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Hey Lele, I'm not sure what OS you're using; I'm guessing it's not Mojave because your build sig shows a GTX 970.
I know you have way more experience than I in these matters, but I thought I'd at least offer something that I find very useful. I did skim through a few of the logs. I'm no expert, but I was seeing a lot of wake ups (like 40k) in one of the system logs. -I had that issue for awhile but I don't know why. I've started calling it BIOS rot and sometimes OS X just starts doing wierd things with permissions, and while the Terminal Command like:
diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u`
can be useful, sometimes you have to find anotheer strong-arm method of restoring permissions to folders and even disks that randomly change permissions to user or system folders. It's strange stuff that I don't experience on my real Macs.
What I'm proposing is a little radical and it assumes that your config file is tuned as you want it. Are you kexts in L/E or in the EFI? Do you have a boot EFI stick handy?
FWIW, I run all kexts from the EFI on my system's SSD. Sometimes, when my system goes completely upside-down, I (F12) cold boot from an EFI stick, F11 to clear the NVRAM when Clover appears, (F12) reboot from an EFI stick again, then Clover-boot into the system disk (that's temporarily dependent on the boot EFI stick) I launch Clover Configurator, mount the "offending" EFI, drag its contents to the trash, empty the trash. I then mount the EFI of a "known good" EFI -such as the boot stick, then drag it into the empty EFI partition of my system drive, unmount (not eject) the EFI partitions using CC.
I also manually update the kexts in my EFI. When I installed Clover to 5300, I had the package open, Quit CC, but left the EFI's mounted, then did the Clover install.
When I reboot the sickly machine, I use the Delete key to get to the BIOS setup, and under the BIOS tab, I set the 1st boot option to my system drive (UEFI_XXXXXXX) and the 2nd boot option to (UEFI_EFI Boot Stick). I then go in and delete any other boot options by hand.
If you don't have a BIOS setup file safety, can you do a "Optimized Defaults" then change all those liitle values from post #1? Because for some reason the values displayed may look right on the BIOS setup screen, but they can be "wrong" despite showing the values. -So I consider it degraded and I reset everything using "Optimized Defaults" and all the little things I've now memorized. And then I Save it in Slot 1, I make a Safety version in Slot 2, and another "Safety" version on an external USB stick. After this, I reload the newly saved setup from Slot 1, and then I click on the Save and Exit Setup. I then hammer away on F12 and boot into the fresh UEFI/EFI partition on the system disk. Let it go to Clover, but hit F11 the moment you see the Clover icon: Once again, hammer away on F12 and boot into the fresh UEFI/EFI partition on the system disk, When Clover appears, youu should only see you system drive as the option for booting. Hit return and let it load the OS. Shut down the system, pull the EFI stick and reboot. Hammer at "Delete" to get to the BIOS, go to the BIOS tab and verify that your System's UEFI is in the top priority loading slot. Delete any entries that are not UEFI bootable EFI volumes. Go to the end, resave your changes, then hit Save And Exit Setup. You should be taken to Clover after reboot and then you should be good to go. YMMV...
Thoughts? LMK what happens.
