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- Sep 22, 2011
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- Motherboard
- 10.8.1
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- 3.9 GHz I7
- Graphics
- Radeon HD 6870
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I'd been working on my Hackintosh for 3 weeks and I finally got it all working yesterday. I have a GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 and I started with the Gigabyte branded HD6870 card.
I used Frostcalls method and I had no problems building my system and getting Lion 10.7.1 on it but when I would click on system prefs or Safari, little colored boxes would fill the screen. For 2 weeks, I searched the threads, trying to figure out what I did wrong. I ordered a CustomBeast and it was still dorking up. Finally, when I was on the verge of dismantling the system, I found an obscure post somewhere that said the boxy thing is a known defect on the Gigabyte branded HD6870's. I immediately RMA'd with New Egg and ordered a Sapphire HD6870 from Amazon.
The Sapphire card worked great (no boxes) until I would run CustomBeast or install Lion. Then the screen would go black after the OS loaded.
I then ordered another brand of the HD6870 from Amazon - the Power Color.
The graphics are perfect, I'm running 10.7.2 and after spending half the night working on it, I was able to somehow enable the HDMI Audio on the card.
Anyways, I wanted to toss this up here because I know how frustrated I had become trying to find answers. There were others with the same issues, but no real answers to them. I whole-heartedly recommend buying from Amazon because of their amazing return policy (they usually will ship the replacement next-day delivery).
Also, DON'T GIVE UP. I almost did and if I had, I wouldn't have this amazing computer that I'm typing this message on.
When I get a chance, I'll try to list out what I did to get my build going. If you are having graphics problems, try a different brand of your card...
I used Frostcalls method and I had no problems building my system and getting Lion 10.7.1 on it but when I would click on system prefs or Safari, little colored boxes would fill the screen. For 2 weeks, I searched the threads, trying to figure out what I did wrong. I ordered a CustomBeast and it was still dorking up. Finally, when I was on the verge of dismantling the system, I found an obscure post somewhere that said the boxy thing is a known defect on the Gigabyte branded HD6870's. I immediately RMA'd with New Egg and ordered a Sapphire HD6870 from Amazon.
The Sapphire card worked great (no boxes) until I would run CustomBeast or install Lion. Then the screen would go black after the OS loaded.
I then ordered another brand of the HD6870 from Amazon - the Power Color.
The graphics are perfect, I'm running 10.7.2 and after spending half the night working on it, I was able to somehow enable the HDMI Audio on the card.
Anyways, I wanted to toss this up here because I know how frustrated I had become trying to find answers. There were others with the same issues, but no real answers to them. I whole-heartedly recommend buying from Amazon because of their amazing return policy (they usually will ship the replacement next-day delivery).
Also, DON'T GIVE UP. I almost did and if I had, I wouldn't have this amazing computer that I'm typing this message on.
When I get a chance, I'll try to list out what I did to get my build going. If you are having graphics problems, try a different brand of your card...