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- May 4, 2014
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI
- CPU
- Intel Xeon 1231v3
- Graphics
- MSI NVIDIA GTX 960 Gaming 4GB
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hello All,
A little over a year ago I built an h77n hackintosh with a gtx 760 no problem. I've just completed another build for my friend and it has been a nightmare so far. I originally installed Mavericks and was able to boot from the SDD but soon learned that Maxwell GPUs are not supported and so am now trying for El Capitan. At least I believe I can be sure that my BIOS settings are all good.
The new config is as follows: Gigabyte Hh97n-wifi - Intel Xeon E3-1231V3 Haswell 3.4 GHz - MSI GTX 960 4GB Gaming OC - 16GB RAM (2x8 sticks). The Xeon has no integrated graphics so I am connecting directly to my HDMI port on my graphics card, wasn't a problem with my old build and seems to be fine here.
Currently I can get my App store copy of El Capitan onto my USB thumb drive using Unibeast, however I cannot get the installer to boot. I am booting the distro of Clover included with Unibeast with boot flags nv_disable=1 and -v and the installer crashes at "still waiting for root device" - the entire screen gets all garbled and displays the prohibited circle. I've tried moving the USB to different ports to no avail per this thread. I have not tried any of the other graphics related flags as they all seem to relate to Intel HD graphics, which I do not have.
According to this thread, this may have something to do with the h97n having more USB ports than what El Cap supports, but I have no idea how to use a fakesmc kext as it is describing. I've also tried changing my SMC to 15,1 as indicated in the same thread rather than the possibly incorrect 14,2 that Clover is defaulting to, however I am not sure if I need to change other options such as the serial #, etc that are present in Clover's bootloader options.
The Unibeast El Capitan Guide briefly mentions downloading the full Clover package separately to further customize the bootloader, but I'm not really sure what I need to be doing there. Also, there seems to exist a Clover Configurator as well, but I have no idea what the difference would be between using that and just downloading the clover package itself, and again.
In summary, I'm really not sure if I'm having a graphics issue, a USB issue, or an SMC issue, or if I need to tweak/customize Clover in some capacity. Any help would be greatly appreciated as my buddy and I both want to get this thing up and running so he can focus more on homework and less on getting his new awesome hackintosh working Thanks!
A little over a year ago I built an h77n hackintosh with a gtx 760 no problem. I've just completed another build for my friend and it has been a nightmare so far. I originally installed Mavericks and was able to boot from the SDD but soon learned that Maxwell GPUs are not supported and so am now trying for El Capitan. At least I believe I can be sure that my BIOS settings are all good.
The new config is as follows: Gigabyte Hh97n-wifi - Intel Xeon E3-1231V3 Haswell 3.4 GHz - MSI GTX 960 4GB Gaming OC - 16GB RAM (2x8 sticks). The Xeon has no integrated graphics so I am connecting directly to my HDMI port on my graphics card, wasn't a problem with my old build and seems to be fine here.
Currently I can get my App store copy of El Capitan onto my USB thumb drive using Unibeast, however I cannot get the installer to boot. I am booting the distro of Clover included with Unibeast with boot flags nv_disable=1 and -v and the installer crashes at "still waiting for root device" - the entire screen gets all garbled and displays the prohibited circle. I've tried moving the USB to different ports to no avail per this thread. I have not tried any of the other graphics related flags as they all seem to relate to Intel HD graphics, which I do not have.
According to this thread, this may have something to do with the h97n having more USB ports than what El Cap supports, but I have no idea how to use a fakesmc kext as it is describing. I've also tried changing my SMC to 15,1 as indicated in the same thread rather than the possibly incorrect 14,2 that Clover is defaulting to, however I am not sure if I need to change other options such as the serial #, etc that are present in Clover's bootloader options.
The Unibeast El Capitan Guide briefly mentions downloading the full Clover package separately to further customize the bootloader, but I'm not really sure what I need to be doing there. Also, there seems to exist a Clover Configurator as well, but I have no idea what the difference would be between using that and just downloading the clover package itself, and again.
In summary, I'm really not sure if I'm having a graphics issue, a USB issue, or an SMC issue, or if I need to tweak/customize Clover in some capacity. Any help would be greatly appreciated as my buddy and I both want to get this thing up and running so he can focus more on homework and less on getting his new awesome hackintosh working Thanks!