Success: X58A-UD7 + High Sierra

[theprovost]

It appears I have a Recovery partition, but I don't see a System Reserve partition.

 

[Going Bald]

It appears I have a Recovery partition, but I don't see a System Reserve partition.

If you open the disk management tool in windows what does it show for partitions on the drive?

 

[theprovost]

It shows two partitions:

1. System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition
2. Recovery Partition

Maybe I deleted it somehow to save space?

 

[Going Bald]

It shows two partitions:

1. System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition
2. Recovery Partition

Maybe I deleted it somehow to save space?

It could be that you preformatted the drive NTFS and it did not create a System Reserved partition, in which case your boot files are in your system partition.

 

[theprovost]

It could be that you preformatted the drive NTFS and it did not create a System Reserved partition, in which case your boot files are in your system partition.

Ok then it will still work? That's all I needed to know. Thank you!

 

[malfunct]

I can now boot into VESA display with APFS; I'm using FC BIOS on rev 2.0 of the same board, and I am using the DSDT from the database. This worked better than my own patched DSDT for High Sierra. I upgraded web driver for NVIDIA but it does crash unfortunately. I wonder if this is a problem with FC bios most of my problems started after installing FC. Anyone with a rev 2.0 board installing High Sierra or Sierra?

PS: on mobile right now

 

[malfunct]

I managed to boot NVIDIA web driver twice. I think EmuVariable EFI driver helps. And you definitely need iMac14,2. MacPro5,1 and 6,1 are no go on my motherboard. (Rev 2.0, FC BIOS) but the system reboots all of a sudden probably crashes. Any idea why that might happen?

 

[Going Bald]

I can now boot into VESA display with APFS; I'm using FC BIOS on rev 2.0 of the same board, and I am using the DSDT from the database. This worked better than my own patched DSDT for High Sierra. I upgraded web driver for NVIDIA but it does crash unfortunately. I wonder if this is a problem with FC bios most of my problems started after installing FC. Anyone with a rev 2.0 board installing High Sierra or Sierra?

PS: on mobile right now

I have found that the Beta BIOS releases are not stable for the X58 boards. Load the last stable release.

Are you running with an edited DSDT?

 

[malfunct]

I have found that the Beta BIOS releases are not stable for the X58 boards. Load the last stable release.

Are you running with an edited DSDT?

I can try FA or FB. I didn't realize it was a beta release.

I am using a DSDT I applied a patch file to DSDT extracted with Clover. So far, this is the one that's working the best, it works better than the one in the DSDT database. I shared my DSDT on a separate post:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-reboot-loop-with-nvidia-drivers.239387/

 

[Going Bald]

I can try FA or FB. I didn't realize it was a beta release.

I am using a DSDT I applied a patch file to DSDT extracted with Clover. So far, this is the one that's working the best, it works better than the one in the DSDT database. I shared my DSDT on a separate post:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-reboot-loop-with-nvidia-drivers.239387/

Just checked GA support. Seems your board BIOS uses letters only. From what I can tell there are no Beta versions. You should be OK with FC.
Did you do all of the patches in d00d's excellent guide?
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...a-dsdt-native-power-management-modifications/