Mavericks on GA Z87 DS3H

[smi]

[SUCCESS] GA Z87 DS3H, i7 4770, GTX 770

Smi's CustoMac Pro
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Af​ter two years, i decided to start a new Hackintosh built with the new Haswell CPU's. I decided to share this guide, because i havent seen this mainboard on the Buyers list or in the forum guides. so here are the hardware specifcations:

Intel Core i7 4770
Amazon

Gigabyte GA Z87 DS3H
Amazon

Gainward GTX 770
Amazon

Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2x8)
Amazon

Samsung 840 Evo 250GB
Amazon

Seagate 3 TB Barracuda
Amazon

Thermaltake 630 Watt 80plus
Amazon

Bitfenix Shinobi USB3.0
Amazon




The Guide

Software i have used:

Q-Flash:
for flashing the BIOS from F1 to F2.

Unibeast:
to prepare the USB boot drive

Multibeast:
for post installation

OSX Mavericks

Windows 7 Professional



Installation:


Step 1: Flashing BIOS:

NOTE: Flashing your BIOS is extremely dangerous and can cause serious problems.
FLASH ON YOUR OWN RISK!

1.1: Downloading
Go to gigabyte's website and load the latest BIOS, in my case F2.

1.2: Extract
Extract the .exe and copy the BIOS-file (.f2) onto your FAT32 USB drive.

1.3: Flashing
Follow this guide (its german, sry), or google for q-flash tutorial.

1.4: Finish
Congrats, you have flashed your BIOS!



Step 2: Preparing USB Drive:

Follow the guide for preparing your USB drive with UNIBEAST on tonymac.



Step 3: OSX Installation:

3.1: preparing
unmount your graficscard, if you haven't done it already. this step is not necesarry, but i wanted to go the save way

3.2: USB
plug your USB drive into your USB 2.0.

NOTE: USB 3.0 doesnt work during the installation process!

3.3: BIOS settings
start your computer, press DEL to enter BIOS
Load Optimized Defaults under the last tab.
Go to X.M.P (under performance tab) and set Profile1
make sure you have SATA-mode set to AHCI and not IDE
save and exit

3.4: Installation
Press F12 on startup to get to the boot-selection screen.
select your USB drive
On chimera screen press enter.
Follow the Apple installation guide
When the guide is finished, reboot with your USB drive still plugged to USB 2.0
On Chimera boot screen select the New tab (its called untitled 1 on my screen)

NOTE: i used the flags: -x -v, but it wasnt necessary. you can boot without flags.

3.5 Post installation
Plug in your second USB drive or connect to the internet via ethernet and load Multibeast.

select and only select these settings:

NOTE: For Audio Driver select 887 not 892 !



click on install.

Congrats! you have successfully installed Mavericks on your Hackintosh. You can unplug your Unibeast USB drive.
Reboot, plug your graficscard back in and enjoy!




Working / Not Working / Not Tested

Ethernet
iTunes
Appstore
Sleep / Wake (native)
Graficscard (native)
Audio (USB) (Update 27.05.2014)
Bluetooth (Update 05.06.2014)
USB 3.0 (Update 05.06.2014)
Audio (AUX) (Update 27.05.2014)
Wifi (Update 05.06.2014)

Nothing

Nothing

Updates:

27.05.2014
Tested Audio: USB works fine, AUX doesnt

05.06.2014
Bluetooth working out-of-the-box!

05.06.2014
Wifi Card TP-Link TL-WN881ND doesnt work, networks are shown but i cant connect. i used all kext's i could find out there but none work. and i cant figure out where to apply a solution from another thread here at tonymacx86 in the kext. anyone got any suggestions?

30.08.2014
Wifi and AUX audio are working. for wifi i used the more expensive TP link card. till now i dont know why AUX is working. i didnt change any settings ​

 

[smi]

Update:
I have tested almost all things. Seems like the only thing wich is not working is USB and AUX audio. Not tested Wifi and USB 3.0.

I will upadte here, when i get Audio working

 

[smi]

Audio is working just fine, but only USB audio - AUX doesnt work.... any suggestions?

 

[smi]

Update 05.06.2014:

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  [*=center]Bluetooth works fine out of the box! i used the GMYLE adapter from the buyers guide may 2014.
  [*=center]for Wifi i used the TP-Link TL-WN881ND. Doesnt work till now. the card cant connect to any network, but shows all of them. All kext i can find dont work. And for some solution from another thread from tonymacx86, i dont know how to apply some things in the kext.

Anyone gut some suggestions for my problem?​

 

[malki]

Audio is working just fine, but only USB audio - AUX doesnt work.... any suggestions?

i have this board and cannot get an "audio device" to even be detected, tried a lot of different multibeast settings but pretty much followed your guide on the install... are you getting an "audio device" when you go to System preferences > sound > Output... does it say something like "internal speakers" etc... because on mine it has no audio device at all im wondering if you are getting one? I have no sound coming out of the green output port of the motherboard, what do you mean by aux as well. is that what you are referring to? what do you mean by usb audio.

thanks

 

[smi]

hi, sorry for the late response. AUX is working fine and i dont know why. i didnt change any settings.

and yes i get devices like USB microphone or AUX headset. AUX audio is the green port on the back of your MOBO or in the front of your case. usb audio are audio-devices which are plugged in via USB.

are you sure you have the exact same mobo? there are i think two version 1.0 and 1.1 or 1.2. search for your versions' audio chip. if you get the audio-chips number you can choose your drivers in multibeast.