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teejay · 05-29-2009, 10:44 AM

Hello All,

I am planning to walk on same path as all of you experts here by installing Hackintosh. Before I do that, I thought, I should clear up few questions (and save my bottom/relationship etc. etc.)

My machine specs are as follows -
Athlon 64 (V) 3400+ 2.2 GHz,
Motherboard - MS-7184,
AC97 Audio Controller (Realtek ALC658C 6-channel CODEC chipset) ,
ATI Radeon Xpress 200,
Realtek 8100C Onboard LAN,
1GB RAM,
250GB SATA (but planning to use 60GB IDE connected through SATA-to-IDE connector as I don't want to mess up with my original drive),
Pioneer DVD burner,
PS2 keyboard and mouse,
6 USB & 2 firewire ports
Memory cards reader

I checked in HCL and I found that my system is compatible, except ATI Radeon Xpress 200. No trace of this hardware to be found satisfactorily. I plan to use either of XxX_x86_10.5.6 or Zeph or iDeneb (Any recommendation, taking into account the hardware, is most appreciated.)

I plan to use 60GB HDD through SATA-to-IDE connector, as many have reported across different Hackintosh forums that SATA has got some issue or have to play with the BIOS. I am very scared to play with it and to avoid any messing up with the BIOS, I plan to use IDE drive.
Any suggestions/recommendations here?

Lastly, lets say, I am the most unlucky guy and this work messes up my machine a big time. What worse could happen? Is there any chance that such attempt will render my machine completely useless, frying up hardware or something?
The reason why I say this is, I really love Mac but being a grad student and a father, not so much cash is flowing around. My wife has promised to gift me a mac when I graduate, till then I should leave our only desktop working alive. But I can't wait and want to give a try. Should this messes up, my wife will slit my throat, if not, I will be in a BIG trouble. Please advise if I should venture into this..

Thanks for taking your time to answer my questions.