pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

[pastrychef]

Oh bummer....
F11. I did that, and just got an instant reboot. No change.

Re: Clover updating - can I just run the installer when I'm booted regularly, as long as the EFI partition is mounted?

Yes, you can just run the installer. Make sure you select the correct options that match your current installation.

If you are unsure, you can get just the latest CLOVERX64.efi file and only replace that from here. This way, you will only update Clover and none of your drivers will be messed with.

 

[kentval]

Thank you. I ran it, but never was presented with an opportunity to customize the install. Fortunately I have a full backup, and just did a compare between the two. Some more recent versions of my current files were installed; nothing was added or removed - only updated.

I'm still trying to figure out why the Vega is so slow...

 

[pastrychef]

Thank you. I ran it, but never was presented with an opportunity to customize the install. Fortunately I have a full backup, and just did a compare between the two. Some more recent versions of my current files were installed; nothing was added or removed - only updated.

I'm still trying to figure out why the Vega is so slow...

See this thread. There are others who are experiencing poor Vega performance. One guy fixed it by pulling an NVMe SSD.

 

[kentval]

Aha! Thanks! I'll check that. At first glance it appears to be exactly what I'm experiencing...
Greatly appreciated.

further discussion is now here.

 

[rojarrolla]

Hmm... That should be the correct kext for your NIC. I have no idea why it's not working for you. Maybe try installing it to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/ and let Clover inject it.

Well, I can't try that at this moment, I exchanged my GTX 980 for an Asus RX 580 Dual with a friend, and I tried to continue installing Mojave on my computer. The result was the same; it keeps getting stuck at the same point when the graphics interface says it has 15 minutes left to install. I tried it again by injecting ATI drivers in Verbose mode ,and I got this:

 

[rojarrolla]

Worth checking that the Ethernet interface has not somehow become disabled in the BIOS settings.

Thanks, it should not be disabled in BIOS because I Dual boot in Windows. And I have no problems with Ethernet.

 

[pastrychef]

Well, I can't try that at this moment, I exchanged my GTX 980 for an Asus RX 580 Dual with a friend, and I tried to continue installing Mojave on my computer. The result was the same; it keeps getting stuck at the same point when the graphics interface says it has 15 minutes left to install. I tried it again by injecting ATI drivers in Verbose mode, and I got this:

Please post your EFI folder and what hardware you are trying to install on.

 

[rojarrolla]

Please post your EFI folder and what hardware you are trying to install on.

How can I access it from Clover? I can not boot Sierra either because of the Video Card replacement, if not possible I would need to get the GTX 980 back in my rig in order to post you my EFI folder.

Thanks.

 

[pastrychef]

How can I access it from Clover? I can not boot Sierra either because of the Video Card replacement, if not possible I would need to get the GTX 980 back in my rig in order to post you my EFI folder.

Thanks.

What hardware is giving you problems? The stuff listed in your profile?

 

[Azimuth1]

I have been using a Samsung SM951 M.2 AHCI SSD for close to two years now. It has been reliable and, although not the fastest SSD around, plenty fast for me. About the only criticism that I could give it is that it sometimes ran quite hot under heavy use.

According to specs, the recommended operating range is 32F-158F/0C-70C. There had been a few occasions where I saw temps just above 150F. The BareFeats article below claims to have seen it reach 180F/82F! There have been quite a lot of confirmation that, when it reaches 158F/70C, it will throttle speeds down to keep it from overheating. When throttled, performance can go from "~1500MB/s all the way down to 70MB/s!!

Sources:
http://barefeats.com/hard211.html
http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-sm951-512gb-m-2-pcie-ssd-review_161689/3

Thanks for the advice, I think I will go for it too!

Naming the heat, I've recently bought a Noctua NP-F14s chassis fan and I've substituted the one on top of Asus back shield (CHASSIS_FAN_2 according to my Asus manual, and I have a Fractal Design R6 case btw) with this new Noctua.

It has 4 pin molex and PWR control that I can modify in BIOS monitor section. Which I did, but despite the BIOS setting s, this Noctua stops spinning as soon as the system arrives at OSX login screen. Which is very weird because in my settings it should spin at 50% over 40C of CPU, which is pretty low temp ... and infact HWMonitor tells me CPU is almost always hotter than 40C .

Do you have any hints on how MacOS controls (if it does!) fans behaviours instead of BIOS?