i7-4930K - Asus Rampage IV Extreme - 32GB RAM - GTX 770 4GB [Success!!]

[Nitroheli]

Shilohh, Thank you so much for your well written guide. I have an older Sabertooth X79 in my first Hackintosh Mavericks build. I am following your guide using the files for the 3930K and installing OS X Sierra, but running into the following panics when booting from CloverUSB. Any suggestions to get past these? Your help to this forum is greatly appreciated.

 

[shilohh]

Hello Shilohh,
haha after some pushing and pulling, I was able to squeeze gtx970 into PCI slot 1.
Here is IOReg. Thanks again for your help!!!

Did you move your USB3 card too? I think your board has a plx chip to manage the extra pci slots and lanes. The way your gpu is loading is confusing me a little.

 

[DaEMoN33]

Hi Shiloh,
Sorry if this has been answered before (searching didn't reveal much):
I'm upgrading the GPU on my successful 4930K build from a 780 Ti to a 980 Ti.. what would be the steps involved in just that upgrade on El Capitan?
Considering the Nvidia web drivers are already installed, I suspect it may work out of the box, but maybe that's just wishful thinking.
Thank you so much for your guide and your guidance!

EDIT: Got the card, works out of the box, no problem! I'm adding this in case it may help others choosing some hardware: I'm running an excellent system with working 'sleep' and everything. On top of that, thanks to the card (MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G) and, more importantly, the monitor (PG279Q), I'm running this 27" monitor at 165Hz — which, let me tell you, is fricking night and day if you've never experienced anything above 60Hz.

 

[brinky1990]

Hi shilohh

Thanks for making this great guide
Maybe you readed my tread : Another noob who is trying to install Mac os sierra - stuck at logo+bar (Asus rampage IV)
my system is almost running good but 2 things needs to be fixed or better said liked to be fixed
1: My dvd-roms openens when I boot Mac OS, what can I do about it to fix that ?
2: Is it already possible to also enable the USB 3.0 ports again ?

Hopefully you of one of the other guys here can help me out

 

[rushmore777]

Did you move your USB3 card too? I think your board has a plx chip to manage the extra pci slots and lanes. The way your gpu is loading is confusing me a little.

Thanks for the reply Shilohh!
Yes I moved the USB3 card to PCI slot#6.

(in fact I've been moving PIC cards all week I've been trying to figure out why my internal drives attached to Marvell SATA ports are showing up as external drives. And I even bought a $19.00 PCI SATA3 card to solve this problem but no luck. Haha so I just gave up and decided to use it as external drives )

so yes. I finally settled on this and returned the PCI card today.

PCI slot #1 : GTX 970
PCI slot #6 : USB: Inateck 7 Ports USB 3.0 Card
PCI Slot #2,3,4,5 & 7 : Empty

I am attaching this latest IOReg just in case.

Shilohh, I know you must be busy with other things so whenever you get a chance hopefully you can take a look. I would very much appreciate if you can help me with this final step! Haha my Sierra runs without Nvidia driver right now. Thank you so much!!

 

[shilohh]

Thanks for the reply Shilohh!
Yes I moved the USB3 card to PCI slot#6.

(in fact I've been moving PIC cards all week I've been trying to figure out why my internal drives attached to Marvell SATA ports are showing up as external drives. And I even bought a $19.00 PCI SATA3 card to solve this problem but no luck. Haha so I just gave up and decided to use it as external drives )

so yes. I finally settled on this and returned the PCI card today.

PCI slot #1 : GTX 970
PCI slot #6 : USB: Inateck 7 Ports USB 3.0 Card
PCI Slot #2,3,4,5 & 7 : Empty

I am attaching this latest IOReg just in case.

Shilohh, I know you must be busy with other things so whenever you get a chance hopefully you can take a look. I would very much appreciate if you can help me with this final step! Haha my Sierra runs without Nvidia driver right now. Thank you so much!!

I've prepared a test SSDT for your GPU. Keep your USB installer handy as you may need to boot from it using f8 if it doesn't work and you can't boot. It looks like you got your graphics sorted (maybe using the kexts from the black screen thread?) but this SSDT would give you HDMI audio if it works.

As for your SATA ports, look in the UEFI BIOS to see if there is "Hot Plug" support settings for those ports. If there is, disable it. If there is not, the 3rd party sata kext from multibeast should make them show as internal. Else we could try a SSDT fix.

 

[shilohh]

Hi Shiloh,
Sorry if this has been answered before (searching didn't reveal much):
I'm upgrading the GPU on my successful 4930K build from a 780 Ti to a 980 Ti.. what would be the steps involved in just that upgrade on El Capitan?
Considering the Nvidia web drivers are already installed, I suspect it may work out of the box, but maybe that's just wishful thinking.
Thank you so much for your guide and your guidance!

EDIT: Got the card, works out of the box, no problem! I'm adding this in case it may help others choosing some hardware: I'm running an excellent system with working 'sleep' and everything. On top of that, thanks to the card (MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G) and, more importantly, the monitor (PG279Q), I'm running this 27" monitor at 165Hz — which, let me tell you, is fricking night and day if you've never experienced anything above 60Hz.

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You might want to overwrite your current GPU SSDT with the maxwell one from the post install ACPI folder. SSDT-1.aml if you are in slot 1.

 

[rushmore777]

I've prepared a test SSDT for your GPU. Keep your USB installer handy as you may need to boot from it using f8 if it doesn't work and you can't boot. It looks like you got your graphics sorted (maybe using the kexts from the black screen thread?) but this SSDT would give you HDMI audio if it works.

As for your SATA ports, look in the UEFI BIOS to see if there is "Hot Plug" support settings for those ports. If there is, disable it. If there is not, the 3rd party sata kext from multibeast should make them show as internal. Else we could try a SSDT fix.

Wow thank you so much for taking your time to do this Shilohh!!!
I am on it right now. So excited! Thanks again for your help!!!!

 

[shilohh]

Hi shilohh

Thanks for making this great guide
Maybe you readed my tread : Another noob who is trying to install Mac os sierra - stuck at logo+bar (Asus rampage IV)
my system is almost running good but 2 things needs to be fixed or better said liked to be fixed
1: My dvd-roms openens when I boot Mac OS, what can I do about it to fix that ?
2: Is it already possible to also enable the USB 3.0 ports again ?

Hopefully you of one of the other guys here can help me out

For your optical drive, make sure it's plugged into one of the black intel 3g sata ports and that hot plug is disabled for that port in the bios.


the genericUSBXHCI kext is already present so try enabling the USB3 ports. I stopped using all onboard USB3 ports a long time ago as they are buggy at best. See the recommendations at the bottom of the OP.

 

[brinky1990]

For your optical drive, make sure it's plugged into one of the black intel 3g sata ports and that hot plug is disabled for that port in the bios.

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the genericUSBXHCI kext is already present so try enabling the USB3 ports. I stopped using all onboard USB3 ports a long time ago as they are buggy at best. See the recommendations at the bottom of the OP.

Ok thank you very much for replying, I will take a look on it