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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z370 HD3P
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- Intel Core i7 8700k
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- GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
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shark7760's Build:
Gigabyte Z370 HD3P - i7 8700k Stock - KFA2 1080 Ti EXOC
macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Gigabyte Z370 HD3P - i7 8700k Stock - KFA2 1080 Ti EXOC
macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Components
Intel Core i7 8700K not-OC'ed
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07598VZR8/?tag=itlog-21
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07598VZR8/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
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GIGABYTE Z370 HD3P
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G.Skill Trident Z 3600-17 2x16GB Memory (F4-3200C14D-32GTZSW)
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https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232379
KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti EXOC
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B072P78SCC/?tag=itlog-21
Samsung 960 PRO MZ-V6P512BW (512GB) (PCIe, NVMe)
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXS4TYB/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147596
PowerMac G5 Case
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Some more storage, but not important for setup:
3 TiB WDC HDD, 1 TiB WDC HDD, UniBeast. Set it to UEFI only. NVidia workaround is not needed for newer cards.
0. Before you start, you have to set some settings in BIOS. You can enter it by hitting the DEL key.
- Save & Exit → Load Optimized Defaults
- M.I.T. → Advanced Memory Settings Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P.) : Profile1
- BIOS → Fast Boot : Disabled
- (F3, F4 BIOS) BIOS → Windows 8/10 Features : Other OS
- (F5, F6 BIOS) BIOS → CMS Support: Disabled
- Now a new menu entry point will appear below.
Choose Secure boot to open a new configuration page.
Secure Boot Enable: Disabled - (F7 BIOS) BIOS → Windows 8/10 Features: Windows 8/10
BIOS → CSM Support: Disabled
BIOS → Boot Option Priorities: Choose the raw disk name and not s.th. like Windows Boot Manager (<name of your raw disk>) - BIOS → LAN PXE Boot Option ROM : Disabled
- BIOS → Storage Boot Option Control : UEFI
- Peripherals → Super IO Configuration → Serial Port : Disabled
- Peripherals → USB Configuration → XHCI Hand-off : Enabled
- Chipset → Vt-d : Disabled
2. The NVMe PCIe SSD is not formatted and will be invisible to the setup. Fix this by doing the following:
- You have to open a Terminal,
- type diskutil list and note down the drive identifier. It should be /dev/disk0, if it's your only drive. Simply disconnect all not needed drives before setup. This will prevent some serious mistakes!
- Format the SSD as HFS: diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ MacOSGoesHere /dev/disk0
- Now you can use the drive utility gui to format the drive as APFS.
- I've used GPT and created 300 GiB APFS partition and an 200 GiB partition for Windows formatted as ExFAT.
4. Leave the USB stick connected and boot from the stick, don't choose install from stick! Choose the new macOS Install from your SSD partition. Complete the setup.
5. Now use MultiBeast with the following settings:
- Quick Start > Clover UEFI Boot Mode
- Drivers > Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > ALC1220 *
- Drivers > Misc > FakeSMC Drivers > Network > Intel > IntelMausiEthernet v2.3.0
- Drivers > USB > Increase Max Port Limit 200 Series
- Bootloaders > Clover UEFI Boot Mode + Emulated NVRAM
- Customize > System Definitions > iMac > iMac 18,3
- Drivers > Graphics > NVIDIA Web Drivers Boot Flag
After rebooting, I installed the NVidia Web Drivers and rebooted again.
6. For HDMI audio, I used this solution and followed the instructions: https://github.com/toleda/audio_hdm...er/ssdt_hdmi-nvidia/ssdt_hdmi-nvidia-PEG0.zip Sadly audio seems to work only on the HDMI port. If you have a better solution, feel free to comment!
Not working:
- Audio on DisplayPort
Update 1:
I have analog audio! Use EFI Mounter and add the following kexts (not the folders!) to EFI/CLOVER/kexts/other:
The clover config should be still fine, because MultiBeast seems to add the right injection.
Update 2:
Pictures added.
Update 3:
I recently updated to 10.13.4 and also updated to latest Clover installation with UEFI/nvram Emulation. Before I installed the newest Clover version, I ran the nvram removal tool provided in the downloads section. Also before updating to 10.13.4: Backup your 10.13.3 version of S/L/E/AppleHDA.kext. After upgrading to .4 backup the new applehda and replace it with your .3 version. This will keep nvidia hdmi audio working.
Update 4:
I updated my BIOS to F7 with the result of not beeing able to boot into macOS. I don't know which combination of strangly named secure boot options I have to turn off.
Update 4.1:
I figured out the right secure boot option for BIOS F7 and added them to the step by step list.
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