mac09hack Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I am very glad to hear that you have successfully installed a working Yosemite. I really love the versatility of the Z97X motherboard and I must try the tip about matching the default volume name. I made Fusion drives out of one HDD and one SSD and the OS starts up but not very fast. Another tip about using the Thunderbolt ports. I have seen people also say that you need to boot up windows once to actually get those ports to work under MacOS X. I don't have a copy of windows so I haven't tried that yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 23, 2015 Author Share Posted August 23, 2015 I have heard that too. Is it too late to add a version of Windows 8 or 10 into the mix? Could I just buy another hd for that and keep them separate? I don't know much about partitioning and dual systems but I just don't want to have to reload the OS side now that I finally got it working great. If there is a way to just add a partition or add a new drive I would be down to try that out. On another note, I did find one more small thing to troubleshoot- I need a patch for my bluetooth adapter to get it working. That is the only thing not working besides the thunderbolt. I have the ASUS Bluetooth 4.0 USB BT400 adapter and I believe it needs some sort of patch to the iobluetoothfamily.kext? Anyways, I haven't been able to find that in the insanelymac downloads section. Perhaps you could point me in the right direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 For Bluetooth: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-BrcmPatchRAM For dual booting, you can dual boot easily. Easier with two SSDs, but one works too. If you decide to get another SSD/HDD, make sure the OS X one remains unplugged during the installation process. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 23, 2015 Author Share Posted August 23, 2015 Excellent, bluetooth is now fixed!!! Ok that sounds good actually- I will look into a 2nd SSD option and Windows 10 in the near future, it would be great to have both systems anyway. In the meantime I'll keep poking around to see if there is anything else I can try to get the Thunderbolt port working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 For Thunderbolt you should email RampageDev, I believe he has the same board as you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 Ok thanks, will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 29, 2015 Author Share Posted August 29, 2015 In a follow up I was finally able to get Thunderbolt to work. No windows system or drivers are needed, you just need to go into the setup and under the Peripherals> Thunderbolt> options switch the Thunderbolt security level to Legacy mode. You also have to have the Thunderbolt drive plugged in before bootup, as that is the only way it will recognize the drive. I also disabled the wake from Thunderbolt devices option. Perhaps this talk of installing windows and the windows drivers on a dual boot system would also make them hot-swappable, but accessing the TB ports this way is totally fine with me. This was the last component I needed to get working, so as of now everything in my system is fully functioning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Very nice. I do recall RampageDev saying he did get Thunderbolt hotplugging work on one of the ports, but I don't think he ever elaborated how. You might want to contact him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 29, 2015 Author Share Posted August 29, 2015 I emailed him at the main page info@rampagedev last week but haven't heard back yet. I should probably try to email him again at his individual email. I noticed the About this Mac displays some things incorrectly. For instance, my ram is 1600 mhz ddr3 but it has it listed as 1333mhz. My motherboard does correctly recognize it as 1600 mhz though. I also noticed spec-wise that clover assigned my build to a (14, 2) late 2013 model identifier as opposed to a (15, 1) model which is probably what it is really closer to. Does any of that matter or is the about this mac just cosmetic anyways? I've already signed into this Mac with iTunes and the app store, so not sure if it would be a good idea to switch anything around at this point if that stuff is just cosmetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I think RampageDev is pretty busy, so he might not respond immediately. You'll want to enable XMP detection in config.plist. iMac15,1 is preferred for your hardware, but it will break NVIDIA graphics unless you modify AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy.kext. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 Ok, I'll give him some time. No rush since I got them working at least. So it's possible to do and you'd recommend switching to the (15,1) config? How would I get that switched? Clover didn't let me choose the profile, it just auto-assigned it. Is this something that can be altered in the config playlist script instead of reinstalling everything? And just to confirm, I would do the ram change by adding the line, "<key>XMPDetection</key> <true/>" to my config playlist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 Ok great, I was able to find that line of code and it was marked false, so I changed it to true and the ram change worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 iMac15,1 has an AMD GPU & a graphics device profile for it; if you use an NVIDIA GPU, you will get a black screen unless you modify AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 Ok darn I wouldn't know how to modify the AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy to do that so perhaps I should just leave this one alone. I just thought cosmetically it would look better displayed as a (15, 1). Not really a big deal though. Mainly, I wanted my components listed correctly which they are now due to the fix you provided so if it might be a bit of trouble then I'm fine with leaving the (14, 2) config. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Just tried my first update to 10.10.5. I survived it although I had to reinstall the realtek audio driver as well as the nvidia web driver and now all is working ok. However, now my computer takes a very long time starting up and powering off. I deleted the Thunderbolt kexts but slow bootup times still persist. Any ideas what this new problem from the update could be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Have you rebuilt kext caches? Try sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Ok just did that. When I did that it mentioned that the two bluetooth patch kexts were installed improperly. Do I need to remove those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Can you post full output of the command? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Here is what came up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Here is what came up. Since you're still on Yosemite, remove BrcmBluetoothInjector, it won't do anything useful (BrcmPatchRAM works fine). You need to fix the permissions of BrcmPatchRAM as well, which you can do like this: $ sudo chmod -R 755 /Library/Extensions/BrcmPatchRAM.kext $ sudo chown -R 0:0 /Library/Extensions/BrcmPatchRAM.kext 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Ok thanks. I threw out the bluetooth injector file. Hmmm... The first command I enter prompts me to type in my password but then nothing else in terminal happens after that. The second one I don't think did anything (at least didn't show anything happened in terminal), it just went to a fresh command line. Startup is still slow, so I'm not sure if the patch took effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted September 24, 2015 Author Share Posted September 24, 2015 Still haven't figured out the slow startup. Is there anything else I should try? I do have a time machine backup of my system before the update. If it's easier can I just enter time machine and back up from when I things had running smoothly on 10.10.4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 If I need to troubleshoot a slow startup on this computer and I've already programmed the key default volume to boot up to the SSD, is there any way I can still look at my startup in verbose mode as a way to troubleshoot what is causing the slow startup? Ever since I updated to 10.10.5 it takes about a minute to startup as opposed to when I first set it up on 10.10.4 it only took about 30 seconds. Computer is running great however and I have a lot of programs installed already, so I would prefer to fix the issue as opposed to restripe my SSD with 10.10.4 and start all over again. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 Here are some pics of my final build. Sorry it took so long to post these. Thanks to all who helped troubleshoot the process!! Fractal Design R4 Case Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH LGA 1150 Z97 Dual Thunderbolt 2 ATX Motherboard (Bios Version F4) Intel i7 4.4 4790K Quadcore Processor Cooler Master Seidon 120M Crucial Ballistix Tactical 32GB (8GBx4) DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 UDIMM RAM EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC ACX 2.0+ Corsair AX760 Professional Series Power Supply TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter System HD: OWC Extreme Pro SSD 240GB Storage HD: Hitachi Deskstar 4TB 7200RPM Monitor: Philips BDM4065UC 40" Class 4K Monitor UHD 3840 x2160 The Alesis audio monitors and Avid Fast Track Duo box I already had from my prior system. The Fractal R4 is a huge case, but eventually I am going to install a RAID with the extra HD bays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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