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

[kutz]

Sure, please do the following:

• Check if slide=0 is included in your Clover Boot Arguments
• If it is, then perform a CMOS Reset by powering the system down (but not flipping the switch on PSU to off position) and shorting the 2 designated pins for about 2-3 seconds as stated in the Designare manual.
• After CMOS Reset, press DEL to enter BIOS Setup and configure BIOS parameters again starting with Save & Exit --> Load Optimized Defaults (this is necessary because it configures a number of BIOS parameters for us before we configure the rest by ourselves).
• Now see if you can boot...

slide=0 was in the boot args, performed CMOS Reset... No luck

FYI: I did follow the F8 & Up bios configuration in the guide as well when originally doing the install.

 

[CaseySJ]

slide=0 was in the boot args, performed CMOS Reset... No luck

FYI: I did follow the F8 & Up bios configuration in the guide as well when originally doing the install.

Please compress and upload the EFI folder from the USB install disk.

 

[WhosMac]

Glad to hear it! Are both of your Ethernet ports showing in “System Information —> Ethernet Cards”?

I believe the answer is yes. Here's a screenshot of my "Ethernet card" section.

 

[WhosMac]

Glad to hear it! Are both of your Ethernet ports showing in “System Information —> Ethernet Cards”?

Any other things I can test. Check out to verify for anyone?

I will mention I've wanted to get involved in the Thunderbolt work y'all have done. But I think it's a little out of my experience zone. I'm sure I could read on how to do it. However not sure if I want to dive into that just yet, lol.

 

[kutz]

Please compress and upload the EFI folder from the USB install disk.

Okay, so I updated to the latest Clover, and it got past that point. Now I'm getting no video, though. It seems to boot. But, when the Apple logo would have appeared, the screen went black. I'll troubleshoot some more and start a new question if I have one. Thank you so much for your help!

 

[bmoney]

Hi Yawl,

Long time no see and no USB freezes (by rocking all the USB2 on my pcie card)!

I came back into my studio after a week or so and was greeted with "couldn't allocate runtime area" on bootup. After a couple boots all was well. I dug around found the thread about the perils of using OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000 and went for Casey's fix here:

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

I should be able to test those drivers sometime over the next couple of days, along with a new Silicon Power NVMe (to test OcQuirks/FwRuntimeServices). Consider me a successful guinea pig! :) SmallTreeIntel82576-1.2.5-PATCHED as I send these bytes through the connection.

www.tonymacx86.com

which didn't work. I got this on bootup (tried a few times):

I don't know if this matters but I noticed a few differences in my EFI from the instructions in the post. First I don't have a CLOVER/drivers/UEFI folder on my EFI. I do have CLOVER/drivers/drivers64UEFI. All of the files in it except OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000 have a "-64" before the ".efi" extension. I assumed this was from a more recent version of clover or something. I went ahead and put the two files
(OcQuirks-4.efi & FwRuntimeServes.efi) in the drivers64UEFI folder.


In the end I reverted back to my OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000 laced EFI and all was well.

Should I not worry about it bricking my baby or should I try and implement Casey's fix? And, if the later, can someone give me a tip or two on why it might not be working? and/ or Casey, does that need an update? Or is there a newer/better solution.

I'm running 10.14.6 (forever).

Thanks in advance
B$

 

[CaseySJ]

Any other things I can test/ Check out to verify for anyone?

I will mention I've wanted to get involved in the thunderbolt work yall have done but I think it's a little out of my experience zone I'm sure I could read on how to do it however not sure if I want to dive into that just yet lol.

Although Section 8 of the Quick Reference spoiler in Post 1 lists all of the necessary guides, I have not created a single consolidated guide that covers all steps from A to Z in one post. This is intentional. It's meant to be somewhat discouraging. Flashing the controller can damage the board if we're not extremely careful in attaching and detaching the SOIC clip. It requires excellent near-sighted vision and steady hands. But the procedure, once applied successfully to the on-board controller, produces better results than any PCIe add-in-card.

 

[CaseySJ]

Okay, so I updated to the latest clover and it got past that point. Now I'm getting no video though. Seemed to boot but when the apple logo would have appeared the screen went black. I'll troubleshoot some more and start a new question if I have one. Thank you so much for your help!

If you're using the on-board HDMI port, it's necessary to apply the Framebuffer patch described in Post 1 (enabling on-board HDMI port). Or, to makes things simpler, we can use a USB-C to DisplayPort cable or even a USB-C to HDMI cable and connect the USB-C side of the cable to either of the two Thunderbolt ports on the rear IO panel. Let us know if you need help.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi Yawl,

Long time no see and no USB freezes (by rocking all the USB2 on my pcie card)!

I came back into my studio after a week or so and was greeted with "couldn't allocate runtime area" on bootup. After a couple boots all was well. I dug around found the thread about the perils of using OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000 and went for Casey's fix here:

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

I should be able to test those drivers sometime over the next couple of days, along with a new Silicon Power NVMe (to test OcQuirks/FwRuntimeServices). Consider me a successful guinea pig! :) SmallTreeIntel82576-1.2.5-PATCHED as I send these bytes through the connection.

www.tonymacx86.com

which didn't work. I got this on bootup (tried a few times):

Performing a CMOS Reset (and then re-configuring BIOS parameters and re-unlocking MSR 0xE2 if using BIOS F3 to F9) may be able to overcome this problem. But if OcQuirks-4 and FwRuntimeServices simply don't work, then OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000 may be the only alternative.

I don't know if this matters but I noticed a few differences in my EFI from the instructions in the post. First I don't have a CLOVER/drivers/UEFI folder on my EFI. I do have CLOVER/drivers/drivers64UEFI. All of the files in it except OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000 have a "-64" before the ".efi" extension. I assumed this was from a more recent version of clover or something. I went ahead and put the two files
(OcQuirks-4.efi & FwRuntimeServes.efi) in the drivers64UEFI folder.

If there's no CLOVER/drivers/UEFI folder, it means you are running Clover 4xxx. Pressing "A" at the Clover Boot Menu will show the "About" information. It is advisable to move up to Clover 5120, but install Clover 5120 in the EFI partition of a USB flash disk for testing/verification. This avoids harming the main Mojave SSD. Then copy all drivers (from drivers64UEFI), kexts (from kexts/Other) and SSDTs (from ACPI/patched) to the respective folders inside the USB flash disk. Even config.plist can be copied to the USB flash disk.

Then reboot, press F12 at the BIOS splash screen to invoke the BIOS Boot Menu, and select the USB disk. At the Clover 5120 boot menu, select the Mojave internal SSD and see if it works. If so, then try replacing OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000 with OcQuirks-4/FwRuntimeServices.

 

[Togril]

Hello CaseySJ,
Before I start - this is my first post here, I was so happy to see this Golden Build, as I had bought such similar Hardware - though with my RX570, I am more "iMac19,2.
I followed your Build completely - and was up and running in no time - incredibly Happy! My UAD Apollo Twin mkII was 100%. However I somehow missed the last part on Backing up (the EFI). So I did a Restore from My CCC of an earlier setup (application wise, and of course - no Boot. So - Started again - but this time no joy. not anything, 10 days. Can NOT get to the install/Format stage. I have tried so much, here is a brief list:
Reformatted my Hackintosh SSD to the original EXFAT.
Tried FakeSmc and SMCHelper-64.efi (after a "VirtualSMC is broken" message) Did NOT have both Virtual and Fake at same time.
tried earlier version of Clover Configurator (as was my first success - 5.9.3 perhaps.) because things (apps) changed from first boot.
Nothing. My screen freezes have all been different but here is the latest:
Thank you for such a great Build. It was SUPERB when it ran. It's simply an I/O error. (Idiot Operator Error).
Also - pleas advise if this should be posted elsewhere.