TROUBLE WITH SIMILAR BUILD: SYSTEM LOSES FEED WITH MONITOR BUT DOES NOT SHUT OFF AFTER PAUSING ~5 SEC AT WHITE APPLE LOGO FROM 1.5.3 (FAILS TO BOOT INSTALLER)
Dear TKhaldi (and anyone else who may have advice!),
I'm trying to install OSX Mountain Lion on a very similar, though not identical, build as yours. I was about to start a new thread but I thought my system was relevant here. I hope this discussion will be helpful to others also.
Here are the details of my hardware:
MoBo: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H LGA 1155 ATX Rev. 1.1
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K, 8 MB Cache, LGA 1155, 3.50 GHz
Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti w/ 1GB GDDRS
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR3
PSU: PC Power and Cooling (OCZ) Silencer MkII 750W
Cooling: Corsair H60 Liquid-CPU Cooler
And details on the BIOS and OS:
BIOS: Gigabyte UEFI DualBIOS v. F17
OS: Mountain Lion 10.8 (I bought it from the App Store just yesterday so I predict this is 10.8.2, but it does not say this explicitly on the "Install OSX Mountain Lion" App info.
I was following the Tonymacx86 Hackintosh guide (
http://lifehacker.com/5841604/the-always-up+to+date-guide-to-building-a-hackintosh?post=51322275) and things were going smoothly until I tried to boot the OSX installer from an 8GB USB drive. I get to the Tonymac86 logo and upon hitting enter, I progress to the familiar white Apple screen with a rotating circle for about 5 seconds, at which point my system suddenly loses connection with my monitor. The screen goes black though my tower continues to hum along as if nothing went wrong.
As my knowledge of Unix commands is basic at best (I apologize, I'm a newbie!), my debugging efforts have been sporadic. I tried
GraphicsEnabler=No and
PCIRootUID=0 but they do not seem to solve the problem.
I used a verbose boot with the following command:
-v -x GraphicsEnabler=No PCIRootUID=0 to try and give some help diagnosing the issue, though it's tough to decipher what's going on as the output flies by. I took four images of the error log as clearly as I could, in case they are helpful to someone more knowledgeable.
I should also mention that I have noted the following things I
could try but don't know how to exactly:
1. DSDT files: I don't know where to find these for my specific MoBo, or if I even needed to use them so far in this build (I haven't used Multibeast yet). Perhaps they have something to do with the missing kext files?
2. Disabling Quickboot: Just couldn't figure out how to do this with my BIOS. Please do advise how!
3. Disabling VD-t: I've read that this can be helpful (though I have no clue as to what VD-t stands for), but I again cannot find how to do this on BIOS v. F17.
If anyone has ideas on how to proceed, please post. TKHaldi, I'm especially interested in what you have to say.
Thanks,
lapog321