- Joined
- Mar 2, 2013
- Messages
- 14
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3
- CPU
- Intel Core i5 6600K
- Graphics
- Nvidia GTX970 Palit
Hello Guys,
First of all, here are the specs of my system, unfortunately when I built the system, I didn't have a hackintosh in mind, but it's nothing special so didn't think I would have many problems.
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 (Updated to the latest version, F22)
HDD: Samsung SSD 750 EVO 500GB
Data HDD: 1TB
Memory: Avexir 16GB DDR4 PC4-21300C17 2666MHz Quad Channel
GFX: Nvidia GTX970 Palit
Been trying for 2 days now to get this working, and the most annoying thing is it WAS working for a little while, had the GFX card working fine, and set everything up to match my dev machine at work, all I had to do on boot was un-tick inject nvidia, and remove the nv_disable=1 flag.
But obviously this wasn't ideal so looked at how to change the flags so it just booted right away, did so and then it stopped working.... (loading screen got about half way then get a black screen and no signal from the monitor )
So I have decided to start again from scratch and list what I have done so hopefully someone can tell me where I am being stupid....
Pre-Install
First I used a Linux live USB to wipe the HDD (As for some reason I have about 22 UEFI boot options to choose from...)
Booted from USB, wiped the drive as OS X Extended (Journaled) with GUID Partition Map and clicked install.
After installed and rebooted, booted from the SSD and followed the setup and signed in with apple ID and setup my account.
Post-install
So i'm now on OSX sierra..
Dock is not transparent and 2nd screen not working, so check about this mac
MacOS Sierra
Version 10.12.5 (16F73)
iMac (27-Inch, Late 2013)
Graphics Display 7 MB
So as per https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solving-nvidia-driver-install-loading-problems.161256/ I downloaded the driver for my version, turns out its the top link (16F73).
Install and restart (Still booting from USB and then selecting the HDD, now removing the nv_disabled=1 flag (Just leaving dart=0) and ticking NVIDIA WEB drivers in Graphics Injector) As I have still not ran MultiBeast at this point...
OSX loads up but login screen has grey background and have some screen flickering. Log in and check about this mac again
Still showing Display 7MB
So open NVIDIA Driver Manager and see that OSX Default driver is ticked, so change that to NVIDIA Web Driver and reboot in the same way again... (Removing nv_disable=1, but this time webdrivers is already ticked)
OSX loads up (again) with a grey background, check NVIDIA and its back to OSX Driver......
So I decided to use Multibeast now, in hopes it will change it from defaulting to OSX
UEFI Boot Mode
Bootloaders: Clover 2.4 UEFI Boot Mode
Customize: NVIDIA Web Drivers Boot Flag
And then build/install, as by the looks of things everything else is working OK
Once complete, reboot (again) this time booting from the HDD (New UEFI option) and check the boot flags, just dart=0 so no need to remove the nv flag, and Graphics Injector still has Web drivers ticked, so no need to change anything this time.
Boot into OSX again and yep... Grey screen (AGHRRR) OSX Driver again (I assume this is the issue) so I change it back to web again and reboot. And yep grey login background and back to the OSX driver.
PLEASE, does anyone know where I am being stupid?
Cheers,
Neodite (Sorry for the long post, just didn't want to miss anything out).
EDIT: I have also tried booting with nvda_drv=1 and even injecting nvidia and still the same result.
EDIT2: After looking at https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solving-nvidia-driver-install-loading-problems.161256/ again, I tried the Clover V2 option, but not when booting the loading bar goes half way then black screen
First of all, here are the specs of my system, unfortunately when I built the system, I didn't have a hackintosh in mind, but it's nothing special so didn't think I would have many problems.
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 (Updated to the latest version, F22)
HDD: Samsung SSD 750 EVO 500GB
Data HDD: 1TB
Memory: Avexir 16GB DDR4 PC4-21300C17 2666MHz Quad Channel
GFX: Nvidia GTX970 Palit
Been trying for 2 days now to get this working, and the most annoying thing is it WAS working for a little while, had the GFX card working fine, and set everything up to match my dev machine at work, all I had to do on boot was un-tick inject nvidia, and remove the nv_disable=1 flag.
But obviously this wasn't ideal so looked at how to change the flags so it just booted right away, did so and then it stopped working.... (loading screen got about half way then get a black screen and no signal from the monitor )
So I have decided to start again from scratch and list what I have done so hopefully someone can tell me where I am being stupid....
Pre-Install
First I used a Linux live USB to wipe the HDD (As for some reason I have about 22 UEFI boot options to choose from...)
- BIOS: Everything got set to default, and then the following changes made
Secure Boot: off
VT-d: off
OS Type: Other OS
IO SerialPort: off
XHCI Handoff: on
- USB: Installed Sierra with Unibeast - UEFI Boot mode, Sierra.
Booted from USB, wiped the drive as OS X Extended (Journaled) with GUID Partition Map and clicked install.
After installed and rebooted, booted from the SSD and followed the setup and signed in with apple ID and setup my account.
Post-install
So i'm now on OSX sierra..
Dock is not transparent and 2nd screen not working, so check about this mac
MacOS Sierra
Version 10.12.5 (16F73)
iMac (27-Inch, Late 2013)
Graphics Display 7 MB
So as per https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solving-nvidia-driver-install-loading-problems.161256/ I downloaded the driver for my version, turns out its the top link (16F73).
Install and restart (Still booting from USB and then selecting the HDD, now removing the nv_disabled=1 flag (Just leaving dart=0) and ticking NVIDIA WEB drivers in Graphics Injector) As I have still not ran MultiBeast at this point...
OSX loads up but login screen has grey background and have some screen flickering. Log in and check about this mac again
Still showing Display 7MB
So open NVIDIA Driver Manager and see that OSX Default driver is ticked, so change that to NVIDIA Web Driver and reboot in the same way again... (Removing nv_disable=1, but this time webdrivers is already ticked)
OSX loads up (again) with a grey background, check NVIDIA and its back to OSX Driver......
So I decided to use Multibeast now, in hopes it will change it from defaulting to OSX
UEFI Boot Mode
Bootloaders: Clover 2.4 UEFI Boot Mode
Customize: NVIDIA Web Drivers Boot Flag
And then build/install, as by the looks of things everything else is working OK
Once complete, reboot (again) this time booting from the HDD (New UEFI option) and check the boot flags, just dart=0 so no need to remove the nv flag, and Graphics Injector still has Web drivers ticked, so no need to change anything this time.
Boot into OSX again and yep... Grey screen (AGHRRR) OSX Driver again (I assume this is the issue) so I change it back to web again and reboot. And yep grey login background and back to the OSX driver.
PLEASE, does anyone know where I am being stupid?
Cheers,
Neodite (Sorry for the long post, just didn't want to miss anything out).
EDIT: I have also tried booting with nvda_drv=1 and even injecting nvidia and still the same result.
EDIT2: After looking at https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solving-nvidia-driver-install-loading-problems.161256/ again, I tried the Clover V2 option, but not when booting the loading bar goes half way then black screen
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