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

[ziggenpuss]

After a lot of painful, very tense moments trying to get the clip to give me that dim red glow..
I've ended up here.. Don't want to mess it up now? What's the best option?

 

[jmiller972]

Have you tried clearing NVRAM at the Clover boot screen?

Yes, and with sudo nvram -c. After that, found an empty bios boot option, and removed it in clover efi shell. No joy.

 

[CristianP]

It would be good to boot into Windows and perform diagnostics on the suspicious NTFS drive. Always good to extinguish the little flames first so as to reduce the number of variables.

Good news! I have identified the problem. I removed completely my other drives and the KP are gone!
Turns out the problem was with my Windows SSD. The drive model is Kingston KC400 128GB.

I noticed a pattern on the KP.. they occured when the MacOS tried to mount/unmount that particular drive. I don't know if it is a bad drive because any diagnostic tool that I ran couldn't find any problem.

I'm gonna get another one and try to install W10 again and see if the problems occur again. But for now, I am very happy that my computer is finally behaving as it should!

 

[dgsga]

I too am having wake issues with TB. Not sure where to start!

I think everyone is because were asking the system to operate in a way it wasn't designed to do (run macOS). When I used patched firmware my Lacie 2Big Dock (TB3) would not power off or sleep correctly. Now I'm using a SSDT-only approach to getting a full tree it powers down fine but insta-wakes on sleep. I've spent hours modifying ACPI tables but no joy so far. The wake log always shows 'wake reason : ?' which is not too helpful...

 

[faithie999]

Hello @faithie999
before restoring original firmware, as you have a custom DSDT, you can try removing on RWAK method lines like as the following sample from my laptop :

            If ((TBTS == One))
            {
                If ((RPN0 == One))
                {
                    Acquire (OSUM, 0xFFFF)
                    \_GPE.TINI (Zero, RPS0, RPT0, Arg0)
                    Release (OSUM)
                }

                If ((RPN1 == One))
                {
                    Acquire (OSUM, 0xFFFF)
                    \_GPE.TINI (Zero, RPS1, RPT1, Arg0)
                    Release (OSUM)
                }
            }

unfortunately, no luck.

I removed all the lines shown above and rebooted. first problem--instant wake, which doesn't happen with the AR card removed. but, after instant wake, the TB display did not light up. it was shown connected in system information--thunderbolt, but didn't show up in IOReg.

then I removed these lines, but the same behavior resulted.

there are many ACPI errors that show early in the boot process. they may be of no consequence, but is the verbose boot recorded in a log somewhere or should I capture a video with my phone?

 

[mm2margaret]

@CaseySJ Thanks for replying to @faithie999's questions so succinctly. My bios has a hidden option which can be enabled called ACPI Removal Object Support but I've checked the Designaire's bios 9b and it isn't there unfortunately.


@mm2margaret I can't respond to your PM as I don't have enough posts! Please upload your SystemDSDT from MacIASL and I'll look for the _GPE method. See @CaseySJ 's above post for the location of the _INI method in RP05

So, I'll take a closer look.....

 

[CaseySJ]

The only use I have found for it so far is to use tools to modify the BIOS to make it more mac-friendly...But now I come to think of it most of that could be done in a VM.

For the record, my sarcastic remark about Windows is meant to be just that...sarcastic! Windows has its place, just not with me!

 

[CaseySJ]

I added SSDT to patched folder, but nothing changed. This is what I have:
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We also need to hide your motherboard's onboard Bluetooth. Please download and run IORegistryExplorer and scroll the device tree on left side of the app until you see all of the HSxx devices from HS01 to HS14. Post a screenshot of that page with all HSxx devices expanded so we can see their child nodes.

 

[rauan1]

CaseySJ
I have only one file in patched folder now:

 

[CaseySJ]

After a lot of painful, very tense moments trying to get the clip to give me that dim red glow..
I've ended up here.. Don't want to mess it up now? What's the best option?
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Looks like a copy-and-paste issue. If you copied the text directly from Step 5 as shown, the "extra parameter" might be due to the boldfaced text.

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Just type the whole thing manually or copy/paste from here:

sudo flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=1024 -r test1.bin