Troubleshooting an Unusable Ventura Hackintosh After Upgrading Drives and Reorganizing Hardware

It seems that your Ventura Hackintosh is now unusable, and you are experiencing issues with booting and screen timeouts. Here are some steps you can try to resolve the issue:
  1. Check for hardware issues: Ensure that all your hardware components, including the motherboard, CPU, and GPU, are functioning properly. If possible, test them individually to identify any faulty components that may be causing the issue.
  2. Update your system: Make sure your macOS and all your applications are up-to-date. Visit the app developer's website for guidance or workarounds if they are aware of the issue
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  3. Clear system resources: Clean out junk files, review login items and launch agents, and reindex Spotlight to improve system performance
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  4. Investigate the issue further: Look for any error messages or logs that might help you identify the cause of the issue. You can check the system logs in the Console app or look for any information in the EFI logs
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  5. Seek assistance from the community: If you are still unable to resolve the issue, consider seeking help from the iATKOS Project community or other forums where users share their experiences and solutions for similar issues
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In summary, you can try updating your system, clearing system resources, and checking for hardware issues to resolve the problem. If you continue to experience difficulties, seeking assistance from the community or Apple Support may be beneficial.


My Ventura Hackintosh is now unusable and I can't figure out how this happened.
I had a fully working z690 Gigabyte Aero D with Radeon 6950XT and Ventura... I've been using it for almost a year. I decided to upgrade some drives and move things around, and now MacOS is unusable. Out of nowhere it now only boots properly maybe 10% of the time. If I want to keep holding power and restarting it over and over I can eventually get it to boot properly, but most of the time the screen will go black for about 3 minutes, with some drive light activity and the GPU fans lightly...

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