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I've been having problems with hard drives disappearing when either plugged into the back usb 3 ports or via the usb 2 ports in the front since upgrading to Mojave. It was stable under Sierra (using trs' guide). I woke up this morning and my computer had restarted saying it shut down due to a...

Total noob question...I'm currently on 10.12.6 Sierra and want to update to Mojave without going through High Sierra. Are there instructions I can follow? Anything I should be aware of? Thx! HP Elite 8300 CMT Intel Core i7 (3rd Gen) 3.4GHz Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050ti Other Hardware: Fenvi...

I tried Crystal Disk Info and Samsung Magician...they both report good health. Nothing wrong with the drive.

My Samsung 850 SSD with my OSX Sierra install stalls at the apple logo, then shuts down. I can see the drive and it reports to be functioning correctly when I use the Magician software under Win 10. This is the second time this has happened. Each time I wiped the drive and reinstalled Sierra...

I initially had the same issue with the Fenvi card and found that exact fix too. trs96...maybe another hackintosh rookie tip to add to the guide?

Out of curiosity, has anyone gotten iTunes DRM content to play on their 8300? I've tried a number of different ways suggested by the thread above, but haven't been able to get it working.

This would be a great optional step in the guide. Worked for me as well.

OMG...Analog sound works perfect! I can't thank you enough!!!! I also installed my newly arrived Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050ti so I am super happy! :-)

I've spent an hour uninstalling and installing 2.8.8 kext and the prefpane on my 8300 i7. I was never able to get the analog option to show up. Maybe I should stick to the USB Audio stick. :-(

Just FYI: Amazon has a coupon for $16.67 off of $163.66 on the Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5 128 Bit PCI-E Graphic Card (GV-N105TD5-4GD). Not the greatest of deals, but 1050 Tis have been hard to come by under $150 lately with all of the hype around this particular build. EDIT: Deal...

Thanks trs96! I ran the Magician software and it said it was "good" and didn't see any problems physically with it. I also upgraded the firmware to be safe. I'm now in the process of booting from the mac recovery partition, but it is S-L-O-W. I'll let you know how it ends up. Update #1...

What do you think the best course of action is? Reformat the SSD and hope to do a clean reinstall? or do you think the disk is done for?

It is a Samsung 850 SSD 500GB that is about 6 months old

Here is a screenshot of the last line before it shuts down...

I had everything working, but I tried to boot into Sierra today and at the Apple loading screen it gets to about 75% then the computer shuts itself down. Tried this about four times with the same result. Booting into Win 10 on a separate hard drive works fine. What should I do? Thanks in advance.