So I've had my hackintosh running like a champ for the longest time (years), up until the last week or so. I bought another SSD to go into my system to install windows on, and when I did install windows, I made sure to unplug every other drive on my computer so nothing would be affected.
Now when I start up my mac, everything is business as usual, until about 10-15 min in. It acts as if I physically unplugged my root drive. So everything that is loaded up into ram continues to function properly without a hitch, but I cannot do anything else.
For example, I had a few tabs open in Chrome, Spotify was playing music, and I had iMessage running. It acted up, and I couldn't open a new tab in chrome, I couldn't go into the dock and close any applications. I couldn't go into the apple menu and shut down, but I could still type out messages in iMessage (but not send them), and my music kept playing with no issues in Spotify. I was even able to search for music I had not ever played on my computer, and it loaded up just fine.
I tried repairing my permissions, updating my graphics drivers, updating to 10.10.3 (I was on 10.10.1). I've tried plugging my SSD into various ports on the motherboard, I've tried verifying and repairing the disk, I've tried cloning my entire disk on to a separate spinning HD, I've triple-checked my BIOS settings, but it's still doing this.
To my knowledge I haven't updated any other software, made any hardware changes, or installed any new software around the time this was happening..
My system specs are as follows: *Gigabyte Z77-DS3H (rev1.1) w/whatever the current beta bios is *i5 3570k *32GB ram *Dual 750 ti's *Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter *BlackMagic Decklink Mini Monitor
From what I can remember, I'm running with only the FakeSMC kext, and a modified IONetworkingFamily kext to inject my network card's hardware ID. I'm booting one of the more recent, if not the most recent, versions of Clover, and I'm using the flags "kext_dev_mode=1 nvda_drv=1"
I've run the system with entirely different programs multiple times, meaning I'll start up and run just chrome, or I'll start up and run just photoshop, and it still has the same effect.
Does anyone have any idea what might be happening? I'm almost tempted to start fresh, but I've got a Disk Utility RAID set up, and I don't know if I would lose that by starting fresh
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