Snow leopard Hackintosh Help Please !!!

[PREACHER821]

Greetings All. I have followed all the steps to install Snow Leopard, (on TM and Utube, Majid Syed). I purchased a Snow Leopard disc.).I have a P7P55D Premium mobo, i7, using 4 gbs ram.
During the install process, at the point to format the hard disc, the OS does not show the hard as an option. I can not proceed from this point since the OS does not show the hard disc. I have tires 3 different discs, Seagate, WD and am old Maxdtor hard rive. After tying the Maxtor, when I installed iBoot, an error message kept appearing "hard drive time out". After that point, I could not proceed. Please advise, thanks.

 

[johnm]

Try switching your Sata ports to ACHI in the Bios.
Use the main SATA controller ports, not the JMicron ones..

 

[totenkopf4]

Greetings All. I have followed all the steps to install Snow Leopard, (on TM and Utube, Majid Syed). I purchased a Snow Leopard disc.).I have a P7P55D Premium mobo, i7, using 4 gbs ram.
During the install process, at the point to format the hard disc, the OS does not show the hard as an option. I can not proceed from this point since the OS does not show the hard disc. I have tires 3 different discs, Seagate, WD and am old Maxdtor hard rive. After tying the Maxtor, when I installed iBoot, an error message kept appearing "hard drive time out". After that point, I could not proceed. Please advise, thanks.

Preacher821

821 are these the odds you have on this .....

Ok so we have a 1156 CPU so its not a Sandy Bridge CPU thats good !

The bad is this motherboard will not support Sound with out some major work as this has a VIA VIA VT2020 chipset
Or a USB sound device ( best option)

See links
http://www.osx86.net/audio-sound/9226-problems-my-sound-onboard-via-vt2020.html

http://www.osx86.net/audio-sound/10937-req-vt2020.html

A link from the old site - which you may want to look at - as the old site has more indepth posts ( greater number) than the new.
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=59570

this is a positive link for your sound (maybe) http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2219

As you stated a Maxtor - I am not sure if they made SATA hard drives but anyways if you are using the PATA port ( big ribbon connector) for hard drives this will not work -

You need to use the 4 light blue SATA ports for the Hard Drive and the DVD drive! The white ones are later.

You should be using the iBoot 3.30.x version of iBoot CD. ( burn the ISO file to a CD )

And follow this link - iBoot and Multibeast - TonyMacx86 guide
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

Tony and friends to make mention of something special about 1156 type CPU's - a selection needed in MultiBeast.

 

[Going Bald]

You know, it is odd that for so long we used iBoot CD + the retail disc to install with, then went to the USB UniBeast for Lion and Mountain Lion, but I would bet that few remember that the original SL installer was also a USB drive.

In fact, this is the method I first used when I installed on a GA-EP45-UD3P using a Mac Mini and an external USB drive enclosure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLIjDAbXZKo and at the end, instead of restarting you shut down and move the HDD from the external USB enclosure to your PC-Mac.

Sometime when you have the time go to http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/ and look at the right hand pane. Scroll down below the third box and start with the 2009 entries and just read thru the timeline to see how the site and methods all evolved.

It is especially helpful for pre-Sandy Bridge socket 1156 board users as this is where it all started.

 

[totenkopf4]

You know, it is odd that for so long we used iBoot CD + the retail disc to install with, then went to the USB UniBeast for Lion and Mountain Lion, but I would bet that few remember that the original SL installer was also a USB drive.

In fact, this is the method I first used when I installed on a GA-EP45-UD3P using a Mac Mini and an external USB drive enclosure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLIjDAbXZKo and at the end, instead of restarting you shut down and move the HDD from the external USB enclosure to your PC-Mac.

Sometime when you have the time go to http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/ and look at the right hand pane. Scroll down below the third box and start with the 2009 entries and just read thru the timeline to see how the site and methods all evolved.

It is especially helpful for pre-Sandy Bridge socket 1156 board users as this is where it all started.

GB

what version of iBoot and Multibeast were used if this was posted in March of 2010;

Any Idea

In fact using this method from a current OSX mac or hack would work as well - thoughts on this!