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Components
-Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
-Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
-Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
-Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
-EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Superclocked ACX Video Card
-Cooler Master Elite 361 ATX Mid Tower Case
ABOUT THE BUILD and MYSELF
This is an old build from around 2013, I built it to run mavericks at the time using the chameleon bootloader. I have tried upgrading before to Yosemite, I had such bad crashes and couldn’t troubleshoot it, Mavericks has been solid but every once in a while it did crash, Bluetooth was getting annoying as well.
I upgraded last night to Sierra, and I am happy!!, this was my first clover install, and I can still boot into mavericks from my other ssd using clover. I'll have to do further testing but everything I use works. My audio interface -Saffire Pro 14 -via Firewire was read automatically after installing the driver from the company’s website, and Bluetooth is a dream so much better than Mavericks. I haven't checked USB 3.0 speeds but all my ports work. Also Internet worked as well.
So how did I do it? There was no real guide for my build so I used El Captain configurations and hoped for the best. I did have trouble at first with getting stuck, I had to use my back ports because the front ones wouldn't allow me to install.
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/success-i7-4790k-gigabyte-z97x-ud5h-gtx970-el-capitan.192804/
Thank you Hamibh, I followed your guide with some modifications
HOW I GOT THIS THING WORKING
I followed TonyMacx86's installation guide and I recommend that you do as well.
STEP 1
I downloaded Sierra
STEP 2
I chose Sierra and UEFI Boot Mode.
##Please make sure you follow TonyMacx86 guide and use GUID for the partition, I had a flash drive with Snow Leopard and Mavericks on it and forgot that it was set to MBR. So make sure you format it exactly as described in the guide and use a clean USB. I used a USB 3.0 flash drive, however this is not recommended. It did speed up the process though.#
STEP 3
I used the BIOS settings from Hamibh
* note: If you're using a graphics card make sure to disable internal graphics
STEP 4
##I had to use a USB port at the back of the motherboard's IO to get the bootable USB to boot, my case's front port would just leave me with a spinning wheel.#
Once in Clover, I needed to add boot flag nv_disable=1, and I used verbose -v to boot to Sierra installer. Also, I unplugged all other drives (Had another SSD and HDD attached) besides the one that I was going to install Sierra on.
STEP 5
##First boot into Sierra was sad, everything was out of size and the graphics were poor. Once everything was installed, I was impressed.##
I installed everything with MultiMeast 9.0.1. I did it more than once, but the second time was because I added the audio driver Realtek 898, since I couldn't get sound from the motherboard headphone port without it.
MultiBeast
Comments
Overall I'm happy with the build. My audio interface plays back audio perfectly and my Bluetooth speaker does as well. I did the audio fix for this guide. The 14,2 definition is one that worked well for my build, I used it in mavericks and I also used it in Yosemite.
This is my first write up and I hope it helps, I feel great adding value to the community; since up until now I've just been using it for my updates. ^_^
***Update 2/25/18 I want to make a note that all the crashes have stopped. I had left internal graphics enabled in my bios, after disabling it I have no more crashes. Sound from the headphone jack does still stop if I let the computer fall asleep.
I also want to report that I was able to update directly from 10.12.2 to 10.12.6 from the app store without needing to repair anything. The build is stable now minus the audio loss after waking from sleep.
-Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
-Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
-Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
-Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
-EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Superclocked ACX Video Card
-Cooler Master Elite 361 ATX Mid Tower Case
ABOUT THE BUILD and MYSELF
This is an old build from around 2013, I built it to run mavericks at the time using the chameleon bootloader. I have tried upgrading before to Yosemite, I had such bad crashes and couldn’t troubleshoot it, Mavericks has been solid but every once in a while it did crash, Bluetooth was getting annoying as well.
I upgraded last night to Sierra, and I am happy!!, this was my first clover install, and I can still boot into mavericks from my other ssd using clover. I'll have to do further testing but everything I use works. My audio interface -Saffire Pro 14 -via Firewire was read automatically after installing the driver from the company’s website, and Bluetooth is a dream so much better than Mavericks. I haven't checked USB 3.0 speeds but all my ports work. Also Internet worked as well.
So how did I do it? There was no real guide for my build so I used El Captain configurations and hoped for the best. I did have trouble at first with getting stuck, I had to use my back ports because the front ones wouldn't allow me to install.
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/success-i7-4790k-gigabyte-z97x-ud5h-gtx970-el-capitan.192804/
Thank you Hamibh, I followed your guide with some modifications
HOW I GOT THIS THING WORKING
I followed TonyMacx86's installation guide and I recommend that you do as well.
STEP 1
I downloaded Sierra
STEP 2
I chose Sierra and UEFI Boot Mode.
##Please make sure you follow TonyMacx86 guide and use GUID for the partition, I had a flash drive with Snow Leopard and Mavericks on it and forgot that it was set to MBR. So make sure you format it exactly as described in the guide and use a clean USB. I used a USB 3.0 flash drive, however this is not recommended. It did speed up the process though.#
STEP 3
I used the BIOS settings from Hamibh
* note: If you're using a graphics card make sure to disable internal graphics
STEP 4
##I had to use a USB port at the back of the motherboard's IO to get the bootable USB to boot, my case's front port would just leave me with a spinning wheel.#
Once in Clover, I needed to add boot flag nv_disable=1, and I used verbose -v to boot to Sierra installer. Also, I unplugged all other drives (Had another SSD and HDD attached) besides the one that I was going to install Sierra on.
STEP 5
##First boot into Sierra was sad, everything was out of size and the graphics were poor. Once everything was installed, I was impressed.##
I installed everything with MultiMeast 9.0.1. I did it more than once, but the second time was because I added the audio driver Realtek 898, since I couldn't get sound from the motherboard headphone port without it.
MultiBeast
- Quick Start > UEFI Boot Mode
- Audio > ALC 898
- Drivers > FakeSMC v6.18-313-g671f31c.1707
- Drivers > FakeSMC Plugins v6.18-313-g671f31c.1707
- Drivers > Network > Intel > AppleIntelE1000e v3.3.3
- Customize> system definitions> imac> 14,2
- Install
- FakePCIID.kext
- FakePCIID_XHCIMux.kext
Comments
Overall I'm happy with the build. My audio interface plays back audio perfectly and my Bluetooth speaker does as well. I did the audio fix for this guide. The 14,2 definition is one that worked well for my build, I used it in mavericks and I also used it in Yosemite.
This is my first write up and I hope it helps, I feel great adding value to the community; since up until now I've just been using it for my updates. ^_^
***Update 2/25/18 I want to make a note that all the crashes have stopped. I had left internal graphics enabled in my bios, after disabling it I have no more crashes. Sound from the headphone jack does still stop if I let the computer fall asleep.
I also want to report that I was able to update directly from 10.12.2 to 10.12.6 from the app store without needing to repair anything. The build is stable now minus the audio loss after waking from sleep.
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