Garrison's Haswell Z87X-UD5H - i7 4770k - HD4600 - 32GB Photoshop Machine

[nikezzz]

Have you installed boot loader and FakeSMC and Multibeast Stuff after you've Installed OS X? If yes what does -v show?

 

[oigarrison]

Yup they are all installed, I had an up and running installation for a couple of weeks when this started happening.

I booted with - v and attached the pics in my earlier posts. But I'll reattach it here.

 

[nikezzz]

Ok well you could try to inset the IGPlatformID and IGPEnabler int to your boot.plist

http://www.tonymacx86.com/378-new-intel-hd-graphics-boot-flags-chimera.html

and if VT-d is Enabled in your BIOS you have to boot with dart=0
Sometimes (like on my board) there are two Sections in BIOS where to enable/disable VT-d

 

[oigarrison]

Thanks for your help nikezzz

I managed to solve the problem myself after a day or so research. I found a blog with a similar problem reported to my own, with an answer to fix it.

Boot with -s. When you see the prompt "root:":

Type: mount -uw /
Type: cd /System/Library/Extensions
Type: mkdir intel_back
Type: mv AppleIntelHD* AppleIntelF* intel_back/
Type: touch ../Extensions

Reboot and use -v flag.

This solved my problem, machine booted up instantly after the bootflag -v and it even went back to it's original boot speed.

 

[nikezzz]

glad to hear that

are you using stock OSX Drivers for your GTX 780 or did you install the Nvidia drivers?

For your 4K Display you should remind that OS X official only supports 4K in 10.9.3 which will be released soon - you can use the display also with 10.9.2 but the scaling like on the Retina Displays only works with 10.9.3 - the problem is mentioned by tldtoday in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUvphmy0v2k

 

[oigarrison]

I haven't got my GTX 780 yet, there was a mess up with the item and the order got cancelled. Getting one soon hopefully!

I have noticed one problem, I have a folder in Extensions called intel_back and it has all the intelgraphics kext's in it. If I move them into Extensions my computer won't boot. Video playback at the moment is very choppy and skipping frames etc.

Any idea?

 

[nikezzz]

That's sad because it's a pretty good card

Well for your graphics I think you need to inject them into your boot.plist like here

http://www.insanelymac.com/_/osx86/intel-hd4000-and-haswell-inject-aaplig-platfor-r1005

and boot with the kexts in the extension folder.

If this doesn't help you can also try to modify the SMBios to MacBookPro8,1 or a similar Mac that uses IntelHD

 

[oigarrison]

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[oigarrison]

Hey man, thanks for the advice. I'll try this out tonight!

How do I pick which number to use from the Haswell list?

Once I have a number do I just enter those three strings at the end of article to the org.chameleon.Boot.plist and reboot?

Also, just seen your Geekbench score. Damn! Impressive result man.

Thanks for all your help!

 

[nikezzz]

Well I think there's no other way by try and error

So you have to try every number and see if it works - if not boot again with -x and try another

you have to put them somewhere between the syntax -not directly at the end (just enter them like in the article from my link)

As soon as you have your GTX 780 you have to add GraphicsEnabler=No and maybe remove them or try to use both graphic accelerators with GraphicsEnabler=No and IGPEnabler=Yes

thx - well it was quite a fight to achieve this result - took over a year to unlock turbo and speedstep