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

[zipb]

Yes, that's the plan now.

Transplantation done. Waiting for the mds storm to end.

 

[brousseau6933]

I put the Monterey NVME from my Z390 in my Z690. Boot from the Z690 EFI. Now I see 2 Montereys. Hm. Which is which? Let's try this one... Bam, booted to Monterey via my Z390 NVME with all my stuff. Ran Disk Utility. No problems found. So I can easily boot from the Z390 boot NVME using my Z690, and nothing seems out of order.

The only thing I can think of: the Vega 56 has 2 little switches. Does it make a difference how these are configured? I may have inadvertently changed these.

Still, why can't I just boot with iGPU with the Vega out of the equation on the Z390?

Must be a BIOS problem or setting.

I do not think the vBIOS switches could impact unless you bought it used and it was in a mining rig (modded vBIOS).

 

[brousseau6933]

Transplantation done. Waiting for the mds storm to end.

So...any news?

 

[zipb]

The Z690 works. Unfortunately, TB stuff doesn't work on boot but has to be replugged. Still have mds storms whenever I boot.

I have redone most of my copy protection stuff, but I am sure this will take another 2 weeks before everything is dialed in.

I have opened a couple of projects in Logic, Cubase and Bitwig. This basically works. I haven't opened any big sessions.

Lightroom & Photoshop work, have not done any heavy duty editing yet.

To do: Vega 56 (using my old RX480 for now)
Wifi/BT. The card will probably not fit do to the enormous size of my Noctua D15.

Better adapt USB to my personal situation(I have lots of USB peripherals)

Maybe change PSU & fans. Something is noisy when the system is stressed.

Positive: Migration Assistant copied 3.000.000 files/1 TB in 25 minutes...(NVME to NVME)

 

[brousseau6933]

The Z690 works. Unfortunately, TB stuff doesn't work on boot but has to be replugged. Still have mds storms whenever I boot.

I have redone most of my copy protection stuff, but I am sure this will take another 2 weeks before everything is dialed in.

I have opened a couple of projects in Logic, Cubase and Bitwig. This basically works. I haven't opened any big sessions.

Lightroom & Photoshop work, have not done any heavy duty editing yet.

To do: Vega 56 (using my old RX480 for now)
Wifi/BT. The card will probably no fit do to the enormous size of my Noctua D15.

Better adapt USB to my personal situation(I have lots of USB peripherals)

Maybe change PSU & fans. Something is noisy when the system is stressed.

Positive: Migration Assistant copied 3.000.000 files/1 TB in 25 minutes...(NVME to NVME)

The Designare is definitely dead so…? As an Hackintosh I mean.

 

[Chevron]

I have recently replaced a faulty power supply, and I am back up and running. Before I replaced the power supply BIOS was not accessible, so I did a CMOS reset when troubleshooting.

However, a fan, I assume the GPU is going full guns and is loud from start-up and never lets up even after booting into the Mac OS. I have no fan temp monitoring in Macs Fan Control either. Looks like only CPU fan being reported.

I updated OpenCore using HackinDROM to the latest version, and checked that all Kexts are installed correctly but still loud fans.

 

[zipb]

The Designare is definitely dead so…? As an Hackintosh I mean.

I don't know. I came to the conclusion, just as @etorix, that I could better spend my time on finishing my new hack first, and then see if I can salvage my Z390.

It looks like broken hardware, but Windows boots quickly and works fine. Weird.

I will try to install macOS again at some point.

 

[brousseau6933]

I don't know. I came to the conclusion, just as @etorix, that I could better spend my time on finishing my new hack first, and then see if I can salvage my Z390.

It looks like broken hardware, but Windows boots quickly and works fine. Weird.

I will try to install macOS again at some point.

Hey, it’s a tool and the most important thing is that you have one working! Still really weird though…

Mine is running like a clockwork (Mojave) since 2020 and it satisfies my needs as an hobbyist (I work as an elementary school music teacher, not producer or pro musician…). Looks your job needs a working DAW so…

 

[memomemonline]

@CaseySJ I want to TIMEMACHINE my Hackintosh (OpenCore) and move it to a MacBook Pro. Should I exclude the system/library/extensions and macOS/library/extensions folders from the TM?
Is there something else I should do? Thanks in advance

 

[brousseau6933]

@CaseySJ I want to TIMEMACHINE my Hackintosh (OpenCore) and move it to a MacBook Pro. Should I exclude the system/library/extensions and macOS/library/extensions folders from the TM?
Is there something else I should do? Thanks in advance

I am not @CaseySJ but do not remove /System/Library/Extensions. As for third party kexts in /Library/Extensions , unless you won’t use the same devices, keep them. Depending on the MacOS version, I would instead clean install and migrate.

I did it before, Carbon Copy Cloner directly from my Hackintosh to an Intel MBP (is yours a new MBP BTW?) but I had exactly the same devices connected… In my case, it was quite easy as they were Mojave machines and the kernel cache rebuild is a breeze. Not so much starting at Big Sur…