involved in getting a hackintosh off the ground are a bit alien to me. Heres where Im at...
Currently, I have Mountain Lion installed on my destination hard drive via Unibeast, but this is the second time Ive been here, as my previous attempt to run Multibeast was an 'Epic fail' that resulted in a grey Apple logo screen with code all over the top of it.
I formatted the drive and started again, but now im "bitten once, twice shy".
According to the TonyMac guide, all I need to do now is compile the DSDT and run Multibeast...right?, but the reason Ive come to you specifically, is that you seem to have a lot more processes going on e.g BIOS patching, kext editing, SSDT scripts, registryexplorer
What confused me in your guide was that step 3 (Mountain Lion installation) came after step 1 which involved using the "desktop" and Terminal. How do you have applications and a desktop, before installing the operating system?? :-S
Do you have any screen shots of whats happening in step 1, because I just cant visualise whats happening here. Its the same for patching the BIOS "using Zotac utility for windows"...are you doing this on a windows machine before hand? Also, what is the "flash utility" that Im putting the patched BIOS into?
Sorry, for all the questions, but unfortunately the TonyMac site doesn't have any Zotac motherboards listed in their DSDT directory, so Its not working out as straight forward as I thought.
Im using the Zotac Z77 Wifi board with OWC Accelsior PCIe SSD hard drive.
Any help would be appreciated
Sonny
Hi Sonny and welcome to this forum!
It seems that you need some basic info about how the hackintosh works.
First of all, I'd add my entire configuration in my signature in order to avoid the questions: what are your system specs? So please post your components (cpu, mobo, ram, video card etc...) so I can get a more clear idea of what to tell you.
That said, assuming you have Zotac Z77 ITX WiFi, you will not find any dsdt in the download section. But don't worry, compiling on your own is not that difficult.
In step #1 I describe bios patch procedure using osx (in tools section it's specified as last item "A working Mac or Hackintosh machine"). If you have UniBeast flash drive I assume you purchased Mountain Lion Installer from Mac App Store, which require a working system with OSX 10.6.6. or later to do that. So from the machine you used to make UniBeast usb, you can patch Zotac bios as well. If you can't do that anymore, PMPatch works in windows environment too. A patched bios allows the osx system to enable proper power management, avoiding sleep issues, slightly wrong cpu power consuming etc... Let's say that we're a step closer to a vanilla system! You can easily install osx even without a patched bios, but NullCPUPowerManagement.kext is required (see EasyBeast installation from Multibeast). As I said, You can do better, patching bios!
I used osx to patch bios, but I used zotac flash utility from windows to flash it. I heard DPCIManager works pretty well to patch and flash bios, but honestly I've never tried it, and it's based on OSX as well.
Oh, BTW, there is no real "epic fail" here, believe me. I know it could sound frustrating most of the times, but keep trying, proceed one step at the time, search and read a lot, ask for help if you need to, there are tons of guys here (more prepared and smarter than me!) that will help you figuring everything out. Don't give up and ask anything you need to know!