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Thanks Edhawk. The ALC/VoodooHDA stuff must have been left around by multiple MultiBeast runs. The right system definition was the key: the graphics are up and running now. Some of the USB ports disappeared in the rework, but I'm cleaning that up now. Thanks again!

This is "black", an i5. Not "lammergeier" the i7. Yes they both have TH motherboards. At some point I stopped including all the CustoMacs in my sig.

I have a machine which previously worked great (long before Clover) and I've just done a fresh install of Catalina. Everything's running fine except the graphics. Shows up as having 3MB RAM, and only does 1024x768. I currently have a 1920x1080 display on the DVI port. BIOS has "Internal...

Clarification: I know my port multipliers work on the ASM1061 controllers. But not on the Marvell 88SE9172 if that makes any difference to you.

Just to be clear: the machine boots. But the eSATA kext is not being loaded and thus my external drives are not hot-swappable. Why would I load that network kext? How is that going to affect the 3rdParty_eSATA kext? Thanks

Which kexts to remove? The message about no UUIDs doesn't seem to imply a conflict with another kext. Yes /Library/Extensions and /System/Library/Extensions have both been touched. Repeatedly (that really doesn't sound good, does it? :)).

It's not working yet. kextutil says it appears to be loadable, but that hasn't changed the above message from System Profiler. I have found in the system.log this: Aug 2 23:23:57 localhost kernel[0]: Notice - new kext com.tonymacx86.AHCI_3rdParty_eSATA, v0.5 matches prelinked kext but can't...

I've updated my lammergeier build to El Capitan, but have one problem remaining. I can't get the AHCI_3rdParty_eSATA kext to load. I have many SATA controllers on the machine: Intel Series 7 (6 ports on the chipset), one Marvell 88SE9172 (2 ports), and three ASM1061 (6 ports). All the ASM1061...

I've been using a 2-port multiplier for ages on my Z77X-UP5 TH running Mavericks. Have finally updated to El Capitan and it seems to still work, although I'm working through not having 3rdParty eSATA working yet (drives all come up as internal and are not hot-swappable). I also have a 4-port...

I don't think the "3rd Party" kexts are needed for that: it should work within the OS and BIOS. I think you should be able to "see" the RAID sets you've defined by the time you get to the BIOS.

If the price was the same, the 3770K lets me overclock it further. That's about it. For my 3770K system (running @ 4.5 GHz) that's an easy answer. For my 3770 system (running @ 4.1 cos it can) it was "found hardware" so there was no choice to make.

So far we haven't found any OS X virtualisation software which uses VT-d. Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, VirtualBox: none of their OS X versions do. Guested operating systems work fine without it (I run several Linux/BSD/Win7 guests on my CustoMacs) so I wouldn't worry about it too much...

10.8.3 is the latest. And you're connected via HDMI? HDMI is geared towards televisions, which had this old overscan "feature" from the days of CRTs. Ideally your TV will have a setting (buried somewhere in its menus) where you can turn overscan off. Otherwise it will be assuming it's...

Not yet. I'm currently on holiday in the US. Something to look forward to when I get home (in Australia) next week.

Probably just because your CPU is slower. Cinebench seems to put a lot of load on the CPU as well as the GPU, and unless you're testing really low-end GPUs it turns out it becomes bottlenecked by the CPU. So despite your 660 being faster than my 650, your Cinebench result in the 40s doesn't...

As others noted, get lots of RAM. But there seems some weirdness in your description: So you will be running one OS and occasionally shutting down and running the other OS, right? Running "24/7" implies that you won't be shutting down the machine (e.g. running OS X with the Minecraft servers...

If that's the same GC-WB300D WiFi/BT card that comes with the Z77X-UP5 TH then you'll find the WiFi isn't supported by OS X, and the BT only works if you first initialise it in Windows. :roll: I wouldn't bother with it.

The easiest (and cheapest) "out of the box" graphics you can use is the HD4000 graphics which your i7-3770S has. My build starts off with that, and I added other graphics later for more screens. The HD4000 is a good start. You say "mountain lion 10.6.8". Mountain Lion is 10.8.x, whereas...

I'm not sure, but this may be backwards. Are you sure that it's not Windows drivers which are taking control from the BIOS, and OS X which isn't? On many systems I think the CPU fan is controlled through the BIOS by default, but the system fans are left up to the OS. I often slow the fans...

You can definitely do that. Check out neilhart's BT dongle hack. Of course reception will be impeded, especially inside a metal case (neilhart's is going inside a plastic case). But if you have the dongle on a lead inside the case maybe you can fine-tune the location within the case (e.g...