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

[CaseySJ]

Anyway thanks for being there all the time Man. Once my new backup drive comes i will backup everything.

Also one more thing - While booting sometimes my keyboard(only keyboard) won't work at the bios screen,Clover menu. I have to reconnect it after reaching the login screen.

Is it a wired keyboard or wireless? If wireless, is it Bluetooth or something like Logitech wireless keyboard (with its own USB transceiver)?

 

[KevinAGI]

@CaseySJ on your x99 machine do you have a thread for that one that documents what you did to get catalina going, or did you just augment the KGP method?

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ on your x99 machine do you have a thread for that one that documents what you did to get catalina going, or did you just augment the KGP method?

I was able to upgrade to 10.15.3 without any issue, but have been unsuccessful so far with upgrading to 10.15.4. Haven’t put much time into it, but may do so soon.

 

[WhosMac]

@CaseySJ & company saw there was an addition to post #1 for fresh install for 10.15.4 is there any "Need to Know's" prior to upgrading? Outside of updating Clover & current kexts and from what I saw making sure to have Native NVRAM by unlocking MSR 0xE2, which I believe I did a while ago to get Native NVRAM
Or has anyone encountered any problems with 10.15.4? Im hoping its fixed the facial scan in the background from 10.15.3 to reactivate my photos library.

 

[FormerUser-50757]

Been down that road many times already. Makes no difference unfortunately.

@CaseySJ @iDrakus

I may be going mad at this point, but I think I've solved my screen/system freezing issues finally. I don't fully understand why, but I think I traced it all back and down to something that may help others. Please correct my assumptions or findings if they are incorrect. I'm so excited at this point, as I think I'm in the clear with this build.

I've been using a couple of different projects/sessions in audio and video apps to reliably provoke the system into freezing within a few seconds to about 10 minutes or so maximum. I just tested my system for the last few hours - constantly provoking it with test after test, and it's been suddenly amazingly stable and hasn't crashed yet, so I believe it's highly unlikely that it's a fluke at this point.

Here's what I did to stop my machine from randomly freezing my screens, and completely lockup my system, after replacing practically every piece of hardware and countless other software, bootloader and kext-based tweaks:

1. I went back into BIOS to mess around with power settings and other things that may stop my freezes. I wrote down what I changed (changed a bunch of things at once). I hadn't tried this yet.
2. Rebooted, no crashing for about 45minutes straight. Amazing, but I wasn't convinced yet.
3. Changed all those BIOS changes BACK to what I had when I was freezing all the time, and then booted again to see if it would crash - just to make sure this all might be real!
4. No crashes for 1 hour straight. I was totally losing my mind at this point.
5. Dug around on the web for things related to, or about the BIOS settings I had changed. Found something really interesting...
6. I may be wrong here, but from what I understand, the BIOS setting for "IOAPIC 24-119 Entries" is actually a switch that needed switching at least once to start working, so it can lock down the motherboard PCH configuration. So by changing this value (I never had done so before this) I locked down how the board's PCH is configured on the motherboard, and so it started working properly as a result of me just flipping the switch once. Am I wrong here, or half right, or totally right?

I found this info on an older page from 2015, where this info about "IOAPIC 24-119 Entries" was being discussed, and what this Intel data sheet was showing:

See the page here:
https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/appleapic-kext-binary-patch-for-skylake/


What I'm thinking:

Maybe some people change that setting for fun, or there is some process that flips the setting automatically, but for some people it doesn't happen?

It may be that I'm just amazingly lucky for not getting any freezes during the last few hours, but I doubt it, considering I'm trying to constantly force the machine to crash under loads with test sessions that have ALWAYS made the machine crash quickly

What do you think?

 

[lambusser]

Hi Everyone,

Wondering if anyone's seen this issue before. Twice tonight I've had my system video freeze on all three monitors. In both cases the system is still working as I was video chatting with someone while doing some guitar/bass recording work in Cubase and they could see and hear me. Based on the report below it looks like com.apple.WindowServer is locking up.

The system rebooted itself after a bit and the report had these (first three lines):

panic(cpu 8 caller 0xffffff7f81d12ad5): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer in 120 seconds
service: com.apple.logd, total successful checkins since load (4970 seconds ago): 498, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago
service: com.apple.WindowServer, total successful checkins since load (4940 seconds ago): 471, last successful checkin: 120 seconds ago

Any idea what could be happening?

Thanks,
Lam

 

[FormerUser-50757]

Hi Everyone,

Wondering if anyone's seen this issue before. Twice tonight I've had my system video freeze on all three monitors. In both cases the system is still working as I was video chatting with someone while doing some guitar/bass recording work in Cubase and they could see and hear me. Based on the report below it looks like com.apple.WindowServer is locking up.

The system rebooted itself after a bit and the report had these (first three lines):

panic(cpu 8 caller 0xffffff7f81d12ad5): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer in 120 seconds
service: com.apple.logd, total successful checkins since load (4970 seconds ago): 498, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago
service: com.apple.WindowServer, total successful checkins since load (4940 seconds ago): 471, last successful checkin: 120 seconds ago

Any idea what could be happening?

Thanks,
Lam

See my last post. Been through this EXACTLY.

 

[davemenkehorst]

@CaseySJ @iDrakus

I may be going mad at this point, but I think I've solved my screen/system freezing issues finally. I don't fully understand why, but I think I traced it all back and down to something that may help others. Please correct my assumptions or findings if they are incorrect. I'm so excited at this point, as I think I'm in the clear with this build.

I've been using a couple of different projects/sessions in audio and video apps to reliably provoke the system into freezing within a few seconds to about 10 minutes or so maximum. I just tested my system for the last few hours - constantly provoking it with test after test, and it's been suddenly amazingly stable and hasn't crashed yet, so I believe it's highly unlikely that it's a fluke at this point.

Here's what I did to stop my machine from randomly freezing my screens, and completely lockup my system, after replacing practically every piece of hardware and countless other software, bootloader and kext-based tweaks:

1. I went back into BIOS to mess around with power settings and other things that may stop my freezes. I wrote down what I changed (changed a bunch of things at once). I hadn't tried this yet.
2. Rebooted, no crashing for about 45minutes straight. Amazing, but I wasn't convinced yet.
3. Changed all those BIOS changes BACK to what I had when I was freezing all the time, and then booted again to see if it would crash - just to make sure this all might be real!
4. No crashes for 1 hour straight. I was totally losing my mind at this point.
5. Dug around on the web for things related to, or about the BIOS settings I had changed. Found something really interesting...
6. I may be wrong here, but from what I understand, the BIOS setting for "IOAPIC 24-119 Entries" is actually a switch that needed switching at least once to start working, so it can lock down the motherboard PCH configuration. So by changing this value (I never had done so before this) I locked down how the board's PCH is configured on the motherboard, and so it started working properly as a result of me just flipping the switch once. Am I wrong here, or half right, or totally right?

I found this info on an older page from 2015, where this info about "IOAPIC 24-119 Entries" was being discussed, and what this Intel data sheet was showing:

See the page here:
https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/appleapic-kext-binary-patch-for-skylake/


What I'm thinking:

Maybe some people change that setting for fun, or there is some process that flips the setting automatically, but for some people it doesn't happen?

It may be that I'm just amazingly lucky for not getting any freezes during the last few hours, but I doubt it, considering I'm trying to constantly force the machine to crash under loads with test sessions that have ALWAYS made the machine crash quickly

What do you think?

I have exactly the same problem in Pro Tools. Just 10 seconds or so. Any news if it’s the solution?

 

[RuleBreaker01]

Is it a wired keyboard or wireless? If wireless, is it Bluetooth or something like Logitech wireless keyboard (with its own USB transceiver)?

Yes. Its a wired Corsair K55 RGB keyboard.

 

[S1lla]

I was able to upgrade to 10.15.3 without any issue, but have been unsuccessful so far with upgrading to 10.15.4. Haven’t put much time into it, but may do so soon.

Just update your Clover version and you are good to go.