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- Jan 6, 2020
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- HD3650
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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)
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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