- Joined
- Apr 10, 2016
- Messages
- 2
- Motherboard
- Z97X-UD5H
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-4790K
- Graphics
- GF GTX 970
First time poster/long time reader. I really appreciate this community and admire your knowledge and willingness to help each other out. I've read many other threads that seemed to relate to my issue but was never able to fully resolve anything. So here I am.
I had a successful first build that ran smoothly for about year. I made it through major OS updates and all sorts of graphics driver issues. I was running macOS High Sierra 10.12 with no issues until one day I tried to mess with 'themes' inside Clover Configurator. I adjusted a setting dealing with NVRAM. This caused me to be unable to fully boot. I would get to the Apple logo and eventually I'd see the circle with a cross through it. Luckily I had my trusty backup bootable USB with a copy of my workable config file. For reasons I never understood and that no longer matter now, I could not seem to restore a proper boot of macOS High Sierra using my backup USB. I know. It doesn't make sense and yes I must have done something wrong or had additional issues that I was unaware of and/or did not understand.
FAST FORWARD SIX MONTHS
I decided to start a fresh install of macOS High Sierra using the same equipment. I did a hard format of my m.2 boot drive and started fresh using the guides and information found on this site. Using all new and up to date files on a freshly minted bootable USB and a freshly formatted drive I ended up with the same exact issue. I recognize the issue because when the Clover boot screen appears it loads a random theme every time. This lead me to believe that I have an issue with my non volatile random access memory (NVRAM).
I have considered doing an NVRAM Reset (Holding Command+Option+P+R at boot) but wanted to reach out to you guys before I did that. I'm not even sure if that works on a hackintosh. I've been running Windows 10 on this system in the mean time while I try to get to the bottom of this. If I can't solve it I will likely just do a fresh build with all new everything.
It is important to note that I no longer have the old config.plist file or any backup of the old workable system.
Here is a screenshot of my BOOT LOG
I had a successful first build that ran smoothly for about year. I made it through major OS updates and all sorts of graphics driver issues. I was running macOS High Sierra 10.12 with no issues until one day I tried to mess with 'themes' inside Clover Configurator. I adjusted a setting dealing with NVRAM. This caused me to be unable to fully boot. I would get to the Apple logo and eventually I'd see the circle with a cross through it. Luckily I had my trusty backup bootable USB with a copy of my workable config file. For reasons I never understood and that no longer matter now, I could not seem to restore a proper boot of macOS High Sierra using my backup USB. I know. It doesn't make sense and yes I must have done something wrong or had additional issues that I was unaware of and/or did not understand.
FAST FORWARD SIX MONTHS
I decided to start a fresh install of macOS High Sierra using the same equipment. I did a hard format of my m.2 boot drive and started fresh using the guides and information found on this site. Using all new and up to date files on a freshly minted bootable USB and a freshly formatted drive I ended up with the same exact issue. I recognize the issue because when the Clover boot screen appears it loads a random theme every time. This lead me to believe that I have an issue with my non volatile random access memory (NVRAM).
I have considered doing an NVRAM Reset (Holding Command+Option+P+R at boot) but wanted to reach out to you guys before I did that. I'm not even sure if that works on a hackintosh. I've been running Windows 10 on this system in the mean time while I try to get to the bottom of this. If I can't solve it I will likely just do a fresh build with all new everything.
It is important to note that I no longer have the old config.plist file or any backup of the old workable system.
Here is a screenshot of my BOOT LOG