ASUS P9X79 PRO - I7-3970 + THUNDERBOLT + OpenCore

[maschinenwart]

This motherboard is unfortunately not very common here. Since I still had a fully functional computer sitting around, I finally wanted to try building a Hackintosh out of it.

With the excellent tips from "Dortania's OpenCore Install Guide" and some research in the relevant forums (credit: @kostrovoy), I created an OpenCore EFI folder and installed Catalina. The good piece runs as MacPro6,1

Hardware:

• CPU: i7-3970X Sandy Bridge E
• GPU: Sapphire Pulse RX 560
• RAM: Corsair 32GB 1866 Mhz
• GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt

Works:

• USB2
• LAN
• Audio - Onboard
• Audio - HDMI
• Thunderbolt*
• CPU-PowerManagement

No or limited function

• USB3**
• Bluetooth***

Not testet:

• wake / sleep

* A flashed Gigabyte Thunderbolt card even helps the Granny to two TB3 ports. Unfortunately, however, no HotPlug works so far even with a corresponding SSDT. To run two UAD Apollo interfaces and one UAD Satellite, you have to reboot the hack, with the devices connected and powered on, three times.

** The USB3 ports on the board only work as USB2, unless on a cold boot, then they have full USB3 bandwidth. Same behavior as the USB controller on the TB card.

*** I disabled Bluetooth in the BIOS because the onboard controller is not recognized at all.

 

[Denis1805]

Hello! can you help me build an EFI for the asus P9x79 LE?

 

[maschinenwart]

Hello! can you help me build an EFI for the asus P9x79 LE?

I would need a bit more information for this.

• Is the computer already running clover?
• if yes, please upload the EFI folder (without serial number)
  
  
• What hardware is installed
• CPU
• Graphics card

 

[Denis1805]

Для этого мне понадобится немного больше информации.

• На компьютере уже запущен клевер?
• если да, загрузите папку EFI (без серийного номера)
  
  
• Какое оборудование установлено
• Процессор
• Видеокарта

CPU i7 3820, GPU AMD HD7850 1gb, Bios updated to the latest version 4801
I use a bootloader opencore

 

[maschinenwart]

CPU i7 3820, GPU AMD HD7850 1gb, Bios updated to the latest version 4801
I use a bootloader opencore

...hello Denis try this EFI. The config.plist is with the serial number from your EFI folder.
The BIOS settings can be found here, but I have CSM enabled on my board.

 

[Denis1805]

...hello Denis try this EFI. The config.plist is with the serial number from your EFI folder.
The BIOS settings can be found here, but I have CSM enabled on my board.

Thank you very much for your help, but I get such a problem, with my efi it was the same.

 

[maschinenwart]

Have you checked the BIOS settings?

 

[maschinenwart]

@Denis1805 ...please try this EFI folder, it is a debug version. The computer will not start again but we get an ACPI dump. On the EFI partition a folder "SystemReport" is created and in it the folder "ACPI". Please attach it here.

 

[Denis1805]

Maybe I missed something in the bios settings

 

[maschinenwart]

...ok, try this EFI