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I use the same WD caviar black I mentioned early as my backup. One for the boot drive and one for the backup. Probably overkill performance-wise for a backup, but I keep it as a bootable backup so when I reformat or upgrade primary boot drives I can use it without missing a beat.

I second WD hdds. I've been running a WD Caviar Black for 12 years. No hiccups ever. It's been reformatted, wiped, zero'd, who knows how many times. It was my boot drive (Windows and MacOS dual boot) for 8 of those years. The last four years it's been my extra storage to supplement my SSD like...

Thanks for this - SoundFlower working on 10.13.6.

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/app-failed-to-download-use-the-purchased-page-to-try-again.292058/

Deleted. I thought this was post install. Hope you get this figured out.

I’ve gone through the OpenCore guide and installed High Sierra with a very vanilla package (no DSDT/SSDT needed). EVERYTHING works except for the App Store. I can search and view everything in the store, but I can’t download any apps. I get an error that says “Failed to Download, Use the...

SOLVED!!! I loaded the backup bios and thankfully it wasn’t messed with! Apparently a decade ago when I first hacked my pc I had to use DSDT edits to patch the BIOS and I’ve forgotten/don’t know how to remove them. If all else fails load the backup bios!! Ctrl+F10 at POST will allow you to copy...

Thanks for that. I will do some digging. Back when hacks first started coming around, you'd have to patch DDSTs. Maybe I had to do that... IDK it's been a decade!

Okay... here's the deal. I flashed the BIOS four times... FOUR TIMES. I put Ubuntu on a fresh, clean, never-before-used USB. Booted into Ubuntu and opened Terminal. dmidecode. This lists out all the hardware that's relevant. Everything is showing APPLE! There's something effed with this mobo...

Yeah that’s the crazy thing - all drives are removed except the Ubuntu usb. And memtest86 is still pulling in Apple SMBIOS info. I’ll boot into Ubuntu later and see what it has to show. If it shows in Ubuntu then the board has something modified. It may not have been clover that did that, as...

that old version is the version that is included with Ubuntu. I was already using the newest version that I downloaded and created a bootable USB with but you told me to create a Ubuntu drive so that is what I did. Should I boot into the Ubuntu live, download mem test and create a bootable from...

I’ve That’s what I’ve been doing, using the jumper. Power off, short the cmos reset pins with jumper for 10 seconds, remove jumper, restore power. On reboot it takes me to bios and says it’s been reset and I need to either load optimized defaults or enter bios. I’ve done both options to no...

Well I created the Ubuntu usb and ran memtest86. Guess what?! It shows the Apple SMBIOS info!! See bottom of picture. I had disconnected all drives and cleared CMOS. Did I overwrite the baseboard info somehow?? Side note: Memtest86+ in Ubuntu doesn’t support UEFI so I had to boot in bios to...

Thanks. I don't know how that applies. I'll explain a little more. Memtest86 is run by booting straight to a USB. The program does not run in Windows. I wonder how memtest86 is getting the info if it is using its own bootloader. Windows is my only drive installed. When I boot my pc it boots...

I have a bad RAM module and in order to get a warranty replacement, I have to perform a memory test with memtest86. The problem is, my system information shows all the hackintosh stuff and that's not going to fly with Corsair. How do I revert my System Information back to the default ASUS...