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- May 8, 2012
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-H170
- CPU
- i7-6700
- Graphics
- EVGA NVIDIA GTX 770 4GB
Hi everyone,
Before you begin reading, I've tried looking for a solution for HOURS before posting here, but I couldn't find anything that meets my exact issue, and the workarounds I found here for similar issues didn't work for me.
I've been working with installing Hackintoshes for some time by now on different systems and virtual machines, yet non of them was fully compatible with OS X. And that's where I decided to go and implement the Buyer's Guide and purchased the main hardware that is 99% compatible.
I've built a CustoMac Mini Deluxe with the following hardware:
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97N-WiFi
• WiFi card: Broadcom BCM94322HM8L, for replacing the Intel® one that comes with the board.
• Processor: Core i7-4790
• RAM: G.Skill 2x8GB (16GB)
• Hard Drive: Samsung 256GB SSD
• PSU: Enermax Modu82+ 525W
• Optical Drive: Samsung DVD Burner (cheap one)
• Graphic card: My predecessor HIS (ATI/AMD) 5770 1GB
• Case: Lian-Li PC-TU200 Silver
I've followed the instructions to installing Mac OS X 10.6 step-by-step using iBoot-Haswell 1.0.1, along with the Snow Leopard 10.6 installation disc, and when it finished installing I updated it to 10.6.8 via the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Combo Update along with MultiBeast 3.10.1. Everything as written here http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.il/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html.
Graphic, Audio, WiFi... All these seem to work fine. Though I still work on solving why the wired-LAN doesn't work - Although it indicates in green in OS X that it's connected, internet doesn't work and no IP is pulled from my router, which works fine with all other devices that connected to it.
But the main reason I'm posting here is that no matter what I (or think that I) tried, I'm not able to boot the system by itself, unless I use iBoot in the CD drive. When iBoot launches, I select the OS X partition and it boots without any problem. But when I try to boot the system by its own it hangs at the Apple logo screen (the circle animation doesn't even show - It's just the apple logo).
I tried fixing the boot issue with MultiBeast. Each time before starting over again, I deleted the "Extra" folder as mentioned in the instructions in order to start from clean. Then from MultiBeast I selected "EasyBeast install" and "System Utilities - (Rebuild Caches & Repair Permissions)". Besides that I tried many flags during post like "-v", "-x", and even "GraphicEnabler=No", but non of these seem to work. =\ After trying "-v" and "-x" during boot many code lines appeared and after about 30 seconds a blank black screen. And that's how far I managed to go.
Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks!
Oh and BTW, attached some pics of my Hackintosh build. Hope you'd like it.
-goldeng
Before you begin reading, I've tried looking for a solution for HOURS before posting here, but I couldn't find anything that meets my exact issue, and the workarounds I found here for similar issues didn't work for me.
I've been working with installing Hackintoshes for some time by now on different systems and virtual machines, yet non of them was fully compatible with OS X. And that's where I decided to go and implement the Buyer's Guide and purchased the main hardware that is 99% compatible.
I've built a CustoMac Mini Deluxe with the following hardware:
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97N-WiFi
• WiFi card: Broadcom BCM94322HM8L, for replacing the Intel® one that comes with the board.
• Processor: Core i7-4790
• RAM: G.Skill 2x8GB (16GB)
• Hard Drive: Samsung 256GB SSD
• PSU: Enermax Modu82+ 525W
• Optical Drive: Samsung DVD Burner (cheap one)
• Graphic card: My predecessor HIS (ATI/AMD) 5770 1GB
• Case: Lian-Li PC-TU200 Silver
I've followed the instructions to installing Mac OS X 10.6 step-by-step using iBoot-Haswell 1.0.1, along with the Snow Leopard 10.6 installation disc, and when it finished installing I updated it to 10.6.8 via the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Combo Update along with MultiBeast 3.10.1. Everything as written here http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.il/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html.
Graphic, Audio, WiFi... All these seem to work fine. Though I still work on solving why the wired-LAN doesn't work - Although it indicates in green in OS X that it's connected, internet doesn't work and no IP is pulled from my router, which works fine with all other devices that connected to it.
But the main reason I'm posting here is that no matter what I (or think that I) tried, I'm not able to boot the system by itself, unless I use iBoot in the CD drive. When iBoot launches, I select the OS X partition and it boots without any problem. But when I try to boot the system by its own it hangs at the Apple logo screen (the circle animation doesn't even show - It's just the apple logo).
I tried fixing the boot issue with MultiBeast. Each time before starting over again, I deleted the "Extra" folder as mentioned in the instructions in order to start from clean. Then from MultiBeast I selected "EasyBeast install" and "System Utilities - (Rebuild Caches & Repair Permissions)". Besides that I tried many flags during post like "-v", "-x", and even "GraphicEnabler=No", but non of these seem to work. =\ After trying "-v" and "-x" during boot many code lines appeared and after about 30 seconds a blank black screen. And that's how far I managed to go.
Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks!
Oh and BTW, attached some pics of my Hackintosh build. Hope you'd like it.
-goldeng