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My Z97 Clover 4934 updated, but on the restart it the progress bar slowly got to full and just sat there. Had to reboot, and halts on boot again. To make a long story short, reboot on update was loading from the install Mojave partition (blind) and grinding to a halt. By hitting the space bar...

Today, Aug 3 I did Security Update 2019-004. (without reading about it on internet, my bad) Alarmingly, this kernel panic on load from clover screen after the start of the update process. Sierra bootst in Safe mode (hit space bar and select at clover screen) and run. It would also boot recovery...

I met with the same problem.... 1) used original USB Sierra Install stick to boot.... 2) selected normal "OS X" (the disk name of my everyday boot partition "\") 3) machine booted but no sound, large text screen etc, but it was running!!! 4) used EFI Mounter v3 to open EFI partition 5) copied...

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Yes, per Apple help desk conversation just a couple days ago. Did v.6 'live' upgrade from App Store with no problems, just reinstalled my audio kext via Multibeast.

This is a very general record of a success dual boot install of EFI version SuSe Linux "Leap 42.1" on a GA-z97mx-Gaming 5 with stable EFI (only) Clover/Yosemite 10.10.5 equipped with a SSD root and separate HDD /Users. I simply added a dedicated Linux EFI disk to the computer. Susu has...

We just changed from Mavericks to Yosemite 10.10.5. The Capture One v9 photo processing version required Yosemite so I spent a day (and a half!) switching to Clover as well. Using a Gigabyte B75 for my wife in an HP case and I have the GA-z97mx Gaming 5/4770. Microsoft Vista was such a...

My Z97m gaming 5 board is now one year old, and began locking up more and more frequently. I suspected a memory problem. It will not run more than two minutes with 4 sticks RAM. I have two sets of 2x4 Corsair DDR3 XMS sets that have run for 3 and 2 years. They ran fine in a z68 and ran fine...

NVIDIA to launch "Maxwell" based GTX 960 graphics card this month frame rate.....say that 100 times.

How about just sub-optimizing the cooler situation by leaving it as it is? Does it really make sense to equip your computer $$ cooling to deal with the heat generated by Geekbench if it is the only software that is going to make your i7 4790k get that hot? As the saying goes, you could just...

i'm using ga-z97mx-gaming5 with 4970k on 10.9.5 everything works including speed step, usb2 usb3, sleep and wake. idles at 38c, full four cores at 60-70c with low profile cooler that is quiet (see sig) I am a bit leery of Yosemite, still a tough install and a different look. I started with...

Just a reference note: X97-MX-Gaming5 has similar bios w/Mavericks 10.9.5...I had a similar problem develop over a week's initial use of a new 4790k setup/ It ran fine for a couple days after build, then cpu started drawing over 110 watt peaks with all 4 cores showing a speed of 4.GHz. I had...

Update on this build: The hardest use of this machine is processing photography. A couple days ago it was batch processing and the 80c horn started up. I quickly put up Intel Power Gadget to see the i7-4790k drawing over 100 watts spikes at 4,4Ghz. It had apparently lost its power regulation...

It is exactly my point: Those days are numbered. Hacks will still get built, but it is getting more and more complicated and Apple has already crippled key software features based on their database of serial numbers. This will continue to expand. Even Safari now has spurious messages related to...

Thanks! You are correct that we have value with what we have. None the less, and however good or bad appearances be, foresight is a virtue I shall not abandon. If one had a business need, the new Mac Retina is actually a good value. Since I am retired, not looking forward to a $2500-3000 new...