[SUCCESS] Ashman's Coffee Lake Build

[ashman70]

Ashman's i5 Coffee Lake Build:
Gigabyte Z370-HD3 i5-8400 - Asus OC RX 560 4GB

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Components

Gigabyte Z370-HD3 Motherboard
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813145041
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0762V6Y7Z/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813145041

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) CMK16GX4M2A2400C16 Memory
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233970
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017NW5NZY/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233970

Intel Core i5-8400 2.8 GHz Six core CPU
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117824
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759FGJ3Q/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117824

Samsung 960 M.2 NVME 500GB SSD
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIADGE5S15299
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M20VBU7/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA12K54C9642

Asus Radeon RX 560 EVO OC Edition 4GB
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7RD6M06314
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076FL47B7/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126223

TP-Link TL-WSN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter 2.4GHz . 450Mbps/5GHz 450Mbps
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704133
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007GMPZ0A/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704133

IoGear GBU521 Bluetooth USB Dongle
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833139027CVF
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007GFX0PY/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833139027

Fractal Design R6 Black Brushed Aluminum ATX Case
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352079
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0793J48JK/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352079

Seasonic S12II 520W Bronze ATX Power supply
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151094
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00390P1NO/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151094

Samsung U28E590 28" 4K UHD monitor
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7RD53A4434
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YD3DBOC/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824022246


Already Owned

Samsung 850 500GB SSD
Creative GigaWorks T20 Series II 28W RMS 2.0 Multimedia Speakers
2xDell ST2320L 23" HD monitors 1920x1080
Apple BT keyboard and mouse
Other SATA HD's


Comments

This was an interesting journey for me. I have been messing about with hackintoshes since the Leopard/Snow Leopard days when I first found out about the ability to install OSX on PC hardware. I remember trying to install OSX on a Dell laptop I had a the time, those were fun times. Then, in 2011 I decided to buy all brand new parts to build a hackintosh to be my daily driver. This was when Clover was still relatively new and Chimera was still the boot loader of choice for most people. I can't remember exactly what transpired, but suffice it to say I was not successful and gave up, instead choosing to buy an iMac. Recently, my iMac was getting towards the end of its life, and my interest in hackintoshing was rekindled. I created a boot drive and tried to install OSX on my old Ivy Bridge system from 2011. BAM! It worked and was so simple. I had a few issues but basically it worked. Blown away, I seriously considered using this as my daily machine. A few days later it dies. I swapped power supplies. Nope. It seemed to be the motherboard. Great. I decide to commit and buy new parts to build a new system on the latest hardware, and here we are.

Getting this build up and running wasn't hard, I started off using my Nvidia GTX 960, but right away I experienced the all to common lag due to the Nvidia drivers and at this time, fixes weren't too common yet. I did some research and decided to get an AMD card. At this time GPU's were crazy expensive due to the mining nonsense, on average $100 over priced. I got the RX 560 on sale for $279.00 CAD. Then, the problems began. Random freezing was my first problem. It's one of THE most difficult problems to resolve. I felt like was back in 2011 again, dealing with this, asking for help, wondering if I'd made a big mistake again. I stuck with it, dropped $250 on new RAM which didn't help (I wasn't convinced it would in the first place, lesson learned). The more I spent time trying to fix it the more I began to suspect the GPU was the problem. This was on 10.13.3, and I began to see others with issues with AMD GPU's as well. I did a fresh install of OSX, still the issues persisted. Asked around for help, tried various kexts, changes to my config.plist, different SMBIOS settings, and, finally, the freezing seemed to go away. Great, I thought I was good. Nope! New problem, random reboots. FFS! More troubleshooting, posting error messages, trying different configs. Finally, I'd had enough and used a different method to install OSX, to my surprise this worked very well. I used the recent 10.13.4 release, and it's been great, stable and perfect ever since. The only kexts I had to add were for my BT dongle.

Initially I was using a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD as my main OSX drive, I later decided upgrade to a Samsung 960 500GB NVMe. To do this, I simply installed the NVMe drive, used CCC to clone my 850 to the NVMe, copied the EFI folder over and done.

Backups. I can't stress enough how important having at least one backup drive is. Once you get your system up and running, clone it to another drive and copy over your EFI folder. Boot to it to make sure it works and use this for testing OSX updates or any changes you want to do. Not having a backup means one simple change or update can leave you with an unbootable system. I have two backup drives, one SSD and one regular hard drive and I clone them daily and boot into them at least once a week to make sure they work.

What works:

Everything works just fine, all three of my monitors work as they should, sound, networking, BT, sound.
I don't ever sleep my computer so I cannot say if this works or not.
I do have to use Lilu and Whatevergreen kexts otherwise only one of my displays work.

BIOS Settings

Nothing special here just follow the guide here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...ierra-on-any-supported-intel-based-pc.235474/

In my case I did have to enable the onboard GPU to resolve issues with my AMD GPU. I have it set to 64MB of memory.

 

[scottkendall]

You say this in your post:

"Finally, I'd had enough and used a different method to install OSX, to my surprise this worked very well."

What is this method I am in a similar situation as you as I can not get the freezes and restarts to go away. I also really do not want to go back to windows and purchase a new OS since windows 7 does not seem to like this hardware.

I have gone as far as buying a different MB that other people had working thinking that it might magically resolve issue since all the hardware was brand new.

I currently am using a Vega 64 but had similar issues with a RX560.

I have tried your EFI but on boot It tells me that the IGPU driver failed to load because it could not register the frame buffer. Then it continues to boot without the IGPU. I also notice with your EFI that videos do not play on iTunes or in a web browser though I am sure that likely has something to do with the IGPU not working.

 

[ashman70]

Our boards are not exactly the same, at least not the one listed in your signature, what board are you using now?

Unfortunately I am not permitted to talk about the method that I used since it did not involve tools from this site.

 

[scottkendall]

pretty shitty since that method might be my only hope.. guess it is windows for me since no one even responds to my posts but you. Gigabyte gaming 5

 

[Victorflrs]

I have almost the exact same setup as yours, but I haven't decided on the GPU. I want an RX 580 because I've heard it has great compatibility, but I really don't need that much power. How hard was it to get the RX 560 working on 10.13.4? any kexts or did you also inject ATI?

 

[ashman70]

So in my case I am driving three monitors with the 560, to do so I need to use Whatevergreen and Lilu, no inject ATI, but I also have to have my intrernal GPU turned on too.

 

[GooRoo64]

Hi, I am setting up my first Hackintosh. Am able to boot from the install usb correctly.
Once I launch the high Sierra installation, i get the apple logo, the progress bar gets to about 45% and the system reboots. I am using the onboard graphics. Do you have an idea on how to resolve this? Do I have any incompatible hardware?

 

[scottkendall]

it should reboot, choose the option from the clover boot screen "Install Mac OS from XXXXXX" it might reboot a few times keep choosing the option to install until it is gone.