[GUIDE] El Capitan on the GA-Z170X-UD3

ritzbitz00 · Feb 19, 2017

aol said:
I know cnrd has revised the guide several times and is no longer supporting the El Cap guide, but I feel the part about generating the SSDT.aml via ssdtPRGen.sh is unclear. By trial and error I was able to finally get an SSDT.aml generated, but the guide isn't clear that it needs to be put in the acpi/patched directory in the EFI. Nothing against cnrd, this may be obvious to some but not obvious to others, just trying to fill in the gaps.

Hi AOL. I have a similar build to yours, basically identical (down to the 1060 pending support). I have been trying to reach the installer on my new build for over a month with no success. It looks like you figured it out though. I had a lot of trouble as a newbie using this guide, it skips over creating the config, bios, etc which i didn't even realize was necessary at first. I would really appreciate your help to figure out where I'm going wrong. I don't have enough posts to start a conversation, otherwise I'd have messaged directly. thank you!

bugsyraz · Feb 19, 2017

I've been on Sierra for a while and I want to switch to El Cap.

I'm also on F21 and I want to stay on this BIOS because thunderbolt works.

Anyone?

P.S. : I've followed the tutorial on making the bootable stick and I've managed to boot from it and get into the installer.

Update 2 : I've successfully installed El Capitan and it seems to run smoothly as of now.

aol · Feb 20, 2017

ritzbitz00 said:
Hi AOL. I have a similar build to yours, basically identical (down to the 1060 pending support). I have been trying to reach the installer on my new build for over a month with no success. It looks like you figured it out though. I had a lot of trouble as a newbie using this guide, it skips over creating the config, bios, etc which i didn't even realize was necessary at first. I would really appreciate your help to figure out where I'm going wrong. I don't have enough posts to start a conversation, otherwise I'd have messaged directly. thank you!

If you're having trouble reaching the installer the main things you would want to do would be
1. double check you're using just the recommended BIOS settings, maybe do a "load optimized defaults", and just change what the guide says or you feel very confident is right (your memory timing setting profile is probably safe).
2. disconnect everything except your install HD/SSD, and make sure if you're using an SSD it's a relatively recent SSD (the earliest SSDs cause issues)
3. use a USB2 port, sometimes the ports on the back work best for installs
4. connect one monitor to the DVI port on the back
5. if you have a discrete GPU it can be plugged in but just remove power from it, and in the BIOS, make sure your iGPU is enabled and has 64MB of preallocated GRAM (for now, set iGPU as primary)

Your speakers can be plugged in if you like, and ethernet. Remove any extraneous USB - just your keyboard, mouse, and the installer USB should be plugged in.

At boot make sure you boot to the USB (either use the boot selection menu or set it in the BIOS), at clover boot the installer from the USB.

WAIT. Be patient. USB is slow. Be prepared to wait 20 minutes or more. It's not great about giving you lots of feedback. On mine, i got all kinds of graphical glitches and was about prepared to give up and then the installer UI showed up.

You can boot with -v for verbose if you're having trouble and let us know where the installer is hanging. If you're insta-rebooting, use a video camera to capture the -v output and post the last couple things before it reboots.

ritzbitz00 · Feb 20, 2017

aol said:
If you're having trouble reaching the installer the main things you would want to do would be
1. double check you're using just the recommended BIOS settings, maybe do a "load optimized defaults", and just change what the guide says or you feel very confident is right (your memory timing setting profile is probably safe).
2. disconnect everything except your install HD/SSD, and make sure if you're using an SSD it's a relatively recent SSD (the earliest SSDs cause issues)
3. use a USB2 port, sometimes the ports on the back work best for installs
4. connect one monitor to the DVI port on the back
5. if you have a discrete GPU it can be plugged in but just remove power from it, and in the BIOS, make sure your iGPU is enabled and has 64MB of preallocated GRAM (for now, set iGPU as primary)

Your speakers can be plugged in if you like, and ethernet. Remove any extraneous USB - just your keyboard, mouse, and the installer USB should be plugged in.

At boot make sure you boot to the USB (either use the boot selection menu or set it in the BIOS), at clover boot the installer from the USB.

WAIT. Be patient. USB is slow. Be prepared to wait 20 minutes or more. It's not great about giving you lots of feedback. On mine, i got all kinds of graphical glitches and was about prepared to give up and then the installer UI showed up.

You can boot with -v for verbose if you're having trouble and let us know where the installer is hanging. If you're insta-rebooting, use a video camera to capture the -v output and post the last couple things before it reboots.

Thanks for replying!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_iNb5okBrzLRTNTOU42VWV2UGs

the only think here i wasn't already doing was DVI. i have been using an hdmi cable and using a fix listed in the guides to work with it. I've gone through about 5 different builds of the clover usb at this point, so I'm not entirely sure what to say I have and haven't done, but this error came from the latest, using an hdd only, an hdmi and a usb made without unibeast (barebones with terminal built installer and clover installed on the efi). i tried aptio 1 and 2 but i get the same error. i think my gram was set to 256 but ill check again.

I'm currently rebuilding my usb on a usb2 stick to remove any complications, I'm going to try your dvi suggestion but afterwards I'd appreciate if i could get your clover build and/or config. I'm using a 6600k but if you let me know what files/configs relate to cpu i might be able to swap them out

aol · Feb 21, 2017

ritzbitz00 said:
Thanks for replying!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_iNb5okBrzLRTNTOU42VWV2UGs

the only think here i wasn't already doing was DVI. i have been using an hdmi cable and using a fix listed in the guides to work with it. I've gone through about 5 different builds of the clover usb at this point, so I'm not entirely sure what to say I have and haven't done, but this error came from the latest, using an hdd only, an hdmi and a usb made without unibeast (barebones with terminal built installer and clover installed on the efi). i tried aptio 1 and 2 but i get the same error. i think my gram was set to 256 but ill check again.

I'm currently rebuilding my usb on a usb2 stick to remove any complications, I'm going to try your dvi suggestion but afterwards I'd appreciate if i could get your clover build and/or config. I'm using a 6600k but if you let me know what files/configs relate to cpu i might be able to swap them out

For building the stick, there shouldn't be that much guesswork. You should build to exactly the specifications in the first post of this thread. Your issue seems to be a mismatch between either the recommended BIOS settings or the recommended USB stick build. You might also try a different USB stick; some folks report that specific sticks sometimes don't work well, but I haven't detected a common fault. Recent USB 2 or 3 sticks, properly formatted and built, and inserted into a USB2 port preferably one on the back of the box, should work. If in doubt, leave it out, and go back and fix it later. Your goal right now is just to get to the installer UI.

ritzbitz00 · Feb 21, 2017

aol said:
For building the stick, there shouldn't be that much guesswork.

thats the issue, it didn't work. I have 10.11.6 and F21. this guide is for F6 and 10.11.4, I'm sure that theres a setting in my BIOS that the guide doesnt address i need to correct, or that the protocol is different slightly for 11.6. I'm going to try again, but when i did it the first time it didn't work, which is why i turned to other guides.

ritzbitz00 · Feb 22, 2017

aol said:
For building the stick, there shouldn't be that much guesswork. You should build to exactly the specifications in the first post of this thread. Your issue seems to be a mismatch between either the recommended BIOS settings or the recommended USB stick build. You might also try a different USB stick; some folks report that specific sticks sometimes don't work well, but I haven't detected a common fault. Recent USB 2 or 3 sticks, properly formatted and built, and inserted into a USB2 port preferably one on the back of the box, should work. If in doubt, leave it out, and go back and fix it later. Your goal right now is just to get to the installer UI.

so i followed the guide exactly and got the same error i've been getting:

osxaptiofix2drive: starting override for \.IABootFiles\\boot.efi
Using reloc block:no, hibernate wake: no
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

it hangs here. when i switched to osxaptiofixdrive i got the same result.

Didread · Mar 8, 2017

Hello, I am new to the world of Hackintosh, I was able to install the Sierra through the guide provided, I did not have many problems, but for certain software issues I need to use El Capitan ... I followed the guide very carefully and I always come across a Ban signal after a bit more than half of the startup bar is complete ... I'm using the video card that comes on the motherboard, everything bought this year ... the version of the Clover is the same used in the installation of the Sierra ? I've already used 3 different versions of Clover ... I'm using the version of El Capitan that I downloaded in the App Store recently

AM0207xx · Mar 8, 2017

Didread said:
Hello, I am new to the world of Hackintosh, I was able to install the Sierra through the guide provided, I did not have many problems, but for certain software issues I need to use El Capitan ... I followed the guide very carefully and I always come across a Ban signal after a bit more than half of the startup bar is complete ... I'm using the video card that comes on the motherboard, everything bought this year ... the version of the Clover is the same used in the installation of the Sierra ? I've already used 3 different versions of Clover ... I'm using the version of El Capitan that I downloaded in the App Store recently

Upload your Clover folder. Delete the themes folder and compress all as zip.
Also update your personal details and fill in your hardware specs to get better support in the future.

Didread · Mar 9, 2017

HorchaudiBMW said:
Upload your Clover folder. Delete the themes folder and compress all as zip.
Also update your personal details and fill in your hardware specs to get better support in the future.

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