I spent this v-day assembling a hackintosh on the kitchen table, as one does when they have no boyfriend. While miraculously, all of the hardware worked immediately, it was less easy getting El Capitan installed. Nevertheless, it too is installed! It's working pretty well, actually. It recognizes the input of the webcam I set up, microphone and camera, and it's connecting to the wifi just fine.
HOWEVER
As soon as the USB is gone, it don't boot no more.
Every time I've tried to apply Multibeast settings, it's failed.
Trying to reinstall Clover has failed.
I tried to mount and reformat the EFI partition with Clover Configurator and Terminal alike, but neither have seemed to do anything.
HARDWARE SPECS PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
| Type | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor | Purchased For $174.00 |
| Motherboard | ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard | Purchased For $84.00 |
| Memory | G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory | Purchased For $30.00 |
| Storage | Sandisk Ultra II 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | Purchased For $79.00 |
| Storage | Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | Purchased For $45.00 |
| Video Card | EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card | Purchased For $209.00 |
| Case | NZXT Phantom 240 ATX Mid Tower Case | Purchased For $69.00 |
| Power Supply | Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply | Purchased For $60.00 |
| Optical Drive | Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer | Purchased For $16.00 |
| Wireless Network Adapter | Rosewill N900PCE 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter | Purchased For $31.00 |
| Monitor | Acer S220HQLAbd 60Hz 21.5" Monitor | Purchased For $89.00 |
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts | ||
| Total | $886.00 | |
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-15 21:32 EST-0500 |
Note: The SSD is not connected at this time - I'm planning to install Windows on that one, and do a dual boot. El Capitan is on the HD.
Also, I was able to download the drivers for the graphics card, so that's working just fine. The first time I booted El Capitan, it was really messed up in the graphics department, so GPU incompatibility shouldn't be the problem.
I've tried various command line things to try to fix it (though in my very haphazard way, I didn't really take much note of which ones they were) and looked up BIOS settings for my motherboard, but it looks like the main problem is that Clover isn't installing, and I think it's all got to do with the messed up partition.
Also: Am not sure how to do things with kexts.
Have I missed something obvious? Do I need to do crazy things to get it all normal?
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