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- Jan 6, 2017
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 7
- CPU
- i7-7700K
- Graphics
- HD 630
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
[Update]
After poking around in the BIOS, this is what worked for me:
Change
To:
Thanks to @RehabMan @P1LGRIM and @canyondust for the continued support!
[Update 2]
After further troubleshooting, I determined that even having the Optane plugged in will mess up High Sierra (While Sierra installs fine with it installed in the motherboard, but deactivated in BIOS).
After removing the Optane Memory unit from my motherboard's M.2 slot, I was able to boot into the High Sierra installer and install on the NVMe drive. Success!!
[Original Post]
Currently experiencing MACH Reboot error during installation. I have been at this for four days, read through and tried many solutions including dropping DMAR and MATS, and deleting FakeSMC.kext (I have since done a complete wipe of my USB install drive and upgraded to latest UniBeast).
Here's my build:
BIOS Settings:
Thanks in advance for any help, I have been building hackintosh since Leopard, and I've built x86 hackintosh systems on Mavericks, El Capitan and Sierra just by lurking on the forums here! Shoutouts to the mods and admins who do a fantastic job maintaining this site and supporting us users
[EDIT:] I deleted the EFI files originally attached, I'm no longer using it.
After poking around in the BIOS, this is what worked for me:
Change
Code:
Peripherals>SATA And RST Configuration>Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration
To:
Code:
Peripherals>SATA And RST Configuration>AHCI
Thanks to @RehabMan @P1LGRIM and @canyondust for the continued support!
[Update 2]
After further troubleshooting, I determined that even having the Optane plugged in will mess up High Sierra (While Sierra installs fine with it installed in the motherboard, but deactivated in BIOS).
After removing the Optane Memory unit from my motherboard's M.2 slot, I was able to boot into the High Sierra installer and install on the NVMe drive. Success!!
[Original Post]
MACH Reboot error
This is the first difficulty encountered since getting the USB installer to boot.
Currently experiencing MACH Reboot error during installation. I have been at this for four days, read through and tried many solutions including dropping DMAR and MATS, and deleting FakeSMC.kext (I have since done a complete wipe of my USB install drive and upgraded to latest UniBeast).
Here's my build:
- Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 7 (Updated to F9e BIOS dated 3-9-2018)
- Intel i7-7700k (Running stock clock for now)
- 16 GB RAM -- (XPG DDR4 2400 8GB x2)
- GeForce GTX 1060 3G OCV1 (not installed yet)
- PNY 480 GB SSD (SATA)
- Samsung GB 960 Evo 500GB NVME (M.2 PCIE x4)
- Intel Optane 32GB (M.2 PCIE x2)
BIOS Settings:
- M.I.T. > Advanced Memory Settings:
- Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P.) - Profile1
- BIOS:
- Windows 8/10 Features - "Other OS"
- Storage Boot Option Control - UEFI
- Peripherals:
- Initial Display Output - IGFX
- Peripherals > USB Configuration
- XHCI Hand-off - Enabled
- Chipset
- VT-d - Disabled
- UniBeast 8.3.1 [USB, High Sierra, UEFI Boot Disk]
- UniBeast 8.2 (installer wouldn't boot)
- Delete the file .IAPhysicalMedia (hidden file) on USB
- [worked, but this bug was fixed in UniBeast 8.3.1]
- Same MACH Reboot error
- Delete the file .IAPhysicalMedia (hidden file) on USB
- EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI
- EmuVariableUefi-64.efi
- EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
- EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- Lilu.kext
- IntelGraphicsFixup.kext
- EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI
- EmuVariableUefi-64.efi
- EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- Shiki.kext
- EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- Lilu.kext
- USBInjectAll.kext
- EFI/CLOVER/config.plist edits:
- https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...cpus-200-series-motherboards-in-macos.219877/
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Code:
<key>KernelAndKextPatches</key> <dict> <key>FakeCPUID</key> <string>0x0506E3</string>
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- https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/stuck-at-attempting-system-restart-mach-reboot.232886/
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Code:
<key>DropTables</key> <array> <dict> <key>Signature</key> <string>MATS</string> <key>Signature</key> <string>DMAR</string> </dict>
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- https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...cpus-200-series-motherboards-in-macos.219877/
Thanks in advance for any help, I have been building hackintosh since Leopard, and I've built x86 hackintosh systems on Mavericks, El Capitan and Sierra just by lurking on the forums here! Shoutouts to the mods and admins who do a fantastic job maintaining this site and supporting us users
[EDIT:] I deleted the EFI files originally attached, I'm no longer using it.
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