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[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

i0ntempest said:
Just tried NVM23 again, also tried Designare's NVM33 as I saw someone using it on a GC Titan Ridge V1, but still nothing.
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I have some bad news for everyone with a flashed GC-Titan Ridge. Mine has been flashed with NVM 23 (GC-Titan Ridge version 1.0):
  • Both Catalina 10.15.7 and Big Sur 11.2:
    • Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Dock Pro will appear to connect, but full device tree does not materialize and the dock does not actually work.
    • Hence, the flashed GC-Titan Ridge no longer seems to work.
    • However, the flashed on-boardThunderbolt controller still works correctly.
      • Z390 Designare
      • Z490 Vision D
      • B556 Vision D
If anyone is using a flashed GC-Titan Ridge v1 or v2 with Catalina 10.15.7 or Big Sur 11.1 (or later), please let us know if the card works.

@i0ntempest: Have you tried booting the system with the Thunderbolt SSDT disabled? Please try both (a) device connection before boot, and (b) device hot plugged after boot.

UPDATE:
  • Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Dock Pro does not work with either of my two flashed GC-Titan Ridge cards.
  • OWC Thunderbolt 3 14-Port Dock works perfectly with both of the flashed GC-Titan Ridge cards.
  • What is different between the two docks?
    • The Belkin supports both Thunderbolt and USB-C host connections. This means if the computer has either a Thunderbolt or simple USB-C port, it will connect intelligently to both, as follows:
      • If it detects a Thunderbolt host, it will use Thunderbolt protocol
      • If it does not detect a Thunderbolt host, it will use USB protocol
    • The OWC, however, only connects to Thunderbolt hosts.
Conclusion:
  • Thunderbolt peripherals that support both USB and Thunderbolt hosts will not work with the flashed GC-Titan Ridge.
  • Thunderbolt peripherals that support only Thunderbolt hosts will work with flashed GC-Titan Ridge.
  • However, the flashed on-board controller of (a) Z390 Designare, (b) Z490 Vision D, and (c) B550 Vision D supports both types of devices.
 
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@CaseySJ ,

I was finally able to get a fresh Catalina install on OC and had my current system moved using migration assistance (will post separately on that).

A side from some expected issues, I can not get my AppleTV app to work. It just shuts off on me after first couple of NOTES . I'm pretty sure my issue may not be new to this forum. Do you happen to know what would be a good link/guide/place to start troubleshooting it?

Besides that the system is pretty stable so far.

Thanks again for awesome guides!
 
CaseySJ said:
We can certainly go directly to Big Sur from Mojave, but we need to disable CFG-Lock and switch to OpenCore. Hopefully all of the software and plugins you use are or will be compatible with Big Sur soon because Big Sur is just a delightful environment...
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Good news — I successfully upgrade to OpenCore 0.6.4 / Catalina. I had been using that set up for a couple days now and it was rock solid.

Bad news — I decided to push my luck a little bit and tried to upgrade to Big Sur. It went through a couple restarts and then unfortunately it hung on the Apple loading screen. I let it sit for about 45 min. If I restart the computer I am presented with the power button error screen, followed by the Apple loading screen where it once again will hang at about 1/3 loaded.

I wanted to see if there is anything I should try before restoring my Catalina backup

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2019 Hackintosh
Z390 DESIGNARE |  i9 9900K |  RX 580 Pulse 8GB
2011 Hackintosh
GA-Z68XP-UD3 |  i7 2600K |  Radeon HD 6870
avtor said:
@patele ,

I just replaced Clover with OC on Mojave. Here is what helped me:

1. You may want to turn on verbose mode in you config.plist. Load your plist into OC configurator. boot-args values should be listed by selecting one of your UUID's on the left. Modify boot-args string by adding -v to the line. Save your config.plist and reboot. A link below may give you some clue on where in the boot process of macOS you got stuck.


2. Make sure you do not have extra kexts in /L/E and /S/L/E. run: "sudo kextcache -i /" in the terminal. It will give you a list of kexts that are not supposed to be in those 2 directories. I was using the output of the command above to to clean my kexts.

3. sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions
sudo touch /Library/Extensions

4. Reboot
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Thanks =)
there was another kext in /System/Library/Extensions I had to delete and then it worked.
 
NoiseCoalition said:
Good news — I successfully upgrade to OpenCore 0.6.4 / Catalina. I had been using that set up for a couple days now and it was rock solid.

Bad news — I decided to push my luck a little bit and tried to upgrade to Big Sur. It went through a couple restarts and then unfortunately it hung on the Apple loading screen. I let it sit for about 45 min. If I restart the computer I am presented with the power button error screen, followed by the Apple loading screen where it once again will hang at about 1/3 loaded.
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Boot in verbose mode and post a photo of the screen showing where the boot stops.
 
CaseySJ said:
If anyone is using a flashed GC-Titan Ridge v1 or v2 with Catalina 10.15.7 or Big Sur 11.1 (or later), please let us know if the card works.
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I currently have GC-Titan Ridge v2 that appears to be running properly on MacOS 11.1. I'm running the patched NVM50 firmware. I run a 4K Ultrafine Monitor and CalDigit TS3+ dock on it. Should I look for something particular in my IOREG to see if everything is populating correctly?
 
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