Hackintosh Build

I finally had the chance to build my first Mac (Hackintosh)!

Here I'm posting my specs and the drivers I used to get my build to work in the hopes of saving someone some time in the future who might be using similar hardware.

Machine specs:

• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L (rev. 2.3)
• CPU: 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7400
• Graphics: nVidia Geforce 8600 GTS (256MB)
• RAM: 2x1GB 666MHz DDR2
• HDD: 320 GB Seagate SATA

Install steps:

1. Installed from the Mac OSX Lion (10.7) DVD
2. Get kexts package Multibeast 4.7.0 (http://www.tonymacx86.com/downloads.php)
3. Run Multibeast, using the following options:
• DSDT-Free Installation
• Miscellaneous - FakeSMC
• Network - Atheros - Shailua's ALXEthernet v1.0.2
• Bootloaders - Chimera v.11.1 r1394
• Boot Options - 64-bit Apple Boot Screen
4. Don't restart! Run a terminal and do sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntel* to prevent CPU power management related errors on boot up
5. Then sudo nano /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist and add npci=0x3000 PCIRootUID=1 to Kernel Flags (wouldn't pick up my graphics card otherwise)
6. Add -v to Kernel Flags as well to enable verbose boot
7. Now restart

That's all! The only problem I've had so far is that the on-board sound device (Realtek) is not recognized, but isn't too big a deal for me since all my audio devices are USB interfaced and they work fine without additional drivers.