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- Nov 6, 2019
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- Motherboard
- Optiplex 9020 MT
- CPU
- i7-4790K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Thanks again Trs for this guide as well as everyone else who has contributed to the thread. I have read through all 181 pages finally!
My Optiplex is half complete but up and running on internal graphics without out any issues that I can see. Currently I have Mojave running on a 1tb NVME drive with the EFI partition and a backup of Mojave (the one I cloned to the NVME) on a separate 500gb 860 Evo ssd. I also have windows 10 pro installed on a separate 1tb 860 evo that shows up in clover (v 5102) and boots fine. Everything appears to work at this stage including USB ports, sleep/wake etc (have plugintype checked on and legacy ROMs unchecked in bios A25).
I installed Mojave 10.14.6.06 with a bit of a hybrid method based on Trs's Catalina mini guide (and his equally easy to follow 'updated for 2020' 8300 Elite guide). I used unibeast 9.3 and added/deleted the kexts and drivers as per the catalina mini guide. Installed and booted fine except i initially had no internet with the included ethernet kext. I had to manually replace the kext with the one from my 8300 elite build to get ethernet working (now using intelmausiEthernet.kext dated 3 Apr 2020, the one installed with unibeast 9.3 was dated 8 Jan 2020).
I used superduper to clone mojave from the ssd to the NVME drive because i have a full licence for that cloning app. I can confirm though that superduper it does not reformat the NVME drive like CCC. Initially I had the NVME formatted HFS+ as per the guide and when i cloned mojave across (from the APFS ssd) it stayed HFS+, still booted fine that way but after reading whats involved in updating this setup I chose to reformat the NVME to APFS with disk utility and clone mojave across again. Works fine that way as well, seen in clover and boots from clover 5102 with no issues. I am only using the NVMEexpressdxr-64 driver,linked in Trs's first post, in the drivers/UEFI folder.
Have a seasonic PSU and sapphire pulse rx-580 here in a box ready to go, just waiting for the 24 to 8 pin adapter from moddiy. I ordered it 6 weeks ago but its coming from HK to Australia by boat due to COVID! I think they might have just put it in a bottle and thrown it in HK harbour hoping it will wash up here!
Just a couple of questions I have from reading through the thread:
1. Plugintype checked or unchecked? I currently have in checked. I understand this is something to do with cpu power management. On IPG my cpu sits at a core min of 0.7.
2. ig-platform-id what should this be set to? what does it do? Currently it is blank (greyed out '0x') in my config.
3. SSD trim. whats the consensus, should it be on or off when using APFS? I read some posts saying it wasn't required. TRIM is currently off on my windows and boot ssds (both 860 evos) but is on on the NVME drive, though I didn't turn it on so not sure how that happened? Maybe the driver does it?
4. SSDT-USB. I'm using the one from the original post (dated 1 Oct 2019). I assume its the updated one from page 65 post 665. Looking on hackintool, they all seem to work at proper speed and the internal usb 2 header is mapped, though i'm not using it. I was going to try making my own for learning purposes but can you conform that this is the one I should be using? That way I can check the one i make against it to see if i did it right!
Thanks again Trs for your knowledge, patience and availability as well as for your easy to follow guides. I was happy with my 8300 elite ssf but limited to HS with the nvidia graphics. The fact that you had written this optiplex guide was a major factor in deciding to build my second hack and ditch the web driver limitations. I have stuck with Mojave because I use photoshop CS6 (has some 32 bit...bits) but I may install catalina on the boot ssd in the future (after making multiple backups!)
Cheers
My Optiplex is half complete but up and running on internal graphics without out any issues that I can see. Currently I have Mojave running on a 1tb NVME drive with the EFI partition and a backup of Mojave (the one I cloned to the NVME) on a separate 500gb 860 Evo ssd. I also have windows 10 pro installed on a separate 1tb 860 evo that shows up in clover (v 5102) and boots fine. Everything appears to work at this stage including USB ports, sleep/wake etc (have plugintype checked on and legacy ROMs unchecked in bios A25).
I installed Mojave 10.14.6.06 with a bit of a hybrid method based on Trs's Catalina mini guide (and his equally easy to follow 'updated for 2020' 8300 Elite guide). I used unibeast 9.3 and added/deleted the kexts and drivers as per the catalina mini guide. Installed and booted fine except i initially had no internet with the included ethernet kext. I had to manually replace the kext with the one from my 8300 elite build to get ethernet working (now using intelmausiEthernet.kext dated 3 Apr 2020, the one installed with unibeast 9.3 was dated 8 Jan 2020).
I used superduper to clone mojave from the ssd to the NVME drive because i have a full licence for that cloning app. I can confirm though that superduper it does not reformat the NVME drive like CCC. Initially I had the NVME formatted HFS+ as per the guide and when i cloned mojave across (from the APFS ssd) it stayed HFS+, still booted fine that way but after reading whats involved in updating this setup I chose to reformat the NVME to APFS with disk utility and clone mojave across again. Works fine that way as well, seen in clover and boots from clover 5102 with no issues. I am only using the NVMEexpressdxr-64 driver,linked in Trs's first post, in the drivers/UEFI folder.
Have a seasonic PSU and sapphire pulse rx-580 here in a box ready to go, just waiting for the 24 to 8 pin adapter from moddiy. I ordered it 6 weeks ago but its coming from HK to Australia by boat due to COVID! I think they might have just put it in a bottle and thrown it in HK harbour hoping it will wash up here!
Just a couple of questions I have from reading through the thread:
1. Plugintype checked or unchecked? I currently have in checked. I understand this is something to do with cpu power management. On IPG my cpu sits at a core min of 0.7.
2. ig-platform-id what should this be set to? what does it do? Currently it is blank (greyed out '0x') in my config.
3. SSD trim. whats the consensus, should it be on or off when using APFS? I read some posts saying it wasn't required. TRIM is currently off on my windows and boot ssds (both 860 evos) but is on on the NVME drive, though I didn't turn it on so not sure how that happened? Maybe the driver does it?
4. SSDT-USB. I'm using the one from the original post (dated 1 Oct 2019). I assume its the updated one from page 65 post 665. Looking on hackintool, they all seem to work at proper speed and the internal usb 2 header is mapped, though i'm not using it. I was going to try making my own for learning purposes but can you conform that this is the one I should be using? That way I can check the one i make against it to see if i did it right!
Thanks again Trs for your knowledge, patience and availability as well as for your easy to follow guides. I was happy with my 8300 elite ssf but limited to HS with the nvidia graphics. The fact that you had written this optiplex guide was a major factor in deciding to build my second hack and ditch the web driver limitations. I have stuck with Mojave because I use photoshop CS6 (has some 32 bit...bits) but I may install catalina on the boot ssd in the future (after making multiple backups!)
Cheers