New Mobo/CPU No Joy!

I realized I posted this in the wrong place!

As you can see from my profile I had a basic set up. I quickly realized I needed to upgrade my CPU, Mobo and even doubled the RAM from 4 to 8Gb.

I bought according to the buyers guide (not wanting to make any co$tly mi$take$).

So after selling my old components and adding some money I got a new AS Rock H97M Pro4 and an i3-4350.

I followed the guide and was able to access Unibeast without any optional boot commands and partition the drive (128Gb ssd new for this only). I installed and restarted the system.

I boot from the USB and choose Mtn Lion. BUt all I get is the white Apple screen with the spinning circle.

I tried to add a graphics card (Asus GE210) but this didn't help.

I also removed the dvi and tried again with hdmi to my tv but same problem.

I have searched the forum and to my fist shaking at the air dismay notice that the Mobo I bought possibly may not be compatible.

So I'm wondering if there are other tips you awesome people may have other than sell my Mobo at a steep loss and save up for a third Mobo! lol

Thanks in advance!

RobbieHunt said:

I realized I posted this in the wrong place!

As you can see from my profile I had a basic set up. I quickly realized I needed to upgrade my CPU, Mobo and even doubled the RAM from 4 to 8Gb.

I bought according to the buyers guide (not wanting to make any co$tly mi$take$).

So after selling my old components and adding some money I got a new AS Rock H97M Pro4 and an i3-4350.

I followed the guide and was able to access Unibeast without any optional boot commands and partition the drive (128Gb ssd new for this only). I installed and restarted the system.

I boot from the USB and choose Mtn Lion. BUt all I get is the white Apple screen with the spinning circle.

I tried to add a graphics card (Asus GE210) but this didn't help.

I also removed the dvi and tried again with hdmi to my tv but same problem.

I have searched the forum and to my fist shaking at the air dismay notice that the Mobo I bought possibly may not be compatible.

So I'm wondering if there are other tips you awesome people may have other than sell my Mobo at a steep loss and save up for a third Mobo! lol

Thanks in advance!

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It is very simple - install the version of OS X which has support for your Haswell hardware - Mavericks 10.8.5 or Yosemite 10.10.x

Thanks, GB.

I will try to create Unibeast using Yosemite!

In the meantime I used -v, -x from the SSD and managed to complete installation.

I then downloaded Multibeast and selected the necessary items (I hope):
DSDT Free
Realtek 892
AppleIntelE1000e
3rd party sata
EvOreboot
FakeSMC
Chimera Bootloader
Hibernats - Desktop
Mac Pro 3.1

I then got the following info after these installed:



I tried to restart and white apple screen with spinner. So I tried with -x -v again. I got the following info:



As soon as this appeared the screen went 70's wallpaper on me:


So despite the minor breakthrough maybe this is not worth the hassle?!

When I was at the desktop I checked for software updates and had the option of downloading Yosemite. Should I have done this or would it be more complicated that way?

Thanks again for your time!

Wrong choices in MB - you duplicated some. Try re-install Yosemite and select only DSDTFree to begin with. Then come back and install audio and network.

Select DSDTFree and look at the bottom pane of the MultiBeast window. You will see everything that will be installed from just this selection.