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

[pastrychef]

But is any malfunctioning needed before using it or you just drop it in the ACPI folder?
I haven't seen it in your folder distro. Is there a preferred place to gather it?
Thanks a lot!!

The one prerequisite is that MSR is unlocked.

All info can be found in my Z390 build thread, including EFIs containing the SSDT. Link is below in my signature.

 

[PeteStewardson]

That driver is included with the mainline OpenCore package... I'll test without it.

Update:
I just remembered. If you look in config.plist, that driver is not enabled.

Thanks I hadn't looked in the .plist yet.

Just had my gfx card and NVMe delivered, only to realize I can't find all the cables for my RM650x power supply so don't have the PCIe power cables grrr. Looked everywhere and can't find that damn bag of cables.

UPDATE: OK, I found the cable but I've messed up something somewhere. I have a High Sierra boot USB that I used before. But disk utility isn't seeing my 970 EVO NVMe drive that I've installed. Is there anything I need to do to make that visible?

 

[pastrychef]

Is there anything I need to do to make that visible?

No.

If you have a 970 EVO Plus, it may need a firmware update before it will work with macOS. The non-"Plus" 970 EVO works OOB.

 

[PeteStewardson]

I bought a 970 EVO not the Plus. But not showing up in the list in Dsk Utility to format, but is showing in the BIOS :S

 

[pastrychef]

I bought a 970 EVO not the Plus. But not showing up in the list in Dsk Utility to format, but is showing in the BIOS :S

Make sure you "Show All Devices" in Disk Utility.

Other than that, I can't think of anything that prevents it from showing up.

 

[PeteStewardson]

Yeah even that makes no difference. Very odd

 

[pastrychef]

Yeah even that makes no difference. Very odd

Try booting in to Windows and initialize it to ExFAT or NTFS first.

 

[PeteStewardson]

Good idea. I’ll make a win10 usb and give it a try.

 

[hamzab]

It's up to you how you configure USB. Yes, it's possible to have all the ports on the rear and the USB3 ports from the motherboard header enabled.

The non-Wi-Fi AC version is not a problem.

I like to use Apple made BCM94360CS2 cards either on a PCI-e adaptor or on an M.2 adaptor. These are natively supported by macOS so there's no configuring required.

Hi Pastry

Quick question. As this motherboard has 2x M.2 slots, can I use one for my Main Hackintosh Boot drive (I'm thinking a 970 EVO) and the other for the BCM94360CS2 card? Do you mind pointing me to an adaptor so the BCM94360CS2 can fit in an M.2 slot?

Lastly, can I use the BCM94360CS2 card in an M.2 adaptor, but only use it for Bluetooth, and use a normal ethernet connection for the internet? If I do this, will Handoff, iMessage etc still work via ethernet?

 

[PeteStewardson]

OK, this may not be specific to this Golden Build setup, but could I ask if you have Catalina working @pastrychef?

I did indeed need to format the NVMe via Windows, and then I now have High Sierra running again. I'm using the latest rEFI you have here, and the Vega 56 is working fine. Now I have a screen on the inbuilt DP port of the MB and one on the Vega56 I can see everything going on. What I'm finding when I try to update to Catalina is the installer runs, and then the machine reboots to the Install Preboot image ( forget the exact name now ) and then it shows a screen on the internal graphics which has a row of ++++++++++++ and an Apple symbol and nothing else. It just sits there and doesn't do anything else at all. It doesn't display the list of start/end lines before the +++++ line.

What can I do to diagnose?