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

[kellymac12]

It's been a week for me with my paired down USB setup running on HS13 (which is a 4 port hub on my MB) with zero lock ups or freezes.

Could you elaborate on your pared-down USB setup, please? What do you have connected to HS13?

 

[evlthoma]

Could you elaborate on your pared-down USB setup, please? What do you have connected to HS13?

I moved all my drives and other USB devices to my MacBook Pro.

The only USB devices on my Hackintosh are the Logitech Brio connected to HS13 and the USB header of my Apple Broadcom BCM43xx diving my Magic Mouse and Keyboard (HS11 I believe). Shout out to @psedog for the board diagram

 

[brousseau6933]

Could you elaborate on your pared-down USB setup, please? What do you have connected to HS13?

HS13 is the USB2 part of one of the TB3 ports...? On the Designare.

 

[CaseySJ]

HS13 is the USB2 part of one of the TB3 ports...? On the Designare.

@evlthoma is using an AORUS Pro WiFi, where HS13 is an active USB 2.x port. On Designare, however, this is one of the Thunderbolt USB 2.x ports that we normally disable.

 

[CaseySJ]

Yes, I did the KextUtility, right after.
What can I do next? I have no clue how to fix this. I tried what you suggested, is saying the files that I copied to /Libray/Extensions are invalid.
Thanks @CaseSJ for replying.

Let's go back to the beginning:

• What files were either (a) added or (b) replaced in /Library/Extensions?
• What files were either (a) added or (b) replaced in CLOVER/kexts/Other?
• Do you have a full bootable backup? I'm afraid I already know the answer...

One solution is as follows:

• Boot into Recovery mode again and open Terminal
• Then type:

cd /Volumes/Mojave/Library/Extensions
ls -l

• Post a screenshot.
• Then type:

diskutil list

• And post another screenshot.
• Then I'll provide another set of Terminal commands to help you recover.

But you can also go one step further as follows:

• In the output from diskutil list, do you see an EFI disk such as the one shown?
  
  
• Here we can see a disk of TYPE=EFI and NAME=EFI. Its IDENTIFIER is disk0s1.
• Because we're booted into Recovery, we are already an "admin" user so we don't need to use "sudo". Instead we can type:

diskutil mount disk0s1

• Just replace disk0s1 with the correct IDENTIFIER for your EFI disk.
• Now EFI partition will be mounted to /Volumes/EFI
• We can then check CLOVER folder as follows (note that "EFI" appears two times below):

cd /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER
ls -l
cd kexts/Other
ls -l

• Please post a screenshot of the resulting window.

 

[evlthoma]

HS13 is the USB2 part of one of the TB3 ports...? On the Designare.

On the Auros Pro Wi-Fi it's the 4 part switch on the back panel (far left)

 

[kellymac12]

On the Auros Pro Wi-Fi it's the 4 part switch on the back panel (far left)

View attachment 478586

And that's a USB 2 hub, isn't it? I'm going to try dangling all of my USB 2 bits off HS09/10 (the two USB 2 ports on the Designare) and the Inateck card - see if that's stable....

 

[evlthoma]

And that's a USB 2 hub, isn't it? I'm going to try dangling all of my USB 2 bits off HS09/10 (the two USB 2 ports on the Designare) and the Inateck card - see if that's stable....

Right! Don't cross the streams! USB 2 on USB 2 only ports seems to be the sauce...

 

[Inqnuam]

Hello guys,
I've created a script to generate Thunderbolt DROM for Z390 Desiganre, its working very nicely.
I'll publish it very soon.

I'll do the same for the others TB Controllers

 

[losinka]

@CaseySJ: I asked here about ThunderboltConfig. Do you have something to say? Where does ThunderboltConfig come from? Thanks.