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

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ, I'm attaching my working EFI if you want to take a look. Regarding my last comment.

If the MSR 0xE2 register (CFG-LOCK) is locked, then the OpenCore 0.5.7 config.plist in the mini-guide will cause a boot failure. In your config.plist, I see the following differences, where those in red may be the reason your file is working. The differences in purple are being pointed out for the sake of completeness, but may not be consequential.

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ Putting my PC out of headless mode allowed me to use my LG UltraFine 5K 2019 with iGPU fully enabled.

However, it seems to have introduced a new issue. When my Hackintosh goes to sleep, and I wake it, I see the login screen for a moment and then the screen goes black.

I then have to hard power off and wait a bit, or turning it on will not have video. Upon booting, I get a error report that starts with this:
panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff8000a16487): "AppleHDAHDMI_DPDriver::setPowerState(0xffffff80f7f8c200 : 0xffffff7f82f896f8, 0 -> 1) timed out after 10176 ms"@/AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-6153.101.6/iokit/Kernel/IOServicePM.cpp:5296

Happens in both Clover and OpenCore, and I haven't had a sleep issue in months. Any ideas on what could be the cause? I would like to note that I have iGPU no longer headless (I don't know why I had to do this, as I can turn the iGPU off completely and get video, but it will not boot in headless) and I have the DP cable still going from the motherboard to the RX580, and I have a second RX580 installed with nothing hooked up to it.

Is your little Winbond W25Q80DV still running the original Thunderbolt firmware?

@scottkendall, do you experience any issues with LG UltraFine 4K or 5K connected to a flashed GC-Titan Ridge when waking from sleep?

 

[CODYQX4]

Is your little Winbond W25Q80DV still running the original Thunderbolt firmware?

@scottkendall, do you experience any issues with LG UltraFine 4K or 5K connected to a flashed GC-Titan Ridge when waking from sleep?

Yes, I have not flashed the board nor do I have the equipment to. Maybe someday...

 

[scottkendall]

Is your little Winbond W25Q80DV still running the original Thunderbolt firmware?

@scottkendall, do you experience any issues with LG UltraFine 4K or 5K connected to a flashed GC-Titan Ridge when waking from sleep?

I do not have an LG. I have two 4K Samsungs. I do have one connected with from the DisplayPort, and I have USB-C to HDMI. The HDMI gives me some issues but HDMI from the 2018 Mac Mini also did the same strange things. I also have no reason to use the TB3 Card to do this as I have plenty of ports on the GPU.

 

[hamzab]

It may be a good idea to keep that patch intact for a few days and then observe the behavior without it. We recommend the attached SSDT instead of that patch. As mentioned in a previous reply, this can be copied to CLOVER/ACPI/patched.

Thanks, so just to confirm next steps:

• Should I go into Clover Configurator and remove the whole entry associated with the 'Fix 300-series RTC bug', save the .plist file, reboot, then copy that attached SSDT into CLOVER/ACPI/patched and then reboot and keep an eye on sleep/logs?
• Furthermore, I've just realised my PC has awoken from sleep with the same sort of reason codes as before (oddly enough, I don't have TimeMachine enabled and never have in the last 10 years of owning a Mac, so I'm not sure why that's coming up as a reason) - I've created a text file (it's small as I've scrubbed out the irrelevant times, it's only showing it from 03:00AM till now (03:45AM)), if you could take a quick look I'd really appreciate it.
• Does this mean my PC will wake every night for an hour to do some tasks? And does yours do the same?
• Lastly, do you have iCloud photos enabled, as I think this may be the cause of my wakes. I remember my previous hack had it enabled and it too would wake randomly, but once I de-selected the iCloud photos option, it never had random wake-ups again, but I'll wait to hear your better advice!

Thanks

 

[iRamon]

Hello all! Thank you @CaseySJ for you hard work and dedication to all us Hackintosher! I followed your many guides to make some updates to my Hackintosh: enabled NVRAM and updated from 10.15.2 to 10.15.4. So far, all is working fine! And yes, I made and maintain a bootable backup!

Well done @FlyinBurritoMan! Good to hear all is working fine.

I did want to ask a couple of questions: Is there a guide for overclocking the cpu using the Gigabyte z390 Desingare? Should I just look up a YouTube video or do you know of one that is handy? As for GPU, there are tools to overclock my AMD Vega 56 card using EVGA Precision. Would those overclocks carry over to the Hackintosh on a dual boot system (Not that there's much Mac gaming)?
I'm not a mechanic and don't know how to work on cars, but this bad boy is my "hotrod" and I want to tune as much power out of it as possible! Problem is that I'm still learning my way around all my components.
Thanks!

Your question has been asked (and answered) before. I encourage you (and everyone else) to search and do some research first, before posting a question here. If you get stuck or lost after that, you can always ask more specific and targeted questions that we can all learn from.

I love your analogy of a mechanic and a hotrod. But if you're not a 'mechanic', and you want to tune your hackintosh into a 'hotrod', the best advice I can give is to upgrade your 'mechanical' knowledge and skills first (investing time in research and self-education) before even attempting overclocking. Otherwise you might end up as a 'chef' frying your hackintosh

You already have a stable and powerful system running macOS, so why would you want to overclock it? For some overclocking just sounds really cool, but do you really need those few percentages of extra performance? Would you really notice the difference other than in synthetic benchmark scores? And are you truly willing to sacrifice stability and reliability for that?

I'm not saying you shouldn't overclock. Just make sure you know what your doing, and do it only if the extra performance adds noticable improvement in your day-to-day use of your hackintosh.

If you're still set on overclocking ... have a look at the first post of this thread. I know, it's huge, but it has an index! You'll find tips for overclocking the CPU/Motherboard, and information on controlling Vega 56 fans and frequencies.

 

[FlyinBurritoMan]

Thank you @iRamon for the reply and advice. You are right on many ends. I will do a better job to seek the information myself before asking and do more research to bring up my "mechanical" knowledge.
That first post is amazing! I remember reading through it before I bought all my components. Now that my Hackintosh is running well, I'll go back to it. For example, I was able to figure out how to enable Netflix by changing shikigva=80. For some reason, shikgva as previously set to 30!?
Now I'm trying to figure out why images in Canvas (CMS my university uses) display as ?s in Safari. I don't know if it's one of the many changes I made over the weekend (enabling NVRAM and updating to 10.15.4), or related to Safari & changes to 10.15.4. Time to research up! I don't feel this warranty reverting to my backup as Canvas is working in Chrome. I'll be using that until I find a fix.
Thanks again everyone!

Edit: Fixed it! A setting was added/enabled with 10.15.4. Go to Safari/Preferences/Privacy and uncheck Prevent cross-site tracking. Quit/reopen Safari. Tested. It worked!

 

[svandive]

Hello all! Thank you @CaseySJ for you hard work and dedication to all us Hackintosher! I followed your many guides to make some updates to my Hackintosh: enabled NVRAM and updated from 10.15.2 to 10.15.4. So far, all is working fine! And yes, I made and maintain a bootable backup!
Thank you!
I did want to ask a couple of questions: Is there a guide for overclocking the cpu using the Gigabyte z390 Desingare? Should I just look up a YouTube video or do you know of one that is handy? As for GPU, there are tools to overclock my AMD Vega 56 card using EVGA Precision. Would those overclocks carry over to the Hackintosh on a dual boot system (Not that there's much Mac gaming)?
I'm not a mechanic and don't know how to work on cars, but this bad boy is my "hotrod" and I want to tune as much power out of it as possible! Problem is that I'm still learning my way around all my components.
Thanks!

Just as a side note, this link Is the best overclock guide I have found for a Gigabyte board and i9-9900K. I run a clean 5GHz on all 8 cores at 1.2v and never break 78 degrees even under intense prime 95 load.

 

[scottkendall]

Yes, I have not flashed the board nor do I have the equipment to. Maybe someday...

I know not everyone budget is the same but you could likely have the equipment for around $70 if you go the Raspberry Pi route, even cheaper if you go with some of the other options. However, to flash your Designare I would def go the RPi route. Check out the spoilers on the first page you might be presently surprised at how adorable it could be.

 

[peetbeat]

Hello!

Has anyone ever encountered this problem? It came up with Clover_r5111 and 10.15.4.

Immediately after departure: Error: Already started returned from OpenRuntime.efi
I haven't seen anything like it yet.

What can cause it?