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You can check your motherboard's BIOS version straight from the BIOS itself, or you can check with CPU-Z (if you already have Windows installed). Make sure that your motherboard has the right BIOS version, or the DSDT file won't work. For example, a DSDT file for version F4 won't work if your motherboard has version F1.

If your motherboard has a DSDT file available in the DSDT section of, download it onto a USB drive along with the Combo Update and Multibeast.

A DSDT file for your motherboard (Free): DSDT files are configuration files that customize Mac OS X to work with your specific motherboard.

Be sure to download the Lion edition, not the Snow Leopard edition. You need to register an account on to download Multibeast. Download it onto a USB drive, along with the combo update.

Multibeast Lion Edition (Free): Multibeast is a collection of kext files that your Hackintosh will need to run properly, after the initial installation.

To burn DVDs, you need an empty DVD disc and a DVD/Bluray burner (just about every DVD/Bluray drive nowadays can act as a burner, too). You will need to burn iAtkos onto a DVD, and boot your computer from that DVD to install Mac OS X. The standard method for installing Mac OS X Lion requires you to modify a retail copy of Mac OS X Lion with Unibeast, but iAtkos already does all of this for you. I won't go into details, but you can download it from just about any bittorrent website by using a bittorrent client (it's about 4 GB in size).

iAtkos L2: This is a popular distro of Mac OS X Lion.

Additionally, AMD processors do no work with Lion because there is no legacy kernel. For instance, Lion is a 64-bit operating system, meaning that old 32-bit processors like Intel Pentium no longer work. Be sure to read the Hackintosh compatibility guide very carefully, to check whether or not your computer qualifies. Mac OS X Lion has several new hardware requirements, compared to Snow Leopard.

A compatible computer: Not every computer will work with Mac OS X, even with modified versions of OS X.

The process of installing a distro is very similar to the standard methods of installing Mac OS X. NOTE: This guide is essentially a combination of my guides on installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard, installing Mac OS X Lion, and installing Lion in a virtual machine. If you don't have any qualms with the legal issues regarding distros, they're actually a very convenient way to set up a Hackintosh. Distros are pirated copies of Mac OS X that have been modified to work with a PC. If you're installing Mac OS X on your PC for the first time, and you just want to jump straight to Lion without the inconvenience of installing Snow Leopard, you could use a distro instead.

However, to follow the Unibeast method, you have to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on your Hackintosh before installing Lion. Last week, we explained how to install Mac OS X Lion with the standard Unibeast method.

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