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

[CaseySJ]

OpenCore ConfiguratorI TRIED IT IT WORKS

This is a huge improvement! Nice to see the progress. Will use this in future OpenCore mini-guides.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hello again @CaseySJ! Wish you an excellent 2020! Hope you're well!

I recently updated my BIOS to F9b and also adopted OcQuirks-4.plist in conjunction with OcQuirks-4.efi and FwRuntimeServices.efi in order to replace OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi. So far everything has been working great except for too small but kind of annoying issues:

1. When performing the BIOS update, I forgot to save my CPU settings for Overclock. I thought I´d pretty much remember all the numbers, so I dialed what I remembered back in for FREQ and VCORE voltage after the update. Now, my CPU is no longer able to reach 5Ghz anymore. I don't care too much about OC. Have you or anyone experienced something similar? The system is performing well. It just feels kinda lazy when pushed and freezes if I dial 5Ghz on FREQ and run a benchmark in OSX.

2. After the BIOS update, I'm getting an ACPI error as shown in the image below:

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For what I can read, it says something like:

No arguments are initialized for method [_STA]

ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\TZ.TZ10._STA] (Mode ffffff"somerandomnumber"), SOMETHING_SOMETHING_INITIALIZED_LOCAL ("somenumber"/parse-632)
ACPI Error: Method execution failed [\TZ.TZ10._STA] (Mode ffffff"somerandomnumber"), SOMETHING_SOMETHING_INITIALIZED_LOCAL ("somenumber"/parse-632)

Do you have any idea what this might be referencing to? Perhaps SATA implementation?

I'm also uploading my IOreg file in case that might be useful and a screenshot of my EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched folder
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Hope you had a great holiday season,

Cheers!

Hello @nifranza

Nice to hear from you -- and a happy new year as well!

Though I'm not experienced enough to answer the question about over clocking, I am familiar with the second issue. The ACPI error you're seeing is happening on all systems. The \_TZ device refers to Thermal Zone. If iStatMenus or HWMonitorSMC is showing CPU and other component temperatures correctly, then we can ignore this. I think this error started with Catalina, but I haven't diagnosed it any further.

 

[CaseySJ]

OK! I emulated NVRAM to work with OC.
I rebuilt my config.plist from scratch after reading the config manual found at the github repository.
I think the culprit was ACPI->Quirks->DisableVariableWrite
That needs to be set to NO.

Thanks for reminding me -- this came up during the Christmas holidays, but I neglected to update the OpenCore mini-guide. The change has now been made. Will update the mini-guide again in a day or two with the formal build of OC 0.5.4.

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ Thanks for a great guide. Everything seems to be working great.

Quick question - does anyone else's machine wake up and do stuff while asleep? I have Wake for network access and Power nap both disabled, Time machine isn't set to do automatic backups. It will wake up for maybe 20-30 seconds and then go back to sleep. Display doesn't come on.

I have Darkwake=0 in boot args.

Does this happen when the machine has been asleep for a long time (several hours)? If so, some folks have seen improvement when using the "300-series RTC Bug" patch.

Please have a look here:

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

I think there are far to much USB Ports I suppose you are mislead by screenshot, as Hackintool doesn't show on initial view actual configuration but all ports for currents system you can configure. I used this screenshot to figure out, which ports have devices connected.

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[CaseySJ]

Guys do you have any experience with these internal usb splitter headers? I bought two of them from ebay for my two systems with Designares. Designare has only one usb header that is connected with kraken x62. Now Im waiting my 2x fenvi t919 and they need additional usb header to work properly. Im afraid if these 2x splitter may harm my motherboards. Also they are made from china that's mostly Im asking if anyone has experience with those.

We use these splitters extensively. They work very well. In fact, they're listed in Post #1:

 

[CaseySJ]

Hey CaseySJ,

Just wondering what the EFIClone Script is used for in CCC. I have been creating CCC backups of my system and they have seemed to work previously when I have had to do a restore. I currently do not use any scripts.

Carbon Copy Cloner will clone the HFS/APFS (macOS) partition of your drive, but it won't clone the EFI partition. That's where EFIClone comes in. It's a post-process script (i.e., it runs after the macOS partition has been cloned) that mounts source and destination EFI partitions and clones the source to the destination.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi CaseySJ
I am getting a little bit confused which files to put Where whoch must replace Opti...
Which file should be replaced with the R6 case case!
But now my biggest concern is my mouse after moving it stopps after a couple seconds!!
Any Idea???

To replace OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000, we need to delete it from the Clover drivers folder and replace it with:

• OcQuirks.plist
• OcQuirks.efi
• FwRuntimeServices.efi

These files are located here.

So we delete 1 file and copy 3 new files into the Clover drivers folder. The drivers folder is this one:

• If using Clover 4xxx: CLOVER/drivers64UEFI
• If using Clover 5xxx: CLOVER/drivers/UEFI

The mouse issue might be due to signal loss issues. Is it a wireless mouse? Does it use Bluetooth or does it use a USB transmitter (such as Logitech USB Unifying Receiver/Transmitter)?

 

[jiffyslot]

Something odd here. My EFI partition on my Samsung 970 500GB PCIe SSD. (System OS, Apps, Users, etc.) auto-mounts on restart. I've never had that happen before, but it happens every time I restart or cold start the machine. It's the one and only EFI that's not a zip or a emergency USB stick. At first I thought I had an extra EFI folder somewhere. Anybody have this issue? FWIW, I'm on Clover_v2.5k_r5102-UEFI-EmuNVR.

 

[flyball]

I tried both wireless and with wire! Both the same result


The mouse issue might be due to signal loss issues. Is it a wireless mouse? Does it use Bluetooth or does it use a USB transmitter (such as Logitech USB Unifying Receiver/Transmitter)?
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[P1LGRIM]

Anybody have this issue?

There is an option in the Clover preference pane to turn that feature on/off.