[OSX86]Question about my computer


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Alright I have done hackintosh's on my older computer and they have worked. I once had a Intel P4 system and I ran Leopard 10.5.2 on it and after a couple of weeks it basically died off on my. I was watching a hulu video and the computer froze and I restarted it manually. It would not boot into the OS or even post after that. The motherboard died and I had to get a new computer.

So now I have been using a

CPU:Intel Core i7 920 2.66 Ghz processor
Motherboard: EVGA X58 Sli
Memory: 6GB's of OCZ Platinum DDR3-1600
Graphics Card: BFG nVidia GTX 280 OC2
Soundcard: Onboard
CPU Fan: Stock
Hard Drive: 1TB Western Digital Black
Power Supply: Corsair TX750

and I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. I put this whole computer together myself and I had a couple of questions because I have been gone from the scene for a while.

Will the same thing happen to my system? Will the motherboard fry like the last time?

I have been wanting to put Leopard onto this computer, but I have been afraid to do it. :(

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The only thing I've ever heard about a non-completely supported OS doing that is the drivers to control the fan don't work which makes it full spin until stuff starts dying. Very unusual, and only affecting some computers (mainly HP-DV laptops, in my experience), you should be fine.

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I can't find the exact posts but I've heard of this type of thing before. I know this isn't the exact same problem, but this is the closest thing I can find (once again, slightly different problem, same idea)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579000

Basically that talks about gparted livecds running peoples GPU fans until they died (which could also cause overheating)

Like I said, you should be fine, just make sure you use the newest release and select the proper drivers.

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You should have no problem running Leopard on your i7 with 10.5.7 the vanilla kernel is supported with the CPU and ICH10 will work out of box

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Alright I bought Leopard retail and I have a question for you, THEHAWKs, how did you install it? Did you have to do the Boot-132 and the Voodoo kernel?

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@Tech Star I used Chameleon RC2 bootloader and Voodoo kernel in the EFI Partition to Boot the retail 10.5.6 for a Zero modification install then after updating to 10.5.7 i removed the voodoo kernel for vanilla kernel it's just like Boot-321 but you don't have to use a CD so no more hacking your kext extensions

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The first OSX86 build (deadmoo 10.4.1) fried my battery. But a lot of work have been done since that "era". I don't use OSX86 anymore so I can't say (I do the exact opposite, runing Linux on a real mac ;) )

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@Tech Star I used Chameleon RC2 bootloader and Voodoo kernel in the EFI Partition to Boot the retail 10.5.6 for a Zero modification install then after updating to 10.5.7 i removed the voodoo kernel for vanilla kernel it's just like Boot-321 but you don't have to use a CD so no more hacking your kext extensions

Can you give me a quick tutorial on how to do it? I am confused as to how you did it.

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Try here. Towards the bottom it has a "Noob Guide", thats probably the one you want. I haven't used it, so I can't vouch for it's usefulness, but if that post doesn't help, you should be able to find help somewhere on that forum. It's a very helpful forum when making a hackintosh.

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Try here. Towards the bottom it has a "Noob Guide", thats probably the one you want. I haven't used it, so I can't vouch for it's usefulness, but if that post doesn't help, you should be able to find help somewhere on that forum. It's a very helpful forum when making a hackintosh.

Yeah I know about that forum. That topic can't help me because that's not for X58/Intel Core i7 PC's. I asked there, but no help from them. :/

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Yeah I know about that forum. That topic can't help me because that's not for X58/Intel Core i7 PC's. I asked there, but no help from them. :/

Oh, sorry then. I don't have an i7 so I don't have much experience in that department.

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Oh, sorry then. I don't have an i7 so I don't have much experience in that department.

Thank you though. :) This is confusing for Leopard install on the i7. :/

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@Tech Star try this guide very easy to follow if you know the basics to installing OSX86 you must have a retail Leopard 10.5.6 disk, Bootloader, Kernel and kexts to boot and installing In this guide if you don't have a 8GB USB stick you can use a HDD to do the install http://www.infinitemac.com/f19/how-to-crea...aller-on-t2789/

This guide is if you have no idea on what to do and it's made for intel i7

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t149505.html

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