EVGA x299 MICRO need help

[normbartley]

Has any adventurous soul had any luck with Catalina on their EVGA x299 board? My early attempts have been met with the ol' row of + signs and freeze. I haven't had time to tinker with it, but I'm wondering if there might be another kernel patch needed (the Mojave kernel patch doesn't help)?

 

[AntonSemanyk]

I've patched my bios to unlock 0xE2 write, but you can try below patch:

Comment String <-> xcpm_pkg_scope_msrs (c) Pike R. Alpha@PMheart
Disabled Boolean <-> No
Find Data<-> 31D2E874 FDFFFF
MatchOS String <-> 10.15.x
Replace Data<-> 31D29090 909090

 

[normbartley]

Many thanks again for you help, Anton. I applied the kernel patch, but no luck. I spotted this same patch elsewhere for Catalina (and I see it's only slightly different from the patch that breathed life into Mojave).

Meanwhile, I'm especially curious how you patched your EVGA BIOS to unlock your MSR. I realize that our mobos are slightly different (yours is the X299 Micro version, while mine is the X299 Micro 2 version). I flashed the latest 1.12 BIOS today, and was quietly hoping an MSR option might emerge, but nope!

 

[AntonSemanyk]

@normbartley I've talked to EVGA support and there is no hope they will add CFG Lock option to bios setup

To do the trick you need to have a flash programmer like this one: CH341A, then pull the bios chip out (it is sitting in the socket), dump bios, apply patches from https://gist.github.com/antonsemanyk/fa6c64867100605a932e471263674fee using https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool (UEFIPatch) and put chip back.
I've also bought another bios chip and flashed modified bios to it to leave original one as a backup. Chip model is GD25Q127CSIG or GD25Q128CSIG.
Those patches unlock 0xE2 and block TSC writes, so you do not even need TSCAdjustReset.

 

[jmhoo]

Hi @AntonSemanyk and @normbartley

First of all, thank you for sharing your experience on running hackintosh on EVGA X299.

However, when I followed your paths in this thread, I still couldn't boot the the Mojave installer.

Config:
MB: EVGA x299 micro atx 2
CPU: Core i9 9820x
GPU: MSI RX560
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z 4x16gb 3000

Here are what I did:
- Downloaded the Mojave dmg through mojave patcher
- Burn the mojave into a USB sticker through UniBeast 9.2.0
- Copied the EFI folder into the EFI partition (I tried both EFI-X299-10.14.5-Beta-iMacPro1 and EFI-X299-10.14.4-Release-iMacPro from kgp's EFI X299 EFI repository)
- Override the config.list with the one AntonSemanyK shared at #12
- Copied TSCAdjustReset.kext, AppleALC.lext, Lilu.kext, and Whatevergreen.kext into the EFI partition as well

It's probably I missed something....

 

[jmhoo]

Quick updates:

I finally can boot into either 10.13 or 10.14 installer, the problem was caused by i9-9820x, I upgrade the Clover to the latest version (r5098) and check the "PatchAPIC" solved the problem.

And it seems the USBPortLimits patch slightly different in 10.14.5 according to https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...14-1-14-2-14-3-14-5-14-6.268893/#post-1888473

 

[smoothmove]

Can anyone help with this who has the EVGA X299 Micro? Check to see if your system is vulnerable to meltdown and spectre. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/do...d-Management-Engine-Intel-CSME-Detection-Tool


I have advised EVGA of this issue and they advise that it was fixed in their latest bios and it is not. You will need to run it on windows, but I think you need to know. Please reply back.

 

[jaspercat5]

@smoothmove
Just came across this thread. Not sure if you got it sorted yet.
I Just finished refining the install on the EVGA X299 Dark.Spent quite a long time working on the Bios settings and the EFI for Big Sur and I am now happy with it. You can find it on page 135 of the X299 Support page.