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

[mdog474]

@CaseySJ I have been trying to get to the bottom of the flakiness with driving the LG Superfine 5K.
Here is the setup I'm using to test this: Gigabyte Vision D, i9-10850K, Radeon VII, OC 0.6.4 (from this guide), Patched TB3 ROM (from the guide).
Here's the scenario that works. Display port 1.4 (8K spec'd) cable from the Radeon VII to the DisplayPort in on the motherboard. TB3 cable from the motherboard to the SuperFine 5k Display. I get a blank screen until macOS comes up, but then it works. Now here is the interesting part...only with 1 of my cables:
Belkin 1m Cable: yes
CalDigit 2m Cable: no
The cable that came with the LG display: no
Apple 2m Pro Cable: no

All of these cables work with a MacBook Pro and the Superfine 5K display

Any ideas?

by the way, hot swap of a UAudio tb3 audio interface works fine.

 

[CaseySJ]

Good morning to all
I need to add an additional Ethernet card (in need of 3 connector).
Any recommendation of specific card?
Any Card to avoid?
I did not see anything relevant in the topic through searcg function but it is always a matter of suitable key words ;-)
Thanks in advance for your help!

Hello @MacArthur

Are you looking for a 1GbE Ethernet port or 2.5GbE or 10GbE?

The easiest ways to add another 1GbE Ethernet port are as follows:

• Use a USB-C dock that contains a 1GbE port
• Use a Thunderbolt dock that contains a 1GbE port
• Use a USB to 1GbE adapter such as this one

It would be somewhat wasteful to occupy a precious PCIe slot for a 1GbE port when other options are available.

 

[CaseySJ]

Glad to hear more making move to Big Sur!

May I just ask how one goes about hiding another 'Windows' boot icon from Opencore?

Hello @hughythomas

Unfortunately there's no simple way to do this yet. OpenCore continues to evolve so perhaps the developers will address this need in the future.

...

EDIT: On the same topic there is an 'untitled' drive on my desktop I'd love to lose too?

The "Untitled" icon is for Windows. If you boot into Windows, you can actually give the drive a name. That name will then replace the word "Untitled" in macOS. Alternatively, if you have an NTFS driver for macOS, you can rename that disk directly from Finder.

To automatically hide that icon on boot, perhaps an Automator task can be created that runs a shell script to unmount that drive, but this is both tricky and risky because drive identifiers can change from boot to boot. A drive identifier is something like this: disk2s1 or disk2s2 or disk3s4, etc. A clever shell script could search for NTFS volumes and dynamically detect and unmount them.

But I think the best option is to give the disk icon a name such as "Windows".

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ I have been trying to get to the bottom of the flakiness with driving the LG Superfine 5K.
Here is the setup I'm using to test this: Gigabyte Vision D, i9-10850K, Radeon VII, OC 0.6.4 (from this guide), Patched TB3 ROM (from the guide).
Here's the scenario that works. Display port 1.4 (8K spec'd) cable from the Radeon VII to the DisplayPort in on the motherboard. TB3 cable from the motherboard to the SuperFine 5k Display. I get a blank screen until macOS comes up, but then it works. Now here is the interesting part...only with 1 of my cables:
Belkin 1m Cable: yes
CalDigit 2m Cable: no
The cable that came with the LG display: no
Apple 2m Pro Cable: no

All of these cables work with a MacBook Pro and the Superfine 5K display

Any ideas?

by the way, hot swap of a UAudio tb3 audio interface works fine.

Interesting. It seems as if only passive Thunderbolt 3 cables are working with the Hackintosh. Cables under 1.5m in length are generally passive, which means they don't contain signal repeater chips inside. Not sure why 2m cables don't work, however, because I'm using 2m active Thunderbolt 3 cables with my OWC and Belkin Thunderbolt 3 docks on (a) Z390 Designare, (b) Z490 Vision D, and (c) B550 Vision D with no problem.

If your LG UltraFine 5K is the latest model, it means there's a Titan Ridge chip inside. Previous models used Alpine Ridge controllers. Unfortunately, the newer model (w/Titan Ridge) does not seem to work well (if at all) with these Hackintoshes that have on-board Titan Ridge controllers.

Have you tried using a GC-Alpine Ridge PCIe add-in-card with that monitor? Again, this applies to the latest version of the UltraFine 5K.

 

[BoomR]

BRAVO!!! @CaseySJ !!
What an amazing build effort and such in-depth, clear, & concise documentation! I'm THRILLED to have found this thread! I'm wanting to upgrade my 360/VR build to Z490 Vision D and i9-10850K.

I've been away from the forums here for way too long, and looks like I have a lot of catching up to do, esp. as it relates to OpenCore. I've only done the usual & customary Unibeast/MultiBeast builds up until now. It looks like I have about 424 pages of posts to catch up on

I've got the new mobo/CPU up & running in Windows 10 right now (as I'm writing this post on the machine). Everything is running great (including my Nekteck Thunderbolt 3 dock).

Interesting note - on the Gigabyte website > Support/Downloads for Z490 Vision D, the BIOS options are F4, F5, and F7c - the latter (with the alpha character after the version #) is usually an early release of the numbered build (beta or RC). However, when I pull up Gigabyte's @BIOS app in Win10, I have the option to upgrade from v5 (OoB) to F6. Odd that F6 is not also available on the Website. No matter - will get going on my reading & working on building my OC-based install USB, and will report back!

Cheers & Happy Holidays to everyone!!
--B

 

[CaseySJ]

@BoomR,

This is a nice way to spend some of the free time during the holiday season! As you must know, it’s more satisfying to build a system than to buy one off the shelf. Good luck and we’ll look forward to your report!

 

[rebase]

Hi All, happy holidays, one question. I noticed System Integrity Protection: disabled in a crash report. I'm not sure if it was disabled as part of the install or if I did it after, I'm wondering if most of you enable it or not, and what issues arise? Also I didn't see any posts on if things changed with Big Sur, any thoughts?

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi All, happy holidays, one question. I noticed System Integrity Protection: disabled in a crash report. I'm not sure if it was disabled as part of the install or if I did it after, I'm wondering if most of you enable it or not, and what issues arise? Also I didn't see any posts on if things changed with Big Sur, any thoughts?

The OpenCore EFI configuration in this thread has SIP disabled. You are always welcome to enable it in the NVRAM section.

 

[mdog474]

Interesting. It seems as if only passive Thunderbolt 3 cables are working with the Hackintosh. Cables under 1.5m in length are generally passive, which means they don't contain signal repeater chips inside. Not sure why 2m cables don't work, however, because I'm using 2m active Thunderbolt 3 cables with my OWC and Belkin Thunderbolt 3 docks on (a) Z390 Designare, (b) Z490 Vision D, and (c) B550 Vision D with no problem.

If your LG UltraFine 5K is the latest model, it means there's a Titan Ridge chip inside. Previous models used Alpine Ridge controllers. Unfortunately, the newer model (w/Titan Ridge) does not seem to work well (if at all) with these Hackintoshes that have on-board Titan Ridge controllers.

Have you tried using a GC-Alpine Ridge PCIe add-in-card with that monitor? Again, this applies to the latest version of the UltraFine 5K.

@CaseySJ The display is model 27MD5KA -- I believe it was the 1st gen.
Re: GC-Alpine Ridge PCIe add-in-card, should I try it with a patched ROM, or stock? Also, is it the same as the GC-Titan Ridge, where a jumper on pins 1 & 3 will let is work without a TB3 header on the MOBO?

 

[johnvid]

You can certainly use RAID0, but it's best to create the RAID filesystem through Disk Utility (software RAID). You will still get insanely good performance and best compatibility with macOS.

Thanks for your answer. But can anyone point me in the right direction? I’m trying to make a hardware raid with this mainboard. Because I also want to create a partition on it for Windows to be used for data etc

I have 2 NVME PCIe drives. 1 in the upper slot and 1 in the bottem slot.

In the bios and in Windows the drives are recognized. But I can’t see them in Ez Raid. I only see my SATA drives.

Anyone?