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My hackintosh will no longer connect to my monitor when using the DisplayPort connector and I can't figure out the reason.
Background
My computer and ASUS monitor were working together nicely, along with my Sapphire Pulse RX 580 GPU. But I decided to 'improve' things. I did some tweaks found on this site which I'll detail below. They seemed to help, and I still think they were the right way to go. But now my mac won't connect via DisplayPort at all. Here's the state of play:
Fixes I've tried
So, it's not the cables because I can boot to BIOS using DP. It doesn't seem to be an OS setting, but it might be something to do with Clover. But the Clover on the external drive hasn't been changed.
I am using Lilu and Whatevergreen and they are not in the EFI folder - they are the Library folder of the SSD. (But they should be unaffected and in any case, the DP connection also fails from the external drive, which has not been changed in any way).
My conclusion is that it's either the Monitor or a BIOS setting. My knowledge of BIOS is pathetic, so can anyone help?
The details of those tweaks:
ACPI
DEVICES
Then I found the correct settings in 'About This Mac' and reset to:
IntelGFX: 0x5912
I then carried on working, closed down at the end of the night. When I rebooted the next morning, DP would not work. The above tweaks have been removed now, and I'm currently using on the backed up config.plist.
The info to make the above tweaks came from: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/radeon-compatibility-guide-ati-amd-graphics-cards.171291/
Background
My computer and ASUS monitor were working together nicely, along with my Sapphire Pulse RX 580 GPU. But I decided to 'improve' things. I did some tweaks found on this site which I'll detail below. They seemed to help, and I still think they were the right way to go. But now my mac won't connect via DisplayPort at all. Here's the state of play:
- If I use HDMI, the monitor and mac are working perfectly, thanks.
- If I connect via DisplayPort and boot to MacOS, I get a blank screen - no apple logo, no 'loading' bar. A second monitor connected via HDMI shows that the OS has booted and the second monitor is in 'secondary' mode (sorry, don't know the right term - but it shows the desktop but not the login box). If I disconnect the DisplayPort cable the second monitor takes over, shows the login box and I can boot normally.
- With DisplayPort connected, if I boot to BIOS then the monitor works. I can edit the BIOS using the DP, and if I then boot from the bios, the apple logo appears, I get the loading bar, but then it goes blank.
Fixes I've tried
- Roll back the changes made by reinstalling a know working config.plist (I made no changes to BIOS originally - all changes were made in Clover Configurator) - no change, no DP.
- Roll back to a backup of a known working EFI folder - the whole thing, for good measure. No change, no DP
- Turn off the monitor at the plug for 15 minutes. No change
- Turn off the computer at the plug for ten minutes. No change.
- Reset the BIOS. No change.
- Disconnect the SSD and and boot into an external drive containing a cloned backup of my hard drive from several weeks back (and running High Sierra, not Mojave). It boots fine but won't connect via DP. So, no change.
So, it's not the cables because I can boot to BIOS using DP. It doesn't seem to be an OS setting, but it might be something to do with Clover. But the Clover on the external drive hasn't been changed.
I am using Lilu and Whatevergreen and they are not in the EFI folder - they are the Library folder of the SSD. (But they should be unaffected and in any case, the DP connection also fails from the external drive, which has not been changed in any way).
My conclusion is that it's either the Monitor or a BIOS setting. My knowledge of BIOS is pathetic, so can anyone help?
The details of those tweaks:
ACPI
- HECI -> IMEI Patch
- Comment: change HECI to IMEI
- Find* [Hex]: 48454349
- Replace [Hex]: 494d4549
- GFX0 -> IGPU Patch
- Comment: change GFX0 to IGPU
- Find* [Hex]: 47465830
- Replace* [Hex] : 49475055
- PEGP -> GFX0 Patch
- Comment: change PEGP to GFX0
- Find* [Hex]: 50454750
- Replace [Hex]: 47465830
DEVICES
- Select Devices and enter
- IntelGFX: 0x59128086
- Select Graphics and enter
- Check Intel
- Framebuffer: Orinoco
- ig-platform-id: 0x67DF
Then I found the correct settings in 'About This Mac' and reset to:
IntelGFX: 0x5912
I then carried on working, closed down at the end of the night. When I rebooted the next morning, DP would not work. The above tweaks have been removed now, and I'm currently using on the backed up config.plist.
The info to make the above tweaks came from: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/radeon-compatibility-guide-ati-amd-graphics-cards.171291/