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Hello to all

I was about to start developing apps on my iMac (late 2009) when it suddenly died. Unfortunately, I couldn't revive it.
As a student, I am very short on money so I couldn't afford a new one. But then I remembered that my father still holds his old computer in his garage.
I brought the computer to my home and I tried to start it...boy it fired up like on the first day.

Now, I heard about the Hackintosh scene and I wanted to "hack" this old computer too. It seems that the HP Compaq dc7900 has very compatible parts inside that are perfectly suitable for a Hackintosh conversion.

So I downloaded the macOS Catalina and moved it onto a usb stick with createinstallmedia. And then I made it bootable with Clover Legacy 2.4 r4961.

The PC first didn't want to recognise the usb stick as a bootable device. But after I changed the partition to MBR instead of GUID, it could start Clover and macOS.

The problem now why I am so deeply frustrated is that the Apple Logo just sits there for a while, then a filling bar appears and after the bar is half filled, it shows a stop sign (something like a circle with a line inside). I tried many things after a long research on the internet, like testing different boot flags (I tried around 20) removing the graphics card, tweaking some settings in Clover and in the BIOS, etc. nothing helped...

But it always stuck either on "Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key>...." or "PCI configuration begin". And then the whole screen just bugs up and gets fuzzy.

I really don't know how to move on with the installation, I would really appreciate some help of the experts here, I am really new with creating a Hackintosh.

If you need any kind of files (like the efi folder or a screenshot of the verbose startup, etc.) please let me know it, i'll send it to you.

Specs:
Name: HP Compaq dc7900
CPU: Intel Core 2 quad q9400
GPU: ATI Radeon HD3650
HDD: 2x Himachi 250 GB
RAM: 4 GB (Unknown manufacturer)
 
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Hello to all

I was about to start developing apps on my iMac (late 2009) when it suddenly died. Unfortunately, I couldn't revive it.
As a student, I am very short on money so I couldn't afford a new one. But then I remembered that my father still holds his old computer in his garage.
I brought the computer to my home and I tried to start it...boy it fired up like on the first day.

Now, I heard about the Hackintosh scene and I wanted to "hack" this old computer too. It seems that the HP Compaq dc7900 has very compatible parts inside that are perfectly suitable for a Hackintosh conversion.

So I downloaded the macOS Catalina and moved it onto a usb stick with createinstallmedia. And then I made it bootable with Clover Legacy 2.4 r4961.

The PC first didn't want to recognise the usb stick as a bootable device. But after I changed the partition to MBR instead of GUID, it could start Clover and macOS.

The problem now why I am so deeply frustrated is that the Apple Logo just sits there for a while, then a filling bar appears and after the bar is half filled, it shows a stop sign (something like a circle with a line inside). I tried many things after a long research on the internet, like testing different boot flags (I tried around 20) removing the graphics card, tweaking some settings in Clover and in the BIOS, etc. nothing helped...

But it always stuck either on "Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key>...." or "PCI configuration begin". And then the whole screen just bugs up and gets fuzzy.

I really don't know how to move on with the installation, I would really appreciate some help of the experts here, I am really new with creating a Hackintosh.

If you need any kind of files (like the efi folder or a screenshot of the verbose startup, etc.) please let me know it, i'll send it to you.

Specs:
Name: HP Compaq dc7900
CPU: Intel Core 2 quad q400
GPU: ATI Radeon HD3650
HDD: 2x Himachi 250 GB
RAM: 4 GB (Unknown manufacturer)
best to boot verbose, take a pic where it hangs and zip and upload your Clover folder
 
Intel Core 2 quad q400
Seems to have a missing digit ?
If you want to run Catalina then check that it supports SSE4.2 extensions.

Your twelve year old graphics card is unlikely to support Metal which is required to run Catalina.

I had a dc7900 and managed to run High Sierra ok with it but never took it any further than that.
 
best to boot verbose, take a pic where it hangs and zip and upload your Clover folder
Here are my files
(The Clover.zip does not contain the Catalina installer .app, due to its size.)
 

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Any ideas?
is your hardware profile complete? nvidia 1050 not supported on mojave

motherboard - hp, bit vague, should say make and model

Intel Core i5 is a bit vague as well
 
You should not watch at my profile specs, I put there the numbers and names of my main Computer (Omen 15 notebook).
Refer to the specs I added in the first post.
 
You should not watch at my profile specs, I put there the numbers and names of my main Computer (Omen 15 notebook).
Refer to the specs I added in the first post.
thats all i look at is hardware profile
 
So I changed now my profile specs and I am still stranded with my hackintosh... It still won't get to the install screen it will only hang on the two errors mentioned before.
 
So I changed now my profile specs and I am still stranded with my hackintosh... It still won't get to the install screen it will only hang on the two errors mentioned before.
Trying newer versions of macOS on that hardware is an exercise in futility. It will probably never work. If you want to run Catalina buy a used, refurb HP 8300 elite with an HD4000 gfx CPU. They don't cost much and work perfectly well with Catalina. See: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...rm-factors-using-clover-uefi-hotpatch.279627/

If you want to play around with what you've got, see if you can get Mavericks, Yosemite etc. and try those instead. At least you'd have a chance at success.
 
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