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

nifranza said:
Hey guys, non-hackintosh question...

I was experimenting with my build, and I accidentally stripped a screw on one of the NVMe heat sinks. Such an idiot! I also cut one finger with a metal sticker. It was a bloodbath. lol The drive is fine and didn't break anything else, but does anyone know how can I get that screw out so I can replace it with a good one?

Cheers!
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Usually for stripped screws the 'nuclear option' I use is a Dremel tool to 're-slot' the head of the screw, and then use a flat-head screwdriver to get it out. But you risk slipping and damaging something else.

Depending on the shape of the screw and whether it has enough of a rough surface for gripping, you could try using some combination pliers or angled pliers?
 
I'd like to report that doing a vanilla install of Catalina using this method (except making my own USBPorts.kext in Hackintool as suggested in your spoiler) yields success. However, the rear audio jack on the MB's IO plate does not function, and kernel panic takes place on shutdown.

EDIT: To clarify I've had success using both an upgrade-in-place installation as well as a fresh installation via USB. I took many of CaseSJ's suggestions regarding the config.plist, but changed a lot as well. While the fresh installation wasn't worry-free, most things are working and I'm pretty happy.
 
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I followed the guide, and I'm running Catalina with out any major issues, so far. The only issues I have are waking up from sleep. The computer goes to sleep and everything turns off, except the the RAM RGB. When I press a key to wake up, I am not getting anything on my monitor. Same thing when my monitor turns off after set amount of time, and I try to use the PC.

darkwake is set to 0. I deleted the power management files in Library/Preference. I disconnected the Corsair USB from mobo header.

Video card is MSI RX 580.

Any suggestions?
 
shl615 said:
Hi everyone,

I was following the Catalina guide, and wanted to change my SMBios to iMac 19,1 from Mac mini and also change to headless before making a backup of my system, and made a mistake somewhere. I was on 10.4.4, which I think matters? I can’t seem to boot my computer at all... clover is giving me the below error. Somebody please help!! T_T thank you in advance!!
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Something definitely is wrong with clover. Try doing a vanilla re-installation and make sure you're on r5095.
 
@CaseySJ

After buying a 2nd TB3 dock (Promise Technology dock) and my Promise Pegasus TB1 RAID drive not working, I am at a loss. Some TB1 drives work and some simply do not. Is there anything I can add to my Designare Hackintosh like a TB1 PCI-E card to get all TB1 devices to work? Even if it is costly I would consider it. Thank you.
 
faithie999 said:
a long shot, but....

if you have more than one SSD or HD in your system, the one you're trying to mount may not be disk0. if you have multiple drives, try disk1s1, or disk2s2, etc depending on how many drives you have.

I have an m.2 ssd, and a spinning HD. randomly, from boot to boot, my ssd may be assigned disk0 or it may be disk1. I always have to check by opening disk utility. if you can boot your system, open disk utility to see what disk number bios has assigned to the drive your EFI folder is on.
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I checked it out, it's the disk0s1. In fact, none of the EFI partitions accept to mount, could it be a permissions problem?
 
shl615 said:
Hi everyone,

I was following the Catalina guide, and wanted to change my SMBios to iMac 19,1 from Mac mini and also change to headless before making a backup of my system, and made a mistake somewhere. I was on 10.4.4, which I think matters? I can’t seem to boot my computer at all... clover is giving me the below error. Somebody please help!! T_T thank you in advance!!
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in my experience, that message usually means that the SMBIOS you have chosen is from a Mac model that is too old to support the version of OS X you're trying to install. in your config.plist when you switched from iMac19,1 to Mac mini are you sure you chose the right model of Mac mini? I think the suggested Mac mini model for this build is macmini8,1 (but check the guide to make sure).
 
Etyel said:
I checked it out, it's the disk0s1. In fact, none of the EFI partitions accept to mount, could it be a permissions problem?
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it is HIGHLY unlikely that your EFI partition has disappeared, but if you can boot your computer launch Terminal and type
diskutil list
and make sure your EFI partition is shown.

if it is shown, I'm out of ideas and hopefully someone smarter than me will chime in with a suggestion.
 
I installed 10.14.4 using this guide - everything works great, no problems at all. Now I would like to update to 10.14.6, but I got some questions: I used "Mac Mini 8,1" as system when in installed, but it seems that I have to change this to "iMac 19,1" in order to update to 10.14.6, right? I also wanted to update Clover - my version is 4920, but this is not possible via the Clover Configurator 5.6.1.0. Can I just download the latest Clover (looks like v2.5k-5096 is the latest) and install it? Clover has moved to https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader/releases ?
Thanks a lot!
 
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