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

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garbage914 said:
Thank you for your response @kgp. And thank you for such an awesome guide.

I tried following the instructions in 9.3 but no change - I'm not sure I did it correctly. I am using PCIe Slot 4, and I placed the two aml files (SSDT-X299-TB3-iMacPro-KGP.aml and SSDT-TB3-L69-BR1X.aml) into /EFI/Clover/ACPI/patches. Is there something else I need to do? No additional Cards showed up in the PCI section of Hardware in System Report.

I also did the 9.1 ACPI DSDT Replacement Implementation though I couldn't follow the part about adjusting to my cpu (7940x).
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If nothing shows up under ‘pci’ your SSDT still needs to be adopted to your system ..
 
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If nothing shows up under ‘pci’ your SSDT still needs to be updated..
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Do you mean I update my clover settings to update the SSDT? Or do you mean the code has to be tweaked to tailor it to my system?

Do I have to do something to point my system to the AML files other than put them in /EFI/Clover/ACPI/patches?
 
garbage914 said:
Do you mean I update my clover settings to update the SSDT? Or do you mean the code has to be tweaked to tailor it to my system?

Do I have to do something to point my system to the AML files other than put them in /EFI/Clover/ACPI/patches?
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You need to adopt all AMLs to your system.
 
GPD1 said:
Hi,

Thanks for the great guide and support!

Do you think the following (announced, shipping this month theoretically?) mobo could be used for this:

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/WS-X299-SAGE-10G/specifications/

Would you expect to able to have the on-board 10GB ethernet connections working?

Seems like a really great option if so, and otherwise should be rather similar to the board you are already using?
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I'm not sure about the on-board 10GB but I used this guide with the regular Sage and everything works pretty well :) Only major change I had to do was the PCI implementation section since the Sage is different than the X299 Deluxe.
 
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djlild7hina said:
I'm not sure about the on-board 10GB but I used this guide with the regular Sage and everything works pretty well :) Only major change I had to do was the PCI implementation section since the Sage is different than the X299 Deluxe.
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But that's exactly the thing... The Intel X540-T1 just works with the 10GB Small-Tree driver after some Ubuntu EEPPROM modding. The same might state for the Intel X550A-T2. But how to mod the EEPPROM of an onboard device?

I guess @GPD1 will have to investigate this further..
 
Guys,

how to get rid of the Vega black screen issue after sleep/wake (Gigabyte Radeon RX 64 OC 8GB)? Neither Whatevergreen.kext nor VegaGraphicsFixup.kext help in this issue.
 
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kgp said:
Wrong... You just have to create one HFS+ partition. The EFI-partition is automatically created when formatting your disk with HFS+ and a Guid Partition table. The EFI-partition can be mounted with DiskMounter or Clover Configurator and is else invisible .
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Thanks legend! All up and running.

Can't thank you enough for giving us plebs all the info to get a cranking machine!!

Another Q, if I may. How do you go about cloning a system disk and making it bootable? I've copied the system EFI folder over to the new disk. Obviously it needs something else to get the UEFI bootable. I've seen other people use multibeast to do this, however it seems this specific iMac Pro 1,1 definition wouldn't be on ol Multibeast.

Shot.
 
nathanaelweir said:
Thanks legend! All up and running.

Can't thank you enough for giving us plebs all the info to get a cranking machine!!

Another Q, if I may. How do you go about cloning a system disk and making it bootable? I've copied the system EFI folder over to the new disk. Obviously it needs something else to get the UEFI bootable. I've seen other people use multibeast to do this, however it seems this specific iMac Pro 1,1 definition wouldn't be on ol Multibeast.

Shot.
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How to clone a system drive?

1.) Format the clone drive with HFS+ and GUID partition table.
2.) Mount the EFI-Partition on your system and clone drives
3.) Copy the EFI-Folder from the EFI-partition of your system drive to the EFI-partition of your clone drive
4.) Clone the system partition of your system drive to the clone drive using CCC.

Your are done and you have now a bootable and fully functional clone drive. To boot the latter with it's EFI folder, press F8 during during the ASUS Splash Screen image and select the clone drive in the BIOS boot menu.
 
garbage914 said:
I just made my 1st build. This is fun. I have my system running with ethernet and graphics working well. I'm running into errors getting my TB ex3 card to work. I have it working on windows, but it doesn't show up on the High Sierra side of things. I get a Kernel Panic when I try booting High Sierra with my thunderbolt device plugged in (A UA Apollo audio interface). Any suggestions?

I followed the directions closely (section E.5), but I installed from online installers rather than the DVD's because I don't have a DVD drive. Was it correct to install the Asus Chipset drivers and then the thunderbolt drivers in place of the DVDs? Also, does the Windows UEFI install have to be Windows 10 Pro Creator? I have only Windows 10 Pro.
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Hey mate, I have same setup as you and got my UAD apollo working through TB. Mind you I had to boot the computer with the UAD plugged in and turned on for it to show up in the UAD console. Don't forget to unplug the THB_C cable that connects the pcie card to the motherboard. Hope that helps, working on getting it to work hot plug...
 
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