Official CustoMac Mini 2012 Guide and Notes (in progress)

[Wibbler]

Hi Toleda,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I read the #1 post like 100 times so far...to be where I am right now....Perfectly Working Customac Mini 2012 except HDMI Audio....I am really proud of me coming through this far without single question to this forum.

I downloaded the .dml file and put it in my extra folder...this was done after the multibeast installation (because there is no extra folder before multi beast)

It listed SONY HDMI once. I was so happy. But when I restarted, I couldn't see SONY HDMI on my list of "SOUND OUTPUT"

Thanks, Ari

Are you using the bottom HDMI port on the motherboard?

I had a few wrinkles when setting up, I had more success running Multibeast (with Tony's custom DSDT) and with the Samsung HDTV I use plugged into the upper HDMI port, then rebooting and swapping the cable to the lower HDMI port. I've no idea why, but it seems to help on my set-up.

Everything works splendidly on my system *except* for iTunes playback of HD content I've bought. No matter what (I've tried the 32 bit setting fixes, various system definitions & other things that are supposed to help) it tells me my display is not HDCP compliant. I'm probably going to try with the GT 640 I own but I always find the HDMI edits/fixes a bit tricky/soul-destroying, TBH.

Also has anyone posted a mini-tutorial of all the correct bios settings on an H77N-Wifi? I didn't make any changes except making sure ACHI was going instead of IDE and checking the boot order, etc...

I don't think there is a tutorial for the BIOS, I followed The Lost Swede's guide for 7 series boards and that seemed to help with my setup:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/99-quick-guide-configuring-uefi-gigabyte-s-7-series-lga-1155-boards.html

 

[toleda]

I downloaded the .dml file and put it in my extra folder...

The downloaded file should be DSDT-GA-Z77N-WIFI-F2.aml. Rename to dsdt.aml. Install to Extra. The result is Extra/dsdt.aml.

 

[boum]

Exactly the same problem for me as you know. But I have no BR drive attached. I notice that this only happens on an apple menu selected sleep. But the regular timed sleep doesn't seem to be a full sleep if that makes sense, the power light never goes off.

I am under the impression that my long wake-up times were related to having the system drive not on /dev/disk0; it seems that, having a HDD connected to sata port 0 and another HDD connected to data port 1, if I shut down the computer, disconnect the drive on sata port 0 and connect a new one, the BIOS may report the HDD on port 1 first, which makes it /dev/disk0 and I get the several minutes wake up thing in this case.

Auto-sleep works fine for me. Perhaps have a look at your system preferences -> sharing options, as I believe that some (like internet sharing) will prevent auto-sleep. In any case, "pmset -g assertions" might help you figure what is going on.

 

[glassman2004]

Hi guys,

GA-H77N-WIFI mobo
IVYBRIDGE core i3-3225 + Gelid Slim Silence iPlus cpu fan (lower and quieter than Intel)
8Gb Corsair Vengeance CML8GX3M2A1600C9 RAM
Sandisk Extreme SATA3 6Gb/s SSD - 128Gb (a first for me)
WD10EZRX HDD
LG GH24NS90 DVD
Thermaltake Element Q mini-ITX case c.w. 220W PS
TP-Link WiFi card TL-WDN4800

now all built. Mountain Lion installed OK and working like a dream - very fast!

Had to change the Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) in the BIOS to Profile 1 to allow the memory to clock at 1600MHz instaed of 1333.

Downloading ML from the App. Store took nearly 5 hours (!!) but it worked.
Then failed to create USB drive. After some hours tearing out hair, turned out to be a faulty USB stick.
New stick sorted things out. Took a long time to create bootable stick, more like an hour instead of the claimed 15mins, but it all worked in the end!

New Dell U2412M monitor plugged in and was recognized as 1920x1200 - excellent. This monitor works well with the Customac and built in graphics, using DVI output. Video is smooth and non-jittery. Very impressive.
HDMI output works on the telly and the sound works as well!

ONLY PROBLEMs remaining:
one of the front USB ports isn't working - almost certainly a hardware fault.
the power supply fan is noisy. Particularly annoying as we spent £25 on a very quiet CPU fan.

the analogue sound from the back green port is not working.
Anyone seen this? Might be I'm missing a driver - Realtek ALC892 maybe?

I should underline all the above comments about FOLLOWing the INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER including placing the
DSDT-GA-H77N-WIFI-F2.aml
file on the desktop before running Multibeast 5.2.0.

Thanks to all you people for helping out, the experience has been great.

 

[ericliquid]

Thank you for this great build, I have almost the exactly same build but added a video card to support bigger screen, here is my build

i5 3570K,
GA-z77N-WiFi + Dell 1515w mini PCI-E wifi adapter
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 1866
EVGA 01G-P3-N988-TR GeForce 9800
Antec NEO ECO 520C 520W
COOLER MASTER Elite 120 Advanced
OCZ Agility 4 256G + Intel 330 180G

I use unibeast and multibeast 5.2 to install ML 10.8.2. Overall, everything works smoothly, thank you for making all these wonderful tools.

I use Macpro 3,1 system definition, which fixes the annoying popping noise problem of sound driver. I am not using the lan ports.

The only minor issue I've had so far is sleep.
- autosleeping does not work, I have to use pleasesleep, manual sleeping is fine.
- when waking up from sleep, I get an error if there was a USB drive plugged in. It appears the usb storage is improperly rejected and mounted again.
- If I wake up using a key press, apple wired keyboard will be disconnected. I have to unplug and replug it.

I have try all usb fix I could find in Chelemeon, no go. Any suggestions? Is there a DSDT for this mother board could fix these hiccups?

 

[cruizinmax]

Just finished my first Hackintosh/Windows 7 dual boot using this guide.

i7-3770
GA-H77N-WIFI
4gb x 2 Mushkin Blackline Memory
BITFENIX PRODIGY
Sapphire HD5770
OCZ VERTEX 4 256GB SSD-boot drive
Seagate 320gb HDD-storage only
Corsair HX650 PSU
Samsung DVD Burner

Install went very smoothly for a first timer. Downloaded ML from a macbook pro. Installed on USB drive with unibeast. Fired up the build with only 1 4gb stick of memory. No dvd burner or graphics card at first. Setup the bios. Couldn't get the installer to load at first, forgot to disable VT-whatever. Loaded right up after that. Installed with no DSDT at first. Kept getting a scrambled display after running multibeast. Was able to get back in using safe mode. Had to use the GraphicsEnabler=no boot flag. Installed the other 4gb stick of memory, dvd drive and hd5770. Had graphics right away even with GraphicsEnabler=yes. Went in to Disk Utility and shrank the SSD partition to 125GB, formatted the other 128gb to Fat32 or whatever windows would recognize. Installed Windows 7 on the partition. Reran Multibeast and installed only the bootloader. Dual boot working great at this point. Renamed the windows partion in windows to "Windows 7" so Chimera will show that instead of NTFS partion. Installed the Seagate storage drive, now bootloader shows 3 drives to choose from even though only 2 are bootable. All the guides kept saying to edit apple.com.boot.plist. Found out that is now called org.chameleon.boot.plist. Didn't realize you can just add entries to this file. Added entry to hide the partition that I renamed storage in Windows. Added entry to have Windows start by default and lengthened the timeout setting to 4 seconds. Computer is now dual booted and wife friendly. Hooked the TV up to the HDMI port on the graphics card. No HDMI on the TV. Of course through research I found you have no HDMI audio without a edited DSDT. I downloaded the pre-edited DSDT from the data base, reran multibeast with DSDT. Still no audio. Also noticed computer would now wake from sleep properly. The computer would turn on but the monitor stayed off. Changed the darkwake setting to 10 on boot.plist. Sleeps great now. Kept trying to change the layout id to see hdmi sound preferences to no avail. Thanks to Toleda for the assist. You still have to mod the DSDT if you're not using HD4000 for video. Ran the patcher scripts with DSDT Editor. HDMI audio is good to go now! Installed Fuse for OSX, NTFS-3G, and patch for error when starting OSX in order to use the storage drive. Woot!

Everything works except the onboard wifi. I have my system hooked up via a lan cable and would rather have the onboard Bluetooth. Thus far I am very satisfied with the system. I want to that Tonymac and Toleda for their invaluable info in this build.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1400269

 

[tobitobitobi]

Hi,
I have problems getting my build up and running. I have H77N mobo and i5 3570k CPU + the ssd mentioned above. I install using the latest unibeast and everything works. After that I run Multibeast with recommended settings. BUT after that I can only but with "graphicsenabler=0". Without that the turning wheel under the grey apple just stops after a while / in verbose mode I am stuck at "macx_swapon SUCCESS". PLEASE help me, I#m searching on google and trying different things since 5 hours and nothing so far has worked. Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Thank you very much guys.

 

[miramar]

Hi,
I have problems getting my build up and running. I have H77N mobo and i5 3570k CPU + the ssd mentioned above. I install using the latest unibeast and everything works. After that I run Multibeast with recommended settings. BUT after that I can only but with "graphicsenabler=0". Without that the turning wheel under the grey apple just stops after a while / in verbose mode I am stuck at "macx_swapon SUCCESS". PLEASE help me, I#m searching on google and trying different things since 5 hours and nothing so far has worked. Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Thank you very much guys.

By any chance, are you using VGA to your monitor?

 

[tobitobitobi]

By any chance, are you using VGA to your monitor?

I'm using DVI out and then DVI-VGA adptor because my screen only has vga. I don't see hd4000 in system profiler.

 

[Sticocci]

I have the same problem! I'm using VGA on the motherboard gigabyte ga-z77-ds3h with intel i3-3225. Everything works perfect except for the HD 4000! Can you tell me the exact multibeast settings to have the HD 4000 working with QE/CI?