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- Oct 13, 2015
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- Motherboard
- Asrock Z77 Extreme 4
- CPU
- i7-3770K
- Graphics
- GTX 560 Ti
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Ok, I've gotten a lot from this and another forum, so I decided to share a little about my first quest to Hackintosh installation battle. I started out Hackintosh-ing with El Capitan but the result was not pleasing, I was hit with random system freezing up where sometimes the system would resume working within a few minutes and sometimes not. After fighting with that freezing problem for a day and a half I've decided to move to Yosemite for now. Since I have OSX upgrade in mind and since Clover is recommended for EL Capitan, this guild will be a step by step guild for a Yosemite install with Clover.
My setup:
Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme 4, Bios ver 2.90 patched
CPU: i7-3770k
GPU: Zotac 560 Ti
RAM: DDR3 8GB
Drive: OCZ ARC 100 240GB
My steps:
Flashing bios:
1. Download version 2.90 bios (instant flash) from Asrock
2. Obtain UEFIPatch from this forum or any other Hackintosh forum, Google is your friend
3. In Windows (Yes, I meant Microsoft Windows), put both files into same folder
4. Open command prompt, type:
5. Copy the patched bios to a FAT32 formatted USB stick, reboot into bios and flash bios
Bios Settings:
Since I have a dedicated GPU, I set primary display device to PCI-E in bios. That is the only setting I have to modify all others were left default.
Install Yosemite:
1. Follow the 10.10 Clover Guide available on this site step by step unless I mentioned below: http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-el-capitan-any-supported-intel-based-pc.html.
2. On the 23rd substep of STEP 2, I copied IONetworkingFamily.kext.zip for network kext. Thanks to yamaazizi
3. Skip the 24th substep of STEP 2, you don't need NullCPUPowerManagement.kext after flashing patched bios
4. Before starting STEP 3, be sure your USB keyboard and USB mouse are plugged into the two ports directly below the Ethernet port and your USB drive is one of the front USB port
5. On STEP 4, I had to choose BIOS-Only Systems values for Clover, my OSX won't boot otherwise. Feel free to choose UEFI values if you know a work around.
6. Skip substep 3,6,7 of STEP 4
Additional steps:
1. Copy KextBeast and IONetworkingFamily.kext.zip, AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext.zip , and AppleHDA.kext.zip to desktop
2. Extract the zip files, then run kextBeast
3. Reboot
Technically your Yosemite should be good to go at this point but later on I encountered the "No sound after sleep" problem so I grabbed Multibeast 6.10 and installed the ALC898 under Drivers/Audio/Realtek ALCxxx/without DSDT to fix the issue. The tool will also include HDAEnable for you, don't panic just install it.
My quest to Yosemite yields a more stable/usable system than EL Capitan, however, I still encountered a freeze shortly before writting this guide. The freeze laste less than a minute and system greeted me with a login screen when it recover. I'm not sure if more configs are needed to make the system stable or this is just a normal thing for Hackintosh. Anyway, I hope this guide is helpful! Happy Hackintosh
11/17/2015 UPDATE: the freezing problem appears to be causing by my 560ti GPU, running the "freezefix" tool seems to fix the problem, cheers.
My setup:
Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme 4, Bios ver 2.90 patched
CPU: i7-3770k
GPU: Zotac 560 Ti
RAM: DDR3 8GB
Drive: OCZ ARC 100 240GB
My steps:
Flashing bios:
1. Download version 2.90 bios (instant flash) from Asrock
2. Obtain UEFIPatch from this forum or any other Hackintosh forum, Google is your friend
3. In Windows (Yes, I meant Microsoft Windows), put both files into same folder
4. Open command prompt, type:
Code:
UEFIPatch.exe Z77EXT42.905. Copy the patched bios to a FAT32 formatted USB stick, reboot into bios and flash bios
Bios Settings:
Since I have a dedicated GPU, I set primary display device to PCI-E in bios. That is the only setting I have to modify all others were left default.
Install Yosemite:
1. Follow the 10.10 Clover Guide available on this site step by step unless I mentioned below: http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-el-capitan-any-supported-intel-based-pc.html.
2. On the 23rd substep of STEP 2, I copied IONetworkingFamily.kext.zip for network kext. Thanks to yamaazizi
3. Skip the 24th substep of STEP 2, you don't need NullCPUPowerManagement.kext after flashing patched bios
4. Before starting STEP 3, be sure your USB keyboard and USB mouse are plugged into the two ports directly below the Ethernet port and your USB drive is one of the front USB port
5. On STEP 4, I had to choose BIOS-Only Systems values for Clover, my OSX won't boot otherwise. Feel free to choose UEFI values if you know a work around.
6. Skip substep 3,6,7 of STEP 4
Additional steps:
1. Copy KextBeast and IONetworkingFamily.kext.zip, AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext.zip , and AppleHDA.kext.zip to desktop
2. Extract the zip files, then run kextBeast
3. Reboot
Technically your Yosemite should be good to go at this point but later on I encountered the "No sound after sleep" problem so I grabbed Multibeast 6.10 and installed the ALC898 under Drivers/Audio/Realtek ALCxxx/without DSDT to fix the issue. The tool will also include HDAEnable for you, don't panic just install it.
My quest to Yosemite yields a more stable/usable system than EL Capitan, however, I still encountered a freeze shortly before writting this guide. The freeze laste less than a minute and system greeted me with a login screen when it recover. I'm not sure if more configs are needed to make the system stable or this is just a normal thing for Hackintosh. Anyway, I hope this guide is helpful! Happy Hackintosh
11/17/2015 UPDATE: the freezing problem appears to be causing by my 560ti GPU, running the "freezefix" tool seems to fix the problem, cheers.
