Peerke Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 (Mistakenly posted in 'Installation Guides' at first) Hi, A couple of weeks back I took the plunge and upgraded my system from Yosemite (10.10.5) to Sierra 10.12.6. Reason for doing that was that I wanted to upgrade my graphics card from a GTX 960 to a GTX 1060. I followed Rampagedev's procedure and used his DMG to upgrade. I also installed the nvidia web driver 378.05.05, and I installed an Intel 750 PCIe NVME SSD, using Pikeralpha's NVME patch and included the NVME drivers from a Gigabyte Z97 board on the GA-X79-UD3, as the X79 board originally does not support NVME. So, I can boot from the Intel SSD, but it takes about 3 or random 4 kernel panics and reboots before I get to a login prompt. Once logged in everything works fine and the system is stable. I saw the same behaviour when everything was still on a SATA SSD, so I do not suspect the NVME drivers and patches to be the culprit. The KPs can happen at different stages during boot, sometimes even when I am logging in. But once logged in, everything is ok. Another thing that bothers me is USB3. I installed USBXHCI_FL1009.kext, also from the Rampagedev DMG, but the results are flaky. A USB3 USB-stick is recognised, as is my card reader, but an external (bus-powered) USB3 drive from Seagate is completely ignored when inserted. I did turn off USB3 during the upgrade, but it is switched back on now. The original install was with Mavericks, and I upgraded that too to Yosemite. I never tried a clean install as that would take a lot of work to migrate and relicense all my apps. So, in terms of system goodies: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 CPU: Intel 4930k OS: Sierra 10.12.6 Nvidia web driver: 378.05.05 GPU: MSI GTX1060 3GB Boot drive: Intel 750 NVME PCIe SSD Clover: 4220 Anyone that can help to solve the kernel panics and the USB3 issue? Enclosed my complete EFI folder, IOreg, ACPI tables and kextstat.txt. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Toms MacPro.ioreg.zip EFI.zip Send me Toms MacPro.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/327520-sierra-on-ga-x79-ud3-nearly-there/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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