- Joined
- Mar 8, 2011
- Messages
- 81
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H
- CPU
- i7-4790K
- Graphics
- Nvidia GTX760
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hi everyone, this is my 2nd Hackintosh build. The first one (Intel Core2Quad) was pretty fun so when I happend upon an i7 and Gigabyte board I had to give it a try.
Parts-
Intel i7 930
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 1.0 (F6)
ATI HD 5850 Graphics
I bought this computer cheap and was so fired up to play around with it (an i7!!), stayed up all night just trying options with the EasyBeast and running stuff to see how fast it was. Well a day later I cleared out the big pile of beer cans and decided to research the best way to hackintosh it up.
Hey, after actually researching the build it was super easy. There are a couple of older threads here but I think their methods have been superceded by the new user DSDTs.
Here is the procedure I used
1. Upgrade motherboard BIOS on the Revision 1 board to "F6" from the Gigabyte website.
Here - http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3305#ov
(you can tell if you have Revision 1 or 2 from the color and size of the connectors on the board-- using the pictures on the web site)
2. Download and Save the F6 "USER DSDT" for the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 1.0 (F6)
Here-http://www.tonymacx86.com/dsdt.php
3. Enable the typical BIOS settings (AHCI, HPET = Enabled/64 bit).
4. Standard iBoot/ MultiBeast Install with-
- select "USER DSDT" running MultiBeast from desktop and with the downloaded user DSDT from #2 on desktop. Run utlities to repair permissions and rebuild cache. Reboot.
- still did not boot, apparently the ATI 5850 is causing an issue, its not supported.
No problem, after a 30 second google search I found that some guy on the internet got the 5850 working and provided the files. What could go wrong?
Link to guy on the internet- http://netkas.org/?p=465
- ATI HD 5850 Kexts- Link - http://mirror.netkas.org/5700/ATY_Init.kext.zip
- ATI HD 5850 Driver Package- Link- http://mirror.netkas.org/driver.tar.bz2
So I
(a) double clicked the driver package and installed the drivers
(b) Ran "kext helper", dropped the kexts on the kext helper and it installed it.
Kext Helper is here- http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/12/great-osx86-community-software.html
(c) repair cache/ permissions with MultiBeast and reboot.
- Now boots!
5. Audio.
- For Audio select
Multibeast-->Drivers & Bootloaders-->Kexts & Enablers-->Audio-->Realtek ALC8xx-->"ALC8xxHDA"
Multibeast-->Drivers & Bootloaders-->Kexts & Enablers-->Audio-->Realtek ALC8xx-->"Apple HDA Rollback"
Then
-repair permissions/caches with MultiBeast system utilties and reboot.
Audio now working, including digital audio output from Motherboard via optical connector!
Hey, not bad and a nice computer.
Parts-
Intel i7 930
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 1.0 (F6)
ATI HD 5850 Graphics
I bought this computer cheap and was so fired up to play around with it (an i7!!), stayed up all night just trying options with the EasyBeast and running stuff to see how fast it was. Well a day later I cleared out the big pile of beer cans and decided to research the best way to hackintosh it up.
Hey, after actually researching the build it was super easy. There are a couple of older threads here but I think their methods have been superceded by the new user DSDTs.
Here is the procedure I used
1. Upgrade motherboard BIOS on the Revision 1 board to "F6" from the Gigabyte website.
Here - http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3305#ov
(you can tell if you have Revision 1 or 2 from the color and size of the connectors on the board-- using the pictures on the web site)
2. Download and Save the F6 "USER DSDT" for the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 1.0 (F6)
Here-http://www.tonymacx86.com/dsdt.php
3. Enable the typical BIOS settings (AHCI, HPET = Enabled/64 bit).
4. Standard iBoot/ MultiBeast Install with-
- select "USER DSDT" running MultiBeast from desktop and with the downloaded user DSDT from #2 on desktop. Run utlities to repair permissions and rebuild cache. Reboot.
- still did not boot, apparently the ATI 5850 is causing an issue, its not supported.
No problem, after a 30 second google search I found that some guy on the internet got the 5850 working and provided the files. What could go wrong?
Link to guy on the internet- http://netkas.org/?p=465
- ATI HD 5850 Kexts- Link - http://mirror.netkas.org/5700/ATY_Init.kext.zip
- ATI HD 5850 Driver Package- Link- http://mirror.netkas.org/driver.tar.bz2
So I
(a) double clicked the driver package and installed the drivers
(b) Ran "kext helper", dropped the kexts on the kext helper and it installed it.
Kext Helper is here- http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/12/great-osx86-community-software.html
(c) repair cache/ permissions with MultiBeast and reboot.
- Now boots!
5. Audio.
- For Audio select
Multibeast-->Drivers & Bootloaders-->Kexts & Enablers-->Audio-->Realtek ALC8xx-->"ALC8xxHDA"
Multibeast-->Drivers & Bootloaders-->Kexts & Enablers-->Audio-->Realtek ALC8xx-->"Apple HDA Rollback"
Then
-repair permissions/caches with MultiBeast system utilties and reboot.
Audio now working, including digital audio output from Motherboard via optical connector!
Hey, not bad and a nice computer.