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@Godofwar
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2012-03-05 → 2013-02-09
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OS: Hackintosh Lion 10.7.3 and Windows 7
CPU: Amd Phenom II x4 965 3.4ghz
Ram: 4 gigs of ddr3 ram
Graphics Card: Nvidia GigaByte GTX 570
Motherboard: Asus M4A79XTD EVO
CPU: Amd Phenom II x4 965 3.4ghz
Ram: 4 gigs of ddr3 ram
Graphics Card: Nvidia GigaByte GTX 570
Motherboard: Asus M4A79XTD EVO
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @Godofwar (24)
181,528 cumulative reads on threads started by @Godofwar
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Can I get Audio drivers to work in Safe-mode Or no because Safe mode isn't meant to be used that way? | Lion – Catalina | 18,555 reads 2012-11-14 · 3 notes |
| How to run snow leopard at higher resolutions without graphics card support ASUS M4A79XTD EVO is my motherboard but it only lists 1024x resolution which is low for desktop resolution. Edit: Another question. Is it possible to run my gtx 570 and 8800 gts 320mb card on my motherboard at same time? Does Hackintosh… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 18,531 reads 2012-08-30 · 5 notes |
| 8800 gts 320mb compatible with Hackintosh Lion or no not at all I wanted to switch my gtx 570 to a 8800 gts 320mb card because my brother is playing Batman Arkham Asylum and my Graphics card could allow him to use Physx and all the cool features. 8800gts 320mb won't let him do this, it is too weak/old… | Lion – Catalina | 12,287 reads 2012-11-29 · 1 notes |
| 10.7.4 Hackintosh Lion with Mac mouse? Will it work automatically or do I need special type of kexts? Is a Mac Mouse worth getting? | Lion – Catalina | 12,222 reads 2012-10-29 · 1 notes |
| Are there drivers or some driver hack to get my gtx 570 to work with hackintosh snow My gtx 470 died and the company was nice enough to send me a gtx 570 as a replacement. I fear that I cannot do hackintosh now unless I want low resolution but I don't want cruddy resolution. :'( Amd Phenom II x 965, so I'm stuck with Snow… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 11,692 reads 2012-07-26 · 1 notes |
| Google Chrome Mac Kernel Panics on Hackintosh and Real Macs I read online and it seems like Hackintosh users aren't the only ones getting kernel panics that end up crashing Mac operating system when using Google Chrome for extended period of time. Google Chrome is my favorite browser, why does it… | Lion – Catalina | 11,305 reads 2012-10-15 · 1 notes |
| What is the difference between Snow Leopard Retail vs Hazard vs iATKOS Is one better than the other or do they all operate the same for the most part? If they all operate the same for the most part, would Hazard be the best one because it probably is the easiest to install on one's computer? Atleast, easy for… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 10,889 reads 2012-03-08 · 6 notes |
| Does anyone have better drivers for gtx 570 for 10.7.2? Or am I stuck with the kexts I'm using? It's not too bad but I find it weird at times when my browser freezes for a quick second because of flash(I believe that is what causes it), also when I'm on youtube vids it freezes for a quick second too. If you want examples… | Lion – Catalina | 10,362 reads 2012-10-04 · 1 notes |
| Any good written and or video guides to update from Hazard Hackintosh Snow Leopard Hazard Hackintosh Snow Leopard 10.6.6i to 10.6.8 with an Amd Phenom II x4 965 3.4ghz. I've never gotten this to work on my system, maybe my system is not compatible because I've followed many guides and still never get it to update… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 9,442 reads 2012-03-05 · 8 notes |
| so do I install from 10.6.0 to 10.6.5 or do I install from 10.6.3 to 10.6.5 allabouthackintosh.blog spot.com/2011/06/amd-and-retail-snow-leopard-1065-guide.html edited: Sorry | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 5,977 reads 2012-04-05 · 6 notes |
| Newest version of Google Chrome causes kernel Panics in 10.6.6 I noticed that, which sucks because Google Chrome is probably my favorite browser. I also noticed that java doesn't work on google chrome which is a good and a bad thing. Good because no viruses but bad because sometimes you'd prefer to… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 5,842 reads 2012-05-03 · 2 notes |
| Is this hackintosh related or browser related I noticed that stuff is missing from ebay and newegg when I do searches on my Mac side in browser Google Chrome. But when i'm on my windows 7 side and do a search for same things they appear. Why would this be? Is there a delay in… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 5,580 reads 2012-04-30 · 3 notes |
| News reports about a new virus for Macs and that Hackintosh's are affected because we don't regularly update our os's to the latest version. I laughed kind of because I'm sure it's hard to get the virus. But I guess its a good time for us to start using ant-viruses? Also, I'm shocked that the news is legally… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 5,189 reads 2012-04-06 · 7 notes |
| Is Hackintosh compatible with a Dell Amd Athlon X2 5600 2.8ghz Is Hackintosh Snow Leopard compatible with almost all intel/amd processors but it comes down to if you have a sata/ahci supported harddrive? Also, if someone happens to only have one harddrive, how easy is it to patition the harddrive and… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 5,047 reads 2012-04-13 · 4 notes |
| (Youtube video I made) Is this suppose to happen on Hazard Hackintosh Snow Leopard Takes about 1 minute to get passed the apple loading screen then takes about 3-4 mins for the hard-drive to be fully read. I've put up for this for months, but now I'm trying to learn if I'm hurting anything or if this is normal. In the… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 4,897 reads 2012-03-08 · 3 notes |
| Does Hackintosh Snow Leopard work on intel ide only harddrive computers Or does it have to be AHCI harddrives to get hackintosh to work? Specs of computer: Intel Pentuim 4 cpu 3.00ghz 2.99ghz, 1.00 gb of ram graphics card geforce 6200? Since this graphics card is ancient, would I have to install something… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 4,667 reads 2012-04-22 · 1 notes |
| Weird thing happens alot on my Hackintosh Snow Leopard, Recovered files show up in trash-bin every so often. I don't know why, because when I shut down all seems well. So, I have no idea what recovered files are in trashbin. I just delete them each time but its kind of annoying/weird. | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 4,095 reads 2012-04-09 · 2 notes |
| Weird Glitch I ran into. I deleted something on my Windows 7 side and now My trashbin won't fully get rid of an object on my mac side. :'( Any Mac software to fix this weird stuff? I use Paragon Ntfs drivers on my Mac side to read Windows 7. Screenshot, my Mac won't erase what I erased on my windows 7 side now… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 4,039 reads 2012-03-07 · 3 notes |
| Has anyone gotten 5.1 sound to work on Hackintosh and if so What will I have to download to get my 5.1 sound to work? Right now I can only get sound out of two speakers. Sorry for all these questions/topics I've been posting lately. Running off my motherboard's audio Asus M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790x… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 3,854 reads 2012-03-09 · 1 notes |
| Is there a virus or spyware that you can get on Mac Snow Leopard that messes with you Is there a virus or spyware that you can get on Mac Snow Leopard that messes with your internet connection? I've ran into one of those before on Windows side, but now I think I've ran into it on my Mac side. My mac side now loads up some… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 3,803 reads 2012-03-14 · 1 notes |
| Does the backup extensions fix everything when things go wrong on Hackintosh SL. I installed new nvidia drivers suppose to be dedicated to my gtx 470 and they didn't work. So, I used my backup extensions to fix it and I believe my mac is now loading. I'm assuming the backup extensions are there for when something goes… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 3,768 reads 2012-03-10 · 3 notes |
| iTAKOS S3 version 2 for intel/amd gives error 11 percent into install I have no idea why. I was trying to get rid of hazard because I think IATKOS might be better at updating and might run better. But it won't even install properly. I thought IATKOS was built for amds? Doesn't seem like it and I selected the… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 3,716 reads 2012-03-25 · 2 notes |
| This happened several times for some odd reason my Mac side stops working When my Windows 7 crashes or gets blue-screen of death. I can still see the files on my mac side from an application I use on my Windows 7 side but my Mac side refuses to boot up so I'll have to back up the video files I have on my Mac… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2,906 reads 2012-05-21 · 1 notes |
| Do all usb mice except for the Mac mice work with 10.6.6 Snow Leopard I know there's ways to get the Mac mice to work but I don't want to have any problems what so ever. So do wired and wireless usb mouse with the exception of a Mac Mice work on Hackintosh? Thinking about getting a new mouse because my… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2,863 reads 2012-05-14 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @Godofwar contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Lion with AMD “Godofwar, retail is always better. I think you should update your system to 10.7.4 and replace your kernel for RAWX86's. Will I run into problems with retail? I have no idea how to install retail, is it the same process? If its same process…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-25 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “euh ? iATKOS L2 does not work in installation live on AMD ! it only works for intel! he settled in SL 10.6 UTILIZING his OSInstallmpk and provide for the replacement of the kernel. pour les Atlon/Phenom : x4 965 -legacy busratio=17 Usekerne…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-25 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Which iteration of Lion r u using? IATKO's L2, and my mac side failed again. This is weird, I went on my windows 7 side and ran utorrent to finish up a download on it, I also ran Jdownloader to copy links from it so I could download from my…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-24 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “LOL! Open Terminal.app. Type: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE Hit enter, than type: killall Finder You'll see that fseventsd-uuid vanishing like magic. Nope, still there. Also, I never told Lion to show hidden files.…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-24 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Finder preferences. And org.chameleon.plist in Extra folder for the boot flags (search my post, man, i won't type those key/strings again). I strongly suggest you to use Path Finder instead of the 32-bit Finder. DP2 finder really sucks, and…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-24 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “It's probably because of your graphics. The flash issues, probably the same issue: flash movies needs QE/CI, which needs a properly working Graphics Card. So you have to chase those drivers: good luck! One more thing about the commands: i t…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-24 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I'm having some luck now. I finally got Mac Lion and Windows to work each other. I even set it up how I like it where when I'm on my Mac side I can drop files on my Windows 7 side. It was really simple to fix, it seems EasyBCD and Windows7/…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-24 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Oh well, I have a flawless Snow Leopard installation, so I'm not missing out big time. I think I'll try a different HDD and connect it via SATA instead of USB just to see if it makes a difference. What is the need to update to Lion if you h…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-23 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I am! But i must confess, my windows 7 installation is on a PATA disk. I have one PATA for Win 7 and three SATA for respectively Lion 10.7, my time machine for both my AMD and my Atom netbook (which backs up to it via network) and a big NTF…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-23 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Out of curiosity, what are you guys using to have Windows 7(Harddrive1) and Lion(Harddrive2) boot together? I use a program called EasyBcd. Just wondering if maybe that was my problem or not. EasyBcd is what I used with Snow Leopard when I …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-23 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “You're welcome! Sorry I failed, I tried. I been trying to get Lion to work forever. I had fun with the 6 months I had Snow Leopard working(last yr before my 470 died). I know operating systems are beautiful from the eyes of the beholder but…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Thanks for all your help guys. But this has hurt my brain long enough. I'm giving up on this Hackintosh garbage. Macs an overrated operating system with less software support than Windows. The only reason I wanted it is because I like the l…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Don't you have an onboard graphics in your MoBo, Godofwar? Since it's an AMD, the onboard graphics are usually ATI or AMD too... My onboard sucks really bad it has vysnc problems in Windows 7, so I wouldn't expect it to be much better on Ma…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Hazard Snow and Windows 7 need each other... My cursor only works when Windows 7 harddrive is plugged in... This is weird? Godofwar, if you can stand the difficulties of running Lion on AMD, you should stay on Snow Leopard. It's not the lat…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Do I have to update or can I stick with 10.7.2 Lion? Because I tried updating to 10.7.3 earlier and it was a waste of time because it would not let me replace Finder. I still have that stupid bug where I can't add applications and sometimes…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Because you installed Snow Leopard in the first partition. Now, that becomes dead space. In disk utility, once you set a partition scheme, only the first one is malleable. The second one cannot be resized, so you're out of luck. Maybe this …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Take a look at this link: your answer is in pink, red and purple types: osx 86.net/view/2723-amd_kernel_v6_for_10.7.4.html Still don't understand, also I can't download anything from os86's website because they have a download limit... : Al…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I'm not sure, i advise you to register there and ask, some of them are pretty well informed there on this subject. It opens with text edit! Drag and drop to it, or use the mouse's right button and select open with, and uncheck the "recommen…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Partly: there's a text file called org.chameleon.plist in the Extra folder. Edit it, so it has these lines: Kernel Flags -legacy -v arch=i386 npci=0x3000 This is the copy/paste bug. Search this very topic for the name jeaton You must patch …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Alright I know how to install Hackintosh Lion now, but this problem exists. I still can't get Windows 7 and Lion to exist with each other. It seems both of them only work when their installed on the first harddrive. This makes 0 sense to me…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Alright, I have Lion working with internet, sound and graphics card on 10.7.2. Everything seems to be working fine but how do I set up Lion so I don't have to type -legacy -v arch=i386 npci=0x3000 each time I want to access the Lion operati…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I can not get windows 7 and lion to co-exist. I also still am missing sound and network from lion. I do not know how to install the dock.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Typing from my playstation vita. Im still having problems to some degree. Will i have to use legacy command each time? Also what kexts do i need to get internet to work? I know theres a pkg file for voodoo sound to work. Is there a kext or …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-20 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Yeah, I realized that Chameleon still refuses to install to my Lions harddrive. I only got Lion working because a black loader came up and I'm pretty sure thats not Chameleon. :'( I still have the problem of my Finder being broken, Sound no…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-20 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “OMG, OMG, OMG I GOT IT WORKING! LION LOADS BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY INTERNET CONNECTION ETHERNET CONNECTION ISN'T DETECTED ARE THERE ANY kexts for it? Sorry for caps, I'm so excited! I can't believe that I got it working! I need Kexts for my in…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-20 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “So first of all You CAN NOT use any SL kexts on lion...it makes sense same as you cant use windows XP drivers on Windows 7... You must use chameleon 2.1 there is a link: osx 86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2981&act=down&actionhash=guest&mul…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-20 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “New Video, new problem... I thought 3 harddrives would finally be my solution to getting Lion to finally work... Now I have a new problem, can't even install Snow Leopard anymore... Weird CMOS errors showing up now. There is no easy way to …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-20 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “That is REALLYstrange could you tell me what exactly did you do? or make a video? Used Mod Cd boot disc like I normally do and I use Hazard 10.6.6i(something I know they don't like us talking about here) but its what I used to use to get Sn…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-20 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I don't know whats going on, because DBAN did not fix the problem. With 3 harddrives in my computer it is not allowing me to install Snow Leopard anymore. Instead I get a weird error now saying Cmos failed 3 times or something saying that. …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-20 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “My neighbor let me borrow his sata harddrive. Will this process be easier and work with 3 harddrives? 1 harddrive with Windows 7, the other with Snow Leopard and the other with Lion. Something is not getting along with Snow Leopard now, it …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “So I rushed ahead and did the process again and just realized that something is wrong yet again. For whatever reason my bootloader stays the older version even after I delete the Snow Leopard partition. It makes 0 sense to me and I installe…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I refuse to let this screw up again, I erased and started over again. I just reinstalled Snow Leopard. Now are there any Kexts from my Snow Leopard side that I am going to want to put in my Lion Harddrive and would I use a tool to do that a…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “So, I've installed it perfectly with mach kernel and Chameleon Wizard but the command -legacy -v arch=i386 npci=0x3000 does not boot it for me. I need a different command. Specs: Amd Phenom II x4 965 3.4ghz Gtx 570 Asus M4A79XTDO EVO Mother…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Well i was installing lion on same HDD but different partition and i had some problems with chameleons...i have no idea how i fixed it but i did . I think i deleted the SL partition but not sure This is the problem I'm having. I know if I h…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I know where I mess up at, it has something to do with me only having two harddrives. I partitioned the mac harddrive to have snow leopard and lion on it but something gets messed up when I do everything else after that. Keep in mind i'm us…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “If you're doing well with SL (system which most Apple customers consider the pinnacle of OSX), and need a system to do serious work with it for a living, why upgrade, since you'd be limited to a possibly unstable 32-bit system (the 32-bit p…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-17 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE That command doesn't work for me in the Terminal. Never mind got it to work by killing the finder... Do I have to update Chameleon or can I use the current Chameleon rc5 I'm using with …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-15 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Godofwar, open a terminal window (terminal is an app, search in the spotlight bar or at the Aplications folder, inside the subfolder Utilities. Then, type at the terminal: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE Pay attention…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-14 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Could someone make a video tutorial for those of us who are not intelligent and have problems reading but can see how to get lion working properly visual wise? I am trying to do the method iATKOS L2, ShowAllFiles with Hackintosh Snow Leopar…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-14 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “As I've said (for the 7th time, just counted!) many times, you need to use iAtkos L2 or a real mac. You don't really "update", but you install it to it's own partition via Snow Leopard. Run OSInstall.mpkg from iAtkos L2 dvd and you should b…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-14 1,075,710 dossier reads |