GA-Z97X-UD7 TH (rev. 1.0) Success with OS do?

[lessbones]

Yip, I have the same board, and it seems the same issue, also works well with a GTX670, as long as thunderbolt is disabled.
Which leave me feeling optimistic, as I am sure its probably something easy to fix, maybe even in osx 10.10

Yeah, i'm sure it'll be something simple-- just wondering how others are having success already... I tried clover too w/o getting anywhere-- i've got a blackmagic Ultrastudio 4k i'm itching to get up and running on this thing

 

[louden]

Follow up on my install. Here are the glitches I faced - YMMV:

- I originally had kernel panics, but:
-- followed the lead from the install guide and set XMP memory profile to profile 1, and disabled VT-d...
-- followed this thread and disabled Intel Graphics (as I'm using an added card)
-- fixed!

- Booting was slow
-- followed this thread and removed AppleThunderboltNHI.kext.
-- fixed!

- Sound not working
-- followed this thread (http://www.tonymacx86.com/audio/134002-quick-fix-onboard-audio-9-series-motherboards.html)
-- This is partially fixed. I don't have audio hooked up, but earphones work.

I'm not using any thunderbolt accessories - but will try.

Otherwise - works great. I'm using it as my new main dev machine.

This forum was a great help!

- Next up - I want to triple boot with Window 7 and Ubuntu.

 

[kao825567095]

Do you have the sleep function when using this MB?

Yes, it does. Seems like a native power management is working as it can sleep easily(would "shut down" the computer after 15sec as if it's really closed) and can be awaken by MagicTrack pad via BT/ Mouse /Keyboard.

After fixing the 9-series MB audio issue, everything looks great.

What's more, since this Board only support wired ethernet, I add wifi&BT function by installing a PCI-E based BCM94360CD(BT4.0 and 1300M 11AC wifi).It works natively.

Here is the BCM together with adapter/antenna.
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.123.0RVC0F&id=36337693711
(just for reference as it's in Chinese ==)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-antennas-...869?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43ca993c25
(it seems the seller know this is a worldwide demand)

 

[skinsfan317]

I just got the z97x ud7 th today. I previously had a working installation with the z87x-ud5h but all of the usb ports died so I ordered the ud7. I took the old motherboard out and installed the z97x. It took a little long to boot the first time but ended up booting and getting me to my home screen. Everything worked perfectly but I wanted to see if upon a second boot, the startup time would be faster. After shutting the machine down and turning back on, the machine hangs at the white screen with the apple logo on it. I waited for about 20 minutes with no progress. I decided to do a fresh install of Mavericks using Chimera because I could not get past the white screen. The install completed but when the machine restarted and I selected the new install at the bootloader, it once again hangs at the white screen with the apple logo on it. Anyone experiencing similar problem with this board? Any suggestions?

** Update: I was able to get past the hanging screen and set up my machine by using -x GraphicsEnabler=yes PCIRootUID=0 maxmem=4096

***Update 2: Graphics seem shaky. Something is going on with the drivers. I am using integrated graphics, no graphics card. Any ideas to fix graphics?

Core i7 4770k
GA-z97x-UD7 TH
16gb RAM

 

[AnneOminous]

Can you be more specific about the "9 series audio issue"?

I've been following these threads, and few seem to have working audio. So can you be a bit more specific? What do you have working? Everything? Stereo?

A few details would be appreciated.

 

[kao825567095]

Can you be more specific about the "9 series audio issue"?

I've been following these threads, and few seem to have working audio. So can you be a bit more specific? What do you have working? Everything? Stereo?

A few details would be appreciated.

sorry for being ambiguous. In fact, at the time I installed the 10.9.3, the ALC1150 on-board audio chip don't work no matter how I try different version of drivers. Fortunately, Someone solved this problem and I found the solution in this thread http://www.tonymacx86.com/audio/112458-mavericks-audio-realtek-alc-applehda-guide.html
I hope it can help you.

 

[AnneOminous]

Sorry for being ambiguous. In fact, at the time I installed the 10.9.3, the ALC1150 on-board audio chip don't work no matter how I try different version of drivers. Fortunately, Someone solved this problem and I found the solution in this thread http://www.tonymacx86.com/audio/112458-mavericks-audio-realtek-alc-applehda-guide.html
I hope it can help you.

Perhaps. Thank you for the link. But I was curious: to what extent is the sound "working"? Is it limited, like just stereo from some of the jacks? Or do you have all jacks working now, 5.1 surround, etc.?

I am just curious because I was about to buy one of these boards, but I wanted to make sure I could get at least some kind of quality sound out of it.

 

[kao825567095]

Perhaps. Thank you for the link. But I was curious: to what extent is the sound "working"? Is it limited, like just stereo from some of the jacks? Or do you have all jacks working now, 5.1 surround, etc.?

I am just curious because I was about to buy one of these boards, but I wanted to make sure I could get at least some kind of quality sound out of it.

I have no idea to what extend it works either as I only use the basic audio output function-I only use the simple 2.1 speakers,which I also use in WIN, in OS X. I not sure whether other function working or not, but you can have at least the stereo from 2 jacks(they work exactly the same, so I just picked one)

 

[Ragnar-Kon]

Just an update:

I'm still working on getting it up and running. I've reached a point where my existing knowledge of the custom Mac world is no longer helping me, so trying to learn this stuff. Going well I think, just a slow process and information regarding Thunderbolt (especially Apple's implementation of it) is super hard to come by.

Thunderbolt is 100% necessary for me on this motherboard. If I can't get the Thunderbolt working as it should, then there really is no reason to buy this motherboard over any of the non-Thunderbolt offerings by ASUS and Gigabyte. So that will be my focus for now.

 

[louden]

Perhaps. Thank you for the link. But I was curious: to what extent is the sound "working"? Is it limited, like just stereo from some of the jacks? Or do you have all jacks working now, 5.1 surround, etc.?

I am just curious because I was about to buy one of these boards, but I wanted to make sure I could get at least some kind of quality sound out of it.

FYI - My issue was that the only sound that worked was:
- front headpohone jack
- bt audio

I came here today to see if there's an update on audio - and it looks like there is! I'll update in a second.