Disk Utility / About This Mac > Storage Causes Freeze

[derperoo]

Hi All,

My Hackintosh is nearly perfect. The only trouble is if I try to access disk utility or the storage section of "About This Mac" the applications freeze. I have a GA-Z77X-UP5 TH w/ i5-3570K, 16 GB of G-Skill 1600 MHz RAM, 2xM4 128 GB SSD, 2xWestern Digital 1TB 7200 RPM drives, etc.

The weird thing is, I am able to do any of these things shortly after restart, but if I wait a while, I always seem to get the error. Any ideas?

 

[derperoo]

Another strange symptom which I believe is related is that after rebooting in such situations, I get stuck on my BIOS logo screen with the computer frozen. The BIOS code is A2 which is "Detect and Install all Current IDE Devices." I have had this problem with 2 of the same board now, and I have tried BIOS versions F3, F4, and F5b (current). If I just power off and power back on, the system boots fine and I'm back in OS X.

Any help is appreciated!

 

[derperoo]

Figured it out. After OS X put the blu ray drive I had to sleep, it would cause all these problems.

 

[ryantcu10]

Hi All,

My Hackintosh is nearly perfect. The only trouble is if I try to access disk utility or the storage section of "About This Mac" the applications freeze. I have a GA-Z77X-UP5 TH w/ i5-3570K, 16 GB of G-Skill 1600 MHz RAM, 2xM4 128 GB SSD, 2xWestern Digital 1TB 7200 RPM drives, etc.

The weird thing is, I am able to do any of these things shortly after restart, but if I wait a while, I always seem to get the error. Any ideas?

Hi Derperoo,

Did you happen to figure this out? I'm having the same problem with my GA-Z87X-UD3H build, with i7-4770K, Samsung EVO 120GB SSD and Seagate 1TB HD. Otherwise my system is running perfectly.

Thoughts?

-RyanTCU10

 

[ryantcu10]

Answer is found...and it's insanely simple. Thank you Koalaman for providing the answer here:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/70361-dvd-drive-disappears.html

Go to system preferences > Energy Saver > Uncheck "Put Hard Disks to Sleep"

Problem solved.

 

[volte]

Man... thank you so much. I've been fighting this for years. I had no idea.

Wonder what it would take to allow for drives to go to sleep though. You know, for the environmentally conscious

Also, is this isolated to the BR drive? I have one, but I haven't tested without it.

 

[seraphan6]

Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you! I also have been bewildered by this since day one with my build. Finally found the solution! Yay!