Asus X299 - Support

[Mettiu]

Hi everyone! The other day I was lucky enough to get in Japan for less than 1100USD:
i9 7980XE, delidded with a copper heatspread plus liquid metal
Asus x299 TUF MK2
Corsair h150i Pro RGB with additional AF 120-WQE fans
Silverstone 1200W Platinum
(quite an upgrade from the 2500k Sandy I have been running for years)

all installed in an old Cooler Master HAF case. The case itself tells its age (it has a firewire front port!) but it is the first time I have a case with 200 mm fans (3 of them!) and I love how silent and effective they are.

Anyway, the motherboard though doesn't seem to be a good fit for a XE processor, thus I am shopping for something else and I have realized how difficult the old gen x299 are difficult to find. I have spotted an used Asrock Taichi XE, but I could not find much online about its compatibility with MacOs. Should I get it or stick to Asus?

 

[Loloflatsix]

For our X299 platform, some progress has been made to have Thunderbolt fully working, but at the moment we still can't see the partially materialized Thunderbolt device tree.
Intensive work has been done here Thunderbolt Volunteers Needed and here TEST BENCH: Thunderbolt Interim Update by @CaseySJ and also by @Elias64Fr ( if i can be allowed to cite their hard work here ).

So to the rest of my post all credits have been mentioned above :

I tried to adopt their SSDT for my X299 configuration :

For the moment has I mentioned we still can't see the partially materialized Thunderbolt device tree :

But the problem remains here :

Here, the IOReg is as expected :

In DBS2 too :

If there are volunteers here to try to continue the work, they are welcome.

I share here the SSDT adopted from the thread I mentioned (my Thunderbolt is on RP17)

 

[mm2margaret]

So, with my current TB patches, which I listed on CaseySJ's Z390 thread, and have attached below, give me hot swap, something I've never had before, ever. Sadly, it works in Clover but not in OC banghead:....).

But, on my Sage, I see nothing like your ioreg. Not even close. Can you say what parameters you changed, if any with your SSDT-TbtPch-X299 Draft07-Fix-USBC.aml file?

A Sage is not like a Prime Deluxe....entirely different chipset (621 vs. Prime Deluxe chipset, whatever that chipset is, I've forgotten)

 

[Loloflatsix]

So, with my current TB patches, which I listed on CaseySJ's Z390 thread, and have attached below, give me hot swap, something I've never had before, ever. Sadly, it works in Clover but not in OC banghead:....).

But, on my Sage, I see nothing like your ioreg. Not even close. Can you say what parameters you changed, if any with your SSDT-TbtPch-X299 Draft07-Fix-USBC.aml file?

A Sage is not like a Prime Deluxe....entirely different chipset (621 vs. Prime Deluxe chipset, whatever that chipset is, I've forgotten)

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Yes the Sage Mobo should be different , I can see your Thunderbolt is on RP05 , can you please post your IOReg or a screenshot on RP05 : I must see your reg Data for RP05

 

[mm2margaret]

Just because I'm a little nuts, and I have lots of recovery when things go bad, I decided to just load your TB aml file and see what I could blow up.

Well, it loaded just fine, and as you can see from the attached screenshot, you can tell that the drive that attached after I booted and logged in (five minutes afterwards, just as a test), well, it loaded just fine and it loaded all of the volumes on that drive loaded just fine.

Hmm......

 

[mm2margaret]

Here's a screenshot of RP05 data.....using your TB aml file.....

Yes the Sage Mobo should be different , I can see your Thunderbolt is on RP05 , can you please post your IOReg or a screenshot on RP05 : I must see your reg Data for RP05

Screenshots, yes, the full IOReg.....well, no.......

 

[Loloflatsix]

Just because I'm a little nuts, and I have lots of recovery when things go bad, I decided to just load your TB aml file and see what I could blow up.

Well, it loaded just fine, and as you can see from the attached screenshot, you can tell that the drive that attached after I booted and logged in (five minutes afterwards, just as a test), well, it loaded just fine and it loaded all of the volumes on that drive loaded just fine.

Hmm......View attachment 447908

OK : i will take a look

 

[Loloflatsix]

Here's a screenshot of RP05 data.....using your TB aml file.....



Screenshots, yes, the full IOReg.....well, no.......


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For the moment see the screenshot below :

So please, can you try with this SSDT if there is progress

 

[Loloflatsix]

Unfortunately, the 10980XE is still not available here: has someone bought one elsewhere ?

 

[mm2margaret]

No luck, and I've lost the ability to hot swap. Some of this is my fault, as I'm not sure my original TB aml file was fully removed, so that data might have been bogus.....sorry about that.....but this is the data with your adjusted TB aml, I double checked.....