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Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

Come on, Kickstarter my heart!


Martytoof posted:

When you're installing your first hackintosh, write down or print out exactly what steps you are going to take. Six months or a year down the road you're probably not going to remember exactly what checkboxes you need to tick in Multibeast/etc, and if you ever need to re-do your install it can never hurt to have that information handy.

This cannot be emphasized enough. When I first started getting my Shuttle Hack going, I found a guide that said refer to another guide, which had steps taken from another guide that ended up being some guy's forum posting that he'd edited about 10 times in 2 days after claiming each step "Worked! (edit: not working, see next update)"

Really, the best advice to give to anyone who wants to try this: avoid AMD CPUs, avoid Celerons and Pentiums.

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Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

Come on, Kickstarter my heart!


Lazy Gun posted:

So, I have an ancient 1,1 Mac Pro that is getting just a little too old at this point. I was thinking about picking up a Dell XPS 8500 (i7, AMD 7870) to tide me over for the interregnum.
How is Egypt this time of year?

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

Come on, Kickstarter my heart!


Have you tried this first? It used to work on Leopard.
code:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
Then relaunch Finder or log out/log in.

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

Come on, Kickstarter my heart!


Excellent! What that does is rebuild the Launch Services database. Duplicate entries in there give you the symptoms you found.

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