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  1. Hi there! I've been running a Lion on my system for almost a year now, and have recently decided to upgrade to Mountain Lion (for extended Nvidia 5xx support). Using myHack 3.1.2 and a the Mac App Store version of Mountain Lion, I made the installer USB, used PciRoot=0 to get to the installation screen, formatted my drive with Disk Utility and went through the installation procedure without a hitch! However, booting up into the OS off the hard drive freezes at the Apple logo screen. Using the verbose "-v" flag, the last line reads: I've tried all sorts of things to get past this error - different boot loaders, removing superfluous hardware, boot flags, etc. but with no luck. Anyone have any idea how to resolve this? Thanks! Specs: Mobo: Z68X-UD4-B3 CPU: i7 2600K RAM: 16gb Patriot Sector 5, DDR3 GFX: Gainward GTX 570 Phantom Optical: Sony Optiarc PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro 800w
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    Howdy! I'm from South Africa, in a city called Durban - the home of sunshine, surfing and babes! I've been using a HackMac as a film production machine (Adobe Suite) for a little over two years - started with Snow Leopard via tonycrap, migrated to Lion when I got a new PC, and am ready to take the plunge into Mountain Lion, for its added GFX card capabilities. Being in film production, a Hackintosh was a no-brainer - the only alternative to a $4000 Mac Pro, in an industry almost completely dominated by Apple hardware. Needless to say, although I love Apple build-quality (typing this on a Macbook Pro, Retina!) the pricing in South Africa is just ludicrous, and I think we all know that you can get a lot more bang-for-your-buck if you build your own PC. I found Lion to be incredibly tricky to install, considering my GTX 570... Getting full graphics to work was stretching the limits of my already limited OSX knowledge, but eventually (using a combination of forums, guides, Youtube and luck!) I built a perfectly working Lion box, complete with Nvidia CUDA, Firewire 800, a home-built WIFI card (using a Airport mini-PCI bought on ebay!). The box has been running solidly for a year or so, even updating to new Lion versions every now and again. I've been using Macs and PCs for... what feels like forever, and although I wouldn't consider myself an expert in any one particular field (no heavy programming experience), reckon I'm a jack-of-all-trades, and can figure things out pretty quickly - not afraid to use Google! Keen to get Mountain Lion up and running, heard good things about it and my GTX 570. My specs: Mobo: Z68X-UD4-B3 CPU: i7 2600K RAM: 16gb Patriot Sector 5, DDR3 GFX: Gainward GTX 570 Phantom Optical: Sony Optiarc PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro 800w
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