macOS Catalina working perfectly UNTIL inserting 5700 XT GPU

[moheban79]

If it was simple I would have done it days ago and I would be playing Doom Eternal instead of spending hours trying to figure it out. Already tried 15.4 and it crashes everytime. Didnt matter if used Clover or Opencore. Not using XFX. Have the Sapphire Nitro+ 5700 XT OC. Not sure what other Nitro experiences are like but its not hackintoshing friendly.

 

[rchen29]

I have the 5700xt red dragon and it freezes with an artifacts cursor. After I switched graphic card Bios to OC mode, it resolved all my issue. Being stable for 2 days already. It might be an power management issue.

 

[moheban79]

I had the same problem. I eventually solved it by installing Cat 15.4 again for third time over this time onto a Samsung 970 Evo plus drive, and using OpenCore 5.8. Fwiw I am using the silent bios on my card due to noise issues.

 

[rchen29]

I had the same problem. I eventually solved it by installing Cat 15.4 again for third time over this time onto a Samsung 970 Evo plus drive, and using OpenCore 5.8. Fwiw I am using the silent bios on my card due to noise issues.

My issue is back again.
May 7 09:53:48 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.DumpGPURestart): Service only ran for 1 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 9 seconds.


May 7 09:53:57 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.DumpGPURestart): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.


May 7 09:54:27 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.DumpGPURestart): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.


May 7 09:54:57 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.DumpGPURestart): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

What that the same issue you had? I use this command to grab the log. "
grep 'com.apple.DumpGPURestart' /var/log/system.log
"

 

[moheban79]

Looks similar

 

[rchen29]

Looks similar

So, a reinstall solved everything for you?

 

[mattystonnie]

So, a reinstall solved everything for you?

Hey Rchen29,

Can you upload the EFI and Ioreg?

 

[moheban79]

So, a reinstall solved everything for you?

That and switching to version 0.5.8 of Opencore, using SSDT-Time to create the needed SSDTs (all three), and using a Samsung 970 Pro EVO Plus drive. Note didn't need a DSDT anymore.

 

[rchen29]

Hey Rchen29,

Can you upload the EFI and Ioreg?

I end up returned it and switched to Sapphire 5700xt pulse, works fine so far. I guess that's a faulty card.

 

[Shiitaki]

Hey guys,

So I've got Catalina 10.15.2 working perfectly on my Hackintosh with my Internal GPU. However, when inserting my Sapphire Pulse 5700 XT, it just won't boot? It gets stuck at the end of the Apple Loading screen and then reboots. Does anybody know what the issue could be? I've seen some posts on the forum, but nobody's Config file works with mine, but that's probably because my specs are different.

MacOS Cataline 10.15.2 / Intel i7-7700K / Gigabyte Aorus Z270X Gaming 7 / Sapphire Pulse 5700 XT

See attachment for my config.plst

Thank you so much in advance!


Hoger

I would try disabling the integrated graphics and if that doesn't work make sure 'above 4G decoding' is enabled.

adding the -v boot flag until you have it working would be helpful.

To get my 5700XT's to work(Nitro+ SE and Liquid Devil) I had to explicitly define false in the config.plist, here's an example.
<key>Graphics</key>
<dict>
<key>EDID</key>
<dict>
<key>Inject</key>
<false/>
</dict>
<key>Inject</key>
<dict>
<key>ATI</key>
<false/>
<key>Intel</key>
<false/>
<key>NVidia</key>
<false/>
</dict>
<key>NvidiaSingle</key>
<false/>
<key>PatchVBios</key>
<false/>
</dict>

Then latest LiLU, WEG, and the agdpmod=pikera bootleg, it's an option in clover configurator.

I had to manually edit my config.plist by enabling inject ATI and then open it with bbedit and change the true to false, relying on clover configurator to put it in the right place with the right syntax. The code edit above is known working. The explicit disable ATI injection was the missing piece that allowed my 5700Xt to work, frustrating to read everyone else doing the well documented WEG,LILU boot flag and yet mien wasn't booting.

I also can't boot the 5700XT with integrated graphics enabled, so you will probably need to disable that.

Hope it helps.