Z77X-UD5H - USB Problems - Reboot (Yosemite)

[madman1234]

@jaymonkey

Can you please try the following.

1. Put your hack to sleep
2. wake up you hack
3. connect your iPhone or something which need a lot of power over USB
4. does your hack instantly reboots?

If not, do you have CSM enabled or disabled in your F16 mod 11 BIOS?

PS:
I am having issues with my Marvel Controller and also I would like to remove the CSM disabled settings in BIOS.

Thanks

 

[madman1234]

I installed F16 mod 11 and there is no reboot issue!!! CSM is disabled currently.

Also my Marvel Controller works now as it should!

Very nice..

 

[jaymonkey]

I installed F16 mod 11 and there is no reboot issue!!! CSM is disabled currently.

Also my Marvel Controller works now as it should!

Very nice..

@madman1234,

like i said in my previous post, many of the niggles on the GA-Z77X-UD5H are due to problems with the 3rd Party ROMS embedded in the Gigabyte BIOS which Gigabyte has no control over, I don't know why Gigabyte don't do the same ..... i guess its an old product now and they cant be arsed to update the 3rd party ROMS.

You should find things are a lot more stable now, I have CSM enabled and no reboots or any such issues ...
USB3 should work natively if you use patched DSDT.

Cheers
Jay

 

[shaveblog]

@jaymonkey

Thank you for all the info on the modified Gigabyte BIOS. I've been to the Tweaktown site before and seen those 3rd party BIOSes, but I was under the impression that they were mainly crude amateur stabs at loosening the operating parameters of motherboards to allow for extreme gamer/hobbyist/bitcoin overclocking. If it's just a matter of someone taking the last official Gigabyte BIOS and updating the 3rd party ROMs to current official versions, that's a much less worrisome scenario.

I realize I'm not entirely consistent with my concerns here. It makes no sense to caution against a 3rd party BIOS when I happily add all kinds of not-entirely-legit-code to my computer - boot loader (made by Russian hackers, of course), hacked kexts, DSDT, SSDT, et al. I guess I'm just auto-leery of drilling down to the base metal of the motherboard itself and tinkering with code by some creepy kid halfway around the world who may be loading Trojan spyware onto people's systems at the root level. Hard to burrow any deeper than a motherboard BIOS.

I also don't have this CSM-related reboot problem some of you guys describe, so I'm not sure what I'd gain from flashing my board to F16. Ever since I wiped my UD5H/i7-3770K system and did a virgin UEFI Yosemite install with Clover, I haven't had any issues at all with my system. With CSM disabled in BIOS, I have perfect sleep and wake, high current USB, no reboot if I plug in a charging device like an iPad/iPhone. Everything just works. I don't get a boot screen on the HD5870 but I do get one on the Intel HD4000, so if I need to watch boot messages, I just switch the monitor cable over to the internal GPU.

I'm not saying definitively that nobody should install the F16 BIOS. Everyone has different needs. I for one don't have any drives connected to the Marvell SATA ports, so that might be something that's better with F16.

And to be honest, I admit I don't really understand what CSM affects if you have UEFI boot. I thought CSM wasn't part of the equation unless you were still configured for legacy MBR boot? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this.

I will say this, though. God bless Hackintosh. What is this, a 5 year old motherboard? My i7-3770K is at least four gens old at this point. My GPU is an HD5870, ancient by graphics standards. And yet this system Geekbenches 17K. Cinebenches 95FPS. OpenCL, which is what's most important to me as this is my Final Cut Pro X workstation, is excellent - 42 seconds to complete the BruceX benchmark, Luxmark Scala is 1100 with both the ATI and Intel HD 4000 enabled. Handbrake encodes at 300+ FPS and never gets hotter than 80C. Math-hungry plugins like NeatVideo render in real-time. What 5 year-old Mac can claim these things? I have friends with 3 year-old Macs that plod along, crying to be put to sleep.

Ah screw it. F16? Okay fine. You people kill me.

 

[madman1234]

[COLOR=#000000]I don't get a boot screen on the HD5870 but I do get one on the Intel HD4000, so if I need to watch boot messages, I just switch the monitor cable over to the internal GPU.[/COLOR]

If you disable CSM you will get the boot screen on your HD5870.

 

[shaveblog]

Well, I do have CSM disabled, and I don't get a boot screen on the 5870. Just the HD 4000 if I plug in another monitor.

I was under the impression that I'll never get a boot screen on the 5870 unless I flash it as a Mac card. It's just a generic PC video card. It works fine and has all the performance once OS X boots, but I've never gotten a boot screen on the ATI whether I was booting legacy and Chimera with CSM enabled, or UEFI and Clover with CSM disabled.

 

[shaveblog]

OK, an update -

I flashed my UD5H to the aforementioned "F16 mod 11" BIOS from Tweaktown. A few cosmetic differences in the setup screens but otherwise no new features/options. Duplicated my previous settings from F14 BIOS and booted up right away, no differences in performance or behavior I can tell. Sleeps and wakes like it did before, benchmarks the same, etc. It's possible my particular configuration - UEFI boot with CSM disabled, HD 5870 plus internal HD 4000 graphics, FireWire/audio/LAN/gSATA/eSATA all disabled -- doesn't benefit from the BIOS changes. The good news is nothing seems broken or deprecated, so unless some issue shows itself I'll leave F16 on there.

 

[madman1234]

I used F14 before and I had only two issues.

1.
Sometimes it just rebooted during the boot process after I saw the Apple Logo

2.
Sometimes shutdown did not work


I read that this shutdown issue may caused to the fact, that my windows hdd is connected to the 3Gb/s Z77 SATA2 connectors.

So I switched this HDD to the Marvell SATA2 Port. But now I couldn't boot my Windows 8.1 Partition anymore from Clover, because it didn't show up.

After I flashed F16 mod 11 the issue with the Windows 8.1 boot was fixed.

I hope the shutdown problems will also be fixed. I will see.. ;-)

 

[jaymonkey]

@jaymonkey, I was under the impression that they were mainly crude amateur stabs at loosening the operating parameters of motherboards to allow for extreme gamer/hobbyist/bitcoin overclocking.

@shaveblog,

The modded BIOS's on the link i provided (See Post #80) only have the 3rd Party ROMS updated, you wont see much (if any) in the way of performance changes as the Gigabyte code is largely unchanged except for any changes necessary to support the newer 3rd Party ROMS.

However stability of the embedded 3rd Party PCI devices is much improved, especially the Marvel SATA controller.

Those ROM's are put together by some of the smartest guys around some of whom work for Mother board manufacture's including Gigabyte and are members of the GIGABYTE Tech Daily team under a alias, its the only site you should consider for modded BIOS's.

The site is actually semi-supported by Gigabyte for testing/releasing of Beta BIOS's, much of the work done feeds back into the Official BIOS's.

Cheers
Jay

 

[shaveblog]

@jaymonkey

So far so good - I haven't noticed any differences since updating to F16 BIOS, which is a Good Thing. As I said, I don't lean on any of the features which F16 updates, but I want to be sure the modded BIOS doesn't introduce new instabilities elsewhere. So far it hasn't.

The UD5H/i7-3770K combo has proven to be my most enduring Hackintosh keeper. Conservatively overclocked and paired with a good GPU, it can still hang with the fastest Macs Apple sells today. I've never settled on a Hackintosh for as long as I've had this one without either wishing for better performance, or being forced to upgrade due to evolving OS X compatibility requirements, and I'll probably stand pat until either the parts fail or some OS X update no longer supports my existing hardware. The only piece of the puzzle I've been tempted to replace lately is the GPU, but the venerable 5870 is still one of the best cards for FCPX, which is what this system gets used most for. When the R9 280X hits the $150 price point, I'll probably make the swap. Until then, I'm completely happy with the current system and haven't been tempted in the slightest by later motherboards or CPUs.

One more update for the peanut gallery: I did manage to get a boot screen on the 5870, by changing initial display from IGFX to PEG. However, that change disabled the internal Intel HD 4000 GPU, and because I use the Apple 27" LED display with the 5870, the initial screen was garbled until a sleep/wake cycle cleared things up. Changing back to my original BIOS config, with IGFX as the initial display, I lost boot screen on the 5870 but once booted up, the image was clear and HD 4000 was enabled and available to lend a hand to apps which take advantage of both GPUs.