The Perfect Customac-Pro: X99-A II, i7-6950X, 128GB G.Skill TridentZ, Aorus GTX 1080 TI Xtreme

[Miles.Conn]

Hello,

Your guide is EXCELLENT. Thank you. I have Sierra 10.12.4 running on an ASROCK X99 Extreme 4/3.1. Running like a charm -- all 10 CPU cores, with Nvidia 980 graphics card. Getting amazing Geekbench scores. Can't wait to run it with Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, etc.

One criticism of the guide is that it provides a config.plist file that sets the System Integrity Protection (SIP) to "disabled", which makes it completely impossible to install any apps from the App Store, as well as most other software that checks for SIP.

To fix this problem, you need to edit the config.plist in /EFI/EFI/CLOVER/config.plist. Modify this section so that it says:

<key>CsrActiveConfig</key>
<string>0x3</string>

Hey would you mind sharing your ASROCK X99 Extreme 4 config file with me. I had mine working but then I saw this guide and tried to implement some things and while it still works it's a little weird. This board has always done some weird stuff. Thanks.

 

[kgp]

Still not able to reach the Sierra installer without adding cpus=1 :/


Hi @toncij. I see you have a i7-5960X. You've managed to install and get everything running without problems?
I'm not able to reach the Sierra installer without adding cpus=1
I have a different motherboard then you (Asus x99-E WS) But maybe you have an insight

Thanks in advance

@saxmand, I already told you that you have a totally messed up configuration. I recommend to restart from scratch, exclusively and precisely following my guide. I still do not think that one needs cpus=1 to reach the Sierra installer, but even so where is the problem? You would install Sierra using just one core, although you also might have to disable all other cores in the BIOS. As long we only speak about the Sierra installation, this would not be of major issue. If now you say that you also need cpus=1 to run Sierra from your System drive, then you really would have a problem.

In any case, in my opinion your problems are related to a totally messedup configuration. And I recommend once more to start from scratch to do things properly and in order.

Cheers,

KGP

 

[dragoonchang]

I follow this article, by ASUS X99-A and E5-2696 V3, I have problem to boot. After googling, I find this thread:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...broadwell-ep-haswell-ep-cpus-on-10-12.204468/
By applying some extra patches, it's bootable right now, keep working on post-installation, kgp, thanks your great work!

After reading down, I find kgp includes all the patches already! I am so careless! Just follow this article then everything would work perfectly.

After AGDFix, I can boot into system, but with nvda_drv=1, still not not Nvidia GTX960 enabled... sad, still work on it.

My next plan is to patch the BIOS, apply extra micro-code, disable the hyper-threading, make 18 core can run full speed in 3.8Ghz.

 

[dragoonchang]

Quite strange, right now, I have 20% chance boot into system without Nvidia driver support, and totally 3 times boot into system with Nvidia driver support, and rest all hangs....

What I have done is dump DSDT, SSDT1, SSDT2 by ubuntu live usb stick, and use ssdtPRGen.sh generates ssdt.aml.

MB : ASUS X99-A II
CPU : E5-2696 v3
VGA : Nvidia GTX960
SSD : Intel 600p

 

[kgp]

Quite strange, right now, I have 20% chance boot into system without Nvidia driver support, and totally 3 times boot into system with Nvidia driver support, and rest all hangs....

What I have done is dump DSDT, SSDT1, SSDT2 by ubuntu live usb stick, and use ssdtPRGen.sh generates ssdt.aml.

ASUS X99-A II
E5-2696 v3
Nvidia GTX960

What for you need the dumps??? I do not understand the rest of your message anyway. By exactly following my guide you should not face any issues..

 

[dragoonchang]

What for you need the dumps??? I do not understand the rest of your message anyway. By exactly following my guide you should not face any issues..

KGP, Thanks for your reply! I follow your guide strictly, but because my CPU is E5 2696 v3, I think this is the problem, I have problem to boot with Nvidia driver enable, and also some random reboot, I am still looking for the solutions and also read your article again and again.

 

[kgp]

KGP, Thanks for your reply! I follow your guide strictly, but because my CPU is E5 2696 v3, I think this is the problem, I have problem to boot with Nvidia driver enable, and also some random reboot, I am still looking for the solutions and also read your article again and again.

Do you use the correct FakeCPUID? Do you use the correct xcpm_cpuid_info and xcpm_bootstrap KernelToPatch entries? Do you exclusively use the OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi file?

I don't know what else could be the problem. Also I do not understand that your supposed CPU configuration should affect your graphics performance at boot

 

[dragoonchang]

FakeCPUID I tried 0x0306F2 and 0x0306F0, then I found no different between them.
xcpm_cpuid_info patched to this 0fb6c483 c0e683f8 47.
xcpm_bootstrap patched to this 83c3bc83 fb22, and tried both on and off like you said.
and all KernelToPatch entries follow your guide.
Exclusively use the OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi, sure!


I have an E3 1230v3 old hackintosh used everyday, the old one is quite easy to install Nvidia driver, I have no idea where the problem from and how to fix it, so I am trying it.

Next time I try to disable cores to total 12 to give it a try ... result : fail ... can't even boot ...

 

[sumedhkumar]

A BIG thank you.

Finally after 3 months of trying numerous guides for hackintoshing, your guide helped me in first attempt.
installed Nvidia drivers. Now, I have to follow the rest of the guide for audio, usb, etc.

My system config:

Asus x99 Deluxe 2 Motherboard
Asus GTX 1070 Founders Edition 8gb Card
i7 6800k at stock speed. haven't tried overclocking it yet.
32 (16x2) corsair vengeance ram.
Dell 4k Monitor P2715Q

Will update regarding audio and other things soon.

 

[dragoonchang]

I can't understand what I do wrong, my 10.12.5 system can boot into system with 20% chance only, and I can only boot into system with Nvidia driver support less than 10 times (all are random, has no rules) with exactly same config.plist!

So I did a experiment to install 10.13 Beta 2, wow, I can't believe, with exactly same config.plist (okay, enable or disable Nvidia we can say same), I boot into 10.13 without any fail, not even once, the only problem right now is Nvidia support, I will try some other way to install video driver to see if the video driver cause the unstable or not. Okay, I should be honest, during installation, I saw twice reboot which seems unnormal, but after that twice, all goes well.

The lastest clover supports AFS greatly! I install 10.13 with AFS format without any problem.