New to Hackintosh- am I compatible?

[nickmendez]

Hey all,

I have a Windows 8 PC that (ideally) I'd like to use to dual boot OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. This is the latest version I have a disk for, but I could go out and buy Mountain Lion if necessary,

Anyway, here's my system:

-Gigabyte B75M-D3V Mobo
-Intel Ivy Bridge Core i5 3470 CPU
-8GB of GSkill DDR3 RAM
-NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
-Western Digital WD1001FALS-00E3AO 1TB Hard drive

My ideal setup is having the drive split in half between OS X and Windows, with the OS X partition for work/general use and the Windows partition exclusively for games. Any and all advice is very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Nick

 

[miramar]

Best to go with Mountain Lion for an Ivy Bridge CPU. Your B75M will work just fine. I have a similar build which you can find in my sig. Not sure about the 550Ti. Check the forums for more info.

If this is your first time hackintoshing then I suggest you do the OS X installation on a clean HD. If you have data on the 1TB, back it up or use another HD. Don't think about dual boot till you get OS X up & running. Dualboot is fairly straightforward. I did dual-boot for my Zomac build, I noted down the steps in that thread.

 

[Jamesbond007]

Hey all,

I have a Windows 8 PC that (ideally) I'd like to use to dual boot OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. This is the latest version I have a disk for, but I could go out and buy Mountain Lion if necessary,

Anyway, here's my system:

-Gigabyte B75M-D3V Mobo
-Intel Ivy Bridge Core i5 3470 CPU
-8GB of GSkill DDR3 RAM
-NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
-Western Digital WD1001FALS-00E3AO 1TB Hard drive

My ideal setup is having the drive split in half between OS X and Windows, with the OS X partition for work/general use and the Windows partition exclusively for games. Any and all advice is very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Nick

The 550Ti may have problems in Mountain Lion : http://www.tonymacx86.com/127-nvidi...-630-graphics-cards-issues-mountain-lion.html

You may need to search for possible solutions. Otherwise your system is fine.

 

[nickmendez]

Hey guys, thanks very much for the advice.

After struggling with it most of yesterday, I have 10.8.2 Mountain Lion up and running!

I have just two problems:

-No USB 3.0
-Sleep/Wake doesn't work

Now from reading around, I was under the impression that this was an either or scenario- that is, usually if you get USB 3.0 to work you lose sleep. That'd be fine by me, I can live without sleep if I can get my external USB 3.0 hard drive to read.

My tower has a total of four USB 3.0 ports. The two on the motherboard aren't working AT ALL. This is with all the USB fixes enabled using Chameleon Helper. I have two more via a PCI card that are working with USB 2.0 devices, but aren't mounting my 3.0 drive AT ALL.

The drive does mount when plugged into a USB 2.0 port however.

Any ideas how to fix this? Once I can read that drive, I'm happy as a clam.

Thanks again.

UPDATE: Installed this http://www.tonymacx86.com/apple-news-rumors/59356-lacie-usb-3-0-mountain-lion.html Lacie driver and now it's working perfectly! I'll post my build in the appropriate forum later today and hopefully pay it forward. This site has been incredibly helpful. Thanks a lot!