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john_s
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@cyberdevs and others: Just wanted to let you guys know that I upgraded to a 6600K CPU and Corsair H100i GTX. Successfully running the CPU at 4.4GHz on El Capitan. The switch proved costly, but I hope it will be worth it in the long run.

 

Holding off updating to OS X 10.11.4 until you guys confirm its working fine for you

Congrats! I have the same cpu running on air cooling @4.4 with no problems! The hard thing starts when you want to go beyond 4.4. You could have saved some money with air cooling. Nevertheless, enjoy your new cpu!
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Thanks for confiming cyberdevs. That it is indeed nvidia drivers issue.

 

The hard thing starts when you want to go beyond 4.4.

 

This is very true. What worked for me:

 

* Set cpu voltage at or above 1.350 volts

* Set a lower rung bus / uncore multiplier than the CPU mult. Mine was 43.

 

Below 1.35v, my system was unstable. And would always crash < 24 hours. Above 1.35v, system remains stable for 2 weeks (or longer).

 

[EDIT]

 

Also:

 

* Have AHEM, read on other forum:

 

That now with 11.4 update perhaps we dont need to switch of AIOPIC (whateer its called) entries in BIOS. Which is good news.

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Rajesh_Pandey
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Hahaha. It looks like everyone here is waiting for someone else to try and install OS X 10.11.4  on their Hackintosh. :P

 

 

@john_s @dreamcat4: Possible, but going above 4.4GHz is hardly going to make any visible difference in my video editing work. For now, I am super happy with the performance of the CPU in video rendering. Maybe a year down the line or when I get a 4K camera, I will try and push the CPU further. 

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Hahaha. It looks like everyone here is waiting for someone else to try and install OS X 10.11.4  on their Hackintosh. :P

 

Hi. From other forum comment:

 

> I was rendered unbootable and was able to fix with OsxAptioFix2drv AND updating Clover to r3354. I highly recommend doing these things before the update.

 

* So  we shouuld do BOTH those things first.

* Plus any special consideration for non-Intel GPUs (NVIDIA or AMD).

 

There isnt really much other known issues to worry about.

 

[EDIT] ALSO:

 

> "Apple only put the new IGPU drivers in the final release of 10.11.4. Nothing new in betas."

 

> "Intel HD 530 (Intel HD Graphics SKL CRB 1536 MB) works good except dual monitors. If I connect 2 monitors (DVI and HDMI) only one of them gets signal and there are only artifacts on the screen."

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john_s
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:thumbsup_anim:  :thumbsup_anim: Success!!! All went fine! For my hack (check my sig) i only applied the update from app store. No clover modifications whatsoever or adding new drivers to efi folder. But thats just me. Everything works as it should. I didn't have time to check for IGPU working or not. Sound works as sleep and restart also. 

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Cyberdevs
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No problem dreamcat4 :)

The reason that I'm not able to install the update is because I'm on a trip and I have no access to my computer not because I'm waiting for someone else to do it first :)

But it's always good to hear from you guys :)

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Hi again. I found some new infos about Duplicate boot entries bug today:

 

* Bug does not require 2 multiple ESP / multiple HDDs (for example Windows dual-boot)

* Bug does not require SATA connection. Well not for passmark memtest x86 disk image. Which can be reproduced with USB 2.0 HDD protable drive.

* Bug does not go away if is disabled the Clover boot entries scanning. That setting has no impact.

* Bug does not occur on grub UEFI / ubuntu linux.

 

Somehow Grub is recognized as special 'ubuntu' boot entry, just like windows is. Where-as the bug somehow manifest in presense of not-identified 'UEFI: ' boot entries. New information is already passed to Gigabyte.

 

However if you are also being affected as newer skylake* gigabyte user, then I urge you to also all re-file each 1 new bug report with the Gigabyte's eSupport ticketing system. Many thanks.

 

* for any Z170, H170, or H110 gigabyte series motherboards.

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hackaro
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No problem dreamcat4 :)

The reason that I'm not able to install the update is because I'm on a trip and I have no access to my computer not because I'm waiting for someone else to do it first :)

But it's always good to hear from you guys :)

 

I've updated to 11.4 without any problem. But the reboot / shutdown issue is still there!!! ...  :wallbash:

 

Any clue? ... does anybody know how to create a log of the shutdown process? 

 

what makes me really angry is that this issue is random ... so it's related to something that I cannot identify ... 

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kenmadsen
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here goes nothing.. updating at the moment :)

 

Seems it went ok, forgot the nvidia config fix so booted to black screen, still have this insane boot time after i added the fix shutdown though. I'm sure my ssd drive should be faster than the aftermarket OC ssd i threw into my old 2011 27"iMac and that one boots super fast.. oh well at least i don't have to boot often ;)

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kenmadsen
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here goes nothing.. updating at the moment :)

 

Seems it went ok, forgot the nvidia config fix so booted to black screen, still have this insane boot time after i added the fix shutdown though. I'm sure my ssd drive should be faster than the aftermarket OC ssd i threw into my old 2011 27"iMac and that one boots super fast.. oh well at least i don't have to boot often ;)

 

Ok i should learn to shut up, everything worked fine with the nvidia driver for 10.11.4, but i didn't have hdmi 2560x1440 on my secondary monitor, so i applied the

Floris497/mac-pixel-clock-patch-v2 (new version available) and now i boot to black screen, even with the changes done for AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy.kext :( 

 

Also appears my sound is missing. should never have updated ;)

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hackaro
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I talk too soon:

 

HELP!!!! banghead.gifbanghead.gifbanghead.gif


AUDIO GET DISTORTED under iTunes after 3 minutes of playing ... after having upgraded to 11.4 !!!

tried re-applying Toleda patch --> nothing!
tried revert to 11.3 AppleHDA --> nothing!
tried removing CodecCommander --> nothing!


Audio is NOT distorted in youtube under Safari, though. Machine in signature ... GA Z170X Gaming 5, i7-6700K, Nvidia GFX 950  .

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Hi again. I found some new infos about Duplicate boot entries bug today:

 

* Bug does not require 2 multiple ESP / multiple HDDs (for example Windows dual-boot)

* Bug does not require SATA connection. Well not for passmark memtest x86 disk image. Which can be reproduced with USB 2.0 HDD protable drive.

* Bug does not go away if is disabled the Clover boot entries scanning. That setting has no impact.

* Bug does not occur on grub UEFI / ubuntu linux.

 

Somehow Grub is recognized as special 'ubuntu' boot entry, just like windows is. Where-as the bug somehow manifest in presense of not-identified 'UEFI: ' boot entries. New information is already passed to Gigabyte.

 

However if you are also being affected as newer skylake* gigabyte user, then I urge you to also all re-file each 1 new bug report with the Gigabyte's eSupport ticketing system. Many thanks.

 

* for any Z170, H170, or H110 gigabyte series motherboards.

This issue seems to be resolved for me after upgrading to F5 BIOS on Gaming 5 mobo.

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Cyberdevs
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Hi everyone :)

Lots of useful info

 

For those with audio problem as I mentioned in my earliest posts in this topic I had the same problem with Toledo's script so I switched to voodooHDA and it works just fine with Mac OS updates all you have to do is to adjust the igain mixer to avoid the hissing sound.

I wish if I could test the 10.11.4 update and see the new changes but I guess when I get back from my trip you all debugged all the problems in Mac OS 10.11.4 or even 10.11.5 :D

Cheers everybody

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This issue seems to be resolved for me after upgrading to F5 BIOS on Gaming 5 mobo.

This issue seems to be resolved for me after upgrading to F5 BIOS on Gaming 5 mobo.

 

 

Hmm. I retested the latest BIOS for Gaming 3 just yesterday (F6). It has not resolve the problem. (the Gaming 3 equiv. is its newest 'F6' bios).

 

What would be great is if others with the same Gaming 5 mobo here could please also try too (upgrading to latest BIOS, and re-test). Just to make sure we know either way. Many thanks.

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After a few hundred reboots, some magic and some things I'm not even sure about, everything is working again!

And during my investigations I got a theory of why my machine is so dog slow at booting..

 

When booting in verbose, my screen is FILLED with:

kernel[0]: MT=>Free:bEndMLMEEvent = 0, bEndControlEvent = 0, bEndBulkOutDataEvent = 0, bEndDequeuePacketEvent = 0, bEndLoadFWEvent = 1, bOnAsicSwitchChannel = 0, bOnMlmeHandler = 0

 

 

​when opening /var/log/system.log there is literally over 100k entries of that, or:

Mar 23 12:26:30 nineofnine kernel[0]: MT=>Free:bEndMLMEEvent = 0, bEndControlEvent = 0, bEndBulkOutDataEvent = 0, bEndDequeuePacketEvent = 0, bEndLoadFWEvent = 1, bOnAsicSwitchChannel = 0, bOnMlmeHandler = 0

Mar 23 12:27:00 --- last message repeated 5157 times ---
 
 
any ideas?
 
Edit: so apparently it was my RT2870USBWirelessDriver.kext that was doing the spewing. Good thing I ordered that TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual-band which is on its way :)
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kenmadsen
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I talk too soon:

 

HELP!!!! banghead.gifbanghead.gifbanghead.gif

 

 

AUDIO GET DISTORTED under iTunes after 3 minutes of playing ... after having upgraded to 11.4 !!!

 

tried re-applying Toleda patch --> nothing!

tried revert to 11.3 AppleHDA --> nothing!

tried removing CodecCommander --> nothing!

 

 

Audio is NOT distorted in youtube under Safari, though. Machine in signature ... GA Z170X Gaming 5, i7-6700K, Nvidia GFX 950  .

 

 

 

 

Are you only having the issue with iTunes? mine gets distorted in VLC as well

 

EDIT: seems safari is ok as long as i don't use sound flower and audio midi setup to aggregate the sound (which i really need for OBS Studio).

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