juanml82 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I've often tried to use OSX in my computers since Leopard. More often than not, it turned rather complicated and, despite all the help of this forum, I've ended up quitting. I've decided to give it a try with Mavericks earlier today and this time it went very smoothly. So, while I'm not a developer by any means, I thought I've rather post an answer rather than a question for a change in the event it works for someone else with the same mobo. And, of course, to thank all the developers who worked so this actually worked. The system specs are Gigabyte GA-Z77D3H (rev 1.0) Intel i5-3570K 8 GB of Ram, DD3, Kingston 120 SSD for Windows only 2TB HDD partitioned with a 120 GB partition for Mavericks, the rest for data. It's partitioned with GUID, not MBR Nvidia GTX 460, the 768MB Ram model I've used Myhack to build a bootable flash drive - technically, an 8 GB microsd card in a card reader. Myhack pops several prompts when the installation is almost done. I didn't take note of them, but I made what made sense with my hardware. Typically, that was accepting the suggestions: no eec ram, so disregard the kext for that, issues with Nvidia cards and mouse, disregard the troublesome kext, etc. It booted with the only issue that the keyboard was not responding, switching it to a different usb port worked that out. This mobo has an Etron EJ168 usb controller for most usb ports, which isn't supported out of the box. Connecting the keyboard to a port controlled by Intel's default controller is the solution. Ethernet, sound and most of the usb ports didn't work. For ethernet (Atheros AR8151), I've used this kext http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284119-experimental-atheros-ar813132515261627172-driver-for-107108/ For sound (VIA VT2021), this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279133-voodoohda-for-gigabyte-ga-z77x-ud3h-via-vt2020vt2021/ And for the Etron USB ports, this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286860-genericusbxhci-usb-30-driver-for-os-x-with-source/page-27 The Nvidia card worked out of the box :-) And that was pretty much it. Safari is inestable, but I use Firefox anyways. I can not comment about the speed of the USB 3.0 ports as I don't have a USB 3.0 external hard drive to try them. ATM I don't think there will be any further issues, everything seems to be working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossimi Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Good to know, I also have this mobo. My ATI3850HD is what scares me. Hope it's supported Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanml82 Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 Personally, I wouldn't know. I guess you can retort to the integrated graphics if it doesn't. One other caveat is that, after posting this, I was unable to burn dvds. I've first followed this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238159-apple-shipping-drive-dvd-fix-for-patasata/And then also realized I was using an older installer of Toast. After both installing the Toast update and following the steps in that link, I was able to burn dvds. But I don't really know which was the issue. Maybe it was just that the version of Toast I was using wasn't compatible with Mavericks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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