Toni Sirkiä

OK ... Try to keep it as simple, as I can ... Acer Aspire 7720Z - Laptop ; Mountain Lion installed on an external USB - hard-drive, because Disk Util's not detecting my internal SATA HDD (formatted as GPT, Mac OS X Extended) . When I installed the OS, the SATA drive was there, but I could not make any changes to it (I had to remove it from the laptop, and use an external SATA - USB enclosure / dock to format it) . Now, as Mountain Lion is installed on this external USB - drive I'd like to clone it to the internal drive, but the internal SATA - drive's nowhere to be found . Please HELP me OUT . (): / Toni .

Hi ... Exactly, what to do ? As stated I boot of a Sonoma USB - Disk . Should I make those changes (bootloader, kexts) on it, or the system drive and what kexts ?

Hi ... Trying to upgrade from Sequoia 15.7.3 (24G419) to Tahoe 26.2 Stuck on, "console relocated to 0x7f80000" I'm booting off / via a Sonoma USB - disk and selecting maOS Installer . The same issue happened, when I tried to installed from a Olarila Tahoe - USB Disk, that was successfully created with Balena Etcher on Windows 11 . Here's an image / photo in JPG - form, to describe the problem . https://drive.google.com/file/d/13XJnNisC7YyMpG2GLAOnvVPgSYmtngVx/view?usp=sharing Help Needed, ASAP . / <T>

Curious to know, whether this laptop is suitable for hackintosh use at all . Not sure about the specific model, though ... I know the CPU is clocking at 1.5 GHz and on board there is 6 GBs of RAM . Graphics Card is an AMD Radeon, dunno something . I could go as far back as Yosemite or even Sno Leo . Just let me know, if it's possible with this legacy hardware . / T .

Hi ... I have this ancient laptop, that I'd like to install a hackintosh OS on . The laptop is 64 Bit ready and it has 2GBs of RAM onboard, so bearing this in mind is it possible to install any version of macOS on this laptop . Could I install for example Snow Leopard on it, or would it be possible to install any of a more "modern" version of macOS on it ? / T .

Ok ... Just to get my Avid Pro Tools (latest version) working I needed to upgrade from Big Sur to Ventura ; The operation went nice and smooth, but I lost my MSI GeForce GT710 Graphics . I knew this issue would happen as I've been in the same situation in the past . So, now I'd need some help in order to get my Graphics back ... I'm about to go to Sequoia ... So, if somebody has a workaround with this in mind . I know about AMFI, SIP and Open Core Legacy Patcher, but haven't had much of a luck with patching the Graphics / Kepler ?!? About This Mac.png.zip

Anyone willing to help me in order to get my nVIDIA GT 710 working on Sequoia 15.2 . Is there something else to be done in add to injecting the correct boot args to the config.plist - file ? The OS is working quite well, but I need full graphics to get my Waves plugins working ; at the moment they don’t display the GUIs at all . My setup is : MSI Z390 A-PRO Intel i3 CPU 32 GB RAM nVIDIA / MSI GT 710

Hi ... I almost got it made ; REAPER / LUNA open, but I get no input signal, metronome is working, etc. but no sound input . No sign of these apps in System Prefs / Microphone . I've tried running tcutil Microphone Reset and booted to Recovery Mode / run csrutil enable after which I lose my display ; Boots to no video signal so I have to keep SIP disabled for my MSI GT710 to work .

Hi ... I have a working Ventura - install here . What is the possibility of losing my system, if I do a software update to Sonoma ? Will I lose my working MSI GT710 Graphics or such ? When I try to boot from a USB-stick I can't even get to the GUI-part of the setup . (): In add. I have only a few GBs free on my main / system drive . Is it possible to change the location, where the temporary software update / Sonoma - download / installer files are going to be saved / stored ? / Toni .

I have compatible version of OCLP now open ; When I go to Post-Install Menu it says, Available patches : Nvidia Kepler Cannot patch due to the following reasons : SIP is enabled (Required :0x803 or higher) Currently Booted SIP : (0x67) AMFI is enabled . How I can pass this ? / T .

Hi ... How can I get full graphics support for my MSI GT710 GPU on Ventura ? At the moment it say as Display 7 MB in, "About This Mac" . How do I proceed ? / T .

I get error message in the early stage ; Can't even get to the GUI - part of boot / install . Check the image in the zip / attachment . I've tried 2 x USB-flash drives ; one USB-2 and the other USB-3 and various ports on this Desktop PC . panic.zip

Hi ... I get to the initial set up screen, but when I go to Utils / Disk Utility there's no trace of my internal SATA-drive . I've tried selecting between both SATA - modes (AHCI / IDE) in BIOS ; I've tried two SATA - drives one is a FUJITSU 160GB and the other one is a Seagate 250GB . Both of the drives are formatted / blank and in GPT - format . Something's strange here . HELP ME OUT !!!

I have this setup working, but now I'd need my Philips TV for other tasks . So ... Is there any chance to get the standard VGA-port working on this Hackintosh ? At the moment I'm using the HDMI - out to the TV . I'd need to be able to use a standard P'n'P / VGA - monitor . Possible at all ?

Hi ... I tried to boot of a usb - stick burnt with Olarila Mountain Lion.raw used Etcher on Windows 11 ; The flashing went smoothly til the end, but the notebook does not boot from the stick, it boots straigth to Windows, though I select the usb - stick as the boot device from BIOS / POST - options list .

Video card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 8MB of dedicated system RAM Up to 350MB of shared system RAM

CPU speci­fications: Intel Pentium Dual-Core Mobile T2310 1.46 GHz, FSB 533 MHz, L2 1 MB Intel Pentium Dual-Core Mobile T2330 1.6 GHz, FSB 533 MHz, L2 1 MB Chipset: Intel GL960 Express

Is it possible to install any version of macOS on this notebook ? If yes, then what's the latest version, that will run on it ; It's capable of x64 .

Hi ... Working Big Sur here ; Just wondering will I lose my graphics if I do a software update from Big Sur to Sonoma . Graphics Card / Controller MSI (nVIDIA) GT710 . Working fully at the moment .

OK ... Got Mavericks 10.9 installed ... now the only issue is how to boot without the installer USB-disk . When I try to boot from the internal SATA-drive it fails . Is it as easy as copying / pasting the efi folder from Clover on the USB-disk to the efi partition on the internal disk ? Or how can I accomplish this ?

Can You please tell me what version I should go for ? ; That would run "smoothly" ?

Model Acer emachines ET1870 Processor Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.30 GHz Processor Codename Sandy Bridge Processor Package Socket 1155 LGA L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 L3 Cache 6144 KB Motherboard Acer M1930 Northbridge Intel Sandy Bridge 09 Southbridge Intel H61 B3 BIOS American Megatrends Inc. P01-A4 Memory 8.00 GB Display / Graphics Controller AMD / Radeon HD 6450 Internal SATA 320 GBs / GPT

Is it even possible to install Catalina on this PC ... so I don't waste any more time or hair (): Currently it halts on End Random Seed and then a reboot . I have tried all USB - ports . I created the install media using TransMac and the disk boots to Clover, but not any further .

I had a working Ventura - install, but I needed to disable SIP . Now I'm not getting to the desktop at all . I know the graphics card is working ; I have a Windows 11 - installation on another disk on this same PC, that I'm typing on . I can see the Apple - logo, and HDDs are "spinning", but when it gets to the stage of loading the desktop there's no video signal . HELP ASAP, - T -

To what file ? don’t want to type those args each time I boot to Ventura / macOS .