wildwillow's Dual Boot Skylake Build : Asus Z170 Deluxe - i5-6600K - GTX970 SSC - 32GB RAM

[jlcdgd]

Do the SSDT for USB work for you?
I have the same board, and with the USB SSDT the USB 3 (from the board front ones) works at USB 2 speed
With out the SSDT they work at USB 3 speed

Also is your intel (Internal graphic card) HDMI audio working?
Do boy have an SSDT?

Thanks in advance

 

[anak85]

I moved the SSDT for the i5-6600K to the EFI folder, restarted and the CPU still doesn't go above 3.5Ghz. Any idea what is wrong??

 

[anak85]

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[Loomy]

@ wildwillow
Hi, I am kind of copying your build and wonder if i go with 1 big NVMe Drive or 2 so far unless there are compatibility issues against hackintoshing.
Is there a special reason? Why did u go with two m2 Drives? and not with 1 drive and double the size and run 2 partitions(Win/OSX) on it?
I still did not understand why u took a AHCI drive and 1 NVMe drive. Why not go with 2 NVMe drives? Is it because of the PCIe Card? or was it just less expensive?

Alan

 

[yoman960]

@ wildwillow
Hi, I am kind of copying your build and wonder if i go with 1 big NVMe Drive or 2 so far unless there are compatibility issues against hackintoshing.
Is there a special reason? Why did u go with two m2 Drives? and not with 1 drive and double the size and run 2 partitions(Win/OSX) on it?
I still did not understand why u took a AHCI drive and 1 NVMe drive. Why not go with 2 NVMe drives? Is it because of the PCIe Card? or was it just less expensive?

Alan

The problem is that macOS does not have support for the Samsung 950/960 NVMe SSDs out of the box. You need to install custom kexts (drivers) in order to install on an nvme drive (look into nvme by RehabMan for more info). AHCI drives are easy to install on, so they are recommend for macOS.

 

[fjf]

OK, I screwed up. I kept having boot problems (bluetooth sometimes not starting) and I decided to update BIOS to the last one (3504). Now it does not boot. The verbose boot gets stuck here:

The only BIOS option I could not set is: Advanced > USB Configuration > XHCI Handoff > Enabled, because it does not seem to exist.

What can be done?.

EDIT: I'll answer myself: The last BIOS (3504) lacks the XHCI handoff control and does not work. The previous one (3401) has it and works.

2nd edit: seems you have to disable the "simulate keyboard and mouse" option to be able to use the last (3504) BIOS: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...gb-nvidia-gtx-1080.183302/page-8#post-1609553

 

[fjf]

I just updated to high sierra (13.1) from el capitan directly. Here is the how-to:

1. Did the update directly to macOS High Sierra (HFS+): https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/update-directly-to-macos-high-sierra.232707/
2. It boots with the MAC OSX graphic driver (no graphic acceleration), but the nvidia driver reports there is an update.

EDIT: Don't do it. Use Benjamin Dobell's script to use the last non-problematic nvidia driver. Works well: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update

1. Before rebooting you do the "Black Screen with MacPro 6,1 or iMac 15 or iMac 17 System Definition" (AGDPfix patch) as described by Wildwillow in the first post of this guide, quoting this post: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...-imac-15-or-imac-17-system-definition.183113/
2. Also before rebooting you do as described in this post: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...gb-nvidia-gtx-1080.183302/page-8#post-1625030 using the slim.jim's guide Solving NVIDIA Driver Install & Loading Problems, Problem #6. If not, the nvidia driver refuses to load.
3. With all that when rebooting you should have the nvidia driver working. If not, do as described here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...s-high-sierra-10-13-1-378-10-10-10-20.236101/, because as of macOS Sierra, nvda_drv=1 in config.plist under Boot > Arguments is no longer working to initiate drivers and you should make some more changes to the config.plist file in EFI/Clover. For unknown reasons, my system worked without making these changes, but I decided to do them anyway to be safe.

With that covered, seems I have a fully working High Sierra (10.13.1) install.

Edit (a week later): Seems to work fine. With the last BIOS the computer now sleeps perfectly. However, when shut down it frequently just reboots. Other than that works well so far.

Enjoy!.

 

[gts_215i]

Edit (a week later): Seems to work fine. With the last BIOS the computer now sleeps perfectly. However, when shut down it frequently just reboots. Other than that works well so far.

It may be a simple fix, such as disabling "Wake on LAN" in the bios ?

 

[fjf]

It may be a simple fix, such as disabling "Wake on LAN" in the bios ?

Searched for it, could not find this option.

 

[gts_215i]

Searched for it, could not find this option.

Detailed in the Users Manual - Chapter 2-16 & 3-43
Have just been reading another thread and there is an option in clover "fix shutdown" have you tried this already ?
Which Bios version are you running ?

I'm keen to upgrade to High Sierra myself, I never would of gotten Sierra up and running if it wasn't for wildwillows's awesome guide.