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- Jan 2, 2020
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor
- Graphics
- Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8gb
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
I recently purchased a Sapphire Radeon 11265-05-20G Pulse RX 580 8GB for my 5 year old hackintosh. It's still running Sierra (10.12.6) because NVIDIA stopped updating its web drivers a few years back. The previous card was an EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2gb. I purchased the card so that I could get the computer running Big Sur.
After installing the new card, whenever I attempt to boot the computer into Sierra the loading bar gets about two-thirds to the end, the screen flashes white for a split second, the graphics card's fans power down, and a row of small purple dots appear in the top-left quadrant of the screen.
I was able to boot into safe mode with the monitor plugged directly into the card with a DP (monitor) to DVI (graphics card) cable. In safe mode, the "About This Mac" menu describes the graphics card as an "AMD R9 xxx 8192mb" or something along those lines.
I've been manually removing the nvda_drv=1 boot option in clover before every boot. I was thinking about removing all the NVIDIA web drivers but didn't so that I could reinstall the old card in case something went wrong.
Despite building my first hackintosh 6 years ago and having built and maintained 2, I'm still ignorant to many of the hackintosh best practices and get lost if a problem I'm experiencing wasn't already fixed on a forum somewhere. I greatly appreciate any help given.
I've attached the computer's config.plist and a video of the computer attempting to boot with the -v option set. The black boxes on the clover menu appeared for the first time when recording the log.
Boot attempt:
After installing the new card, whenever I attempt to boot the computer into Sierra the loading bar gets about two-thirds to the end, the screen flashes white for a split second, the graphics card's fans power down, and a row of small purple dots appear in the top-left quadrant of the screen.
I was able to boot into safe mode with the monitor plugged directly into the card with a DP (monitor) to DVI (graphics card) cable. In safe mode, the "About This Mac" menu describes the graphics card as an "AMD R9 xxx 8192mb" or something along those lines.
I've been manually removing the nvda_drv=1 boot option in clover before every boot. I was thinking about removing all the NVIDIA web drivers but didn't so that I could reinstall the old card in case something went wrong.
Despite building my first hackintosh 6 years ago and having built and maintained 2, I'm still ignorant to many of the hackintosh best practices and get lost if a problem I'm experiencing wasn't already fixed on a forum somewhere. I greatly appreciate any help given.
I've attached the computer's config.plist and a video of the computer attempting to boot with the -v option set. The black boxes on the clover menu appeared for the first time when recording the log.
Boot attempt: