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

[hughythomas]

Chaps I'm still getting this slow booting of Opencore on initial startup using the 0.6.3 EFI folder...

If I use the 0.6.1 EFI (and I've confirmed this multiple times now) it boots up INSTANTLY.

I'm talking about the Gigabyte splash screen right before Opencore loads (I have full screen logo enabled in BIOS).

Is there anything obvious that might be doing this? @andyxm715 as I'm using your 0.6.3 do you encounter the same thing?

Sorry to keep bringing this up its just really annoying! It was lightning fast before on 0.6.1!

 

[andyxm715]

Chaps I'm still getting this slow booting of Opencore on initial startup using the 0.6.3 EFI folder...

If I use the 0.6.1 EFI (and I've confirmed this multiple times now) it boots up INSTANTLY.

I'm talking about the Gigabyte splash screen right before Opencore loads (I have full screen logo enabled in BIOS).

Is there anything obvious that might be doing this? @andyxm715 as I'm using your 0.6.3 do you encounter the same thing?

Sorry to keep bringing this up its just really annoying! It was lightning fast before on 0.6.1!

@hughythomas What do you mean boots Instantly ? How long does it take from the Gigabyte screen to the opencore boot screen to the logon screen when using 0.6.1 & 0.6.3

What version of the BIOS are you using on your Vision G ?

On my system the time it takes from the Gigabyte screen to the login screen is around 18 seconds.

Also if you take out your system details from 0.6.1 and upload it, I will test it on my system and upgrade it to 0.6.3 and test it again to see if any speed difference on my system.

 

[hughythomas]

@hughythomas What do you mean boots Instantly ? How long does it take from the Gigabyte screen to the opencore boot screen to the logon screen when using 0.6.1 & 0.6.3

What version of the BIOS are you using on your Vision G ?

On my system the time it takes from the Gigabyte screen to the login screen is around 18 seconds.

Hey man thank you for the reply its the above screen the whole "Gigabyte Insist on Durable" splash right before opencore loads up with the OS selection (I have a seperate Catalina NVME and a Win 10 SSD).

What's weird is as soon as I drop the 0.6.1 EFI folder in to the Mac drive this screen flashes up and almost instantly goes straight to the boot drive selection screen.

With the 0.6.3 EFI it takes around 8 seconds longer just to get past this screen...weird eh?

I'm on the very latest BIOS from Gigabyte but this was happening even before the BIOS update...

 

[lightmanrt]

Change the way Windows handles time, i.e set Windows to use Universal Time.

Just follow the guide HERE

Thank you. I remember doing something like this a few years ago. Totally forgot I could fix windows time.

 

[Ploddles]

Big Sur 11.0.1 released, 20B29.

 

[andyxm715]

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Hey man thank you for the reply its the above screen the whole "Gigabyte Insist on Durable" splash right before opencore loads up with the OS selection (I have a seperate Catalina NVME and a Win 10 SSD).

What's weird is as soon as I drop the 0.6.1 EFI folder in to the Mac drive this screen flashes up and almost instantly goes straight to the boot drive selection screen.

With the 0.6.3 EFI it takes around 8 seconds longer just to get past this screen...weird eh?

I'm on the very latest BIOS from Gigabyte but this was happening even before the BIOS update...

I have timed the "Gigabyte Insist on Durable" part of my boot up, and stay's on that part for 8.5 seconds before going to opencore boot menu, not tested with 0.6.1 to see if any faster.

 

[bider]

Chaps I'm still getting this slow booting of Opencore on initial startup using the 0.6.3 EFI folder...

If I use the 0.6.1 EFI (and I've confirmed this multiple times now) it boots up INSTANTLY.

I'm talking about the Gigabyte splash screen right before Opencore loads (I have full screen logo enabled in BIOS).

Is there anything obvious that might be doing this? @andyxm715 as I'm using your 0.6.3 do you encounter the same thing?

Sorry to keep bringing this up its just really annoying! It was lightning fast before on 0.6.1!

Could you upload both config.plist files (with different names of course)?

 

[mickelsn]

Good plan!


The OpenIntelWireless drivers are getting better, but they still have serious limitations. WiFi is limited to 802.11n (WiFi 4), WiFi connectivity is unstable after wake-from-sleep, we need to change SecureBootModel to Default, which interferes with Big Sur updates (we have to remember to change this to Disabled whenever updating the O/S), etc.


At this time, the Fenvi (and its variants) is still the best option for WiFi and Bluetooth on a Hackintosh.

Thanks as always, @CaseySJ! Continued use of Fenvi for MacOS it is...given my infrequent use of Windows, it probably makes sense to discontinue my use of the onboard Intel WiFi/BT card and instead use the Fenvi card for that OS as well, correct? I would assume that would ensure that the card-to-device pairing with my keyboard and mouse across EFI/OpenCore and any OS...

I haven't looked at the EFI BIOS screens yet...does anyone remember where I find the option to disable this card at the motherboard level?

 

[mickelsn]

I use the Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad on a dual boot Windows10/Catalina system and have paired them with the Fenvi in MacOS and the onboard Intel in Windows. It works great. They both work in BIOS and OpenCore GUI Picker too. The trick to having them paired in both OS is using a kind of convoluted method where you pair them in Windows with the Intel, then pair them in MacOS with the Fenvi, taking note of the bluetooth link key, then going BACK to Windows and editing their registry entries to the same key. This enables them to be paired in both OS. The only downside I have come across is that when you plug either in to charge, the bluetooth link key is reset, so I tend to charge them overnight when needed, with the computer off - In the morning they are fully charged, and the link key stays intact.

OK, I didn't remember that trick -- I read about it a while ago somewhere but didn't track it. Thanks for the advice...I'll try that if I can't figure out where to disable the Intel card in BIOS.

 

[leematch]

Massive thanks to CaseySJ for your amazing work on this.

I am finally, up and running with minimal issues. I'm yet to properly put the machine through it's paces but I am still trying to iron out a sleep issue. When I put the system to sleep, it wakes straight back up again. I'm pretty sure that it's related to my Broadcom wifi/bluetooth module. When I unplug the power feed for the BT module from the internal USB 2.0 header the system does sleep. I'm actually using an original apple module mounted on a PCIE adapter (as pictured). This worked flawlessly on my previous (Z170) build so I'm a little surprised to find that it's not playing nicely in my new rig. One other side effect of the unsuccessful sleep cycle is that when I boot up into Windows 10 my device manager now shows an Unknown Device, for which I can't find a fix or a driver. If I do a fresh install of W10 and load all the drivers all is good but then the moment I boot into Catalina and try to put the system to sleep the device reappears when I next boot into W10.

Any help would be much appreciated. I did try and do a search on the issue as well as reading the first 36 pages of this thread but so far haven't found much.