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My experience with Hackintosh

OK, a few lessons I learned so far, in random order: 1. If you want to dual-boot with windows, two hard drives are much, much, much better than one. Yeah it's possible to get it all up with a proper boot loader on two partitions but even as a geeked-out DIYer who still refuses to code HTML...
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- Post #251
- Feb 26, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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My experience with Hackintosh

I just got my system up and running, same DFI board as you, same Kalyway. I made minimal changes to my BIOS (and I didn't disable Jmicro, either). theTITUS, feel free to PM me about BIOS settings.
- iampliny
- Post #250
- Feb 26, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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My experience with Hackintosh

NICE. And I was doing it the hard way. Good stuff.
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- Post #240
- Feb 25, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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My experience with Hackintosh

I should also mention that the JMicro drivers work flawlessly - my DVD drive is IDE (PATA) and had no problems booting, burning, etc.
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- Post #236
- Feb 25, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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My experience with Hackintosh

OK, here's my $1000-ish Hacky Pro. Just built + config'd this weekend. Leopard is purring llike a pussycat. My only PITA is getting the dual-boot on a single drive to play with Vista (yeah I know, why oh why). I've read the 50-step instructions and it still vexes me. But Leopard is no...
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- Post #235
- Feb 25, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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My experience with Hackintosh

OK well thanks for pinging me those specs. I'll figure out the rest as I go along ... Cheers.
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- Post #232
- Feb 23, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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My experience with Hackintosh

Kaido are you ever away from this thread? - hehe Jmicro is the IDE controller right? What happens if my DVD drive is IDE ...?
- iampliny
- Post #230
- Feb 23, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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My experience with Hackintosh

Bigmacattack, the specs look sweet. My setup is similar: DFI Lanparty DK P35 C2Quad Q6600 Tuniq Tower 120 4x1 GB Crucial Ballistix - DDR2-PC2-6400 - BL2KIT12864AA804 PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610W Existing HDDs (10k, 7200) Good ol' GeForce 7300, for now Finally got the mobo from...
- iampliny
- Post #228
- Feb 22, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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DFI Lan Party Dk P35 series US availability

Jealous. Ordered my Lanparty DK + q6600 today, should have all components up & running in a week.
- iampliny
- Post #31
- Feb 15, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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My experience with Hackintosh

Ah I see now that there are at least three different "black" boards. So we have: - "Red" Blood Iron, confirmed working, link - "Black" Lanparty DK, confirmed working, link - "Black" Lanparty LT, not confirmed (may work), link - "Black" Lanparty UT, not confirmed (may work), link I...
- iampliny
- Post #203
- Feb 14, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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My experience with Hackintosh

No worries, the red board is in enough other places. Just trying to decide whether to get it or the black one still on NewEgg. Red: - about $50 cheaper - single 16x PCI-E - 6 SATA - audio on board Black - Trhee 16x PCI-E - 8 SATA - audio on separate panel Hmmmm. I'll be...
- iampliny
- Post #199
- Feb 14, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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My experience with Hackintosh

OK I was about to put together my new OC Hackintosh system based on the Abit IP35 Pro when a nice gent on another board said "check out the Blood Iron" and a little searching landed me here. Kaido, et al -- do you have any thoughts on the "red" vs "black" P35 Blood Iron? Newegg has both...
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- Post #195
- Feb 14, 2008
- Forum: Apple

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