Can't get past apple spinner

[msblick]

I've been going through the forum and have tried lots of things, but no matter what I do, I can't boot successfully from my SSD. I can boot in safe mode, but not a regular boot. When I try a regular boot, I get the grey apple screen and the spinner, but it never completes. I don't know where to go from here or what to look for. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Build info:
GA Z77X-UDH
i5-3570 processor
OS 10.8.4
OCZ 160 G SSD
I was successful with Unibeast to install. I looked at the guides here for the motherboard bios settings. I'm a little confused with the Multi-beast settings, as different posts show different things, and I've tried just about every post I've seen with this motherboard.
Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[UrbanBard]

Hi msblick, I'm new here, too. My build is:

Ga-Z77X-UD5H
i7-3770
Sandisk 120 Gb SSD
Seagate 1 Tb 7200rpm
From my old iMac:
Western Digital 1.5 Tb 5200rpm
Seagate 320 Gb 5200rpm

Regarding BIOS:
I usually hit F7 to get an optimized build and make changes as follows.
xHCI=auto
HPET=enabled
Init Display First=IGFX (since I'm running H4000 graphics, PEG if using a card)
WakeonLAN=disabled
VT-d=disabled

Is that familiar to you? I don't think I left anything crucial out.

Since you are having trouble booting to your SSD, I'd suggest you look at your boot order.
The order I use is: optical drive, primary (my SSD) in second position and then any others. Last would be my USB boot stick.
I messed these setting up recently and it took me awhile to get back so I automatically booted to my SSD.

Multibeast: I used EasyBeast for a while, but DSDT free is working for me now. Do you need to download a DSDT to the desktop for your i5-3570?

I borrowed these settings.

Drivers/Audio/Realtec ALC8xx/without DSDT/ALC898 (your type may be different.)
Disk/3rd Party/SATA
Disk/Trim Enabler/10.8.3 Trim Patch (because I have a SSD.)
Nothing in Graphics, because I'm using H4000 on-board graphics.
Miscellaneous/NullCPUPowerManagemant
Miscellaneous/Realtec - AppleRLT8169Eathernet 2.0.6 for 10.7 (I've tried them all and this one seems
to download slightly faster)
Customization/Boot Options/Power Management Hibernate Mode/Desktop
System Definitions/Mac Pro/3.1

That seems to work for me, but I don't know exactly why.

 

[msblick]

Started completely over, reformated the SSD hard drive, used your motherboard settings, reinstalled OS 10.8.4, used your mutli-beast settings, and still have the same result - arrrggg!!!
Thanks much for the advise - anything else I can try or look for?
Anything different about 10.8.4?

 

[UrbanBard]

Sorry, I think I gave you a little bad advice. Well... It was bad for me, too.

In BIOS, there are a number of settings for the boot order. I was putting the optical drive first and that was screwing me up. When I put my SSD first, that worked better. It took a couple iterations until I got my boot order straight. One complication for me was that I have four drives and that can confuse the computer.

The manual says that you can make your optical drive as secondary priority.

If you are getting a Boot0 halt, then it is because the computer doesn't know what your primary drive is. Select the drive you want to boot into and PCIRootUID=0 sets it as primary. Hope that helps.