pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

[starcat102]

No crashes in User Reports from today (last lockup).

Disabled it, yes!
Eager to see how it would behave with XMP disabled.

 

[pano_78]

Please try this one.

Worked like a charm! no more message and I can boot to windows now from the bootlader,
Thank you very much for your help!

 

[chompychomps]

Hey Pastrychef,

I have a system with similar specs, and I keep getting the userspace watchdog timeout KP. Not sure if you experienced that before. The system will freeze and get stuck and usually a hard reboot will only solve the problem.

Specs are
Asus Z370i Strix + 8700K
AsRock Vega 56 Reference
16GB Corsair LPX memory 3200
Dell DW1560 wifi card + USB Bluetooth dongle

OS: Opencore 0.6.2 + Catalina 10.15.7
iMac Pro 1.1 SMBIOS

I've tried updating to the latest BIOS and followed your config in the BIOS except disabling CSM as I run a single monitor. I'm not sure if it would be applicable to my system. I'm quite hesitant to try the EFI posted as when I compare, the booter seem to be a little different.

It currently works fine with everything running even continuity and airdrop. Shut down seems fine with no instant reboots

If you can, please help me look into the EFI and see if I should change the config.plist values to be similar to yours. I'm trying to run the system with a headless iGPU for rendering and processing together with my Vega 56

 

[pastrychef]

Hey Pastrychef,

I have a system with similar specs and I keep getting the userspace watchdog timeout KP. Not sure if you experienced that before. The system will freeze and get stuck and usually a hard reboot will only solve the problem.

Specs are
Asus Z370i Strix + 8700K
AsRock Vega 56 Reference
16GB Corsair LPX memory 3200
Dell DW1560 wifi card + USB bluetooth dongle

OS: Opencore 0.6.2 + Catalina 10.15.7
iMac Pro 1.1 SMBIOS

I've tried updating to the latest bios and followed your config in the bios except disabling CSM as I run a single monitor. I'm not sure if it would be applicable to my system. I'm quite hesitant to try the EFI posted as when I compare, the booter seem to be a little different.

It currently works fine with everything running even continuity and airdrop. Shut down seems fine with no instant reboots

If you can, please help me look into the EFI and see if I should change the config.plist values to be similar to yours. I'm trying to run the system with a headless iGPU for rendering and processing together with my Vega 56

When you reboot after a freeze, do you get a kernel panic log?

I only have one monitor too. Disable CSM.

I've never used the NVMeFix.kext. I don't know if it causes problems or not.

When troubleshooting, make sure to disable any overclocks and XMP.

 

[chompychomps]

Yes! I do get a kernel panic log. I've attached it. I think the Quirks on the Booter section is kinda different. Namely, the Rebuildapplememorymap, Syncruntimepermissions and Enablewriteunprotector.

Hmm. Maybe I can remove and see how it goes...

 

[pastrychef]

Yes! I do get a kernel panic log. I've attached it. I think the Quirks on the Booter section is kinda different. Namely, the Rebuildapplememorymap, Syncruntimepermissions and Enablewriteunprotector.

Hmm. Maybe I can remove and see how it goes...

Hmm... It seems related to WindowServer. I don't see anything in your config.plist that can cause problems.

Try disabling overclocks and XMP.

 

[chompychomps]

Hmm... It seems related to WindowServer. I don't see anything in your config.plist that can cause problems.

Try disabling overclocks and XMP.

Yea Everything is disabled. I've removed NvMEfix. so far nothing seem to be different. Will see if it remains stable! Thanks pastrychef!

 

[chompychomps]

Hmm... It seems related to WindowServer. I don't see anything in your config.plist that can cause problems.

Try disabling overclocks and XMP.

Ah just had my first freeze. My YouTube seem to be playing in the background but no input from my mouse and keyboard. The system seem to be frozen too. I can move the mouse though strangely.

 

[mm2margaret]

Hey, there, got a question....

My Asus Z370-A running OC 6.3 runs almost perfectly, BUT (well, I wouldn't be posting after all this time if I didn't have an issue...).

For the life of me, I can't get OC to respect boot order in OpenCanopy (or at the cli, either). As I need Mojave for some apps, I have it installed on a separate SSD, but that's what always shows up first in the boot menu every time. And that is despite choosing it as startup disk in sysprefs and Crtl-enter at the menu. It always goes to Mojave first, which is not what I want.

I know there was an issue with NVRAM with these boards, but I thought there had been some workarounds.
I've loaded SSDT-PMC, made a lot of adjustments in my config.plist (recommended at Dortania). I've changed csr-active-config from 03000000 to 67000000 to 77080000 and back. I think this system might actually have some nvram, but maybe not it's large enough? I should say that I don't really care about nvram, I just want the boot order to select Catalina first and not Mojave. Did you have this issue on your Z370-G?

I took a look at your latest OC 6.2 EFI and didn't see anything that was a huge difference to my EFI. And, as most everything (including sleep) works as perfectly as it ever has on this machine, well, maybe I should just live with it.

Still, I just wonder if you have any thoughts at all or know of any change for this?

Never mind, I fixed it! Hope you're doing well.....

 

[paralyser]

Hey @pastrychef ! Hows going? Do you still use your old config? Long time since last updateツ Do you have any idea why Your oc config does not start up my usb s? Your clover config works perfectly with my setup, but the oc config has usb issues, none of my usb ports works.