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

[smashdownbabylon]

anyone know what the deal is with clover installer 5107 skipping destination select in mojave 10.14.6?

 

[tanaca]

*** Thunderbolt DROM Micro-Guide for Gigabyte GC-Titan Ridge ***
Please do not quote this micro-guide in its entirety. Post a link instead.​

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Hi Bro
I found two SSDT files, which can display the thunder device tree without modifying ROM, but it is unstable. Can you improve it?
ASUS 390-a ASUS Thunder ex3 card

 

[S1lla]

Just flash the firmware, the SSDT way without the custom firmware is something what maybe will be possible in future. @tanaca

 

[tanaca]

Just flash the firmware, the ssdt way without the custom firmware is something what maybe will be possible in future. @tanaca

But it really works on my Pc and connects to my motu828es,Just connect and crash

 

[S1lla]

It will crash further and now?

Just use the old SSDT way or flash the custom firmware.

 

[zgonda]

Bonjour Mr Casey !!

Thank you again for your job !!
I have Native NVRAM and updated Catalina to 10.15.4 from 10.15.3 without any problem, but I don't understand this part of your recent mini guide :

"Preparation:

• This procedure depends on Native NVRAM.
  • This guide will do most of the work for you, but you must unlock your motherboard's MSR 0xE2 register by following the simple Micro-Guide by clicking here.
  • Unlocking MSR 0xE2 register is required. This installation process will fail immediately if this is not done."

I have never done that, but if I want to do a clean install of 10.15.4 must do I this "unlock" ? Even if I have a Native NVRAM...
If somebody hasn't Native NVRAM, should he do that ?
What is the benefit of this unlock ?
You have understood that I have not understood !!!!

 

[mmaira]

Yes, please try the NVM23 first. It’s much more reliable than NVM43, but not perfect.

@CaseySJ
Just did the reprogramming using @Elias64Fr NVM23 modified firmware (may thanks @Elias64Fr) along with a modified version of the SSDT for personalized DROM / UID as per the mini guide. Reprogramming done without a hitch. Port 7 is now visible in IOREg, as well as Thunderbolt bus. . Thank you very much!
Will do some more testing now.
As an aside (but nothing really serious): it looks like that boot time is a bit longer now. Also, wake / sleep is working but at wake up I can hear the RX580 spining up and down prior (just as during the boot process). This was not the case before. Are these behaviors related to your quote on the firmware not being perfect? many thanks and best.

 

[joostiphone]

@CaseySJ I've gone through the start post and (a lot!) of posts following. Thank you very much for all the write-ups you do, I've already learned a lot.

I have a current build (which differs from yours) on MacOS 10.15.4 which is working perfectly fine (stable-wise). I want to replace it with new hardware. I want to basically buy the same build you have (some components I already own, such as the Fenvi, RX 570, SSD's).

So my question; can I use my current (pre-installed) SSD, using your EFI, and replace mine? If so, which files should I use from your start post? What do you recommend in my situation?

Hopefully, you can help me out a little bit.

 

[iRamon]

"Preparation:

• This procedure depends on Native NVRAM.
  • This guide will do most of the work for you, but you must unlock your motherboard's MSR 0xE2 register by following the simple Micro-Guide by clicking here.
  • Unlocking MSR 0xE2 register is required. This installation process will fail immediately if this is not done."

I have never done that, but if I want to do a clean install of 10.15.4 must do I this "unlock" ? Even if I have a Native NVRAM...

Hello @zgonda
If you haven't done that (unlocking the MSR 0xE2 register) then you do NOT have Native NVRAM. It's more likely that you have emulated NVRAM via Clover RC scripts on your current system, but that is not the same as Native NVRAM.

If somebody hasn't Native NVRAM, should he do that ?
What is the benefit of this unlock ?

This question has been asked (and answered) before in this thread. Casey has outlined the many benefits perfectly here (please read!).

If you want to follow Casey's Mini-Guide for Direct Installation of Catalina 10.15.4, Native NVRAM is no longer optional but required as stated in the guide:

You can verify if your MSR register is unlocked or not (and unlock the register if necessary) by following Casey's Micro-Guide: Unlocking MSR 0xE2 on Gigabyte Designare Z390.

Be aware that if you want to enable Native NVRAM on your existing installation, there are other changes you need to make! There is a perfect guide to enable NVRAM on existing installations. This includes unlocking the MSR register, making changes in Clover Configurator, adding an SSDT to your EFI/CLOVER folder, and removing Clover RC scripts.

Hope that this clarifies things for you.

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ
Just did the reprogramming using @Elias64Fr NVM23 modified firmware (may thanks @Elias64Fr) along with a modified version of the SSDT for personalized DROM / UID as per the mini guide. Reprogramming done without a hitch. Port 7 is now visible in IOREg, as well as Thunderbolt bus. . Thank you very much!
Will do some more testing now.
As an aside (but nothing really serious): it looks like that boot time is a bit longer now. Also, wake / sleep is working but at wake up I can hear the RX580 spining up and down prior (just as during the boot process). This was not the case before. Are these behaviors related to your quote on the firmware not being perfect? many thanks and best.

Awesome!

Regarding slow boot time, if it’s bothersome then try this (insane?) procedure...

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

don't use that software on your main config.plist...... It definitely has messed up my older versions, but I keep trying it with each release and have had no issues with 056 yet. Thats a cool first!

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