Recent content by jamesmcd

As per title... Last time I did a setup it was on Sierra, and that needed to be spoofed to Skylake. Do we still need to do this or has Apple included Kaby Lake support in High Sierra?

Hey all, I'd like to install High Sierra on my Surface Pro 4 (i7 2.2Ghz 8GB RAM). I know touch won't work, but it will be a "fun" project. Can it be installed internally, or do I need to use a USB 3 drive? I'm guessing a microSD card is too slow (but it would be a discreet install)...

Double bump?

Bump?

Hey all, With both built-in and USB external audio, this machine is too loud to begin with. At one volume notch it's ok, but if you turn it up to 5 notches you can hear it distorting internally, i.e. it's not the speakers crapping out. Anyone else come across this? BIOS change perhaps? Cheers, J

Holy crap. Er... I don't suppose there's something prebuilt for this motherboard that we can just install/copy over??

I've got an external powered hard drive, and it's not mounting or showing up in Disk Utility or System Profiler. I've tried all the USB ports. Fairly urgent problem :( This is the Z270X Gaming 5 board. Update: It's mounting on the USB 2.0 ports, but none of the 3.0 or 3.1 ports. It's a 3.0...

I'll have a look for it. I've got it all working now but it sounds like this is a good feature to enable. Thanks for the info.

Bit disappointed. I was running a GeekBench test and had a system shut down halfway through. Temperature is fine, BIOS is up to date and water cooler working well. Anyone else getting this?

OP have you updated your BIOS? There was a known fault. They stuffed up the voltage values on the auto clocking for Kaby Lake and it runs way too hot.

Oh! I chucked FakePCIID.kext and FakePCIID_Intel_HDMI_Audio.kext into my EFI----->10.12 folder and suddenly my audio works! Thanks for your solutions!

If I were you, I'd be using a decent external USB sound card/device anyway. Board sound drivers are so damn dicky. Yeah CPU is a piece of **** once you know how. Bookmark this post and put on a message when you have your system all set up and I'll put in steps. What's your timeline anyway...

Still an outstanding issue - I think this is my last problem!

Yes. The CPU has to be spoofed which is easy to do, but you might need advice on the process. I haven't got sound working yet, other than via USB (which will always generally work without drivers). Other than on board sound, I think everything is working now. What GPU are you looking at...

Ok, hmm, this *seems* to have been solved by removing the extra drive from the boot order in BIOS. It doesn't have an OS so I removed it to keep things tidy - and yeah - it seems to now show up and mount in macOS. I'll keep an eye on it.