i7-4930K - Asus Rampage IV Extreme - 32GB RAM - GTX 770 4GB [Success!!]

[shilohh]

I just needed to tick "Optional EFI installed bootloader" with my ALC 1150 in multibeast, it worked for x79-deluxe.

Ah! Very nice Glad they put that in there. I'll fix the guide later. Updated. Thanks!

 

[misteravid]

Hi Shilohh.

I've just tried connecting both monitors to the top-most 770 (DVI and HDMI) and booted four times. Only once did I see an output - and it was the same output, in mirrored mode. On the rest, nothing appeared on either monitor - the OS X UI appeared on the second 770 on each occasion.

Perhaps discoman and I are asking too much of Mavericks in its current form. If its multimonitor support is the problem, and remains as unpredictable as this, then maybe we'll have to wait until Yosemite for it to improve.

So many thanks for the time and effort you've put into helping. But until I get the time to test with Yosemite, I'm going back to the HDMI switch between the two 770 cards, and its feed into my 22-inch monitor. The 39-inch 4K Seiki will go back to being used on the HDMI output of the Decklink card. In that configuration, it seems fine.

The other alternative is for me to revert to Mountain Lion. And though that might be better in the short term, the step backward may cause me difficulties in the future, as applications like Resolve will eventually leave that OS behind.

I'm going to be busy working for the next month or two - by which time Yosemite might have reached full release, and we can talk about it here properly. Perhaps we can revisit this issue then.

In the meantime, again - many thanks.

Cheers.

 

[misteravid]

The screenshot you sent was of the folder "/Library/Extensions" not "/System/Library/Extensions" - so the kexts were not there. KextBeast copies the extension files from the Desktop to /S/L/E, not /L/E.

I've noticed however, that some installers (especially some from Blackmagic, Avid, Promise and ATTO) DO place extensions in /L/E. These are key manufacturers in the DIT world, so it's a good observation that this is another place to look for their drivers.


It's a personal point of view, but I always try to make sure I note down the IP address assigned by the DHCP server. If the DHCP server fails, you can still connect to the network because you've noted down the IP address that the server gives you. If you absolutely must connect before the server is back working again, then you can then enter it manually.

This is why I said add 10 to the last number of the address of a computer that's successfully seeing the internet. So that it's not the same address, and also so that it's not likely to be in conflict with anything else you have on your network. Most people don't have 10 devices on their network, so it should be safe. Just remember to keep that number no higher than 253 (e.g. 192.168.1.253).

There may yet be something more serious wrong however. You've plugged your ethernet cable in at both ends. The the lights on the ethernet ports you've used at both ends are lit and flashing. The Network status on System Preferences says 'Connected'. Yet your IP address is still self-assigned. Try a manual IP address similar to a known, working one, as suggested. And see how you get on.


You can make a computer that's perfectly fine for editing using a simpler Unibeast/Multibeast installation. It's a different way of doing it to Clover. But as a relative newcomer to this, it's a gentler way to start, and easier to learn. That being said, you've already gotten a long way down the road using shilohh's excellent guide. It's probably worth staying with it, now that you've worked out the sound.


I use disk cloning programs like SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner because that's precisely what they do - clone the disk, file by file. Time Machine (as far as I'm aware) is a generational backup utility - copying off only what it needs to backup each time, rather than the whole disk. This would appear to be more efficient - but you can't boot from a Time Machine backup an emergency, or in a development environment like we're doing.

Your earlier video showed 2.5 minutes of the 'fsck' routine trying to verify your boot disk was OK - and eventually giving up. If you must trust this disk again, do a format in Disk Utility using the Secure Erase Options - filling the disk with zeroes is usually good enough. If there is a physical fault, then this format will most-likely fail as it tries to write to every available sector on the unit. Then you'll know for sure that it's bad. But the safe play is to simply avoid using a disk that has failed three consecutive fsck tests. The choice though, of course, is yours.

2.5" spinning disks of - say - 40 to 60GB are big enough to use for OS installation testing and are now pretty cheap. SSDs of similar size are more expensive, but will speed your boot/reboot processes up during testing. Then once you've gotten a stable installation you're happy with, repeat the process on the disk drive you really want to use going forward. And at the end, your final testing drive will be a 2.5-inch emergency-boot drive that you can use to troubleshoot the same computer via a USB or eSATA enclosure.

If you want to talk privately about data wrangling, editing, DIT and areas of video post-production work, then I'd be happy to. But I'd recommend you also check out The Clubhouse area of the forums, in System Usage -> Video. If you want to start a thread there youself, you'll get a larger spectrum of opinions and ideas on the things you want to know. There are already several threads there that might interest you too.

Best of luck.

 

[photomathon]

The RipjawsZ are made for X79 so they should be fine. I think your last link was connected to your old RAM.

Thank you Shilohh !!! Yep, memory sticks are doing good. As per suggestion, ran a tester, and they are fine. I have no idea what this is going on. - Didn't sleep last night. but I got a few tricks.
Like OS Type has to be Other OS ... after reseting the MB, I was getting nowhere because that. Feel so stupid, but so smart when I founded out! HA !

This is the BIOS I'm running now.



For all what I'm reading looks might be the voltage ... (I'm running stock speeds, not OCing yet).
CPU has 1.416v (with 136.4 F) How much should I increase to?

I also see that the memories are kind of slow ... 1333 MHz, they are supposed to go up to 2133, right?

Found out everything was DISABLE in the fan speed control panel. Turn everything on.
Besides the BeQuiet DarkRock 3 (with an extra 120 fan), I have two fans in the front and two in the back. Are these dragging my voltage? - going to try disconnect the front ones. -Although se source power can pull up to 1000w.

That's all for now.

 

[shilohh]

For all what I'm reading looks might be the voltage ... (I'm running stock speeds, not OCing yet).
CPU has 1.416v (with 136.4 F) How much should I increase to?

I also see that the memories are kind of slow ... 1333 MHz, they are supposed to go up to 2133, right?

Found out everything was DISABLE in the fan speed control panel. Turn everything on.
Besides the BeQuiet DarkRock 3 (with an extra 120 fan), I have two fans in the front and two in the back. Are these dragging my voltage? - going to try disconnect the front ones. -Although se source power can pull up to 1000w.

1.416v vcore is very high! Especially for stock speed. I have a stable 24/7 OC of 4.4ghz at 1.28v. The temps that you need to watch are when the CPU is under max load for a while like when running prime95 torture test for 10 min or longer. With my CPU cooler, I try not to exceed1.3v vcore.

To reach 2133 with your ram, you need to use a xmp profile or OC your memory manually. I do mine manually by starting with xmp1's settings refining the voltages. Namely, I drop my vccsa as xmp1 sets a higher vccsa than Asus and intel recommend.

Your fans shouldn't effect CPU voltages.

 

[shilohh]

Hi Shilohh.

I've just tried connecting both monitors to the top-most 770 (DVI and HDMI) and booted four times. Only once did I see an output - and it was the same output, in mirrored mode. On the rest, nothing appeared on either monitor - the OS X UI appeared on the second 770 on each occasion.

Perhaps discoman and I are asking too much of Mavericks in its current form. If its multimonitor support is the problem, and remains as unpredictable as this, then maybe we'll have to wait until Yosemite for it to improve.

So many thanks for the time and effort you've put into helping. But until I get the time to test with Yosemite, I'm going back to the HDMI switch between the two 770 cards, and its feed into my 22-inch monitor. The 39-inch 4K Seiki will go back to being used on the HDMI output of the Decklink card. In that configuration, it seems fine.

The other alternative is for me to revert to Mountain Lion. And though that might be better in the short term, the step backward may cause me difficulties in the future, as applications like Resolve will eventually leave that OS behind.

I'm going to be busy working for the next month or two - by which time Yosemite might have reached full release, and we can talk about it here properly. Perhaps we can revisit this issue then.

In the meantime, again - many thanks.

Cheers.

Hey, sorry to hear that the SSDTs for the GPUs aren't working out well. Unfortunately I don't have a 4 output card (770) in my system to test with. My 5**s are only capable of 2 outputs at a time. I think I made some headway (at least with my cards). Ive got 2 monitors connected to my 580 and 1 connected to my 570 and my resolution, mirroring off, arrangement, and menu bar settings remain as I have set them after every reboot. We can keep trying stuff for your cards if you're willing to test. Here are 4 more sets that you can try. Replace the first ones I sent you with these (one set at a time) and report your results. Please post a IORegs and System Reports saved as .spx and name them for the sets they correspond to.

 

[andersll]

I'm getting close to pulling the trigger on this build. I can only find 4x8GB 1866 Ripjaws Z where I am though, not 2133. Will this make a huge difference to the build?

 

[cwith]

Ok so I'm using a 480GB PCI-E Mercury Accelsior_E2 SSD....

Booted into Clover installer just fine and installed OS X and rebooted and finished OS X installation, but now, Mac OS drive is not showing up under clover. Do I need to change a setting in BIOS to get the PCI-E drive to be displayed?

 

[shilohh]

@cwith,
you may need to enable boot from pci expansion devices:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/members/shilohh/albums/erics-bios/89859-140405043413/

 

[cwith]

@cwith,
you may need to enable boot from pci expansion devices:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/members/shilohh/albums/erics-bios/89859-140405043413/

Thank you so much for the quick reply. I am using a Dual Overclocked GTX 770 (the one you linked), and you recommend turning CSM off. Will I run into issues now if I switch it back on to enable PCI-E boot?

Just tried switching Boot From PCI-E expansion to both UEFI and Legacy and the drive still isn't showing up in Clover.

e: SSD doesn't show up in BIOS either, but shows for a split second in the POST.