Random reboots on High Sierra

I've been trying to sort this out since Sunday.

I had a fully functional build running High Sierra 10.13.4(17E199) On a hackintosh with the following config:

  • Skylake i5-6600k
  • MSI z170-A tomahawk AC
  • Nvidia GTX 1060 6gb.

And on Sunday I installed Mojave on a new SSD without reading that Apple is doing it's thing and now allowing NVidia drivers at this time.

So I went to do a time machine copy of the 10.13 that I was running great, copied to the SSD using Time machine.

Now whenever I boot into mac OS, after a few minutes it full on reboots, as if someone went and pressed the hardware reboot button on the motherboard. That happens on both copies, the old one in an HDD which were good and the new one in the SSD.

After a lot of frustrating hours I narrowed down to the nvidia web drivers because... Whenever I run nv_disable=1 it lasts for a long time without rebooting. So long I am quite confident it doesn't reboot randomly like when using the nvidia drivers.

Although I am still uncertain about it.

So far I have tried:

  • new installations from scratch
  • flushing kext cache
  • Updating Lilu.kext
  • Adding WhateverGreen.kext
  • Changing SMBIOS from iMac 17,1 to 14,1
  • Reinstalling the Nvidia webdrivers with and without using the scripts people created on github
  • Updating to 10.13.6 and updating drivers to match

All with no luck. So... That's where I decided to seek help here. Anyone have any idea on what might be messed up?

PS: I do not use multibeast/unibeast.

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