Guide: Hackintosh with Asus P5KC
If you read my previous post you will know that this afternoon I have spent a little while (re)installing MacOS on my PC hardware. The reason is due to a harddrive corruption on the previous install. I do not place the blame for this on the software I am going to tell you to use, but mostly the choice of drivers that I had installed. I would warn you off the drivers in question, but I stupidly neglected to take any notes on my last installation. This time I did not!
Hardware
The hardware I am installing on is as follows:
- Asus P5KC
- Intel Q6600
- 4GB Geil Ram
- NVidia 8800GTX
Software
There are a few choices for which installer to use when installing MacOS on PC hardware. The one I chose was iAtkos, mostly because I already had a DVD burned lying around but I'm sure last time there was an educated reason for it. The following Guide uses iAtkos 5.0i 10.5.5. I'm not going to offer a download link but if you're creative you should be able to find it pretty easily..
Method
This is not a step-by-step guide. I am merely typing my notes up into readable form in the hope that it is of to some use to somebody. For a step-by-step guide or more information about the osx86 project visit their wiki.
So....
The DVD booted without any problems, I loaded the setup, chose Utility > Disk Utility. I then created a partition and set on my way.
I chose my new partition as the install location and then hit next. On the next screen I chose Customize and this is where the important stuff is chosen.
I am not going to go into details as to what every option does (mostly because I don't know) but there are descriptions for each on the install disc.
Bootloader:
PC-EFi
X86 Patches:
- Decrypters
Appledecrypt
- Enablers
SmBios Enablers
-Removepowermanagement
-OHR
Drivers:
- VGA
-- Nvidia
NVinject
Efi Strings > 8xxx
- System
Sata/IDE
NTFS -3G
Once you have chosen these options (or different if you have slightly different hardware), run the installer and let it reboot. If all has gone well you should be able to Sleep, Shutdown and Reboot. For my the P5KC onboard lan and sound is missing. As I don't use onboard sound you'll have to use your initiative. Lan drivers however can be found here.
I am now installing updates to 10.5.6 and then will quest to re-find my soundcard drivers. I hope this information is useful to you.
Stephen
P.S.
is it disc or disk?!
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December 2nd, 2009 - 11:46
Stephen,
Found your blog when I was searchin for hackintosh info on P5KC setups. Was inspired to give it a go. I used iATKOS v7 (Leopard 10.5.7 install) – all went very well but could only boot in safe mode – turned out to be my graphics card, so swapped with an older ATi card I had in a box now OK in normal boot but card not recognised so on hunt for kexts.
Just wanted to say I upgraded to 10.5.8 and installed Voodoo HDA sound drivers from iATKOS install disc and sound working great.
I followed your link for network driver and can’t remember if that one or other one I found worked – thanks for link anyway. Was good to know there are other folk out there having a crack at creating a hackintosh.
All good.
December 2nd, 2009 - 18:43
As you can see by my other posts, this has not been all plain sailing, and a Hackintosh box is alot more high-maintenance than a proper Mac. All in all though, I really enjoy using it and think that the investment of time required is paid off completely
January 8th, 2010 - 08:27
Have you had any experiance with 10.5.8 or 10.6? I;ve got both installed in my setup which includes the p5kc, However, sleep and restart is a major issue and does not work. It worked when I had 10.5.6 up and running. I’ve looked everywhere for solutions but kexts like openhaltrestart etc. dont work. You know any way to fix this on the p5kc? thanks
January 8th, 2010 - 13:49
Hey..
My system is 100% upgradeable and I am using I believe 10.5.8 currently.
I did have issues with sleep/shutdown but installed OHR (OpenHaltRestart) and they seem to have disappeared. I never use the sleep functionality so I can’t remember for sure but it definately shuts down, restarts and boots perfectly