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[SUCCESS] AsRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 + i5 2500k + GTX 660 TI

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Motherboard
AsRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
CPU
i5 2500K
Graphics
MSI GTX 660 Ti 2GB Power Edition
Mac
  1. MacBook Pro
Mobile Phone
  1. Android
COMPONENTS

AsRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
Intel Core i5 2500K
G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB
MSI 660 Ti Power Edition 2GB
Samsung 250GB SSD
Corsair H100i
Corsair 650W PSU
Corsair 500R White
TP-LINK TL-WN881ND
IOGear Bluetooth 4.0
Harman Kardon SoundSticks 3
Apple Wireless Keyboard
Logitech MX
LG DVD Burner

BEFORE THE BUILD

This machine was using OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 with UniBeast and MultiBeast early today. I tried installing with Clover/ Legacy, but it always failed getting to OS X installer, it loads the bootloader menu but after selecting “Install OS X El Capitan from USB” it shows the Apple logo at half a bar loading and then the monitor lost its connection (HDMI unplugged).

I installed Windows 7 to patch my BIOS with UEFIPatch, using v2.20. It patched successfully but i was getting same results with Clover. So i decided to do a fresh install with UniBeast 6 bootloader, the setup was smoother then ever.

Tools:

- Multibeast 7.5.0
- IO80211Family kext
- Kext Utility
- Ethernet Cable
- Audio_realtekALC-110.command.zip
- Clover Configurator
- El Capitan Post - Install Tools
- OS X El Capitan from Mac App Store
- Unibeast
- And a cup of coffee…

THE BUILD

If you already have OS X Yosemite up and running, follow the steps below. If you are new to OS X, follow this guide.

1- Download “OS X El Capitan” from the App Store.

2- Insert USB Drive
3- Press Command and Space Bar, search and executed Disk Utility
4- Highlight the USB Drive that you inserted
5- Click on Partition tab/ Current/ and create 1 Partition
6- In the same window, click Options/ select GUID Partition Table
7- Under Name, type USB and select Format/ Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
8- Click Apply then Partition.
9- Download and run UniBeast for El Capitan (OS X El Cap. must be in Applications folder)
10- Click Continue, select destination USB, and click on El Capitan icon.
11- You would now see 2 icons indicating UEFI Boot Mode and Legacy Boot Mode, choose Legacy Boot Mode
12- At Graphics Configuration screen, don’t choose nothing and click twice Continue until Unibeast creates the Bootable USB Drive… Process will take up to 40 minutes.


Bios Settings:

After UniBeast is done, Restart and press F2 to enter BIOS…

- Load “ UEFI Default Settings”
- Change IDE to AHCI
- Disable Spread Spectrum and Intel SpeedStep Technology
- Save and Exit… it will restart
- Press F11 and select the USB Drive for boot.

Install OS X El Capitan:

At this point, UniBeast boot menu will appear, select “Boot OS X El Capitan from USB” option. It will load the Installer….

- Choose English language and click next until Destination Drive appears
- In the top menu bar choose Utilities, and open Disk Utility
- Highlight your target drive for the El Capitan installation in left column.
- Click Erase button
- For Name: type Macintosh HD
- For Format: choose OS X Extended (Journaled)
- For Scheme: choose GUID Partition Map
- Under Format: choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
- Click Erase
- Close Disk Utility
- Select Macintosh HD and let OS X finish installing…
- Once it’s done, it will reboot
- Press F12 and choose again USB Drive for boot
- In UniBeast boot menu, select Boot OS X from Macintosh HD.
- Complete the setup


Post- Installation:

After Installation is complete, be sure to have El Capitan Post-Install Tools and Clover Configurator downloaded.

- Open El Capitan Post-Install
- Install Clover_v2.3k_r3270_Legacy.pkg (don’t reboot)
- Install CustoMac Essentials.kg (don’t reboot)
- Open Macintosh HD folder and select EFI/ CLOVER and right click on config.plist
- Open with Clover Configurator
- Select SMBIOS, press the Magic Wand icon and select the iMac
- Choose System Definition iMac 12,2.
- Click on the two Shake button on the right side and press OK
- Save and Close
- Reboot.

You will now have a fully bootable OS X El Capitan

Trim (Optional):

With Series 6 motherboards, using the native Mac method called Trimforce would work, but the drives would be detected as external hard drive (orange icons). To enable trim with the most reliable method is by using MultiBeast.

- Open MultiBeast 7.5.0
- Select Drivers tab/ Disk/ TRIM Enabler
- Choose 10.10.3 TRIM Patch
- Select Build tab
- Install and Reboot

Audio:

- Unzip “audio_RealtekALC-master”
- Open folder and double click “audio_cloverALC-110_v1.0f.command”
- Insert password and follow instructions
- Reboot
- Open System Preferences and choose Sound
- Click Output tab and select Internal Speakers.

WiFi:

At this point, before fixing the TL-WN881ND, be sure to log into your iCloud and App Store account first with Ethernet. For some reason, connecting with WiFi before LAN it will mess-up the en0.

Note: Place Kext Utility and IO80211Family.kext at desktop

- Plug Ethernet cable- Log into iCloud and App Store with your Apple ID account.
- Open Kext Utility
- Drag IO80211Family.kext into kext Utility window.
- Let it finish
- Quit
- Reboot
- Enable WiFi on the menu bar

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NOTES

Until now, my CustoMac is running pretty stable. I haven’t install CUDA drivers, Adobe hasn’t release a compatible drivers for El Capitan yet, so I’m gonna wait for that. Remember that the GTX Series 6, in this case the 660 Ti works OOTB with no bootflags needed.

If you have a TP-LINK WDN4800, it will also work natively with no kext required. But be sure to install it after setting up Ethernet and logins.

About iMessage… oh boy iMessage!… well, it’s important to remember that this motherboard has the SId bug. It was fix using this helpful guide “How to Fix iMessage - Chapter 5”, i suggest reading all chapter before making any changes to your plist.

UPDATE

October 3: NVIDIA CUDA Drivers release for OS X El Capitan
 
Does audio_cloverALC-110 works with alc1150?
 
Did you meet any slow graphic card performance? ex: redraw chrome page frequently? can,t recognize graphic card model.

I use graphic card MSI 660 ti,too. But it seems no graphic accelerated.
I,m confused whether using wrong boot options or not.
 
Did you meet any slow graphic card performance? ex: redraw chrome page frequently? can,t recognize graphic card model.

I use graphic card MSI 660 ti,too. But it seems no graphic accelerated.
I,m confused whether using wrong boot options or not.

Not a slow graphics performance but while opening Chrome the first time, it crashed El Capitan. Did you updated from App Store or fresh install?
 
Good morning. I will please you a help. I will only use the graphics card's processor for 2500k. try the Fix for hd3000 that in yosimite working properly but capitan not work .know should you do ?
 
Good morning. I will please you a help. I will only use the graphics card's processor for 2500k. try the Fix for hd3000 that in yosimite working properly but capitan not work .know should you do ?
You posted your question in the wrong thread. You have a Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard (7-Series) and the OP has AsRock Z68 motherboard (6-Series). Please post your question in El Capitan Desktop Support forum section.
 
Thank you very much for the guide! I couldn't find anything else as useful as this one for this AsRock motherboard!!

I have successfully installed El Capitan on my computer, however I encountered some problems when it came to post-installation and dual booting. I just have a couple of questions if you could please help :) (go easy on me, I'm a hackintosh noob)


(1) The audio seemed to not be working correctly. I did use Multibeast 8 to install the drivers (rather than the post-installation you posted), and I installed the RealTek ALC892 audio drivers from Multibeast 8.

It should have worked theoretically, because that is the audio our mobo uses (as per the AsRock website).

Have you got this setup working correctly with Multibeast 8? Or should I give up entirely on that and use all of the tools posted (I assumed you posted this before Multibeast 8 was released)

(2) Have used this in conjunction with Windows? I have been trying to find a guide and some information on having Windows 8.1 on one hard disk, and having El Capitan on another, and be able to boot both via Clover.

I had issues booting into windows, and everywhere I see information about converting the Windows installation to GPT to boot UEFI. I'm not sure this will work because it seems in this guide we are creating a legacy boot for El Capitan.


Thanks for your help!
 
Very good guide. Everything worked as written here except the video card. I have problems installing it. I own a MSI GeForce GTX650. So far I installed nvidia cuda and This WebDriver 346.03.10f02. And it shows 6mb for my video card info. Drivers in use are now the os x standard drivers. When I chose nvidia drivers, after booting my monitor enters standby. Should I install another driver, an older one or 346.03.10f01 ? Another question is, I can uninstall this driver that doesnt work ? Or there is any setting that I should do to enable something.. ?
Thank you!
 
Hi!
I have a problem with GTX 960 on this build.
Everything is fine, I can boot to OS but video is 7mb unknown.
After installing NV Web drivers - system stuck is bluetooth device.
 
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