ASUS X299 Monterey/Ventura Support

[Feartech]

Quick question,

It looks like my board is defective. I tried another CPU (swapping my 10980XE for a 9900X) and problem persists and swapped RAM, GPU, PSU and it’s just not stable with any RAM or any capacity of RAM that has an option for XMP (even when disabled and clocked down all the way) - it used to work fine.

So right now, I have iMessage / all the iCloud stuff working with my serial number. If I get a replacement of the same board (if that’s what ASUS gives me the option to do) - do I need to generate a new serial number or can I just leave all that as is?

use the same ones

 

[djbuddha]

Does anybody know the proper kext / settings I need to change to get more specific metrics from my 6900XT? My Vega 64 used to show temps, current clock speed etc in iStat Menus. Upon installing the 6900XT I only get Memory / Processor graphs. Appreciate the help!

Edit: Also while I'm at it, only 10 of my cores show up in iStat Menus under the sensor reading while all 18 cores / 36 threads show up in the graph view (unlike when I was on Mojave w/ Clover) - is there anything I need to add to this to get all those metrics back or is this an iStat Menus issue?

 

[dk1306]

Does anybody know the proper kext / settings I need to change to get more specific metrics from my 6900XT? My Vega 64 used to show temps, current clock speed etc in iStat Menus. Upon installing the 6900XT I only get Memory / Processor graphs. Appreciate the help!

Edit: Also while I'm at it, only 10 of my cores show up in iStat Menus under the sensor reading while all 18 cores / 36 threads show up in the graph view (unlike when I was on Mojave w/ Clover) - is there anything I need to add to this to get all those metrics back or is this an iStat Menus issue?

https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/HWMonitorSMC2 HwMonitorSMC2 you need VirtualSMC drivers for that

 

[quarkf]

Does anybody know the proper kext / settings I need to change to get more specific metrics from my 6900XT? My Vega 64 used to show temps, current clock speed etc in iStat Menus. Upon installing the 6900XT I only get Memory / Processor graphs. Appreciate the help!

Edit: Also while I'm at it, only 10 of my cores show up in iStat Menus under the sensor reading while all 18 cores / 36 threads show up in the graph view (unlike when I was on Mojave w/ Clover) - is there anything I need to add to this to get all those metrics back or is this an iStat Menus issue?

Also, you can use RadeonSensor — works real nice for me!

GitHub - aluveitie/RadeonSensor: Monitoring Radeon GPU temperature on macOS

Monitoring Radeon GPU temperature on macOS. Contribute to aluveitie/RadeonSensor development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[djbuddha]

use the same ones

So ASUS elected to replace it with the same model board. So just make sure I update my BIOS and I should be able to just boot it off my current Monterey install?

 

[Feartech]

So ASUS elected to replace it with the same model board. So just make sure I update my BIOS and I should be able to just boot it off my current Monterey install?

as long as your bios settings are correct, then yes

 

[djbuddha]

as long as your bios settings are correct, then yes

In troubleshooting this issue, I’ve learned the BIOS settings off by heart - I keep screenshots in my phone’s favourite’s folder just in case, but hopefully it just works. (And hopefully, ASUS has updated the bios for me ahead of shipping the replacement board)

 

[tucoboy]

Hey everyone, Would anyone know if my EFI folder keeps a list of names of all the hard drives that are connected (at the time) to that particular EFI folder? I'm asking because I had overwritten one of my backup drives and gave it a different name on that hard drive and now all my applications won't link to my prior files because it needs that particular name of that hard drive to find that file. If one of my older EFI files can provide that, where would I look to see those hard drives names? I hope what I just explained makes sense and that someone can provide me with an answer. Thank you.

 

[djbuddha]

Hey everyone, Would anyone know if my EFI folder keeps a list of names of all the hard drives that are connected (at the time) to that particular EFI folder? I'm asking because I had overwritten one of my backup drives and gave it a different name on that hard drive and now all my applications won't link to my prior files because it needs that particular name of that hard drive to find that file. If one of my older EFI files can provide that, where would I look to see those hard drives names? I hope what I just explained makes sense and that someone can provide me with an answer. Thank you.

I don’t think the EFI holds that info….. BUT if I were in your shoes, google some of your apps and figure out where it stores log files. Go in there and you should see the path (which drive / folder etc) it logged previously and you should be able to get the name from there. Good luck!

 

[djbuddha]

So a hilarious update about my hack-from-hell ……

RMA’d my ASUS X299 Sage/10G - they elected to replace it. I install all the 128 gigs of Corsair Vengeance LPX (8 x 16 GB) booted up, did all the BIOS tweaks and enabled XMP at 3200 and booted up.

All worked………………… until I opened FCPX and went to export a project and it rebooted at random. So I figured out my PSU triggered a protection. (PSU is a Seasonic 1300W Platinum)

So - I start removing ALL my PCIE devices one at a time. And every time I go to export this project, it would just about to start and then reboot.

Last card left before I get to the new Sapphire Toxic Air 6900XT - a USB card I purchased to give myself a USB 2.0 header for my Gigabyte Titan Ridge. I pull it, everything worked. I actually had 2 separate adapters (one for my Fenvi Bluetooth PCIE adapter) and this one.

Finally was able to order an NZXT internal USB 2.0 hub which should arrive tomorrow. For now I’m on wired devices as I need Thunderbolt for projects (UA Apollo x4 needs Thunderbolt) but beyond that- it’s working!!! I was able to run Unigine Heaven and Cinebench for 12 hours on a second monitor - while doing display capture at 4K / 60 to Twitch and it ran without issue at all. I’ve done about 20 quick FCPX projects this morning and it’s amazing. I feel like I have Stockholm syndrome for computer issues because I feel “incomplete” at the moment. This has been an ordeal.

The reboot issue was happening about once a month since 2020 but it never really interfered with work so I never dove deep…. Until the machine stopped posting correctly. So for 2 years- this has probably been an issue and probably destroyed my old Vega 64 and my motherboard over time.

Now, something I’ve never bothered with as it used to just work is USB mapping. This board doesn’t seem to pick up all the ports (even though they all function in the bios) - and with all the iterations of boot loaders, is there a proper guide for the current OC implementation to properly map all my USB ports?