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[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

“Default” is okay. What is your OpenCore version? Would be good to upgrade to one of the recent versions (0.8.5 or newer).
What should SecureBoot in the BIOS be set to? Standard or Custom?
Scratch that, changing it doesn't seem to make a difference.
 
What should SecureBoot in the BIOS be set to? Standard or Custom?
Scratch that, changing it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Which motherboard are you trying to upgrade? The EFI folder you posted earlier isn't one that I recognize.
 
Which motherboard are you trying to upgrade? The EFI folder you posted earlier isn't one that I recognize.
Gigabyte designare z390 - Whats wrong with the EFI? I followed this guide and kept things up to date as best as I could. GPU is Different from your build (RX 550), I have the Fenvi T19 installed and an intek usb PCI card which seems to support USB 1 devices better. Im going to grab the EFI folder and attach it again.
 

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Gigabyte designare z390 - Whats wrong with the EFI? I followed this guide and kept things up to date as best as I could. GPU is Different from your build (RX 550), I have the Fenvi T19 installed and an intek usb PCI card which seems to support USB 1 devices better. Im going to grab the EFI folder and attach it again.
Sorry, it looks like my first post had the wrong EFI folder attached - from a very old P8H67 build my wife uses now! Trust me, I'm not using that to boot from :lol:
 
The Z690 works. Unfortunately, TB stuff doesn't work on boot but has to be replugged. Still have mds storms whenever I boot.
TB3 -TB2 - Ethernet contraption survives sleep now. I've connected the USB cable to my Z690 mobo, and implemented GPRW for wake. I've slept the hack a couple of times, ethernet keeps working. Great.
 
I’ve been encountering random reboots on my Z390 Designare running Ventura 13.x when XCode is installed. I plan to do a fresh install without XCode to see if that fixes the reboots. If so, we may need to use a different version of macOS until the root cause is identified and fixed.
Finally, I found the problem was due to RAM hardware glitch. It spent me a lot of time on addressing the problem and has been confused me for more than one year. A few days ago, I installed Windows on my another SSD and used aida64 to test 'stress system memory'. Then I found one of my memory sticks always trigger red warning. I tested it over and over again. The red warning still exists. So I applied for the after service to replace my current memory sticks with new one. As of today, it's working well both on Windows and macOS, I thought it may be software-related factors but actually hardware can be the cause sometimes.
 
Sorry, it looks like my first post had the wrong EFI folder attached - from a very old P8H67 build my wife uses now! Trust me, I'm not using that to boot from :lol:
Some follow-ups:
  • Please make a backup of your current config.plist (required!) then try the attached version. There are no serial numbers in this version, so it will be necessary to copy them into PlatformInfo -> DataHub before use
  • Also ensure that a full bootable backup of Monterey has been made -- this is extremely important in light of the upgrade issues this system is facing
  • Then boot into Monterey and start the in-place upgrade again from System Preferences -> Software Update
  • Each time the system reboots, if there is a boot option called "Install macOS..." please select that option
  • The "Install macOS..." option should disappear after 1 or 2 reboots, after which we just need to boot the disk that is being upgraded
 

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Some follow-ups:
  • Please make a backup of your current config.plist (required!) then try the attached version. There are no serial numbers in this version, so it will be necessary to copy them into PlatformInfo -> DataHub before use
  • Also ensure that a full bootable backup of Monterey has been made -- this is extremely important in light of the upgrade issues this system is facing
  • Then boot into Monterey and start the in-place upgrade again from System Preferences -> Software Update
  • Each time the system reboots, if there is a boot option called "Install macOS..." please select that option
  • The "Install macOS..." option should disappear after 1 or 2 reboots, after which we just need to boot the disk that is being upgraded
Thanks Casey. Unfortunately, I'm not able to boot into Monterey using the config you sent (so haven't even tried the update again yet). Added my serial numbers but boot hangs at the Apple logo - verbose output attached. I've put my old config.plist back for now and all is fine - good job I had the back up!
 

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Anyone updated to 12.6.4 ?
I'm on 12.6.3 (Monterey), OpenCore 0.8.3 and everything is working correctly at the moment (thanks @CaseySJ)

Casey did test the 12.6.4 beta a few pages back, but if anyone has the new updated installed in the above config on this z390 hardware, please post a followup
 
Anyone updated to 12.6.4 ?
I'm on 12.6.3 (Monterey), OpenCore 0.8.3 and everything is working correctly at the moment (thanks @CaseySJ)

Casey did test the 12.6.4 beta a few pages back, but if anyone has the new updated installed in the above config on this z390 hardware, please post a followup
Just did it after seeing your post! All seems to be working fine - a seamless update. I haven't been able to update to Ventura though (se my earlier post and caseys follow-up), it might be my RX550 card preventing that, I have no idea.
 
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