OpenCore 0.7.2 EFI has been modified for BIOS F13. Good news......
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- This means, of course, that PCI paths for Thunderbolt and some other devices have changed. Will create a new OpenCore EFI folder that can be used with BIOS F13, but no guarantees that everything will work as it does with BIOS F10.
- Will test macOS under BIOS F13 in the coming days.
This is one reason Bill Gates gave Apple a loan to keep them going back in the dark days of 1997. He knew that MS needed Apple for their ideas and innovations, so they could imitate them. The other even bigger reason is that he didn't want the MS monopoly broken up back then. They were under investigation for their business practices and needed somebody else making a desktop OS to give them even a little competition. Little did Bill know that Apple would turn into a company valued at over 3 trillion by 2021. Macs are also starting to gain more desktop market share too.nicer and more Mac-like.
Just created a Windows 11 fresh install USB flash disk and performed the installation on my Gigabyte B550 Vision D.
Some notes on Windows 11:
- I followed this guide on Tom's Hardware.
- It was necessary to update to BIOS F13 in order to enable TPM properly.
- This means, of course, that PCI paths for Thunderbolt and some other devices have changed. Will create a new OpenCore EFI folder that can be used with BIOS F13, but no guarantees that everything will work as it does with BIOS F10.
- Will test macOS under BIOS F13 in the coming days.
- Windows 11 was installed on a 2.5mm 256GB SATA SSD.
- It was necessary to enable fTPM in BIOS Setup.
- Unlike Windows 10, it was not necessary to physically remove macOS SSDs.
- The welcome wizard is much nicer and more Mac-like.
- All windows have rounded corners, which is again Mac-like.
- The task bar is centered by default, yup, Mac-like.
- Apps launch almost instantly.
- The entire GUI has been refreshed and is significantly nicer. I didn't expect GUI changes to be so thorough.
Posted from Windows 11.
@CaseySJOpenCore 0.7.2 EFI has been modified for BIOS F13. Good news...
- Minor changes were necessary to the OpenCore 0.7.2 EFI to support BIOS F13 on Gigabyte B550 Vision D.
- Thunderbolt hot plug works.
- Thunderbolt USB-C (USB 3) devices connect.
- Thunderbolt Alt-Mode devices also connect via Thunderbolt (instead of USB 3) when connected to Thunderbolt ports.
- Sleep/Wake works (but I had to disconnect my USB-C hub).
- Be sure to disable Resizable BAR support in BIOS (it is disabled by default).
@CaseySJ
When I tried to download BIOS F13 from Gigabyte's site, on multiple tries, I got an error message like "Page not found." I wonder if it's my problem, you got the BIOS elsewhere, or Gigabyte has withdrawn it?
Are you still unable to download BIOS F13?@CaseySJ
When I tried to download BIOS F13 from Gigabyte's site, on multiple tries, I got an error message like "Page not found." I wonder if it's my problem, you got the BIOS elsewhere, or Gigabyte has withdrawn it?