- Joined
- Dec 24, 2015
- Messages
- 55
- Motherboard
- ASrock X99 Extreme4
- CPU
- i7-5820K
- Graphics
- GTX 960, R9 280X & RX 580
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
This is weird. I hadn't run it as a Hackintosh for about a month because of the crashes and proliferation of EFI partitions when I looked at bcfg boot dump. (I ran it under Linux for that time). Then my project ran out of Linux GPU work, and I switched back to the OSX to get the GPU work available there, and it crashed something like hourly until my 12 year old rebooted the machine and it has 9+ days of uptime now.
So what did I do differently? Well, it could be the macOS Sierra 10.2.2 update, the NVIDIA webdriver update, the CUDA 8.X update, or that I made it so my display never sleeps. I suspect the stupid power management kext was causing the crash, even though I never allowed the computer to go to sleep, it was probably crashing when it tried to sleep the display.
Also weird: all this time with the prohibited symbol, simply trying again without changing the boot flags--doing exactly the same thing again--was successful, and sometimes you had to do it 2 or 3 times. WTH?
So now this thing is running nicely and all I need to do is follow the instructions Going Bald posted to get the audio working, which is not a high priority for what I am doing with this machine.
However, the CPU seems to be running much slower than it should. I've overclocked the i7-5820k from 3.3GHz to 4.2GHz, but it runs tasks like it is still running at 3.3GHz. Running Einstein@home gravity wave and Gamma Ray Pulsar work units on Linux is significantly faster (12-20%) than when I run the same machine as a Mac. This could be because the tasks I am running are poorly optimized for Mac, or something in my configuration as a Mac could be holding it back. The CPU gets up to 60C under Linux, and barely eeks over 48C as a Mac, so I am inclined to think this is a problem on the Mac end.
So what did I do differently? Well, it could be the macOS Sierra 10.2.2 update, the NVIDIA webdriver update, the CUDA 8.X update, or that I made it so my display never sleeps. I suspect the stupid power management kext was causing the crash, even though I never allowed the computer to go to sleep, it was probably crashing when it tried to sleep the display.
Also weird: all this time with the prohibited symbol, simply trying again without changing the boot flags--doing exactly the same thing again--was successful, and sometimes you had to do it 2 or 3 times. WTH?
So now this thing is running nicely and all I need to do is follow the instructions Going Bald posted to get the audio working, which is not a high priority for what I am doing with this machine.
However, the CPU seems to be running much slower than it should. I've overclocked the i7-5820k from 3.3GHz to 4.2GHz, but it runs tasks like it is still running at 3.3GHz. Running Einstein@home gravity wave and Gamma Ray Pulsar work units on Linux is significantly faster (12-20%) than when I run the same machine as a Mac. This could be because the tasks I am running are poorly optimized for Mac, or something in my configuration as a Mac could be holding it back. The CPU gets up to 60C under Linux, and barely eeks over 48C as a Mac, so I am inclined to think this is a problem on the Mac end.
