I want to share my experience on the matter and maybe someone could shed some light on the issues and grab some advice from it as well:
I build the CustomMac recommended build part by part for 2011 that is:
- Intel Core i7-2600K
- GA-Z68XP-UD3
- AMD Radeon HD 6870
- 60GB OCZ Nocti Series SATA 3Gb/s
- 16GB Corsair 1600Mhz DDR3
- Corsair 650watt
I did it to power up my studio running a Digi 002 Control Surface/Interface.
I first installed lion and took it up to 10.7.4. It worked as a charm apart from the sleep feature being disabled.
Then when I installed ProTools LE 8 (i know it is not supposed to work with Lion but I wanted to give it a try as I read around that it was working for some people) and updated it to 8.0.5 and installed the Digi 002/003 family drivers (got them from avid website) it actually worked quite well... for a while.
As soon as I did this install, the boot up of the hackintosh will display the white screen with the apple and will crash displaying a series of code in black related to what I supposed is conflicts in some matter with the digidesign drivers or some other stuff.
The solution for this will be to boot up with the Unibeast USB installation drive and select to boot up from USB. This will open up the OSX installation screen for which you will only need to say next until you can access the top menus to quit the installation and either restart or shutdown the computer. After restart, the chimera window will come up again when booting from USB but this time choosing the hard drive instalation will work. No crash code there, normal boot.
I lived with this method of booting up my computer for a while and I had ProTools LE 8.0.5 working flaulessly with waves plugins, Reason, auto-tune, the lot...until recently.
The only change I made was that I was mixing before using headphones and now I got a pair of Yamahas HS50's. I mention this because when I connected them is when I started having problems. I really don't see how this can be related to it but it is how it happened. Also for some reason I had to re-run multibeast with the DSDT because the firewire port in my mother board stop being recognized (the digi 002 did not detected being plugged). This will fix the firewire and I could run protools again.
Now when I am using ProTools, after 10 - 15 minutes, the whole computer just crashes. Basically it stops responding, not even able to move the mouse.
I decided to start from scratch (format my drive and re-install as it was working ok before but not anymore). I took advantage of this and try upgrading to Mountain Lion and test Protools LE 8 there. For those wondering, I actually followed the same procedure as before and got it running. It did work but then again... crashed/freezed.
After reading this thread I've decided to buy a dedicated FireWire PCI card with dual TI chips [AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002UOLZ5S[/AMAZON-uk] and see if maybe this is what is causing the problem.
I will first try with ML and if it fails I will downgrade to Lion and if it fails I will dg to Snow Leopare which was the last OS 'supported' by Protools LE 8.
I will post my results when I get the card and try it out. Pls let me know if you can think of anything else that might be the cause of the problem...
Hope someone finds this useful in some way