- Joined
- Nov 22, 2010
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H
- CPU
- i7-2700K
- Graphics
- GTX 970
- Mobile Phone
Just for the sake of sharing the experience with this board configured as follows:
GA-H67N-USB3-B3-F5
Core i3-2100
ATI HD4670 (Sapphire Ultimate 512MB GDDR4)
1. BIOS HPET64-bit, AHCI, disable all CPU mgt, busratio 29, prioritise Intel graphics
2. iboot legacy; install 10.6.3
3. iboot again, boot fresh install, run: 10.6.6 + ^Andy^ SB package + BridgeHelper + MB with following settings: DSDT, FakeSMC, SysUtils, 64-bit bootscreen, iMac 11,2 sysdef, chameleon default theme
4. reboot, change BIOS to prioritise the ATI card, boot into chameleon, boot fresh install using AtiConfig=Motmot (default is Flicker framebuffer but using Motmot in my config turns out to give VGA + HDMI dual screen with full CI/QE) which I later added permanently to the boot.plist file)
5. Add network (Realtek website) and Audio (MacMan's ALC8xx driver (HDMI audio does not work)
6. I verified and can confirm that busratio=30 and setting all CPU powermgt functions to AUTO still works fine (default 31x doesn't)
7. Using software update to install all updates except 10.6.7 worked fine
8. 10.6.7 via software update gives kernel panic on reboot. For the time being I am happy with 10.6.6
The system only boots smoothly from cold boot; rebooting from SL or Win does not work very well. Shutdown works, sleep doesn't which ultimately is a must have for me as well as having P/C States. I chose 10.6.6 in order not to complicate things too much and I am not going to push things with 10.6.7 and beyond further until support has improved.
btw my DSDT is auto-patched (based on the closest related board in the list which I believe was the GA-H67MA-D2H) and I just removed IDE2.
Well, I hope things will improve over time. If not I am tempted to go back to 1156 platform (H55) which so far has worked 100% perfect for me.
EDIT: this system now works great on 10.6.7. Check my post further down in this thread how I got there: viewtopic.php?p=118210#p118210
GA-H67N-USB3-B3-F5
Core i3-2100
ATI HD4670 (Sapphire Ultimate 512MB GDDR4)
1. BIOS HPET64-bit, AHCI, disable all CPU mgt, busratio 29, prioritise Intel graphics
2. iboot legacy; install 10.6.3
3. iboot again, boot fresh install, run: 10.6.6 + ^Andy^ SB package + BridgeHelper + MB with following settings: DSDT, FakeSMC, SysUtils, 64-bit bootscreen, iMac 11,2 sysdef, chameleon default theme
4. reboot, change BIOS to prioritise the ATI card, boot into chameleon, boot fresh install using AtiConfig=Motmot (default is Flicker framebuffer but using Motmot in my config turns out to give VGA + HDMI dual screen with full CI/QE) which I later added permanently to the boot.plist file)
5. Add network (Realtek website) and Audio (MacMan's ALC8xx driver (HDMI audio does not work)
6. I verified and can confirm that busratio=30 and setting all CPU powermgt functions to AUTO still works fine (default 31x doesn't)
7. Using software update to install all updates except 10.6.7 worked fine
8. 10.6.7 via software update gives kernel panic on reboot. For the time being I am happy with 10.6.6
The system only boots smoothly from cold boot; rebooting from SL or Win does not work very well. Shutdown works, sleep doesn't which ultimately is a must have for me as well as having P/C States. I chose 10.6.6 in order not to complicate things too much and I am not going to push things with 10.6.7 and beyond further until support has improved.
btw my DSDT is auto-patched (based on the closest related board in the list which I believe was the GA-H67MA-D2H) and I just removed IDE2.
Well, I hope things will improve over time. If not I am tempted to go back to 1156 platform (H55) which so far has worked 100% perfect for me.
EDIT: this system now works great on 10.6.7. Check my post further down in this thread how I got there: viewtopic.php?p=118210#p118210