So, finally figured out how to activate all the USB2.0 as well as 3.0
ports on 7 series motherboard
z77x-up4 th. Other than HDMI audio, the
activation of all usb ports was the only glitch on the up4
motherboard I
had yet to resolve.
Only took me 10 months to solve this lol.
Step by Step directions to activate all USB2/3 Ports:
The GA-Z77x-UD3H mobo uses the same VIA USB chip as the z77x-UP4 and UP5 th.
You can find the kext patch for the ud3h mobo on www.osx86.net.
"GenericUSBXHCI USB 3.0" this link will take you to the kext file, however to download it you
do need to register a user profile with the website, just like every other hackintosh forum.
Props to alexlov for uploading the file.
Just download.....unzip..... install kext file (Kextwizard is my pref) and then restart your system.
All Done.
"Guide by Campbells"
So to summarize:
Yes this fix activates the USB2.0 along with USB3.0 ports. and
Yes with this patch all USB3.0's will be backwards compatible to USB2.0
I have the up4 but this should work for the up5 as well.
If you apply this method to a z77x-up5 modo please leave a comment to confirm up5 success.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Why Did I Started This Hackintosh Blog?
Cuz Tonymac is a god and i just wanna be like him..... ya right. JK
I started this blog to help new hackintoshers who are hacking 7 Series Gigabyte motherboards. Specifically the GA- Z77X-UP4 TH and the GA- Z77X-up5 TH. These board by Gigabyte the 2 of my abosolute favorite. No crazy Gaming configurations, fully able to customize and offering hackintoshers hardware compatibility like nothing that has ever been seen before.
So if these boards offer better hackintosh compatibility why is hardly anyone buying them. For Hackintoshers even a slight increase in a new piece of hardwares compatability with the OSx system will be anough to get ever hacintosher who had the npow out dated model to get the "Last Compatabilty"!!!
Real life example of this happened when TP-link came out with the first ever internal WIFI Card that offered Native recognition in Osx.Now over 50% (Safe estimate) of hackintosh systems use this wifi devince. Why not a Motherboard with greater compatabiltiy?
Anyways the "why" doesn't really matter; the reality is not tht many people have used the UP4 or UP5 motherboard for their hackintosh build, and there no indication that this lack of popularity is going to change any time soon.
This is why I am building this UP4 / UP5 hacking knowledge base. Lets take the UP4 for example so i can save me some typing. There weren't that many sold so its unlike that a random hackintosh website user would have this board. Even more unlikely that this same person properly solved the 2 or 3 standard new-build bugs. But it is the most unlikely that this person would be brousing through repair guides/requests for a problem that he fixed long ago.
So the prupose of this blog is just to fill the void that is answers about UP4 and UP5 fixes, plugins, important kexts, etc you get the point.
I started this blog to help new hackintoshers who are hacking 7 Series Gigabyte motherboards. Specifically the GA- Z77X-UP4 TH and the GA- Z77X-up5 TH. These board by Gigabyte the 2 of my abosolute favorite. No crazy Gaming configurations, fully able to customize and offering hackintoshers hardware compatibility like nothing that has ever been seen before.
So if these boards offer better hackintosh compatibility why is hardly anyone buying them. For Hackintoshers even a slight increase in a new piece of hardwares compatability with the OSx system will be anough to get ever hacintosher who had the npow out dated model to get the "Last Compatabilty"!!!
Real life example of this happened when TP-link came out with the first ever internal WIFI Card that offered Native recognition in Osx.Now over 50% (Safe estimate) of hackintosh systems use this wifi devince. Why not a Motherboard with greater compatabiltiy?
Anyways the "why" doesn't really matter; the reality is not tht many people have used the UP4 or UP5 motherboard for their hackintosh build, and there no indication that this lack of popularity is going to change any time soon.
This is why I am building this UP4 / UP5 hacking knowledge base. Lets take the UP4 for example so i can save me some typing. There weren't that many sold so its unlike that a random hackintosh website user would have this board. Even more unlikely that this same person properly solved the 2 or 3 standard new-build bugs. But it is the most unlikely that this person would be brousing through repair guides/requests for a problem that he fixed long ago.
So the prupose of this blog is just to fill the void that is answers about UP4 and UP5 fixes, plugins, important kexts, etc you get the point.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Hardware List for My Current Hackintosh "Ivy"
This list is basically the final product of my hackintosh build IVY. Extremely satisfied with every component of this system.
GA Z77X UP4 TH - I went with this Mobo over the up5 because I was concerned about having issues with hardware compatibility especially around the up5's built in WiFi card. I am still very glad I did not chose the up5. Yes the up4 has a couple of issues that the up5 does not, but I was able to solve everything except the USB problem over first few days of having the system up and running. None of the bugs were detrimental to the system.
Core i7-3770K - Initially I went with the i5-3570K but then upgrade to the i7 around 6 months later. Computer sales reps are able to register with Intel's online product info portal, through which sales reps have access all Intel's product info as well as insanely discount Intel hardware. Insane like the i7-3770K cost me $95, current consumer price being $360. Just couldn't say no. So I sold the 3570K for $180 on ebay. BTW, Talk about Intel's technology holding value, I had bought this CPU for $199 which was the full price.
Ge-force GT 640 - I don't game at all and just wanted 3 screen capability. I'm not one for performance overkill.
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Vengeance 8+8 - went with the 8+8 so that in the future if I so wanted I would be able to upgrade to the Mobo mac of 32Gb with another two 8Gb DDR3's. But i don't currently nor do i think I'll ever need more than 8-10GBs of ram so I am more than content with the 16GB.
Intel 330 SSD 120GB - Start-up disk, which required a few hacks to get operational but these things are so fast that i was able to use trial and error for finding the best settings and hacks. With a boot time of around 15 seconds it took me no time to test the 8 to 10 booting option I wanted to test first hand. It took me about 10 minutes to try 10 different boot disk hacks and find what works best for my system.
A second (Clone) Intel 330 120GB SSD - This is to run as a clone of the start disk so that i have a fail-safe for when I'm testing new hacks or installing OS x updates. Sometime a hack will disrupt the bootloader or corrupt something else to make the hard disk unbootable, like if you reboot and for whatever reason get the Boot0 error screen. This error cannot be fixed through reverting in time machine, so having an exact copy Intel 330 120GBof the start-up disk when it was functional is the only way to be sure that the start-up disk is back-up in entirety.
Barracuda Hard Drive 1TB 7200 - This disk is what must be use for the initial set up the OS x installation. Once this installation was stable I did a transfer to an Intel 330 SSD hard drive and dedicated this disk to be used for time machine's backups.
I have my system fully updated to the latest OSx version OSx v10.8.3.
I hope my comments posted alongside my hardware can help other users to question progress for progresses sake upgrading. At the end of your build how content are you with the outcome. Never stop hacking and re-hacking until you get every little component functioning precisely how you want!!!!
GA Z77X UP4 TH - I went with this Mobo over the up5 because I was concerned about having issues with hardware compatibility especially around the up5's built in WiFi card. I am still very glad I did not chose the up5. Yes the up4 has a couple of issues that the up5 does not, but I was able to solve everything except the USB problem over first few days of having the system up and running. None of the bugs were detrimental to the system.
Core i7-3770K - Initially I went with the i5-3570K but then upgrade to the i7 around 6 months later. Computer sales reps are able to register with Intel's online product info portal, through which sales reps have access all Intel's product info as well as insanely discount Intel hardware. Insane like the i7-3770K cost me $95, current consumer price being $360. Just couldn't say no. So I sold the 3570K for $180 on ebay. BTW, Talk about Intel's technology holding value, I had bought this CPU for $199 which was the full price.
Ge-force GT 640 - I don't game at all and just wanted 3 screen capability. I'm not one for performance overkill.
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Vengeance 8+8 - went with the 8+8 so that in the future if I so wanted I would be able to upgrade to the Mobo mac of 32Gb with another two 8Gb DDR3's. But i don't currently nor do i think I'll ever need more than 8-10GBs of ram so I am more than content with the 16GB.
Intel 330 SSD 120GB - Start-up disk, which required a few hacks to get operational but these things are so fast that i was able to use trial and error for finding the best settings and hacks. With a boot time of around 15 seconds it took me no time to test the 8 to 10 booting option I wanted to test first hand. It took me about 10 minutes to try 10 different boot disk hacks and find what works best for my system.
A second (Clone) Intel 330 120GB SSD - This is to run as a clone of the start disk so that i have a fail-safe for when I'm testing new hacks or installing OS x updates. Sometime a hack will disrupt the bootloader or corrupt something else to make the hard disk unbootable, like if you reboot and for whatever reason get the Boot0 error screen. This error cannot be fixed through reverting in time machine, so having an exact copy Intel 330 120GBof the start-up disk when it was functional is the only way to be sure that the start-up disk is back-up in entirety.
Barracuda Hard Drive 1TB 7200 - This disk is what must be use for the initial set up the OS x installation. Once this installation was stable I did a transfer to an Intel 330 SSD hard drive and dedicated this disk to be used for time machine's backups.
I have my system fully updated to the latest OSx version OSx v10.8.3.
I hope my comments posted alongside my hardware can help other users to question progress for progresses sake upgrading. At the end of your build how content are you with the outcome. Never stop hacking and re-hacking until you get every little component functioning precisely how you want!!!!
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