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

[joostiphone]

@joostiphone,

Awesome -- nicely done!

Thanks! Did you already try the 10.15.4 Supplemental Update by the way? https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/macos-10-15-4-supplemental-update.295228/

Do you advice to wait or can we update?

 

[mattbatt]

Many current-generation flatscreen TVs provide instructions in the user manual for connecting to a PC or gaming console. Have you checked the TV's user manual? Another suggestion would be to pose this question in the Post-Installation --> Graphics forum.

Regarding the risk of upgrading from Mojave to Catalina, it can be attempted, but only after making and testing a full bootable backup of Mojave. The upgrade procedure must be followed carefully. With the bootable backup handy, one can always switch back immediately if the upgrade fails.

Thank you! I have not seen any special instructions regarding the TV hooked up to the computer. I will look into it further.

 

[CaseySJ]

Thanks! Did you already try the 10.15.4 Supplemental Update by the way? https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/macos-10-15-4-supplemental-update.295228/

Do you advice to wait or can we update?

Yes I updated 13 minutes ago! No problem. Takes a little while as usual.

 

[mattbatt]

@CaseySJ Do you think upgrading my

• Lilu
• WhateverGreen
• BIOS

to their latest versions will hurt my build (running 10.14.5). I'm just wondering if maybe something is going on with WEG and my third monitor.

 

[ncrispi]

Another reason I don't recommend OpenCore at this time. I will do so in the future, but not right now.

Another reason I don't recommend OpenCore at this time. If you followed the back-and-forth with @ncrispi you will see that we did not find a solution. For the past 3 months I have tried to avoid responding to any sleep/wake questions because, in the words of Steve Jobs, "it's just a bag of hurt". Instead, I posted this. I would suggest doing a fresh install with Clover per the Catalina 10.15.4 Mini-Guide and checking sleep/wake behavior.

Please refer to these two spoilers in Post #1 for all of the relevant links:

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P.S. Are you a fan of vinyl? Love that old format.

Hi @CaseySJ - I am happy to report that I was able to fix the phantom wakeups by posting this in terminal:
sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 0

I am honestly not sure which process resulted in this issue, but after changing that, I have no more random wakeups.

I do have one other question though -- I just got speakers for my computer that I plugged into the Audio (green) on the motherboard. I do not get any sound out of these, even by using the AppleALC kext.. is there anything else that I have to do? (I do get sound out of the NZXT audio port on the front of the case though). I am on OpenCore 0.5.6 currently

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ Do you think upgrading my

• Lilu
• WhateverGreen
• BIOS

to their latest versions will hurt my build (running 10.14.5). I'm just wondering if maybe something is going on with WEG and my third monitor.

I am using those latest kexts in the OpenCore 0.5.7 mini-guide, and they work just fine. It might be better to make these changes to a USB flash disk and boot from that first, as follows:

• Using Disk Utility, format a USB flash disk:
  • Format: MacOS Extended (Journaled)
  • Scheme: GIUD Partition Map <<--- very necessary
• Then Mount EFI partition of the USB flash disk and the internal macOS SSD.
• Copy the EFI from macOS SSD to the USB flash disk.
• Now update those kexts on the USB flash disk.
• Reboot.
• Press F12 at BIOS splash screen and select the USB.
• At Clover Boot Menu, choose the standard option to boot back into macOS.

If something fails, remove the USB flash disk and reboot from the internal macOS SSD.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi @CaseySJ - I am happy to report that I was able to fix the phantom wakeups by posting this in terminal:
sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 0

I am honestly not sure which process resulted in this issue, but after changing that, I have no more random wakeups.

Good to know! I've added this to the general Sleep/Wake Troubleshooting Guide.

I do have one other question though -- I just got speakers for my computer that I plugged into the Audio (green) on the motherboard. I do not get any sound out of these, even by using the AppleALC kext.. is there anything else that I have to do? (I do get sound out of the NZXT audio port on the front of the case though)

Some suggestions:

• Is AppleALC running? In Terminal type kextstat | grep -v apple and check for AppleALC.
• Are the audio ports showing up in System Preferences --> Sound --> Output?
• Are you using Layout ID 11 (0x0B)?

And the most obnoxious suggestion of all ...

• Is the volume turned up?

 

[ncrispi]

Good to know! I've added this to the general Sleep/Wake Troubleshooting Guide.

Some suggestions:

• Is AppleALC running? In Terminal type kextstat | grep -v apple and check for AppleALC.
• Are the audio ports showing up in System Preferences --> Sound --> Output?
• Are you using Layout ID 11 (0x0B)?

And the most obnoxious suggestion of all ...

• Is the volume turned up?

AppleALC is running - I checked the sound > output and this is what I see

as far as Layout ID 11 (0x0B) - -what exactly do you mean by that and how would I change that for OpenCore?

 

[CaseySJ]

AppleALC is running - I checked the sound > output and this is what I see
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as far as Layout ID 11 (0x0B) - -what exactly do you mean by that and how would I change that for OpenCore?

There are 2 places it can be in OpenCore:

• NVRAM --> Boot Arguments.
  • There might be a parameter called alcid. My preferred approach is to use this to set Layout ID: alcid=11.
• Devices --> Properties.

 

[RuleBreaker01]

Can you post a photo of Clover Boot Menu? But please resize the image down to about 1024 pixels in X/Y!

Is this?...also how to change this stupid colour?
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