Recent content by bluewavemaui

After much intense learning I switched video cards to an NVidea GTX 980 Ti Classified and got a working system with graphics running smoothly. Thanks to everyone for their help especially BoomR and his extremely well written install here BoomR's 360/VR Production Build I will post in the builds...

So If I understand correctly I have a Gigabyte Mobo - so I set to IGFX and plug in the Mobo Graphics out put and not into the 480?

I did the kext edits on the 4100 and 9510... and this caused my hackintosh to be unable to boot...spent many frustrating hours , even undoing the change, but still had problems..almost ready to bail, many hours & $ spent, but cannot get a working version...not giving up yet but getting weary...

Can you explain how you when in the process of making these changes "unplug display cable" and when do you plug it back" ??

Ok thanks for that, I have the hidden files showing by doing the following In Terminal, type or paste the following: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES Press return after that. Hold the ‘Option/alt’ key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch. Now...

I have Sierra 10.12.4 running and my machines boots, this was huge for me to get this far... ;-). I have a Radeon Sapphire 480 8gb - I tried following the procdure at https://www.theitsage.com/install-radeon-rx-480-gpu-macos-sierra/ but I have several issues 1. I do not have a...

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm learning as I go, had some doubts but with a little more research the answers do come along..it a process, I'm enjoying the ride...aloha...

I got Sierra up and running, internet and able to restart and boot to OSX... Now I need to edit some kexts to get my Radeon Sapphire 480 Nitro working... Maybe a dumb question, but how do I edit a kext , I know the part about putting it in the kext wizard after I edit, what do you use to...

OK I Managed to get the Samsung Formatted and did install Sierra will attempt post install items

I have a 32" monitor and did not see the disk utility at the top left when I got the welcome screen. Now my Samsung SSD is recognized, but I cannot select partition from disk utility... what can I do the get Disk utility to partition my SSD?

Thanks - I'm not clear about using Clover and entering boot args...do I make a backup of Sierra from my Macbook to the USB Drive, then enter my drive and make all edits on the USB in the Macbook, than essential restore it to the Hackintosh?

Cannot get past this no drives are recognized. Help appreciated... Hardware: GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-UD5 EVGA SuperNova 750 80+ Samsung 850 500GB SSD 2 x Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 500GB AMD RX 480 Sapphire Nitro 8gb 2 x 16 Crucial Ballistix Memory EVGA 750 G3