Asus X299 - Support

[djbuddha]

While I have everybody's attention. I just noticed that my Sapphire Nitro+ Vega 64 card's fans aren't spinning up. I haven't done anything that's heavily GPU intensive lately on this machine and don't know how long this has been happening, but I just tried something and the computer began to stall every 5 seconds. I took the side panel off and everything started to work- at which point I noticed the video card's fans aren't spinning.

Is there a fix I need to implement? Nothing is obstructing the fans and all the necessary power connectors are connected.

 

[djlild7hina]

Will the firmware update require any changes on the OS side or will things just continue to work after applying it? I'm always fearful of changing much on my working machine.

Just the things I mentioned in my previous post. Also make sure above 4g encoding is enabled and msr lock is disabled.

0905 added support for 9000 series chips. 2002 had initial support for 10000 series chips.

 

[macmaxxx]

Anyone have try new bios 3105 on Asus X299 Prime Deluxe II?

Here install start but never end....few hours

 

[djbuddha]

Just the things I mentioned in my previous post. Also make sure above 4g encoding is enabled and msr lock is disabled.

0905 added support for 9000 series chips. 2002 had initial support for 10000 series chips.

Ok, finally got the chip at home. Going to install later, so here's my steps I think I need to follow:

• 1st - Carbon Copy Clone my current install to an external USB 3 SSD (I have an identical drive to my internal, have done this a lot before and was able to boot from it.
• Make sure I have the old BIOS backed up somewhere safe
• Install SSDT-AWAC.aml (is this the right file: https://github.com/dortania/Getting-Started-With-ACPI/blob/master/extra-files/compiled/SSDT-AWAC.aml )
• Reboot
• Make sure the machine still boots with that aml
• Prepare a USB flash drive to flash 3203 to my WS Sage 10G
• Flash the BIOS
• Disable MSR Lock / enable above 4G encoding
• Verify all the BIOS Settings from KGP's post
• Confirm a successful boot then change IOCPUNumber to 35 for the 10980XE in the info.plist file
• Shut down, install the CPU and boot up (and possibly have to verify all those BIOS settings again lol)

Sorry for the writeup, last time I tinkered with this machine was when I built it in November, so I want to make sure I got this all right. Correct me if this order of things is wrong, I'll probably do this later today (Sunday)

EDIT - I took the plunge on my own ....

BIOS updated, successfully booted back up. Now to change the IOCPUNumber to 35 and............ install this chip. Pray for me LOL

 

[djbuddha]

Yes change the IOCPUNumber to 35, and I think you need at least BIOS 2002 for 10980xe support. If you're on a higher BIOS (don't recommend 3101), then you need SSDT-AWAC or SSDT-RTC0.aml.

OK ... so it's booted, all the cores show up..... BUT

2 of my RAM slots are not registering. I re-seated them thinking I may have pulled them out, but the notches are jammed under my rad so there's no way I would have accidentally pulled them out.

So instead of 128 GB of RAM right now, I'm showing 96.
If I attempt to lock it to DDR4-3200 at per KGP's guide, I get the EE motherboard error, but I can leave it at auto and enable XMP.

So my suspicion is that this BIOS has issues (as per your warning). Looks like I'm going to roll back. All the other parts worked (I just transcoded a file insanely fast in FCPX) but I can feel little things are sluggish (which makes sense, System Report shows my Corsair Vengeance 3200 RAM running at 2133, instead of 3200 ). Which BIOS should I roll back to? LOL

Thanks for all the help btw

 

[thenightflyer]

Try Bíos 2002...most sage users have no issues with that version. Let me know because I’ve ordered a 10980xe too

 

[djbuddha]

Try Bíos 2002...most sage users have no issues with that version. Let me know because I’ve ordered a 10980xe too

It was user error on my end ...... someone bent a pin on his board ... someone is ashamed .... I even flashed it back to 2002 and it made no difference.

Just re-aligned it. All is well and working as it should (on 2002- may not flash past it if it remains stable), now to adjust my fan curve as I initially had a 9900X in there and this thing is throttling under load a little with my Corsair h150i.

 

[djbuddha]

So now, eventually I'm going to solve my Thunderbolt 3 issue (only getting display out working, all the privacy settings in Windows were done and the firmware as per all the instructions).

Do I need to alter a kext similar to what @djlild7hina was suggesting for the process for the 'SSDT-AWAC.aml' DSDT, but using the Titan Ridge aml file?

 

[djlild7hina]

So now, eventually I'm going to solve my Thunderbolt 3 issue (only getting display out working, all the privacy settings in Windows were done and the firmware as per all the instructions).

Do I need to alter a kext similar to what @djlild7hina was suggesting for the process for the 'SSDT-AWAC.aml' DSDT, but using the Titan Ridge aml file?

Yes download kgp’s thunderbolt SSDT and replace PCI0 with PC00.

 

[djbuddha]

So here's a question for everyone about this new 10980XE on my WS X299 SAGE/10G

One of my tasks is encoding MP4s for delivery to some clients.

When I run the job, it does it's best to saturate all the cores, but man this computer is running insanely hot and I'm sure it's throttling down according to iStat Menus

I'm running a Corsair H150i. In my case, I don't care about sleep, I usually shut it down when I'm not using it as a habit I've always had (read somewhere that the Corsair stuff doesn't play well w/ sleep in MacOS).

I ordered some Noctua NF-F12 IndustrialPPC 2000 PWM fans to replace the ones that shipped with my H150i, but I'm wondering if I should cancel the order and maybe mess with the fan profile in the BIOS? I don't think there's any actual fan/pump control in MacOS as of yet (or ever most likely). Also, don't have Windows on this machine, but I guess I can install it to make the necessary changes w/ an external SSD.

When I check iStat during a long render, I'm seeing it hit 100 C on 1 or 2 cores, but then it obviously throttles back. I need to fix this before I start doing some bigger jobs, so I'm using a separate machine in the interim. The machine idles around 35 C so I'm sure the thermal paste and such is applied properly. It ONLY spikes during this specific workload (Final Cut exports are fine, as it doesn't tax the CPU as hard).

Anybody have any advice for me here?