startup

I have looked over the forums and have yet to find a solution to my problem. This build works great when it starts properly. My problem is in both the startup and shutdown operations. Startup: About every other time turn on the computer it will get to the apple screen and then shut off the...

Hi everyone, I've been getting this text on loading OSX Yosemite, not always, but about 70% of the time this will happen, 30% it will work no problem. I tried changing the boot option to PO instead of UEFI, and that worked perfectly for a while but then it started happening again. I've tried...

Hi all, I've had my Hackintosh build for about a year now, and I've had some issues that I've been able to put up with the whole time but now I really want to do something about it. The issues are as follows: - I always have to have to boot off the USB I made to install OS X in the first...

Hi, I have Asrock motherboard Intel i5 Prosessor Msi gtx 760 When i boot the hackingtosh instalation usb and choose mac install it makes a flash and reboots. Now i have tried with both Unibeast and Clover but neither of them work. I have also tried with diffrent boot flags but with no luck

Hi, I installed Mavericks in my HDD using clover. I did the post install, so now I don't have to use the USB-stick for booting. But when I restart, I stil have to go trough the Clover menu: - Choose the HDD - Entering my boot flags. Can someone help me wit this issue? I did some changes on...

My hackintosh running Yosemite was working fine for the last few weeks until I installed the USB 3.0 kext. Then, I get this on startup: http://i.imgur.com/bUgk4Xu.jpg

Hi, can someone PLEASE tell me what the image means? One out of two times when I startup my hackintosh it gives me this screen. I have to force the reset. Thanks

So I was using my computer the other day and the sound wasnt working so i restarted the machine. while restarting some blue screen with a few options popped up and before i could read it i reflexively pressed a button. Next thing I know os x starts loading only to freeze on he load screen with...

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 660...

Hi, I finally built my new PC and installed OS X Mavericks, as per the instructions given from this brilliant website, but I've got a slight problem. The machine gets stuck at the apple logo screen and the only way to get into OS X is to use the -x switch at startup. Could someone please give...

I recently installed Mavericks into my Lenovo z570 i3 2nd gen Laptop. Installation went smooth. I managed to set up everything except bootloader. Problem is I can only boot into Mavericks with my installation USB drive. I even tried installing Chimera, chemeleon independently. But no use. I get...

To start, I didn't build this thing. My friend and I paid another guy to build it so we can do professional video editing. It was running strictly Windows but we've decided that we want it running Mavericks so we can run some Mac apps on it. We also still want to run Windows on it for various...

Hello everyone, I have a GTX750 1GB GDDR5 card. After I installed my 10.9.3 hackintosh, it does not recognise my graphics card. So I installed the Nvidia alternate graphics drivers for OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 and changed the required kernel flag correctly. After that I restarted the computer and...

Hi! ((((I know guys, my English isn't that good.))))) I followed the tonymacx86 build for building my hackintosh. There were a few troubles while installing, but after a couple of times trying, it worked. Or at least, it starts up and does the thing he should do. The reason why I'm posting...

Help. I'm trying to install Mac OS X mavericks onto my Samsung 840 EVO SSD. It shows up in my BIOS for my Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard, but when I open up my Unibeast flashdrive to install OSX, my SSD does not show up in Disk Utility. Please help.

Hi all, I have a Hackintosh that's worked for several years now, albeit with occasional crashes. However just today it's stopped booting up successfully. Each time I boot I see the attached screen (this shows what I see when I enter '-v' on the boot screen; without doing this, I see a similar...

Hey guys, I managed to get my brother's hackintosh built the other day. Everything's perfect but I just had two questions.When I turn off the computer on the Mac portion (running Mavericks) the computer shuts off and immediately boots back on, but goes to the Windows portion. I can't make the...

Today, October 20th 2013, I installed the 10.8.5 combo update from 10.8.0. This combo update apparently already has the supplemental update. Before restarting i ran Multi-beast 5.5.3 to install the ALC877/888b "Current" audio drivers. I then allowed the combo updater to restart my computer. It...

Hi. I have a really really annoying problem with my drives... I built a hackintosh a couple of weeks now, and I have came across with many problems which I've solve till now but this is a really frustrating one and I can't find any solution. My DVD drives do the startup / initialization sound...

First hackintosh build using everything listed in Tonymacx86's CustoMac Pro 2013 build:http://www.tonymacx86.com/351-buildi...-may-2013.html SPECS: -NVidia GeForce 670 graphics card -Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H motherboard -Samsung 830 256GB SSD drive (currently formatted to MS-DOS, no partition) -DVD...