GA-H61N-USB3 Ivy Attempt

[mitch9294]

Hi
I've been running a Hack Mini GA-H61N-USB3/i3 2105 combo successfully for a few months now and decided that it was time to up the ante with the new support for Ivy Bridge processors, so I got an i7 3770, upgraded the mobo's bios to the latest F8 which includes Ivy support, checked all settings (AHCI STAT, Quick Boot disabled, HDD S.M.A.R.T Enabled, HPET 64-bit), unplugged everything except primary SSD, processor and one 4GB RAM stick but the problem I am having is unibeast/bridgehelper gets stuck at 'Still waiting for root device.'

I've tried booting with flags -s -x GraphicsEnabler=No PCIRootUID=1 and a couple of others I can't remember..

Does anyone have any advice for me? From what I had read I thought I would be safe to just plug and play with an Ivy Bridge CPU in this board

Any help is much appreciated!

 

[mhchan2002]

Hi,

Dont think so can work in Ivy Bridge processor..even before u boot up also have problem...anyway either u wait better support bios or change motherboard

 

[mitch9294]

Hi,

Dont think so can work in Ivy Bridge processor.

My Motherboard/BIOS support Ivy Bridge, and I had the Hackintosh working before so I think there should be some way to get it to work.

Hoping someone with a similar setup can give me some advice

 

[titsmgee]

Intel HD4000 not supported at this time.
You will need a graphics card for the moment.

 

[mitch9294]

Okay, is the lack of support for HD4000 the reason for the still waiting for root device' problem? Or is that from something else

 

[the_WB]

I'm planning the same upgrade so I'm interested in learning the outcome of this. But I will probably pair it with a graphics card.

 

[Tagny Daggart]

Okay, is the lack of support for HD4000 the reason for the still waiting for root device' problem? Or is that from something else

I don't think so. There have been reports of people running IB chips with on-board graphics and even using the HD4000 with GE=off, so that's not it. More likely you need to try different USB ports and/or SATA ports, I would guess.

 

[mitch9294]

I tried all the USB ports (front & rear) and both SATA ports on the motherboard but I have only tried the one flash drive - but that same drive worked fine with the old processor.
I'll try removing the front USB ports and post back

I thought GE=No would solve it for me but the problem must be arising elsewhere.

I bet the solution is just some flag or BIOS setting I'm missing

 

[titsmgee]

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=64932

It's not working yet

The injection is there in the latest Chimera, but I think there is something missing.

 

[willdarling]

Nuts. I'm a first-timer and I managed to think that these parts were the most stable / easiest, when I bought it all. -And I had been on this site first, it was the reason I decided to try to make a hackintosh.

If it's any use, I can get Snow Leopard on OK (to my eye) but then the 10.6.8. combo update screws it. Lion (via Unibeast) never really gets anywhere... I think its getting stuck at the Apple Intel CPU Power jeeby (didnt write that down...)

GA H61N F8
i5 3450
4 Gb DDR3 1333Mhz (another 4Gb stick ready to put in after install)
500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA3
samsung SH222BB DVD writer SATA

I'm kinda out-of-my-depth with stuff like AHCI meaning I cant 'see' my harddrive or dvd from the BIOS, and yet I've installed a Snowleopard disk in that dvd, to that drive! But I swear even altering all the boot priority, or using F12, it never seems to boot off the DVD now.
I burned a Linux mint cinnamon install disk (along with my friends rBoot disk ) that I have yet to see boot at all... and yet I must have had it working at the start to get my iBoot disk to do anything, to then be able to use my Snowleopard disk ??!

So I guess the short answer is trying to downgrade to a Sandybridge cpu by swapping with some lucky friend?