The Problem
When using a Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, or any other Bluetooth pointing device with your Hackintosh, the cursor keeps jumping to the top-left corner of the screen. The console should be displaying errors like this:
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Category Archives: Mac/Hackintosh
Cannot boot Hackintosh with GTX 980 or 970?
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8000379458): "a freed zone element has been modified in zone kalloc.64: expected 0xdeadbeefdeadbeef but found 0xdeadbeef00000000, bits changed 0xdeadbeef, at offset 48 of 64 in element 0xffffff8037690d00, Debugger called: <panic> Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address ... : ... BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kextd
Simply going ahead and booting with the Maxwell-based Nvidia GPUs will likely cause problems. Whether it’s physically removing the graphics card, or switching to the integrated GPU in the BIOS, you need to temporarily disable it before the Nvidia Web Drivers are installed.
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Force "incompatible" applications to run in OS X
iMovie, iPhoto, Final Cut Pro and some other Apple apps wouldn’t run in Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Developer Preview…
Windows on non-Retina MBP WITHOUT OPTICAL DRIVE
This tutorial is useful to you only if you have an old Intel MacBook Pro WITHOUT the optical drive.
Hackintosh ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer
I’m sharing some information about my new Mavericks Hackintosh. For a more complete guide, go to this page on tonymacx86.com. This is just a summary walkthrough of basically what I did. Continue reading