[Success] MaxFrister's build: Mountain Lion - ga-z77-DS3H - i5-3750k - HD4000 grapics

[surfstu]

Sorry, am a little confused here. Do I need to buy an external USB 3 hub to get USB3 devices working on my z77 ds3h?

A simple explanation of how to get USB3 ports working would be great, I'm running Lion and a 2600k chip...

cheers Stuart

 

[MaxFrister]

The problem I had after the initial installation was that the USB3 ports would not support USB2 devices and that the wired apple keyboard with usb2 ports also would not work with some usb2 devices. After installing 10.8.1 (without any difficulties) the results are different, but not better:

USB3 port on front of fractal case: does not work with a USB2 thumb drive -- it used to recognize a device and give an error, now nothing.
USB3 ports on back of MB, same -- does not recognize the device.
USB2 ports on wired apple keyboard -- recognizes the device, but gives an error about insufficient power (same as it always did).

All of these work fine if I plug monitors built-in USB3 hub into them. Right now that hub is the only USB3 device that I have to test with.

In summary, USB2 ports seem to work fine for USB2 devices (except, maybe the apple keyboard hub). USB3 devices work, I think, with USB3 devices but not with USB2 devices.

 

[surfstu]

OK, so with no drivers the ds3h should support USB3 devices through some of its ports?

S

 

[vidi2000]

The same for me:

- USB 3.0 devices work on both USB 2.0 & 3.0 ports (front and rear panel on Fractal Design Define R3)
- USB 2.0 devices work only on 2.0 ports

 

[peteonthefly]

Hi guys,

I am a complete Noob on hackintoshing. I have successfully built a machine pretty much identical to MaxFristers. Mountain Lion - ga-z77-DS3H - i5-3750k - HD4000 graphics and it will start from the SSD. Networking is good, but audio etc do not work. Unfortunately I am stuck at the multibeast install and it fails everytime I attempt it. I am using MB 5.0.2. The menus are very different from the version used in this thread. Has anyone successfully completed a build using MB 5.0.2 and this hardware. I am very adept at building and setting up pcs, networks etc, but very unknowledgable on the hackintoshing world. Can anyone lend some pointers for how to successfully complete this project.

 

[peteonthefly]

DDRZin978,
What version of multibeast did you use? I am having trouble finishing my build using MultiBeast 5.0.2. Any thoughts on how to proceed?
Thanks in advance.

 

[andwhycted]

Quirks
- I was only able to get 1920x1200 display resolution by incanting the following into org.chameleon.Boot.plist:

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

Thanks, after trying every possible trick mentioned, this is the only thing that triggered HD intel graphics to be recognised !

(same setup, Mountain Lion 10.8.2)

 

[wakeforsoul]

Sorry, am a little confused here. Do I need to buy an external USB 3 hub to get USB3 devices working on my z77 ds3h?

A simple explanation of how to get USB3 ports working would be great, I'm running Lion and a 2600k chip...

cheers Stuart

If you want to use a USB 3.0 device (at USB3 speeds), you need to plug it into a USB3 port. If you want to use a USB2 device, you need to plug it into a USB2 port. The USB3 Hub would therefore only be useful if you had only four USB3 ports on your MoBo but wanted to use 5 USB3 devices @ USB3 speeds.

 

[francesco85]

Hey I m new here, still working on my build i7 3770k + ds3h, multibeast 5.0.2 got stuck also in the apple logo, forgot about to repair permissions with diskutility before rebooting --) solved my booting problems !
Well I m still stuck on minor resolution, I have to read further and try more ;-)

 

[MaxFrister]

For those of you having difficulties on installation, have you considered trying that legacy version of multibeast that I used? It went pretty smoothly.

As an update, here are some observations with a some time to evaluate the system.

1. SSD was probably not necessary. Boot time is somewhat improved but the reality is that I rarely boot -- I just put it to sleep.

2. The case fans and cpu fans are too loud. I tried to pick a case that was quiet but the fans are still much too noticeable. I finally installed a cpu cooler ( XIGMATEK|GAIA SD1283 R) which helped with cpu fan and installed the cheapo fan controller that came with case to quiet the back fan. Does anyone know how to do that in software? I tried setting it in bios with little or no effect and I have not found a fan control software that works with this MB and mountain lion combination.

3. I added a second 2GB HDD to serve as the time-machine repository. It seemed sort of stupid to be backing up a partition to another partition on the same physical drive.

4. Despite trying to pick well supported hardware, there are still small things that do not work right: (a) USB3 devices only on the USB panel, no USB on the keyboard; (b) mute does not work; (c) music pauses for 1/4 second at random intervals; (d) auto-sleep does not work; (e) sleep via the button sometimes immediately causes a re-awaking; etc.

5. OS updates are a headache. While I have not had serious trouble, almost every update causes something minor to stop working (trim, audio, network, etc.). There is no good way to know if update will work or not other than waiting a week or two before updating and googling for problems.

6. iCloud was an issue. I eventually solved it by changing the machine serial number.