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Any thoughts anyone?

Hey all. Long time Hackintosher here. I've been sticking with Yosemite forever simply because, well..it worked, and it worked reliably. I had an oldschool installation on my SSD using Chimera, quirky booting sometimes but once it was running, it would run for months at a time. I tried a...

Got it running again, physically took the HD out and connected it to my iMac, overwrote clover with Chameleon again, and reinstalled in the hack. I'm pretty paranoid about trying clover again now.

Hey everyone. I'll try to keep it short. I have a long running Yosemite install that was working well. Decided it was time to finally upgrade to ElCap, but it seemed like switching to Clover was a prerequisite. So, that didn't go well - originally I had planned to install it to a USB...

Cloned, booted from clone, performance normal again. Formatted SSD, started restore of ~220 gigs of data to the SSD. 6 hours later it's only 3/4 done. I think I have a physical hardware problem with the SSD. I see no other possible explanation at this point.

Trim is now enabled, and confirmed. Rebooted...no improvement. Blackmagic speed test still showing only about 25m/sec write, and 5-10m/sec read. Thinking I'll boot from my clone, reformat the SSD and then restore to it and see if that helps. Not sure what else to do here.

Ok, I used the Trim Enabler app to reenable trim after the upgrade...and it shows that trim is active...but after you mentioned it I looked in my system profile and it shows it isn't. This all came on after my SSD accidentally filled up a few nights ago, so I'm guessing this isn't...

I did. :) I tracked the issue back to my SSD. Not sure what's going on but it's slowed to an absolute crawl. Blackmagic speed test would barely register its read rate. Running some diagnostics on it now.

Performed the 10.10.3 upgrade a few days after release. Upgrade was flawless direct via the appstore upgrade process, didn't even lose audio. That said, my performance since then has been, for lack of better words, choppy or jerky. I'm getting frequent freezes that last anywhere from a...

OK guys...decided to work on this tonight. Used my ROM/MLB from my genuine iMac that I'm now posting this message from...because my hack won't boot. Ugh. Won't boot from my clone drive either which was cloned *before* I made any changes whatsoever..and it was running perfectly. I've...

Carbon Copy Cloner. I keep a clone of my system HD anytime I do a major system change that may result in oddities or a panic...and it's saved my butt a few times. It makes an exact bootable clone.

Sandisk SDSSDP-256G-G25 I expected write speeds to be slower than a lot of the competition but it was a relatively inexpensive drive. I'm quite pleased with the read speeds though which in the grand scheme of things is what I wanted. ;)

Ditto question from me - I have an old Macbook Core Duo (the very first gen original white model) that is all but dead as the Wifi is dead and the keyboard is flaky. It hasn't even connected to the net in maybe 6 months, and if it meant I had a set of genuine numbers to work with I'd be more...

Following up for the benefit of anyone with similar problems down the road. I completely removed my org.chameleon.Boot.plist and sure enough, aside from not autobooting to my primary partition, the system came up perfectly. I never did isolate what was in there causing the KP, but the system...

Bump...anyone with any insight? I'd really like to get the system native bootable before I overwrite my old safety-net clone of ML - only then will I feel comfy working on some other problems such as my lack of sound, etc..