Dijas Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Hey all, I'm new to the hackintosh scene, but I'm very computer versed, and I think I'll be able to manage this. Normally I do all my gaming on my PC, and everything else on my Mac, but the mac is getting slow and I want to run both on the PC Specs are as follows: ASUS M5A97 motherboard uefi AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4ghz BE 2x HiS HD 7770 ghz editon graphics cards 8gb DDr3 SportsFX ram 2x 500gb Sata HDD Does this look possible? I know asus boards have support to some extent, and the Phenom II 965 is a popular CPU. Where should I begin with this? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 EUFI's aren't supported yet, as far as i know. ask the admins more about it. i think you could boot off of iFail and use the install chameleon application there to get started, but just installing the OSX boot loader is the main issue that i see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dijas Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 EUFI's aren't supported yet, as far as i know. ask the admins more about it. i think you could boot off of iFail and use the install chameleon application there to get started, but just installing the OSX boot loader is the main issue that i see. I've seen several tutorials on uefi hackintoshes. I've seen threads, on here even, of people successfully installing OSX with an M5A97. Only problem is they never entail how. Other than that, is the CPU and everything else fine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 It seems fine.... Dude listen- send me a message via the my messenger thing and i'll help you out there. It's in the bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMick Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 MacMacMac, it is an AMD system, so it isn't fine. AMD won't work as good as Intel, unfortunately. UEFI isn't a problem, and when something like secure boot would break it, you just could switch to classic BIOS. (on almost any motherboard). However, you would be able to install Lion or Mountain Lion. I would advise Lion, because Mountain Lion has a lot of graphic issues yet. You can install with myHack, and using my Extra folder. Download the AMD bootpacks: http://storage.osxlatitude.com/?dir=amd/bootpacks (take the one for your processor) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dijas Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 MacMacMac, it is an AMD system, so it isn't fine. AMD won't work as good as Intel, unfortunately. UEFI isn't a problem, and when something like secure boot would break it, you just could switch to classic BIOS. (on almost any motherboard). However, you would be able to install Lion or Mountain Lion. I would advise Lion, because Mountain Lion has a lot of graphic issues yet. You can install with myHack, and using my Extra folder. Download the AMD bootpacks: http://storage.osxlatitude.com/?dir=amd/bootpacks (take the one for your processor) Um... As far as I know Lion doesn't have 7xxx support yet. Mountain lion has partial support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMick Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Ah crap, didn't saw your were using a AMD 7xxx. You could try installing Mountain Lion with my bootpacks, however I don't think your are gonna like it due to the graphics issues. More information about the Graphics issues on InsanelyMac: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285551-ati-graphic-issues-on-amd-ml-hackintosh-systems/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dijas Posted July 14, 2013 Author Share Posted July 14, 2013 Hmm I'm not honestly sure 100% what those glitches are, aside from the rainbow colored top bar, which I could work past. It doesn't seem too terrible. I'll gvie it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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