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- Jan 8, 2013
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- Motherboard
- ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac
- CPU
- i7 7700k
- Graphics
- Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti
First off let me say it took me 3 days of constant trial-and-error to get this right. Luckily, if you happen to have the same components as I do, it should take you under an hour.
I'll start off by mentioning that the unibeast version on this site never worked for me, and since they do not support older versions here, I had to look elsewhere to find an older version of unibeast that successfully loaded ML into a usb drive. I believe it was version 1.5.2 which worked for me. The OS X version I loaded into my USB drive was 10.8.
Alright, so once you've got your usb stick ready, and done the proper BIOS configurations, make sure you plug it into a USB 2 port, otherwise it'll just hang on the loading screen. Also, I used the Nvidia card ports to plug in my monitor, since after several installs, I realized it's supported and works automatically (proper resolution and everything). At first, nothing was working for me so I even turned all the PCI ports off and used onboard video, but I never got the resolution to work properly on that. After a while something caused me to switch to the Nvidia card and everything worked.
Ok now, boot up and you should go straight into the bootloader menu. Proceed with the install and restart. Theoretically by now, the resolution of the screen should be automatically adjusted (if it wasn't before). Now, here comes the tricky part: after perhaps 20 reinstalls, I realized that with this setup, you cannot go for the "User DSDT or DSDT-Free" multibeast installation method. That will break the install and the system will not boot afterwards. Now me personally, I figured the best way to do it is to simply boot from the USB, since you get the bootloader menu and you can even get to pick your OS without having to change stuff in the BIOS. However, if you wish to boot straight into the OS, you should go with the "EasyBeast" method. This method won't break anything, but, once you reboot it will hang on a white screen once again. The way around this is to boot on "GraphicsEnabler=No". Then, as soon as the OS loads, fire up multibeast and install that under the Customization>Boot Options menu. This way, you won't have to type it in manually each time you boot.
Alright so, this far, everything should be up and running. Now onto updating...
Open up "Software Update". Now simply install the updates - these should include iTunes 11 and OS X 10.8.2. Restart. BAM! Everything still works fine... Now, fire up multibeast once again and install the audio drivers. For this board it's ALC898 under "Without DSDT". Now reboot.
Hopefully, everything went smooth. Now there are a couple of things to consider! You will lose all usb 3 ports. This is quite ****. Also, the system won't wake after sleep (as many have mentioned before, this is a common problem on most installs). You may kind of fix this by preventing the computer from sleeping but allowing the display to do so. This way, the display will turn off but the system won't. Crappy fix but whatever.
That's all I got for you guys. One last piece of advice, if you feel like messing around with kext files and multibeast to see if you can get more stuff to work, make sure you make a bakup on timemachine once you get the system up an running, this way, if you break anything, you can simply boot from usb and install OS X on your drive from your timemachine backup and get right back to where you left off without having to go through the whole process once again. Plus, the install is way quicker if you're restoring from timemachine than if you're installing from scratch.
Alright, I hope this helps anyone who is considering this motherboard/video card for an option. Make sure you post any fixes/improvements in case you find anything. Thanx!
UPDATE: Managed to get the USB 3 ports to work with Multibeast 4.6.1!! Install USB 3.0 - NEC/Renesas and Etron driver.
I'll start off by mentioning that the unibeast version on this site never worked for me, and since they do not support older versions here, I had to look elsewhere to find an older version of unibeast that successfully loaded ML into a usb drive. I believe it was version 1.5.2 which worked for me. The OS X version I loaded into my USB drive was 10.8.
Alright, so once you've got your usb stick ready, and done the proper BIOS configurations, make sure you plug it into a USB 2 port, otherwise it'll just hang on the loading screen. Also, I used the Nvidia card ports to plug in my monitor, since after several installs, I realized it's supported and works automatically (proper resolution and everything). At first, nothing was working for me so I even turned all the PCI ports off and used onboard video, but I never got the resolution to work properly on that. After a while something caused me to switch to the Nvidia card and everything worked.
Ok now, boot up and you should go straight into the bootloader menu. Proceed with the install and restart. Theoretically by now, the resolution of the screen should be automatically adjusted (if it wasn't before). Now, here comes the tricky part: after perhaps 20 reinstalls, I realized that with this setup, you cannot go for the "User DSDT or DSDT-Free" multibeast installation method. That will break the install and the system will not boot afterwards. Now me personally, I figured the best way to do it is to simply boot from the USB, since you get the bootloader menu and you can even get to pick your OS without having to change stuff in the BIOS. However, if you wish to boot straight into the OS, you should go with the "EasyBeast" method. This method won't break anything, but, once you reboot it will hang on a white screen once again. The way around this is to boot on "GraphicsEnabler=No". Then, as soon as the OS loads, fire up multibeast and install that under the Customization>Boot Options menu. This way, you won't have to type it in manually each time you boot.
Alright so, this far, everything should be up and running. Now onto updating...
Open up "Software Update". Now simply install the updates - these should include iTunes 11 and OS X 10.8.2. Restart. BAM! Everything still works fine... Now, fire up multibeast once again and install the audio drivers. For this board it's ALC898 under "Without DSDT". Now reboot.
Hopefully, everything went smooth. Now there are a couple of things to consider! You will lose all usb 3 ports. This is quite ****. Also, the system won't wake after sleep (as many have mentioned before, this is a common problem on most installs). You may kind of fix this by preventing the computer from sleeping but allowing the display to do so. This way, the display will turn off but the system won't. Crappy fix but whatever.
That's all I got for you guys. One last piece of advice, if you feel like messing around with kext files and multibeast to see if you can get more stuff to work, make sure you make a bakup on timemachine once you get the system up an running, this way, if you break anything, you can simply boot from usb and install OS X on your drive from your timemachine backup and get right back to where you left off without having to go through the whole process once again. Plus, the install is way quicker if you're restoring from timemachine than if you're installing from scratch.
Alright, I hope this helps anyone who is considering this motherboard/video card for an option. Make sure you post any fixes/improvements in case you find anything. Thanx!
UPDATE: Managed to get the USB 3 ports to work with Multibeast 4.6.1!! Install USB 3.0 - NEC/Renesas and Etron driver.