RichT

Sorry for the delay in responding, I've been away. Thanks especially to Conti - your advice worked perfectly, and 10.8.1 is now installed! Now I just have to play "hunt the kext..." I still don't understand DSDTs - I have a text file for my motherboard but I don't understand how to install it as a DSDT, or how to "inject" things like my graphics card data into it. Is there a FAQ or workshop anyone can point me towards?

Thanks! I'll give that a try. I don't use a DSDT yet - still using a motley collection of kexts. In fact I don't really understand DSDTs at all, and I don't think I've ever seen one for my board.

Hi all, Running 10.8 installer as downloaded from the Mac App Store. MyHack installation goes normally but when I boot the Hackintosh from the modified 10.8 installer it shows Apple logo and spinning gear as normal then hangs on a plain white screen with a mouse pointer instead of starting the conventional OSX installer interface. My Hackintosh works perfectly in 10.7.4. Any ideas what might be causing the installer to hang? System details: - Gigabyte GA-G41MT-S2P, rev 1.3, BIOS rev F1 - Realtek ALC889 audio codec - Atheros AR8151 Gbit ethernet - Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 - XFX Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition - OS X Source Media: Install OS X Mountain Lion.app

I'm Richard and I'm from London, UK. I used a Hackintosh netbook for a while last year (Dell Inspiron Mini 10) before saving up enough to get a real Apple laptop. But that felt a bit like cheating, because Mini 10s were so popular as Hackintoshes that there are plenty of tools just for putting/customising OSX onto those machines, so you never had to get your hands dirty. Now I'm turning my PC into a Hackintosh workstation because I do a lot of graphics/video editing in my spare time, I'm bored of waiting for a new Mac Pro, and I'm only working part-time so I don't want to drop big cash on an out-of-date and overpriced OSX workstation. I've been using real Macs for a while now, which will hopefully be helpful... my Windows knowledge is a bit rusty as a result but I can still put hardware together with the best of them. Cheers, RT.