Can someone tell me what happens if you leave the ports over 15 by not going through all these steps? I did the multibeast usb3.0/max port limit patch. I got my USB 3.0 working. I just haven't seen exactly what the issue is with being more than 15. Thx.
I am a newbie with this Hackintosh stuff. Since I couldn't upgrade to Sierra with my Mid-2008 Mac Pro I decided to give this a try. Besides, it is a great retirement hobby. I want to thank all of contributors, without which I would have gotten nowhere. Anyway, I actually do have an answer for you....
I was perplexed that I would get everything working great and then the next day my Finder and all apps would slow to an unusable laggy speed. I would remove all cards and reset my memory without success. I then would start the install again from scratch and it would work fine. Again within 24 hours it would slow down.
Finally, when I started reading about the unintended consequences for having too many USB ports I thought, "hum, maybe this will help." It was quite a learning curve and hours to grasp. Finally, after muddling my way through everything I ending up disabling 12 ports to get my tower to use only 15 ports.(uia_exclude=HS03;HS04;HS07;HS08;HS11;HS12;SS07;SS08;SS09;SS10;USR1;USR2). My computers has worked well (except for iMessage, which is not big deal to me) for 3 days now. I am not saying that is the problem that happens with everyone, but it happened with me. Keep in mind that some people setup a mini unit that may not have more than 15 USB ports in total.
Anyway, you can stop reading now, unless you want to hear some funny and frustrating events that happened.
1. I got everything to work again and was so excited telling my wife all about it - yeh right, she was considerate and listened, but I doubt she understood a word (except the word "computer"). The next day the slowdown/lag happened again - I was so depressed. I was about to give up, but decided to check everything again. It turned out that I put a colon : iinstead of a semi-colon ; in between two ports in my "uia_exclude" list. Once I fixed that everything was fine. The slowness/lagginess was immediately fixed.
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2. The next morning my wife woke me up at 4:30am to inform me of a constant beeping sound that was coming from my computer. I thought, "not again, what now????" Turns out it was the Raid system alarm I had set, notifying me that one of the 4 drives in my RAID setup had gone bad. I was never so happy to have a hard drive go bad