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Yeah! I have now a realHackintosh system with OS X 10.9 Mavericks. I just followed tonymacx86’s excellent guide (Install OS X Mavericks on Any Supported Intel-based PC) and that’s all… To tell the truth, if you don’t have the right hardware, you won’t be able to start the installation of OS X.

Having the no video issue with my 2009 Legacy Mac Pro. Got video once today when I swapped in my old Apple HD Cinema Display but blank on the next boot. Tried different cards (that worked previously) and startup drives. I am an IT guy so I knew to try swapping memory around. Have taken all cards except the video card out. Video Card Tester free download - Video Card Stability Test, Hot CPU Tester Pro, All Video Downloader, and many more programs. This video shows you how to figure out which graphics card your Mac has. Main Channel: http://www.youtube.com/gmanist1000.

From my MacBook Pro, I downloaded the 5GB-dmg file of OS X 10.9 and I created a bootable USB drive using UniBeast (one of the tonymacx86′ softwares). That was the easy part. Next step: the hardware.

The first configuration I tested included an ASUS Sabertooth Z77 motherboard + Sandy Bridge Core i5 2400 + Radeon HD 5770. Apparently, OS X does not appreciate this system because it was impossible to launch the installation from the USB drive. The Chimera boot screen was properly displayed but whatever the option I entered, the installer didn’t want to go further.

The Chimera boot screen

I tested -x, GraphicsEnabler=Yes or No, PCIRootUID=1 or 0, nothing to do. By the way, just press the DOWN arrow key at the Chimera boot screen to open the boot option menu and then type -x to open the boot option command line.

I tested a second motherboard, still from ASUS: the P8Z77-V. I managed to run the installer on the P8Z77-V with the following boot options: -x GraphicsEnabler=No

The Chimera boot options

After few minutes, the OS X installation screen finally appeared:

OS X installation

I completed the OS X 10.9 installation and Mavericks told me “Hello”:

OS X 10.9 Mavericks desktop

For OS X, this hackintosh is a Mac Pro Early 2008:

hackintosh = Mac Pro

The hackintosh configration is not yet over but I couldn’t resist to launch an OpenGL 4 test with GpuTest 0.6.0:

GpuTest OpenGL 4 demo

To complete the installation of the hackintosh, you have to launch MultiBeast (still from tonymacx86):

MultiBeast

MultiBeast allows to configure some drivers (audio, network, etc) and most important, it will make the hard disc bootable.

Here the detailed hardware specifications of my OSX 10.9 hackintosh:
– motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V
– CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K @3.5GHZ
– RAM: 8GB DDR3 Corsair
– videocard: MSI Radeon HD 5770 Hawk

This hardware is hackintosh compliant!

Hackintosh, OS X 10.9, ASUS P8Z77-V + Radeon HD 5770
GpuTest, FurMark test

Hackintosh, OS X 10.9, ASUS P8Z77-V + Radeon HD 5770, GLSL Hacker + GpuTest

The nice thing is that this hackintosh system allows me to plug two Radeon HD 5770 cards. Now I can update GLSL Hacker to correctly support virtual screens and multi-GPU systems…

The last thing I need to to is to buy a real Mac keyboard and a touchpad because the usual PC mouse and keyboard lack of some OSX features…

Update (2013.11.04): I replaced the second Radeon HD 5770 by a GeForce GTX 580. I can now test my 3D code on both AMD and NVIDIA hardware at the same time. Cool! I also added a Mac keyboard.

Hackintosh GeForce GTX 580 + Radeon HD 5770

Hackintosh GeForce GTX 580 + Radeon HD 5770, Unigine heaven + GLSL Hacker

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You may be having this issue with your video card > http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5167

I have what I'll call a similar issue right now. I'm taking it to Genius Bar and see if I 'qualify' for the replacement program. Hopefully it's not another issue.

I've tried PRAM and SMC reset. I've tried Disk Utility repairs, turning computer off for a few hours then checking. Seems that after a cold start (off for some time) I go about an hour before the screen starts to randomly go black.

Same as you I hit the power button once, tap enter and keyboard and back on again. Sometimes I do that 3 - 4 times then no issues but ever so often, randomly it happens yet again.

Heat Temperature may be a factor but not cause... Also folks have mentioned that changing the power supply has helped and others have suggested turning screen brightness down to around 50% has 'aleviated' the issue but not solved it.

No mention anywhere about Mavericks. I don't think that your issue. Or mine.

You can also do a Hardware Test > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509

Feb 21, 2014 10:58 AM

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