ArcticFox's El Capitan w/ working USB3.0: GA-H87M-HD3 - Core i5 4440 - HD4600 - R9 280X

[ArcticFox]

ArcticFox's Build: GA-H87M-HD3 - Core i5 4440 - HD4600 - R9 280X​

Components

Gigabyte GA-H87M-HD3 Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E1JAKQA/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128631

Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz LGA1150 Haswell CPU
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EUUIWZ6
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116942

8GB Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Low Profile Jet Black PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.5V
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00569K7LM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233186

Sapphire R9 280X Tri-X Vapor-X OC 3GB
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IPZW686
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202095

Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive

Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB SATA 3.0 Internal Hard Drive

Toshiba Canvio Basics 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive

Coolermaster Seidon 120V Hydro Cooler

600W Corsair CXM Builder series, Hybrid Modular, 80PLUS Bronze, 1x120mm, ATX, PSU
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Series-Modular-Bronze-ATX12V/dp/B00ALYOPSS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139048

BitFenix Phenom mATX Cube Case - Midnight Black
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G483C7A/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4CP2AN8623

Corsair K65 Compact Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Cherry RED MX Switch USB

Sharkoon Shark Force Black Mouse With six buttons, optical sensor, 3 DPI levels upto 1600


Comments

I will preface this with the fact that I am a COMPLETE novice with regards to setting up Hackintoshes. I am sure I have got some stuff completely wrong or not configured correctly so I welcome any changes to the setup.

The problem with this board is that it has 21 total USB interfaces and El Capitan has a hard limit of 15 at the time of posting. As my case only has front USB 3.0 I have disabled the USB 2.0 headers to get around this by renaming the EHC and XHC in the DSDT and using an injector to map the only ports that I use.

With the DSDT and Injector linked you will get the front two USB 3.0 ports from the internal header, the four rear USB 3.0 ports and the two rear USB 2.0 ports, as USB 3.0 ports also work as USB 2.0 it's not really an issue unless you have tons of USB devices.


Installation

Required Files:

CloverEFI r3280: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/files/Installer/Clover_v2.3k_r3280.zip/download
EFI Folder: Attached to thread
Clover Configurator: http://www.tonymacx86.com/downloads.php?do=cat&id=10
Clover ALC 887 Patcher: Attached to thread

1. Create your El Capitan installer using the usual methods, I have no experience of UniBeast so install CloverEFI r3280 using the following settings:

2. Open the EFI drive in finder, delete the existing EFI folder and copy the EFI folder I provided. This includes DSDT, 280x/HD4600 enabler and iMac 15,1 SMBIOS, USB3 Injector, FakeSMC and Realtek Ethernet Driver to keep /S/L/E/ as untouched as possible.

3. Reboot and press Del to enter the BIOS.

Under BIOS Features disable VT-d and set “Windows 8 Features” to Other OS

Then under Peripherals if you are using a compatible graphics card under Initial Display Output enable PCIe 1 GFX, if not leave it as Internal, change XHCI mode to Auto then enable XHCI/EHCI Hand-off.

4. Reboot and keep pressing the F12 button, look for the option “UEFI: NameOfUSBDrive” and press enter. Install OSX as normal. When it reboots press F12 again and again boot from the UEFI Thumbdrive. It should auto pick the Hard Drive you installed OSX to but if not select it and press enter.

5. Once you have installed OSX follow step 1. and install CloverEFI to your HDD and replace the EFI folder on the HDD then reboot.

6. Once rebooted load Clover Configurator and mount the HDD EFI partition.

Then double click audio_cloverALC-110_v1.0e.command, press yes to confirm Realtek ALC887, yes to enable HD4600 HDMI if you are using onboard otherwise no, yes to Inject the Audio ID to Clover and yes to Use Audio ID 1.

7.Once completed reboot your machine one final time and you should have full working El Capitan with USB3, Network and Audio.

Again I will state that I am a complete novice with Hackintoshes and OSX. This is a solid base to build off if I have got anything wrong.

 

[Stork]

I have several recommendations. First, link to toleda's audio 110 script, rather than attach it, as it's updated often.

Second, while in the BIOS before the installation and you have the USB installer thumb drive inserted into a Bank Panel port, change the primary boot drive to the USB installer thumb drive. By doing this before the installation, you don't have to sit and watch the installation process to catch the reboot to use F12. The installation wait is painfully long, and you might miss the reboot. This recommend is from experience.

What did you use Clover Configuator for? If you're using it for just mounting the EFI partition, you can use EFI Mount v3 > http://www.tonymacx86.com/downloads.php?do=cat&id=10.

Lastly, you stated "With the DSDT and Injector linked..." but I didn't see a link.

 

[ArcticFox]

Thanks for the feedback!

As I said I am a novice, I didn't realise there were other ways of mounting EFI without going into terminal.

The DSDT and injector are part of the EFI zip attached to the post.

 

[Rasputine]

Hi Articfox, I have exactly the same CPU and board as you and can't get past the Clover installer. This is the verbose log. Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[pulpinex]

Keep in mind that in the config.plist you inject the Graphic Card ID. If you have another video card (i.e. nVidia) you have to remove the ID pointer.
I'll try myself tonight.
Bye

 

[Rasputine]

Thanks a lot for helping me out.
I am using the 4600 intel integrated, no other video card. And I am using the 4600 setting as suggested on the unibeast creation tool.

 

[Rasputine]

Thanks ArticFox. I am now discussing this on another thread, can you please reply there, in order to keep the forum cleaner?

http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...997-fail-boot-usb-unibeast-2.html#post1129809

 

[cwerdam]

[Edit 2] Please do not laugh at me, but the "mouse bug" was only the accessibility that was active.

 

[pulpinex]

Keep in mind that in the config.plist you inject the Graphic Card ID. If you have another video card (i.e. nVidia) you have to remove the ID pointer.
I'll try myself tonight.
Bye

Sorry! Wont work.

I tried But after the boot I have the hackintosh fully working (I think) but without working video out.

Can somewone suggest how remove/avoid the issue?
Thx

 

[pulpinex]

Sorry! Wont work.

I tried But after the boot I have the hackintosh fully working (I think) but without working video out.

Can somewone suggest how remove/avoid the issue?
Thx

A weird thing happened: I installed from scratch El Capitain with bios already set as it should be .. and ... USB 3 ports work well... At full speed!!!
May be that during the installation process El Capitain recognize correctly the ports?
I don't know why... but it work flawlessy!
(No DSDT PATCHES needed...)