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- Motherboard
- Asus ROG Z690 Formula
- CPU
- i9-13900K
- Graphics
- RX 6900 XT
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Good to see older Intel hardware live on on the Mac. Like my mid 2012 MacBook Pro. With full Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on Monterey(powered by opencore). Apple just needs to keep the usb bus from power gating during sleep.Just managed to install Monterey Public Beta on my Asus X99 Deluxe II -- after nearly 5 hours of tinkering.
Some lessons learned:
- Best to upgrade to OpenCore 0.7.1 and latest Kexts.
- Turn off Bluetooth in BIOS (there is an option that just enables or disables Bluetooth).
- This took a while to figure out.
- Remove all previously used kernel patches from OpenCore's Kernel --> Patch section and just enable the AppleXcpmExtraMsrs kernel quirk.
- Set SecureBootModel to Disabled (not Default).
- Set LauncherOption to Disabled (from Miscellaneous --> Boot section of config.plist).
- Then reboot and Reset NVRAM before starting the upgrade (very important)
- Then boot back into current macOS (Mojave, Catalina, or Big Sur)
- Now begin the upgrade
What doesn't work:
- Intel i211 Ethernet port driven by SmallTreeIntel82576 does not connect
- Will enable Bluetooth shortly and see if system can (a) boot and (b) Bluetooth can connect
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Speaking of older hardware, I wonder:
- Will Microsoft relent on its Intel 8th gen and up requirement for Windows 11 or will a patch be available for older hardware?
- How will the future hybrid processors from Intel and AMD work with the macOS kernel… which is optimized for ARM big.Little but not (as far as we know) the x86 version?
Only time will tell!
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