macpeter's Mini build - GA-G61N-USB3 - I3-2105 - HD3000

[macpeter2]

macpeter's Mini build - GA-G61N-USB3 - Intel I3-2105 3.1GHz - HD3000​

spire spm210b 300w.jpg

Components

Apple OS X Lion @ Mac Apps Store
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion/id444303913?mt=12

GIGABYTE GA-H61N-USB3 Intel H61 Express Chipset Mini ITX DDR3 800 Intel - LGA 1155 Motherboard (rev 1.0 F3)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SCYHV8/

Intel Core i3-2105 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz LGA 1155
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115090

2x Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZDJ42O/

Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5 TB SATA III Desktop Hard Drive - WD15EARX
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VFJ8J4/

Spire SPM210B-300W-PFC
(same as the APEX MI-008 Mini-ITX tower, but with 300 Watt Power Supply)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811154091

Scythe Slip Stream 120mm Case Fan (SY1225SL12)
(local store)


Comments

I'm a experienced Mac user for quite some years and still have a iMac Intel, Mac mini and Power Mac G5.

My fourth hackintosh build, this time a Mini. This computer will be used as a server for an video surveillance application with four IP cameras. As a server, so I don't need a GPU and use the Intel HD 3000 onboard graphics of the I3-2105 CPU.

Changed the BIOS to:

• - 480MB shared video RAM for onboard graphics.
  - HPET 64 bit mode
  - SATA to AHCI mode

I used Tony's UniBeast 1.1 for the installation. The installation of Mac OS X 10.7.3 went smooth and I used MultiBeast 4.3.1 with the following options:

• - UserDSDT Install (GA-H61N-USB3 F3 on desktop)
  - System Utilities
  - Drivers & Bootloaders / Kexts & Enablers / Audio / Realtek ALC8xxx
  - Drivers & Bootloaders / Kexts & Enablers / Audio / AppleHDA Rollback
  - Drivers & Bootloaders / Kexts & Enablers / Disk / 3rdParty SATA
  - Drivers & Bootloaders / Kexts & Enablers / Network / Realtek Gigabit Ethernet 2.0.6
  - Customization / Boot Options / Generate CPU States
  - Customization / Boot Options / Use KernelCache
  - System Definitions / Mac mini

Large hard drive (4k sector issue)
Because I use a large hard drive with a 4k sector, booting from the hard drive will throw a boot0 error. This can be solved.

• - boot from the USB, choose to boot from hard disk with boot option "-s"
  - type "fsck -fy" and wait to complete
  - we need to change the boot1h
  - this sample assume the hard drive is disk0 and the OSX partion is s2 (!!!!)

- to change the boot1h type:
cd /usr/standalone/i386
fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0
dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2
fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
p
f 2
w
y
exit
cp boot /
chflags hidden /boot
reboot
(thanks to Karacho and Going Bald - can't find the post anymore)

Geekbench = 6.757
This installation gave a Geekbench score of 6757 (32-bits version).

 

[netsullivc]

Do you have photos of the finished product?

 

[macpeter2]

Here are some pictures.
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It's mini-ITX, so not much space to work with.
Especially the cables and fans.

How ever a lot bigger then a real Mac mini... (135x220x345mm versus 36x197x197mm)

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Then again a Mac mini with 500GB drive and 2GB RAM cost € 599 and this CustoMac Mini 2011 with 1.5TB hard drive, 8GB RAM and more powerful CPU just € 400.

 

[shibirian]

Great build!

 

[studioj]

Nooby here. I have a gigabyte H61n USB3 MB with the F4 bios (that's what is shipping now). 4GB of RAM, a seagate momentus 500gb HD. I have tried an rboot and a unibeast approach to getting 10.7.3 to load and get the same results with each. I have my HPET set to 64 bit and ACPI set to S3 and HD set to AHCI. I get to the Chimera screen using either rboot or the unibeast and select my 10.7.3 installer created either with xmove or unibeast from the app store installer for 10.7.3. I get the white screen withe the apple, the sundial spinner goes for about 30 seconds then hangs. After about 3 minutes I get a KP type screen that says I need to power down and reboot. Can't get passed this no matter what I try. Can anyone suggest some things to try?

 

[hagfish52]

Studio J,

I'm not sure what an "rboot and a unibeast approach" are. You may have better luck using the standard approach of first installing Snow Leopard with iBoot and then upgrading to Lion with Unibeast. See http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html for Snow Leopard install and see http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/10/unibeast-install-mac-os-x-lion-using.html for the Unibeast Lion upgrade

You will probably have a problem with a mis-matched DSDT in the original Snow Leopard install, which I guess would then mess up the Unibeast install. The tonymacx86 DSDT Database only has DSDTs available up to BIOS version F3 for this motherboard. So if you are using one of tonymacs DSDTs on an F4 motherboard it won't work.

I guess you have a couple of options. One is to flash the BIOS to F3 and then use the tonymac F3 DSDT. Another is to try creating your own DSDT. See TonyMac's thread about this here--http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?t=35559

Hope this helps,

John, aka hagfish52