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

[faithie999]

I don't have any Antelope (or other audio) hardware, but I've been following the messages here from many hackintoshers who have spent boatloads of money on hardware that the vendor chooses not to adequately support. I will offer a suggestion. this approach has worked for me a couple of times in the past to solve seemingly intractable problems.

I worked for a fortune 50 company, and whenever the CEO got a letter of complaint, his admin asst would call whoever was responsible and tell them the CEO said to fix it.

so, if you can find the name and address of Antelope's CEO (is the company in Sofia, Bulgaria?), write a snail mail letter to the CEO explaining in layman's terms what the issue is, how much money you've spent on their equipment, how many others are in the same boat, and that you would very much like his personal attention to this matter else you and many other Antelope customers will be forced to change to another manufacturer's products. at the worst, it will cost you 30 minutes of your time to write and print a letter, plus the cost of international postage.

 

[passmore]

What you discovered in EDIT 4 is very common. However, the procedure to activate Thunderbolt Bus should be a little simpler, as follows:

1. Boot macOS. Should not matter whether it's a cold boot (from Kill AC Power) or standard power up.
2. Login and then just go to Apple menu and select Restart. This is a warm boot.
3. Log back in. Now Thunderbolt Bus should be okay.

Interesting! So - logging in is important? I usually just click restart at the login screen.

Do you know if there is a patched thunderbolt firmware file avail for my mobo? I'd so love to get it to native standard.

 

[CaseySJ]

Interesting! So - logging in is important? I usually just click restart at the login screen.

It should be okay to restart at the login screen without actually logging in.

Do you know if there is a patched thunderbolt firmware file avail for my mobo? I'd so love to get it to native standard.

If you can extract and post your Thunderbolt firmware, we should be able to patch it. But note that patched firmware most likely will not solve this problem.

This problem does not occur on the following motherboards:

• Gigabyte Z390 Designare with flashed Titan Ridge controller
• Gigabyte Z490 Vision D with flashed Titan Ridge controller
• Gigabyte B550 Vision D with flashed Titan Ridge controller

 

[qthegaijin]

I don't have any Antelope (or other audio) hardware, but I've been following the messages here from many hackintoshers who have spent boatloads of money on hardware that the vendor chooses not to adequately support. I will offer a suggestion. this approach has worked for me a couple of times in the past to solve seemingly intractable problems.

I worked for a fortune 50 company, and whenever the CEO got a letter of complaint, his admin asst would call whoever was responsible and tell them the CEO said to fix it.

so, if you can find the name and address of Antelope's CEO (is the company in Sofia, Bulgaria?), write a snail mail letter to the CEO explaining in layman's terms what the issue is, how much money you've spent on their equipment, how many others are in the same boat, and that you would very much like his personal attention to this matter else you and many other Antelope customers will be forced to change to another manufacturer's products. at the worst, it will cost you 30 minutes of your time to write and print a letter, plus the cost of international postage.

Doubtful. People have brought issues up in person to him directly at NAMM (Igor Levin, he used to have a company called Aardvark audio before antelope) and he straight up ignores them. Mix engineers that they paid to advertise their product have all ditched them for more stable devices.

Hopefully there will be a breakthrough here in the hackintosh world for sure.

 

[CaseySJ]

Doubtful. People have brought issues up in person to him directly at NAMM (Igor Levin, he used to have a company called Aardvark audio before antelope) and he straight up ignores them. Mix engineers that they paid to advertise their product have all but ditched them for more stable devices.

Hopefully there will be a breakthrough here in the hackintosh world for sure.

I wonder if it’s possible to attach a debugger to a running Antelope driver or kernel extension and identify the location where it errors out. If so, it might (long shot I know) be possible to patch that part of the code.

Someone probably followed a similar method to patch the Aquantia driver to accept non-Apple “Provider ID”.

 

[qthegaijin]

I wonder if it’s possible to attach a debugger to a running Antelope driver or kernel extension and identify the location where it errors out. If so, it might (long shot I know) be possible to patch that part of the code.

Someone probably followed a similar method to patch the Aquantia driver to accept non-Apple “Provider ID”.

If you have any guides or places I can read up on doing that I can make an attempt!

 

[passmore]

Hey @CaseySJ

I am trying to share my firmware file, but my posts just keep disappearing. Not sure why or what to do?

 

[CaseySJ]

Hey @CaseySJ

I am trying to share my firmware file, but my posts just keep disappearing. Not sure why or what to do?

Please post your firmware file here. You should be fine.

 

[passmore]

Please post your firmware file here. You should be fine.

Sorry, i was trying to link it from dropbox. Here!

 

[CaseySJ]

Sorry, i was trying to link it from dropbox. Here!

There are 4 files in the attached ZIP:

1. GA-X170Z-UD5-TH-CASEYSJ-MOD1.bin
2. GA-X170Z-UD5-TH-CASEYSJ-MOD2.bin
3. SSDT-TB3HP-GA-X170Z-UD5-TH.aml
4. SSDT-DTPG.aml

The first two are Thunderbolt firmware files:

• Please flash MOD1 first and run a battery of tests.
• Then try MOD2 to see if it's any better.

Use files 3 and 4 with all tests:

• File 3 is a Thunderbolt hot-plug SSDT with custom DROM for your motherboard.
  • IMPORTANT: Need to modify this file to use the correct PCI paths. If in doubt, please post the Thunderbolt SSDT you're using now and I'll make the changes for you.
• File 4 is a helper SSDT needed by File 3.