wajones

I am obviously a newby to the hackintosh crowd, I've been working several weeks trying to hack my Dell 580s with no luck trying every solution I've found in the community. To shorten this topic so I don't bore everyone lets just say I really don't know what I'm doing... I had an install going that at last booted in safe mode. but every time I would add a kext or driver it would panic, then finally I thought it was beyond hope and I gave up. Now on the other hand I was re-installing OS on my MacBook last night and used my usb external to back it up, all went well. Just for the hell of it, I struck the usb external on my Dell 580 and turned it on, pressed F12 for boot options booted to the MyHack install usb stick I made, then pressed a key for boot options and booted the Lion usb backup drive I just attached and it booted just like a real Mac out of the box... LOL The only thing I had to do post install was run MyHack and install the extra's to make it boot on it's own. then install the kext for the Gigabit PCI network adapter I had installed and the Voodo sound kext. The ATI 5450 graphics card is working out of the box for the most part. I just thought it was intresting considering all the work I put into this, to have it go so easy.

-I'm from and live in San Diego, California. -I am a long time Mac User, newbie hackintosh builder. -I'm working on a couple projects a used Asus P5KPL-CM computer I picked up and a Dell 580s that I bought because I got it dirt cheap. I have both working sort of, with a few things to resolve. It was suggested that I visit this site for my answers, so here I am... -I had a Mac Pro, but I regretfully sold it, now I want to replace it with something affordable. -I have over 30 years in the computer industry, both programing and system builds. -My programming experience is basically in database design, PHP and HTML. -As I gain experience in this field, I'll be more than happy to contribute.