Wait a second, how did you do that if there’s no display output whatsoever? “Oh well we used an external graphic card”. I sent my motherboard to the online shop’s customer service (in the meantime, a month goes by) and rather unexpectedly they said that nothing was broken, that my m/b was running ok, only thing they did was to upgrade the BIOS. A defective batch of these two motherboards even if they are very common (and recommended to build hackintosh)? My case (a rather expensive Silverstone SG05) burning something on the board? Two motherboards, same model, different CPUs but really this should not matter, different cases. Then I went to Filippo’s house (owner of hackintosh B), replaced my motherboard with his, and blam, the hack is alive! So I’m happy because I know that it’s the motherboard that doesn’t work.Īnd then the next day Filippo calls, the same thing happened to his computer! Stuck on a black screen, the system doesn’t even load the BIOS. I had the cpu replaced from because I thought that was the only thing that could have failed, but when I tried the new one nothing changed.

Hackintosh A was the first one to die (alas, to enter a coma) it worked great for an entire week then one day I switched it on, could hear the fans whirring away, the hard drive starting up, but no output on the screen, so I couldn’t even get to the BIOS screen and do something. I updated the bios to F7 (h16nusb3.f7 from Gigabyte website), installed Lion 10.7.3 through Unibeast Lion 10.7.3. So I built these two hackintosh, one for me (A) one for a friend (B).Īs you can see, fairly standard builds following the hackmini example by tonymac. It was necessary to reinstall the bios and use an external graphic card to redirect the display because for some reasons the integrated HD3000 gpus were not working. Ok let me say that there’s a happy ending to this story: the motherboards were not dead but only in a coma. If computers were organic, I would have thought about some sort of mortal sickness. I was very happy about my hackintosh, everything going smooth and easy… until it all broke down and I was left with no computer for almost a month.Īnd what was even stranger was that also Filippo’s hackintosh, built at the same time as mine, went down only a few days after mine.

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