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The Problem: The computer does not boot up consistently. It stalls at the Apple logo with the progress bar at the halfway stage. But a few times I have managed to get past the stall stage and to the password prompt to get the operating system running. When I get into the system it is unstable...

For sake of anyone reading the thread, to clarify: This is not a keyboard problem. When the original keyboard stopped working the system still booted up to a password prompt as it normally does. What caused the problem was doing the Power Button + Command key combination. As soon as I did that...

Until I spilled coffee on the keyboard last month I used the system weekly since its build years ago. It just has not been updated because I did not want to risk causing a chain of problems rendering it inoperable. Over the years I have installed and saved many different things but have also not...

Have an old build Hackintosh running Yosemite 10.10.5. Had to replace Bluetooth keyboard damaged by coffee spill. System did not recognize new keyboard (identical keyboard just not yet paired) and I could not enter password at log in prompt. Looked in Apple Support Forum and someone recommended...

Just wonder whether you have tried booting up with the Firewire device connected and on as opposed to hot swapping it in? Anyway, in the process of building my system I started over several times for various reasons. I found that each build presented different problems. The same problems didn't...

No one would encounter the problem if everyone prevented it from happening in the first place. Enough people do encounter the problem to justify taking action in advance as part of the installation routine to prevent it from occurring. It is like immunization against a disease. Some people don't...

I'll help someone in the same boat. I can do a lot of things but anything that resembles code is mind boggling to me. I looked through the approach using Clover and it is much more complicated. Using the Unibeast/Multibeast option is the easiest especially because it was used by the build...

I had to start over and reinstall everything because of an initial problem with the SATA controller ports. I got to the point where I switched over from the built in CPU graphics to my add-on GPU. Everything was working. I connected a HDD storage drive, optical drive, WIFI card and firewire...

Mouse freezing I had everything up and running on the same hardware then began reinstalling everything in order to use different SATA controller ports. This time around the mouse keeps freezing and I have to reboot. It began with Multibeast. As soon as I rebooted after that the mouse would be...

Multibeast installs a series of adjustments with replacement files to get hardware to work with OS X and Apple. If this is an OS X utility problem cannot something be done to automatically insert the correction............one that would detect individual drive/volume names underneath the made up...

I went through all of the suggested procedures. I have my ethernet card working and can bring up the App Store but I cannot log into my account. I tried creating a new account thinking that your account could be tied to hardware it was established with but I cannot create a new account...

Solution 2 does not work when your other system is not running the same generation of OS X because you cannot run Multibeast for Yosemite on anything other than Yosemite. At this point in time, 2015, why hasn't Multibeast been updated to compensate for this problem so that people don't have to...

I am building a system based on Sballer's design using the same motherboard. For some reason it detects the SATA drives in bios mode but it doesn't detect the SATA drives to boot or target for OS installation. I removed a drive and formatted it in another system. It recognized it when...

Regarding the POST: Is the pretest of parts outside the case the time when you permanently mount the CPU cooler? I have not seen it confirmed in videos but it seems like it would need to be or else you would have to make sure you have extra thermo paste and isopropyl alcohol on hand for...

That is encouraging. I am excited to get everything up and running.

Adding a Sticky of what you just posted would serve to fill the void. The step should at least be mentioned. My build shares many similarities to Spballer's. I completed as much as I could of the USB OS installer while waiting for parts and his instructions seemed to skip assembling the...

Tonymacx86.com has been around for a while and no one has thought to change it. I guess this is just too obvious and unnecessary. But I am playing this very naively. I only saw Stickies within the sections I would have categorized this topic. This is not exactly the right place to post this...

I don't see how that is true. A room with 6 fans moving at a slower rpm efficiently distributed so there is a coordinated flow of air will have better ventilation than a room with one fan at a higher rpm. Cannot see how it would be different with fans and a case. People add fans so they can run...

Some people run both Windows and OS X. I have not set up a dual boot system and am currently building my first hackintosh so I will leave this aspect of drive organization to others. Generally speaking with music systems, the same concept suits design systems as well, you have your operating...

Xave57, If you choose this route keep in mind that multiple SSD's generate a considerable amount of heat. brado32, Which fanless CPU cooler did you choose? Which PSU? Thank you