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a friend is giving me this card for free, and i wish to know if anyone here knows if i can get this working under snow leopard 10.6.2. i have read on other places that it can work.. any tips would be great!

im planing my new build and wish to know the best p55 board to get to install snow leopard.. im still learning all to know about mac, so please any sites, or board you are using would be great!

Just wishing to know, im running snowleopard and have notice that my monitor colours dont look as good as they do on my windows install. is this a snow leopard thing or cause i have a non-apple monitor? when i look at my desktop wallpaper,…

Im running snow leopard, GTX 260+ and about to upgrade my LCD Screen, im lookin @ 2 24" screens, and wish to know if you can dual screen? if you have this running could you give some idea of the methods i need to config to get this…

“"press command+shift+q" to log out of the "second monitor"? "press command+shift+q" to log out. Snow Leopard was thinkin that i had dual screen, and when you log out, it picked up that i have just one monitor! Just change the port on your v…”

“i just upgraded my CPU from a E6300 to a Q8400 and now i can not overclock. I can overclock from 2.33Ghz to 3.1Ghz, and boot into windows fine, play games/movies/music everything works fine. But when i boot into OSX86 Snow Leopard i cannot …”

“This is a VERY long thread and perhaps I have missed it in the 15 pages I've read but… How do I safely update to 10.6.2 from 10.6? I managed to install 10.6 ok but my card was in VESA as I have a Radeon 4670. So I tried the beta booter from…”

“Hi. I was just wondering if anyone knew the proper BIOS settings to get this guide to work. I'm running Rev 2. and get kernel panics(ACPI) during boot. Another thing that is concerning me is that my dvd burner is IDE - could this cause issu…”

“From what I understand from this thread, the onboard ethernet card for version 2.0 of this board will not work, no matter what bios version there is? Just asking to see if anyone solved it in any particular way before I go and buy a pci/usb…”

“I followed the instructions for creating the USB Bootable drive. When I turn on my computer and hit F12 for boot menu... I use USB-FDD and USB-HDD. I've tried both, but neither works. It just sits there and says: Verifying DMI Pool Data… Di…”

“Would really appreciate some help. I followed the above install, and it has gone pretty well, apart from the sound, which I'm going to tackle later. Anyway, more importantly is the ethernet. I am using a small case and am limited with PCI s…”

“I cant seem to boot with this method? I have made the usb numerous times as in the guide. I even tried booting -v -f. I get the SL My Hack start up & then just as the apple logo comes on for a split second my Computer resets. I can install …”

“Hi , i am using G31M-ES2L Rev 2 motherboard to install , i am using IPC PPF5 10.5.6 iso to install, because i always hang at somewhere using retail snow leopard installer. i am using nullcpupowermanagement , openhaltrestart, sleepenabler , …”

“I did the upgrade to 10.6.2, but now I don't have a desktop or screen: all blue. I can boot in safe mode using -x, but not in normal mode. The only thing I did to do the upgrade was to remove the sleepenable kext, reboot, then upgrade: but …”

“I have a G41M-ESL2. I've been trying for awhile to get it to boot into SL. I completed the entire process of restoring my SL Retail Disk to my 8GB USB stick and ran the routines, edited the plist file, etc. I put the thumbstick in my gigaby…”

“Sorry guys. I am in the wrong threads. Actually, I tried so many solutions, i cannot even make it to work. This threads solution is the only thing that took me to install snow leopard successfully. If you dont' mind, can you please direct m…”

“Hi I have a problem booting in to my new OSX10.6 installation. The installation is done with the MyHack method. When I boot with my installation USBdrive still in my computer there is no problem. I can boot in to the bootloader and select m…”

“I've been following the guide meticulously for the rig in my signature, but every time I patch my dsdt file and reboot, I get a black screen after the first boot banner. This happens whether I make my own (compiled without errors after remo…”

“Thanks to all who made contribution to this forum thread. I managed to install this into my SONY VAIO BZ560 laptop with GUID partition. My goal is to make dual OS. I coped OSinstall.mpkg file into the system library locaation where it suppo…”

“I followed the instruction and dump all files into external hard drive which has HFS+ partition. I am trying to install into my sony vaio laptop. at the disk utility whle trying to install from external hard drive, it doesn't see the my lap…”

“Like posts #233 and #449, I've followed the guide to create the bootable USB stick, but mine won't boot. It hangs at "Verifying DMI pool data …" (I have tried the fix described in #451, but that didn't work for me.) I'm using a Rev 1.1 G31M…”

“How do I boot into single user mode? I know the "command s" hold down, but where do I do it? I have been trying for about 3 days. I need to install new kexts and rebuild kext cache. I've tried at every point that seems logical to me. My ins…”

“I can't click anywhere in the world map. If I'm online it goes past that page. I'm using a Macally Mac keyboard. I bought a new one yesterday thinking that may be the problem. I may borrow an Imac keyboard today. I thought it was strange to…”

“Thanks, looking at it now. You're a better googler than I am! During setup I get Welcome video, choose language, choose keyboard layout, Migration page, How Do You Connect,Apple ID, Reg info, create your account, Try MobileMe, Select Time Z…”

“Is there a way to create a user account from the install disk or terminal? I've re-installed and same problem. It's connecting to the internet fine during setup. I can access utilities from the install disk and most everything seems okay, a…”

“Thanks for the links. When I go into reset password from the installer there is only a root admin, so it seems the setup is not finishing completely. I was wondering if you have to log in the first time to complete the setup. Also, I can't …”

“It seems to lose my login info between the Enjoy Your Mac screen and first login. The reset password tricks I have found assume you are in the OS to start with. I'm trying safe mode to see if I can get at least into terminal. Or I can get i…”

“Over the past week I did 2 things a) replaced my Airport Extreme N router with a DLink router (I needed some QOS function and AEX does not have any) b) added a SATA DVD drive I can manually sleep the machine (from the Apple menu), but it no…”

“Could you not: - boot the USB key to the SL installer (seems like that should work regardless of how badly you hosed the install) - Launch Terminal from the Utilities(?) menu - remove the old kext and put the new kext in place - rebuild kex…”

“i did it! Thanks to this great tutorial and your help i got it made! SL runs like a charm. Onboard sound runs too! The onboard network doesnt work out, i think its because of my rev. 2 board, but i got an old Realtek 8139 nic which is natur…”

“this is how i did my system, install leopard with iatkos v7 / made USB Flash drive snow leopard / installed snow leopard as this guide tells you too. Maybe you should try a USB Flash drive? por just download iatkos v7 and install that. see …”

“thanks and regards for this excellent guide! My first "Hackmac" is a P45 System with the EFI-X Module, but after finding out, that the guys from EFI-X are just "closing" open source and trying to rip me of, i like to switch to the "pros" an…”

“just a update on my Current System i have a Working Snow Leopard 10.6.2 system. No problems well maybe one, when i boot i get a blue screen, one person said it may be my permissons? anyway thanks for the guide, and if i can ill help out. UP…”

“I think this is rev2. Here is my motherboard specification - i don`t see any differences in comparison to ES2L model... giga byte.eu/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2693 also i tried to install with and without onboard aud…”

“Hi, I am working on my second hackintosh (last one was like a year ago, and the whole ideneb thing was allot easier for me ) Anyway I have a G31M-ES2L with a 2.33ghz c2d, 4gb of ram, ati 4550 card. I was able to make it through 90% of the i…”

“Thank you so much for this, im also new and have just got me leopard working and now learning how to get snow leopard! everything is working but that last part. but ill get it working. Once again great write up and thanks... UPDATE: Got my …”

“using Razer Copperhead with now issues, but now starting to look for a wireless one, i play games with machine, on my Windows Hard Drive, so want something that works well in Snow Leopard, I have heard that there is driver support for Razer…”

“i have a Nvidia GTX260 works great just need to install drivers, for it! and a 6200 for backup! depends what you want your card to do, if you want something that installs out of the box then a 8600GT, if you want a bit of power then somethi…”

“a rating based on Out Of The Box, i would give mine 8/10 i have networking, but no sound or video with kext! overall i love my system planing some upgrades from E6300 to Q8400, 2Gigs to 4Gigs and new Case LIAN-LI PC-A05NB with a few mods in…”

“This has to be the best guide Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L has everything, and works!”

“i just got me a new wireless n" card today and it works out of the box! TP-Link TL-WN951N and can join channel 12,13 so maybe you need a new card?”

“Found a fix for me, i changed DVI ports that montior connects to and rebooted, and that worked have had no more issues! also i reran the permission fix to fix them and they may have help also.”

“if your gfx card has two sockets try using the other one that fixed a similar problem for me do you mean, 2 DVI Ports or are you talking about the PCI-E x16 ports?”

“Nice to see other people tlking about this, i have been trying to work this out for sometime, i need to jsut turn my screen off then on again and everything is fine. Thanks for the tips other people have posted.”