[Solved] Please help! GPU not working after upgrade to 13.1

[Pepperish]

had a rather tough upgrade from 12.4 to 13.1 at here
many thanks to the help from forum.

now i am facing the graphical problem in the system, the GPU is not working.

hardware:

• i7 6700k
• Gigabyte Z170X-Designare
• Gigabyte NVIDIA 1080
• Samsung 960 evo nvme m2 ssd --> the only storage

what the problem is:

i have tried to install the web driver but it boots into a black screen after the loading bar is about to finish. in -v mode it enters black screen after all the load process log ends.
i can only get into the system with option NvidiaWeb = true unchecked at the Clover boot manager

what i have tried:

• set internal graphics to disabled in the motherboard BIOS
• installed the latest web driver 378....20.109 for my system 10.13.1 (17B1003)
• changed config.plist to set NvidiaWeb = true
• reinstalled the lastest clover with "Install RC scripts on target volume" and "EmuVariableUefi-64"
• in clover configurator made sure that "EmuVariableUefi-64" is installed
• installed latest Lilu.kext and NvidiaGraphicsFixup.kext to /Library/Extensions also to EFI/.../kexts/Other

these are pretty much all that was mentioned about this issue. but i still dont have luck
i don't know why it is so hard for me while everybody else got to the point with ease.....
please @cmn699 @vulgo you guys were very helpful with my upgrade, please also have a look on this one. thanks in advance.

 

[vulgo]

You might try this, remove NvidiaGraphicsFixup as you are on iMac14,2 and have HDMI audio SSDT in /efi/clover/acpi/patched, run kextcache

sudo kextcache -i /

Reboot into recovery and from terminal run this command

rm -f /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/*/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver*

Then try booting with Nvidia drivers enabled

You could try that command from a normal boot (with sudo) first and if it doesn't help try also from recovery.

 

[Pepperish]

You might try this, remove NvidiaGraphicsFixup as you are on iMac14,2 and have HDMI audio SSDT in /efi/clover/acpi/patched, run kextcache

sudo kextcache -i /

Reboot into recovery and from terminal run this command

rm -f /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/*/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver*

Then try booting with Nvidia drivers enabled

You could try that command from a normal boot (with sudo) first and if it doesn't help try also from recovery.

Hey thanks for your attention again!!

• i have done removing the NvidiaGraphicFixup in both kexts/Other and L/E
• did the removal with sudo and i can see no host from com.apple.windowserver, just to make sure i have rebooted to recovery and did the same there

but still no luck.. it runs into black screen.

edit:
in the textcache it reports some faulty kexts, i have removed them (Lilu, some hardware monitor kexts)

edit2:
after removing those kexts, its the same black screen. i don't know if i should get them back

 

[vulgo]

in the textcache it reports some faulty kexts, i have removed them (Lilu, some hardware monitor kexts)

Invalid signatures are ok.

did the removal with sudo and i can see no host from com.apple.windowserver, just to make sure i have rebooted to recovery and did the same there

Do you mean no files were removed, or you removed them all? List the files

echo /Users/*/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver*

I see

/Users/Home/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.A60AB210-CAFD-5F88-BAC7-44C1DFB4C60C.plist

There is one for each user + system ID

 

[Pepperish]

Invalid signatures are ok.

yeah ok, but i have already removed the Lilu.kext, should i get them back?

Do you mean no files were removed, or you removed them all? List the files

well i didnt check if there were anything, but after i ran the command you showed, there is definitely no more host from com.apple.windowserver

 

[vulgo]

yeah ok, but i have already removed the Lilu.kext, should i get them back?

You don't need Lilu or FakeSMC plugins at this time.

well i didnt check if there were anything, but after i ran the command you showed, there is definitely no more host from com.apple.windowserver

OK i wasn't sure. Download the script attached to this post, remove HDMI audio SSDT from efi/clover/acpi/patched. Run these

sudo rm /Library/Preferences/Audio/com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist
sudo rm /Library/Preferences/Audio/com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist
sudo rm /private/var/db/.com.apple.iokit.graphics

Then run the webdriver.sh script with the -f option

sudo ./webdriver.sh -f

Reboot, disable Intel integrated graphics in BIOS if not already, then try booting with NvidiaWeb set again

Edit: also change CsrActiveConfig to 0x2EF or 0xFFF or something, 0x67 only covers SIP as implemented by csrutil - real macs set the extra bits differently, Clover is setting the full range of flags every boot (i.e. using only SIP flags turns all other protections ON not OFF)

 

[Pepperish]

just a quick confirm

You don't need Lilu or FakeSMC plugins at this time.

i dont need lilu and fakeSMC in L/E or in kexts/Other or in both destinations?

remove HDMI audio SSDT from efi/clover/acpi/patched.

i have 2 SSDTs in that directory. which one do i remove?

 

[vulgo]

i dont need lilu and fakeSMC in L/E or in kexts/Other or in both destinations?

/efi/clover/kexts/other you should have only:

• FakeSMC.kext
• 1 Ethernet kext, Realtek Intel etc.

/Library/Extensions, remove these:

Lilu.kext, FakeSMC.kext, FakeSMC_ACPISensors.kext, FakeSMC_CPUSensors.kext, FakeSMC_LPCSensors.kext

i have 2 SSDTs in that directory. which one do i remove?

SSDT-HDMI-NVIDIA-PEG0.aml

 

[Pepperish]

/efi/clover/kexts/other you should have only:

• FakeSMC.kext
• 1 Ethernet kext, Realtek Intel etc.

/Library/Extensions, remove these:

Lilu.kext, FakeSMC.kext, FakeSMC_ACPISensors.kext, FakeSMC_CPUSensors.kext, FakeSMC_LPCSensors.kext

SSDT-HDMI-NVIDIA-PEG0.aml

hmm, i think i have done all of these, but still goes to black screen at the same spot

 

[vulgo]

hmm, i think i have done all of these, but still goes to black screen at the same spot

Please upload your current Clover folder zipped minus themes. Thanks.