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General Z87N Wifi Mobo troubleshooting

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Hi all,

My hackintosh uses the Gigabyte mini-ITX Z87N WIFI motherboard. Its a great little board and have managed to get some great things from it and iron out a lot of the bugs and problems that you sometimes get with a hackintosh. However, there are just a few minor things left that I would like to fix. I have googled and searched the forums for answers to these previously several times, but have never really found solutions. Just thought I would list them here in hope that there is someone out there that has these solutions and that I have not been looking in the right places. I'm also hoping this will also help other people out wight he same mobo. So here goes:

1 - The computer randomly restarts a few seconds after being shut down.
This one baffles me completely as it seems to be completely random. Sometimes after setting the computer to sundown, everything will go through the normal processes until everything has powered off. (the lights have gone out and the fans have stopped). But then within seconds, the fans will suddenly kick in and everything will power up again as if I have set it to restart instead. As mentioned, this is totally random and will happen about 50% of the time when shutting down. NOTE: a lot of suggestions for this one out there is to disable wake on LAN. However, I and many other people can confirm that this does not work.

2 - No audio output after waking from sleep.
As it says. After waking the computer from sleep, whether it is for a few seconds or a few days, the audio will stop working. Changing speakers or headphones will not work, or neither will changing from the rear mobo port to the side port that comes with the case. The only thing that I've found that fixes it is a restart. This is guaranteed to happen whenever the computer goes to sleep.

3 - ​Weird temperature readings and fan control
This one is more of a situational one as I have paired my mobo up with a corsair H60 water cooler. Its a fantastic cooler that manages to keep all cores of my over clocked 4770k between 30-35 degrees C during general use. However, the PCH die temperature reading is a different story reading at a constant 70+ after only 10 minutes within first booting. I'm not worried about these temperatures. I have read that this is quite normal for this motherboard. However, due to the way the H60 is hooked up (the radiator is hooked to the cpu fan control and the radiator fan is hooked up to the mono fan control) it means that after 10 minutes of use, even though the CPU is nice and chilled, the radiator fan suddenly kicks up to max RPM and stays like that until shutdown, creating a rather noisy machine. I've considered new quieter fans, a PWM fan controller, updating the BIOS to the latest etc etc but first wondered if there was a quick and simple fix that anyone else had found? Something in the BIOS maybe?

So thats about it. I'm not expecting answers to appear straight away or even at all. But if anyone does have any info that could help then I would be super grateful :thumbup:

Thanks all. Looking forward to seeing any responses
 
2 - No audio output after waking from sleep.
As it says. After waking the computer from sleep, whether it is for a few seconds or a few days, the audio will stop working. Changing speakers or headphones will not work, or neither will changing from the rear mobo port to the side port that comes with the case. The only thing that I've found that fixes it is a restart. This is guaranteed to happen whenever the computer goes to sleep.


Just a quick update for anyone that may have been viewing this thread. Updating to the newly released Mulitbeast 6.4.0 and then updated to the latest AppleHDA (in the case of the Z87N wifi, that would be the ALC892) was all that was needed to fix this problem. My audio now returns whenever I wake from sleep.
 
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