Stork's MyHero II Build: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z370 HERO X - i7-8700K - AMD RX 580 - Thunderbolt 3

[ed.stein]

Alright, so after a few days I can say 11.4 is pretty stable!
It's so good to finally be able to use spotlight to do math again...
It seems pretty rock solid to me. I've got zero complaints so far. As I've said on my first post-11.4-migration post, the resources usage has dropped considerably. So it's not only faster, it's finally stable! I don't miss Mojave anymore, after 2 years struggling with Catalina, I can finally let Mojave go

If you haven't yet and your workflow allows you to, go to 11.4!
It's so good in here, I hope I can hold on migrating to Monterey (Catalina is too fresh in my memory...)

 

[ed.stein]

Updated to 11.5.1 without any problems.

EDIT:
Update to 11.5.2 also ran without any problems. Just like it would on official apple's hardware.

 

[beatnaph]

Hello !! I've been using this build with Clover since a few years and decided to finally switch to OpenCore / Big Sur.
I did a try with @ed.stein EFI folder on an USB drive and got a proper boot, so decided to use it on my main drive and update to Big Sur.
So far almost everything works perfectly. I'd say even better that with the latest Clover (5138) with which I got some random freezes.
The only problem I have right now is external USB input devices not being recognized (a Wacom Tablet and a USB mic). External USB disks and card readers works fine though.
I don't know if this has to do with devices being USB 2.0 instead of 3.0 and if i should make a custom SSDT.
I was using a custom SSDT-USBX on Clover, but that was a long time ago and honestly I should re-learn how to make one, if that could help.
Do you have any suggestion ?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Feartech]

Hello !! I've been using this build with Clover since a few years and decided to finally switch to OpenCore / Big Sur.
I did a try with @ed.stein EFI folder on an USB drive and got a proper boot, so decided to use it on my main drive and update to Big Sur.
So far almost everything works perfectly. I'd say even better that with the latest Clover (5138) with which I got some random freezes.
The only problem I have right now is external USB input devices not being recognized (a Wacom Tablet and a USB mic). External USB disks and card readers works fine though.
I don't know if this has to do with devices being USB 2.0 instead of 3.0 and if i should make a custom SSDT.
I was using a custom SSDT-USBX for USBInjectAll on Clover, but that was a long time ago and honestly I should re-learn how to make one, if that could help.
Do you have any suggestion ?
Thanks in advance.

The New Beginner's Guide to USB Port Configuration

Important: January 2023 Update It's been a while since this guide was written and Apple has changed their USB sub-system in several significant ways. So please bear in mind: 1) From Big Sur 11.3 onwards the OpenCore XhciPortLimit Quirk stopped working. It hasn't been fixed yet. So generally we...

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[ed.stein]

@beatnaph the guide @Feartech mentioned should help you. After migrating to OC I had a similar issue that was fixed by that, read the item no 8 (that post might also provide you with extra info):

Stork's MyHero II Build: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z370 HERO X - i7-8700K - AMD RX 580 - Thunderbolt 3

Is there a way to make these hacks sleep. every time I try putting it to sleep it wakes right back up!

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[beatnaph]

Thanks both for the reply. I didn't have success with the suggested method, adding USBInjectALL to the existing configuration seem to totally break my USB setup, at the point that it can't detect any device.
@ed.stein your EFI folder already contains a USBPorts.kext, i tried both leaving it active or disabled, with no succes.
Any hints on how to debug this?

I noticed though that removing the Quirk XhciPortLimit (as advised at the end of the Beginner's guide to USB) seems to restore USB2 funcionality, but with an unpleasante side effect: Hackintool is hanging at launch and can't be used anymore. This leads me to think that something is indeed wrong and could lead to more serious problems down the line

 

[beatnaph]

Well, i somehow managed to fix it:
I noticed Hackintool already displayed all the available ports beyond the 15 limit without USBInjectAll, even though some of them didn't work because falling out of the range.
I recovered an old .ASL file containing the mapping of the ports i did in Clover, so i knew which one to keep.
I was then able to generate the USBPorts.Kext and voilà, everything working perfectly.

 

[Feartech]

Well, i somehow managed to fix it:
I noticed Hackintool already displayed all the available ports beyond the 15 limit without USBInjectAll, even though some of them didn't work because falling out of the range.
I recovered an old .ASL file containing the mapping of the ports i did in Clover, so i knew which one to keep.
I was then able to generate the USBPorts.Kext and voilà, everything working perfectly.

you have set them all to internal though......?

 

[beatnaph]

Nice point, does this seem to be more correct ?

 

[Feartech]

Nice point, does this seem to be more correct ?

you tell me I don't have your hardware