Hello
@AustPwrs
Thank you for the clear and detailed description! Quite refreshing...
Some suggestions:
- Perform a CMOS Reset just to be extra safe. This means shorting the two designated pins on the bottom right side of the motherboard as mentioned in the Designare owner's manual.
- This takes just a second and provides the single best "detoxification" therapy.
- All BIOS parameters will be reset to factory defaults, so please configure them again starting with Save & Exit --> Load Optimized Defaults. It is necessary to start with Load Optimized Defaults because of various power and other settings that get applied.
- Then try the attached modified config.plist. Simply copy your serial numbers back into SMBIOS/RtVariables before use.
Hi Casey,
Thank you for your prompt response. I've reset the CMOS In the past which helped quite a bit when I couldn't get anything to work with the system.
After receiving your response I:
1) Tried your modified config.plst file -> Black screen.
2) Reset CMOS, clicked Load Optimized Defaults, set the BIOS for F6 as you suggested, and booted with your config file -> screen froze with overlay of both Apple load screen and login screen (have never seen this before, quite interesting)
3) Booted with my previous config.plst, thinking that the CMOS Reset might have been all I needed -> froze at login screen like it did before.
4) Switched over to iGPU (used your config file) -> no signal
5) iGPU with previous config file -> operating without noticeable issues
I have reinstalled Windows 10 on a second NVMe on M2P and booted from that SSD from BIOS, bypassing Clover, with Vega 64 without issues. Ran diagnostics with DirectX Diagnostics Tool and the card came back as "no problems found."
Hopefully I've eliminated a hardware problem. It is frustrating that the system seems to be working at some point, but not now.
Is this a potential SSDT USB issue? I have used your SSDT patch as well as the alternate patch, same results...works with iGPU but freezes on login with Vega 64. The two modifications I've made to your build is 1) installed a blu ray drive via SATA (to watch 4k movies in Windows - which I read is amazingly better than streamed 4k content) and 2) added a front panel USB hub connected to the motherboard USB 3.1 header -
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T5QQZG4/?tag=tonymacx86com-20. I've not deactivated the extra USB ports yet. Thinking that this might be the case, I did unplug the hub from the motherboard without making any difference. Also, if this were causing the boot issues, why would the system work with iGPU but not with PCIe GPU? Am I barking up the wrong tree?
Any other suggestions? Is it time to throw in the towel on this card?
Again, thanks.