- Joined
- Dec 7, 2021
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- MEDION ERAZER P6705
- CPU
- i7 8750H
- Graphics
- UHD 630
After having some success installing Big Sur on two other machines (one laptop and one desktop), I decided to try it out on my gaming laptop. Both the other builds are Skylake. My laptop has the following specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7 8750H
GPU: Intel UHD 630 + GTX 1050Ti (using -wegnoegpu boot arg to disable it)
RAM: 16GB DDR4 @ 2667MHz
Storage: currently using a SATA HDD. This laptop comes equipped with an SK Hynix PC401M280S SSD. I thought this might've been a cause as I was originally getting kernel panics relating to NVMe. I removed this SSD from the laptop and added the SATA HDD in place of it to see if it helped. It didn't.
This laptop has not been as easy as my other two builds. The installation on my two other machines went really smoothly, barely any significant issues.
The problem I am having with my laptop is it seems to keep freezing at various points in the installation. When it freezes, the drive stops running (no HDD activity at all) and my CPU fan goes to what sounds like max speed. CPU heat also increases, so this is not just the fan itself going crazy - it's actually responding to heat. It remains this way until power is cut.
I've tried quite a lot of times to get this OS installed. It'll occasionally get stuck on the recovery's install MacOS Big Sur screen. This tends to happen when it says "about 15 minutes remaining".
If it makes it past that, it will try to reboot. When it does try to reboot, it often kernel panics. I attached a file showing what the kernel panic says. It's generally the same (sometimes I see SMCProcessor instead of VirtualSMC). I see AHCIDiskDriver mentioned on all the panics I have encountered.
Once I power off and reboot, I will see the "Mac OS installer" show up. I can boot to it. Once there, I'll be met with the Apple logo on a black background. It'll either immediately get stuck on "29 minutes remaining", or it'll go all the way to where it says "less than a minute remaining" where it halts indefinitely. As before, the CPU fan ramps up, is far hotter and the HDD light goes completely dead. No matter how long I leave it, nothing happens. I have no choice but to forcibly cut power.
After I force cut power and reboot, I boot back to the "Mac OS installer" to see what happens. I often find that it starts the count at "29 minutes remaining" and then boots to the "Mac OS upgrade assistant" several minutes later where it says it failed to apply the software update. Not much can be done here. Other times, it won't go back to the Apple logo and instead will get stuck on the verbose screen. It'll go through a lot of debug stuff, occasionally going extremely slow and then reboot if I leave it long enough. Rebooting to the installer leads to the same screen.
I'm honestly lost on what to do here. I have been troubleshooting for days. I've been scouring Google trying to find some resolution, but nothing has helped. I am still no closer to identifying what is causing the installer to halt so much.
Compared to my other systems, I find the overall time it takes to do things is slower. For example, the time it takes to go to the recovery or Mac OS installer screen feels like forever. It's far slower than my other machines. That alone concerns me.
I've attached one of my log files hoping someone might be able to identify what's happening. I followed the Dortania's vanilla guide to set everything up. I made my own EFI folder, as well as the config.plist. I used the prebuilt SSDT's (AWAC, EC-USBX-LAPTOP, PNLF and PLUG). My BIOS is pretty limited. VT-d, Fast Boot, Secure Boot and Intel SGX are disabled. SATA mode is set to AHCI. There's not much else that can be altered.
I will attach the config.plist soon if needed. I'm currently trying to install the OS again after making some changes.
EDIT: forgot to mention I am using OpenCore 0.7.6
CPU: Intel Core i7 8750H
GPU: Intel UHD 630 + GTX 1050Ti (using -wegnoegpu boot arg to disable it)
RAM: 16GB DDR4 @ 2667MHz
Storage: currently using a SATA HDD. This laptop comes equipped with an SK Hynix PC401M280S SSD. I thought this might've been a cause as I was originally getting kernel panics relating to NVMe. I removed this SSD from the laptop and added the SATA HDD in place of it to see if it helped. It didn't.
This laptop has not been as easy as my other two builds. The installation on my two other machines went really smoothly, barely any significant issues.
The problem I am having with my laptop is it seems to keep freezing at various points in the installation. When it freezes, the drive stops running (no HDD activity at all) and my CPU fan goes to what sounds like max speed. CPU heat also increases, so this is not just the fan itself going crazy - it's actually responding to heat. It remains this way until power is cut.
I've tried quite a lot of times to get this OS installed. It'll occasionally get stuck on the recovery's install MacOS Big Sur screen. This tends to happen when it says "about 15 minutes remaining".
If it makes it past that, it will try to reboot. When it does try to reboot, it often kernel panics. I attached a file showing what the kernel panic says. It's generally the same (sometimes I see SMCProcessor instead of VirtualSMC). I see AHCIDiskDriver mentioned on all the panics I have encountered.
Once I power off and reboot, I will see the "Mac OS installer" show up. I can boot to it. Once there, I'll be met with the Apple logo on a black background. It'll either immediately get stuck on "29 minutes remaining", or it'll go all the way to where it says "less than a minute remaining" where it halts indefinitely. As before, the CPU fan ramps up, is far hotter and the HDD light goes completely dead. No matter how long I leave it, nothing happens. I have no choice but to forcibly cut power.
After I force cut power and reboot, I boot back to the "Mac OS installer" to see what happens. I often find that it starts the count at "29 minutes remaining" and then boots to the "Mac OS upgrade assistant" several minutes later where it says it failed to apply the software update. Not much can be done here. Other times, it won't go back to the Apple logo and instead will get stuck on the verbose screen. It'll go through a lot of debug stuff, occasionally going extremely slow and then reboot if I leave it long enough. Rebooting to the installer leads to the same screen.
I'm honestly lost on what to do here. I have been troubleshooting for days. I've been scouring Google trying to find some resolution, but nothing has helped. I am still no closer to identifying what is causing the installer to halt so much.
Compared to my other systems, I find the overall time it takes to do things is slower. For example, the time it takes to go to the recovery or Mac OS installer screen feels like forever. It's far slower than my other machines. That alone concerns me.
I've attached one of my log files hoping someone might be able to identify what's happening. I followed the Dortania's vanilla guide to set everything up. I made my own EFI folder, as well as the config.plist. I used the prebuilt SSDT's (AWAC, EC-USBX-LAPTOP, PNLF and PLUG). My BIOS is pretty limited. VT-d, Fast Boot, Secure Boot and Intel SGX are disabled. SATA mode is set to AHCI. There's not much else that can be altered.
I will attach the config.plist soon if needed. I'm currently trying to install the OS again after making some changes.
EDIT: forgot to mention I am using OpenCore 0.7.6
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