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However, I just finished installing Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro and it turns out I get exactly the same result with Snow Leopard on this genuine Mac as I do with Snow Leopard on my Hack both with video cards that ought to support Quartz Extreme. When I installed Snow Leopard on that same system the Graphics/Display info didn't even have Quartz Extreme listed. Notice that it reports 'Supported' as to the status of Quartz Extreme. I went back to Leopard on my Hack, and this is what it looks currently looks like: Then if you select 'Graphics/Display' from the left pane of the Profiler window you'll get a system info report in the right pane about your display hardware. Well, in Leopard and Snow Leopard you can select the Apple icon on the left side of the menu bar, then select 'About this Mac' then click 'More Info' to open System Profiler.

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Can you do a screen print and show me where to look in the system properties? I'll be in MAC mode after some Photoshopping on the PC gets done in a hour or so. QE - I'm not in the Hack box at the moment. Haven't had a chance to try digital out yet though. The article mentions a small settings change that I made and it's all good. Your milage may vary.Īre sound and Quartz Extreme working for you? There are people who say they just did a simple 'update driver' method in XP and they had the AHCI option there already, but that wasn't the case for me.

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Prior to all this I also found methods of shoehorning AHCI drivers into XP after it was installed. I can confirm Win 7 圆4 installs fine with AHCI enabled in the BIOS. I've read too many different methods of installing Radeon HD's and can't really make heads or tails out of any of them.

I believe they stuck pretty close to the reference design to need anything special in the driver.

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I'm gonna back up my iTunes and iPhoto libraries and wait for a way to install SL along with the XFX HD4870 Radeon. Lets have some love for the Radeon users among us, as I had to rip a lowly 8800 GT 512MB (XFX) out of a media PC in my other room to get this to work. I disabled NTFS-3G and remounted the NTFS volume with disk utility and it mounted fine, and I was able to read only.ĭid you use the same hardware configuration as the guide?īy far the most concise, easy to understand retail method I've ever followed! A million thanks to the genius's that put this together. I tried installing NTFS-3G and when I booted into SL, I got an error about mounting a volume and not having the right kexts. I'm thinking about just going with windows7 which should be able to support ahci out of the box.Ģ. I haven't been able to install winxp yet since I don't have a floppy disk drive (since AHCI is necessary for SL, XP doesn't have the drivers for the intel SATA chip). I haven't had a problem yet, but I also haven't used the system in much depth.ġ. Crazy easy.Īlso, notice the second revision of the article, where the chameleon and pc_efi setup are automated into a script. It only took me 30 mins to setup bios, install SL, and be browsing firefox in SL. I did this with the exact hardware configuration (except different brand of RAM), and had no problems with SL.

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Other than those two things, everything seems to be working perfectly.Īnyone else use this guide? If so, how have things gone? Also, anyone have any ideas about how to get QE and sound working with this setup?Įdit: The article is here in case you missed it in the body of the text: Second, it appears that Quartz Extreme isn't working as it isn't reported in 'System Profiler' under the 'Graphics/Display' section. I've only noticed two problems since booting into SL. It wasn't clear to me from the outset that it would work on different hardware than the hardware the author used, but after following the instructions I was able to complete a retail installation of Snow Leopard without any installation trouble at all. However, I decided to give this recent lifehacker guide a try. I've been using various Hackintosh distributions for several years with a lot of success, and have been avoiding the retail installations because the whole process seemed daunting.