wildwillow's Dual Boot Skylake Build : Asus Z170 Deluxe - i5-6600K - GTX970 SSC - 32GB RAM

wildwillow said:

These would be the native kexts from /System/Library/Extensions - duplicated and the patched kext remain in the correct directory. /L/E is Library/Extensions not S..../L/E.


You don't have to install these kexts from your desktop anywhere only place them in a safe place. When patching kexts directly it is best practice to back up the original, this is what toleda's script does. Yes you need to run the script for 5Ghz wifi after each point update.

Quick method:
1. Run the update/combo update if you've multiple systems - auto restarts.
2. Boot with nv_disable=1 as the nvidia drivers are outdated.
3. At the desktop open System Preferences > Nvidia driver manager and update the drivers. Restart required.
4. Whilst updating or installing the web drivers. Run the wireless_bcm94352-110-v4.0.command.zip and if you're using iMac17,1 as I am disable the board-id in AGDP.kext. (config2 to none) or run the AGDPfix app here Black Screen with MacPro 6,1 or iMac 15 or iMac 17 System Definition
5. Restart thats it....

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All done! I got it working for WIFI + Bluetooth. Strangely enough though, I occasionally get wake immediately upon sleep. Sometimes it sleeps wakes fine, sometimes does not. Ive got nothing else plugged into the rear ports to wake up USB.
Curious behaviour.

Wifi can interfere with Bluetooth when it's using 2.4GHz because Bluetooth uses the same frequency.

USB 3 can also interfere with Bluetooth because it generates noise at frequencies that overlap Bluetooth's.

Is there any way to use the the green port for audio instead of the black one? It's kind aannoying to switch it back and forth when dual booting with windows..

@wildwillow

Did you have a chance testing this motherboard Asus Z170 Deluxe using Samsung Pro 950 Nvme M2?

Im still having problems with the default bluetooth/wifi waking up occasionally immediately after sleep. Anyone else have tis issue?

Yes. When I put it to sleep it wakes up and sleeps like 3 times before going to sleep.

I have network problem. I am doing a backup to amazon drive with arq, uploading at 10-15MB/s, and after some time the ethernet connexion crashes (MAC OS says "not connected", with the red dot in ethernet) and I am forced to reboot. I upgraded the BIOS to the last version (1902), but it does not help. Can anything be done to make the NIC more stable?.

Hi wildwillow. After much problems (including buying new RAM) it turns out Ive narrowed down my issues to a 'deep sleep' problem. When the computer deep sleeps, I either reawaken it to a KP report or to the boot login screen, which then proceed to reload everything including a KP report.

I thought it may be because of the RAM and followed another thread to http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/memory-corrupted-after-longer-sleep.148289/

Changing RAM didn't work.

I followed this thread here http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/b...apitan-install-problems.173991/#CategorySleep
in putting it to light sleep using sudo pmset -a standby 0 && sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0 in terminal
and it has solved my problems, but it kind of annoys me that I have a 6700k and identical motherboard and you don't seem to have a problem?

I am using the SSDT power management as its the same CPU and motherboard from http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/b...7-6700k-16gb-intel-hd530.183302/#post-1182673

Maybe Ive missed a setting somewhere in BIOS but I'm pretty sure I haven't. Anything that'll trigger it?

Thank you.

fjf said:

I have network problem. I am doing a backup to amazon drive with arq, uploading at 10-15MB/s, and after some time the ethernet connexion crashes (MAC OS says "not connected", with the red dot in ethernet) and I am forced to reboot. I upgraded the BIOS to the last version (1902), but it does not help. Can anything be done to make the NIC more stable?.

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Going to the original Insanelymac thread where the intelmausiethernet kext was presented, (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304235-intelmausiethernetkext-for-intel-onboard-lan/), in "known issues", the OP states that for 100 series boards and skylake CPUs the SSDT has to be patched as described in: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...xt-for-intel-onboard-lan/page-26#entry2244297

Now, I dont know if this applies to our motherborard (I think it does) or if wildwillow already did it. Mieze (the OP in insanelymac) says there:"Skylake users which are experiencing random connection dropouts should patch their SSDT as this is due to a power management issue which causes DMA operations to fail because the maximum acceptable latency has been exceeded while the CPU was in a deep idle state. The following code has been tested with a Core i5 6600 CPU. Core i7 CPUs might need slightly modified values to work perfectly but you should give it a try. In case you still experience the problem with this patch on your i7, please let me know."

This may be a problem, because I have a 6700 CPU. Now, wildwillow, what do you think?. Should we do this?. Could you please guide us as to how we do it (in a "for dummies" guide ).

EDIT: after reading the end of that thread, it seems there is a problem with skylake and large file transfers that make the ethernet connection crash. Not solved yet, they are trying to fix the driver. Any other intel driver that would work?.

kaemale said:

@wildwillow

Did you have a chance testing this motherboard Asus Z170 Deluxe using Samsung Pro 950 Nvme M2?

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I installed OS X on the Samsung SM951 NVMe drive early on, it worked with the 3rd party driver but had issues so I used it for Windows. There is a solution for the NVMe drives in the forums that should work well by RehabMan/Pike.