I just completed my build over the weekend and all went well until the first reboot to run off the SSD. I got the black screen after the Apple logo/startup status got just over half way. I ended up updating the BIOS from I think it was F4 to F10.
I then changed some settings in the BIOS:
Internal Graphics > Disabled (I think it was set to Auto)
Seems like there was somehting else video related but don't see it now
I also played around with the settings in Clover but I'm not sure if that made a difference. It seemed like I had the black screen until the BIOS change then it worked.
Everything is working realy well now. I have to get iMessage working and I'm not sure about audio as I haven't hooked up speakers yet.
Gigabyte Z3070N WiFi
i7-8700k
WD Blue 1TB SSD
Corsair 32GB DRAM
Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 580 8GB
Corsair RM650x PSU
Thermaltake Mini ITX Cube
Mojave
I'm not sure what exactly fixed so thank to all who posted solutions or suggestions, end result it works!
Best,
David
Hey David, you are very welcome.
For the sound:
Open Clover Configurator.
Go to Kexts Installer (the last option in the left pan).
Top menu should look like this: Partition:EFI Location:/EFI/CLOVER/kexts OS Version
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Download Lilu then AppleALC.
Reboot.
For the iMessage or Facetime:
Add your iCloud account, give it a few minutes so it could do it stuff.
Try iMessage or FaceTime. If they are not working do the following:
Open a Finder window and press ⌘ + Shift + G, then type /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
Delete NetworkInterfaces.plist and Preferences then restart.
Open EFI\CloverConfig.plist with Clover Configurator, choose the same system definition.
Click a few times on both shake buttons then click OK.
Visit
https://checkcoverage.apple.com and test your serial. If it’s
not valid, then continue. If yes, generate another one and check validity again.
Paste the generated serial in Board Serial Number and add 5 additional characters (ie. AW7BC, CK8DA, etc.) at the end.
Open Terminal and run uuidgen. Paste the generated value into the SmUUID and save the file.
Before rebooting, run the following in Terminal:
cd ~/Library/Caches/
rm -R com.apple.Messages*
rm -R com.apple.imfoundation*
cd ~/Library/Preferences/
rm –R com.apple.iChat*
rm -R com.apple.imagent*
rm -R com.apple.imessage*
rm -R com.apple.imservice*
rm -R ~/Library/Messages/
Now close Terminal and reboot
Good luck!