The everything works Asus Z390-I Gaming * i7-8700K * SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX Vega 64 Build

[Leesureone]

Has anyone come across the issue where it gets stuck at the "15 minutes remaining" portion of the install? I've looked at tons of other threads with this issue, and I have gone through all those options. I have tried every aptio variant and have spent hours trying to get this working on the Z390-I gaming with zero luck. I am on the latest BIOS, and I guess that has probably broke something. If anyone has gotten 10.14.6 to work, any input or driver suggestions would be helpful.

So far using the typical UniBeast USB install, the initial process just hangs and can't even get to the install. If I use the EFI from OP, I get a little further in the install but then hit that 15 minute issue. Unfortunately, all the threads I've read that have successfully navigated have resolved them completely differently and contradictory from another. Some just out of pure luck started working.

What media are you trying to install too? I haven't read any recent posts here that deal with BIOS updates hosing the install process.

 

[devilofspades]

What media are you trying to install too? I haven't read any recent posts here that deal with BIOS updates hosing the install process.

Samsung NVMe (not 970 Plus) drive. I have the same model in a laptop, and it works fine. The drive is recognized, partitions, formats, mounts, etc. It just gets stuck during that 2nd install phase. I found if I use mac os extended, it starts at "15 minutes" and hangs. If I use afps, it starts at "13 minutes" and hangs.

 

[Leesureone]

Samsung NVMe (not 970 Plus) drive. I have the same model in a laptop, and it works fine. The drive is recognized, partitions, formats, mounts, etc. It just gets stuck during that 2nd install phase. I found if I use mac os extended, it starts at "15 minutes" and hangs. If I use afps, it starts at "13 minutes" and hangs.

There are other Samsung drives that don't work but if you've already installed OS X to it that's not it. My next guess would be the USB media or BIOS settings like "Secure Boot" (but you have checked all those multiple times I'm betting). I had some Kingston USB drives that would fail every time.

Maybe people can chime in with their various BIOS versions they are on so you can put that to rest or elevate it as an issue.

 

[japzer]

First of all many thanks to ModMike for this excellent guide!
Using this guide installing Mojave on my Z-930-I (i5-8400, with integrated graphics) was as easy as ever. My third Hackintosh and by far the easiest to setup because of your hard work.

However, the other day I pressed Enter one time to many when trying to get rid of the system update notification, accidentally updating my installation from 10.4.3 to 10.4.6. The system still starts up perfect, but my Dell DW1560 card isn't working properly anymore. Bluetooth is working fine, but Wifi is showing "Wifi: No Hardware installed". I tried replacing the EFI files of my install with the ones in the first post, and updated the kexts to the latest using Clover Configurator, but so far no success. Did anyone experience the same problem and/or have any suggestions to fix this?

Thanks and all the best

 

[negatv]

I never had any luck with the Dell BT/WiFi card.

 

[devilofspades]

There are other Samsung drives that don't work but if you've already installed OS X to it that's not it. My next guess would be the USB media or BIOS settings like "Secure Boot" (but you have checked all those multiple times I'm betting). I had some Kingston USB drives that would fail every time.

Maybe people can chime in with their various BIOS versions they are on so you can put that to rest or elevate it as an issue.

I'll take the facepalm on this one. Drive looked to be failing. So I chucked it for a different drive, and all is well.

One thing I wanted to check on is how many people are using the .aml file provided in the OP? Not exactly sure why they provided it as all the USB ports work fine at full speed without it, and using it actually cripples the type-c connector on the mb. Also, my initial speed tests to external drives are faster without it as well. just curious what other peoples results are.

 

[dasurpha]

Finally re-upgraded to Catalina, and most of things seem to work fine.

Has anyone been able to make Sidecar work? If so, any good ideas? Airplay, Airdrop, most of things work fine...but Sidecar (with iPadPro) times out with or without cable.

 

[lele90]

I never had any luck with the Dell BT/WiFi card.

I've just bought it.... I thought it was 100% compatible (or 99%).

Now my system is "perfect"... the only strange thing that currenty I have is a stuck screen after pressing reboot or shutdown. It's my Desktop wallpaper with (sometimes) a strange resolution.


EDIT: I checked my eBay order, and maybe I did a mistake: I ordered this model instead of DW1560....

 

[negatv]

Finally re-upgraded to Catalina, and most of things seem to work fine.

Has anyone been able to make Sidecar work? If so, any good ideas? Airplay, Airdrop, most of things work fine...but Sidecar (with iPadPro) times out with or without cable.

I never tried it until just yesterday. It works when I'm using SMBIOS Imac19,1 with IGPU, but does not work with iMacPro1,1 (without IGPU enabled).

There must be a trick to getting it to work with iMacPro as that model does not have an IGPU, but I didn't investigate further.

 

[dasurpha]

I never tried it until just yesterday. It works when I'm using SMBIOS Imac19,1 with IGPU, but does not work with iMacPro1,1 (without IGPU enabled).

There must be a trick to getting it to work with iMacPro as that model does not have an IGPU, but I didn't investigate further.

Thanks for the response!

I’m running iMac 19,1 with IGPU in headless mode (to get DRM working) and AirPlay in general works fine but not with my iPad Pro. Maybe it is the iPad...