miramar's Zomac - Zotac Z77ITX - i5 3570K - HD4000 - Mini-ITX - Mountain Lion

[Noodle]

No problem, bobrakov. I'm using it as reference, not using it directly. Just hope it not mislead others.

BTW, you have duplicate device definition for your wireless card. Check device PXSX and device ARPT. Both under "RP01" and both have address Zero. you should either modify PXSX directly or rename it to ARPT.

Thanks

Noodle

Sorry - should have mentioned that. I don't use HDMI audio. I do use toleda's AppleHDA.kext, but did not apply his DSDT edits for HDMI audio. I did edit the HDEF section so analog sound works.

You can add his edit's yourself - or if you'd like I can and re-upload.

 

[SpikeNY]

I just got the H77 version of the board. I updated to the version of the bios I found searching on here for the unlocked MSR or whatever it's called. Upon updating the bios, machine boots fine, but every time I try to enter the bios, it crashes. I even replaced the bios with an official version (not the original version I had, but an updated one). Still crashes upon entering bios. I have no clue what to do. Any chance the bios has issues with my i3-3225?

 

[minihack]

SpikeNY - I hope that the bios you flashed to your H77 was not the unlocked Z77 board bios......that is not a good thing to do.
Go to the Zotac site and get the right bios for your board http://www.zotac.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=100307&lang=en&vmcchk=1&Itemid=100307 and then try to re-flash using the tools Zotac provide. Hope you have luck.

I see on the website it does not yet say that the i3 3225 has been tested, but I imagine it should work, did it work before you flashed the bios the first time?

 

[Noodle]

H77ITX-A-E has a modified BIOS in forum.

Noodle

 

[miramar]

Hi all, sorry for keeping quiet for so long. 10.8.2 is out so it's time to do an update soon but to make life more interesting, I'll be changing over to the patched samisnake BIOS and Toleda's new HDMI audio edits. Will keep the thread updated.

Just to refresh: I'm now using i7 3770k with 16GB ram. Everything else is unchanged.

Update:
Just updated to the patched BIOS and the Zomac rebooted fine. Still using my old DSDT posted here so I'm not sure why some of you are having KPs. Maybe it's AICPUPM as it is still the patched one. I'm now going to revert it to the original 10.8.0 version. (AICPUPM was not updated in 10.8.1 nor 10.8.2)

AICPUPM reverted to original unpatched 10.8.0 version and system is fine. PStates are slightly different.
MSRDumper PStatesReached: 16 23 25 34 35 37 (Now)
vs
MSRDumper PStatesReached: 16 22 25 33 34 37 (Previously)

 

[SpikeNY]

SpikeNY - I hope that the bios you flashed to your H77 was not the unlocked Z77 board bios......that is not a good thing to do.
Go to the Zotac site and get the right bios for your board http://www.zotac.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=100307&lang=en&vmcchk=1&Itemid=100307 and then try to re-flash using the tools Zotac provide. Hope you have luck.

I see on the website it does not yet say that the i3 3225 has been tested, but I imagine it should work, did it work before you flashed the bios the first time?

Thanks for the reply. I did actually use the hacked H77 bios. I reset CMOS, and it booted. Problem is CMOS has to be reset every boot. I can't even get into the BIOS until I reset CMOS, no matter whether I boot into Windows, ML, or a dos boot disk. Same thing happens if I use the official bios. Worked fine until the newer bios. If I had to guess, the newer bios Zotac released has bugs with the i3-3225. I wish the old bios was on their web site. I'll e-mail tech support. Thanks again.

 

[flipphos]

Hi Miramar,

Great build and thanks a lot for sharing the update!

Would you mind share your "extra" folder? I am building a similar customac as yours, having Zotac Z77ITX + i7 3770S + Corsair Ripjaws 8Gx2 RAM. I am having KP now unless I use the -f switch. NIC/WIFI are both working. It would be nice to have your "extra" folder as reference for troubleshooting. Thanks!

Later on, if everything goes well, I'll add a GT 640.

flipphos

update: 1.after flashing the patched BIOS, the kp was gone. But I am not sure if QE/CL is enabled.
2. CPU power management works, as I can see from the HW monitor that the CPU shifts among 3465MHz, 3069MHz, 2871 MHz, 2772 MHz and 1585 MHz (by running Kext Utility), which look like states of 34, 30, 28, 27, 15. I guess I might miss one value between 27 and 15, but I don't know.
3. Sleep and wake up works.
4. I put on a power meter. By running Kext Utility, The power meter shows max 48W at 3465MHz and 25W at 1585 MHz.
5. I put on a thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint (FRU 55Y9053), which is plug and play, including the trackpoint.

 

[iSchniper]

Hi miramar,


got 10.8.2 fully working with pretty the same build. Needed to replace IOAHCIFamily.kext, AppleHDA.kext and AppleACPIPlatform.kext to get this done. Anyway now everything is working pretty well

 

[SpikeNY]

Update on my build:

After contacting tech support, I found out the problem with the new bios. I had not updated it with the required command line flags. Feel like an idiot. I have the H77 version of the board working near perfectly with the hacked bios. Most importantly to me, sleep works flawlessly. dual monitors working with the HD4000. Got the audio working with miramar's DSDT and the kext from multibeast. Don't have the wireless working, but don't care. I'll worry about it at some point.

Surprised how fast it is. i3-3225 and sandforce SSD. I think it's mostly the SSD that makes it feel so fast, which is the primary reason I didn't just buy a real Mac mini. Thanks for this guide.

 

[Noodle]

Wireless fix, just add follow method into your RP01\PXSX

                    Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                    {
                        Store (Package (0x0C)
                            {
                                "AAPL,slot-name", 
                                Buffer (0x08)
                                {
                                    "AirPort"
                                }, 
                                "device-id", 
                                Unicode ("*"), 
                                "device_type", 
                                Buffer (0x08)
                                {
                                    "AirPort"
                                }, 
                                "model", 
                                Buffer (0x35)
                                {
                                    "Atheros 928x 802.11 a/b/g/n Wireless Network Adapter"
                                }, 
                                "subsystem-id", 
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                     0x8F, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                                }, 
                                "subsystem-vendor-id", 
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                     0x6B, 0x10, 0x00, 0x00
                                }
                            }, Local0)
                        DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                        Return (Local0)
                    }

I have H77ITX-A-E too, everything working great. Only built-in bluetooth, I can get it work, but it cannot get sleep (wake immediately), and magic mouse multi-finger operation could cause system slow response. So I just leave it alone.

BTW, I'm not using AppleHDA from multi beast, instead, I use the version for Mountain lion. Working fine so far.

Update on my build:

After contacting tech support, I found out the problem with the new bios. I had not updated it with the required command line flags. Feel like an idiot. I have the H77 version of the board working near perfectly with the hacked bios. Most importantly to me, sleep works flawlessly. dual monitors working with the HD4000. Got the audio working with miramar's DSDT and the kext from multibeast. Don't have the wireless working, but don't care. I'll worry about it at some point.

Surprised how fast it is. i3-3225 and sandforce SSD. I think it's mostly the SSD that makes it feel so fast, which is the primary reason I didn't just buy a real Mac mini. Thanks for this guide.