[success] Tagus Thunderbolt WebDev Station: GA-Z77MX-D3H TH (rev. 1.0) / Core i5 3570K / 16GB RAM

[B-San]

Great find B-San, I noticed a few glitches after 1.8.3 on mavericks seems ok.
I tried voodoo on Mountain Lion, yet I found that the sound quality wasn't great, so I use the thunderbolt speakers or the usb->amplifier for sound.

I will have a go at the current version of voodoo, although I prefer to keep it simple(software wise) and stable.

More Voodoo users:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289750-gigabyte-ga-z77mx-dh3-core-i5-2500k-nvidia-gtx560/

p.s. Next year I will probably get a 7870 XT or a 7950 now that adobe is supporting OpenCL , also curious about intel releasing a competitive price for a PCIe after december's mac pro release, Asus had one but wasn't released.
http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.p...el-thunderbolt-pcie-steckkarte-01f4dffa0.html

Thanks for your reply, nfilg!

I was able to load the Voodoo VT2021 driver via multibeast and have it working with Mavericks..

The only problem was a KP upon reboot.. after booting into safe mode, repairing disk permissions all has been well!

I believe the KP may have been due to my forgetting to repair disk permissions before installing the Voodoo driver.. also in hindsight, I would repaired disk permissions after install and before reboot as well..

I haven't gotten too deep into testing yet, but the audio quality appears to be the same as another build I did with a Z77N WiFi (realtek audio).

..also I'm the same as you; I try to load as little drivers as possible.. for my audio builds, I actually prefer to load no audio driver at all - as I would be using an audio interface for those duties...

Thank you for the other information and link as well!

My last step I would like to accomplish is getting HDMI audio to work on my GTX570.. the following thread is the closest I could find that may hold a solution:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-buil...x-d3h-th-16gb-ram-gtx-660ti-7.html#post705084

Hopefully you may have time to check it out, but either way - I look forward to your thoughts!

 

[B-San]

Oh yeah, that PCIe Thunderbolt card would be awesome!

 

[brendoni]

Thanks, settings got my machine finally working, although I did not try for months in the meantime. Graphics, USB, Display all seem to be working fine under Mavericks


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[brendoni]

OK, this all worked with a normal 5400 HDD, put in a new Samsum 840 SSD and did a reinstall with Unibeast and used the same Multibeast usb startup. Now again it get stuck with the spinning wheel.

Any suggestions?

 

[B-San]

Try booting in safe mode? (-x)

 

[suras]

Hi.
Im using a very similar system as yours (rev 1.0 of the MB, using internal graphics to power a 1440p display over TB1 and using TB2 for mass storage)
I had a stable and well performing 10.8x system running for over 8 months and decided to finally update to 10.9.1 last weekend. Installation went fine (I took the long route using unibeast), but I am stuck at that it only boots in safemode ( -x).
Would you care to share your settings for multibeast? Sys def etc.

Cheers
Suras

 

[nfilg]

Latest pics - testing ubuntu and maybe Mint later

Note about Mavericks and Thunderbolt display: Changed the RAM 16gb 2X8 from slot 1, 2 to 1,3 and thunderbolt display had some issues changed back to slot 1,2 on Mavericks and is working 100%

My Mbeast at the moment, with the latest Mavericks release:
View attachment GA-Z77MX-D3H-TH.mb

@ SURAS
After safe boot try this on the org.chameleon.Boot.plist in your osX extra folder and repair the disk permissions then restart again:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>IGPEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>
<key>GenerateCStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GeneratePStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

[tovi888]

Hi

Just a quick question I have almost exact build as you but I do have random freeze and crash issues when I upgraded to Mavericks. Do you experience this too? I tried looking into the logs but there is nothing there no KP or errors.

Any help or suggestions would be great

 

[nfilg]

Hi. Did you do a clean install? Try to download the latest Mavericks release from the App Store and install it already with 10.9.1
I did a clean install and then loaded my settings from the timeMachine/synology. Freezes free!

The only trouble I had with mavericks was some thunderbolt display flicker/black screen when I inserted the RAM on slot 1 and 3 of the motherboard this week, just for a test then inserted back to 1,2 slots and is working fine now.
Some other users had this flicker issue with this too.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24491878?tstart=0#24491878?tstart=0
Probably the display flicker and RAM have something to do with this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5482844

 

[tovi888]

Hi

Did initially the upgrade but also tried a clean install, still the same. Will try to change ram memory slots as you suggested and will see if it helps

Thanks