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

[CaseySJ]

Any chance someone can spot the problem with my install of the GC-Titan-Ridge in my Designaire? So far I have:

1) Upgraded DROM on my motherboard and tested that Thunderbolt is working well. Right now I am typing this up using a monitor connected via the TB. SSDT was updated per the instructions.

2) Upgraded DROM on my Titan Ridge card.

3) Set up Titan Ridge SSDT. Replaced PEGP in 2 places given card is in middle slot. Also updated bus bytes on ThunderboltDROM and ThunderboltConfig.

4) Jumpered pins 3&5 on the Titan Ridge card.

5) Rebooted.

Now I am showing 2 thunderbolt busses with the same ID and, interestingly, it is not showing anything connected even through I am running my display off one (perhaps that shouldn't show).

SSDTs also attached if you are curious.

Thanks in advance. I'm sure it's something obvious that I'm overlooking.

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Please try the attached SSDT for GC-Titan Ridge. We can see from your IOReg screenshot that the card is on PEG1.PEGP (not RP05). Hence the following 3 changes were made:

The previous file should be removed before copying the attached.

 

[jmiller972]

Anyone had any problems with dual boot Windows 10 not booting from Clover with native NVRAM? It begins to load Win 10, but then almost immediately blue-screens. It worked fine on my build with Emulated NVRAM, but when I switched over to native, it no longer boots. It still boots fine directly from bios boot, and will still boot with usb backup that is still emulated. Native NVRAM seems to be working well in Catalina, it's just Win 10 that will not boot.

 

[doof]

At this time -- and admittedly it's still too early -- my inclination is to choose a board with the fewest compromises that is still relatively reasonable in price. If that means jumping to an AORUS Master or Xtreme I may do just that. Let's hope the D in "Vision D" doesn't stand for Disappointment.

Obviously the D is for Dual Displayport in.

 

[CaseySJ]

Obviously the D is for Dual Displayport in.

Murphy was an optimist...?

 

[faithie999]

@CaseySJ

I purchased another Designare motherboard and attempted to flash the TB3 chip using the Raspberry Pi 4 procedure without success. I could not get the Pomona 5250 to seat properly after MANY attempts, so I temporarily gave up and decided to flash and install a GC-Alpine Ridge AIC I had sitting on a shelf.

I successfully flashed the GC-Alpine Ridge chip. I put the jumper between Pin 3 and Pin 5, and installed it in the bottom PCIEX4 slot. Then I made all the necessary Clover changes and had the Alpine Ridge running at RP21.

With working Thunderbolt I decided to again tempt flashing the Designare's TB3 chip. (I can be a bulldog with things like this!) It took 3 or 4 more attempts to seat the clip until I finally got the chip read and flashed successfully. (I did not have the wire attached to pin 8. Was this part of my problem?) This Thunderbolt chip runs at RP05.

System Info - Thunderbolt now shows two "Thunderbolt Bus 0" entries. IORegistryExplorer shows IOThunderboltPort@7 for RP05 (Titan Ridge) and IOThunderboltPort@5 for RP21 (Alpine Ridge). Is System Info - Thunderbolt just cosmetic?

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I suppose I may need to modify SSDTs for the Alpine Ridge and/or Titan Ridge to be on different buses which is way beyond my technical abilities.

This is on Mojave 10.14.6, Clover 5107.

I'm NOT planning to continue using the Alpine Ridge AIC now that the on-board TB3 chip is flashed. I'm just wondering if the bus issue needs to be resolved?

Suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!!!!

have you had any issues with your computer waking from sleep when you're using your Apple TB monitor and AR card?

 

[CaseySJ]

Anyone had any problems with dual boot Windows 10 not booting from Clover with native NVRAM? It begins to load Win 10, but then almost immediately blue-screens. It worked fine on my build with Emulated NVRAM, but when I switched over to native, it no longer boots. It still boots fine directly from bios boot, and will still boot with usb backup that is still emulated. Native NVRAM seems to be working well in Catalina, it's just Win 10 that will not boot.

On my primary Designare build I have a Windows 10 NVMe SSD in M2M and a macOS NVMe SSD in M2P. Windows was installed after removing all other drives, and as such it installed its bootloader onto its own EFI partition on M2M.

This post is from that Windows installation. Windows booted up normally from Clover 5107 after I selected Boot Microsoft EFI from EFI.

This system has:

• Catalina 10.15.4
• Native NVRAM
• Flashed Thunderbolt firmware

 

[mathgeek]

Please try the attached SSDT for GC-Titan Ridge. We can see from your IOReg screenshot that the card is on PEG1.PEGP (not RP05). Hence the following 3 changes were made:

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The previous file should be removed before copying the attached.

Champion! I would not have caught that - learn something every day. It's working great, thank you.

 

[szw75]

I followed your guide, made perfect build, installed Catalina - works flawless:

MB: Gigabyte Z390 DESIGNARE
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-9700K + NOCTUA NH-D15
RAM: HyperX Predator DDR4 32 GB
GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 Limited Edition 8GB HBM2
SSD: Samsung 960 EVO M.2 250GB + Samsung 860 EVO SATA 1TB

Is it possible to install Windows 10 on another drive and have a boot option in clover?

 

[CaseySJ]

I followed your guide, made perfect build, installed Catalina - works flawless:

MB: Gigabyte Z390 DESIGNARE
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-9700K + NOCTUA NH-D15
RAM: HyperX Predator DDR4 32 GB
GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 Limited Edition 8GB HBM2
SSD: Samsung 960 EVO M.2 250GB + Samsung 860 EVO SATA 1TB

Is it possible to install Windows 10 on another drive and have a boot option in clover?

Glad to hear it!

Yes it's possible to have a dual boot system, but we should:

• Install Windows NVMe SSD into the upper M2M slot.
• Physically remove macOS NVMe and any other macOS drives.
• Use Microsoft Media Creation Tool to create a Windows 10 USB install disk.
• Install Windows via the USB install disk.

Please see Tips for Installing Windows 10 in Post #1 for more details.

 

[jmiller972]

On my primary Designare build I have a Windows 10 NVMe SSD in M2M and a macOS NVMe SSD in M2P. Windows was installed after removing all other drives, and as such it installed its bootloader onto its own EFI partition on M2M.

This post is from that Windows installation. Windows booted up normally from Clover 5107 after I selected Boot Microsoft EFI from EFI.

This system has:

• Catalina 10.15.4
• Native NVRAM
• Flashed Thunderbolt firmware

Same here with the NVMe drives' slot configuration and Win10 with its bootloader on its own EFI Partition, which is why it can boot directly from bios, bypassing Clover. Clover boots it just fine with Emulated NVRAM, but refuses to with native (Catalina seems to work like it should with native.) I don't have the flashed thunderbolt firmware, but I wouldn't think that would make a difference?

BTW, forgot to first thank you for your awesome build guide!