[GUIDE] Sierra on the GA-Z170X-UD3

[MacInTheNet]

Sorry... I wasn't home for two days... I promise I'll do it this evening : )

edit: hi, I posted my EFI as you requested plus some tips but my posts have been moved to a forum section I can't access. Perhaps I did something wrong. Let's catch up tomorrow eventually. Bye

 

[PFG]

Thanks a lot that will really help.

 

[MacInTheNet]

Hi, I don't know if you read my edit yet. Yesterday I uploaded a zip file with my EFI and wrote some suggestions. Perhaps my posts were not ok because I referred to another website from where I took some tips.
BTW, I just installed Sierra and nothing changed on my performance.
Now, I'm gonna install High Sierra again and after I'll upload my config and some details, this time without adding anything referred to external websites, hoping that would be ok.

 

[PFG]

I'm Ok now. Using Unibeast 8 I was able to update to High Sierra
Just left with from crappy icons now

 

[MacInTheNet]

good : )

 

[gougou7319]

did you find a solution to this problem?

Unable to solve

 

[leophan]

I use Multibeast for post installation. If I choose to use default system definition (iMac14,2) everything work fine, but if I choose another option like iMac17,1 or MacPro6,1, the system half boot and then goes black screen. What happen with my system and how can I fix this?

 

[Henties]

My Skylake as well as my Haswell build have been working like a dream with High Sierra since October 2016
Recently I reinstated an unpatched AppleGraphicsControl.kext and decided to "test use" graphic fix with Lilu and NvidiaGraphicsFixup.kext in order to prevent the "black screen" syndrome. The authors recommend that these 2 kexts be placed in Clover... /other, which I have done. When I place these kexts in /Library/Extensions, as the recently released Multibeast 10 indeed does, they are ineffective on my builds at least.
I will retain this method as it works rather well, in addition it removes one more "headache" during update time.
I am on apfs with trim enabled. Files have been attached.
Enjoy or destroy.

 

[skontel]

Quick question for folks on this board: any issues with the optical drive disappearing? I've had fairly persistent issues. Typically what I'll do is rip a movie from a DVD in the optical drive (a bluray-read, dvd-write capable drive connected via AHCI using ATAPI, bd-rom hl-dt-st bd-re UH10LS20 LG drive), the rip will finish, I'll right-click the drive on the desktop and select eject, and the disk will disappear but the drive bay won't open. After that, the OS doesn't even see the drive any more. If I force the drive bay open and put in a different disk nothing happens, the drive just dies. In fact I think it loses power. I seem to have to reboot. Sometimes when I reboot the drive will get power but disks won't mount. Time passing and reboots are the only resolution.

I followed the directions in this guide, so I didn't install any ahci_thirdparty sata whatever kexts.

Could it have anything to do with how the BIOS is set up with respect to UEFI/legacy? Frustrating issue. Thanks.

Just curious, did you ever get anywhere with this? From other places I've read that disabling "put hard disks to sleep" in the energy settings can fix this. But I need to put disks to sleep, as my machine is on 24/7, and I have four HDDs in...

 

[aol]

Just curious, did you ever get anywhere with this? From other places I've read that disabling "put hard disks to sleep" in the energy settings can fix this. But I need to put disks to sleep, as my machine is on 24/7, and I have four HDDs in...

Nope, still getting the issue sporadically on Sierra. I'm in progress moving to High Sierra, hoping that maybe the issue will resolve itself, and I don't rip many DVDs, so it's something that comes up every few months. I'll make a note to try turning off put hard disks to sleep.. but that seems excessive. If I have to choose, I guess I'd rather take the wonky won't eject every couple months behavior. Thanks though.