Hey guys!
My first post on here after trawling through all the hackintosh info for the last few weeks, buying my system components (GA-H67MA-USB3-B3, 8GB RAM, i5 2500K and a new hitachi 1TB 7200RPM HDD) and putting this beast together, using unibeast, Multibeast 4.2 (Just came out the day I built my machine
and then a few kexts which were mentioned in another post...
THEN...
I found THIS post! I can't believe I missed it! It's THE thread I should have been reading! anyways - I have just updated to 10.7.2 using combo update and found that it fixes quite a few glitches that my HD 3000 onboard graphics were having... The 10.7.2 update REALLY stabilised the whole system, it was randomly hanging before the update and now I'm yet to have a problem with it.
I had everything working great and thought I'd hook up the speakers, what... wait.... NO AUDIO!
Thanks to your post I now have it by installing the two mentioned kexts (tried the first one alone at first to no avail... the "HDArollback" did the trick!
Was rather un-impressed when I first installed snow-leopard on the thing (oh yeah, I DID go the snow-leopard path at first... but in the end I just scrapped it cos I couldn't "update" it to lion correctly so I uni-beasted lion onto the machine rather than update)
But, as tony mac said in his customac mini posts - you REALLY want lion installed if using second gen core i processors - this hackintosh is a LOT more useable than my previous snow-leopard attempt... intact being an owner of an actual mac I would say that snow leopard + hd 3000 graphics.... if you're doing that the way I was.... you would REALLY have the wrong impression of how a mac actually performs.
Now my computer is as far as I can tell on-par (perhaps better, time will tell!) than my macbook, obviously the processing power should EAT my core 2 duo 2.2GHz. I'm a total noob so I am a bit wary of installing kexts at this point but I want this to be able to use the hardware to its full advantage so I'm going down that road, time-machine in one hand and this blog in the other. Thanks for your post - it really helped me!
And, if you're listening, thanks Tony-Mac - you REALLY rock!!!