Recent content by veriatech

Thank you for your reply trs96! I think I'm going to give ElCapitan a go. The graphics card in this build is an NVidia GTX 560 so no pascal based gfx to worry about. Now, I just need to get to the installer, which always seems to be a challenge. Is the UniBeast path still a good route or is...

Hello All, I am currently in the process of repairing a friend's build. His SSD has failed which I built for him 5 years ago. It had Mavericks on it and was running great for the past 5 years. So, we've got a new hard drive and ready to install but probably won't be going with High Sierra...

Thank you! Yes, but I will tell you it has not been without much persistence and experience in the Hackintosh world, that's for sure. This about my 10th build / upgrade and this is for one of my friends I set this up for many years ago, and now she is needing the latest and greatest OS in...

Does anyone have any experience or luck getting USB 3.0 to work on the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 motherboard? I have everything in my build working except for USB 3.0. I have spent ALL day trying many things, to no avail. Thanks in advance for any help!

Hello All, I am having a most difficult time trying to get USB 3.0 up and running on this GA-X79-UD5 board. I have tried quite a few things, including installing the USBXHCI_FL1009.kext file, to no avail. Has anyone had any success getting USB 3.0 up and running with this mobo?

After a few days of persistence, I finally have success with the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 & NVIDIA GTX 670 config! Funny thing was that I was able to get to the installer and get Sierra installed using UniBeast! The key with this mobo and gfx combo is to add the npci=0x3000 line and the...

Thanks for the reply charliespringer007! However, it looks like his Dropbox files aren't there anymore. Any ideas where I might be able to get those files? Thanks again!

One more thing... I have no idea about UEFI but I do know that I cannot get my GA-X79-UD5 to boot in any other mode other than Legacy boot mode using the BIOS. UEFI is an absolute joke. It does not work and I have no idea what it even does. Even though the GA-X79-UD5 is supposed to be UEFI...

Just curious, why is there no mention of "UniBeast" or "MultiBeast" in this guide? Isn't that was this site - tonymacx86.com is all about? For a "non computer person", there sure are some very technical terms discussed and a lot of vague information... just sayin'... Using UniBeast and...

Hello All, So, I have been successfully running my build on version 10.8.5 for quite a while now and wish to get current, up to Yosemite. What steps should I take to do so? Hopefully I don't need to start from scratch. I'm looking for the quickest upgrade path as possible. Thanks in...

Yep, found the guides, and it was indeed a help. I managed to get Mavericks loaded (upgrading from Lion) on the system and am now encountering a very nasty bug, or so it would appear. My Finder app on the system is freezing and I cannot access any of my files while using the Finder windows. I...

Hey all! I am currently helping a friend (that I built one of these rigs for) get upgraded from Lion to Mavericks. Is there a clean way to do this? This isn't an "install from scratch" op, is it? The only caveat of the system I built for him that we've encountered is that it requires the...

Best thing I can recommend, from personal experience, is to boot into safe mode, assuming you have the Chimera Bootloader installed. Do you know how to activate the Chimera bypass area (go into additional options then hit the tab key with your main ML drive highlighted)? You'll need to supply...

Ok, so I too had the freezing issue... pretty much same hardware specs: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Mobo EVGA Geforce GTX 660Ti Since I have my system loaded with HDs (I have 7 internals), I also have external drives, mainly USB 3 & ESATA. So, I disconnected my external drives and my freezing...

Happy to report Mountain Lion is installed! I ran Multibeast with EasyDSDT and a few other options (audio, network, etc.) and all is working. I had to make sure these properties were in that one file in the /Extra folder (cant remember the name of it): npci=0x3000 PCIRootUID=0...