5960x - Titan X - 2x Samsung 4k - Asus X99-E WS - Clover - EFI - SM951

[ulisis]

Hey nightflyer.

My audio just stopped working randomly while I was logged in. I was watching a youtube video, I paused it, when I restarted it the audio wasn't working.

I tried redoing the audio fix from the install guide because I saw that had worked for someone else. But my audio is still broken. I've checked to make sure the audio is set to internal speakers, which was working before.

Not sure what to do at this point.

EDIT: Ok now it's working again. I don't know why but I rebooted a couple times, some of which failed to actually start up, and now it's working...

 

[rojharris]

Hi Guys,

Newbie here with almost exactly the same setup: 5960x, 2xTitan X, Dell 4k monitors x 2.
Trying to follow the pdf but falling at the first hurdle. Namely, on the USB after the Unibeast part it says navigate to 'Extra/Extension' folder on USB. There is no Extra or Extras folder on the USB (yes I've enabled show all files).? So I made one and then went on to next bit, 'patch kernel' with the sudo command. However there is no ...'System/Library/Kernels/ folder either??? What am I doing wrong. Any ideas?

Thanks

Edit: It may be because I'm using UniBeast 6.2 I'll try again with 5.2

 

[drumsareme]

Heyhey guys,

so finally I’ve my built but have serious issues and really need help. First of all my main components:

• ASUS X99-E WS/USB 3.1
• INTEL i7-5960x
• 64GB RAM
• ASUS GTX750X Ti
• ASUS Thunderbolt EXII Dual Card
• SAMSUNG SM950 Pro 512GB NVMe SSD (for boot)

I went through rbbunmc’s guide several times and was finally able to get into a more or less working Yosemite . I tried to install the System directly on the 950 Pro but with Unibeast (5.2) I wasnt even able to boot for Installation.

So i diceded to try the CCC way to make the NVMe as my boot partition. After I installed everything I put in the M.2 SSD and was able too boot into my system. I was also able to format the SSD but now after a short time after i boot into Yosemite the System freezes randomly Any Ideas? I put the NVMeGeneric.kext into my EFI folder in EFI/Clover/kexts/10.10 and also installed it with kextwizard like it says in rbbunmc’s guide “…Seriously just anything you do, follow with KextWizard …”
Thanks for your help!

Hi. I have a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Graphics Card. Does this create any issues with being able to follow the old installer (which I've set up with 4 usb sticks to do) down to the finest detail ?

Apart from the graphics card, my specs are: X99 Deluxe U3.1 MB, Asus Thunderbolt EX II Card, 4 x Samsungs 850 Pro SSD's, 32GB Corsair Dominator DDR4 RAM.


Kind regards

 

[r2tincan]

So has anyone got this working with a NVMe as the INSTALL drive? Thinking of getting the NVMe version of the EVO.

 

[rojharris]

Whoop! I've got it up and running and it seems stable. From a HD not SSD (Windows still on that).
No need for Thunderbolt, I have a massive case so I'll just install my externals internally, if you see what I mean!

Heartfelt thanks to you guys for making this so easy, especially for a newbie like me.

Now I'm really apprehensive though.
- I haven't enabled the 6.1 BIOS in case it breaks something. Is there any real advantage?
- I haven't enable TRIM as it gave me a big warning that it may corrupt my data and my SSD has all my Windows system on it, with all my apps etc. So way too risky...
- Should I totally avoid any system updates from the app store in case it breaks anything?

I really want to move all my day to day work over onto this beast so I can use Octane on my dual Titans but in a nice OS X environment, but I'm a bit concerned it might all fall apart next week... Gulp. Am I just being paranoid?

Thanks folks.
Roger

ps. Another quick question: I'm finding the HD painfully slow. If I buy an SSD can I install my Yosemite setup by carbon copy cloner straight onto it from my current HD install, or do I have to go through the whole thing again? Many thanks

 

[Saijohn]

Whoop! I've got it up and running and it seems stable. From a HD not SSD (Windows still on that).
No need for Thunderbolt, I have a massive case so I'll just install my externals internally, if you see what I mean!

Heartfelt thanks to you guys for making this so easy, especially for a newbie like me.

Now I'm really apprehensive though.
- I haven't enabled the 6.1 BIOS in case it breaks something. Is there any real advantage?
- I haven't enable TRIM as it gave me a big warning that it may corrupt my data and my SSD has all my Windows system on it, with all my apps etc. So way too risky...
- Should I totally avoid any system updates from the app store in case it breaks anything?

I really want to move all my day to day work over onto this beast so I can use Octane on my dual Titans but in a nice OS X environment, but I'm a bit concerned it might all fall apart next week... Gulp. Am I just being paranoid?

Thanks folks.
Roger

ps. Another quick question: I'm finding the HD painfully slow. If I buy an SSD can I install my Yosemite setup by carbon copy cloner straight onto it from my current HD install, or do I have to go through the whole thing again? Many thanks

If you follow the guide on enabling 6.1 smBios you would not break anything. Forgot what was the advantage, but there is. Read previous post to find out.

I believe it is best to enable trim on a SSD. If you have Mac OSX and Windows on separate drives I don't know how you could corrupt the Windows side. If you are really paranoid, unplug the Windows SSD before proceeding.

Do not update the system if you don't want to go thru the trouble of patching Kexts. I've tried applying the 2016-1 security updates and after re-patching, the update was still there in the app store. Not sure if this would happen with the 2016-2 security updates. Therefore, I just left it as is. As long as you don't apply system updates, your hackintosh shouldn't break. So don't worry too much and just enjoy the little beast that you have built.

And Carbon Copy Cloner works easily & perfectly to migrate you Mac OSX to an SSD and even a M.2.
Try avoiding NVMe for now, seems like some people here are still having issue with it.

 

[rojharris]

If you follow the guide on enabling 6.1 smBios you would not break anything. Forgot what was the advantage, but there is. Read previous post to find out.

I believe it is best to enable trim on a SSD. If you have Mac OSX and Windows on separate drives I don't know how you could corrupt the Windows side. If you are really paranoid, unplug the Windows SSD before proceeding.

Do not update the system if you don't want to go thru the trouble of patching Kexts. I've tried applying the 2016-1 security updates and after re-patching, the update was still there in the app store. Not sure if this would happen with the 2016-2 security updates. Therefore, I just left it as is. As long as you don't apply system updates, your hackintosh shouldn't break. So don't worry too much and just enjoy the little beast that you have built.

And Carbon Copy Cloner works easily & perfectly to migrate you Mac OSX to an SSD and even a M.2.
Try avoiding NVMe for now, seems like some people here are still having issue with it.

Cheers Thanks

 

[rojharris]

On another issue, and I'll put this out there even though its pretty specific. I'm having problems with Adobe Premiere and audio. I know some of you guys are audio specialists so maybe you've come across this: I have an audioquest Dragonfly DAC and for all my audio like itunes it works perfectly, however in Premiere I get a 'the sample rate is not supported by the current audio device' error and the sound doesn't work. I have the dragonfly set to 44000, which is easily supported by premiere but it refuses to let me change it. There is no 'Built in output' in my prefs, only the dragonfly. So at the moment I have no audio in Adobe.. This is a bummer for me as editing is one of the reasons I built this machine. There are no drivers for Dragonfly, they just work.
Anyone have any idea how I can fix the audio issue? Perhaps someone has had this themselves?

Thanks in advance,

Roger


Edit: SOLVED! It was because I have a Logitech camera plugged in. remove that and Premiere works fine.! Phew!

 

[rojharris]

I've just done the 6.1 and Audio patch. I now have all my audio outputs showing and still no joy with Premiere.
I think its an Adobe issue though and not the system, as everything else works, including Final Cut Pro....


Fixed. See above

 

[ulisis]

Has anyone installed the recent security update 2016-003?

ALSO - Sound stopped working and when I start spotify the system crashes.

EDIT: Sound is working again, no reason why it stopped or started again. But spotify still crashes the system

Side note: The text in the enter your password box to approve admin changes is now just boxes, very weird.