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

[faithie999]

Bluetooth works, after disabling the UIAC.aml but trying to import from iPhone functionality timeouts quickly and fails.

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Don't you mean you need to remove/disable the SSDT that disables the Intel CNVI card in order to experiment with the workaround that might make the onboard BT work? Rremoving/disabling the UIAC SSDT will mess with your USB port configuration.

 

[marciii]

Kudos! Excellent decision to make a backup ahead of time.

Some comments and questions:

• Your CLOVER folder looks fine, but it's best to remove or disable the two highlighted items:
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• This problem has been reported before, but it can be tricky to solve. One simple suggestion is to add agdpmod=pikera to your Boot Arguments. This simply changes board-id to board-ix, and is created to a Hackintosh legend who goes by the alias Piker Alpha (hence piker-a or pikera). It solves boot-to-black screen with AMD RX 5700 GPUs, but might be worth trying on Vega as well. This can be added by right-clicking inside the Boot Arguments box in Clover Configurator as shown.
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• Notice that there are 3 agdpmod options. Feel free to try them all, but no guarantees.
• A more severe course of action is to try removing WhateverGreen altogether, but this can render some video ports unusable. Please see this post and the two linked posts in the paragraph below:
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• To troubleshoot the audio problem, type this in Terminal: kextstat | grep -v apple. We want to see if AppleALC is up and running.
• Finally, it may be a good idea to momentarily boot from the backup disk and confirm that video (DisplayPort thru Vega) and audio are working.

Hi @CaseySJ,

thanks already for the help.
So I did the following (with no success to avoid any suspense):

• agdpmod=pikera -> Reboot, checked all HDMI and DP, HDMI work fine, DP cuts out when MacOS starts up and the login window is shown.
• agdpmod=ignore -> Reboot, checked all HDMI and DP, HDMI work fine, DP cuts out when MacOS starts up and the login window is shown.
• agdpmod=vit9696 -> Reboot, checked all HDMI and DP, HDMI work fine, DP cuts out when MacOS starts up and the login window is shown.
• Removed WEG from Clover/Kext/Other, added the two lines to ACPI patches -> Reboot, checked all HDMI and DP, HDMI work fine, DP cuts out when MacOS starts up and the login window is shown.
• Connected my Mojave backup (taken 10 minutes before kicking of the update process for Catalina), F12 into Bootoptions to select BackUp, Clover directed to boot from Backup: checked all HDMI and DP and the all work fine, no hardware changes (didn't even move the cables from previous attempt to this one)

Also this is what kextstat | grep -v apple reported:

• On Catalina:
• On my Mojave backup (audio works fine here, lots of options in the system prefs):

Any ideas?

BR
Marc

 

[MatiCohen]

don't you mean you need to remove/disable the SSDT that disables the Intel CNVI card in order to experiment with the workaround that might make the onboard BT work? removing/disabling the UIAC ssdt will mess with your USB port configuration.

I did both. the UIAC disables the HS14 port that the builtin Bluetooth uses, so I had to disable it. I removed both UIAC and the CNVI disable. USBInjectAll seems to work fine but I didn't check sleep yet

 

[CaseySJ]

Hey CaseySJ, previously, I have Windows installed on a separate M.2 drive in my ASUS X99 Deluxe II and now I would like to remove it. Do I need to change anything in the BIOS or it is safe to just removed the drive.
The system is still working great with your EFI!

Hello @PicLock,

It's perfectly okay to just remove it. It can even be moved to another system, but it may need re-activation. I'm not too familiar with activation procedures in Windows, but if it's possible to deactivate it first, then it might be easier to reactivate it on a new system.

By the way, are you booting the Asus X99 Deluxe II with Clover or OpenCore? Recently I attempted to migrate Clover settings to a freshly configured OpenCore folder, but the system fails immediately at the start of boot.

 

[svandive]

Great work! Glad I could help out with some testing.

I've ordered a Raspberry Pi 4B and a SOIC8 clip with jumper wires/breadboard/capacitor/resisistor last night ... now waiting for shipment and delivery somewhere next week. Can't wait to get going!

I'll document the process and post results with relevant images. Let me know if there's anything in particular you want to see.

If you could get a board level view of the SOIC8 clip attached, I'd love to see how stable the clip to chip is. I have everything to do the firmware transfer, but I am really really using my system right now, and If I botched it, this would be a bit of a problem for me. I just can't afford the downtime. If I could get my NUC working with Catalina as a "backup" system I could jump right in.

Anyway it would be good to get a professional quality photo of the clip to chip interface to let folks know how stable the clip fits on.

Thanks....

 

[CaseySJ]

Hey Casey, Did you try https://github.com/zxystd/IntelBluetoothFirmware
with the preinstalled CNVi Intel card? I wonder If it works, there's also progress on the WIFi side in terms of finding networks.

Hello @MatiCohen,

That sounds very intriguing -- I will try it today and report back! Thanks for the pointer.

 

[hamzab]

@CaseySJ

Good news! All parts have come. So I've got a brand new replacement motherboard and a brand new 9700K.

Thankfully the USB 2 header splitter also arrived, as well as the Fenvi BT/WIFI card. I'm going to assemble tomorrow, however a quick pair of questions if you don't mind:

• Do I use the USB 2 internal header splitter, add the Fenvi card to a PCIe slot, connect a cable from the Fenvi card to the splitter and also connect the case's 1x USB 2 port to the header splitter too?
• Or should I remove some of the above steps in order to not get into too many issues, at least till everything's installed?

 

[CaseySJ]

Thank you for your swift reply.
The mouse is a Logitech MX Master using a Logitech dongle.
Video and animations don't freeze, even the blinking cursor in a text box doesn't freeze.
The DP cable I'm using is definitely for 4k@60hz
I also checked a HDMI cable but like I said, the problem is much worse on HDMI.

I have a Logitech MX Master 3 with 4k DP, and I, as well, noticed mouse stutters/lags!
I thought I'm alone in this. Do you think its related to our configs?

Some comments / questions:

• Have you tried a different mouse temporarily? Perhaps even a cheap wired mouse?
• Have you installed Logitech Options software for Mac? If so, is there a firmware update available for the MX Master?
• Have you tried move the Logitech Unifying Receiver (the USB dongle) to a different USB port?

 

[MatiCohen]

@CaseySJ here is the WiFi kext - https://github.com/AppleIntelWifi/adapter
Device log for our motherboard - https://github.com/AppleIntelWifi/device-logs/issues/1

Promising progress. Regarding the bluetooth kext, if you own an iPhone, please try importing an image and let us know, Thanks

 

[CaseySJ]

Same error unfortunately, although it was aligned on my monitor in a different way, and pressing a key resulted in getting back to the BIOS boot menu as opposed to just a blank screen. I went back to the BIOS setup and saw that the boot order seemed to get bumped down: #1 was disabled but #2 was samsung, and then #3 was sunbow. I tried these steps twice, making sure to press F12 and select Samsung, but got the same results.

Are there any Hackintosh kexts installed in /Library/Extensions (refer to table at the top of this post)?