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

[pastrychef]

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

A way to stick a bunch of ISO files onto a USB stick and then boot from them via a nice picklist.

Works in UEFI and BIOS normally except that PC which only works with CSM enabled.

Logo only shows for a moment before reboot. OC is not loading. I’d I go into BIOS and boot and then manually open the UEFI OC USB, same happens - loads for a few moments then Apple logo then reboot.

Any chance Ventoy did something that screwed up OpenCore from loading?

 

[dclive]

Any chance Ventoy did something that screwed up OpenCore from loading?

No, the problems existed before Ventoy ever was used to boot the machine, last night

I tried load optimized default again last night and playing around with secure boot, cfglock, and VTx/VTd; no changes whatsoever. The fact I can’t UEFI boot anymore, including with Ventoy, is bizarre. Next is to try a Win11 UEFI USB stick, which should work everywhere….

 

[pastrychef]

No, the problems existed before Ventoy ever was used to boot the machine, last night

I tried load optimized default again last night and playing around with secure boot, cfglock, and VTx/VTd; no changes whatsoever. The fact I can’t UEFI boot anymore, including with Ventoy, is bizarre. Next is to try a Win11 UEFI USB stick, which should work everywhere….

Can you re-apply a BIOS update?

 

[dclive]

Can you re-apply a BIOS update?

WOW!

After making a ExFAT USB stick and putting the 3005 CAP on there (the same version I had) and then installing it via EZFlash3 and doing the normal F5 / optimized defaults, and then applying the usual fixes (XMP, VTD/VTX/No SecurityThings/etc.) OC boots! Exactly the same USB stick as before. Alas!

Now to try to put the battery plug back on the super tiny Z370-I motherboard...sigh...

Next I'm going to reinstall (recall that all this started when I had to replace an HP EX920 due to disk failure, tried a Sabrent Rocket Gen3 with disasterous results, and now am back to the EX920, new from the box from HP).

Yet again, I owe you another $beverage.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

I have got a problem, and I am pretty sure it's not related to the fact that I work with a Hackintosh (in fact this build, which I followed since 2017!) But I will ask anyway, just to make sure.

I work with Davinci Resolve and this program is known for being a little bit sensitive when it comes to cache. I have quite a big project with a few compositions, complicated transitions, animations and motion blur so I have some big parts that need to be cached in order to watch it fluently although I consider my setup (i9-9900K, Radeon VII, 64GB RAM) to be still quite powerful. I am not 100% sure when it started, but now every time I open up the project in Davinci Resolve, the whole project starts to recache, even though I haven't changed anything. This is very annoying as it usually takes about one or two hours to cache everything, which is both a waste of time and a waste of energy. I tried everything out there which could cause this kind of behavior (data base on separate drive as footage, etc.), but still no solution. Now I was wondering if the problem could be the way that disks are mounted in the system. Maybe the problem is that the data system is not properly mounted when I open up Davinci Resolve and it doesn't have access to the cache drive for second or two and it therefore starts recaching the project. Does that sound possible?

 

[pastrychef]

Does that sound possible?

Does not sound like it's a drive or mounting issue. Drives and mounting are the same as on a real Mac...

It sounds more like an issue with the app itself... Maybe try using an older version of Davinchi Resolve?

 

[pastrychef]

Hi @pastrychef

A dear friend of mine has an Asus RogStrix B360-I with i3-8100 (no other GPU, it uses HD630 iGPU and it works as MacMini8,1 sysdef) that has worked pretty well during the last 3 years under BigSur. Last week it was updated to the the OC 089 and then upgraded to the latest Monterey 12.6.3 . The system has been working well for around 1 week now with Monterey but, as of today, it presents a really strange behaviour: the boot process works fastly and smoothly till the logon window and then, after logon on the main profile, everything is frozen up, there is the spinning wheel everywhere and the dock bar doesn't work, finder doesn't launch up and anything is pretty extremely slow. The system is unable to either shutdown or restart. The other 2 profiles don't even log in. The only option is to hard reset the machine.

I've tried to clean NVRAM with both the options of OC but nothing changed. I went in the Recovery Partition and the boot disc (APFS) is absolutely clean and healthy. I tried to boot with the USB stick (same 0C089) but nothing changed. I've even booted in safe mode (-x) but nothing has changed. I really don't know what to do... I'm posting the EFI... do you have any hint? Thanks!

If it had been working well for about a week, then I doubt there's anything wrong with the EFI.

How does the system behave when you boot in the Recovery partition? Have you tried a clean install?

 

[Azimuth1]

If it had been working well for about a week, then I doubt there's anything wrong with the EFI.

How does the system behave when you boot in the Recovery partition? Have you tried a clean install?

When I go to Recovery the system is responsive... I don't have any issue. No, I haven't tried a clean install because the main Mac disc is about 2TB with a lot of music, photos and personal stuff. I have an internal SATA HDD that works as TM but many things are not backupped, so I'm too afraid to clean everything! ...

 

[pastrychef]

When I go to Recovery the system is responsive... I don't have any issue. No, I haven't tried a clean install because the main Mac disc is about 2TB with a lot of music, photos and personal stuff. I have an internal SATA HDD that works as TM but many things are not backupped, so I'm too afraid to clean everything! ...

Try doing a clean install on a different drive or external drive. You should be able to copy whatever stuff you have from your current drive after you boot from the new clean install.

 

[Azimuth1]

Try doing a clean install on a different drive or external drive. You should be able to copy whatever stuff you have from your current drive after you boot from the new clean install.

UPDATE: I've been able to enter to a NEW profile and - after a long while with spinning wheel - now everything is working smoothly under this user profile.
So now... why the main profile has been freezing ? any ideas?