pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

[ChaosMonkey]

You mean you are unable to boot with your old EFI folder? For macOS 10.13.3 and older, iMac18,3 and iMacPro1,1 use different builds of macOS. As far as I know, the builds have been unified with 10.13.4.

Which USB fix are you using? If you are using the new USB fix by PMHeart, remember to remove USBInjectAll.kext.

I won't get into the booting just right now, because that's not most important thing here. I've just swapped my Sapphire Vega 56 with borrowed Sapphire RX 580 and it all works magically: complete silence, no mouse stutter on the fresh install and GeekBench 4 score of 146149 in first quick test.

 

[pastrychef]

I won't get into the booting just right now, because that's not most important thing here. I've just swapped my Sapphire Vega 56 with borrowed Sapphire RX 580 and it all works magically: complete silence, no mouse stutter on the fresh install and GeekBench 4 score of 146149 in first quick test.

Holy smokes. So all the stutter was caused by the Sapphire RX 580??? Wow!

Glad you were able to figure that out.

 

[ChaosMonkey]

Holy smokes. So all the stutter was caused by the Sapphire RX 580??? Wow!

Glad you were able to figure that out.

No, quite the opposite. I've taken out my Sapphire Vega 56 and I've put in borrowed Sapphire Pulse 580, booted the system, mouse stutter is gone, machine is silent, all monitors working and I'm getting quite high GeekBench scores that make me wonder what the hell I've paid for, buying that Vega crap...

 

[pastrychef]

No, quite the opposite. I've taken out my Sapphire Vega 56 and I've put in borrowed Sapphire Pulse 580, booted the system, mouse stutter is gone, machine is silent, all monitors working and I'm getting quite high GeekBench scores that make me wonder what the hell I've paid for, buying that Vega crap...

Oops. I mistyped. I meant that your problems were caused by the Sapphire Vega 56. Was it a reference model or a model with custom cooler?

 

[KingKPS]

Not much... Just be careful with what you do to the EFI folder. I also suggest keeping your USB flash drive around with a known working EFI folder in the even you encounter this problem again.

I just restarted my computer and now it will just boot to a blank screen. Considering that I changed no settings, what could be the issue?

 

[pastrychef]

I just restarted my computer and now it will just boot to a blank screen. Considering that I changed no settings, what could be the issue?

It should be working. Did you copy the EFI folder on your USB flash drive to your main system drive?

 

[KingKPS]

It should be working. Did you copy the EFI folder on your USB flash drive to your main system drive?

No, didn't get a chance to since my computer restarted when it went to sleep. Here is a photo of my verbose outputs. The bar gets to the end like it's about to finish booting up but then I just get a blank screen (see picture). In clover, the only setting that is currently activated in the Graphics section is DeInit. BTW, it won't boot up in safe mode, with nv_disable=1, Load Video Bios on, or DeInit off. Also won't boot into the installer usb when selecting it from Clover.

I don't want to reinstall macOS since it took me a long time to transfer my data over and install all of my apps when I made this Hackintosh and I don't get how it booted before and now just gives a blank screen.

 

[fadis96]

Hi man
I want to thank you for everything! My system is running well. Albeit there are a couple of issues:

When I have dual monitor plugged into the GTX1080. I loose signal at login screen.

The sleep is broken again. No fan is spinning at wake up. Except the GTX 1080ti. Turned off hibernate mode and all the other sleep modes

Lastly I wanted to ask, when doing the SSDT-usb. I have a usb C port. I identified the ports it connects to by using an adapter and plugin in usb 2 and 3 devices. I got hs07 and ss07. I then plugged in the usb C device and got SS08. The ss08 would be a usb connect type 10 ? or 3?

I have never used USB connector type 10. I don't know what that's used for. I'm only aware of:
0 = USB2
3 = USB3
255 = Internal headers

So, I just used 3.

Edit:
I just checked ammulter's guide and, yes, if you have USB type C, use 10. On my motherboard, we don't have type C.

You will never guess what!
So I fixed the dual monitor issue with enabling CSM in bios.
The usbs are flawless.
The sleep! is ! interesting!
I fixed sleep too but ...

It turns out when XMP mode is on. It changes a few CPU parameters by overclocking it and messes up wake from sleep. So the computer would not wake without hard reset.

So I turned it off. Sleep works with one condition. Cpu gfx HAS to be initial gfx!! So in short, both nvidia and intel have to work together to get sleep. Otherwise the computer resets at sleep!

My issue is the 630 is glitchy ... and showing two 630s in the system info. You said that’s cosmetic, should I update clover? Seems like igpu does not turn off completely

 

[pastrychef]

No, didn't get a chance to since my computer restarted when it went to sleep. Here is a photo of my verbose outputs. The bar gets to the end like it's about to finish booting up but then I just get a blank screen (see picture). In clover, the only setting that is currently activated in the Graphics section is DeInit. BTW, it won't boot up in safe mode, with nv_disable=1, Load Video Bios on, or DeInit off. Also won't boot into the installer usb when selecting it from Clover.

I don't want to reinstall macOS since it took me a long time to transfer my data over and install all of my apps when I made this Hackintosh and I don't get how it booted before and now just gives a blank screen.

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When you were able to boot up using your USB flash drive, you should have copied the working EFI folder from that USB flash drive to your main system drive.

If you are using your RX 560, you don't need nv_disable=1 or Load VBios. You do need RadeonDeInit if you are using macOS 10.13.3 or older. If you are on macOS 10.13.4, RadeonDeInit can be disabled.

1. When you turn on your computer, go to the boot menu and select your USB flash drive.
2. Once you get to the Clover boot menu, select your main system drive.
3. When you get to the macOS desktop, copy the EFI folder from your USB flash drive to your main system drive.

 

[pastrychef]

You will never guess what!
So I fixed the dual monitor issue with enabling CSM in bios.
The usbs are flawless.
The sleep! is ! interesting!
I fixed sleep too but ...

It turns out when XMP mode is on. It changes a few CPU parameters by overclocking it and messes up wake from sleep. So the computer would not wake without hard reset.

So I turned it off. Sleep works with one condition. Cpu gfx HAS to be initial gfx!! So in short, both nvidia and intel have to work together to get sleep. Otherwise the computer resets at sleep!

My issue is the 630 is glitchy ... and showing two 630s in the system info. You said that’s cosmetic, should I update clover? Seems like igpu does not turn off completely

I think that whether CSM can help a person's system is very dependent on the hardware used. My guess is that it's due to differences in firmware of each individual device.

It's always a good idea to disable any overclocks when troubleshooting. This is why I did not list enable XMP in the BIOS section of post #1.

I don't know why you have to set IGPU to be primary. On the systems that I've put together, I've always only had to enable IGPU, but have always set the PCI-e graphics to primary or used "detect". Perhaps there are some differences with the BIOS of your motherboard...

If you are using my EFI folder, the IGPU should not appear in System Information at all unless you are using IGPU only, without a discrete graphics card. I have IGPU set up in "headless" mode. The double listing of IGPU can be fixed by updating to Clover r4421. But I've read of people having flickering issues when using UHD 630. Some with the flickering have reported that changing to iMac18,1 or iMac18,2 system definitions fixed it.