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More Hackintosh Progress

Hey,

Just a few quick updates on my [url=http://iatkos.wikidot.com/]iATKOS[/url] install.

It is fully updated to MacOS 10.5.6 (latest version)
After many hours of searching the internet I have found all of the drivers I need (M audio Delta, Nvidia 8800, Onboard LAN, etc etc)
I have installed Logic Studio 8 and it is fully functioning (minus the samples and stuff which I can get hold of quite easily)

And for the non-beleivers, here's a screenshot:
[url=http://www.groomi.net/files/hackintosh.tiff][img]http://www.groomi.net/files/hackintosh.tiff[/img][/url]

So yeah, it turns out that I am now going to be using Mac as my primary OS and windows will just sit at the start of my harddisk gathering dust incase I ever want to go and play GTA iV, or something else comes along that I cannot do inside Mr Mac.

Oh, if anyone knows how to make Logic 6.4.3 files work in Logic 8, please drop me a comment.

Cheers
Stephen

Greetings from my Hackintosh!

This blog comes to you from within safari, but not a windows port.. This is the real deal!

Today I managed to successfully get my PC hardware to run MacOS and as far as I can see, everything is working dandy. It boots fine, I've just managed to get my ethernet drivers in and after much MUCH difficulty earlier today my 8800GTX is functioning properly.

I am still unconvinced as to which will become my primary OS but for now, the geek in me is happy to dual-boot and my idea of installing UbuntuStudio has died.

I will be installing Logic8 and a few other goodies later but for now I'll just enjoy that I have done something against the grain today and it's actually worked!

If anyone has had any problems running MacOS on PC hardware or would like a guide on how I did it, please don't be shy to post in the comments!

Stephen

I want a MacPC :)

A few weeks ago I bought myself a new PC after finally admitting that my old Athlon 3800+ was obsolete.

I can't believe that I didn't blog that already but here's a quick run down of the specs:

Asus P5K-c
Intel CoreQuad Q6600
4GB Geil budget crap DDR2 RAM
Nvidia 8800GTX
Universal CPU Waterblock

Anyway.. After speaking to a lecturer today at college and toying with the idea of which OS to run, I've decided that I'm going to install Mac OS with [url=http://iatkos.wikidot.com/]iATKOS[/url] on this box alongside Windows XP and possibly [url=http://ubuntustudio.org/]Ubuntu Studio[/url].

I'm not sure which OS I will be using most frequently but after using Ubuntu for a week or two when my Athlon gave up the ghost, I realised that you can do pretty much anything in linux that you can in windows with the exception of games.

I'll post progress later tonight or possibly tomorrow after I've had a play in OSx to tell you guys how it went.

Stephen

Stop Windows Update from restarting your PC automatically

This morning I woke up to find my PC turned on. Not unusual you might think, but when you consider that I had been encoding a DVD with the program set to "Shut down when complete", it was.

What had happened (and seems to happen more and more often) was that windows had automatically updated it'sself and then restarted my PC. Not a big deal you might think, but it starts to be a big deal when you often go to sleep while your pc downloads and seeds torrents, or encodes avi files to DVD, it can quickly become very annoying and so I went in search of a way to disable it.

[b]Disable Automatic Restart[/b]

After a few minutes of rephrasing my problem in google a [url=http://www.aeonity.com/frost/remove-automatic-restart-after-windows-updates]solution was found[/url].

1: Click Start > Run.
2: Type "gpedit.msc" and press enter.
3: Navigate to "Local Computer Policy" > "Computer Configuration" > "Administrative Templates" > "Windows Components" > "Windows Update"
4: Double click the entry "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations"
5: Select "Enabled" from the three options and press OK.
6: Close all open windows and restart your computer. Automatic updates should now run without automatically restarting your PC and giving control back to you.

I hope this helped someone because it was invaluable to me
Stephen

Order start menu alphabetically

After years, probably, of having 3 or 4 columns of start menu programs all of which are installeds in no-particular order, I have finally gotten sick of struggling to find the program I want to launch. Again, I set about [url=http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=order+start+menu+alphabetically&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a]googling[/url] for a solution and found one on [url=http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com]www.softwaretipsandtricks.com[/url]. Here it is:

When you move programs around in your WindowsXP start menu, the OS will stop arranging it when you add new software. This happens when you move items from your user start menu to the all users start menu. Here is the fix:

1. Open regedit (Start -> Run. Type regedit)
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu\Menu OR HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\Menu
3. Remove the order key by right clicking and going to delete.
4. Log out then back in.