It's not difficult- the only thing I did on my Gigabyte board besides setting Boot Priority to CD/DVD first was set Optimized Defaults, change SATA to AHCI mode, and set HPET to 64-bit mode. Make sure your bios settings match these.
This is the most important step, and one many people overlook. You will need to set your BIOS to ACHI mode and your Boot Priority to boot from CD-ROM first. It's best to use an empty hard drive- you will have to partition and format the drive.Īlways back up any of your important data. If using a Gigabyte 1156 board, use the blue Intel SATA ports- not the white Gigabyte SATA ports. Remove any PCI cards besides graphics- they may not be Mac compatible. Remove any USB peripherals besides keyboard and mouse. Remove any hard drives besides the blank drive -g used for OS X. Use only 1 graphics card in the 1st PCIe slot with 1 monitor plugged in. You can put back any extra RAM in after the installation process. If you have greater than 4gb of RAM, remove the extra RAM for a maximum of 4gb.
It's easy to get frustrated, but don't give up! There are a community of users with similar hardware in the tonymacx86 Forum to provide support if you get stuck. Patience and humility- it may not work out perfectly the first time- but with enough tenacity and grit, you'll reach the promised land. To leave any fear of your computer at the door. Tested on a PC Intel board to build a Hackintosh.
You will need DL DVD and a DVD burner capable to burn this ISO on a DL DVD These file will be extracted in ISO file can be burned by all OS (Win/Mac/Linux) Also, if you want to be able to view USB devices from your Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machine, download the and run it before going to Step 2.Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6 Retail DVD ISO l 4.4 GB Step 1: Prep Download, install it, and open it up. ($20): The method used by this guide requires the retail DVD for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. As usual, you have to register on to download these tools. Technically, any boot CD for Mac OS X will work, and you don't need Multibeast to install (the main componen of Easybeast), but we'll use tonymacx86's tools for the sake of convenience.
General Requirements In addition to a good computer that uses an Intel processor, you need these following three things to run Mac OS X on Windows.: This virtualization suite is free (unlike VMWare), and though it doesn't offer official support for Mac OS X, it works well enough.: You need tonymacx86's boot CD to boot the Mac OS X installer, and Multibeast to enable Virtualbox to boot OS X without iBoot later on. This guide does not cover AMD processors, as they make Mac OS X more difficult to set up.
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