WARNING: LONG POST
After most likely 10-12 hours, I finally have everything working, just like my macbook pro. Lots of errors I had to get through, including OS X & Clover getting completely messed up, but its all good now.
Specs:
CPU: Intel i3 4150 GPU: MSI GTX 970 Mobo: Gigabyte H97N Wifi OSX El Capitan downloaded from the App Store
I used these two guides for installing OS X El Capitan. They are both somewhat broad so I found it helpful to use both side by side.
1) When formatting the USB, both guides say to use the GUID Partition table scheme. El Capitan's disk utility no longer can do this apparently. However, whatever is the default is what I tried and it worked for me! I believe it was the GUID Partition Map.
I selected to install El Capitan, UEFI Boot Mode, and did NOT inject and optional Graphics stuff. Based on my research (everyone is kinda broad on it), you should only do this if you have an older card.
Took a while for UniBeast to finish the install to the usb, it almost seemed to hang on "copying files", but if you check the usb info/properties you can see the file size increasing. Just give it a bit.
After that, I changed in the Bios/UEFI settings (press delete at startup) to the optimized defaults.
After that, I plugged the usb drive in, and booted into clover. Make sure you are actually booting to the USB drive, there is an option in the bios to force boot a specific drive, of you can turn other SATA drives off.
The OS X install process went without any issues. I did just like the guide and it installed and booted into OS X without crashing right away.
MultiBeast was very intimidating at first because every guide at this point seems to go "Okay no just google and figure out what do to."
Here are my multibeast settings: Quick Start - UEFI Boot Mode Drivers: Audio - Realtek - ALC892 Disk - I believe i did none Misc - I installed all 3 NetWork - I don't know exactly how this works, I selected the non intel one, and only one of my ethernet ports work. Im not sure if I also need to install the intel one, but i don't want to mess anything up. USB - 7/8/9 series USB support BootLoaders - UEFI Boot Mode Graphics - none SSDT - none System definitions - It recommends the mac pro, but I'm using the iMac 14.2 just fine
This built without any issues.
Just like everyone else, onboard wifi does not work. I bought an ethernet cable from my local store for 8 bucks and that works fine.
I had a lot of graphics issues, mainly being that I couldn't get 1440p resolution over HDMI, and the onboard graphics just didn't work straight out. I downloaded the latest Nvidia web drivers and that fixed it so I could get a little over 1080p resolution but still not 1440p. I don't remember exactly. Anyway, I couldn't find a fix for this, the only solution was to swap from using HDMI to DISPLAYPORT. Using display port I am able to get 1440p just fine. If anyone has any input on this though, it would be helpful. Luckily I had a cable on hand.
Next big problem was sound. At this stage, I was able to get sound by plugging in headphones, plugging in wireless headphones via a wireless usb adapter, and by using an aux cord from my computers headphone port to my external speakers (didn't test from the back of the pc - should be the same / work). What was NOT working was getting sound via DISPLAY PORT. Now, many threads are talking about getting sound through HDMI but there have been only a few threads on display port... well, it turns out the fixes for HDMI should all work for DISPLAY PORT as well. Audio over aux is a decent solution but I wanted for a fully clean one, so I used this guide-
A lot of the threads on the forum are pretty intimidating, especially the other sticky, this one was the easiest PLUS it actually worked.
At this point, everything was working pretty nicely with one exception. iMessage. Support threads for this seem to be lower because less people use this feature, which is a shame. It was very hard to get this working correctly. My best advice is to google, google, search tonymacx86 forum & reddit. Oddly enough, it let me login to iCloud in the settings panel and it let me download apps from the app store, but it failed to login whenever I tried to login to iMessage.
I used these two guides for getting iMessage working: http://ift.tt/1N9CwnU http://ift.tt/1TsVfZZ
Notice that they are slightly different. I tried the first link first. I don't know what I did wrong, but it broke my audio completely. It wasn't like before when HDMI just wasn't carrying audio, but all my audio devices were suddenly gone. I looked up solutions to this and other users seemed to have this error too, but their solutions were pretty complicated and at this point I was pretty bummed out I got that far and messed it up. I knew this error was caused by changing something in the config.plist so I figured I could just grab the default one and change it out, so I tried using the generate config tool in the clover configurator, but I just cluelessly made one and swapped it out with my current one. Bad idea, after rebooting my clover boot screen was now completely messed up. The graphics looking as if they failed, and the text was all basic. Something went wrong. Now, whenever trying to boot to the OS X partition, It just went straight to a circle with a dash through it. I tried googling for an hour on this but only a few hackintosh users have reported it. What this is caused by, at least for me, is the config.plist is no longer correct and it can't boot with it. There is a solution to fix this! Also, from now on, make sure you keep a backup of your config somewhere, and even keep your usb drive you used to install el capitan as a clover boot usb. I didn't and had to re do the unibeast for usb.
To replace the config.plist , you have to boot to your unibeast usb. Make sure when you boot, the usb is highest priority in the boot order! Otherwise it will boot using your hard drive you have the now corrupt clover config with and even if you try to boot the usb with that, it will fail. On my motherboard, I had to force boot from the usb stick (its in the save&exit tab). Once you are booted, you can open/mount the EFI and swap the config.plist with the fresh one from your unibeast usb stick. This is what I did and it worked. Honestly the only other option I saw besides this was completely restarting.
After I could boot again without the USB, I fixed audio by going back into multibeast and reinstalling the correct audio driver (ALC892). I made sure the audio over HDMI kext was installed correctly again and upon reboot, I had audio again. Well, back to square one for iMessage.
This next time, I tried the second link, and that worked for me. It seemed it took a while to take effect though. At one time, I got locked out of my apple account completely, couldn't login to download apps from the store, etc, anything, but once I followed the second guide step by step, rebooted, I sent a test message and received the prompts to enter a code to send messages, etc, and then after a few more tries it started working. Yeah!
So now, here I am, typing on my hackintosh, everything is working. God damn, I'm tired. If there is any questions, feel free to post them below.
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