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

[gandem]

** GC-Titan Ridge Owners **
Please read if you have flashed your Thunderbolt firmware chip (blue dot chip)​

FYI- I'm running Z390-AORUS-XTREME-NVM33-Elias64Fr.bin on my GC-TitanRidge V2 card, absolutely no issues on 11.3.1.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi @CaseySJ, I would like to install Windows on my machine to run a particular software. As of now, my OSX Mojave is installed in the first M.2 slot (closes to the CPU). From your guide, you did mentioned that if we want to install windows, it's better to install on the first M.2 slot and Mac OS on the second M.2 slot, and also to install Windows first before Mac OS. But since I have already installed Mac OS on the first M.2 slot, can I just remove it temporary, get a new SSD and installed windows in this slot. After the installation, I will install the original Mac OS SSD in the second M.2 slot. Will this work? Is there anything that I should be aware of, like the BIOS setting? Thank you.

Hello @PicLock,

In hindsight it’s actually better to install macOS first as you have done. First, format the Windows SSD using MacOS Disk Utility and setting “Scheme” to GUID Partition Map and “Format” can be exFAT. The Windows installer will later change exFAT to NTFS.

When the Windows SSD has been formatted, shut down the system, pull power cable, and physically remove the macOS NVMe SSD. If the Windows SSD is also an NVMe M.2 SSD, install it into the slot closest to CPU

Then begin Windows installation. It’s best to use a Windows USB install disk created with the Windows “Media Creation Tool”.

And now, of course, follow the Windows installation guidelines in this thread.

When Windows is fully installed, shut down the system again, pull power cable, and install macOS NVMe SSD into the next available M.2 slot.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi, @CaseySJ , I have z390 designare board, after upgrade to Big Sur 11.3, previous working config starts to freeze,

the freeze are totally random, after system freeze, I have to press the power button for 5 seconds to turn off computer, reset button won't work, so I tried your config, with some modification, but it still freeze.

another computer is z390 aorus master, installed with gc-titan ridge, I don't know the version. also has this random freeze.

both computer using Radeon VII, thunderbolt card with stock firmware. and here is my oc config for designare. please help me.

Thank you!!

Hello @steve3d,

Is there a GC-Titan Ridge in the Designare Z390 as well as in the AORUS Master?

If so, please remove the card temporarily and boot macOS. Is the system stable without the card? Depending on the answer we can take the next step.

 

[CaseySJ]

FYI- I'm running Z390-AORUS-XTREME-NVM33-Elias64Fr.bin on my GC-TitanRidge V2 card, absolutely no issues on 11.3.1.

Ah, the ever trusty NVM 33 from Designare Z390!

 

[steve3d]

@CaseySJ , I only have Titan Ridge 1.0 on Aorus Master. The Designware don't have this card, and I'm using the Thunderbolt on board.

Just flashed the stock firmware of Titan Ridge to NVM 50. Will this be any different?

 

[DanTechMedia]

Hi @CaseySJ


I wanted to follow up on why my system was waking up.

I found that it was due to a MaintenanceWake. I have a reminder on my phone at 5AM Daily, and this is what is causing the daily wake up. I normally don't notice it because I am usually up before then. But on the days that I'm not, the hackintosh wakes up. I have attached a screen shot of the output after I used sudo pmset -g log | grep Maintenance & sudo pmset -g sched.

Also, I have followed the Disabling all maintenance wake events steps and have the desired outcome after all of that.

Is there anything I can do about this?


Thanks for your time.

 

[achillespilot]

Another strange quirk from this update - the OC picker is now loading on every boot despite ShowPicker=False. Here's my boot section of config.plist:

When it loads its also displaying an EFI partition alongside my Mac and Windows disks. I'm sure it didn't do that previously. Any reason OC would be 'forcing' the picker? (If I leave it to time out it seems to load Mac OS as normal).

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Any reason OC would be 'forcing' the picker? (If I leave it to time out it seems to load Mac OS as normal).

Hi there.

Usually this is caused when you update OpenCore but forget the OCBinaryData package which gets updated with every release.

 

[achillespilot]

Hi there.

Usually this is caused when you update OpenCore but forget the OCBinaryData package which gets updated with every release.

Hi, thanks for swift reply! I thought you were right as I had initially overlooked that... but alas the issue still persists. I've reset NVRAM too in case that could help. As far as updating the binaries - I replaced my whole 'Resources' folder and also the Hfsplus.efi driver. Still no dice Anything else you can think I might have missed? Thanks again

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi, thanks for swift reply! I thought you were right as I had initially overlooked that... but alas the issue still persists. I've reset NVRAM too in case that could help. As far as updating the binaries - I replaced my whole 'Resources' folder and also the Hfsplus.efi driver. Still no dice Anything else you can think I might have missed? Thanks again

If there are multiple EFI partitions, the system may be booting from the wrong one. Good to check BIOS —> BOOT and/or press F12 at boot splash screen.