[Success] [High Sierra] i7 4770k - GA-Z87X-UD3H - 32GB RAM - GTX 770 4GB

[Aleasy]

Aleasy's Build: i7 4770k - GA-Z87X-UD3H - GTX 770 4GB​

Components:

Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DPOIJM4/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128592

Intel i7 4770K Processor
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CO8TBQ0/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116901

Antec H2O 620 Processor Cooler
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004LWYE4Q/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835209049

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 4 GB (Nvidia) Graphics Card
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CU9GOAO/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125463

32GB G.Skill DDR3 1600 MHz Memory
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007GWMQNE/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231569

Cooler Master V1000 Power Supply
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGY4ETG/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171078

Lian Li PC-V650 Computer Case
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112385

Dell U2412M Monitor (2x)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JN9310/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824260047

Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD (2x)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3W1726/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W00YW3571

Western Digital 3TB Green SATA Hard Drive
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YNQKRG/?tag=tonymacx86com-20


Western Digital 1TB Blue SATA Hard Drive (2x)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013HNYVLA/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAEE43V4203

TP-Link TL-WDN4800 PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007GMPZ0A/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704133

LG BH16NS40 Bluray Optical Drive
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HQP9FIA/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136264


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My First Build

I built my first Hackintosh in 2014 and I installed Mavericks 10.9.1 using tonymacx86 guide: everything went perfect.
I hadn't done any update until I upgraded directly to High Sierra 10.13.3.


Installation

I created a USB boot drive using UniBeast 8.1.0 and a High Sierra OS installation app which I downloaded on my MacBook Pro running Sierra. On my Mavericks Hackintosh it only downloaded the 19MB installer of High Sierra.

Then I followed the post of lazza13 (Thanks!):
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...70k-ga-z87x-ud3h-16gb-ram-gtx-770-2gb.242366/
Which pointed me towards another post from squadseven which I used partly to configure my BIOS (Thanks too!):
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...70k-ga-z87x-ud3h-16gb-ram-gtx-780-3gb.109540/

As squadseven suggested, I flashed version F8m to my motherboard (I was on F8k which might have worked as well...)
Then, the settings I used from his build were:

- Press F7 to load optimized default values
- xHCI Mode: AUTO (although I changed it eventually to SMART AUTO as I had some issues in my first trials and I tried that following a post from outside this forum. My build is with SMART AUTO now but I believe it wouldn't make any difference AUTO or SMART AUTO for me. The general consensus seems to be to leave it on AUTO though)
- xHCI Hand-OFF: Enabled
- EHCI Hand-OFF: Enabled
- Internal Graphics: Disabled
- Init Display First, change it to the PCIe slot that you placed your graphics card in
- Wake on LAN: Disabled​

After re-booting, I pressed F12 and chose the UEFI version of my HIGH SIERRA BOOT USB

At this point is where I had the only issues during the installation.
I couldn't get past the dreaded frozen wheel with the progress bar stuck (picture credits by SpooderPutato)

The way I finally managed to get through this was by deleting the boot arg nv_disable=1. When it re-booted automatically, by default the nv_disable=1 was there again, causing the process to get stuck again with the frozen wheel. So the next time, after starting from the beginning, I stopped the automatic re-boot by pressing a key on the keyboard when the clover bootloader menu showed up and I deleted again the boot arg nv_disable=1. In total I had to do it 3 times I think.

Once High Sierra was installed, I noticed I didn't have sound, and I couldn't play normal mov videos from my drive. It seems that the default drivers were fine to install the OS but it was limited.

So, then, I used MultiBeast 10.2.0 with this configuration

Drivers > Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > ALC898
Drivers > Misc > Fake SMC
Drivers > Misc > Fake SMC Plugins
Drivers > USB > 3rd Party USB 3.0
Bootloaders > Clover UEFI Boot Mode
Customize > Graphics Configuration > Nvidia Graphics Fixup
Customize > System Definitions > iMac > iMac 14,2​

Then I installed the last available Clover installer v2.4k_r4411 using the default installation. Don't ask me why, I don't know what I was doing there. I don't know if it installed anything that MultiBeast hadn't installed yet, so this step was possibly not necessary for me. My knowledge is very limited. I spend a lot of time reading posts that I half understand (when I'm lucky) and then it's quite often the trial and error method (many times not knowing really what I'm doing).

After re-booting, everything was fine except USB3 drives that were not supported although these same ports recognized USB2 drives. After some research, using MultiBeast, I installed:

Drivers > USB > 7/8/9 Series USB Support​

Now everything is working perfect. No issues at all

I haven't installed the latest Nvidia driver. Since it seems to be working fine so far, I will leave it as it is. I will need the CUDA driver eventually but I'll skip on the other driver if I can since some people report lagging with the last release for High Sierra.

Thanks to tonymacx86 and all the community!!!