Also crossposted to /r/techsupport/
My primary computer is a Hackintosh I built several years back. Since Day 1 it randomly freezes, and I've lost at least 3 hard drives because of it. I'd really, really like to get this figured out and fixed. Any help is much appreciated.
Here are the specs:
- Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z77-DS3H v1.1 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel
- CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz
- Firmware: GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS version F9 published 9/19/2012 Settings here
- CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz
- Graphics: ASUS GTX660-DC2O-2GD5 GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support V
- Memory: 2xCORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 240-Pin SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
- Boot drive: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series Media
- Documents drive: Western Digital WD Green WD30EZRX 3TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
- Time Machine backup drive: Western Digital WD Green WD30EZRX 3TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
- OS: Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.4
- Audio driver: ALC887/888b Current v1000302
- Misc drivers: FakeSMC v6.16.1372 & USB 3.0 - Universal
- Network driver: Realtek ALCxxxx ALXEthernet v1.0.2
- Bootloader: Chimera v4.1.0
- Boot options: 1080p Display Mode, Basic Boot Options, Generate CPU States, KextDevMode, and Use KernalCache
- SSDT Options: Sandy Bridge Core i5
- System definition: Mac Pro 3,1
- Theme: tonymacx86 black
All of the settings are also shown here.
I don't think the freezing is OS-specific, as several others with the same motherboard, settings, and boot loader are not having issues.
I cannot seem to figure out a reason for the freezes, although it seems to happen more frequently when I'm watching video (i.e. YouTube). When it does happen while I'm watching video, it'll play the sound of about the last 1/2 second over and over and over again, like a record skipping.
I've run some computer testing software (Tech Tools, PC Check, etc.) and they yield no answers.
Thank God for backups, or I would have lost everything several times over by now, as usually a hard reset of the computer brings things back exactly where they were, but three or four times, it's resulted in damaging hard disks so badly, that I now have them sitting off on a shelf to be used as paperweights.
Other than building a new PC, can anyone think of a solution, or a test to find the problem?
[link] [comment]
What is missing? Please comment to help! For more info try www.iatkos.net
Post a Comment