Free. Hand Forum · The Snow Leopard Hackintosh. Infos about installing methods. Below I am using the Multibeast DSDT method as found at Tonymac.
There are other methods available like Kakewalk, my. Hack or Unibeast (for informations about the differences of these methods see this article from Macbreaker).
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Unfortunately Unibeast and Kakewalk (the most easy solution it seems) are not working for Snow Leopard. They start on basis of an OS downloaded from Apples Appstore. So the only alternative you may consider is my.
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Hack (make sure you use the original from myhack. It works for Snow Leopard too and should be more easy to install than my approach with Multibeast. Make sure you have the hardware that works for the my. Hack method. You may simultaneously follow the guide at Tonymac. Preparation: On your PC have only one Sata hard drive (at Sata 0) and one PCIE graphics card installed.
No USB devices except your keyboard and mouse connected. Download i. Boot from Tonymac (You need to register there first). Burn a CD with only i. Boot on it (usually i. Boot, not i. Boot Legacy, except your CPU is not supported in i. Boot). Download Multibeast for Snow Leopard and DSDT for your mobo from Tonymac. Also Download Update.
Helper. Regarding DSDT, you need to know the actual BIOS version of your motherboard (F7, F8 etc.), in other words: You need to get into the BIOS and look it up there (press F9 key). Put Multibeast, Update. Helper and DSDT on a USB stick. Have your original Mac OS X 1. DVD handy. Download the 1. USB stick too. First Part: Adjusting BIOS1. Put the button for the power supply in ON position.
Press the startup button on your PC case. Instantly press and hold the "delete" key on your keyboard (the real delete key, not "backspace") while some diagnostics is processed and shown on display – probably after you see Gigabytes ugly splashscreen. Now this can take some minutes, you only see a white underline on top left of the black display. If you see instead a message "Loading Operating System…", it means the "delete" key has not worked for your setting. Try F2 or F1. 2, this may depend on the version of BIOS your motherboard uses. Set the following BIOS options: First from the right column load "optimized defaults".
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Then hit F1. 0, "Y" and "return". The PC restarts. Hold the "Delete" key to return to the BIOS. Go into "Integrated Peripherals".
Set e. SATA3 (or g. SATA3) and PCH SATA control mode to ACHI. Hit "esc" to go back to the main menu. In "Advanced BIOS Features" choose CDROM as your first boot device and the PCI port of your graphics card at "Init Display First" (probably PCIE x.
In "Power Management" leave ACPI suspend type at S3(STR) and set HPet mode to 6. Put the CD- ROM containing i. Boot into your drive. BIOS main menu and hit F1. Confirm with "Y" and "return".
Your PC shuts down and after some seconds, starts up again. Second Part: Installing Mac OS X1.
If it does not already, start your Hackintosh. The i. Boot CD must be in the CD/DVD drive. Right after this i.
Boot screen comes up, take out the i. Boot CD and put the 1. Snow Leopard install disk in. Wait some seconds, then hit F5 on your keyboard and the install disc should appear on the screen. Press the return/enter key. This should bring you to step 6.
If you can not get to the OS X Installer, consult the "Problems?" section below. Install CD begins loading and the OS X install screen appears.
Install dialogue, before choosing where to install, go to menu and open the disk utility. In Disk Utility choose your startvolume, make one partition on that drive, Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
The maximum partition size must be 1. TB, or the Chameleon bootloader will not work. Also important is that, under "options", you set the partition scheme to GUID.
Apply your changes and close Disk Utility. Choose the install volume and start the installation process. Follow the process. In my case after 5.
I suddenly got a black screen. I tried it three times and it always happened. Other Hackintoshers reported an install error message at some point. However, I found out that the installation was completed but could not make the closing statement properly for some reason. Reboot with the i. Boot CD loaded. (At this point it is important to know that with the Sandy- Bridge CPU, you have to startup always from i.
Boot until you made the update to 1. Sandy Bridge). 1.
At the i. Boot screen next to the i. Boot disk icon, you should now see your startvolume. Choose it with the arrow key and hit return/enter. If you needed a boot- flag before in step 5, use it again now).
Hopefully, your System starts loading. Eventually you get to see the OS X welcome video (well, I did not). And you get to setup your user account and get to your Finder desktop. I had a problem with my graphics card at this point, getting black screen. See at the bottom in "Problems?" about the solution.
Copy Multibeast, the 1. Update. Helper and DSDT (the one for your mobo you downloaded from Tonymac) from your USB stick onto the desktop. Now open Multibeast, choose DSDT and install your DSDT. After the installation completed, start Multibeast again, select "System Utilities" and install (this may need some minutes, adjusting permissions)1. Run Update. Helper and reboot after it completes. Start up again using the i. Boot CD. 1. 7. Now install the 1.
But do not restart after the installation finished! Start Multibeast again, select "System Utilities" and install again (adjusting permissions). Now remove the i.
Boot CD and restart your computer holding the "delete" key. Going into BIOS "Advanced Settings", set the boot order to HD, CD Rom, USB.
F1. 0 save the settings and restart the computer. Your machine should startup and go into the Chameleon boot load screen (which looks similar to the i.
Boot screen). It holds here for some seconds, in case you need to set a flag (see "Problems?") while a process bar counts down some time. After that, it should load just fine into OS X.
Remember, if the Radeon 5. DVI cable and put it back on and you should get to your Finder desktop. If everything works fine, you may now install the rest of your RAM and restart again. If this works fine, install other HDD if you need. Make sure to have your startvolume at Sata 0 and have your BIOS set to HDD as your first boot volume. Now run Multibeast to install further drivers you require for Ethernet, USB 3.
Audio output, etc. You have to consult the manual of your mobo and see which chipset has been used for each of them. In Multibeast check the information of each driver option, it tells you which chipset it is intended for. In order to avoid sudden problems, best practice is installing one driver, run System Utilities, make a restart of your PC to check if it works, then go on do the same with the next driver. Of course you can install all necessary drivers at once, run System Utilities once and restart once, but if suddenly the system does not boot up, crashes or has other problems, you will need a lot of time identifying the driver that causes this.