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Since the last couple of macOS Sonoma update, I have noticed that when I restart the computer, the system gets stuck at the motherboard's logo screen. But after when I manually restart with the reset button, the system boots up just fine. Has anyone else come across this issue?

I was thinking about upgrading my PC to the latest hardware. Is it worth upgrading to latest Intel hardware considering Apple has moved away from Intel? With every OS update, more and more features are getting dropped for Intel.

I have a Vega 64 graphics card and running the latest macOS version. Everytime I turn off the display at night and turn it back on, I get no signal error. I have to unplug the HDMI cable and plug it back in to bring up the display again. Does anyone know how to fix this?

DISCLAIMER This laptop is not my primary computer so I took the risk of upgrading to Sonoma. I was okay with starting from scratch if it did not work. If you would like to proceed with upgrading, make sure you back up all your data and have a working macOS Ventura USB installer media available...

I was thinking about purchasing the said motherboard. Are there any compatibility issues with the X99 chipset?

When I try to use the Keyboard Assistant in Monterey, it prompts me to press the key right next to the Shift key. When I press the key, it says that the keyboard could not be identified. I am using a space grey Apple Keyboard. Does anyone know what could be causing this issue?

Is it possible to use a 1080p display on a laptop without having CSM enabled? On my laptop, if I disable CSM, the OS boots to a garbled screen. Is there any workaround to this? Update: It appears that the issue only occurs when resolution is set to 1920x1080. If I set a lower resolution in...

I have a Lenovo L440 laptop and changed the trackpad to the T450s version with physical buttons. For some reason, the Trackpad preference pane is not detecting it. I have tried various VoodooPS2Controller kexts as well as VoodooSMBus/VoodooRMI. The trackpad is Synaptics brand. At first I...

I have managed to get OC to boot into Big Sur. Everything seems to be working correctly except for audio and brightness. I have tried every layout-ids for ALC292 but still cannot get audio to work. For brightness, I am using SSDT-PNLF file posted in a thread by Rehabman along with...

I am looking to upgrade my video card to a Vega one. Which one would you guys recommend I get? It will be a used MSI branded one and the price difference between the two is only $50. Is it worth spending extra $50 and get the 64 version one?

I have few errors in kernel log which I'm not sure how to troubleshoot. Could someone help in diagnosing what those errors correspond to so I can fix them?

I cloned my working Mojave installation to another drive and then upgraded to Catalina. For some reason, as soon as I access Netflix website in Safari, the system completely hangs. I can move the mouse cursor but nothing else is responsive. I have tried re-installing multiple times but no luck...

@RehabMan, I did not want to muck the FB Patcher thread with my USB issues. I think I've gotten the SSDT to work with using the XHC method and disabling EHCI. One question about the port count, right now besides XHC, it shows a count of 14. Is this 14 counted from 0,1,2,..,etc. or 1,2,3,...,etc...

I did a clean install of Mojave yesterday. I have noticed that couple of things aren't working the way they were in HS. First, Preview/QuickLook does not work when I have the iGPU disabled. I have noticed this for JPEGs. When pressing either space bar or when opening an image in Preview, all I...

I have seen on other users' machines that the PCI section in System Properties shows a lot more information about the devices connected such as the video card, WiFi card and such. On my system, it only shows Intel 9 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller: Is there something I have to...

I replaced the screen on the laptop with an IPS one. System is booting just fine but as soon as it reaches login window, the screen garbles up. Has anyone come across this issue? I have attached a screenshot of how the screen looks like.

I initially installed High Sierra on an APFS formatted drive and noticed that the system was a bit sluggish. I decided to re-install the OS again following @Sniki guide for this laptop model using a HFS+J formatted drive. I followed the instructions to the tee but for some reason, there are...

i recently purchased an optical drive caddy from eBay to use with a Lenovo L440 laptop. When I plug in the drive, I get a prompt that the drive is not initialized and when I try to erases it in Disk Utility, it just hangs and results in an error. I have initialed the drive on my desktop a few...

Are there any WIFI/Bluetooth combo cards that would be compatible with the Lenovo L440 laptop without having to remove the whitelist restriction from BIOS? I have looked into removing whitelist restriction but it appears that I have two BIOS chips in this laptop and am not sure how to go about...

I just made a switch to a MSI Radeon RX 560 video card. The card is getting detected just fine using Whatevergreen but I have noticed that now when I view videos in Safari, it becomes pixelated at times. This happens in Youtube and Netflix. The other thing I noticed is that in Netflix, there...