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I have installed el Capitan on the config below. after a few attempts, i ended up with a working system:

 

- 4 Screens up in span mode

- Audio and HDMI audio working

- USB2 and 3 working

- Bluetooth working (Somewhat)

- Sata M.2 working

- Blu-ray DVD working

 

I still have a few issues:

 

1 -  iTunes does not play video. I can play youtube video, I can hear music on iTunes but it seems that some security features prevent it to play video

2 - I have purchased a bluetooth dongle. I connected an apple keyboard and trackpad but they do not work very well. The trackpad while connected move from very well to randomly to  none. Very erratic I got it fixed by adding 2 kexts: BrcmPatchRAM2.kext and BrcmFirmwareData.kext

3 - When I shutdown the computer, it shuts down but then reboot automatically. I got that fixed with FixShutdown option on in ACPI

4 - I installed the nVidia Web Driver but each time i Reboot it uses the default OS X Default Graphic driver. When I change to Nvidia Web driver, I do not see any difference in the resolution/quality of the image. May be the OS X Default is set to Nvidia web driver ?

 

Any help on the above would be highly appreciated,

 

Also is there any help on the web or books to understand the EFI architecture, Kext and anything related to adapting hardware to OS X ?

 

Xian

 

Gigabyte GA-Z170X Gaming 5

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB

2x16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2666Mhz

Intel i6700K

Sandisk SD8SNU-1T00 M.2

4 x Samsung 27" Curved LED

CoolMaster V8 GTS

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20/04/16 00:02:44,048 shutdown[275]: halt by _netbios: 

20/04/16 00:02:44,048 shutdown[275]: SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1461103364 47563
20/04/16 00:02:44,048 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.system) System shutdown initiated by: shutdown.275<-sessionlogoutd.274<-launchd.1
20/04/16 00:51:10,000 kernel[0]: Previous shutdown cause: 5
 
what does it exactly mean?

 

Previous shutdown cause: 5 means system shout down normally, in all systems when you see this message it' normal for instance if you see the "Previous shutdown cause: 0" means power was disconnected.

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Hey guys,

 

I've been banging my head against this for the last week....

 

Okay so i was pumped to have bought:

 

Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 5

64 GB Corsair Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 MHz 

i7 6700K Skylake

2 x r9 280x's Sapphire 3 GB

480 GB SSD

128 GB SSD

4 TB HDD

1 TB HD

 

All 4 Monitors work on the R9 280x's (2 4k and 2 1080p)

 

 I've installed OS X 10.11.4 and cant get:

 

- Ethernet (It shows up in System Report > Ethernet Cards but not in System Preference > Options)

- Sound (Even Voodoo is telling me my OS X version is incompatible with 2.8.8)

- Sleep (Seems like everyone but me has this working)

- Inject ATI (When i Inject ATI in Clover, it picks up on the R9 280Xs but only renders the 1080p screens, 4K doesn't work, unless i unplug one of the 1080p monitors)

 

 

I've done all the BIOS requirements, as in the beginning of this thread, installed fresh copies and still nothing....Is this an issue that is contained specifically to 10.11.4??

 

Please Help  :wallbash:

 

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Hey guys,

 

I've been banging my head against this for the last week....

 

Okay so i was pumped to have bought:

 

Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 5

64 GB Corsair Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 MHz 

i7 6700K Skylake

2 x r9 280x's Sapphire 3 GB

480 GB SSD

128 GB SSD

4 TB HDD

1 TB HD

 

All 4 Monitors work on the R9 280x's (2 4k and 2 1080p)

 

 I've installed OS X 10.11.4 and cant get:

 

- Ethernet (It shows up in System Report > Ethernet Cards but not in System Preference > Options)

- Sound (Even Voodoo is telling me my OS X version is incompatible with 2.8.8)

- Sleep (Seems like everyone but me has this working)

- Inject ATI (When i Inject ATI in Clover, it picks up on the R9 280Xs but only renders the 1080p screens, 4K doesn't work, unless i unplug one of the 1080p monitors)

 

 

I've done all the BIOS requirements, as in the beginning of this thread, installed fresh copies and still nothing....Is this an issue that is contained specifically to 10.11.4??

 

Please Help  :wallbash:

Hi there.

 

Use the following kext and place them under EFI partition in the following path: EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts/10.11

 

VoodooHDA 2.8.8 v3 must work unless you forgot to set these flags in your config.plist wrong make sure you set the following flags under boot sections: kext-dev-mode=1 and rootless=0

 

Sleep doesn't work on my computer either and I have no 4K displays so I don't know how to fix them.

 

Cheers

Ethernet.zip

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Hi there.

 

Use the following kext and place them under EFI partition in the following path: EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts/10.11

 

VoodooHDA 2.8.8 v3 must work unless you forgot to set these flags in your config.plist wrong make sure you set the following flags under boot sections: kext-dev-mode=1 and rootless=0

 

Sleep doesn't work on my computer either and I have no 4K displays so I don't know how to fix them.

 

Cheers

 

Ethernet worked, thanks so much!!

 

But still having issues with VooDoo....Am trying this post here to see if i can get Creative Audio to work: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309283-creative-ca0132-g1sniper-m3-patch-for-applehda-or-voodoohda/page-11

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Word of warning!

Do not use parallels 10 in el capitan on your hackintosh! this weeekend, 2 times installed, 2 times my macos harddrive has been damaged beyond fsck's repair, about to install for a 3rd time again now (This time without paralells) :(

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Word of warning!

Do not use parallels 10 in el capitan on your hackintosh! this weeekend, 2 times installed, 2 times my macos harddrive has been damaged beyond fsck's repair, about to install for a 3rd time again now (This time without paralells) :(

 

 

I'm using parallels just fine about 1 month, and its ok with my ssd 

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I'm using parallels just fine about 1 month, and its ok with my ssd 

 

You are lucky then, or i'm unlucky.

Luckily i could mount the drive in windows, currently copying everything from the disk before the reinstall (why oh why didnt i do a timemachine backup)

 

EDIT: Think i found the issue, had intel virtulization IO active in the bios for some reason. This is not recommended, all my hfs+ disks have to be reformatted as they can't be repaired by the disk utility.

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I've ordered a GA-z170x gaming 5, but looking for a good videocard. Anyone advise which? nvidia gtx960? I have a amd R9 290 in my other computer, but will this work? don't mind getting a new/better one.

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I've ordered a GA-z170x gaming 5, but looking for a good videocard. Anyone advise which? nvidia gtx960? I have a amd R9 290 in my other computer, but will this work? don't mind getting a new/better one.

AMD R9 should be working just fine but there might be some hiccups with sleep or getting it to work with multi displays which you can find tons of posts about how to getting it to work.

I use an AMD Radeon HD 7790 with two displays and it's working just fine.

But if you are looking for a better Graphics Adapter that's another story.

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AMD R9 should be working just fine but there might be some hiccups with sleep or getting it to work with multi displays which you can find tons of posts about how to getting it to work.

I use an AMD Radeon HD 7790 with two displays and it's working just fine.

But if you are looking for a better Graphics Adapter that's another story.

 

Thanks Cyberdevs.

 

I need multimonitor support. I also want to dual boot hackintosh and windows(windows for gaming) so a amd 7790 does not quite fit for gaming. So i want to buy the right videocard that's proven to work (without to many tweaking/patching)

 

So any has recommendations? let my know;) thanks

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Cyberdevs
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You're welcome.

 

I know Radeon HD 7790 is an old vga and not good for gaming I just mentioned that because it works fine with multiple displays and as you can see on the first page of this topic you need to add some extra information in order to get the multi displays to work. Just to be on the safe side you might find nVidia 9 series graphic adapters (GTX 960, 970, 980) more suitable for you because they are easier to setup and the best choice in AMD family are AMD R9 390 and 395 which apple uses in the new iMacs.

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Updated to OS X 10.11.5 through the MAS. Everything works, though my Hackintosh did freeze a couple of times in the last one hour.

Did you have to do anything besides update? Any kext mods etc..?

 

I'm actually looking at starting from scratch. New dsdt, ssdt, new kexts, new clover configuration as all I have now is a combination of everything in this thread and some is not needed anymore and it's a tad confusion. So maybe with 10.11.5 I can redo my whole install with fewer patches and kexts and have a more vanilla system.

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Just a couple of questions, do you use VoodooTSCSync for i5-6600K? What C states have you enabled for the same processor? i'm asking these because i have a strange problem... i put my hack to sleep and sometimes (not always) when i press key to wake up its doing restart but not a normal restart as all the apps are open again like before going to sleep. has anyone faced a similar problem? 

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Did you have to do anything besides update? Any kext mods etc..?

 

I'm actually looking at starting from scratch. New dsdt, ssdt, new kexts, new clover configuration as all I have now is a combination of everything in this thread and some is not needed anymore and it's a tad confusion. So maybe with 10.11.5 I can redo my whole install with fewer patches and kexts and have a more vanilla system.

 

Nop, nothing. Even I was planning on doing a clean install, but the next version of OS X is just 2-3 months away. Why bother when everything is working just fine. 

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I updated to 10.11.5 Combo Update from Apple's website and everything is OK.

I don't use M.2 SATA but I know it should be working with some additional kext.

 

You can find more here at: http://www.macvidcards.com/nvme-driver1.html

Thanks,

 

this worries m(from the faq)

Q:  Can I boot from an NVMe drive?

 

A: No, not until someone writes a standards compliant EFI driver for the Macintosh.

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Thanks,

 

this worries m(from the faq)

Q:  Can I boot from an NVMe drive?

 

A: No, not until someone writes a standards compliant EFI driver for the Macintosh.

You're welcome.

 

I believe you can boot from it but you have to set your BIOS to use NVMe as the boot device.

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