I have a Hackintosh that's a couple of years old, and for the majority of that time, it's been great. But for the past few months, I have been experiencing occasional crashes when streaming video (especially in conjunction with other processes). Basically, I'll be watching a video, and suddenly, the video will freeze and repeat a split second of video/audio a few times before crashing completely. Text appears on the screen while it's happening, leading me to believe it's a kernel panic. This problem has happened for a little while, but it's been worse recently, and especially bad after I switched to Clover a few months ago.
I've checked my console and logs, but I can't seem to find anything from the time of the crash — every time, the messages will be normal, and there will be a gap of close to a minute before the boot messages appear.
Since this happens mostly when I'm running several processes alongside the video streaming, I'm thinking it could be something related to my graphics card (GTX 660) and/or my graphics-related kexts, but I have no idea. Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on and how I can fix it?
Here are my specs:
- Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H
- Intel i5 3570K
- 8 GB DDR3 RAM (Corsair Vengeance)
- Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB SSD (startup disk)
- 2 500 GB Western Digital HDDs set up in a mirrored RAID (for storage - though I'm really not sure why I still have them in a mirrored RAID given that I have an external backup drive)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
- Toshiba 1 TB external HDD (Time Machine backups)
- OS 10.11.2 with Clover
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