[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

[CaseySJ]

So this is new.
Dont know when exactly it happened as it didnt show status as unavailable until I did a refresh. :/
Not sure if this is an OpenCore Issue, a SSDT issue or what.



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my boot args are:
slide=0 keepsyms=1 dart=0 alcid=11 shikigva=16 agdpmod=pikera

As a first step it might be good to review jaymonkey's DRM/skikigva update here:

An iDiot's Guide To Lilu and its Plug-ins

An iDiot's Guide To Lilu and its Plug-in's Last Update: 22nd Jan 2021 (Add note about OpenCore config.plist modifications) About this Guide This guide is written as a helping hand to those users who have some understanding of using legacy hackintosh methods but are considering using Lilu as a...

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[Solidww]

The KS didn't exist when I got the K, and I got the K because it was both the best CPU this board could take, as well as a CPU actually used in real macs.

Good point on it being used in real Mac computers.

 

[JayShay]

Yes! That worked! Thanks again, @CaseySJ!

 

[HH007]

Hello,

I'm sorry to bump in between these discussions but my questions are related to this thread. First I tried to find answers by searching this site and on the internet but unfortunately I can't find solutions myself.

When I found this website a few weeks ago I became very excited to build my own system. I’ve chosen this successful build because I needed the thunderbolt for my audio interface and since I saw that some users reported the successful use of an audio interface with thunderbolt my decision was made. So the motherboard was fixed and I looked at the list of supported hardware so I came up with my system, see attachment. The install of Mojave was, with this very good guide, rather easy to do and I successfully had my first Hackintosh running. Before I continued to install software and tuning I bought backup software and a good external ssd drive and that was a very good thing.

1. Issue number one: I installed Black magic disc speed test. I run it and was disappointed. The two M.2 discs showed a read speed that is less or equal to the write speed, that is very odd.

Any thoughts? See pictures. In Bios it says M2M NVMe 3.0 x4 @ 3.0 x4, equal for the M2P. Under PCI x4 switch it says PCH side, is that the best option or should I use the other?

2. Issue number 2: I tried to do the speed test on the system disc (still don't know that the speed results are, what do I have to change to the permissions safely to grant access for the speediest?), but the software reported that it was read only, so I changed something in the permissions by means of Finder and shortly after the system became unstable and I had to use the reset button on the casing (most likely I changed the permission in such a way that access wasn't granted anymore).

After a lot of effort because I first tried to restart etc. I was able to boot from the backup disc and cloned the working image to the system disc. Then I continued to install software but again the screen froze no mouse movement anymore but I was able to reboot. I did a CMOS reset and entered the good bios settings again and now I’m preparing this text so far so good (after the last reboot busy for about 1,5 hours).

I’ve attached the config.plist file (without serial). Any advice on stability? Settings in config.plist? Change of efi-files or settings?

For completing the nformation: I use the graphics card, MSI Radeon RX 580 armor 8G, with a display port cable to connect a monitor, as you see in the plist. I have the on board graphics still enabled.

3. Question 1: should I disable wifi in the bios, because I have a working Fenvi 1200 for wifi and bluetooth?

4. Question 2: my internal drives, so one sata and two M.2 attached to the motherboard directly, are shown as external drives. I can eject the two M.2 by clicking with the right mouse button and selecting that option, what I didn't obviously. Why is this and how can I change this?

5. Question 3: brightness control of the monitor, what do I have to do to be able to control this from the keyboard? I also don’t see brightness control when I open Displays Preferences, no slider.

6. Issue number 3: I also bought this monitor recently, after trying to calibrate it and testing different settings, brightness started to change automatically. After system defaults reset for the monitor this seems now to be fixed or can this be something from the system?

7. Issue number 4: since today after a reboot, a programme is started spontaneously, seems to be chosen randomly,
what can cause this?

8. Question 4: I have clover configurator 5.9.0.1 installed, can I use all newer versions without issues?


Thank very much.

Best regards.

 

[Elias64Fr]

Hello @Elias64Fr

Thank you again for the updated files and the support you are providing!

I'll test the changes this evening when I return home. Some questions / comments:

• In BIOS, I have Thunderbolt --> GPIO3 Force Power --> Enabled. Do you think this should be disabled?
• By removing _PS3, _PS0, PCED, and PCDA we lose RTPC (Run Time Power Conservation). This is not a big deal because we don't have it right now anyway. But it would be nice to enable this feature eventually... (not a priority at this time).
• Should I perform a cold boot with no Thunderbolt device connected when testing the new TbtOnPch SSDT? And then hot plug a Thunderbolt device?
• Usually I perform a warm boot with my OWC 14-port Thunderbolt dock connected.
• Also, I'm curious why PCIHotplugCapable is "Zero" instead of "One"...
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One thing to note about Apple computers with Titan Ridge controllers:

• Apple's Titan Ridge Macs contain both a Titan Ridge controller and an Alpine Ridge controller.
• I believe UPSB is Alpine Ridge and DSB0 (and everything under DSB0) is Titan Ridge.
• This allows Apple to provide backward compatibility with Thunderbolt 1 devices (i.e. due to Alpine Ridge).

My understanding (which could be wrong) is that these Macs have a special MUX (multiplexer) that directs certain Thunderbolt traffic to either Alpine Ridge or Titan Ridge.
So if we look at Thunderbolt SSDT for a Titan Ridge Mac, it might contain some ACPI methods and fields that are related to the special MUX. Again, my understanding of this is limited, but I think it's important to at least mention this unique feature of real Macs.

UPDATE: I'll add these properties to NHI:

1. TBTDPLowToHigh
2. TBTFlags
3. ThunderboltConfig
4. linkDetails
5. pathcr

I do it for the community and to break one of the last hackintosh wall

• I don't use GPIO3 Force Power because I don't have it on BIOS (only last Maximus firmware). Asus had remove it ! You should disable it for one time to see what happen. Better is to test with and without it.
• Right, but on first time, we need to have magic Thunderbolt Local node tree.
• Suggest to do all tests with NO devices connected on two thunderbolt ports >> one COLD BOOT, extracting ACPIDebug log and IoReg screenshot, >> one HOT BOOT , extracting ACPIDebug log and IoReg screenshot.
• "PCIHotplugCapable" is Zero (like Macs), probably for drivers ?!

On Z270 Maximus, UpstreamBridge device-id is 0x15D3 which is different for Macs TitanRidge and AlpineRidge (0x1578) .. Drivers seems to work well with it ... for the moment.

UPDATE: Geekbench 5.1.0 OpenCL performance with OMEN Accelerator EGPU case / Sapphire RX580 PULSE have 39077 score .. which is good ?! .. or not

UPDATE2: Screen shot of the magic button for safely extract EGPU:

Which method or device of special MUX are you refer on SSDT ?

 

[rankrotten]

What CPU cooler are you using to get an idle temp of 26C?

I can also confirm that the 9900ks is working well with Z390 Designare.

Noctua NH-D15 in a Corsair Crystal 680X case. Almost totally silent in use.

 

[skroutz999]

This initially seemed like a few isolated incidents, but maybe there's more to it. I'll do a fresh install in about a day or two and see if I can reproduce the problem.

Meanwhile, the usual things to try:

• Add "Boot Argument" -wegoff to temporarily disable WhateverGreen. This will affect your HDMI/DP ports, so physically move the video cable to different ports until you find a port that works.
• Update to WhateverGreen 1.3.6 (and remove -wegoff flag).
• Look at this guide for DRM content and shikigva settings.
• One may also try OpenCore by installing the OpenCore EFI onto a USB flash disk (as a temporarily/test solution).

Thank you CaseySJ, updated whatevergreen (1.3.6) and lilu (1.4.1). Im using shikivga=16. I will try and the other steps if it doesn't work and I will report back. If I still have a problem then I will install Mojave and update to Catalina from there using your guide. Im really scared to get into the "freezes" again after so long time clean from them.

 

[CaseySJ]

...Im really scared to get into the "freezes" again after so long time clean from them.

Yes I understand completely! That was a long and sordid saga...

 

[CaseySJ]

I do it for the community and to break one of the last hackintosh wall

Yes that last great barrier must come down!

• I don't use GPIO3 Force Power because I don't have it on BIOS (only last Maximus firmware). Asus had remove it ! You should disable it for one time to see what happen. Better is to test with and without it.
• Right, but on first time, we need to have magic Thunderbolt Local node tree.
• Suggest to do all tests with NO devices connected on two thunderbolt ports >> one COLD BOOT, extracting ACPIDebug log and IoReg screenshot, >> one HOT BOOT , extracting ACPIDebug log and IoReg screenshot.

Agreed -- will test both ways.

• "PCIHotplugCapable" is Zero (like Macs), probably for drivers ?!

I think the value probably does not matter. Only the existence of the property name "PCIHotplugCapable" matters. Anyway, I will leave it as Zero.

...
UPDATE: Geekbench 5.1.0 OpenCL performance with OMEN Accelerator EGPU case / Sapphire RX580 PULSE have 39077 score .. which is good ?! .. or not

Not as good as locally installed RX 580 on a x16 or x8 PCIe slot!! My RX 580 in x16 slot gets 40145 in GB5. Because eGPU operates at x4, the score of 39077 is not bad.

Which method or device of special MUX are you refer on SSDT ?

We can probably ignore this for now!

 

[CaseySJ]

... Before I continued to install software and tuning I bought backup software and a good external ssd drive and that was a very good thing.

Kudos!

1. Issue number one: I installed Black magic disc speed test. I run it and was disappointed. The two M.2 discs showed a read speed that is less or equal to the write speed, that is very odd.

Any thoughts? See pictures. In Bios it says M2M NVMe 3.0 x4 @ 3.0 x4, equal for the M2P. Under PCI x4 switch it says PCH side, is that the best option or should I use the other?

That switch in BIOS affects the bottom long slot (x4 PCIe slot) so it won't affect M2M or M2P.

2. Issue number 2: I tried to do the speed test on the system disc (still don't know that the speed results are, what do I have to change to the permissions safely to grant access for the speediest?), but the software reported that it was read only, so I changed something in the permissions by means of Finder and shortly after the system became unstable and I had to use the reset button on the casing (most likely I changed the permission in such a way that access wasn't granted anymore).

Catalina creates two volumes inside a single Volume Group. The two volumes are:

• Catalina (system volume)
  • Read only
• Catalina - Data (user files, home folders, etc.)
  • Read/Write

Disk speed testing should be done on Catalina - Data.

After a lot of effort because I first tried to restart etc. I was able to boot from the backup disc and cloned the working image to the system disc. Then I continued to install software but again the screen froze no mouse movement anymore but I was able to reboot. I did a CMOS reset and entered the good bios settings again and now I’m preparing this text so far so good (after the last reboot busy for about 1,5 hours).

How is the system stability so far?

...
3. Question 1: should I disable wifi in the bios, because I have a working Fenvi 1200 for wifi and bluetooth?

No need to do this. The NO-CNVW SSDT takes care of hiding on-board WiFi from macOS.

4. Question 2: my internal drives, so one sata and two M.2 attached to the motherboard directly, are shown as external drives. I can eject the two M.2 by clicking with the right mouse button and selecting that option, what I didn't obviously. Why is this and how can I change this?

This is very strange. In BIOS, are the SATA ports configured as AHCI? When you configured BIOS, do you remember first selecting Load Optimized Defaults?

5. Question 3: brightness control of the monitor, what do I have to do to be able to control this from the keyboard? I also don’t see brightness control when I open Displays Preferences, no slider.

Have you tried this (see Post #1 Table of Contents):

6. Issue number 3: I also bought this monitor recently, after trying to calibrate it and testing different settings, brightness started to change automatically. After system defaults reset for the monitor this seems now to be fixed or can this be something from the system?

Is it a subtle change in brightness or significant? Or is it a change in color temperature (i.e. Night Shift mode)?

7. Issue number 4: since today after a reboot, a programme is started spontaneously, seems to be chosen randomly, what can cause this?

Do you mean that some random application gets started automatically each time you login? Is there any suspicious task in System Preferences --> Users & Groups --> Login Items?

8. Question 4: I have clover configurator 5.9.0.1 installed, can I use all newer versions without issues?

Yes, no problem.