I wanted to pop in and say hello. My son's iMac finally bit the bullet, so I built another, almost identical hackintosh based on the ASUS TUF Z390M-Pro Gaming Wifi motherboard.
A couple of notes. The motherboard, was an Amazon Warehouse deal, and I spent seveal long hours Friday night thinking I had a bad motherboard. I finally found this thread
Fix for boot hangs after BIOS update (ACPI Patch). I had origionally dismissed the ACPI patch being needed as the main post was around a z370 board. The motherboard came with BIOS version 2417, in my troubleshooting I updagraded it to 2603 and still could not boot. However I could not get either Patch A or Patch B to work. I tried adding it in Clover through the GUI, editing my config.plist in BBEdit and trying the terminal script shared in that thread, but no joy.
My main hackintosh, that I built last November uses this same motherboard and it's been rock solid on BIOS 0805, so after many, many, long hours of searching, building bad FreeDos USB drives, finally figuring out that inorder to boot from a FreeDOS USB flash drive, I had to enable Legacy Booting in the BIOS, I was able to downgrade the BIOS to 0805. Thanks to post
#109 earlier in this thread for showing me the light.
This time around, I decided not to use an Apple Airport card inserted in the CNVI slot of the motherboard for WiFi and Bluetooth and instead used the cheaper Fenvi card.
I also used a Power Color RX 580 instead of the MSI RX 580 in my original build, mainly due to getting a better deal. So far, I have not seen any differences.
Lastly, since NZXT discontinued the mATX H400 line of cases, I had to find a different case to use. I really like the H400, and my OCD really wanted the cases to match, especially since I plan to build a 3rd system for my other son in a couple of weeks. But the only ones I could find were grossly overpriced. I finally settled on the Phanteks P300 Eclipse. I am pleaseantly surprised, it's a solid case, good airflow and very easy to use. My one gripe is with the motherboard standoffs, they are pre-installed for a full size ATX motherboard, I needed to move a couple of them to match the mATX layout and they were in there tight. Only 1 extra standoff was included with the case, so I had to move a couple of the existing ones which took entirely too much effort.
When I build the third hackintosh for my other son in a few weeks, I will plan to spend some more time with the newer BIOS and trying to get the ACPI Patch working.
As always thanks to all the great folks on this forum for all the direct and indirect support.
You can use the attached file as it's for the same motherboard. It's fully documented for each port. So you can pick which ones you want to keep. Compile it using MaciASL.
