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Success: GA-Z77-DS3H / i3 3225 / HD 4000 HDMI/QE / 1.8 thru 1.8.4 / 12-Step Program

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Motherboard
HP Envy 4-1110us
CPU
i3-3217U
Graphics
HD 4000
Okay, I've seen alot of people having issues with installations on this hardware, so I've taken two weeks out of my own time to troubleshoot and come up with a basic, bare bones method to installing OS X.


1) Create OS X Mountain Lion USB Install drive with UniBeast - Mountain Lion 1.7.0
2) Build PC. Keep it simple. Motherboard, CPU, RAM, one operating system HDD of your choice, power supply, and mouse/keyboard. Connect monitor/television through HDMI port. Everything else is pretty unnecessary at this point.
3) Change BIOS settings. I would prefer if you were updated to latest official BIOS, but I haven't noticed a difference. Load optimized defaults, set SATA mode to AHCI. This is all. Save and exit.
4) Connect USB Install drive to appropriate port on I/O panel. My particular case acts weird and won't boot my USB drive from my case's front connection panel. OS X acts weird with this motherboard and won't recognize some 2.0 devices on 3.0 ports. I can't explain this. Use your brain, USB 3.0 drives on the blue 3.0 ports on the back, 2.0 drives on the 2.0 ports near the PS/2 keyboard/mouse port. If you mess this up, you will be stuck trying to find root device. Repeat, don't use your case's ports for the install process.
5) Boot computer, press F12 for boot menu, boot from USB drive without boot flags, this should get you to the install screen. Partition your ONE connected HDD as you please, proceed through the installation.
6) Let the computer restart, press F12 for boot menu, boot from USB drive without boot flags on new HDD partition. This should start your build's new installation flawlessly. Complete installation, download and run MultiBeast 5.3.0.
7) Select the following options:
UserDSDT or DSDT-Free Installation
Drivers & Bootloaders
Drivers
Audio
Realtek ALC8xx
Without DSDT
ALC887/888b
v100302 Current
Miscellaneous
FakeSMC v5.1.61
Customization
Boot Options
GraphicsEnabler=No
8) Finish MultiBeast.
9) Go to your installation partition\Extra folder and open org.chameleon.Boot.plist in TextEdit. Insert the following string FOR THE i3 3225 PROCESSOR ONLY:

<key>device-properties</key>
<string>8800000001000000010000007c0000000200000002010c00d041030a000000000101060000027fff0400100000006d006f00640065006c0000001a000000496e74656c20484420477261706869637320343030302c0000004100410050004c002c00690067002d0070006c006100740066006f0072006d002d006900640000000800000005006201</string>

I do not guarantee this string will work for any other processor or motherboard combo. Make sure it resides within the <dict> </dict> tags, with the other keys and strings.
10) Open DiskUtility, select OS X partition, repair disk permissions.
11) Shutdown computer, unplug USB Install drive.
12) Connect all the crap you want to your build, just be mindful of how you do it. OS X HDD should be SATA0, if you want, connect a windows drive to SATA1, chameleon will find it. And as usual, DVD, BluRay, webcam, speakers, drawing tablet, printer, blah blah blah. Your computer should now boot on it's own, and OS X has been really good at detecting all the crap I connect to mine.

This simple process has worked 3x over for me. Update OS X as you please, just run MultiBeast after each update for audio driver ONLY.
 
Thanks, Thanks and Thanks
:headbang:
This is the real guide for my Z77-DS3H rev 1.1 + I3 3225.
Really works
 
What do I have to write instead of "device-properties"?
 
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