How to build your own iMac Pro [Successful Build/Extended Guide]

[kgp]

They used a $10,000 chiller haha...there's no way they can hit those Cinebench marks on regular coolers. Intel was just being stupid trying to take the limelight away from Threadripper 32c/64t CPU that runs at 250TDP on an air cooler. Intel used a $10,000 28-core Xeon cpu to demo. If they bring this same CPU for $2,000 on x299 it would be nice, but these are totally different socket CPUs with more pins on the latter.



BT audio has been a mess for me, I learned to live with it. For some weird reason I had no BT audio issues on my previous Hackintosh and the one before that.

I went to System Pref > General > Allow Handoff and turned it off and it seemed to have helped after doing some terminal commands for BT audio (If you're interested I'll write it out).

Otherwise if this thing starts stuttering again I'm just going to take out the OSXWifi card and just use the cheap USB dongle.

That's weird about the AMD card. Could you do some looped Furmark tests to stress test the GPU to see if any glitches come about?

I would say if you have the chance you should swap the card out before the warranty runs out. (I think it's 1 year for Vega FE).

I had glitches during my BIOS bootup screen and when I swapped it out it all worked perfect afterwards.

@izo1, my friend,

believe me, I don't want to give a rewarming to our yesterday's discussion, so please don't worry at all..

But really, why don't you give it a try at least?: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/macos-high-sierra-10-13-xhc-usb-kext-creation-guideline.242999/. If you are willing at all, I would implement everything based on the XHC USB kext I sent you yesterday for the ASUS Prime X299 Deluxe and SMBIOS iMacPro1,1, which works perfectly fine on my system where I do not witness any BT audio issues either..

Maybe it resolves your USB and BT issues just in one line? Just don't reject the proposal from the very beginning.. that's all I suggest..

To me it appears weird that the OSXWIFI does not properly work on your system, but your USB dongle does. The only reason why the BT of the OSXWIFI could fail might be some erroneous USB data cable connection, which is not required when using the M.2 adaptor or replacing the onboard WIFI/BT chip.

Please simply don't answer to this post, but have a silent brain storming for yourself and do what you think it might best in your case. We should not start with a new discussion filling another 10 pages. I just try to help once more..

All others, please ignore this post.. I write here in public, as we cannot and are not allowed here to communicate in any other way...

Cheers,

KGP

 

[RuleBreaker01]

That's weird about the AMD card. Could you do some looped Furmark tests to stress test the GPU to see if any glitches come about?

I would say if you have the chance you should swap the card out before the warranty runs out. (I think it's 1 year for Vega FE).

I had glitches during my BIOS bootup screen and when I swapped it out it all worked perfect afterwards.

After questioning AMD about the advanced replacement option, they've agreed to let me do it and so now I've just returned the form filled. They charge $999 if I don't return it, which is *much* cheaper than any FE pricing anywhere.. Tempting to keep both

So I'll test with a new card hopefully soon. (should have sent mine before going to the US, it would have been back by now)

 

[perfecto245]

No, don't patch 1401! You won't be able to boot the patched BIOS! Just use TSCAjustReset.kext end disable MSR Lock in your BIOS settings.

So far everything works absolutely flawless like this, even sleep/wake..

Awesome! .. I guess no more nice custom Boot logo Oh well

 

[kgp]

Awesome! .. I guess no more nice custom Boot logo Oh well

See attachment to post #8588..

 

[perfecto245]

See attachment to post #8588..

Yuss! But i use a X299A.. can i still use the method in your guide to add the Raw image inside? I did that for 1301

 

[pieropontra]

I think you missed this last one @kgp :

I downloaded your EFI attached and linked in your guide, added TSCAdjustReset in /Other folder, I'll copy this folder to USB Install and Main Drive using Clover Config after updating to 1401 and making all the necessary settings in bios, I will also buy a faster OC RAM. All of this done, I should be totally fine with my system and, if anything goes wrong, I'll post 3 times per hour every day using your tag ahahahah I love you! plz confirm this procedure is correct!

 

[kgp]

I think you missed this last one @kgp :

I downloaded your EFI attached and linked in your guide, added TSCAdjustReset in /Other folder, I'll copy this folder to USB Install and Main Drive using Clover Config after updating to 1401 and making all the necessary settings in bios, I will also buy a faster OC RAM. All of this done, I should be totally fine with my system and, if anything goes wrong, I'll post 3 times per hour every day using your tag ahahahah I love you! plz confirm this procedure is correct!

Hmmm.. you forgot about implementing the correct BIOS settings and especially you still oversee Section E.) - Post installation! I already told you that there is a lot of stuff that should or could be done subsequently along this section... e.g. graphics, audio, etc... and especially SSDTs... Please really see if you you feel comfortable and able to deal with all this information.

BTW.. The EFI-Folder, after adding the appropriate TSCAdjustReset.kext and completing the SMBIOS credentials like board serial number, serial number and SmUUID, should go to the EFI-partitions of both your USB Flash Drive Installer and future macOS System disk. I don't know if I forgot something else important at this place.. And this configuration will be just sufficient to successfully perform the basic OSX installation. Everything else needs to be done along Section E.) - Post Installation, as already mentioned above .

Anyway, please.. you need to study my guide up to the most tiny detail before purchasing your hardware and don't ask repetitively what is anyway explained there, and this already before you received your hardware or started with the system configuration..

Honestly, I really feel scared to recommend you something, my friend.. you seem totally new to the Hackintosh world.. it is always very risk to totally start form scratch, without having any pre-knowledge.

You might not only encounter troubles using my guide...

I don't know what the rest of you guys think about this particular case.. Will we able to bring @pieropontra there where he wants to be?

 

[kgp]

Yuss! But i use a X299A.. can i still use the method in your guide to add the Raw image inside? I did that for 1301

Sure.. you can add the image as indicated to the original, unpatched firmware. Just save the file subsequently considering the correct EZ flash back filename convention for your particular mainboard.

 

[apfelnico]

So what do I have to change for it ?
I build a X299 Hackintosh with an Gigabyte X299 Designare EX and 2x Vega 64.
If I try to use your kext which should work on my build since you use the same gpu, it doesn't do that.

I've attached some pictures from ioreg.

Cheers and thanks in advance!

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Look at the attached picture:

 

[poshook]

Yesterday, everything worked fine. Today, I came back from work turn computer on and got this one hanging.