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No need to check in further. Inspired by a random comment someone made in one of my threads, I suddenly saw what was wrong. I followed up on that insight and was able to load Sierra with no problems at all. It is now running smoothly and, as proof, I am writing this reply on my rebuilt rig.

I get that I cannot boot High Sierra from Clover because there is no High Sierra boot option in Clover Manager. My question is why is that happening when I was able to follow the steps from Language window thru Utility window erasing the target SSD and finally thru the install Mac OS High...

GA-Z170X-gaming 5 i5 6600K Quad core Skylake Hyper X Fury Black 16 GB kit PSU Corsair CX 750M GeForce GTX 670

Found another thread that suggested going to boot args and checking the USB ownership and USB injection which I did. In the Graphics line I checked Inject Intel since I removed the graphics card. When I click on the external boot device I get the progress bar that moves to nearly the end when it...

Decided to upgrade old hack with a new GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 mobo, i5 6600K 3.5 GHz Quad Core Skylake CPU and Hyper X Fury Black 16 GB kit DDR4. I kept the Corsair CX 750M PSU and the GeForce GTX 670 GPU from the original build. I had already successfully installed Sierra on another build...

Hey Pilgrim, I booted in verbose. I tried to take photos of the final page but the camera couldn't bring the type into focus. However, there were only two lines of type. Tues Mar 6 02:15:47 2018 iMac.local com.apple.xpc.launchd [1] (com.apple.Window Server.653) <Warning>: Service exited with...

Hi, I just updated my old hack with a GA-Z170 gaming 5, i5-6600K SkyLake chip, 16 GB kit HyperX Fury Black ram. I kept the old video card GeForce GTX 670. I created a USB stick with Unibeast, Multibeast & High Sierra full version from the App Store. After setting the BIOs (VTD disabled, other...

Hi Wildwillow, It's me Sukebei, you probably don't remember me since it's been about 3 years since you last helped me. I'm still running mountain lion on my original rig, Customac pro, i7-4770 Haswell chip, mobo GA-Z87X-UD5h, Geforce GTX 670. I recently built a new MATX Customac Skylake and...

WildWillow... This will make your day. I am writing this on my hack that I believed was kaput just a day ago. Here's what happened. I went ahead and requested an RMA but have yet to receive one. I disassembled the computer and readied the motherboard for shipping pending RMA approval. It kept...

WildWillow... Thanks for your time and patience. I can't believe it went from a working computer to an inert piece of electronics so quickly. I doubt much that the battery thing will work. I'll give it a try and see what happens. I may set a record for the number of times this board gets...

Turned the power off and slid the switch over to back up bios. Booted up and the same Bios has been reset window showed up with the frozen cursor. The only things still connected to the computer is the usb hub, the ML boot stick and the monitor. After switching to the back up bios was I...

With the SATA all disconnected I left the ML boot stick in and just disconnected the external SSD clone. The reset did not work. The cursor is still frozen. What are the steps to using the back up bios switch? Do I turn off all power and slide the switch, then start up and hold the f12 button...

Okay, have just disconnected both internal drives from mobo as well the external SSD and ML boot stick from the usb ports. I again pressed the CMOS button and will wait the 5 minutes before trying the regular boot again. Decided to hold off on moving the back up bios switch until I give this try...

WildWillow... While awaiting your last response, I gave the manual a closer examination and saw that there is a bios back up switch that I can slide over to boot from back up bios. When you mentioned disconnecting the Sata port drives, did you mean that I should disconnect the Sata plugs from...

Ran option 2 again and waited 15 minutes. Still got the same Bios has been reset window with the frozen cursor. Looked at the manual and did not see any mention of back up bios. In the process of trying to get the cursor to work I have been hitting the left button on the mouse. I just noticed...

Couldn't get into bios to begin with so went with option two. Hit the cmos button and restarted. Hit the f12 key and got the Gigabyte bios option page. Says the Bios have been reset with the 3 options of loading the optimized defaults then boot, loading the optimized defaults then reboot and...

Yes. I just tried it again. Restart pressing f12 key. I do see the Gigabyte page for a moment but it does not enter the boot options page. It instead goes to the mountain lion loading page with the "hit any key to open boot options". I hit keys but it ignores my attempts and goes on to the sign...

Wild Willow... Well, I need your help again. I purchased SuperDuper and created 2 external usb clones of my Hack HD. The first was to an HDD which took over 4 hours to make. I purchased another SSD and made a clone using that in a blazing time of 15 minutes using the usb3. Now for the...

WildWillow... Thanks for the valuable advice. I'll bear it in mind when I get to moving files around. I use photoshop a lot so saving the large files to the HDD is a plus. I have to start transferring apps to the Hack to make it functional for me while keeping an eye on the amount of space...

WildWillow... Here's an update. I opened up the Hack and checked the connections. They all looked good. I even pulled them out of the optical disk and reinserted the SATA and power plugs. No good. I pull the SATA plug from the mobo and moved it down to one of the Marvel controlled SATA sockets...