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[maclion]

I need some help. I am on OC 074 | iMac 17,1 | ASRock Haswell i7 | MSI RX580 | WIFI running great on Big Sur 11.6.1, upgraded to Monterey and everything looks good except that my USB drives do not show up on the desktop. I have all the kexts up to date. I also tried from a fresh install and same results. Any hints?

 

[Feartech]

I need some help. I am on OC 074 | iMac 17,1 | ASRock Haswell i7 | MSI RX580 | WIFI running great on Big Sur 11.6.1, upgraded to Monterey and everything looks good except that my USB drives do not show up on the desktop. I have all the kexts up to date. I also tried from a fresh install and same results. Any hints?

but your cpu is Haswell and not Skylake?

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[trs96]

but your cpu is Haswell and not Skylake?

The Dortania guide recommends iMac 17,1 for Haswell systems with a dGPU. Even tonymacx86 himself uses that SMBIOS on his Haswell system running Monterey. The closest match, iMac 15,1 got dropped from Monterey support.

 

[Feartech]

The Dortania guide recommends iMac 17,1 for Haswell systems with a dGPU. Even tonymacx86 himself uses that SMBIOS on his Haswell system running Monterey. The closest match, iMac 15,1 got dropped from Monterey support.

ah cheers for that

 

[maclion]

Fixed. After reading more on Dortania, recommended to remove the bluetooth inject "BrcmBluetoothInjector.kext". Once deleted, my old faithful works great on Monterey.