Thursday, January 8, 2015

Updating The 2009 LifeHacker QuadCore Hackintosh to Yosemite

Hi Folks, being house poor, I can not afford to upgrade my desktop hardware. :(

I am still rocking the 2009 GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P freshened up with a USB 3.0 card

I have a prior post on how to upgrade to Mavericks from Snow Leopard.

Do the prep work outlined here by TonyMacx86.com

I am short on some of the boot parameters to get it running & I apologize.

You definitely need:
GraphicsEnabler=Yes, PCIRootUID=1

I have added a ORICO PVU3-5O2U USB3.0 card to my computer, paid $29 at the time

Post install, I was left with no audio & no working USB 3.0 here is the fix:

  • Get the kext Utility from hackintoshosx.com
  • Delete the USB 3.0 kext you may have installed with Multibeast ( TonyMacx86.com post )
  • Install the kext from the above post, but I did it with the kext utility
  • Download & install the two audio Kexts from hackintoshosx.com and install with the kext utility

This will get your Yosemite hackintosh with a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard running USB 3.0 & Audio

When you build a hackintosh, you do not get the Apple office suite & iMovie for free, you have to pay for them.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi! I have a hackintosh based on the same build that is chugging along great. I bought this USB 3 card based on your post but can't seem to get it to work. In system profiler it recognizes it as USB 3 but if I plug in a usb 3 device it draws no power and if i plug in a USB 2 device it draws power but doesnt mount. Thoughts? I used the kext from the tonymac.

Rich said...

Sounds like you have a bad board. :(