- Joined
- Aug 26, 2012
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- Motherboard
- GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD5 LGA 2011 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard
- CPU
- i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930
- Graphics
- EVGA 02G-P4-2643-KR GeForce GT 640 2GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hello everyone.
Long ago in 2012 I figured out how to get my system up & running Snow Leopard. Later when Mavericks came out, I tried to upgrade my OS & basically ended up wiping my 3 OSX hard drives with no success upgrading to Mavericks. Since I had access to my mac at work, I decided not to struggle with it any further so this computer has been a Windows box ever since (hardware is all the same except now I have 64GB ram instead of 4 GB).
Fast forward to 2022, I need an OSX system at home running the latest (or near that) OSX so I want to return this computer to being a hackintosh since it's still plenty powerful for my purposes. Unfortunately having been away from this for so long, I can't seem to figure out how to do this using Clover & Unibeast. I've read all sorts of posts here trying to bring this system to earlier versions of OSX but one thing or another has prevented me from doing so. I upgraded my BIOS to F14e a few days ago after reading my earlier BIOS may have been the reason for the problems I had way back when & then read F13P was working for people. I tried to revert my BIOS to that version but F14e prevents me from doing so claiming F13P is out of date.
So my question for others running their hackintosh on this MoBo & CPU, would you please advise how to get his system up & running? I downloaded Catalina & made an installation USB but my computer hangs before ever installing OSX. I can't seem to figure out from previous versions what kexts & settings are required, old ones I used a decade ago are either unavailable or no longer the same as what I see listed in earlier posts.
Basically consider my system as starting from scratch... no previous OSX version is installed. Please someone... I NEED HELP!
Long ago in 2012 I figured out how to get my system up & running Snow Leopard. Later when Mavericks came out, I tried to upgrade my OS & basically ended up wiping my 3 OSX hard drives with no success upgrading to Mavericks. Since I had access to my mac at work, I decided not to struggle with it any further so this computer has been a Windows box ever since (hardware is all the same except now I have 64GB ram instead of 4 GB).
Fast forward to 2022, I need an OSX system at home running the latest (or near that) OSX so I want to return this computer to being a hackintosh since it's still plenty powerful for my purposes. Unfortunately having been away from this for so long, I can't seem to figure out how to do this using Clover & Unibeast. I've read all sorts of posts here trying to bring this system to earlier versions of OSX but one thing or another has prevented me from doing so. I upgraded my BIOS to F14e a few days ago after reading my earlier BIOS may have been the reason for the problems I had way back when & then read F13P was working for people. I tried to revert my BIOS to that version but F14e prevents me from doing so claiming F13P is out of date.
So my question for others running their hackintosh on this MoBo & CPU, would you please advise how to get his system up & running? I downloaded Catalina & made an installation USB but my computer hangs before ever installing OSX. I can't seem to figure out from previous versions what kexts & settings are required, old ones I used a decade ago are either unavailable or no longer the same as what I see listed in earlier posts.
Basically consider my system as starting from scratch... no previous OSX version is installed. Please someone... I NEED HELP!
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