BitterMelon's "Chip" build: GA-Z77N-WIFI - i5-3570K - HD 6870

[Stork]

I want to install 10.8.5...I currently have MB 5.1.3 and installed up to 10.8.4. Should I update MB to the 6.0 version? It looks much different that the old version (maybe I can use 5.5). Very confusing with the three different modes it runs in...

Can someone post a screenshot of the settings needed for this build using the 6.0 version of MB?

Thanks!

Use MultiBeast 5.5.3 for Mountain Lion. MultiBeast 6 is for Mavericks only.

 

[iMaty]

I'm running on Maverick almost 5 hours and everything works fine, coolest system ever made - it's super fast. I have same build as bittermelon, but another graphic card - nvidia gtc 650.

 

[EddyMac]

I have the same build, except I don't have the graphics card, just using the Intel HD4000.

This system has been running fine under Mountain Lion and today I am trying to update this to Mavericks. I have my Unibeast stick ready (already used it to update another Hack). I turn on the computer with my USB stick in the one of the front USB ports, hold down F12 to get the boot menu and choose my USB stick. After a few moments I'm presented with Chimera's choice of USB or my regular boot drive to boot from, I choose USB, and then a few moments later I get a kernel panic. Done this twice now. Anyone have any tips? I did notice that in the list of boot drive options, my regular SSD boot drive that has ML on it is preceded by UEFI whereas my Kingston USB drive is not? Is that a problem and if so, how do I fix it? Thanks in advance for any and all help.

 

[Stork]

EddyMac,
Try rebuilding the UniBeast USB thumb drive. If that doesn't work and you still get KP, get another USB thumb drive as some thumb drives are problematic. UniBeast 3 works like a champ.

 

[munitor]

How did you do the update to Mavericks? Did you have to reinstall everything, or just do the upgrade?

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Okay, after screwing up building the USB drive a couple of times by not putting Mavericks in the expected folder (duh), I did the update and it is working well. Didn't have to reinstall anything. PleaseSleep won't run because it doesn't have a version for 10.9, but everything else seems to be working remarkably well.

 

[EddyMac]

EddyMac,
Try rebuilding the UniBeast USB thumb drive. If that doesn't work and you still get KP, get another USB thumb drive as some thumb drives are problematic. UniBeast 3 works like a champ.

Thanks Stork. Weird that this same stick just worked twice for my other Hack. Anyway, I'll try your suggestion of rebuilding the Unibeast thumb drive.

I remember when building the Unibeast drive the other day, it asked me at some point if I wanted to use legacy USB support or something like that. I said yes. Could that be why it works for my older Sandy Bridge build but not for this Ivy Bridge one? In remaking the Unibeast thumb drive, what choice should I make at that point? Legacy or not?

 

[EddyMac]

I remade the Unibeast stick and didn't choose the legacy USB option. Installed went fine. Everything seems to be running fine except my HW Monitor is now only showing hard drive temps. Before, it showed CPU temps also. No big deal.

 

[Stork]

I remade the Unibeast stick and didn't choose the legacy USB option...

Legacy is for the Lynnfield i3/i5/i7 (1st gen) and earlier systems.

 

[phatsweep]

Just reporting in that I have this same setup almost verbatim (with eVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST) and Mavericks is running great on it. Only issue was iMessages not activating (never had this problem before), but the FileNVRAM-1.1.2 fix worked perfectly.

 

[fuey]

I have basically the same setup but with a different graphics card (GTX 650).

Issues I have run into.

-Safari can not play youtube video's before and after the flash player update (freezes/hangs machine).
-Sound sometimes crackles when playing videos through chrome on youtube (chrome youtube works).
-Bluetooth sometimes drops on reboot or during usage (using onboard bluetooth with both antennas attached which was stable on 10.8.2).

I got around the Safari bug by using chrome (I would like to use safari as it was supposed to be improved).

The audio crackling every now and again when watching youtube videos is almost a deal breaker and I kind of want to go back to ML.

Maybe I did something wrong in Multibeast.

I clicked :
Quick Start > DSDT Free
Drivers > Audio >Realtek ALCxxx > Without DSDT > ALC892 (HDAEnabler auto ticks and is greyed)
Disk > TRIM Enabler > 10.9 TRIM Patch
Misc > USB 3.0 - Universal by Zenith432
Network > Lnx2Mac's RealtekRTL81xx v0.0.90
Bootloaders > Chimera v2.2.1
Customize >Boot Options > Gernerate CPU States / Hibernate Mode - Desktop / Use KernelCache
System Definitions > Mac mini 6,2
Themes > Mac Pro > tonymacx86 Black

Is it possible to roll back to the 10.8.4 audio from Mavericks as I saw a post in this long topic of a user rolling back from 10.8.5 audio to 10.8.4. If so, how would I go about doing that? Thanks in advance.

I fixed the imessenger issue with the FileNVRAM.dylib file but went poking around the imessenger settings and saw the account was not enabled. After that, I have not been able to get it working again.

EDIT iMessenger fix:
I followed the deleting plist and ethernet, reboot and adding ethernet back (plist regenerates) process in this youtube vid and it got my imessnger working. I left my FileNVRAM.dylib file there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwD7F4NlRUM

EDIt 2: Youtube on Safari seems to be working now and I think the sound is not crackling on Safari. I installed a lot of video players to increase the codecs I had. Not sure if that helped.