The Perfect Customac-Pro: X99-A II, i7-6950X, 128GB G.Skill TridentZ, Aorus GTX 1080 TI Xtreme

[Davirus]

This guide is one of the most complete and useful for X99 and Haswell-E, I have been able to fix a lot of garbage I had in my current EFI configuration.

But there is this thing that is confusing me, I see a lot XCPM patches in your guide, but I have been able to run the system just fine by just using the KernelXCPM in Clover Configurator.

Is there any difference between your manual patches and this KernelXCPM?

 

[kgp]

This guide is one of the most complete and useful for X99 and Haswell-E, I have been able to fix a lot of garbage I had in my current EFI configuration.

But there is this thing that is confusing me, I see a lot XCPM patches in your guide, but I have been able to run the system just fine by just using the KernelXCPM in Clover Configurator.

Is there any difference between your manual patches and this KernelXCPM?

This guide dates back to 2017, while you might use a recent Clover version. KernelXCPM has been introduced to clover recently and just automatically selects the else manually implemented Kernel patches which can be mostly disabled when checking KernelXCPM.

 

[Davirus]

This guide dates back to 2017, while you might use a recent Clover version. KernelXCPM has been introduced to clover recently and just automatically selects the else manually implemented Kernel patches which can be mostly disabled when checking KernelXCPM.

Nice, thanks for your time.

 

[Luakri]

Hello @kgp
Thank you for the best X99 guide.
10.12.6 been running smoothly for a year, for my system Clover needs to use both OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi and Test2-2016.efi to fix AllocateRelocBlock error.

Thank you.

 

[KevinAGI]

You have the same mobo and you also use the Alpine Ridge. Thus I don’t know why there sould be anything changed within the SSDT to make hotplug work. What did you change so far?

Slot locations and the device address info. See here:

External (_SB_.PCI0, DeviceObj)    // (from opcode)
    External (_SB_.PCI0.BR3A, DeviceObj)    // (from opcode)
    External (_SB_.PCI0.BR3A.D07C, DeviceObj)    // (from opcode)
    External (_SB_.PCI0.BR3A.H000, DeviceObj)    // (from opcode)
    External (D07C, DeviceObj)    // (from opcode)
    External (DTGP, MethodObj)    // 5 Arguments (from opcode)
    External (H000, DeviceObj)    // (from opcode

and any instance there after, as well as Slot names just to be correct.

Kevin
P.S. New hardware just started to arrive today for the next build. 299 here I come.

 

[KevinAGI]

I would also like to make an SSDT for my Black magic card and Areca Card so a little primer would go along way for me.

Kevin

 

[sebtech]

Hi KGP,

First, thanks again for your guide, I'm running this setup since 2017 and it's working like a charm !
My build is used for work only (3D softwares and animation stuffs) and for some reasons I must update to macOS HighSierra (I need latest GPU drivers for an upcoming software update), I'm pretty nervous thinking about update my system.
I think it could be the time to install from scratch and I'm wondering if I could follow this guide for installing 10.13 or if I have to follow the next guide (this one about your iMac Pro build).

Setup :
- Asus X99 TUF
- i7 6950X
- 2x GTX 1080
- M2 Drive for os
- 64 GB 2400Mhz

Currently on 10.12.6 (and never had an issue since the first install ^^).

Thanks !

 

[kgp]

Hi KGP,

First, thanks again for your guide, I'm running this setup since 2017 and it's working like a charm !
My build is used for work only (3D softwares and animation stuffs) and for some reasons I must update to macOS HighSierra (I need latest GPU drivers for an upcoming software update), I'm pretty nervous thinking about update my system.
I think it could be the time to install from scratch and I'm wondering if I could follow this guide for installing 10.13 or if I have to follow the next guide (this one about your iMac Pro build).

Setup :
- Asus X99 TUF
- i7 6950X
- 2x GTX 1080
- M2 Drive for os
- 64 GB 2400Mhz

Currently on 10.12.6 (and never had an issue since the first install ^^).

Thanks !

You should definitely follow the other guide. Clone your 10.12.6 system disk incl. your 10.12.6 EFI-Folder before any update. Then you are 100% save.

 

[sebtech]

You should definitely follow the other guide. Clone your 10.12.6 system disk incl. your 10.12.6 EFI-Folder before any update. Then you are 100% save.

Ok thanks for your reply, see you there

 

[A1exR]

Hey KGP, i am from Germany too. Iam a newbie in the Hackintosh Community. I have a X99 Sabertooth, i7 5820k, Vega 64... Every time I try to install the Image (Mojave) I have a problem. (Missing operating system). I updated the bios 3-4 Times... reinstalled the Patch and tried several bios Settings. Also i tried to installed with Unibeast. No difference. I hope you can help me. Danke! Alexander