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== Log ==
== Log ==
=== April 3, 2013 ===
Moved nVidia card and DVD drive from Dell to Hackintosh. Didn't require any special configurations. Both are working out-of-the-box, which is awesome, but there are some issues. With the card, my second monitor flashes repeatedly. No discernible pattern, and the connection seems fine. I've been having trouble with that monitor, so I wonder if that's the problem.
WIth the drive, it took forever for it to acknowledge a DVD, and I've had issues with eject. Basically works, though, just not perfectly.


=== April 2, 2013 ===
=== April 2, 2013 ===

Revision as of 18:32, 3 April 2013

CustoMac Pro Guide

Log

April 3, 2013

Moved nVidia card and DVD drive from Dell to Hackintosh. Didn't require any special configurations. Both are working out-of-the-box, which is awesome, but there are some issues. With the card, my second monitor flashes repeatedly. No discernible pattern, and the connection seems fine. I've been having trouble with that monitor, so I wonder if that's the problem.

WIth the drive, it took forever for it to acknowledge a DVD, and I've had issues with eject. Basically works, though, just not perfectly.

April 2, 2013

Powered up the machine. No problems! Relatively quiet! Booted it off the UniBeast Mountain Lion USB drive I had created. Again, no issues.

Installed Mountain Lion. When rebooted, got the endless startup wheel. Rebooted in safe mode using "-x" boot parameter. Started up Mountain Lion just fine.

Went through Apple post-installation steps, then installed MultiBeast. Selected:

  • Drivers > Audio > RealTek ALC8xx > RealTek ALC898
  • Drivers > Network > hnak's' AppleIntelE1000e Ethernet
  • Drivers > Disk > TRIM Enabler > 10.8.1+ TRIM Patch

Installed 2 TB hard drive. Formatted.

Other SSD hacks from this post:

  • Set noatime flag for root partition
  • Moved User directory to HDD and created symlink
  • Moved /private/tmp to HDD and created symlink

CPU

The CPU instructions said to apply thermal grease to the CPU before installing the cooler, but it looks like there was already thermal grease there. In any case, here's a guide.

Cases

I chose the Corsair Obsidian 650D. It's largely self-explanatory, but there are things that took me a while to figure out:

Other

Top candidates:

Other possibilities:

Video Card

I have a Nvidia GEFORCE 9400GT in my Dell Inspiron 531 that I'll need to swap out anyway (in order to turn that old computer into a media center PC), so I'm hoping it will work in a Hackintosh. More information at:

Other

See Also