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I have replaced the i5-3470 with the i5-3570K (which is an intel HD4000). Do I need to install any SSDT?
Hey guys! So I need a little help. I have been running my mid tower 8300 for a little over a year without any issue at all except my little 256GB SSD ran out of space for my FPCX editing. I had a 500GB HDD in my machine as well for just general storage so I decided to make a fusion drive and did a fresh install of 10.14.6. All has gone as perfect as possible except for post install, Multibeast fails to mount the fusion drive EFI.
How do I deal with this?
HP 8300
i7-3770
RX 580
16GB Ram
Fusion Drive 256GB SSD + 500GB HDD
I just replaced my USB Wifi dongle with a $20 refurbished TP-Link AC1200 range extender I got at our local MicroCenter and that has made a big difference. I have no more Wifi instability after a Sleep/Wake because now it's Ethernet instead of Wifi. And the speed is better as well. So I would now recommend going with a Wifi Range Extender + Ethernet instead of a USB Wifi Dongle. (with this model - RE305 - you can even put the range extender on a Power Schedule if you want to do that)I got my HP8300 USDT from eBay and - yes! - there are always some great options out there. Another one right now is: i7-3770S USDT with 8G for $120 . My i5-3475s USDT with the HD4000 graphics is just working great with Mojave (that i7 has the HD4000 graphics as well). Sleep/Wake, USB 3.0 ports, great Wifi speed with this really cheap adapter and solid Bluetooth with this one - I continue to be very pleased.
Also - I now use chris1111's Wifi USB Utility - it seems to work with anything that has a Realtek driver. I also looked at corpnewt's USBMap utility (a great way to help you build a custom SSDT) but - for me - USBInjectAll.kext is working perfectly without a custom mapping.
I've attempted fusion drives myself on 6300proMT, Dell 9020 and 7010. Like you, I can Successfully create the fusion drive from Terminal from the USB installer. But showing the fusion drive in clover is another matter entirely, I can see the two 'Physical volumes' that make up the 'Logical volume', the fusion drive. But neither will boot, It's just a headache, you'll be better off buying a bigger drive IMO!.
I will report back my results. If this doesn't work, I am just going to quit and save for a large SSD.
I am about to go Office Space on this stupid machine lol
But in all seriousness, I am creating a new drive just for testing things out and trying new updates and well, I run multibeast and set the system definition and despite the SMBIOS area of clover config confirming that the change took, when I pull up the About This Mac, it says its a late 2013 27" iMac. In the system report it still shows it as 14,2 system definition. Why is the About this Mac and the system report still showing 14,2 but the SMBIOS saying it is the 13,2 or 13,1 (I tried both since the jury still seems to be out on which one is best for the i7 8300 mid tower) that I have set it to in multibeast?
Try changing it to 13,2 in Clover Configurator then reboot and check About this Mac and see if it changes there too.Can anyone help with this?