Re: Guide: GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 with ATI 6870 - Clean Lion Install
Total noob here. I've literally spent over a month trying to do my first Hackintosh and feel like I'm so close thanks to this terrific guide. But my wife is sick and tired of me having computer parts strewn about...she just cares about Windows, so I'm trying not to get cut off! Before I start messing around with Kexts, etc. (BIG learning curve for me), I'm basically trying to understand if I'm doing something wrong with the items below and SHOULD be able to have the functionality I'm looking for, or if I need to get up the learning curve fast. Help, please! (Build description further below).
So, a couple questions--I've read this whole guide and lots of other forums and can't seem to find these answers:
- For those who have audio working, is ANYONE actually getting audio over HDMI? I can get front panel audio to work fine, but can't for the life of me get HDMI. I've tried and returned the single fan XFX 6870 (NOISY fan, not recommended without mods), then dual fan XFX 6870, now tri-fan Gigabyte 6870. Nothing. If anyone has it working, did it happen automatically with install per guide, or did you have to mess around with it? Any links to guides you'd recommend?
- Are people getting full video acceleration (QE/IC) with any of the aforementioned cards immediately with install? Or does it necessitate screwing around with Kexts, etc. as detailed in the video link in FAQs?
- If I just plug in the Mac OSX SSD (all other SATA devices unplugged), it does the Gigabyte post, quickly loads Chimera and then boots fast right into Lion. HOWEVER, if I plug in the Win 7 OS drive to allow dual booting, Chimera takes a LOOOONG time to load after post, though then Win/Mac OSX boot very quickly once I finally get to Chimera. It feels like 5x to 10x as long from power on to using either Win or Mac with both drives plugged in and booting into Chimera vs. only having one drive plugged in. Any thoughts? Wife will want it to load quickly and auto-boot into Win, not Mac--so any help as to how to change default drive for auto-boot would also be much appreciated!!
- Any updates to this post that I should be aware of, given the new Chimera & MultiBeast updates since posting of this guide?
My HW is nearly identical to that recommended: GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 v1.3 (F10 !), i7-2600K, 16 GB Corsair 1600 MHz. Had issues getting UniBeast install onto M4 SSD (drive not recognized or able to format on Mac, Win or Unix, so RMA'd. Replacement drive worked great on Win 7, not Mac. Samsung 830 worked immediately and is TERRIFIC.) Various 6870 cards (see above). SSDs are running on the 6 Gbps Intel SATA connections. Then a CD-ROM drive and a 750 GB HDD for data (shared between Mac & Windows) on the Intel 3 Gbps SATA. So now I'm dual-booting Win 7 SP1 & 10.7.2, but with issues above.
Thanks so much, everyone!!