Great work Stork, Ive totally forgotten a few things or two re: Clover and this particular build. Im just upgrading El Cap on my other half's build. Any clues what to do for a GTX580 which only boots in low res with nv_disable=1. Should I inject? etc...
Unless you have installed the nVidia web or CUDA drivers, you don't need to worry about nv_disable=1. However, since you have an older graphics card, I would use the nvidia inject.
Ive had to convert from Chameleon on this. Is 12j really worth upgrading from 12 or am I asking for a few more hours of trouble?
Using 12j is up to you, I have no experience with it, but as you read in the previous posts, 12j may have an advantage. If you want to try it, I'd try it first on Yosemite, then upgrade to El Capitan.
Disregarding the Nvidia PCI graphics card, has anyone compiled a complete list of necessary kexts and config.plist etc in one healthy zip to save us poor gremlins further time and effort!? Ive just spent 3 days building a Z170 and am exhausted!
Not, I. At the present time, I don't have access to Thunderbolt, so I can't state positively how to install El Capitan on our system. But, if I was to go about installing El Capitan, I do a fresh install on new SSD or HDD with the other SATA devices disconnect. (I can always run Migration Assistant later.) I'd follow tonymacx86's guide for installing El Capitan:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-el-capitan-any-supported-intel-based-pc.html. After installing El Capitan, I'd make several mods to the Clover El Capitan config.plist file to increase the number of default USB ports from 15 to 30 and installed
Rehabman's FakePCIID.kext and FakePCIID_XHCIMux.kext in /Library/Extensions using Kext Beast. However, from what we know now, only the Intel USB chipset ports will work. That's the best I can speculate on what to do.