I installed original vanilla leopard with chameleon efi emulation
and then update to 10.5.4 using official patch

Everything Worked out of the box except for Video Card, Lan and Ps2 port

There is a packaged kext update for my mobo, after applying it reboot voila its done

installed ntfs-3g and loads of software


My Current Cpu Spec

Intel Quad Core Xeon X3220 6MB Cache
Gigabyte GA- EP35 - DS4
Kingston DDR2 667 1GB x 4 <-- Getting performance ram soon
Sapphire Ati 2600xt 256MB <-- Maybe i should cross fire it or get 2x 4780
Panasonic Burner Sata
WD HDDS, 640GB, 500GB, 250GB x2 , 200GB : Sata and Pata


it detected my CPU as Mac Pro lol

Maybe should get 3 raptor and raid 5 them

Overall its super stable never had to reboot or hang or crash before
Can shutdown, Can sleep can reboot without a problem

only issue i encounter is the network card, sometime i need to refresh or renew dhcp to go online i think its driver issues maybe a linksys pci wifi card will solve this issue

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Added on September 10, 2008, 3:03 amAdd in some shots of my ugly desktop





This post has been edited by jaya_pc87: Sep 10 2008, 03:03 AM

i think its the processor not the graphic card
i tried it on my pentium D also using my previous spec and had the same issues or maybe i am wrong here
officially osx only support core2duo onwards

so i cant really say whats the issue here

try using the utility made by nice people at insanely mac there to install ur graphic card driver maybe it will work well

thx i didnt know i had the perfect board for the setup initially i had this board for over half a year now just recently only i upgraded my processor and it become a perfect hackintosh setup

now i remembered one problem in leopard! which needed serious fixing the usb uhci bus issue


as for the ps2 port there is an utility dedicated for gigabyte motherboard did the trick fixing my ps2 port, i had tried tons of plist and kext hack which didnt work at all and this solved the problem

i really hope the on board lan issues can be solved in the future

as for vmware i havent test it out yet
i fixed them by installing latest kext taken from apple developer thx to insanely mac again
now my Philips USB sound card works perfectly out of the box together with my bluetooth and any other usb devices

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Added on September 10, 2008, 8:44 amthere isnt any 10.5.4 retail torrent out there

just 10.5.2 or 10.5.1 if not mistaken

so need to manually patch them to latest version

one thing good about mac os x is u can install and patch directly from one leopard to another leopard

i can use my current leopard to install a clean leopard in an empty hdd then patch it and then later apply chameleon efi on it and then boot from it

after all that done just use the utility created for your motherboard or manually patch the kext files then fix permission, delete cache reboot and launch back again in -v -f mode to force install all drivers


if u guys are lazy and willing to take some risk ( easy way out to *clean* install)



only try the way above if u have a test machine dont try it on your current daily use os x i cant gurantee if it will work i tested it out a couple of times in my rig and it worked out well
( step 3- 5, I used gigabyte utility that did all of this with just a few click of mouse buttons) and its running stable for few days now without any issues

the real plain install also works fine with my installation

*I am not responsible if it doenst works!

This post has been edited by jaya_pc87: Sep 10 2008, 08:44 AM

More than enough to support Leopard 10.5.4

Give a try to iatkosv4i or Kalway
get them from the green demon

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Added on September 11, 2008, 2:27 ambe carefull latest osx update might break down your osx, it disabled my ps2 keyboard completely! lucky i just had to repatch it only

This post has been edited by jaya_pc87: Sep 11 2008, 02:27 AM

^depending on users pref i guess and a little of luck also

so far my hackintosh never crashed *touch wood
all the software installation was done in a breeze and works well

this apps works without any issue and i really can see the differences for adobe programs under mac environment compared to windows

1. ilife
2. iworks
3. microsoft office 2008 mac edition
4. adobe cs3 suite

i tried using iatkos

now i install directly on my disk direct clean install of osx and then only customized the os for my own pc spec

10.5.5 update out downloading now should be one click install only maybe need to remove the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext only

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Added on September 16, 2008, 2:55 pmya i installed iatkos boot in then follow the chameleon efi guide to install clean mac osx directly into my hdd then install the updates on it and then did some patching for graphic card + audio and booted into it without any issues

This post has been edited by jaya_pc87: Sep 16 2008, 02:55 PM

installled iatkos first then install retail cuz to do retail leopard installation u need another leopard to do the installation

so i use iatkos as a temp os just to boot in to install the retail one

the Green demon my fren

check the osx86 successful database wiki

u will get plenty of info from there fren

by right your graphic card should be easy at insanely mac there is a driver patch for ur graphic card

best if u guys have a mac to start the installation
or a bootable live mac
or pre installed mac osx on a separate hdd

to do a clean install, where you dump the modified kext into osx hidden efi partition and install boot efi on it

using this method can solve lots of issue and make updates easy

how about ati cards? 4890 to control fan speed

I managed to install 10.5.7 with QE/CI Enabled on my ATI 4890

Current pc Spec
Quad Core Xeon 3220
Gigabyte EP35-DS4
(8GB) 2GB x4 DDR800Mhz
Sapphire ATi Radeon 4890 OC Edition
Dell 30 Inch LCD ( 2560x 1600)
Linksys PCI Wifi 54G

I used Live cd Boot method using Chameleon RC2 and patched the boot0 file to latest from netkas
all the kext taken from tons of various sources here & there and worked things out
Using Linksys Wifi Card which was detected default as AirPort
Used the voodoo ps2 kext to enable my old wireless ps2 keyb


Only current issue is Sleep not working and i cant control the graphic card fan speed. Hope it can change by itself automatically!
Tested WOW with 4xAA @ 2560x1600 and it ran fine
Gonna test few other Mac Games now

thx for that temp monitor linkn

already did the patching too can sleep cant wake up @__@
at the moment only ati issue i am worried is with ati graphic card fan speed