The 4K Dell OptiMac - 9020 MT - Core i7-4790 - Radeon RX 570 - LG 4K IPS Monitor

[FranzWerfel]

That makes perfect sense. I made one BIOS change from the Nicksoph's alternate guide:

Power Management
Deep Sleep Control
(.) Disabled

I left the Optiplex on overnight. The screensaver came on; then it went to sleep; and then this morning, I just moved the mouse a bit and it woke up. There was no black screen and it didn't reboot. I should have mentioned that the cabling needs to be less jerry rigged. I have a Display adapter to HDMI to HDMI cable to HDMI-DVI adapter on the back of an AOC monitor that doesn't have HDMI.

Thanks to you and Nicksoph.

As an update, I have added darkwake=0. That might be overkill. As to the "quality" of sleep, it isn't very deep. The monitor turns off on sleep, but there is a faint white light indicating that the Optiplex is in standby. If I move the mouse, it wakes instantly.

 

[trs96]

If I move the mouse, it wakes instantly.

That's how it's supposed to function. These are designed to be business/office computers. There is a BIOS setting that let's you disable waking the PC by moving the mouse and also the keyboard. Don't recall exactly where it is located.

 

[FranzWerfel]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I want to try to add WiFi and BT to the 9020 USFF. Since sleep seems to work well enough for Mrs. Werfel, I have moved on to testing out this wifi card, REKONG macOS Continuity WiFi Upgrade 1.3Gbps AC BCM94360HMB from Amazon. Since it requires three smaller M.2 antenna cables, I haven't tested out its range, but the WiFi shows up in system hardware OOB.

Fit. The REKONG unit does come with an half-mini card adapter that allows it to snap into place. So, the only thing one needs is an antenna solution.

Bluetooth. The BT 4, however, doesn't show up in the hardware and that has me concerned since I assumed that it might be OOB too. But it isn't and like a few others who have used this card over the years, BT is hit or miss. But since this is a very new card and advertised to work for HandOff and Continuity, I'd like to push the envelope.

The guide, https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/broadcom-wifi-bluetooth-guide.242423/#post-1664577, hasn't been updated for Catalina. I have tried to follow RehabMan's BrcmPatchRam instructions at https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-BrcmPatchRAM, but still no BT in the hardware report. The daunting "Correctly configured USB" task is probably in my future.

But, again, that BrcmPatchRam method only goes as far as Mojave. So, I have pushed the envelope too far. But thus far the 9020 USFF is a good investment and only has a longer learning curve when adding the missing bits, like WiFi and BT.

P.S. I have tried the attached BrcmPatchRam3 but no BT as of yet.

 

[jhlscut]

I bought a used BCM94331CD card with a mini pcie adaptor. However my 9020 USFF does not recognize it. Windows 10 device manager shows there is unrecognized bluetooth device, however, wifi is still not recognized in windows. Any suggestion is welcomed. Thanks!!!

 

[Feartech]

I bought a used BCM94331CD card with a mini pcie adaptor. However my 9020 USFF does not recognize it. Windows 10 device manager shows there is unrecognized bluetooth device, however, wifi is still not recognized in windows. Any suggestion is welcomed. Thanks!!!

you will need to install the drivers for it

 

[jhlscut]

you will need to install the drivers for it

I thought it was driver free

 

[jhlscut]

you will need to install the drivers for it

I mean I thought it was driver free in hackintosh. After pressing it harder into the mini pcie slot, it shows up in macOS as an unrecognized internet device, but no BT still.

 

[Feartech]

I mean I thought it was driver free in hackintosh. After pressing it harder into the mini PCIe slot, it shows up in macOS as an unrecognized internet device, but no BT still.

you mentioned windows doesn't see it....

 

[nicksoph]

As an update, I have added darkwake=0. That might be overkill. As to the "quality" of sleep, it isn't very deep. The monitor turns off on sleep, but there is a faint white light indicating that the Optiplex is in standby. If I move the mouse, it wakes instantly.

It doesn't hibernate - I think that's pretty much standard with most hacks, so it keeps the ram alive and turns most other stuff off - measured it - somewhere in this or trs96's dell 7010 thread I reported the wattage in sleep (i think about one watt - also dependent on amount of ram). If the fans go off and it wakes, that's it working.
Not sure about darkwake being useful here.

 

[FranzWerfel]

It doesn't hibernate - I think that's pretty much standard with most hacks, so it keeps the ram alive and turns most other stuff off - measured it - somewhere in this or trs96's dell 7010 thread I reported the wattage in sleep (i think about one watt - also dependent on amount of ram). If the fans go off and it wakes, that's it working.
Not sure about darkwake being useful here.

I don't think darkwake does anything either now. Does the white LED in the power button ever go off?