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

[vankomicin]

Yeah I put into sleep manually from Apple menu item a couple of times and no problem waking system back up.

At work and Hack is at home so can't work on this now, but I don't think there is an explicit sleep setting in System Preferences any more, seems like it is a toggle keying off display sleep setting, "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off." I do have that unchecked right now so system should be sleeping after 15 minutes, I think. I guess I can also try forcing system to stay 'awake' overnight and see if that makes a difference. Or putting it to sleep manually and see if it makes it through the night, I s'pose.

Searching the Internet I see a few cases of people having this problem, but at a glance didn't find an answer, just suggestions that possibly a hardware issue (mobo battery or mobo or PSU, my PSU is a new Corsair AX850, so I did not scrimp there) or BIOS problem.

One other person with this problem found that exiting BIOS without saving changes brought the same error screen up, but saving changes and exiting (which is maybe similar to me forcing the boot drive) gave a successful boot (GA-Z170). Which seems kind of strange. A Steve99 on a Gigabyte forum a couple of years ago, I'll have to register there to try to send him a note to see if he ever figured it out.

Hi,
Some days ago I reported the same weird behavior on shutting/sleeping. (Yes, I followed all the points in this guide.) I have a Mojave (latest) Intel SSD in the upper M.2 slot and a SATA SSD with Win 10. A WiFi/BT card is sitting in the lower PCIe slot.

The problem appeared on BIOS F6, and, since I have updated to F8, it persists. Most of the time, I can't get the computer to boot, only the white LED on MB is on. Sometimes, after shutdown, the "on" button on my case does not have any effect at all, and I have to pull out the power cord from the PSU first! I have to take out the CMOS battery and keep it for a few minutes with power cable disconnected from PS. Only then, I can boot and get into BIOS again and load my preset. I also tried removing the WiFi card and my "feeling" is, that the problem might be alleviated. I then tried to stuck in the same PCIe slot a M.2 adapter with another Intel 660p SSD, and the boot problem immediately returned. I thought that the MB is failing but now other users are appearing with the exact same problem. Also, if I switch the SSD to the lower M.2 slot, it fails.

I will do some more testing with different combinations and report back. Open for other suggestions, of course.

 

[djx8605]

Hi,
Some days ago I reported the same weird behavior on shutting/sleeping. (Yes, I followed all the points in this guide.) I have a Mojave (latest) Intel SSD in the upper M.2 slot and a SATA SSD with Win 10. A WiFi/BT card is sitting in the lower PCIe slot.

The problem appeared on BIOS F6, and, since I have updated to F8, it persists. Most of the time, I can't get the computer to boot, only the white LED on MB is on. Sometimes, after shutdown, the "on" button on my case does not have any effect at all, and I have to pull out the power cord from the PSU first! I have to take out the CMOS battery and keep it for a few minutes with power cable disconnected from PS. Only then, I can boot and get into BIOS again and load my preset. I also tried removing the WiFi card and my "feeling" is, that the problem might be alleviated. I then tried to stuck in the same PCIe slot a M.2 adapter with another Intel 660p SSD, and the boot problem immediately returned. I thought that the MB is failing but now other users are appearing with the exact same problem. Also, if I switch the SSD to the lower M.2 slot, it fails.

I will do some more testing with different combinations and report back. Open for other suggestions, of course.

What do you mean by when you move the SSD, it fails? You mean it doesn't boot, it doesn't turn on?

Also, is your Windows OS working fine? (sleep/shutdown/restart)

 

[swizzley]

TLDR: Need help with RX470

So I followed this guide and got all the way until the end of post install, and copied the AML files for RX 580 slot 2 even though I have a RX 470... and upon reboot I can't get anything to work.

So a couple caveats are I'm using a i9-9900K, and have an GTX 1070 in slot 1, and have an Intel 600 NVMe, and no WiFi/BT, and BIOS is on R7. I couldn't get the install to complete until clearing CMOS and loading optimized defaults and turning XMP on, that's it, and install completed. Post install MultiBeast took hours, but afterwards GFX accel seemed to be working, but no HDMI audio, and basically nothing else showed up under devices or Ethernet or USB or TB3... all forgivable really, because with GFX accel it was totally usable. I feel like I should have rebooted here even though the guide said not to, because it was good enough for me, for now, but I finished the guide and now it won't boot into anything but recovery, no matter the combinations used in clover, also clover fails to boot windows if that could be relevant some how I dunno.

So... long story short for a 1st time hackintosher here, is how did you create the post-install aml for the 580, so I can do it for the 470. There is also the possibility that the intel drive is bad, if I get nowhere I'll pick up a new NVME and rx 580 to complete the guide 1to1, but I plan on keeping the gtx1070 installed, which didn't seem to matter since it was just recognized as display and when booting off it exclusively worked minus its features. I suspect the NVME is toast because of how long everything took. Install took 3+hrs, MultiBeast post install took 2+hrs, boot-ups would sometimes be <2m, and sometimes 10+m, and sometimes I would get frozen on some error on boot that would happen 2x in a row and then stop happening completely. Are any of these times normal or symptoms normal?


P.S. I also feel like it's worth mentioning that after my install froze for the second time with ALL specified BIOS settings, on BIOS R7, I couldn't get into the BIOS anymore, nor did the splash screen ever appear. A CMOS hard reset was all I could do to get back in, after which the 2 applied settings above allowed the install to complete.

 

[CaseySJ]

TLDR: Need help with RX470

So I followed this guide and got all the way until the end of post install, and copied the AML files for RX580 slot 2 even though I have a RX 470... and upon reboot I can't get anything to work.

So a couple caveats are I'm using a 9900K, and have an GTX 1070 in slot 1, and have an intel 600 nvme, and no wifi/bt, and BIOS is on r7. I couldn't get the install to complete until clearing CMOS and loading optimized defaults and turning XMP on, that's it, and install completed. Post install multibeast took hours, but afterwards GFX accel seemed to be working, but no HDMI audio, and basically nothing else showed up under devices or ethernet or usb or tb3... all forgivable really, because with gfx accel it was totally usable. I feel like I should have rebooted here even though the guide said not to, because it was good enough for me, for now, but I finished the guide and now it won't boot into anything but recovery, no matter the combinations used in clover, also clover fails to boot windows if that could be relevant some how I dunno.

So... long story short for a 1st time hackintosher here, is how did you create the post-install aml for the 580, so I can do it for the 470. There is also the possibility that the intel drive is bad, if I get nowhere I'll pick up a new NVME and rx 580 to complete the guide 1to1, but I plan on keeping the gtx1070 installed, which didn't seem to matter since it was just recognized as display and when booting off it exclusively worked minus its features. I suspect the NVME is toast because of how long everything took. Install took 3+hrs, multibeast post install took 2+hrs, boot-ups would sometimes be <2m, and sometimes 10+m, and sometimes I would get frozen on some error on boot that would happen 2x in a row and then stop happening completely. Are any of these times normal or symptoms normal?

Someone else just reported a boot problem with the Intel 600 NVMe (presumably the 660p), but let's defer that for a moment. Instead:

• The RX 580 SSDT is not needed. Its only role is to rename the device for alphabetical order purposes. Your RX 470 is natively supported in macOS Mojave and Catalina.
• The Nvidia GPU should be removed from the system during installation and post-installation. The RX 470 can be installed in either Slot 1 or Slot 2.
• Although not strictly necessary, it is still advisable to disconnect Windows drives if you're facing strange boot problems.
• After post-installation it's possible to reinstall the Nvidia GPU by using both the SSDT that renders it invisible to macOS and adding a boot flag for extra measure. This can be done later.
• It is also advisable to install Mojave 10.14.6 if you're using UniBeast and MultiBeast. Those tools are in the process of being updated for Catalina, but are not yet ready.

If despite these suggestions you continue to experience hours-long installation, basic boot failures and other strange anomalies then we might suspect the Intel 660p.

 

[swizzley]

Someone else just reported a boot problem with the Intel 600 NVMe (presumably the 660p), but let's defer that for a moment. Instead:

• The RX 580 SSDT is not needed. Its only role is to rename the device for alphabetical order purposes. Your RX 470 is natively supported in macOS Mojave and Catalina.
• The Nvidia GPU should be removed from the system during installation and post-installation. The RX 470 can be installed in either Slot 1 or Slot 2.
• Although not strictly necessary, it is still advisable to disconnect Windows drives if you're facing strange boot problems.
• After post-installation it's possible to reinstall the Nvidia GPU by using both the SSDT that renders it invisible to macOS and adding a boot flag for extra measure. This can be done later.
• It is also advisable to install Mojave 10.14.6 if you're using UniBeast and MultiBeast. Those tools are in the process of being updated for Catalina, but are not yet ready.

If despite these suggestions you continue to experience hours-long installation, basic boot failures and other strange anomalies then we might suspect the Intel 660p.

SUCCESS... mostly. So firstly it was definitely the Intel 660p NVME which was to blame. I must have got a bad batch because that's 2 of 2 that's junk. I went through the whole process start to finish under an hour with Samsung 960 Evo 1TB.

However, post install only half worked. It installed Ethernet, USB, gfx, and boot loader. The audio appeared after the post install reboot, but PCI and Thunderbolt remain empty. I also appears that no onboard video was found either. None of these are issues for me, and it's also worth noting I have no BT/WIFI which might be why FaceTime/iMessages dont seem to work, but again no issue for me. Overall I'm thrilled and completely satisfied with your guide. Thank you.

PS. It might just be an issue with BIOS R7 or maybe there's a step missing, but I couldn't get Boot from Mac OS from Mojave to work without hitting space and selecting Inject kexts from clover.

 

[oopsmybad]

The adage if it ain't broke don't fix it is both a blessing and a curse. Maintaining a working status quo is the wiser decision in circumstances where mission critical uptime is necessary. But if time permits, change can be made in a safe manner if we start with a full bootable backup and proceed with care (i.e. not rush it).

I decided to switch to iMac 19,1 and apply the platform-id patch, and it was pretty uneventful. I upgraded to F8 BIOS too just for good measure.

The only thing is my bruceX time increased by a second or two. Just to be sure I wasn't imagining things, I double checked my Geekbench4 score and it dropped too (by 400 for single core, ~1000 for multicore). I (stupidly) didn't do a performance test in between the iMac 19,1 switch and the F8 BIOS flash, so I have no idea which change ended up knocking my numbers a bit... but I saved my old iMac 18,3 config.plist and might try going back to see what happens.

 

[xoyx]

@CaseySJ

I will use Samsung 960 Pro 512 GB drive for Catalina. Can I use Samsung 860 EVO 500 GB as a backup drive?

 

[mobi]

Debug was on!! ,( probably got checked when I was fighintg to get VirtualSMC (any version after 1.06) to work in my system, btw I got that sorted out after experimenting with Bios F8 and going back to F6)

So far in 4 attempts to boot , just the first one after disabling debug got stuck , the others no problem

Thanks a lot @CaseySJ !!

Back to square one, today again "scan entries"....

 

[MVoort]

Hi,

After more than 7 years running a rock solid Hackintosh I decided to build a new Hackintosh and I want to share with you how that went and the issue I am currently encounter. Hopefully someone has a solution and if others have the same problem they can read how it can be solved (if possible)

For the installation guide I used the the guide of CaseySJ (btw. Respect for the time you spend on answering and helping people with their questions) as that looks more or less similar to my hardware. I followed the ‘Guide to modifying config.plist for USB install disk’ to the letter. Before I started the installation I checked a few things:

1. Is my BIOS up to date, in my case it was not so I updated it to version F9b

2. Is the firmware of the Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 SSD up to date. ( I checked this by following the ’self-booting USB flash disk’ instructions as stated in Note 5 of CaseySJ’s guide). With the self-booting disk the firmware was checked and I already have the latest firmware version

After these checks I installed successfully Mojave 10.14.6. In the CLOVER/ACPI/PATCHED folder I did not install the patch for Thunderbolt 3 as I don not have that installed. I installed the SSDT’s from the spoiler Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Extreme Owners as that has an identical USB lay-out as my Z390 AUROS Ultra board. This is where I was in doubt as I have a Fractal Design Define R6 USB-C case and there is a spoiler for that one as well, so I am not sure if I installed the correct SSDT’s. In the driver64UEFI folder I did not install OsxAptioFixDrv-free2000.efi as I read that it is not recommended instead I am using the OsxAptioFix3Drv-64.efi (see the screenshot of my Clover directory) I installed the latest versions of Lilu, WhateverGreen and AppleALC. I did not install the kexts for the Intel i211 as that is not available on the Aorus Ultra board. So good to go for the Extra Mile. As I have a the Gigabyte Aorus Radeon RX580 as the discrete GPU to drive my display I made the iGPU headless and decided to install VirtualSMC instead of FakeSMC. Finally I followed the Spoiler: Inject Audio Layout 16 only. All of this was successful. However I have the issue that randomly the (not so) famous spinning beachball sometimes my Hackintosh can recover from this but other times it is not and I have to switch off the machine. Going through the system logs I see a lot of gpuRestart logs and it always related to the WindowServer (see screenprint) it leads sometimes even to the yellow screen. This can happen anytime and even when I am just scrolling through a webpage so no heavy resource usage I would say.

After searching a lot on Tonymacx86 I decided to do the following in the BIOS: Disabled the XMP, disabled the Internal Graphics. Using Clover Configurator I changed the SMBIOS to iMac Pro (as this iMac uses only a discrete GPU) and I moved the GPU itself from slot 1 to slot 2 as I was thinking that the GPU and the SSD where too close to each other. But this has not solved the problem and currently I have no idea what the issue can be. Is it the PSU (Corsair RM650) that has not enough power for the system, but I don’t see high CPU peaks? I already ordered a Corsair HX850i in case someone confirms that the problem is indeed the PSU otherwise I will send the PSU back. Please find screenshots of my current BIOS settings, my Clover folder, the S/L/E folder, screen print of a system log and my config.plist at the end of this post.

 

[digitaldendrite]

Of course -- glad you're asking.

Apple's full installers are actually not segmented into (a) updaters and (b) fresh installers. Apple does release true updaters, but here I'm referring only to full installers. A full installer can be used to update an existing installation or to create a brand new installation.

Yes, the full installer is just an app that goes into the Applications folder. So we just need to double-click and run it. It will begin the upgrade process.

When we run the full installer from within a running instance of macOS, it will perform an in-place update. Always keep an up-to-date backup, however.

Hi Casey,

An update, but still no success. I have done the following:

1: Full installer is in the /Applications folder of boot disk Mojave.
2: downloaded and ran Combo 10.14.6 installer, let it install the basics, then let it get to the regular desktop with the "macOS Install Data" folder on the root of Mojave
3: Ran the full installer from /Applications and when it rebooted, chose "boot from install MacOS Mojave". It went to the same screen where it says "resources not found" (see enclosed photo). Restart took longer than usual and I noticed some weird timeouts. It rebooted twice and I was actually concerned it was not going to get to the desktop, but eventually did. Still at 10.14.3.
4: From the desktop, I opened Terminal and typed:

Hackintosh:~ paul$ cd /Applications​

Hackintosh:Applications paul$ cd Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources​

Hackintosh:Resources paul$ ./startosinstall --volume /Volumes/mojave​

and it started an install, showing the license agreement (which I agreed to) at which point I got a lot of "preparing":

Preparing to run macOS Installer...​

Preparing: 0.2%​

Preparing: 0.5%​

Preparing: 0.9%​

Preparing: 1.3%​

Preparing: 1.7%​

(etc to 100%)
and then it restarted. I chose "boot from Install MacOS Mojave" again and it ran through to the same "Resources not found" screen, at which point I gave up and rebooted to the desktop.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I can not figure out what. As far as I can tell, I've got all the right pieces in the right places (extensions, etc.) but it just won't get to the point of actually running the 10.14.6 install.

Any help is, as always, appreciated.

Best,

Paul