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I built my hackintosh (dual boot windows and mac) about a year ago and began using the mac boot all the time. The only time I booted into windows was if I wanted to play a windows only game for example.
The issue I have is that at random points the mac boot will freeze. I'll be doing any task on the mac and the whole thing will completely freeze. There is no particular program causing it and there isn't a certain time after boot that it happens. I could go for 3 months using the mac for 4 hours most days and not have a freeze, or I could be getting freezes after 15 minutes everyday.
The first few times i experienced the freezing I booted with only the essentials plugged into the machine (keyboard and mouse) and that seemed to fix it. I then plugged devices in as I needed them and once i'd plugged in a usb condenser mic I have it started to freeze again, so assuming the mic was the problem I unplugged it and it did stop the freezing. But then after a few months it started to freeze again. This time unplugging everything didn't solve it, and even with only a keyboard and mouse plugged in it still freezes. And at the moment the freezes occur extremely often (The mac will definitely freeze within an hour of use).
The windows partition works fine.
I used the tonymacx86 tools, unibeast and multibeast to install and manage the dual boot, and every time I searched my problem, similar issues came up with suggestions that you switch to clover. So i guess my first question, unless you know exactly what my problem is right now and can tell me how to fix it, is whether I can reinstall everything using clover, but keep all my data. (My operating systems and programs are on ssd's. 1 for windows and 1 for mac, while my data is on a hdd so I assume I could just leave my data hdd out of the equation and all the files on that will not be deleted, meaning I only have to backup or reinstall programs)
Obviously i'd like the problem to just be gone and for me to be able to use my pc again, so if I can avoid re installing everything, that'd be ideal. But I did create this pc, and use it in a way that I am prepared to start from scratch if I need to.
Hackintosh system specs:
Intel Core i7-4790 3.6ghz CPU
8gb of Corsair RAM
Nvidia GeForce GT 610 (Nothing special but it gets the job done)
Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Motherboard
2x 128gb Kingston SSD
2tb WD HDD
I apologise if I've missed any info, I'm quite tired at the time of writing this!
Thanks in advance for any help!
The issue I have is that at random points the mac boot will freeze. I'll be doing any task on the mac and the whole thing will completely freeze. There is no particular program causing it and there isn't a certain time after boot that it happens. I could go for 3 months using the mac for 4 hours most days and not have a freeze, or I could be getting freezes after 15 minutes everyday.
The first few times i experienced the freezing I booted with only the essentials plugged into the machine (keyboard and mouse) and that seemed to fix it. I then plugged devices in as I needed them and once i'd plugged in a usb condenser mic I have it started to freeze again, so assuming the mic was the problem I unplugged it and it did stop the freezing. But then after a few months it started to freeze again. This time unplugging everything didn't solve it, and even with only a keyboard and mouse plugged in it still freezes. And at the moment the freezes occur extremely often (The mac will definitely freeze within an hour of use).
The windows partition works fine.
I used the tonymacx86 tools, unibeast and multibeast to install and manage the dual boot, and every time I searched my problem, similar issues came up with suggestions that you switch to clover. So i guess my first question, unless you know exactly what my problem is right now and can tell me how to fix it, is whether I can reinstall everything using clover, but keep all my data. (My operating systems and programs are on ssd's. 1 for windows and 1 for mac, while my data is on a hdd so I assume I could just leave my data hdd out of the equation and all the files on that will not be deleted, meaning I only have to backup or reinstall programs)
Obviously i'd like the problem to just be gone and for me to be able to use my pc again, so if I can avoid re installing everything, that'd be ideal. But I did create this pc, and use it in a way that I am prepared to start from scratch if I need to.
Hackintosh system specs:
Intel Core i7-4790 3.6ghz CPU
8gb of Corsair RAM
Nvidia GeForce GT 610 (Nothing special but it gets the job done)
Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Motherboard
2x 128gb Kingston SSD
2tb WD HDD
I apologise if I've missed any info, I'm quite tired at the time of writing this!
Thanks in advance for any help!