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- Mar 15, 2014
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA77XUP4TH
- CPU
- i7-2600K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hi there,
First time poster, long time member. Some background: I've now successfully built a Hackintosh with a Gigabyte GA77XUP4TH board and a Sandy Bridge i7-2600K, using Radeon RX580 gfx as I couldn't get my Nvidia card to behave with my Dell UP2715K monitor. With the Radeon installed, it's an awesome experience in 5K. I first installed High Sierra 10.13.6 as I didn't want to dive into Mojave straight away, figuring that HS would have most bugs worked out. And it's been a fairly smooth experience, only surprise was that I needed USBInjectAll to get my USB to function when running as a MacPro6,1 - I started the machine as a MacPro5,1 but the 5K gfx wouldn't work then. Other than that, only FakeSMC installed and the HW monitor, the Realtek kext for networking and support for the onboard audio.
My only problem has been what I described in the title - under High Sierra, as soon as I started the Photos app, the system would slow down to a crawl, with even the clock starting to lose seconds before coming to a complete stand still. The mouse pointer remains responsive, but the rest of the system is frozen. When I hit reset, the machine just comes back up as if nothing happened. No error message, no dialog saying 'you restarted because of a problem' - nothing. Before it starts to freeze, I don't even see CPU use increasing or anything like that. It just withers and dies.
After upgrading to Mojave, the problem has (unfortunately) not gone away. Still Photos dies, and now also the Pref Pane on Screen Savers, when it displays a preview of the screensaver I've selected - the screen saver itself works fine. Anything else I've tried so far works well, it just dies on these two points.
I've run Memtest86 several times and the memory is fine. If the system runs under Windows, no problems either.
Does anyone see a pattern here? Recognise or suspect something? Does Photos do anything special that other apps don't do? What would be the connection with the small screen saver previews?
I've seen one thread on the forum with the same problem, but no answers there either.
Thanks
Friso
First time poster, long time member. Some background: I've now successfully built a Hackintosh with a Gigabyte GA77XUP4TH board and a Sandy Bridge i7-2600K, using Radeon RX580 gfx as I couldn't get my Nvidia card to behave with my Dell UP2715K monitor. With the Radeon installed, it's an awesome experience in 5K. I first installed High Sierra 10.13.6 as I didn't want to dive into Mojave straight away, figuring that HS would have most bugs worked out. And it's been a fairly smooth experience, only surprise was that I needed USBInjectAll to get my USB to function when running as a MacPro6,1 - I started the machine as a MacPro5,1 but the 5K gfx wouldn't work then. Other than that, only FakeSMC installed and the HW monitor, the Realtek kext for networking and support for the onboard audio.
My only problem has been what I described in the title - under High Sierra, as soon as I started the Photos app, the system would slow down to a crawl, with even the clock starting to lose seconds before coming to a complete stand still. The mouse pointer remains responsive, but the rest of the system is frozen. When I hit reset, the machine just comes back up as if nothing happened. No error message, no dialog saying 'you restarted because of a problem' - nothing. Before it starts to freeze, I don't even see CPU use increasing or anything like that. It just withers and dies.
After upgrading to Mojave, the problem has (unfortunately) not gone away. Still Photos dies, and now also the Pref Pane on Screen Savers, when it displays a preview of the screensaver I've selected - the screen saver itself works fine. Anything else I've tried so far works well, it just dies on these two points.
I've run Memtest86 several times and the memory is fine. If the system runs under Windows, no problems either.
Does anyone see a pattern here? Recognise or suspect something? Does Photos do anything special that other apps don't do? What would be the connection with the small screen saver previews?
I've seen one thread on the forum with the same problem, but no answers there either.
Thanks
Friso