Z690 Chipset Motherboards and Alder Lake CPU

[StefanAM]

Hellos to all. I just returned from a long trip abroad (3.5 weeks), and my hackintosh Ethernet is no longer working (macOS 12.3.1, Gigabyte z690 Aorus Master, Marvell® AQtion AQC113C LAN chip). In order to get it to work before, if I was coming from Windows, I needed to do a hard manual reset (unplug the power cord and wait 5-10 seconds) or it wouldn't recognize the Ethernet cable as plugged in. That no longer works and I'm stuck.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.

Give me your EFI and I'll fix it.

 

[radu.truica]

Give me your EFI and I'll fix it.

Here it is. Thank you in advance, you're great!

 

[StefanAM]

Here it is. Thank you in advance, you're great!

Here is your EFI with latest OpenCore, kexts and configuration. No need anymore cold boot to initialise network. Don't forget to (re)put you're serial number, UUID and MAC address back.

 

[radu.truica]

Here is your EFI with latest OpenCore, kexts and configuration. No need anymore cold boot to initialise network. Don't forget to (re)put you're serial number, UUID and MAC address back.

Thank you for the new EFI, but it still doesn't work. The system is now very unstable and is restarting randomly; also I still can't connect to the internet. The Ethernet in System Preferences -> Network is now showing "self-assigned ip address" with a yellow dot. I tried deleting
com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
Networkinterface.plist
preferences.plist
from Library\Preferences to on avail. I don't know what else to do...

P.S.: I never had a value for SystemUUID in config.plist, could that be an issue now?
P.P.S.: With the new EFI I sometimes get an error stating "Volume Hash Mismatch - Hash mismatch detected on volume disk3s5. macOS should be reinstalled on this volume". I only saw this twice and didn't know how to interpret it...

 

[StefanAM]

Thank you for the new EFI, but it still doesn't work. The system is now very unstable and is restarting randomly; also I still can't connect to the internet. The Ethernet in System Preferences -> Network is now showing "self-assigned ip address" with a yellow dot. I tried deleting
com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
Networkinterface.plist
preferences.plist
from Library\Preferences to on avail. I don't know what else to do...

P.S.: I never had a value for SystemUUID in config.plist, could that be an issue now?
P.P.S.: With the new EFI I sometimes get an error stating "Volume Hash Mismatch - Hash mismatch detected on volume disk3s5. macOS should be reinstalled on this volume". I only saw this twice and didn't know how to interpret it...

Reset NVRAM

 

[sonny362]

Thank you for the new EFI, but it still doesn't work. The system is now very unstable and is restarting randomly; also I still can't connect to the internet.

Look's like wrong SSDT.

 

[radu.truica]

Reset NVRAM

That didn't change anything...

Look's like wrong SSDT.

I can get into the macOS with this configuration; just not a stable experience. Wouldn't a wrong SSDT not even let me get that far?

 

[sonny362]

I can get into the macOS with this configuration; just not a stable experience. Wouldn't a wrong SSDT not even let me get that far?

I got the same issue: unstable job and restarting with wrong SSDT. Sorry, it was a long time ago and I don't remember the details.

 

[OptimaLemon]

Hi all! Let me know if this is not the right thread for this.

I've got a new 12900K build that has been working nicely for a few months, but I'm having trouble getting its Thunderbolt 4 to work with OpenCore for my new Studio Display.

I have the MSI Z690i, which I believe has a JHL8540 Thunderbolt 4 controller. I've seen other posts in this forum with tweaks for that controller, but those seem mostly cosmetic. My issue is that OpenCore never reaches the boot picker if I fully enable the controller. The BIOS setting for this is called "DTBT Controller 0". If I enable that BIOS setting, OpenCore won't load.

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Thunderbolt (and the Apple Studio Display) is confirmed working in Windows with full resolution and USB hub / speaker support, so the Thunderbolt controller and Displayport-in are working.

OpenCore seems to be unable to figure out how to output video to the studio display. Here's a (debug mode) log from OpenCore: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/...8982e8792bb235/opencore-2022-03-24-012247.txt

Any ideas?

Hi Heuristic -
I was looking to upgrade into Alder Lake. I was contemplating on the MSI Meg z690i unify mobo. In terms of itx builds it seems like not many are using this.

I wanted to ask you if you ever got your Thunderbolt issue resolved. Also curious to know the state of your system. Are you still working through some kinks?

 

[ori69]

That didn't change anything...

I can get into the macOS with this configuration; just not a stable experience. Wouldn't a wrong SSDT not even let me get that far?

What is your RAM and how many pieces do you have? The instability of the Alder Lake platform sometimes results from the lack of proper operation of a given RAM model. Turn off the XMP profile in BIOS and conduct tests.