- Joined
- Mar 11, 2012
- Messages
- 76
- Motherboard
- ga-z270x-Gaming 5
- CPU
- i7-7700K
- Graphics
- EVGA GTX 1060 SSC
I have always used chimera and didn’t know up from down when it came to clover. I Was running a Yosemite/Clover Install with no problems. One day this past week while strolling through TM, I came across a post on setting up a clover “test” usb. It said you could try out clover to see how your system would function without repercussion. If you come across that thread be very cautious. Long story short, to no fault of my own, the test usb completely ruined my install and I had to do an entire system wash. That being said, Clover and I got real intimate this past weekend and this “guide”, if that’s what you want to call it, is the result. I hope it helps someone.
HARDWARE
MotherBoard GA-Z68x-UD3H-B3
CPU i7-2600K
Graphics XFX Double D 6870
Memory 16GB 2133
UPGRADING BIOS TO UEFI
Since I had to completely redo everything I thought this would be a good time to get completely upgraded. Previously I was using the F10 BIOS. I upgraded to U1l, which is UEFI. If you’re in this situation let me save you some time; You can’t update your BIOS to UEFI with QFlash. You have to create a Bootable DOS USB and add Gigabyte's Flash Utility to it. You can achieve this with FreeDOS or windows. Gigabyte's tutorial was written in the 80’s and pretty much worthless. Here are some links that helped me out:
Upgrading 6 series BIOS to UEFI
MAcMan: Creating Bootable DOS USB
[highlight]***Note:[/highlight] Im not sure if you’ll have this issue, but my board immediately started updating bios on boot. I didn’t click or type anything. If this is the case for you, just chill, no need to **** yourself like i did.
TONY’S 10.11 INSTALL GUIDE
http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-el-capitan-any-supported-intel-based-pc.html
Below are the sections of Tony’s Guide.
If I had to do something differently I added what I did below the steps.
STEP 1: DOWNLOAD EL CAPITAN
STEP 2: CREATING USB
STEP 3: BIOS SETTINGS
STEP 4: INSTALL EL CAPITAN
STEP 5: POST INSTALL
FIXING HWMONITOR
Below are some additional steps I to get HWMonitor working:
CONCLUSION
After many many hours of despair, hope, anger and adulation I finally had a stable Clover/El Capitan System. I hope this saves someone a weekend.
Happy Hacking
HARDWARE
MotherBoard GA-Z68x-UD3H-B3
CPU i7-2600K
Graphics XFX Double D 6870
Memory 16GB 2133
UPGRADING BIOS TO UEFI
Since I had to completely redo everything I thought this would be a good time to get completely upgraded. Previously I was using the F10 BIOS. I upgraded to U1l, which is UEFI. If you’re in this situation let me save you some time; You can’t update your BIOS to UEFI with QFlash. You have to create a Bootable DOS USB and add Gigabyte's Flash Utility to it. You can achieve this with FreeDOS or windows. Gigabyte's tutorial was written in the 80’s and pretty much worthless. Here are some links that helped me out:
Upgrading 6 series BIOS to UEFI
MAcMan: Creating Bootable DOS USB
[highlight]***Note:[/highlight] Im not sure if you’ll have this issue, but my board immediately started updating bios on boot. I didn’t click or type anything. If this is the case for you, just chill, no need to **** yourself like i did.
TONY’S 10.11 INSTALL GUIDE
http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-el-capitan-any-supported-intel-based-pc.html
Below are the sections of Tony’s Guide.
If I had to do something differently I added what I did below the steps.
STEP 1: DOWNLOAD EL CAPITAN
STEP 2: CREATING USB
• Create Unibeast El Capitan USB Drive
• Replace EFI/Clover/Config.plist on USB with STANDARD Config.plist NOT ati or Nvidia
• Put one of each kext into into EFI/Clover/Kexts/Other
• Delete all other folders except Other
STEP 3: BIOS SETTINGS
• Load Optimized Defaults
• CPU-EIST = Disabled
• VT-D (VMM) = Disabled
• XMP Profile = 1
• Hard Drives = AHCI
• Boot Mode = UEFI Only
• OS Type = Other OS
STEP 4: INSTALL EL CAPITAN
STEP 5: POST INSTALL
• Download and RUN El Capitan Post Install Tools
• Added following kexts to El Capitan/Library/Extentions
FakeSMC.kext
AppleIntelE1000.kext
Atheros2200Ethernet.kext
RealtekRTL8111.kext
[highlight]• RESTART **IMPORTANT**[/highlight]
• Download Clover Configurator (to edit Sys Definition, Graphics, Serial #)
Open EFI:EFI/Clover/Config.plist
SMBIOS - Click Magic Wand
Find Processer @ Everymac.com (mine is Imac 12,2)
RTVariables = 0x67 to Fully disable SIP (Still not sure if this did the trick or not)
Save
Close
• Download CloverALC110Script
Run
Options: Yes, Yes, 1 Yes, Close
• RESTART
FIXING HWMONITOR
Below are some additional steps I to get HWMonitor working:
• Download HWSensors Binary From hwSensors.com
• Download EFI Mounter v3 From TonyMac
• Mount EFI
• Move All Kexts from DMG (Except FakeSMC) to EFI/EFI/CLOVER/Kexts/10.11
• Move HWMonitor to Applications
• Restart
CONCLUSION
After many many hours of despair, hope, anger and adulation I finally had a stable Clover/El Capitan System. I hope this saves someone a weekend.
Happy Hacking