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- Feb 26, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H
- CPU
- i7-4790K
- Graphics
- GTX 760
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- Mobile Phone
Hi All,
after building many perfectly working Hackintoshes, I've finally managed to build one which I cannot get to the desired level of stability. And, for the first time, I've used "recommended" components exclusively (okay, maybe the SSD is not, but I've had an EVO 840 in the machine before, and the problem was exactly the same)
In short - if I put the computer to sleep for a while, everything is OK after waking up. If the sleep is longer (say a few hours), the computer either panics or reboots soon after wakeup, or is broken in some other way (applications crash immediately after launch, etc.). The panics are completely random, usually confined to the kernel, with a random kext occasionaly appearing in the backtrace.
Here's the build:
Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H mobo, F7 BIOS
Intel Core i7-4790K CPU
nVidia GTX 760
16GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600MHz CL9 RAM
512GB Crucial M550 SSD
Corsair CX500 PSU
OS: Yosemite 10.10 (14A389)
Boot: Clover r2999 (original install on r2976)
I've found several posts describing similar symptoms, however most ended up being problematic memory sticks. I've tried two other sets of memory I've found in my drawers (kingston, corsair), various single/dual channel combinations, clocking settings, the result being always more or less the same. I've also tried various DSDT fix settings in Clover (though after inspection, most of them affect the DSDT very little).
Speaking of DSDT - the DSDT on my board (GA-Z97-D3H, bios F7) appears to be very strange - it's completely uncompilable, containing lots of standalone "Zero" instructions, having many symbol references preceding their declarations, hanging symbol references, etc. However, there are many builds using the same board, so I'm not sure this is a problem - unless I'm the only one with a weird DSDT. Oh, and the "short" sleep works equally well with or without DSDT fixes, no CMOS resets, etc.
So please, did anyone have a similar problem, and found any solution?
Thanks for your help,
Stefan
after building many perfectly working Hackintoshes, I've finally managed to build one which I cannot get to the desired level of stability. And, for the first time, I've used "recommended" components exclusively (okay, maybe the SSD is not, but I've had an EVO 840 in the machine before, and the problem was exactly the same)
In short - if I put the computer to sleep for a while, everything is OK after waking up. If the sleep is longer (say a few hours), the computer either panics or reboots soon after wakeup, or is broken in some other way (applications crash immediately after launch, etc.). The panics are completely random, usually confined to the kernel, with a random kext occasionaly appearing in the backtrace.
Here's the build:
Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H mobo, F7 BIOS
Intel Core i7-4790K CPU
nVidia GTX 760
16GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600MHz CL9 RAM
512GB Crucial M550 SSD
Corsair CX500 PSU
OS: Yosemite 10.10 (14A389)
Boot: Clover r2999 (original install on r2976)
I've found several posts describing similar symptoms, however most ended up being problematic memory sticks. I've tried two other sets of memory I've found in my drawers (kingston, corsair), various single/dual channel combinations, clocking settings, the result being always more or less the same. I've also tried various DSDT fix settings in Clover (though after inspection, most of them affect the DSDT very little).
Speaking of DSDT - the DSDT on my board (GA-Z97-D3H, bios F7) appears to be very strange - it's completely uncompilable, containing lots of standalone "Zero" instructions, having many symbol references preceding their declarations, hanging symbol references, etc. However, there are many builds using the same board, so I'm not sure this is a problem - unless I'm the only one with a weird DSDT. Oh, and the "short" sleep works equally well with or without DSDT fixes, no CMOS resets, etc.
So please, did anyone have a similar problem, and found any solution?
Thanks for your help,
Stefan
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