pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

[Randy2006]

The USBPorts.kext is configured for the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card to be installed in the motherboard M.2 slot. If you are using a PCI-e card, you will need to change the USBPorts.kext to enable whichever USB port your card is using.

Sure, the USBPorts.kext was already edited. The problem was a broken cable between PCI card and motherboard. After replacing the cable, it works now. I can't believe it...a brand new card with a bad cable.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

I had quite an odd experience with Monterey. Really strange, on both my Computers, an original Macbook Pro 2018 and my Hackintosh à la Pastry. I updated both my systems which worked fine. I am working with Samsung QVO 8TB SSD drives for my video editing and never had any problems with it so far.

In Monterey I one of the drives didn't play some of my video clips any more (BRAW). As I have a couple of backups for all my working drives, I wanted to format the QVO 8 TB SSD and clone the backup freshly back on it. But when I tried to delete everything with disk utility, the SSD was corrupt. I just couldn't activate it any more, and everytime I tried it showed a com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter-error. Of course I tried to repair it, but it just didn't work. And it was weird because disk utility showed: a grey APFS Physical Store disk and an Apple APFSMedia (see image attached).

Well, then I switched to my original Macbook Pro and tried to format the drive, but it was the same error. So I got really frustrated and talked to Amazon because I thought the drive had failed. They were kind enough to send me a new one right away. In the mean time I reinstalled Big Sur on my Hackintosh, initialized and formated the new drive with Big Sur and everything went just fine. I was quite relieved. Just to be sure, I plugged the new SSD into my original Macbook Pro 2018 and tried to format it again with disk utility in Monterey. This went fine also, so I tought that my old SSD just had failed. But when I tried to read from it the same strange behavior reoccured and again, I couldn't format or repair it any more.

I reinstalled Big Sur also on my Macbook Pro, got a new SSD from Amazon and now everything works as before: just fine.

So this is the first time a macOS corrupted my hardware and from now on I am really hesitant with any kind of update.

I had quite a few problems with Monterey and one of my Samsung QVO drives (see above). Now the other one of my 8TB QVO drives also behaves quite strange, although I have never formated it with Monterey, I just had it plugged in for a short time. Some of my BRAW clips show strange artefacts and don't play fluent anymore. Now I was wondering if this has something to do with "TRIM"?

My SSD-drives which are connected via NVMExpress show "Trim Support: Yes", but my external SSDs which are connected with USB 3.1 don't show any Trim Support. Is that normal, or shouldn't they have also Trim support?

 

[pastrychef]

I had quite a few problems with Monterey and one of my Samsung QVO drives (see above). Now the other one of my 8TB QVO drives also behaves quite strange, although I have never formated it with Monterey, I just had it plugged in for a short time. Some of my BRAW clips show strange artefacts and don't play fluent anymore. Now I was wondering if this has something to do with "TRIM"?

My SSD-drives which are connected via NVMExpress show "Trim Support: Yes", but my external SSDs which are connected with USB 3.1 don't show any Trim Support. Is that normal, or shouldn't they have also Trim support?

So far, I haven't seen anyone have issues with 2.5" SSDs. All the ones I've seen that exhibit Trim problems are NVMe SSDs. That being said, there's still a lot unknown...

I've never seen Trim enable for SSDs connected via USB.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

So far, I haven't seen anyone have issues with 2.5" SSDs. All the ones I've seen that exhibit Trim problems are NVMe SSDs. That being said, there's still a lot unknown...

I've never seen Trim enable for SSDs connected via USB.

Well, maybe it is related to the fact that I had this ssd also plugged into Monterey and it damaged the file system somehow.

 

[pastrychef]

Well, maybe it is related to the fact that I had this ssd also plugged into Monterey and it damaged the file system somehow.

I don't think non-functioning Trim can damage the file system.

 

[Montesumolo]

Hi to all!
Hi @pastrychef

First of all... This build is awesome! Thank you!

I started this build with an i7 8700 CPU and 16 GB RAM to use it at home and also installed a SYBA FW PCI E Card to upgrade it in the future for Studio use in 2018. Since some months ago my Studio iMac LogicBoard broke, I decided to upgrade my home Hack and bring it to the Studio.

Some months ago I upgraded to an i9 9900k CPU, 64 GB Ram and a nvme m.2 ssd (WD Black) and a new PC case to have all my SSDs via SATA.

At the Studio I am using a Focusrite Pro 40 FW Interface and now when i hook up the Interface and start the PC, I get a constant modem like, whining sound, sometimes crackling, especially when scrolling with the mouse, through my active Monitors/Speakers and both Headphone outputs.

My current setup is:

CPU: i9 9900k
mobo: Asus Rog Strix z370-g (wifi-ac)
RAM: 64 GB crucial ballstix 3200 MHz
PSU: Seasonic Focus plus gold 550 Watt
SSD: 4x SSD (Crucial/Samsung), 1x Nvme m.2 ssd (WD Black)
GPU: MSI RAdeon Rx 560 4GB Lite
SYBA PCI-E card with Texas Instruments Chip, 2x 1394B & 1x 1394A FW
case: Cooler Master S400 Silencio

As soon as I unplug the FW cable from the PC the Sound is gone. I also tried with my Saffire pro 24 DSP in the Studio, which brings me to the same scenario.

As I tested this setup before buying the i9 with my Saffire pro 24 DSP and the SYBA on the i7, RXx 560 at home, and there were no problems, I am really surprised and ask myself what it can be, since the only thing I changed in this build is the CPU, the RAM, the M.2 NVMe, the case and the CPU cooler (Noctua)?!

I already tried to figure out if it is a grounding problem in the Studio, but every combination of plugging all power into one socket, different sockets, sockets in another room and combinations of it, etc., did not help.

I tried also different FW cables with no change.
I also killed the ground on the socket of my audio interface with tape, no change. Today I will try it on the PC.

I also deactivated my RX 560 on the PCI slot and activated iGPU via BIOS and also changed the slot placement combo of SYBA and RX 560 with no positive result. I deactivated C-States in BIOS with no result, since I've read it on some forums.

I searched the entire Internet and found a lot of threads with similar problems on tonymacx86.com , gearspace.com and a lot of other places. But most of them had the problem only through speakers and not in the headphones. Until now I did not try to record anything, cause the sound is really annoying and already starts before the bootloader (clover) and MacOS starts, but then gets louder.

Maybe someone has a hint or can help me! I am a little bit despaired at the moment.

 

[pastrychef]

Hi to all!
Hi @pastrychef

First of all... This build is awesome! Thank you!

I started this build with an i7 8700 CPU and 16 GB Ram to use it at home and also installed a SYBA FW PCI E Card to upgrade it in the future for Studio use in 2018. Since some months ago my Studio iMac LogicBoard broke, I decided to upgrade my home Hack and bring it to the Studio.

Some months ago I upgraded to an i9 9900k CPU, 64 GB Ram and a nvme m.2 ssd (WD Black) and a new PC case to have all my SSDs via SATA.

At the Studio I am using a Focusrite Pro 40 FW Interface and now when i hook up the Interface and start the PC, I get a constant modem like, whining sound, sometimes crackling, especially when scrolling with the mouse, through my active Monitors/Speakers and both Headphone outputs.

My current setup is:

cpu: i9 9900k
mobo: Asus Rog Strix z370-g (wifi-ac)
RAM: 64 GB crucial ballstix 3200 MHz
PSU: Seasonic Focus plus gold 550 Watt
SSD: 4x SSD (Crucial/Samsung), 1x Nvme m.2 ssd (WD Black)
GPU: MSI RAdeon Rx 560 4GB Lite
SYBA PCI-E card with Texas Instruments Chip, 2x 1394B & 1x 1394A FW
case: Cooler Master S400 Silencio

As soon as I unplug the FW cable from the PC the Sound is gone. I also tried with my Saffire pro 24 DSP in the Studio, which brings me to the same scenario.

As I tested this setup before buying the i9 with my Saffire pro 24 DSP and the SYBA on the i7, rx 560 at home, and there were no problems, I am really surprised and ask myself what it can be, since the only thing I changed in this build is the cpu, the ram, the m.2 nvme, the case and the cpu cooler (Noctua)?!

I already tried to figure out if it is a grounding problem in the Studio, but every combination of plugging all power into one socket, different sockets, sockets in another room and combinations of it etc. did not help.

I tried also different FW cables with no change.
I also killed the ground on the socket of my audio interface with tape, no change. Today I will try it on the PC.

I also dactivated my RX 560 on the PCI slot and activated iGPU via BIOS and also changed the slot placement combo of SYBA and RX 560 with no positive result. I deactivated C-States in BIOS with no result, since I've read it on some forums.

I searched the entire Internet and found a lot of threads with similar problems on tonymacx86.com , gearspace.com and a lot of other places. But most of them had the problem only through speakers and not in the headphones. Until now I did not try to record anything, cause the sound is really annoying and already starts before the bootloader (clover) and MacOS starts, but then gets louder.

Maybe someone has a hint or can help me! I am a little bit despaired at the moment.

It sounds like you might be getting some coil whine and/or feedback loop. There are a lot of things that can affect this and I don't know of any scientific way to diagnose or fix them. In one instance, I got rid of coil whine by replacing the type of lightbulb I was using... Go figure...

I suggest searching google for the above terms and see what solutions others have come up with...

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

I don't think non-functioning Trim can damage the file system.

No, but Monterey itself apparently. CMMChris in „the other forum“ was also having issues with an unusable file system due to Monterey.

 

[hannibal1969]

Hi, Today I added a BCM94360CS2 wifi card with an M.2 Ngff 12 + 6 Pin adaptor card. My antennas were not MHF-4 so bought new ones. But the bluetooth is not showing up in the Hack. Is this normal when you only connect the CS2 with a M.2 Ngff 12 + 6 Pin adaptor card? I see PCI express cards with a separate cable to make a connection to an USB header in a regular PC.

 

[pastrychef]

Hi, Today I added a BCM94360CS2 wifi card with an M.2 Ngff 12 + 6 Pin adaptor card. My antennas were not MHF-4 so bought new ones. But the bluetooth is not showing up in the Hack. Is this normal when you only connect the CS2 with a M.2 Ngff 12 + 6 Pin adaptor card? I see PCI express cards with a separate cable to make a connection to an USB header in a regular PC.

Make sure the USB port your card is connected to is active in your USB fix.