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

@pastrychef I'm planning on building a Z370 system and I was curious how is OpenCore working for you? Thanks a lot!
 
I just wanted to update everybody about some findings I made regarding the EFI clover and OpenCore I found here. I was very happy with both, and felt my hack to be quite solid in almost every aspect. I had some small problems though.

One problem I had was that often my computer wouldn't go to sleep by itself when it should have. If I hadn't put it to sleep "manually" at least once after a hard boot, or that sometimes the network would take up to 30 seconds after a wake before I was online. I even sometimes would have a random freeze 30 seconds, 1 minute after wake. I also had random crashes of my sound card (an Apogee One for macOS and iPad) that would require the card to be unplugged and replugged or even a restart of the computer when using Zoom videoconference or slowing down a video to work a solo on the guitar. I thought that maybe this was due to either my bios settings or to the "limitations" of my EFI's (Pastrychef's EFI's).

But I finally decided to erase my computer and reinstall MacOS through the recovery mode, and all my problems seem gone. It's only been 24 hours so I can't be a 100% certain that I won't have anymore problems but my experience is very concluding so far, and a clean install seems to solve lots of problems.
 
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Coffee Lake
ROG STRIX Z370-I GAMING |  i7 8700K |  RX 580 Pulse 8GB
Vinceletah said:
I just wanted to update everybody about some findings I made regarding the EFI clover and OpenCore I found here. I was very happy with both, and felt my hack to be quite solid in almost every aspect. I had some small problems though.
One problem I had was that often my computer wouldn't go to sleep by itself when it should have, if I hadn't put it to sleep "manually" at least once after a hard boot, or that sometimes the network would take up to 30 seconds after a wake before I was online. I even sometimes would have a random freeze 30 seconds, 1 minute after wake. I also had random crashes of my sound card (an Apogee One for MacOS and iPad) that would require the card to be unplugged and replugged or even a restart of the computer when using Zoom videoconference or slowing down a video to work a solo on the guitar. I thought that maybe this was due to either my bios settings or to the "limitations" of my EFI's (Pastrychef's EFI's).
But I finally decided to erase my computer and reinstall MacOS through the recovery mode, and all my problems seem gone. It's only been 24 hours so I can't be a 100% certain that I won't have anymore problems but my experience is very concluding so far, and a clean install seems to solve lots of problems.
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Since your motherboard is different, you should create your own USB fix using Hackintool instead of using the SSDT-USB.aml file I provide in post #1.
 
pastrychef said:
Since your motherboard is different, you should create your own USB fix using Hackintool instead of using the SSDT-USB.aml file I provide in post #1.
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I used my own SSDT-USB.aml and USB kext when I used Clover. And I modified the exclusion list as well when I switched to OpenCore. So my problems weren’t related to USB I think. Now my problems seem gone and I haven’t touched my EFI
 
Coffee Lake
ROG STRIX Z370-I GAMING |  i7 8700K |  RX 580 Pulse 8GB
pastrychef said:
OpenCore worked fine for me for several weeks. I was on OpenCore 0.4.0 and haven't tried 0.5.0 yet.
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Sounds like you are not using it anymore?
 
bluepr0 said:
Sounds like you are not using it anymore?
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My Z370 is temporarily out of commission because I switched motherboards because my Z370 would not wake with a Radeon VII installed.
 
pastrychef said:
My Z370 is temporarily out of commission because I switched motherboards because my Z370 would not wake with a Radeon VII installed.
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Have you tried updating the VII BIOS? I think I saw a video regarding some problems with the VII and it was due to a BIOS problem.

EDIT: video says that bad functioning BIOS is 0.16.004.000.030.011639 while new BIOS that fixes it is 016.004.000.038.011717
 
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bluepr0 said:
Have you tried updating the VII BIOS? I think I saw a video regarding some problems with the VII and it was due to a BIOS problem.

EDIT: video says that bad functioning BIOS is 0.16.004.000.030.011639 while new BIOS that fixes it is 016.004.000.038.011717
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Yup. I tried everything. Latest BIOS on everything. Older BIOS. RMA'ed the video card twice. It just won't wake with the combination of Z370-G and Radeon VII. Every other video card I've tried has no problems with wake on the Z370-G, including Vega 56 Reference, Vega 56 Red Dragon, RX 560, GT 640.

The same Radeon VII wakes up fine on my Z390 motherboard...
 
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Long time no talk! I followed your guide and the system has been running wonderfully.

I recently updated Clover to 5.5.0.0 under 10.13.6. I also updated Clover on the EFI partition, and it borked the system. I used UniBeast to make a USB installer on another Mac to get back to my desktop on the borked system, and I replaced my borked EFI partition with the efi-unified-4-3-2-high-sierra-zip you added to the bottom of your original post.

All seems back to normal, except the Clover installed in your EFI folder build is r4674. I'm unable to locate an installer online with this build. Thus, The Clover Configurator at the OS level sees a mismatch ("Error the version of clover-genconfig didn't match current booted clover version"...and I can't make any changes [for starters, Clover doesn't default to the correct boot volume when it loads, so I need to manually select the correct Boot volume])

Is there another build I can use? Apologies if this should go elsewhere. Thanks!
 
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