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Hooked both monitors directly up to the card. Same effect. Reversed everything except suggestions. No difference. Keep in mind: [*:2z7dijzn]The left-hand monitor is active during POST and initial boot [*:2z7dijzn]The left-hand monitor then shuts off after boot (boot: grey screen, dark grey apple logo) and before the login screen. [*:2z7dijzn]This is the same no matter if the displays are mirrored or in normal mode (one wide display utilizing both monitors) [*:2z7dijzn]The machine sees both screens, and thinks it is using both screens, even when the left one is not receiving a signal (when it is dark, and shuts itself down after a minute due to lack of a signal). [*:2z7dijzn]If I start out mirrored, this at least lets me log in (because the right-hand monitor then shows the login screen once the left one shuts down). If I don't start out in mirrored mode, I cannot log on because the login screen is “on the left screenâ€, which is not receiving a signal from the video card. [*:2z7dijzn]Once I log in (while mirrored), if I un-mirror, the dock and top menu bar then end up on the left monitor, which stays dark (no signal sent to monitor) even though OS X thinks it is using that monitor. Ergo, unless I keep the monitor preferences screen up and running, I loose control of the entire machine (I cannot see programs that launch, because they launch by default on the left monitor, which does not receive a signal). Suggestions? I strongly suspect that this is a driver issue unrelated to Chameleon (simply because Chameleon and the initial OS X boot works just fine on the left monitor), with the slight possibility that this is perhaps a hardware issue (this is a recent purchase of a used graphics card... maybe it already had this issue). I do not have the time to install another O/S, as I have already configured this one to my liking (and I don’t have a spare SATA drive). I am hoping that someone can suggest a tool or investigative checklist that can eliminate hardware as an issue. I am also hoping that someone may have an updated Lion Kext that contains the latest EVGA drivers for the GeForce 9800GT.

I have a rather strange dual-monitor issue with my hackintosh. As in, the dual monitors are both seen, both acted upon, but only one actually displays an image. Allow me to explain. I have a pair of HP LP2065 monitors that push 1600x1200 apiece. These are fed through a Belkin dual-head, four-port KVM to my four machines, one of which is this hackintosh. I have an nVidia GeForce 9800GT 512Mb System Information: GeForce 9800 GT: Chipset Model: GeForce 9800 GT Type: GPU Bus: PCIe Slot: Slot-1 PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 512 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0605 Revision ID: 0x00a2 ROM Revision: 62.92.69.00.30 Displays: HP LP2065: Resolution: 1600 x 1200 @ 60 Hz Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Display Serial Number: CNG62103GW Mirror: On Mirror Status: Hardware Mirror Online: Yes Rotation: Supported HP LP2065: Resolution: 1600 x 1200 @ 60 Hz Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Display Serial Number: CNG5510BLT Main Display: Yes Mirror: On Mirror Status: Master Mirror Online: Yes Rotation: Supported When I initially boot, I can see the BIOS on the left hand screen. As well, Chameleon appears there too, in all its graphical glory, as well as the initial MacOS boot screen (the grey apple). However, upon reaching the login screen, this monitor goes dark. When I initially installed my hackintosh, I thought the install had gone bad, since at this point I saw nothing on the screen anymore. However, I swapped my ports around to get the BIOS and login to show on the right hand screen, and I was able to log in with no issues. When I enabled dual monitors, set them to mirror each other and flipped the cables back to their original ports, I got something very strange. Once again, BIOS, Chameleon and the initial boot screen appeared on the left screen only. However, when I got to the login screen the left screen went dark and stayed dark, but the right hand screen lit up with the login screen (because the monitors are mirrored). When I logged on, I was able to confirm through the control panel that both screens are recognized by Mac OSX Lion, both screens are flagged as HP LP2065 monitors, and both screens have 1600x1200 as their default resolution. The problem is that only the right-hand one actually “lights up†past the OS X boot screen, and even when I un-mirror the monitors the right-hand one looses all controls (dock, menus, etc.) because the left-hand one is considered the “master†screen. As in, when I un-mirror, both the dock and the bar at the top of the screen go to the left-hand monitor, which refuses to actually light up and display them. I have to “gather windows†(the display control panel) in order to regain control of my machine because nothing ends up on the right-hand screen once I un-mirror except for that monitor’s display control panel. I suspect that this is a driver issue, since BIOS and the initial OS X boot screen run just fine on the left monitor. Suggestions? As for Chameleon, I have 64-bit enabled and forced, Built-in Ethernet forced (to make iCloud work), GraphicsEnabler set to 1, and the LoginToLion theme applied. Oh, and I did this by utilizing the Chameleon Wizard app.

Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU! As for my previous comment about timing, I was going off of what you said in your reply, as I didn't expect different information elsewhere. Just a few more notes… Used Darik’s Boot & Nuke to wipe the drive, but still had Chameleon issues on the first boot. The actual install went wonderfully, now that I had a 10.7.3 USB drive with myHack 3.1. However, on first boot I still got the following error: boot0: GTP boot0: test boot0: test boot0: GTP boot0: test boot0: test boot0: error So I followed the suggestion by using the USB installer, but instead of going into the actual Lion installer, I hit a key when Chameleon (on the USB drive) was giving its countdown. I then saw my newly installed copy of Lion on the hard drive, selected it (instead of the Lion installer) and booted into it with the following flags (just to be on the safe side): UseKernelCache=No -v -f Once in Lion, I spawned a Terminal window, and put in the following command: myfix -t / -i It did give some warning about something not being flushed (the boot cache? Can’t remember), but the actual end result claimed to be successful. Upon reboot, I yanked my USB installer and the system booted perfectly via Chameleon from the hard drive. I still have no network, no sound, and am probably missing a few other things as well. Going to start looking for a packaged assembly of Kexts for the ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard that I have, but any suggestions would be appreciated. I know that the InsanelyMac forums does have links to resources, but those are already several years old and meant for Leopard/Snow Leopard.

Scratch that - I think I just found your recommended work-around. Will try this when I get home tonight, and report.

Wow. Thanks for the quick reply! Will 3.1 be released within the week, and if not, is there a workaround for the problem I experienced? I do not have immediate access to a non-SL version, as both my parents and my wife make use of SL. My in-laws do not (they have just Leopard) but I do not know when I will be over at their place next (or have the time to do what I need to do when I’m over there). I am looking to move forward with this install this weekend, so I am really chomping on the bit here… I am really excited to have an all-in-one installer that actually works on non-Apple hardware, and can’t wait to get this up and running! (boing, boing, boing!) I will try reverting back to a stock, official BIOS and see what happens. Coming from the security end of I.T., this custom BIOS really did bug me (particularly, I think, because it is a BIOS and not just some code running in memory). And especially since it was from some hacker in Russia. But hey, it was recommended by quite a few threads on the InsanelyMac forums, and it was specific to installing OS X on the P5Q series. It just took me a while to find a non-MegaUpload download location. So, are you saying that even the Lion installers being run on actual Mac hardware have blank Customize screens as well? Strange… Cheers, and thanks!

I seem to be having a bit of a problem. My System: [*:8th00so6]Asus P5Q Pro [*:8th00so6]Modded 2102 BIOS by Juzzi (as recommended by all InsanelyMac forum threads… can I re-flash with stock BIOS?) [*:8th00so6]Kingston Hyper-X 2GB PC2-1066 (system sees it as PC2-800 for some reason, will not allow me to properly clock it). [*:8th00so6]Intel Core 2 Quad (about the 8000 level, 2.33Ghz) [*:8th00so6]Nvidia 6600 (works just fine with the installer despite being under spec) [*:8th00so6]WD 320GB SATA II (a recycled Apple drive!!) on port 1 of the 6-port RAID cluster (port is set to AHCI… will hardware RAID work later under OS X?? I want to set up a RAID-5 array with the other 4 ports once this system is stable) [*:8th00so6]LG SATA-II DVD-RW on port 2 of the 6-port RAID cluster When I first create my OS X 10.7.3 Lion USB installer on my wife’s Macbook Air running Snow Leopard (myHack 3.0 is under Utilities), the entire installer goes fine except for one part. If you can make it out, the modification of OSInstall.pkg is where everything goes sideways. I am using my Wife’s Macbook Air with Snow Leopard to do the building of the USB Installer (from the ~3.9GB DMG file of Lion). She has her own account (the only one set up) along with a proper password (and no, it’s NOT “password†as above, I just replaced her actual password with that for this dump). Problem is, this utility can’t seem to make proper use of her admin password. I did check, she *is* an admin on the computer. In fact, her account is the only one set up. Multiple attempts at creating the bootable DVD provide identical results. Should I be enabling root and assigning a password? If so, IMHO this needs to be made more clear in the Guide. Also, I believe that this is directly related to the above error, but upon installing OS X, the initial install is just like a traditional install -- as in, it doesn’t include a whole bunch of “growl alerts†as mentioned in the Guide. As such, upon first boot all I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor (underline cursor). When I go back into the installer and try to install Chameleon, that installer throws errors -- something about there not being a proper boot sector, or something like that (didn’t exactly record that error message). Interesting tidbit: I love to customize installations, but this install has a blank screen when I click on Customize prior to the install (and after selecting the drive). Does this blank window (with no options to be selected or deselected) point toward additional problems, or is it a result of the Lion DMG I acquired being so small in the first place? Since providing further info appears to be against the rules, I will leave it at that. PM me for more info.

Heh… so eager to start asking questions, that I didn’t quite manage to RTFM… So here we go: -Where you are from/where you live. Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada -How long you have used a hackint0sh (if this is your first time, state that you are new to this). First time that I intend to be SUCCESSFUL at it… several previous attempts, but all on hardware where I had little to no chance of being successful anyhow… -A brief summary of your experiences in hackint0shing (if any). Several attempts, including a Toshiba M300 laptop. Managed to get it to boot, but that was about it. Graphics were horrible, networking nonexistent, and I simply didn’t have the time to correct the problems. -What triggered your interest in hackint0sh. The inability to afford genuine Apple hardware. Seriously. That was my only barrier to actually having Apple hardware. The hackintosh aspect itself, comes from a desire to see if I can actually do it. I have a deep curiosity of all things computer/Internet related. -Your general computer skill level. Relatively advanced. Using computers since 1982 (Commodore Vic-20), on the Internet since 1989, on the Web (yes, there is a difference) since 1991, and actually in the IT industry since 1998. About the only things I haven’t done with computers is 3D animation and creating applications for the desktop in C/C++. -List any technical experience you have in various operating systems and programming languages (if any). OS agnostic. Completely. Windows, Linux, BSD, MacOS. I even dabble in Haiku. PHP, Python, C#, Java, ECMAScript, and about a half-dozen others. -If you have any talents/skills that you would like to offer to help the community (optional). Not at this time (I have very little time even for myself, but this may change in the future).