[SUCCESS] Vanilla ML 10.8.5 on GA-Z87X-UD4H & 4770k Haswell

[mattsnowboard]

 I found that selecting the web driver and rebooting does nothing, it always returns to the OS X default driver.

 

 

FYI, regarding this.

 

I edited the Nvidia driver so I could install with the "correct" SMBIOS (or at least the one with the specs most closely related to this computer)

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291929-1085new-nvidia-web-driver-available/?p=1946332

 

But more importantly, I followed this guide (more or less) to get the Nvidia driver installed and enabled.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288582-new-nvidia-retail-driver-install-solution/

 

Note that the link to the driver may not be latest, but doing the nvda_drv=1 and adding the FileNVRAM.dylib file seemed to do the trick.

 

I'm staying with Mountain Lion until I see Nvidia drivers for Mavericks, because the drivers seemed to do the trick for me.

 

Though it sounds like Lyle M may have a different issue (different graphics card).

[Square_Feet]

Hi guys,

 

First off, a huge thanks to acronator for the guide ( and rockinron_1 for the original guide ), I got ML (10.8.5) booted up and running on the same hardware without any problems. Sleep, network, etc. worked out-of-the-box, and sound was enabled using the same route in the guide.

 

I decided to try giving Mavericks a shot, though (slightly stupidly overwriting my ML install after partitioning in the installer)... It installed fine (took a while for the installer to reach the language-selection screen, but after that all was well). At least until I booted it... No network/ethernet or sound (the latter to be expected), and my non-USB3 ports kept disconnecting my dongles. Graphics worked, though. That was a little something at least!

 

I couldn't find any useful logs in Console or anything like that, and various bootflag combos didn't seem to help at all, so I'm now re-installing ML. 

 

Just wondering if anyone else with this board has had similar issues on Mavericks? I've done a search on the forum but can't find any word on the network or USB issue.

 

Cheers.

 

 

Specs:

GA-Z87X-UD4H

4770k

GTX 770 (Gigabyte 2GB)

16GB RAM

256GB SSD as OS drive

 

EDIT: I'm going to give Mavericks another shot (starting from scratch again but I'll use a different drive to ML this time). I'll make notes of any odd messages that pop up when booting using -v; I can't imagine this post is much use without this further info...

Edited October 31, 2013 by Square_Feet

[salvatorepolito]

UPDATE: Sept 26 2013

Following issues come up frequently:

• Sleep/wake problem where the system freezes while waking up (no display either). 
• Random complete system hangs where everything just freezes
• Prolonged waits and temporary freezes with the wheel spinning away to glory or the mouse not moving. 

​Repaired permissions and also ran kext utility. Issues continue. Chipping away..will update once I have a stable system. 

 

 

I own the same board and I think that I found a solution for these freezes. Simply I disabled all the C-States in bios. (C1E - C6 - C7). After that I'had no hangs or freezes for about two days. 

The big problem is that right now we could use all the power saving system of the cpu. I only got a limited speedstep, (8x and 35x) of course limited native speedstep is better than nothing but I think we had to work hard to archive a perfect speedstep like on old cpus, and two TURBO steps. Other than that our DSDT is full of Errors and Warnings, so is very difficult to use a custom DSDT to fix things. My problem is that this is my first hack since SnowLeopard times and things has changed so much... 

 

 

PS: I suggest to use Clover instead of Chameleon because with clover iCloud, AppStore and Messages are working natively. 

[remix0120]

I have the same motherboard with i5-4590.

Freezes from sleep. 

very unstable board for Hackintosh