[Success] Sabertooth Z77, i7-3770K, GTX 680, El Capitan

[muzgo]

I fresh installed macOS Sierra with Clover and after trying to install Nvidia drivers for my GTX960 i got stuck in a bootloop (mac logo goes 1/3 and then it reboots)
Anyone knows what went wrong?

 

[jnevi]

I'm using iMac 14,2 as my smbios and have had zero problems thus far with anything. All usb ports are working front or back, 3.0 or 2.0. The only thing that kinda bugs me is my geekbench scores aren't breaking 12000 on multi-core but that could just be my cpu. My GTX 960 is working fine as well. This was a fresh install of sierra btw. Not sure if that system definition will help others but it works for me unless I'm missing something even though I know 13,1 covers 1155 mobos.

 

[supergen]

Hi Vosster & Co!

Finally I found some time to try a new Sierra/Clover installation. It's the 1st I have used clover, and it was a bit confusing
some times...

Anyway, I followed your steps and finally got the OS installed quite easily. Thanks!!

But after installing, apply Multibeast and restart, weirdly only the front USB ports are working. And the system is slow sometimes (between other elements, I am using 32 Gb of Ram and never happened this issue before). It's even more weird because in GeekBench I got my best score ever: more than 16.000 points. Also the network was soooooo slow until I erased the system network preferences.

I have a carbon copy of my old Yosemite installation (full of Apps), so I decided to make a migration to have all those Apps installed without pain in Sierra. It's been the first time I decided to make a migration, and I wonder if this could be the origin of these random freezes and lags in my hackintosh system now...

I am studying now the method of RehabMan that you mentioned for the USB ports, but actually it's being quite difficult for me. I am a humble designer and this coding talk is a bit dark for my neurons...

I am not sure about the precise steps I have to follow in order to create the custom DSDT and kext... and have the ports of my Sabertooth happily running.

Could you please help me with this?

Many many thanks in advance!

 

[supergen]

Oh, BTW, I am using a custom DSDT, because I OC my processor (i7 2700k). If I have to create a new custom DSDT, what happens with my current DSDT?
Probably this will be a stupid question, but do you know if it's possible to have 2 different DSDTs at the same time? Or will I have to create a new DSDT with all the info inside?

Thanks for your support and time!!!!

 

[Vosster]

Hi supergen,

nice to hear that my guide helped you!

I am a humble designer myself (degrees in industrial- and mediadesign). It's a beautiful job, but you are confronted with a million different very specialised questions every day that you can not answer. More than in many other jobs. You absolutely can't know everything. You have to develope and train your heuristic skills every day. It's the whole deal. Make everything out of barely something. Same goes with my experience with OSx86. I too don't understand RehabMan's guide to its full extent. I read something, try, doesn't work, read again, try, doesn't work, read something else, try, seems to work...fine. You will succeed as well! You are a designer.

To your problems after migration... In my experience migration never works properly. I'm certain if you set up a fresh system and reinstall all programs without migration you won't have any major problems. The migration process messes with kexts and the overall system settings and it always goes wrong, particularly if you are updating from a major release to another.

I barely know anything about DSDTs. Your system always has one. You can't have two at the same time.

Well, thats not much, but I hope it helps at least a bit.

Greetings from Munich

 

[supergen]

Thanks Vosster! Thanks for your words!!

I think I messed something up, because clover configurator seems to not work properly. Now I have a lot of EFI partitions... I have 7 HD connected in my system, and was too risky to leave them plugged while installing clover and the whole OS this time (usually I always unplugged everything...).

I have to figure out how to solve this soon hehe

 

[supergen]

Hi Again Vosster

Finally I could figure out how to solve the mess I did with the EFI partitions... hehe

Now I still have a doubt. I am reading RehabMan instructions, but don't know where is the script you entered in MaciASL, could you paste it by here please?

You refer to this, isn't it?

# rename EHC1 to EH01
into device label EHC1 set_label begin EH01 end;
into_all all code_regex EHC1\. replaceall_matched begin EH01. end;
into_all all code_regex \.EHC1, replaceall_matched begin .EH01, end;

# rename EHC2 to EH02
into device label EHC2 set_label begin EH02 end;
into_all all code_regex EHC2\. replaceall_matched begin EH02. end;
into_all all code_regex \.EHC2, replaceall_matched begin .EH02, end;​

I changed manually all the EHC1 to EH01 and all the EHC2 to EH02 entries in MaciASL, and then saved the DSDT in the EFI folder you mentioned (EFI>CLOVER>ACPI>patched), but my ports are still not working...

Thank you very much in advance!!!

 

[supergen]

Hi Vosster! Is the Audio device running ok for you? Mine is absent...
I see that in your previous El Cap multibeast installation you chose a Realtek 892, and now in Sierra a VoodooHDA instead it.
I have tried with both, but even in System Information it appears as an Intel High Definition Audio, when I go to the Sound section inside System preferences there is no audio device...
Do you have any clue about this?
Thx!

 

[supergen]

OK, now I get sound without using an external Audio interface!
I have installed both Voodoo 2.8.8 and Realtek ALC892.
It's not really perfect since the output I have to choose are 'Internal Speakers' instead of Line Out, and specially, the micro is still not working at all...

 

[supergen]

And finally I could figure out to have the USB ports running! Thank you again.