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Gigabyte Z390 M Gaming build with working NVRAM

fxckdead said:
Hi pastrychef, i was wondering if you can share your BIOS Profile that´s working, because i was using your EFI folder for OpenCore for weeks everything went good, in some point boot start saying that was a problem and if i wanted to load optimized defaults, i avoid this for like a week, but i gived it a try yesterday...bad idea, macOS stop booting, i tried to make it boot from USB but no success, tried different combinations of the BIOS and no succes, tried OpenCore debug releases, with verbose mode and nothing that made me think "this is the erro"...so i think something is wrong on bios defaults but cant figure it out...
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It sounds like you may need to clear CMOS. That's why I suggest saving your BIOS profile to a USB flash drive. This way, if you need to clear CMOS, you can just load your profile back from the USB flash drive.

Here's my profile, but be warned, I have overclocked settings and I manually configure my RAM.
 

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fxckdead said:
@pastrychef thanks for the quick answer ! in fact, i forgot to tell i cleared the CMOS (with board pin switch), even that didn't helped. I tried to load your Profile but it doesn't do anything -.-

I tried what´s told here https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?77624-Bios-Saved-OC-Profiles-WON-T-Load about resetting CMOS, disabling CSM, trying to load profile but still, doesn't work.


UPDATE: I even tried to save a profile into a file, that doesn't work either
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The Asus link is broken...

Remember that when clearing CMOS, you should unplug the power cable from the power supply.

I don't know why loading saved profile isn't working... Are you on BIOS version F9g?
 
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fxckdead said:
@pastrychef
Oh, i think i put it wrong https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?77624-Bios-Saved-OC-Profiles-WON-T-Load

And yes, it's the F9g version, it was working for weeks, idk why it suddenly it stop working -.- like i said before, i tried different combinations, i'm doing the same thing as the first time with your EFIs folders
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Hmm... I have no idea...

What exactly do you see when you try to boot? Do you even get to the OpenCore bootloader? Have you tried with IGPU disabled in BIOS?
 
pastrychef said:
Hmm... I have no idea...

What exactly do you see when you try to boot? Do you even get to the OpenCore bootloader? Have you tried with IGPU disabled in BIOS?
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Yeah, strange, i was reading and tons of people get the same thing trying to load profiles ...


I get to the selector "1. Windows, 2. Install macOS Catalina (external), 3. macOS installed, 4. Recovery, 5. Reset nvram" so i tried 2, 3, 4,5 and no success, black screen, i tried what i said in here https://khronokernel-2.gitbook.io/o...ing/troubleshooting#black-screen-after-picker but no success too, stranger thing is it's not even logging at file i tried:

Misc -> Debug -> Target -> 83
Misc -> Debug -> DisplayLevel -> 2147483714

( from here https://khronokernel-2.gitbook.io/opencore-vanilla-desktop-guide/troubleshooting/debug)

but the only thing is logging right now is

Code: 
00:000 00:000 OC: Deleting NVRAM 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82: - Invalid Parameter
00:020 00:020 OC: Setting NVRAM 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82:prev-lang:kbd - Not Found

(this was a message that appears even when was working)

And about iGPU, i can't find it on the BIOS, but i remember i never changed that before when worked


UPDATE:

Forgot to mention, Mouse and Keyboard turn off when i select Install for example
 
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fxckdead said:
Yeah, strange, i was reading and tons of people get the same thing trying to load profiles ...


I get to the selector "1. Windows, 2. Install macOS Catalina (external), 3. macOS installed, 4. Recovery, 5. Reset nvram" so i tried 2, 3, 4,5 and no success, black screen, i tried what i said in here https://khronokernel-2.gitbook.io/o...ing/troubleshooting#black-screen-after-picker but no success too, stranger thing is it's not even logging at file i tried:

Misc -> Debug -> Target -> 83
Misc -> Debug -> DisplayLevel -> 2147483714

( from here https://khronokernel-2.gitbook.io/opencore-vanilla-desktop-guide/troubleshooting/debug)

but the only thing is logging right now is

Code: 
00:000 00:000 OC: Deleting NVRAM 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82: - Invalid Parameter
00:020 00:020 OC: Setting NVRAM 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82:prev-lang:kbd - Not Found

(this was a message that appears even when was working)

And about iGPU, i can't find it on the BIOS, but i remember i never changed that before when worked


UPDATE:

Forgot to mention, Mouse and Keyboard turn off when i select Install for example
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Can you try with the Clover EFI on a USB flash drive?

Have you tried the new OpenCore 0.5.7 EFI?
 
pastrychef said:
If you are using OpenCore, you need to set the boot drive in System Preferences > Startup Disk.
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well I was able to back everything up select recover from the picker and restore just like a real Mac!. Man Opencore is effing amazing! the system cam up and was smooth as butter. Then I ran the migration assistant and restored my stuff and then booted in the my account that was migrated and began the process of getting everything working again. The problem is that now I'm seeing the same behavior. so I think it is defiantly an application that is doing it. Now I just have to figure out which one. The Problem is nothing shows significant CPU usage. Man I have to say one thing the tI really hate about Mac OS is the activity monitor. the whole percentages thing the way they handle them is dumb and very confusing. it should be total CPU is 100% not 100% per thread on the machine.

Anyway the system is usable now. but still random sluggishness and pauses.
 
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jbarnette said:
well I was able to back everything up select recover from the picker and restore just like a real Mac!. Man Opencore is effing amazing! the system cam up and was smooth as butter. Then I ran the migration assistant and restored my stuff and then booted in the my account that was migrated and began the process of getting everything working again. The problem is that now I'm seeing the same behavior. so I think it is defiantly an application that is doing it. Now I just have to figure out which one. The Problem is nothing shows significant CPU usage. Man I have to say one thing the tI really hate about Mac OS is the activity monitor. the whole percentages thing the way they handle them is dumb and very confusing. it should be total CPU is 100% not 100% per thread on the machine.

Anyway the system is usable now. but still random sluggishness and pauses.
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Yeah, the goal with OpenCore was to make hackintoshes behave even more like a real Mac. That's why most of the startup hot keys (for things like Single User Mode, etc) work.
 
jbarnette said:
Nope was wrong it is completely unusable. at this point I'm completely at a loss as to what to do other than start over from scratch and build it back up one app at a time.
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How was it before you restored your apps?
 
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