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Dell XPS 8930 High Sierra Guide 10.13.6 (Nvidia 1050Ti)

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Thanks. My upgrade process had some problems so I ended up creating a usb installer with unibeast and installed over my existing HS.

Some people were saying apple changed something in 10.14.4 that causes problem with UHD 630 and whatever green. I cannot keep SMBIOS 18,3, and that causes me to lose hardware accelleration
 
namio said:
will do - i am not able to get in front of my dell machine at the moment, probably till tomorrow
however, in the meantime - i literally did not change a thing from your original guide for high sierra...i am on 10.44 as well and the 560 seems to be working ok (or i havent noticed anything that was broken since i swapped the graphics cards and updated to mojave)

will upload the config later or tomorrow
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I ended up wiping my drive completely and did a Mojave’s clean install. Worked on first try. Must have been some old kext messing up my upgrade.
I’ll start a new thread in the Mojave forum later to document my steps. Basically it’s a much simpler version of this since rx580 pretty much works out of the box..
 
dandelionclock said:
I ended up wiping my drive completely and did a Mojave’s clean install. Worked on first try. Must have been some old kext messing up my upgrade.
I’ll start a new thread in the Mojave forum later to document my steps. Basically it’s a much simpler version of this since rx580 pretty much works out of the box..
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excellent news dandylionclock - i am glad it worked for you. let me know if you still need my config (i am guessing probably not now) and I will upload later today

on a related note, did you have any trouble physically fitting the card into the case? which version of the rx580 did you end up getting?
 
namio said:
excellent news dandylionclock - i am glad it worked for you. let me know if you still need my config (i am guessing probably not now) and I will upload later today

on a related note, did you have any trouble physically fitting the card into the case? which version of the rx580 did you end up getting?
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Thanks a lot again. I think I’m good. I let migration assistant ran overnight to recover my time machine backup. All looks good.

I ended up getting the Sapphire Nitro+. Length wise it’s just enough. It will go over my NVMe drive but I’ve seen pictures of other XPS 8930 owners doing the same so I suppose it’s alright. Height wise though you would need to drill out the triangular piece of metal underneath the power supply unit or you won’t be able to swing the PSU back in place. Pretty easy to do.

Now I am more concerned about cooling because the 580 can be a furnace. It also effectively partition the entire case into two halves, blocking airflow. I may have to add a fan somewhere if I play graphics-intensive games on it.
 
just out of interest, how difficult/practical or impractical would it be to take the motherboard out of the dell case and put it in to a bigger box?
 
namio said:
just out of interest, how difficult/practical or impractical would it be to take the motherboard out of the dell case and put it in to a bigger box?
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Now I’m stuck in a boot loop because APFSDiverLoader in clover cannot locate APFS.efi from my fusion drive, and I need the system to boot up in order to get 10.14.4’s APFS.efi, so I’m in a catch-22
 
oh man - i am sorry

i have been in that hackintosh hell a few times myself in the past so i empathize

i haven't got a fusion drive on mine - i am just booting from a ssd - im not sure what to suggest

hopefully you are working from some kind of backup or you have a back up that can get you up and running again while you rethink/re calibrate?
 
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namio said:
oh man - i am sorry

i have been in that hackintosh hell a few times myself in the past so i empathize

i haven't got a fusion drive on mine - i am just booting from a ssd - im not sure what to suggest

hopefully you are working from some kind of back or you have a back up that can get you up and running again while you rethink/re calibrate?
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Would be great if you could attach your 10.14.4 APFS.efi here

Fusion drives are great. Read/write just as fast as the SSD but provides huge amount of volume for cheap.
 
dandelionclock said:
Would be great if you could attach your 10.14.4 APFS.efi here

Fusion drives are great. Read/write just as fast as the SSD but provides huge amount of volume for cheap.
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Here it is dandelion clock - this is from the 10.4.4 install

However, this file is not in my EFI driver folder in clover

When I swapped out the graphics card, I updated clover to version 4895 - I don't see apfs.efi in any of the folders

everything seems to boot up and run as smoothly as it did before when the Nvidia card was installed

I hope this helps with your situation
 

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