6. Okay, so after that is done, put that hard drive, that you just copied the disk image to, into your PC, I think it might need to be set as master (anyone sure of this?). Boot up your PC! Go ahead! It will boot into OSX86! The password for the user account on the image you just copied to your hard drive is "bovinity" You are almost good to go. You will find that your computer is very slow and sluggish, this is because a file on your computer is trying find the TPM chip that is on the Intel Developer Machines. Read onto "Things Everyone Will Need to Do After Installing OSX86" for tips on how to fix this, plus other problems you are likely having.

Things Everyone Will Need to Do After Installing OSX86

Okay, so you have OSX86 on your computer, but you are having problems, such as having a fast computer, but OSX86 still acting sluggish (a HUGE problem a lot of people are having), or, even though you have a SSE3 CPU, you can't run PowerPC applications. Here are solutions to the problems almost everyone (if not everyone) is having. Since almost every one is having all of these problems I will write this part as one big guide, not a "do this if you have this problem" thing.

1. Fixing unexpected slowness. There is a file on all newly-installed OSX86 PCs called "AppleTPMACPI.kext," it tries to find a TPM chip that is only on the real Intel Developer Machines. It uses all system resources trying to accomplish its impossible task. Here is how to delete it:

Navigate you OSX86 Mac to this folder: "/System/Library/Extensions/" Delete the file "AppleTPMACPI.kext" in this folder, reboot. Your computer will spring to life.

2. If your motherboard has an Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 (like the motherboard recommended above) you will want to have Quartz Extreme and other video technologies enabled. The enable process is more than simple: go to the folder: /System/Library/Extensions on your OSX86 Mac and move the file in there called AppleIntel830.kext out of that folder (if it asks for your password: enter it. Don't know it? It's probably "bovinity"). Reboot your computer. That's it.

3. I have a SSE3 CPU but I can't run PowerPC applications (no iTunes)! Help! Okay, calm down. If you installed from "tiger-x86-flat.img" you have this problem. It's because that image has had SSE3 support patched-out. The file patched-out is called CoreGraphics. Here's how to fix it:

Download this file on your OSX86 Mac. It contains an un-patched CoreGraphics, double click the file to uncompress it. Rename the CoreGraphics file to CoreGraphics.bak Move the file (CoreGraphics.bak) to:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/\Versions/A

Go into Terminal, type "cd /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/\Versions/A" , then type:

chmod 755 CoreGraphics.bak - Hit "ENTER."

sudo chown root:wheel CoreGraphics.bak - Hit "ENTER."

sudo mv CoreGraphics CoreGraphics.i386 - Hit "ENTER."

sudo mv CoreGraphics.bak CoreGraphics - Hit "ENTER."

Okay, now just reboot your computer! After reboot, you computer will have better graphics, and

will be able to run PowerPC applications!

Okay, all of your basic problems should be resolved now. Having hardware-specific problems? Read

onto the "Hardware-Specific Problems" section.

Hardware-Specific Problems

Sound card not working right? Can't get high-rez screen resolutions? Can't use network card? There are possible fixes for all of these problems. If you are using the motherboard I recommended above, you should not have any hardware problems and should be good to go.

Sound Problems

Currently, there is a solution to bad sound through the AC97 chipset. Here is a solution.

Wireless Problems

A lot of wireless chipsets and cards and adapters don't work in OSX86, even if they work with real

Macs. This is because the drivers must be compiled for Intel. Some cards do work, though! And they work great! Go here for a page listing cards that work, and how to make them work. Some work is being done to get wireless cards that use the Airport chipset to work. Currently, some people are able to use wireless cards

with the Airport chipset, and some are not.

Also, wireless USB cards that use the RT2500 802.11b/g wireless chipset, by Ralink Technology, have full driver support on OSX86 (so WEP and WPA work). Cards that are known to work:

DWL-G122

BELKIN F5D7050 Wireless 802.11g

Get RT2500 802.11b/g wireless chipset drivers here! Get the Mac USB 10.4.X one.

Hard Drive Problems

Not all SATA controllers work, here is a list of the ones where support for them is built into OSX86:

AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext

ICH5 Serial ATA Controller

ICH6 Serial ATA Controller

ICH6-M Serial ATA Controller

AppleVIAATA.kext

VIA SATA Controller

Hardware Name

8237 SATA

A discussion about this is going on here.

If you are using ATA for your hard drive in your OSX86 PC, and tasks that involve accessing a hard

drive are slow (A.K.A. Copying files, loading video game levels, saving files), there is a solution

to your problem that might be found here.

VIdeo Problems

If you have a video card that is a 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G Integrated Intel Media Accelerator, and you can't access different resolutions, you might find some help in this forum thread.

If you have an Intel GMA 915GM or 910 video card and you can't access high resolutions you might be able to find help in this forum thread. That forum thread also shows you how to activate Quartz Extreme on those cards

Hard Drive Configuration

Installed OSX86 on your PC using a disk image and can only use 6GBs of disk space? Want to share your NTFS partition with your Mac? Answers here.

Network Card Problems

If your network card did not start work automatically, there still may be help for you! Here is a forum thread about fixing some network card problems.

Run PowerPC Applications on SSE2

Here is a short guide with an amazing hack to help you run PowerPC applications on your SSE2 CPU, not

as good as a real SSE3 CPU, but it gets the job done.

Tips and Tricks

By now you should have a PC running OSX86 like a charm, but there is even more you can do to get things running smoother! Here are guides that cover quick tips and tricks:

Tips And Tricks - OSx86

Covers:

1 Use any USB printer drive

2 Get disk burning to work with non-Apple drives

3 Replace SSE3 with SSE2 Patch

4 Fixing Browser Plug-in Issues

5 Making Preview Display Correctly

6 Deadmoo's password

7 Deadmoo's root password

8 Console Login from within OSX

9 Getting Safari to work

10 Recover from application crashes

11 Messing with the boot options

12 Xcode and developer tools 2.2 preview 1

13 Make the CTRL Key the COMMAND key

14 Hard Drive Configuration

15 Wireless

SpeedBoost

This guide shows you some speed tweaks for OSX86, I already covered the major one with you, the other

 two are pretty specialized.

Other (useful) Guides

So, that guide not your style? If you want to install OSX86 along with Windows, directly off an install DVD, or some other exotic method their is probably a guide for you!

If you have a system with a hard drive that can not be erased this guide is for you!

Here is an excellent list of OSX86 installation guides.

I will be adding to my guide as often as possible. And also plan on making a new guide (based on my current guide) for Linux soon.

Useful Sites/Cool Ways to Use Your OSX86 PC

OS X x86 (Intel) - Downloads - Software Natively Compiled for OSX86 (Plug Alert: My site)

Darwine - Run Windows Applications Almost Natively on OSX86

Done

You have finished! It has been a surprisingly long journey from start to finish, I know, but we both made it! I hope your new Mac is working great, and you learned something along the way. Please feel free to add to this guide by emailing me at: sam@theplaceforitall.com I would also love to hear any success stories using this guide!

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