Gigabyte Z490 Vision D (Thunderbolt 3) + i5-10400 + AMD RX 580

[qbe]

Do you have the Vision G like me?
If yes, can you send me a copy of your EFI folder or config?

sorry, didnt know you had vision G, just read designare in your profile and assumed you are in vision D thread you have vision D

but on vision D, im using stock OC folder from Casey with imacpro/imac20,2 smbios (both work)

 

[schreiberstein]

sorry, didnt know you had vision G, just read designare in your profile and assumed you are in vision D thread you have vision D

but on vision D, im using stock OC folder from Casey with imacpro/imac20,2 smbios (both work)

Did you ever experience black screen issues during boot? Any troubles?
If not, I might send my Vision G back and get a Vision D.

 

[CaseySJ]

Did you ever experience black screen issues during boot? Any troubles?
If not, I might send my Vision G back and get a Vision D.

The black screen problem with Sapphire RX 5700 XT might occur on Vision D as well. If this is an intermittent problem, then let's reexamine some questions:

• Does the card always work in BIOS and OpenCore? In other words, you always see an image on screen in BIOS and OpenCore?
• If so, the "intermittent" problem is only with macOS? And it happens during the late stage of the boot process (before the progress bar reaches the end)?
• Have you tried different monitors, including 1080p or 1440p monitors?

Previously we dropped the DMAR table in OpenCore. The other table to consider dropping is MATS.

 

[canyondust]

thank you m8 for the clarification, you are probably right, but to be honest for 10 years have never had problems, and it worked without a third-party graphics.

I completely agree; I ran my old Z170-UD5 TH off of the HD530 Using HDMI and 2 USB to HDMI adaptors for a year before getting a dGPU... it just seems that in more recent models (iMac18 - iMac20) or OS versions 10.14+ require the two GPU setup to have complete functionality. But as mentioned, the MacMini 8,1 still uses iGPU only so you may have more success switching to that SMBIOS

 

[NCMacGuy]

If I'm planning to use dual boot, is it necessary to apply settings prom this post?

Windows OpenCore Issue!!

Windows OpenCore Issue!! hey guys everytime i boot into windows via opencore when i look under system information, i'm getting windows booting with the smbios from mac how do hell do i configure opencore to load windows 10 default oem information?

www.tonymacx86.com

@lewys @CaseySJ

I tried the modification to OC suggested in the referenced thread. I set my BIOS boot order to start from my OC drive. At the OC picker I picked Windows. Windows boots VERY slowly for me from the OC picker. Windows recognized the computer as a NUC10, which it is, instead of a weird OC designation prior to the suggested OC modification.

This OC modification works for me.

But I have other dual boot issues with OC:

I dual boot Windows and Catalina 10.15.6 using OC 0.6.0 on two hackintoshes. One of the annoying things for me has been how both Windows and OC seem to mess with my BIOS boot order settings. Does anyone know how to stop it?

For example, I can set the BIOS to boot to my OC macOS drive. It boots into the OC picker fine and displays both the Windows and macOS boot drives. I boot into macOS just fine. It works the same with each reboot.

If I then select Windows from the OC selector, Windows boots, but VERY slowly. If I then reboot or shutdown from Windows, Windows changes the boot order in BIOS to the Windows drive first. On the next boot the hack boots directly into Windows, instead of the OC picker as I had previously set in BIOS. Booting Windows when NOT going through OC is VERY fast, and the computer ID was correct as expected.

On my NUC hackintosh, because of the faster Windows boot speed, and the way Windows messes with my BIOS boot order, I just leave Windows as the first selection in the BIOS boot order, and use the F10 (for my NUC) to display the BIOS boot picker window and select the macOS drive when I want to run macOS.

On my Z390 Designare, also set to dual boot Windows, I set BIOS to boot my Catalina OC drive first. If I want to boot Windows I use the F12 key and select my Windows drive. When I leave Windows I have to remember to reset the BIOS boot order back to the Catalina OC drive, or the next boot boots Windows.

With OC 0.6.1 things got even weirder for me. OC also manipulated the BIOS boot order and selectable drives. So for now I've stuck with OC 0.6.0 which I have learned how to handle its weirdness.

If others that dual boot don't experience their BIOS boot order settings getting changed by Windows and/or OC, I'd like to know how to prevent it from happening.

 

[lewys]

I tried the modification to OC suggested in the referenced thread. I set my BIOS boot order to start from my OC drive. At the OC picker I picked Windows. Windows boots VERY slowly for me from the OC picker. Windows recognized the computer as a NUC10, which it is, instead of a weird OC designation prior to the suggested OC modification.

I also do not understand dual boot in OC. They claim better support for dual boot, but in fact it doesn't work as it should. Windows thinks that it boots on a real mac, OC injects wrong ACPI and I think this is not a best idea..

 

[qbe]

Did you ever experience black screen issues during boot? Any troubles?
If not, I might send my Vision G back and get a Vision D.

- reset NVRAM
- confirm you have whatevergreen kext loaded*
- try booting with every port, not just changing while its running
- does your install still work with 580x now?
- confirm card works in BIOS/Windows for extended time (5-10mins)
- confirm you are using Casey config for AMD cards with iMac rom and serials
- u can try running both 580 and 5700xt. I have no idea if that can work but maybe it will and you could confirm if 5700xt loads in macos (second display connected to this card)

*I use real Mac and share screen to hack on black screen (or other problems). That way you can confirm whatevergreen is loaded.

Mostly black screen on boot is solved by whatevergreen kext, plus for RX 5700 XT one needs pikera boot arg.


I didn't install Catalina, I changed HW and EFI (also Clover > OC). But only time I remember I had problems i needed to reset NVRAM. Don't recall if it was changing SMBIOS's iMac>iMacPro>iMac, or black screen on first run. I was also messing with iGPU as first and AMD as second.... So hard to recall where exactly I had black screen.

I have zero problems with the GPU, even fan works as it should. Using iMacPro SMBIOS for better FCPX performance. Card is used daily and a lot...

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So, I just did clean install to USB external drive. With Caseys EFI, using his config-amd-gpu and iMac20,2 I landed to macOS desktop. Only needed to insert serials etc. Installing using UHD Benq monitor, DP, port is the most far from mb

 

[CaseySJ]

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If I then select Windows from the OC selector, Windows boots, but VERY slowly. If I then reboot or shutdown from Windows, Windows changes the boot order in BIOS to the Windows drive first. On the next boot the hack boots directly into Windows, instead of the OC picker as I had previously set in BIOS. Booting Windows when NOT going through OC is VERY fast, and the computer ID was correct as expected.
...

This should not happen if you use the OC 0.6.1 EFI ZIP and the config.plist files in that ZIP (simply copy/paste your serial number, system UUID, ROM, and board serial number into the new config.plist). OR you can simply do this to your existing OpenCore config.plist:

 

[schreiberstein]

The black screen problem with Sapphire RX 5700 XT might occur on Vision D as well. If this is an intermittent problem, then let's reexamine some questions:

• Does the card always work in BIOS and OpenCore? In other words, you always see an image on screen in BIOS and OpenCore?
• If so, the "intermittent" problem is only with macOS? And it happens during the late stage of the boot process (before the progress bar reaches the end)?
• Have you tried different monitors, including 1080p or 1440p monitors?

Previously we dropped the DMAR table in OpenCore. The other table to consider dropping is MATS.

It ALWAYS works on BIOS, OpenCore and any other operating system.
The "black screen" occurs when macOS is supposed to launch into the graphical user interface.
When I connect via Remote Desktop, I cannot see ANY display connected, except the 1280x1024 framebuffer.
And oddly enough, when this is the case, the connection gets terminated after several minutes, although the HDD activity LED is still active.
I have tried with a 4K Dell Monitor via DisplayPort and with my 1440p (actually 1600p : 2560x1600) via DisplayPort adapter. If black screen happens, it happens. Regardless of the connected monitors.

It seems to me that sometimes at boot, it is unable to correctly determine the output configuration or something like that. I wish there was a way to manually configure it for this card.
There are also some UI glitches. Even with WhateverGreen 1.4.2 loaded, switching between Spaces (Desktops?) does not have the smooth transition, but rather just a black wallpaper. After using the system for a bit, sometimes I am unable to select text in Safari and need to close the tab and re-open it again. YouTube videos can also be a hit or a miss. Sometimes the audio plays, but the video is just the site background (white or gray, depending on YouTube nightmode settings).

I am reporting this in such great detail so that fellow Googler's can find out that this card CAN cause issues.
Never had anything like this with the RX 580. Maybe I am just unlucky and it is because of pairing THIS card with THIS motherboard?

 

[schreiberstein]

- reset NVRAM
- confirm you have whatevergreen kext loaded*
- try booting with every port, not just changing while its running
- does your install still work with 580x now?
- confirm card works in bios/windows for extended time (5-10mins)
- confirm you are using Casey config for AMD cards with iMac rom and serials
- u can try running both 580 and 5700xt. I have no idea if that can work but maybe it will and you could confirm if 5700xt loads in macos (second display connected to this card)

*I use real mac and share screen to hack on black screen (or other problems). That way you can confirm whatevergreen is loaded.

Mostly black screen on boot is solved by whatevergreen kext, plus for 5700xt one needs pikera boot arg.


I didnt install Catalina, i changed hw and EFI (also clover > OC). But only time I remember I had problems i needed to reset NVRAM. Dont recall if it was changing smbioses imac>imacpro>imac, or black screen on first run. I was also messing with igpu as first and AMD as second.... So hard to recall where exactly I had black screen.

I have zero problems with the GPU, even fan works as it should. Using iMacPro smbios for better FCPX performance. Card is used daily and a lot...

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So, I just did clean install to USB external drive. With Caseys EFI, using his config-amd-gpu and iMac20,2 I landed to macOS desktop. Only needed to insert serials etc. Installing using UHD benq monitor, DP, port is the most far from mb

Very interesting!
I will try to reset my NVRAM and go through the steps you've mentioned again.
Thank you for sharing your experience with this card. I think I will keep it and hope for the best.