Hackintosh tutorials and various other tech stuff
This guide is for upgrading your existing Snow Leopard or Lion installation to Mountain Lion on the ASUS Sabertooth P67 (though it will likely work for a lot of other boards). The method described here seems to be the “old fashioned” way of creating an OS X installer drive, but it still works. There are [...] Read more »
I was having issues with my SATA controller and decided to see if updating my BIOS would fix it. So far that seems to be fixed, but onboard audio won’t work no matter what I try. Once you upgrade, you can’t go back. This may apply to other ASUS boards as well but I don’t [...] Read more »
Disclaimer: I’m not responsible if you break your fans or fry your computer trying to do this mod. If that happens, you’re on your own. When I was picking a new case for my computer, I was trying to decide between the Corsair 500R and the 600T. One of the things I liked about the [...] Read more »
I recently sold the computer that pretty much inspired me to make this website, my Asus P5Q Pro turbo hackintosh. Since building my Sandy Bridge system last year I really hadn’t been using the old computer. I tried to find some uses for it, but it was just taking up space. So now that that’s [...] Read more »
Things you’ll need: A blank CD OS X Snow Leopard Retail DVD A Core i3/5/7 processor An Account on tonymacx86.com 1. Download iBoot Legacy, UpdateHelper, and Multibeast Snow Leopard Edition from tonymacx86. 2. Burn the iBoot ISO to the blank CD and save Multibeast and UpdateHelper to another drive. 3. Reboot the computer, press F8, [...] Read more »
Apple recently released the 10.7.3 update for Mac OS X. I tried to update my hackintosh; at first I had the usual SleepEnabler problems so I rebooted and typed pmVersion=0 at the bootloader and it hangs. It seems to be an issue with FakeSMC. I would recommend not updating yet, I’ll post here when I [...] Read more »
Apple updated Lion to 10.7.2 a few days ago. I updated without any problems. Surprisingly, SleepEnabler didn’t cause any problems. Tweet Read more »
I bought myself one of these Sapphire Radeon HD 6870s a couple weeks ago for my new hackintosh. When I first booted it using the “GraphicsEnabler”=”Yes” flag in Chameleon, it booted fine and recognized the card as a 6870 in System Profiler but only one monitor worked. I disabled GraphicsEnabler and rebooted, and surprisingly it [...] Read more »
I recently built a new hackintosh using the Asus P8P67 LE motherboard. I’m not going to write a full tutorial for it, it’s basically the same process as the P5Q Pro Turbo, except most, if not all, kexts can be found in Tonymacx86′s Multibeast. It works well except for IDE, USB 3, and sleep. It’s [...] Read more »
I picked up an Antec 300 a couple months ago to move an older computer into, but I’ve decided to build a new computer using that case. I like the way the case looks for the most part, but I think the left side panel is kind of ugly/boring so I decided to cut out [...] Read more »