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[Guide] El Capitan on the Skylake H170N-WIFI

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Nearly perfect install here with i7 6700 + GA H170N Wifi + EVGA GTX 970 FTW
MANY THANKS.

! Just one problem remains: No Boot Device detected on startup, so i have to keep hitting F12 to select it.

Boot disk is a SAMSUNG EVO 850 and it is connected to the SATA express port in the middle of the H170N

Should i change it to a SATA 6GB port?? Or is it something else possible?
I'm working in a small EVGA Hadron Air chassis and I have to remove the motherboard to get side acces for the SATA 6GB ports...
 
huug said:
Nearly perfect install here with i7 6700 + GA H170N Wifi + EVGA GTX 970 FTW
MANY THANKS.

! Just one problem remains: No Boot Device detected on startup, so i have to keep hitting F12 to select it.

Boot disk is a SAMSUNG EVO 850 and it is connected to the SATA express port in the middle of the H170N

Should i change it to a SATA 6GB port?? Or is it something else possible?
I'm working in a small EVGA Hadron Air chassis and I have to remove the motherboard to get side acces for the SATA 6GB ports...
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In your BIOS settings what do you have selected as your boot drive?
 
ichris93 said:
In your BIOS settings what do you have selected as your boot drive?
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From top to bottom:

P4: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB
UEFI: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, Partition 1
UEFI: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, Partition 1
UEFI: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, Partition 1 <- multiple of these partitions, it creates a copy on every restart
UEFI OS (P4: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB)
 

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huug said:
From top to bottom:

P4: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB
UEFI: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, Partition 1
UEFI: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, Partition 1
UEFI: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, Partition 1 <- multiple of these partitions, it creates a copy on every restart
UEFI OS (P4: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB)
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You want to make it the UEFI partition and to keep it from making multiple copies check out this post #675
 
logrunner said:
Is anyone using a 3440 x 1440 [21:9] monitor with internal graphics over HDMI and/or should this work?
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Yup, I have the Dell U3415W working with integrated graphics over HDMI, and I've had a pretty good experience so far.

I'm not sure if it would be related, and I'm not sure if I'm imagining things, but there feels like there is a slightly perceivable input lag. Both when typing on my wired USB keyboard, using a Logitech bluetooth mouse, or the Apple wireless mouse. Is input lag a thing with a Hackintosh? What could I look at to fix it?
 
nicozero said:
It sounds like any BIOS settings are incorrect.
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I seem to have the same problem: boot via USB, select El Capitan in Clover, Installer starts, after erasing&partitioning install starts fine. At 10/20 % of the install there is a sudden switch to a big window with one button labeled `restart`. Clicking on it leaves the system running with a gray screen. Waiting 10 minutes does not change anything both before click and after. I have checked and double checked my BIOS settings, nothing is different than the settings suggested by the OP.

Additional info:
El Capitan (10.11.6)
GA-Z170N-WIFI (BIOS version F6) + i7-6700 + 2x8GB Corsair 2133
Samsung SM951 AHCI 256 GB
Seagate 3 TB SATA
ASUS GTX950-OC-2GD5
Transcend USB3.1 32 GB

I have tried all permutations with disks, internal vs. PCIe card, and different USB ports, but nothing changed the result.

I´m quite new to all this, but isn´t there a way to switch to console at any moment and look at some logging? When I used FreeBSD this has helped me debugging several situations succesfully. Booting `verbose` sure made me remember FreeBSD:ugeek:.

My next step would be to vary the BIOS versions, but I don´t want to go there without confirmation that this version works.
Then I will switch to a more common USB2 stick...
 
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