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Stork's Gene Build > ASUS MAXIMUS VIII GENE Z170 - i5-6600K - MSI Vega 56

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Do you have a link where you purchased the airport/Bluetooth card? Or is there a resource that lists which network cards are compatible with the Asus Maximum Gene VIII and Mac OSX?

I had to go through www.taobaoring.com to get a working card from China. Prior to that I ordered a (likely knockoff(?)) card from eBay and a cheap PCI-E adapter, and could only get Wifi out of it, but bluetooth card did not show up at all.

I tried all I could, and found posts in regard to it would work in a 1x slot, which the Maximus Gene VIII does not have. And the workaround was the card I bought which has a full USB connection to feed power/data for the bluetooth card that the PCI-E 4X slot apparently wasn't providing. Or, I just got a bum card.

What I can say is this card works great and is readily available - https://world.taobao.com/item/38195333521.htm?fromSite=main

Both 802.11AC Wifi and Bluetooth is working great. Full handoff, airdrop, continuity.
 
Everytime i try to shutdown my computer, i need to eject my usb-drives.. does anyone have a solution for this?
 
Great guide! Thanks @Stork!

I'm on Sierra 10.12.1 with 367.15.10.15f03 Nvidia drivers.

My CPU is a i5 6500. With Geekbench 4 I get around 4000/11000 and with Cinebench R15 above 500. It's more than I expected.

My GTX 960 gives me a disappointing rate of about 90 fps in Cinebench, while in windows it's about 130 fps. Not sure if this is caused by an old OpenGL version in macOS or the Nvidia drivers. But it's ok. I won't game with this machine on macOS. I haven't tested OpenCL yet.

I'm using an NVMe SSD and BlackMagic gives me about 750MB write and about 1200MB read.

I haven't tested Continuity since I don't have an iPhone.

What works for me
  • Sleep
  • Messages
  • App Store. It didn't work at first and gave me the "can't verify this machine" error. I had to remove the network interfaces and reboot so that ethernet became en0 instead of en1.
  • Network
  • Bluetooth (with a BCM94360CD OSXWifi card). I can access Bios and all with a Logitech BT keyboard.
  • USB3. I haven't done any benchmarks but everything I've connected works.
What doesn't work
  • Audio. I've tried reinstalling kexts with Multibeast. I use an external audio card anyway so it's not a big deal.
  • Wifi (with a BCM94360CD OSXWifi card). I expected this to work out of the box like in previous installations. Again not a big deal since I use ethernet. I'll contact OSXWifi about this.

:D
 
BCM94360CD cards are supposed to work out of the box.
 
Since Bluetooth is working, I assume you have the USB power cable plugged in. I had an issue with the opposite, Wifi - but no bluetooth. Try another slot, otherwise you might have received a bum card.
 
The cable included with those cards is not for power. It's for data. D+ and D-.
 
My bad, you are correct. But USB nonetheless. My card actually does have the full 4 wired USB, so that point slipped my mind.
 
Since Bluetooth is working, I assume you have the USB power cable plugged in. I had an issue with the opposite, Wifi - but no bluetooth. Try another slot, otherwise you might have received a bum card.

It worked great in El Capitan so I doubt it's a hardware problem.

I'm going to try to connect it in a different USB port.
 
I have tested Rehabman's NVMe patch based upon the Pike code. It works and eliminates the shutdown/start-up error problem we've seen with the NMVeGeneric.kext. If you use RehabMan's patch, backup your NMVeGeneric.kext.

https://github.com/RehabMan/patch-nvme

Here's my procedure for using the patch script:

:ch:Download the patch .zip file and keep it in your ~/Download folder. Unzip it and note the folder name because mine was named "patch-nvme-master"

:ch:Use this Terminal command to determine your installation drive's EFI partition:
Code:
diskutil list

:ch:Use the EFI Mounter v3 to mount your installation's drive EFI partition

:ch:Go to the /EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts/10.11/ folder and drag the NMVeGeneric.kext to a backup location. This will just copy the file, so, after you copied it, trash the NMVeGeneric.kext in the .../10.11/ folder.

:ch:Run the following Terminal commands (again, make sure of the patch folder's name in /Downloads):
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cd ~/Downloads/patch-nvme-master
./patch_nvme.sh 10_11_6

:ch:Drag the HackrNVMeFamily-10_11_6.kext from the ~/Downloads/patch-nvme-master/ folder to the /EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts/10.11/ folder.

:ch:Reboot

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Hi Again Stork,

I just got an Intel 600p 512 Gb... installed but I can't get the OS to recognize it (My Win10 boot can see it, so I know its installed correctly)... Tried your steps above but no joy :(

Any suggestions? Is there a config.plist update that I missed?
 
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Hi Again Stork,

I just got an Intel 600p 512 Gb... installed but I can't get the OS to recognize it (My Win10 boot can see it, so I know its installed correctly)... Tried your steps above but no joy :(

Any suggestions? Is there a config.plist update that I missed?
I have no experience with the Intel 600p series SSDs. I recommend you review the OS X Driver for NVMe M.2 Solid State Drives Released Thread.
 
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