- Joined
- Dec 4, 2016
- Messages
- 57
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7
- CPU
- i7-6700K
- Graphics
- GTX 970
Hi @JMacIV & @KyleKeagy, Thank you so much for posting your experience building your Hack with the GA-z170x-Gaming 7 Motherboard + i7-6700k + Skylake + GTX Nvidia graphics card. You guys helped me a lot along with posts by Tonymacx & Slim.jim and others, in getting my Hack to almost work on the same motherboard/CPU and my similar graphics card GTX970 SSC ACX2.0+. Amazing work!
Here is my Hack configuration:
- OS X Sierra 10.12.1 (shows 16B2659 built from 16B2657 on my original Apple Mac)
- MotherBoard (GA-Z170X-Gaming 7)
- CPU (i7-6700K 4GHz)
- Graphics Card (GTX 970 SSC ACX2.0+)
- RAM (32GB Crucial Ballistic DDR4 2400MHz)
- SSD (Samsung 850 EVO 1TB for Sierra) + M.2 drive (Micron M600 128GB for Windows 10)
- LG GH24NSC0B 24x Internal DVD Rewritable SATA Drive
- H100i v2 Cooler fan + Thermaltake Fans + Corsair 450D Case + Corsair ATX760 for Power Supply.
- Wifi (TP Link TL-WND-4800)
- HP 27 inch ZR2740w via DVI display
I have been able to get a pretty clean (without too many changes to config.plist & patches) & stable Hackintosh to work (Nvidia graphics work, audio working with same issues as yours, USB 3.0 working, Wifi working, power down working, App Store working).
But I have not been able to get rid of the "Instant Wake after Sleep" problem. And I found your post on this issue.
Can you help me with the "instant wake after sleep" fix/patch?
I followed your instruction on step 14.3 of your first post by adding your "SSDT-PRW.aml" file to my EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/Patches folder. Though I didn't add the other .aml files since I didn't want to do too many changes at once, plus my power management seems to be fine without those other patches albeit with few states (CPU at around 1.5GHz when idle, Temp at 20C, and 13W Power Consumption). After reboot, and testing "sleep", I still got an instant wake. Depending on whether I use "Darkwake=8" or "Darkwake=0", I get a display screen that's frozen (darkwake=8), or no Display at all (darkwake=0 or 10). And I have no choice but press the power button long enough to shut down my computer.
(update 12/9/16) At first I didn't follow step 11 of your procedure (PikerAlpha SSDRPRGen) since I believed it was related to Power Management but then I realized that I prob. needed to generate my OWN SSDT tables creating my own ssdt.aml file. So I followed your Steps for doing so & pretty much modeled your procedure (except for some Fixes (AddDTGP & Patches) and copied/added all your .aml files without re-creating them, maybe that's what I'm doing wrong?
I still can't get my wake from sleep working. I now can go to sleep, though the USB port seems to be turned on. Then when I push the power button, my display comes up but my screen is frozen. I'm going to continue to add your fixes & patches and test. But my power management seems out of whack now...
Thank you so much guys. I would really appreciate it if you had any suggestions that could help me find the solution to my "wake" issue after "sleep" since you have very similar gear as mine.
Here is my Hack configuration:
- OS X Sierra 10.12.1 (shows 16B2659 built from 16B2657 on my original Apple Mac)
- MotherBoard (GA-Z170X-Gaming 7)
- CPU (i7-6700K 4GHz)
- Graphics Card (GTX 970 SSC ACX2.0+)
- RAM (32GB Crucial Ballistic DDR4 2400MHz)
- SSD (Samsung 850 EVO 1TB for Sierra) + M.2 drive (Micron M600 128GB for Windows 10)
- LG GH24NSC0B 24x Internal DVD Rewritable SATA Drive
- H100i v2 Cooler fan + Thermaltake Fans + Corsair 450D Case + Corsair ATX760 for Power Supply.
- Wifi (TP Link TL-WND-4800)
- HP 27 inch ZR2740w via DVI display
I have been able to get a pretty clean (without too many changes to config.plist & patches) & stable Hackintosh to work (Nvidia graphics work, audio working with same issues as yours, USB 3.0 working, Wifi working, power down working, App Store working).
But I have not been able to get rid of the "Instant Wake after Sleep" problem. And I found your post on this issue.
Can you help me with the "instant wake after sleep" fix/patch?
I followed your instruction on step 14.3 of your first post by adding your "SSDT-PRW.aml" file to my EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/Patches folder. Though I didn't add the other .aml files since I didn't want to do too many changes at once, plus my power management seems to be fine without those other patches albeit with few states (CPU at around 1.5GHz when idle, Temp at 20C, and 13W Power Consumption). After reboot, and testing "sleep", I still got an instant wake. Depending on whether I use "Darkwake=8" or "Darkwake=0", I get a display screen that's frozen (darkwake=8), or no Display at all (darkwake=0 or 10). And I have no choice but press the power button long enough to shut down my computer.
(update 12/9/16) At first I didn't follow step 11 of your procedure (PikerAlpha SSDRPRGen) since I believed it was related to Power Management but then I realized that I prob. needed to generate my OWN SSDT tables creating my own ssdt.aml file. So I followed your Steps for doing so & pretty much modeled your procedure (except for some Fixes (AddDTGP & Patches) and copied/added all your .aml files without re-creating them, maybe that's what I'm doing wrong?
I still can't get my wake from sleep working. I now can go to sleep, though the USB port seems to be turned on. Then when I push the power button, my display comes up but my screen is frozen. I'm going to continue to add your fixes & patches and test. But my power management seems out of whack now...
Thank you so much guys. I would really appreciate it if you had any suggestions that could help me find the solution to my "wake" issue after "sleep" since you have very similar gear as mine.
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