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[Succes][guide] Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on GA-Z77N-Wifi

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JBG

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Motherboard
Gigabyte Z77N no working Wifi
CPU
i5-3570K
Graphics
Intel HD 4000
Mac
  1. iMac
  2. MacBook Pro
  3. Mac mini
Classic Mac
  1. Power Mac
Mobile Phone
  1. iOS
Hi again...

Finally after a few times of reinstalling (SuperDuper backup actually) I got it all (99%) working.

* Motherboard GA-Z77N-Wifi BIOS version F2 (;) Toleda)
( only thing disabled in BIOS is 'Internal CPU PLL Overvoltage' but didn't check install if it's enabled)
* i53570K not over-clocked
* 8 Gb Corsair Vengeance 1600/C7 memory
* onboard HD Graphics 4000
* Kingston HyperX 120 GB SSD
* 2 x 500 GB WDC's in RAID (done in OS X)

8< --------- (this part I stole from my other guide) :shh:

What did I use and how I used it :

- USB stick with Mountain Lion 10.8.2 (official from App Store)
(there are a lot of install guides with UniBeast - Mountain Lion 1.7.0 for that so I'm not gonna guide that inhere)
- Installed 10.8.2 on a empty SSD
- I tried a few 100 times with all kinds of DSDT's ... didn't work for me this time.
- Using MultiBeast - Mountain Lion 5.2.1 with following configuration :

8> -------------- :lol:

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Booted twice (don't ask me why, I just read it somewhere more then one time, so did it too)
Once back I tested sleep/wake-up ... worked (for some reason if I use DSDT and DSDT audio I loose the wake-up function, it just hangs then ... and need a hard reboot.

Then i use Chameleon Wizard to change theme, org.chameleon.Boot.plist :

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I also marked in Miscellaneous 'darkwake=0' and after saving I changed
in the org.chameleon.Boot.plist with text editor 'darkwake=10' ..
I read somewhere that now auto sleep works without the program 'please sleep' and it did.

I also used Chameleon Wizard to get iMessage working with the guide from sunviva2 I found
Step by Step Fix for iMessage - Requires Latest Chameleon

So at this moment I've got working :

- Audio ALC882

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with airplay too only no audio on HDMI cause then I need DSDT and that will break the wake-up

- Trim for the SSD (don't forget turn off 'Put hard disks to sleep when possible' when use SSD)
. but sleep can be on if add a HDD to

- USB 3.0
- 2 x Realtek GbE LAN
- no problems with video HD 4000
- Power button sleep, keyboard sleep (alt-cmd-eject), sleep from  menu and auto sleep
- wake-up in just few seconds from keyboard, power-button and usb mouse (nothing from Bluetooth)
(and I can't turn it on either in Bluetooth settings)
- onboard Bluetooth working, only there's a delay at start before it sees Bluetooth devices for about 20 seconds ... that's very annoying but at least it works out of the box
- Xonboard wifi, there are some possibilities to get it working, I've read in some treads here, but I don't need it

So far so good :clap:

happy hacking and greetingZzz
 
dirtwegy said:
Hi, you seem to have had success with you mobo, I have GA-Z77N-Wifi myself except, I cant watch movies not even youtube online, I even D/L VLC, which plays anything, when I came to watch a movie it said ( Open GL acceleration is not supported on your mac ) but I can play movies on quicktime. Im using on board graphics, and notice you are as well, can you watch youtube online, tell me if you can what I could do if you can, cheers dirtwegy.

Hi Dirtwegy,

Why in private message ?
There are maybe other people who can help on your problem if placed in forum and it can come up a solution for others too this way ;)

I'm not sure what's the problem on you side I only see a different CPU
and if the movie said "Open GL acceleration is not supported on your mac"
I think it sounds like a software (or kexts) problem to me ...

Only thing I can help you with is a few screenshots from my side to compare with your system :
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And VLC is playing as well too
Schermafbeelding 2013-04-03 om 19.46.33.jpg

So I hope you can maybe see a difference or someone else can give you a clue ...
Good luck (and try a different CPU if possible)

 
I have put a message in the forum, I messaged you as you've got same mobo.
 
Hi,

I didn't meant it as a bad thing to you ;)
I just wanna help you, but I don't have a solution for it, can only show what I have for comparing for you
 
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