my top HDMI port works (haven't tried the bottom one) and my DVI port works but no matter what sequence of hooking them up, shutting down, etc, I can NOT get two monitors to function at once.
If I boot into the OS with the HDMI connection on one monitor and then plug in the DVI connection, the screen flickers like it's thinking about it and then the DVI monitor just says no DVI signal.
If I power off and hook up the DVI connector and unplug the HDMI, the DVI monitor works perfectly and the HDMI monitor acts like there is no signal if I plug it's cable in.
If I boot with both connected, I can get the bios/post on both screens at once but once it's past the clover boot menu it glitches out and there's this pale blue screen with sort of a ghostly image of the top bar of OSX but nothing on the rest of the screen. I can click the mouse/hit keys and hear the OS making the "you can't do that" sound but nothing responds on the screen.
I've about given up but figured I would ask for help here.
I clicked the intel 530 graphics in multibeast and it shows up properly with 3D accelerated graphics when I run Cinebench but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get two monitors going at once.
The only solution I've come up with is to use a USB to HDMI adapter to send a signal to my non-primary screen and the reason for that is due to it not displaying a smooth 60hz signal. It's got some sort of weird janky 40~50hz thing going that seems really "off" and not that great. I tried a plugable brand USB 3.0 adapter but it would work for about 5 minutes and then the screen would just lock up unless I unplugged and plugged it back in.
I emailed back and forth with the company a bit and they basically said that at some point, OSX started doing some weird stuff with their display tech that made USB display pretty hard to nail down the way it can be handled on a Windows OS so right now, I'm just dealing with the awful usb 2.0 display but seriously just considering grabbing an el gato thunderbolt dock and using my mid 2015 MBPr as my main office device and taking it home every night. I take it with me to the office every day anyways so it wouldn't be an extra burden.
It's just frustrating given the time/effort/money I put into the hackintosh to come THIS far only to have something seemingly so trivial kill the experience for me.
