Hey Guys, it's me again from Germany
Since my last Hackintosh had a malfunction/ short circuit I considered to buy a new PC with compatible components. My choice were a GA-z77-UD5H MoBo, an i7 3770K and the
NV 770GTX from Gigabyte with 2GB GDDR5 Ram.
I don't want to beat around the bush. Let's get started.
Note: I used the Unibeast & Multibeast method. This guide assumes you already have a
working Unibeast-Thumbdrive and another media (cd/ dvd/ thumb drive) with the latest Multibeast. I connected my Monitor via HDMI.
1. Assemble your PC and make sure to use only a
max of 4GB Ram and the Onboard GFX.
2. I have an SSD, but I recommend to use the white
SATA3-0 port for normal HDDs, too.
3. Check you BIOS/ UEFI settings. A simple Guide for new boards is described
here.
Step 1 - OSX-Installation
4. I prefer to install ML first and then Win7, but you can do it either way.
5. You can run the Installation without any boot arguments. Just put in your USB-Thumb and
make sure to press F12 during the Logo-Show to boot from it.
6. As the install-screen appears navigate to the disk-utility.
7. Highlight the Name of your hdd/sdd and click "partition"
8. Make sure to choose "
2 partitions" and check options to choose (if necessary) the
GUID partition table.
9. Choose "
Mac-OSX Journaled" for your Mac-partition and windows filesystem for your windows partition.
10. Rename your partitions as desired. Try not to use spaces.
11. click "partition"
12. close disk utility
13. Install OSX, this will take a few minutes. Take a deep breath, get a coffee and wait
14. Once installation is complete boot from USB-Again. This time you can choose your hdd
on the chimera screen.
15. I don't know why, but from at this point my mac did not boot. Try "
PCIRootUID=1" or 0"
This worked for me.
16. Connect the USB-Drive with Multibeast
17. Run Multibeast.
18. Check the options as seen on the screenshot:
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19. If you have NO SSD you do not need to enable TRIM. If you want to use the G-Sata ports you should install the JMicron 3rdParty drivers. I also checked the "USB 3.0" Options in "misc"
20. Click "continue" to install all selected options.
21. Try a reboot to make sure your hackintosh is booting properly.
22. Shutdown your hack.
23. Disconnect the power cord
24. Install your GTX770 and (if you have) the remaining RAM-bars
25. Connect the Monitor with your preferred connector on the card (Only HDMI and the bottom DVI is working on my machine, DUAL-Mode is working) I used HDMI
26. connect the power cord to you pc and boot in the BIOS (F2, or F12 and chose enter setup)
27. Disable the Onboard GFX and chose "init display first" as PEG.
28. At this point it arises to check the bios settings if everything is fine.
29. Hit
F10 and save your changes.
30. Chose "
PCIRootUID=1". (Make sure to change your boot.plist to make this standard)
Your hack should boot properly
Step 2 - Installing Windows 7
31. Put in your Win7 DVD and restart your PC
32. Boot the DVD from the
F12 Menu (otherwise the Installer from Windows won't let you install win7)
33. When prompted press any key
34. The installation is quite simple. Just make sure the partition you wan't to install is in the first 4 displayed on the screen. (OSX creates several other partitions during installation)
35. Windows will overwrite your bootloader, this is normal. Boot up windows and install
all required software and drivers.
36. Shutdown windows.
37. Connect your Unibeast-USB-Drive
38. Boot from USB
39. Boot OSX
40. Install the boot loader from Multibeast (only)
41. enjoy your new dual-boot system.
If you Install windows first and then OSX you can skip step 37 to 40
What is working:
- transparent System-Bar
- DVD-Player, Photo Booth
- Appstore, Itunes, iMessage, iCloud
- USB-Ports
- Dual Monitors on DVI (bottom) and HDMI
- Monitor-Sleep/ Screensaver
- TRIM
- SOUND (only tried the black output, front not tested, spdif too)
- HDMI-Onboard Port (others not tested)
- WLAN with RALINK 2070 device (from Edimax), just load the newest software:
click here
(no native WiFi, you need the util from ralink to connect to WiFi)
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Well this is my system. It works quite fine but it has some
flaws:
- Until now I can't put my hack to sleep (Monitor goes off, no resume possible)
- my old Monitor with DVI is selected FIRST from the MoBo and therefor for the whole boot process is on the old screen.(about 20sec) -> I had to switch it after installation. (does not affect boot)
- Sometimes it reboots after shutdown, but i don't know why. It is not repeatable, just "sometimes".
- Firefox (somehow) can't connect to sync and some buttons (like the "x" for each tab) can not be clicked. I use Safari instead
- All my contacts from iMessage are displayed offline. (I can write messages and receive them too)
- no ripples when I add a new widget on the dashboard (is this removed from OSX?)
Additional Info: You have to install x11 separate, otherwise x11 apps won't work (like GIMP)
I migrated my Apps from my old TimeMachine Drive. Microsoft Office needs to be activated again..., other Software (textwrangler) needs to be activated again with applie ID and password.
iTunes needs to be updated, it seems my old hack had a newer iTunes than the one which came with Mountain Lion.
Now it's your turn.
Build your own hack and let me know if you have any troubles if you have similar hardware.
good hack
best
xtrasteven
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