Hackintosh

[Arthur]

He ordered the mboard from a company that specializes in hackintosh stuff that was supposed to "just work".

It wasn't a Z77MX-QUO-AOS from QUO by any chance?

 

I would have chosen a Gigabyte motherboard myself since they are generally less hassle.

[Gerk]

Yep that sounds about right, I wasn't paying that close of attention to be honest ... but I think that may also be the second board he bought. He also still ended up having to swap out to a different CPU as well, but finally got a stable combination as far as I know. It all just reminds me of the old days doing linux when there was really limited hardware support, etc. I prefer using computers to building them these days