Clover with the old guard: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 2.0

[damx]

I didn't do anything actually.. Just had XMPDetection set to 1, see pic. It's also enabled in BIOS of course.
...

Has anyone made progress with optimizing clover for performance on our systems and getting the tripple channel memory set-up figured out?
...

So far no luck. Setting XMPDetection to Yes or 1 didn't change anything.
I start thinking the problem is related to DSDT.

 

[damx]

If anybody can provide advice as to how to bypass the Clover bootscreen it will be most appreciated. I guess doing some more reading on my part will also help me in accomplishing that.

In your config.plist:
<key>Timeout</key>
<integer>0</integer>

and

<key>DefaultVolume</key>
<string>YourHDD</string>

Clover Wiki

 

[Henties]

Me again !
I have a huge problem after RTFMing jaymonkey's excellent dissection on this board of his Clover thread for a few more hours I am finally getting the screen to "Contact Support..." with a "Customer Code xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"

Exactly how to call Customer Support from within my country, Namibia, is still a mystery to me, but I guess a few more hours of
"Herlock Sholming" on Google or the Internet will eventually provide the answer.

The only issue that I am aware of presently is how to bypass the Clover Boot Screen. Preferably, if I ever wanted to get into that screen it should be done with a hotkey.

Bye the way using MacPro5.1 seems to have actually improved throughput for me, but I still need to test that. Was using iMac12.1 up to now however a number of error or rather "unhappiness messages" during bootup, that I became used to over the years, have now disapeared, so MacPro5.1 seems to be the system definition to go for. It is probably the closest our boards are to Apple's own systems of that era.

Thanks for any input

 

[Henties]

damx thank you, going to sleep now and will implement your Clover menu bypass tomorrow.

You saved me a lot of reading time.

 

[Henties]

damx its done and it works. The timeout i changed with Textwrangler and the default boot volume I changed with Clover configurator

I really need to read the Clover WIKI. Well once I figured how to contact Apple to enable iMessage and Face Time I will do just that.

This thread is just great. Now I am going to sleep for real, no thats an understatement, I am going to hybernate, bye for now.

Greets and thanks for your inputs.

 

[damx]

damx thank you, going to sleep now and will implement your Clover menu bypass tomorrow.
You saved me a lot of reading time.

Henties, when you have time tomorrow would you mind to share your "About this Mac -> System Report -> Memory" screen. We are struggling for 3-channel memory setup here, and so far only one guy @m4c0ser has managed to get it correctly read by Clover.

 

[Henties]

damx sure will share the info however at this stage I am not certain as to whether my memory is running tripple channel.
Presently I am away from home for the loooonnnggg weekend here. As soon as I am back home will post that info. Before that I will
also run some Geekbench tests on my iMac. At the moment I am on my iPad clancking away this message. And now onto the
Clover WIKi.

Cheers for now.

 

[m4c0ser]

In your config.plist:
<key>Timeout</key>
<integer>0</integer>

and

<key>DefaultVolume</key>
<string>YourHDD</string>

Clover Wiki

I'm using "fast" option

http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Configuration/Boot#Fast

<key>Fast</key>
<true/>

Similar to setting Timeout to 0 but:

nvram.plist will be searched only until first occurrence
does not search for the best video mode
does not load themes and graphics
does not scan SPD
no chance to enter the GUI
Having this parameter enabled might not really have any big effect.
Instead, you can try a custom compilation:

disable GUI in CloverEFI (3 seconds difference)
only search for Sata0 drivers (9 seconds difference)

 

[m4c0ser]

Bye the way using MacPro5.1 seems to have actually improved throughput for me, but I still need to test that. Was using iMac12.1 up to now however a number of error or rather "unhappiness messages" during bootup, that I became used to over the years, have now disapeared, so MacPro5.1 seems to be the system definition to go for. It is probably the closest our boards are to Apple's own systems of that era.

What throughput? HDD/SSD? I'm not sure how MacPro5,1 can help. It's Xeon based system, not i7. Could you be more specific, what exactly you have fixed with this spec?

 

[m4c0ser]

My motherboard is a GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 1 with F6 Bios. I downloaded the DSDT for my board and bios from the library here. I did NOT get onboard sound to work after the switch (it did before), but I've got an old Griffin iMic, and it gives perfectly good sound via USB, so I'm not going to bother messing with it.

rev1 is my board, BIOS F7f. I almost went with USB sound as well, but eventually got it working, see my post here http://www.tonymacx86.com/alternate...uard-ga-x58a-ud3r-rev-2-0-a-6.html#post919697