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- May 18, 2014
- Messages
- 13
- Motherboard
- ASUS X99-S
- CPU
- i7-5820K
- Graphics
- GTX 980 Ti
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hello, I'm just here to say big THANK YOU @kgp
I've been running 10.11.6 at MacPro 5.1 definition, different build than you (ASUS X99-S, i7-5820K, GTX 980 Ti), after seeing your thread I finally decided to upgrade, some of my observations - of which you might even add some to your original post, could be helpful for others:
1) upgrade install went flawlessly using your usb install guide
2) since I use nVidia GTX 980 Ti, after installation was totally complete, after next reboot, I had flickering and no gpu detected, just some generic VGA adapter found, even after clean reboot, even with proper drivers and CUDA drivers installed,
what I had to do was enable these 2 tickmarks in Clover Configurator:
Boot -> "nvda_drv=1"
System Parameters -> "NvidiaWeb"
3) since I use Haswell-E i7-5820K, I was unsure about the XCPM guidelines as you might written the guide slightly confusing a bit, since you use Broadwell-E,
in your guide at C.) section you write "KernelPm" entry (which I used for install and initial setups, that works fine, with cpu locked at max frequency set, so apparently XPCM disabled), despite having KernelXPCM squared in the screenshot (?),
but later you keep mentioning "KernelXPCM" entry - and that is truly the one which needs to be ticked with the additional XCPM patches - which are, as far as I can see, fully compatible with Haswell i7-5820K (believe me, I spent roughly hour searching internet for adjusted specific patches for Haswell, since you have Broadwell, didn't dare to try, but finally I did and it just all works
4) BIOS settings vary a little on ASUS X99-S, but easy to setup according to your guide, crucial is "Disabled" Fast Boot, else mouse/keyboard won't work when plugged in USB 3.0 ports (funnily enough, with correct BIOS setting above, even the MacOS installation works fine with these peripherials plugged in USB 3.0 ports, something I see people sometimes have problems with)
5) so far I skipped the bios patching and dsdt patching, just to see if High Sierra is at all worth compared to El Capitan)
6) one interesting observation, my "About This Mac" window doesn't show MacOS build number and doesn't show year of iMac Pro, any idea why so? in your original post, you have those shown? (I do have the 17G65 build installed)
[edit] 6) nevermind, build number is only shown when MacOS version is clicked, and the model year does not show even on genuine Macs if they were custom orders, so I guess the very special shardware config may cause that
[edit2] yesterday I once ran into problem during shutdown - black screen, mouse could move, any ideas for fix?
[edit3] I didn't have the shutdown problem next time, but I still later did a change in Clover Configurator, Acpi -> FixShutdown
I've been running 10.11.6 at MacPro 5.1 definition, different build than you (ASUS X99-S, i7-5820K, GTX 980 Ti), after seeing your thread I finally decided to upgrade, some of my observations - of which you might even add some to your original post, could be helpful for others:
1) upgrade install went flawlessly using your usb install guide
2) since I use nVidia GTX 980 Ti, after installation was totally complete, after next reboot, I had flickering and no gpu detected, just some generic VGA adapter found, even after clean reboot, even with proper drivers and CUDA drivers installed,
what I had to do was enable these 2 tickmarks in Clover Configurator:
Boot -> "nvda_drv=1"
System Parameters -> "NvidiaWeb"
3) since I use Haswell-E i7-5820K, I was unsure about the XCPM guidelines as you might written the guide slightly confusing a bit, since you use Broadwell-E,
in your guide at C.) section you write "KernelPm" entry (which I used for install and initial setups, that works fine, with cpu locked at max frequency set, so apparently XPCM disabled), despite having KernelXPCM squared in the screenshot (?),
but later you keep mentioning "KernelXPCM" entry - and that is truly the one which needs to be ticked with the additional XCPM patches - which are, as far as I can see, fully compatible with Haswell i7-5820K (believe me, I spent roughly hour searching internet for adjusted specific patches for Haswell, since you have Broadwell, didn't dare to try, but finally I did and it just all works
4) BIOS settings vary a little on ASUS X99-S, but easy to setup according to your guide, crucial is "Disabled" Fast Boot, else mouse/keyboard won't work when plugged in USB 3.0 ports (funnily enough, with correct BIOS setting above, even the MacOS installation works fine with these peripherials plugged in USB 3.0 ports, something I see people sometimes have problems with)
5) so far I skipped the bios patching and dsdt patching, just to see if High Sierra is at all worth compared to El Capitan
)6) one interesting observation, my "About This Mac" window doesn't show MacOS build number and doesn't show year of iMac Pro, any idea why so? in your original post, you have those shown? (I do have the 17G65 build installed)
[edit] 6) nevermind, build number is only shown when MacOS version is clicked, and the model year does not show even on genuine Macs if they were custom orders, so I guess the very special shardware config may cause that
[edit2] yesterday I once ran into problem during shutdown - black screen, mouse could move, any ideas for fix?
[edit3] I didn't have the shutdown problem next time, but I still later did a change in Clover Configurator, Acpi -> FixShutdown
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