Hey, Shadowsports! Looking around the place, I wasn't surprised to see that it was you who'd replied! Thanks! OK:
> What OS did you install first? Windows? Did windows boot ok prior to you adding the boot manger and OSX?
Yes, Windows 10 got installed onto the M.2 SATA SSD in the UEFI stylee. Sound was "squeaky" from the first moment Windows launched.
The other OS was installed onto a Sandisk SSD afterwards. Everything I had read about building Hackintoshes said that having the two OSs on partitions of the same drive was much harder to do, and seperate drives was much easier.
> Its not usually a good idea to put different OS's on different drives (same machine) and rely on the BIOS to manually select the OS you want to run.
Interesting. Might that be why, in the BIOS boot options, I get MANY instances of the same disk/partition, just like this video
http://bit.ly/2dojN7Z?
Currently, it's set to auto-boot from the EFI partition on the Sandisk SSD which contains Clover. Clover gives me the Windows/OSX boot options (as well as lots of other phantom Windows installs that don't work, but that's OK).
> Have you considered a VM?No. I need the Mac for some pretty intensive video software, and I want native Windows for gaming goodness!
> Regarding item 1 (the reboot hanging, b2 error code) Search your manual for CSM...The only place I've seen CSM is when I choose Windows 8/10 as the OS. I'm using the "Other OS" option, so that shouldn't be enabled anyway...
> Item 2. I have a CA amp myself...Well, the electrics in my house are a bit poor, and we are moving in a couple of weeks, so I'll see if I still get it in our new house.
> Item 3. When your RAM isn't on the QVL, it can be a crap shoot getting it to run properly.Hopefully, this is something that I can get some help with! I've got CPU-Z running, and it's got some crappy looking numbers in it.
I'll post some of the text report, but it basically says that the DRAM freq is 1200Mhz, which is clearly far slower than it should be. At this point, XMP is disabled.
Chipset
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Northbridge Intel Skylake rev. 07
Southbridge Intel Z170 rev. 31
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x16
PCI-E Max Link Width x16
Memory Type DDR4
Memory Size 32 GBytes
Channels Dual
Memory Frequency 1200.1 MHz (1:18)
CAS# latency (CL) 16.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 16
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 16
Cycle Time (tRAS) 39
Row Refresh Cycle Time (tRFC) 313
Command Rate (CR) 2T
Uncore Frequency 800.0 MHz
Host Bridge 0x191F
MCHBAR I/O Base address 0x0FED10000
MCHBAR I/O Size 19456
MCHBAR registers
Memory SPD
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DIMM # 1
SMBus address 0x50
Memory type DDR4
Module format UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) Crucial Technology (7F7F7F7F7F9B00000000)
Size 8192 MBytes
Max bandwidth DDR4-2400 (1200 MHz)
Part number BLE8G4D26AFEA.16FA
Serial number A70E7472
Nominal Voltage 1.20 Volts
EPP no
XMP yes
XMP revision 2.0
AMP no
JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency
JEDEC #1 9.0-9-9-22-31 @ 675 MHz
JEDEC #2 10.0-10-10-25-35 @ 750 MHz
JEDEC #3 11.0-11-11-27-38 @ 825 MHz
JEDEC #4 12.0-12-12-29-41 @ 900 MHz
JEDEC #5 13.0-13-13-32-45 @ 975 MHz
JEDEC #6 14.0-14-14-34-48 @ 1050 MHz
JEDEC #7 15.0-16-16-37-52 @ 1126 MHz
JEDEC #8 16.0-16-16-39-55 @ 1200 MHz
JEDEC #9 18.0-16-16-39-55 @ 1200 MHz
JEDEC #10 20.0-16-16-39-55 @ 1200 MHz
XMP profile XMP-2666
Specification DDR4-2666
Voltage level 1.200 Volts
Min Cycle time 0.750 ns (1333 MHz)
Max CL 16.0
Min tRP 12.75 ns
Min tRCD 12.75 ns
Min tRAS 27.00 ns
Min tRC 45.38 ns
Min tRRD 3.67 ns
XMP timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC-CR @ frequency (voltage)
XMP #1 7.0-8-8-16-27-n.a @ 583 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #2 8.0-9-9-18-31-n.a @ 666 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #3 9.0-10-10-21-35-n.a @ 750 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #4 10.0-11-11-23-38-n.a @ 833 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #5 11.0-12-12-25-42-n.a @ 916 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #6 12.0-13-13-27-46-n.a @ 1000 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #7 13.0-14-14-30-50-n.a @ 1083 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #8 14.0-15-15-32-53-n.a @ 1166 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #9 15.0-16-16-34-57-n.a @ 1250 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #10 16.0-17-17-36-61-n.a @ 1333 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #11 17.0-17-17-36-61-n.a @ 1333 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #12 18.0-17-17-36-61-n.a @ 1333 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #13 19.0-17-17-36-61-n.a @ 1333 MHz (1.200 Volts)
XMP #14 20.0-17-17-36-61-n.a @ 1333 MHz (1.200 Volts)
My brain is already melting reading the tonymacx86 forums trying to learn how to tweak Hackintoshes without needing to get into the nuts and bolts of manually overclocking RAM. Even if I can't get XMP speeds out of my RAM, I'd at least expect to get stock speeds, but it doesn't look like I'm getting that.
And it doesn't help when they seemingly interchange MT/s numbers and MHz numbers. I might just be getting old...
Thanks for your time, shadowsports!