Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Hardware requirements for a Hackintosh

...... setting your SATA type

The exact requirements for what is needed to configure a Hackintosh are subject to much debate.

I am of the opinion that is more than a hardware requirement in as far of what the specs and settings are, rather the ability to be able to configure the hardware that you have to allow the installation and operation of the Apple operating system.

Many websites and forums will give you a list of requirements but sadly there are other agendas at play here.

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A list of the requirements for a Hackintosh (LifeHacker):
  1. Robust Graphics Booster → Auto
  2. CPU Reference → Auto
  3. DRAM Channel B Reference → Auto
  4. The Date and Time -------- ???????? Duh!
  5. HDD Boot Priority → USB Flash Drive ---- This is kind of fundamental, you want to boot from an external drive. This applies to the installation of ANY operating system.
  6. SATA RAID/AHCI → AHCI
  7. ACPI Suspend Type → S3(STR)
  8. Reset Open Case Status → Disabled
  9. PCI IRQ Assignment → Auto (actually this was shown in error on the BIOS screen as PC11 - the default PCI IRQ assignment for PCI Video adapters.

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