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

[Daranski]

Hello Casey,

Thank you so much for this guide. I braved it having never entered the PC or hackintosh world before. Built my machine and followed your mini guide and everything was working.

However I am now facing a stalled Apple logo on black screen at start up.
This happened after I entered the bios to check some temp settings and noticed that the advanced settings were not showing as they should so I saw no harm in reloading the saved profile settings. Went to boot up and now it is stalled.

The only thing I did different from the guide was to set up native NVRAM in the bios prior to updating to advised settings and saving them, and then I did the installation.

Am on bios F9b.

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ, if the user changes the status of the MSR to unlock the NVRAM feature will this also effect the boot volume disk of a Windows partition drive installed on a separate SSD? When the user turns off the msr to 0x0 from 0x1 on the Designare motherboard, would it not also disable the NVRAM on the eGPU or iGPU when booting in a normal windows environment? I hope someone who has a NVRAM eGPU or iGPU and installed BIOS f9b and disabled or changed the msr state to 0x0 and can confirm this does not effect anything on the Windows side as I'm sure other users also have a stable Windows boot drive installed on a SSD on the Designare motherboard.

Please anyone with any information on touching or editing the BIOS can confirm with me everything does work as normal? I would like to proceed, but with warnings and cautions before I edit the BIOS EFI file.

-THANKS IN ADVANCED

I have Windows 10 installed on a second NVMe and switching the MSR to unlock hasn't had any ill effect on it as far as I can tell. Just had a quick round of Division 2 in Windows and now back in Catalina (although running Windows does on occasion change my BIOS boot priorities, setting itself up as the boot drive)

Agree with @kwalter -- no issues in Windows with MSR 0xE2 disabled.

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ just in case my reply got buried. I bet it must be a miscongfigured setting on my part (though which, I'm not sure), but it is worth raising in case something deeper/more interesting is going on.

Please also check Thunderbolt --> Discrete Thunderbolt Configuration --> GPIO3 Force Pwr. It must be Enabled.

 

[xanderevo]

A couple of quick notes:

• Audio layout ID should be changed to 11.
• CPU Type 0x1005 should be removed (if using iMac19,1).

I'm on iMacPro 1,1

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi @djx8605,

Just ran into a challenge. The iCue pieces that are attached to the internal HS11/HS12 are waking the system up every time I try to put it to sleep. It goes to sleep for about 5s and then wakes up.

Is there a way to modify the SSDT to prevent HS11/HS12 from waking the system?

Or maybe just disable all USB “wake from sleep” so only the power button will wake it from sleep.

Thanks again!
Lam

If you know whether the Corsair device is connected to HS11 or HS12 (you can check this by running IORegistryExplorer and scrolling the device tree on left side until you get to XHC [don't use 'search' field] and looking under both HS11 and HS12 for a Corsair device) we can disable just that port in macOS.

That will completely shutdown the USB port -- but in macOS only. Windows will not be affected. But it could fix sleep/wake on macOS.

 

[xanderevo]

If you know whether the Corsair device is connected to HS11 or HS12 (you can check this by running IORegistryExplorer and scrolling the device tree on left side until you get to XHC [don't use 'search' field] and looking under both HS11 and HS12 for a Corsair device) we can disable just that port in macOS.

That will completely shutdown the USB port -- but in macOS only. Windows will not be affected. But it could fix sleep/wake on macOS.

Now that I think of, I also have water cooling from corsair attached via USB, maybe I can also finally fix the sleep issue.

 

[CaseySJ]

I tried getting the Hackintool to reconfigure my config plist but it wll not let me select it to make changes it appears as greyed out in the system

Even if your config.plist is grayed out, click on it anyway! It will work.

 

[CaseySJ]

Now that I think of, I also have water cooling from corsair attached via USB, maybe I can also finally fix the sleep issue.

Feel free to try the attached SSDT that just removes HS11.

• Backup the existing SSDT-UIAC-DESIGNARE-Z390-V7.aml and remove it from the CLOVER/ACPI/patched folder.
• Copy the new one in its place and reboot.

 

[Elias64Fr]

How the SSDT-TbtOnPch should be configured for Alpine Ridge PCIe? @Elias64Fr

Could someone be so kind and upload the patched Titan Ridge PCIe Firmware? Thx in advance

Hi @S1lla
For SSDT file and quick methodology, you can see discussions with mango1122 Here and file sample for his motherboard Here

About Titan ridge captured firmware, It had been done by CaseySJ Here, still nothing about patched firmware, that I know ..

 

[mm2margaret]

@CaseySJ - are you aware of this research on TB: https://osy.gitbook.io/hac-mini-guide/details/thunderbolt-3-fix

??