- Joined
- Dec 26, 2014
- Messages
- 52
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H
- CPU
- i7-4790K
- Graphics
- GTX 760
i'm brand new at hacks and have just put this one together with yosemite:
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H LGA 1150 Z97
Intel Core i7-4790K
EVGA GeForce GTX760
Crucial Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB (boot)
Corsair Carbide Series Black 500R Mid Tower
Corsair RM Series 650 Watt ATX/EPS 80PLUS
i started trying the UB/MB install method. i couldn't get that to boot properly. i tried baja-king' clover method for his Z77x-ud5h listed here:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-...-clover-uefi-guide-gigabyte-ga-z77x-ud5h.html.
the clovenator part didn't make sense to me and didn't seem to do anything. but, after i tweaked the bios as follows:
Load optimized defaults.
Advanced memory settings > XMP Profile 1.
Set VT-d to Disabled.
Set XHCI mode to Auto.
Set XHCI Hand-off to Enabled.
Set EHCI Hand-off to Enabled.
Disable onboard video.
Set SATA configuration to AHCI.
Save and reset, quite obviously.
all of a sudden, i was booting up and running. i've migrated data and am doing pretty well. i don't have sound, but i've given up and ordered a usb solution. i've had a kernel panic issue i can't isolate. it happened once yesterday when i was trying to move the cursor in an word 2011 document. it happened this morning after i woke the computer up from overnight sleep.
any thoughts on trying to figure out the cause?
i'm considering ordering a bluetooth/wifi card (http://www.osxwifi.com/apple-broadco...-pc-hackintosh) so i can use the bt keyboard and trackpad i love. any experience with this?
my about this mac shows me as a mac mini server (late 2012). and it doesn't seem that updates are working very well. the office suite wanted to put an update on. i ran the program 3 times. every time, it came back saying that the same update was ready to install. the same with a thunderbolt firmware update 1.2. i've run it 3 times and, every time, i'm told that it's still available. same thing with my office 2011 software and my scansnap software trying to update. i get a message that it failed to update.
i know i don't have thunderbolt. i'll stop trying to update with that. i don't know how to change the system profile, either. is that important?
and, aside from the update question, should i do anything else? what should i look for? i'm pretty happy so far. i'm driving three monitors, a 30" apple cinema display and two viewsonic 23.5 inchers. everything seems fast and doing what i need it to do. i'm wondering what else i should know. thank you in advance,
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H LGA 1150 Z97
Intel Core i7-4790K
EVGA GeForce GTX760
Crucial Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB (boot)
Corsair Carbide Series Black 500R Mid Tower
Corsair RM Series 650 Watt ATX/EPS 80PLUS
i started trying the UB/MB install method. i couldn't get that to boot properly. i tried baja-king' clover method for his Z77x-ud5h listed here:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-...-clover-uefi-guide-gigabyte-ga-z77x-ud5h.html.
the clovenator part didn't make sense to me and didn't seem to do anything. but, after i tweaked the bios as follows:
Load optimized defaults.
Advanced memory settings > XMP Profile 1.
Set VT-d to Disabled.
Set XHCI mode to Auto.
Set XHCI Hand-off to Enabled.
Set EHCI Hand-off to Enabled.
Disable onboard video.
Set SATA configuration to AHCI.
Save and reset, quite obviously.
all of a sudden, i was booting up and running. i've migrated data and am doing pretty well. i don't have sound, but i've given up and ordered a usb solution. i've had a kernel panic issue i can't isolate. it happened once yesterday when i was trying to move the cursor in an word 2011 document. it happened this morning after i woke the computer up from overnight sleep.
any thoughts on trying to figure out the cause?
i'm considering ordering a bluetooth/wifi card (http://www.osxwifi.com/apple-broadco...-pc-hackintosh) so i can use the bt keyboard and trackpad i love. any experience with this?
my about this mac shows me as a mac mini server (late 2012). and it doesn't seem that updates are working very well. the office suite wanted to put an update on. i ran the program 3 times. every time, it came back saying that the same update was ready to install. the same with a thunderbolt firmware update 1.2. i've run it 3 times and, every time, i'm told that it's still available. same thing with my office 2011 software and my scansnap software trying to update. i get a message that it failed to update.
i know i don't have thunderbolt. i'll stop trying to update with that. i don't know how to change the system profile, either. is that important?
and, aside from the update question, should i do anything else? what should i look for? i'm pretty happy so far. i'm driving three monitors, a 30" apple cinema display and two viewsonic 23.5 inchers. everything seems fast and doing what i need it to do. i'm wondering what else i should know. thank you in advance,