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Your graphics card is no longer supported by the later versions of the Mac OS. If you want to use a later OS you must get a supported video card.

Leave no stone unturned is a good idea. I had a similar problem with my first Hackintosh when snow leopard came out but perseverance finally came through and the problem was resolved. I know you addressed your video card issue by making it vesa but that isn’t a great solution and the 200 series nividia cards aren’t really compatible. Get a compliant card that will work with the later OS versions.

Yes, Metal compatible cards are required. With a non UEFI system it narrows the choices that you have. Nvidia Kepler based cards are supported as they are metal capable. The cheapest one is the nvidia GT 710. It is not made for doing much of anything but watching videos or browsing. No real horsepower. I already have a GTX770 in my Z77 Box. I have 8800gt’s in the older boxes and they will be getting a GTX 650 in one and the other one will get a GTX 770. The cheap cards on EBay (GT 710) go for around $40 used and you can find the new ones online for around $50. Be careful because some of the cards are not Kepler chips. You can verify the chip on the card cards @ gpuzoo.com. I purchased my last 2 Kepler cards on Mercari as the pricing is better but you need to check the cards right away because of a limited window of refund/ return time window. Hope this helps.

Check your config.plist in clover and sere if you have it disabled.

There has to be something wrong with your configuration or set up. I have never heard of a clover boot time like that! Something is not right with the setup. You should drop a little coin and get a SSD. That drive you got is really slow to begin with and if the files are spread out then it is going to take longer to boot ... but not as long as you say, so something is wrong with the installation as it is limping along. I can assure you that there is nothing wrong with the way MaLd0n has the instructions and setup for installation. I have 2 systems older than yours with a P35 and G31m chips that work perfectly with the installation information and tools here! Boot time on both is less than 20 seconds. You might want to consider making a donation and get into the donator’s area where you can get really good support and get your DSDT checked out , fixed if necessary. I got everything working on my dinosaurs and everything works great on them. Even iMessage! Enoch Chameleon won’t work with the Olrila installation. High Sierra support will be ending in about 6 months so I ‘d figure out what you’re gonna do. I know that my dinosaurs will be moving on to either Mojave or Catalina. They are older than what you are running and will work fine with minor changes. Get a SSD and use your mechanical drive for storage.

So I just download the above kexts and copy/past them them into the EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts/other folder? And I do not have to worry about: "Important Note: Lilu plug-in's are generally fully self contained solutions and will (in most cases) replace all legacy Clover patches and Injection/Enabler kext's for a plug-in's given purpose, as such you should remove any existing Clover settings, FakeID's, patches ..etc and any alternate kext's that have been already installed for a plug-in's purpose ... for example when installing AppleALC you should remove (or disable) all Clover AppleHDA patches and uninstall any HDA Enabler, patching or dummy kext's. Failure to remove associated patches and kext's can result in unpredictable and often unstable results." I got no backup. just asking

@bloodstream Did the solution that was provided work? Thanks

Every time I try to get the raw files that I need it says: "Sorry, you can't view or download this file at this time. Too many users have viewed or downloaded this file recently. Please try accessing the file again later. If the file you are trying to access is particularly large or is shared with many people, it may take up to 24 hours to be able to view or download the file. If you still can't access a file after 24 hours, contact your domain administrator." The torrent magnet links don't work and say "unavailable" Can't use this great stuff if I can't download it. AND I refuse to use the TonyMuck stuff!

I will follow your lead on that one. What OSX version? I'll be back when I get it> Thanks!

Yeah, I read were it really is a gamble to have this card to work on H.S. Well if it takes a different card to be able to install high sierra on this p35ds3r then I'll get it. This is the highest os that this old board can use. Anyway, I got the last lines of code that is displayed before it reboots, they are: DSMOS has arrived unsupported cpu unsupported cpu unsupported pch IOConsoleUsers: time(0) 0-70 lim0 lik1, IOScreenlockState 3, hs0 bs Then it reboots.possibly not liking my xeon lga771 processor? I don't understand that one, I have a working Mavericks install on this same box. Perhaps I shouldn't be so set on high sierra Current system def macpro3.1, but that doesn't matter.

GTX 280, Supposedly this is still supported on High Seirra as it is a Tesla card. I will try the inject NVIDIA flag in the clover boot as some reading has pointed me that direction on this card. Card is considered a legacy card in its last throws of support from Apple in High Sierra.

OK, Thank you. I will do that once I able to get it installed, I can't I even get to the installer screen. Clover comes up, select the installer to boot, code rolls on the screen, gets just past the NVDANHAL50 loaded and the last thing I see before it reboots is unsupported cpu and unsupported pch. then 2 or 3 lines flash by and the system reboots immediately . What do I need to do to get to the os installer?

I cannot get to the installer screen. clover comes up, select the installer to boot, code rolls on the screen, gets just past the NVDANHAL50 loaded and the last thing I see before it reboots is unsupported cpu and unsupported pch. then 2 or 3 lines flash by and the system reboots. What do I need to do to get to the os installer?

ACPI dump?

Thanks! now to get it all to work and install.... Thanks again!

Please disregard my previous post. I was able to get my DSDT.aml from windows for the P35-DS3R. I am looking to run High Sierra on it. I have attached my dsdt for edits. Thank you! DSDT.aml.zip

Hello All. I have looked and looked and done the searches and I cannot find a step by step guide on how to create the DSDT using the runme.app. I don't want to just click through it and I have seen the video with the Mojave instructions but I am a little concerned to do it without absolute step by step instructions for my system. The last time I did a simple thing like this it bricked my install and I had to start all over again. I had worked for several days to get the system up and running and that is where I am at now. My current install is OSX Mavericks on a P35-DS3R (LGA775) with a xeon x3360 Processor in it (LGA 771 hack to LGA 775) Can anyone help point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.