[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

[CaseySJ]

Unfortunately, Bluetooth is unavailable again , do you still have something to try? Thanks anyway !

Please post a screenshot of “System Information —> Bluetooth” when Bluetooth is working and again when it is not working.

Is the Fenvi FV-T919 available in your region? Others in this thread have reported problems with the ABWB card.

 

[ummario]

Hello @CaseySJ ! Hope you are ok! My Hackintosh still runs smooth, thanks mainly to you

Just wondering, now that it seems that Catalina will be released this week, if you will update this guide to be used with Mac OSX 10.15 Catalina.

Yesterday successfully installed Gold Mater on a second SSD, following your guide and a few tricks, but then I stopped on after-install process. When running Catalina, and run Multibeast 11.3.0 (the last version available for Mojave) the software crashes and does not complete installation. I suppose Multibeast will be updated soon to run on Catalina.

Do you think your guide will change a lot from last year's guide?

All the best for you and thank you!

 

[trs96]

Is the Fenvi FV-T919 available in your region?

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[pastrychef]

@CaseySJ

Sorry if this has been answered earlier in the thread... But have you tried replacing the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card that comes with this motherboard or was it just assumed that it won't work? I know that some Asus Z390 motherboard owners have gotten macOS compatible M.2 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth cards working by replacing the stock cards...

I'm asking because I was thinking last night (always a bad thing) and thought that it might be a hidden BIOS setting that may be preventing the use of non-CNVI cards, similar to how DVMT settings or MSR settings are sometimes hidden from users in BIOS.

 

[Pi3rre]

I've given similar advice previously in this thread (see this for example), so it's worth stating once again:

Random crashes or freezes are among the hardest to solve, but there is something we can do. Log files don't really help. Instead, we carry out a process of elimination:

1. On the existing (unstable) system, disconnect all third party Thunderbolt and USB devices exceptkeyboard and mouse.
   • Reboot and check for system stability.
   • If still unstable, look for any pattern. Does the system always crash:
     • In Safari or a web browser?
     • While playing a YouTube video?
     • While performing any other specific task?
   • In other words, is the crash truly random or is it more statistically likely to happen when a particular activity is taking place?
   • If this does not help, go to Step 2.
2. Boot from a bootable backup disk that was created before the sleep problem began. Do random crashes or freezes occur?
   • If there is no bootable backup disk, or the backup disk suffers from the same crashes, then go to next Step 3.
   • If random crashes/freezes do not occur when booting from backup disk, then it's matter of determining what changed on the main disk.
     • If we cannot easily determine what changed, then we can simply restore from the backup disk, make sure the system is stable, then install any missing applications.
     • The backup disk should not be updated or changed in any way until the main system is confirmed to be stable.
3. Reinstall macOS on a spare 128GB or 256GB SSD. We can use SATA SSD (very cheap) and place them into an external USB 3.0 enclosure such as this one.
   • This creates a new baseline with no third-party software or hardware. Test the system over a period of time to ensure it remains stable.
   • If new install is stable, then install one third-party app at a time and test for stability.
   • If not stable, stop.
   • If stable, install the next app and then the next device.
   • Eventually you'll have a system this is either (a) stable with all apps and devices installed, or (b) unstable, but offending app/device identified.

I disconnected all devices (I have just a mouse on one USB port). Freezes append when I am usuing Chrome with Itunes open, nothing more. On chrome, I am not playing any video. Really strange.

Is it maybe I activated Filevault and added somes UFI drivers ?

My mac OS version is : 10.14.6
Clover : 5.4.5.0

 

[CaseySJ]

Thanks! I literally had everything completely backwards, Clover was injecting almost everything
Amazed it's been stable this long... Really do appreciate it.

I thought I'd investigate the timeout... No timeout message now, (not surprised..) Buts soon as I go near that drive 10.13 stops booting again. Does Clover cache anything, and/or any idea why this breaks 10.13 until I pull the drive?

When we press F12 at BIOS to open the BIOS Boot Menu and select either the 10.13 drive or the 10.14 drive, the system run Clover on the chosen drive.

• If the 10.13 drive has its own EFI partition with Clover installed, then that Clover will run if this disk is chosen as the boot disk.
• If the 10.14 drive has its own EFI partition with its own Clover, then that Clover will run if this disk is selected.

I'm sure you knew this already, but the point is that these are two independent installations of Clover that will not interfere with each other if:

• You use AptioMemoryFix and ...
• You install EmuVariableUefi-64 and RC Scripts in Target Volume

Installing EmuVariable and RC scripts has the effect of bypassing the built-in NVRAM in favor of a software solution that writes nvram parameters to a local file in the EFI partition of the booted drive. If both drives have their own EFI partitions, then each drive will have its own nvram.plist and you should not have any interference.

But these two installations can interfere with each other if:

• You install AptioMemoryFix and ...
• Do not install EmuVariableUefi-64

In this case, the system will store NVRAM parameters into actual NVRAM. Because there's only one NVRAM, both 10.13 and 10.14 will write values into it.

Also I was about to update my Clover version but noticed the latest stable build is missing AptioMemoryFix.

If AptioMemoryFIx is missing what would be the recommended way to update Clover - skip installing all UEFI drivers and stick with the ones I have, or will the installer automatically ignore anything I leave unchecked?
(I.e. not overwrite the current drivers64UEFI and other folders...)

AptioMemoryFix is being replaced by FwRuntimeServices. But we can still install AptioMemoryFix from Clover Configurator as shown:

 

[CaseySJ]

I've tried a variety of methods here, none seem to enable High Current for the USB. I also wonder if this is part of my TB trouble too. Is it possible the missing CNVi card (I removed it) messed up the mapping of the patch files? What’s the method to take a look at that?

Maybe we should start with an audit of your current setup. To that end, can you please do the following:

• Compress and upload your CLOVER folder from EFI partition of Mojave SSD. But redact serial numbers from SMBIOS section of config.plist.
• Post a screenshot of:
  • /Library/Extensions
• Run IORegistryExplorer and select File --> Save As... then upload that file.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hello @CaseySJ ! Hope you are ok! My Hackintosh still runs smooth, thanks mainly to you

Just wondering, now that it seems that Catalina will be released this week, if you will update this guide to be used with Mac OSX 10.15 Catalina.

Yesterday successfully installed Gold Mater on a second SSD, following your guide and a few tricks, but then I stopped on after-install process. When running Catalina, and run Multibeast 11.3.0 (the last version available for Mojave) the software crashes and does not complete installation. I suppose Multibeast will be updated soon to run on Catalina.

Do you think your guide will change a lot from last year's guide?

All the best for you and thank you!

Hello @ummario, nice to hear from you again! Please see this post about my plans to update the guide for Catalina:

[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

Yes absolutely! My intention is to update the existing build guide (post #1) as follows: Keep Mojave instructions intact, but move selected sections inside spoilers to reduce clutter. Refocus the build guide towards Catalina -- that is, Catalina will take center stage. I should also point out...

www.tonymacx86.com

Rumors suggest a release sometime this week, but I'm not too sure. If there's going to be an October Apple Event for new Mac hardware such as the rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro, I think Apple might wait until then. On the other hard, Apple has been somewhat unpredictable this year.

 

[rondark]

Rumours at the moment suggest that it has been released.
Oops...that page is down

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ

Sorry if this has been answered earlier in the thread... But have you tried replacing the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card that comes with this motherboard or was it just assumed that it won't work? I know that some Asus Z390 motherboard owners have gotten macOS compatible M.2 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth cards working by replacing the stock cards...

I'm asking because I was thinking last night (always a bad thing) and thought that it might be a hidden BIOS setting that may be preventing the use of non-CNVI cards, similar to how DVMT settings or MSR settings are sometimes hidden from users in BIOS.

Hello @pastrychef,

This is a very good topic to reopen in light of this post by @picov who was able to substitute the CNVi module on his Gigabyte B360N WiFi ITX with:

• A Key A/E adapter. Here's the one he uses.
• A Broadcom 943602CS module.

I wasn't sure whether I had tried the same thing so I searched my Amazon order history and voilà, I purchased this item back on December 4, 2018. That jogged my memory, so this is what I found back then:

• This is the same Key A/E adapter mentioned by picov, but it does not fit in the Designare Z390 motherboard because there's a PCIe x1 slot in the way.
• The red box indicates the approximate footprint of the adapter. There is a breakable section on the far end of the adapter, but if I recall correctly, even with that removed the card is too long.
  
  
• Nevertheless, I inserted the adapter anyway (without screwing it in place, of course), but the Broadcom module was not detected in IOReg.
• I had a brief exchange with @toleda on this topic here, who suggested in Page 2 of that thread that Gigabyte BIOS may be preventing any non-CNVi device from being installed in the Socket 1 slot.

Regarding a possibly hidden BIOS setting, I have extracted Setup.dxe from the Designare firmware, but haven't explicitly looked for such a setting. This can be a homework assignment for this evening.