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

[ahmadno]

I just bought this motherboard and plugged in my SSD Sierra setup using this guide that was not working properly with GA-X99-UD4 and it worked perfectly. Although USB with X99_Injector USB 3.kext is not working perfectly. With your alternative usb my system wouldn't boot.

Also I have 3 4K displays and when they go to sleep after a while of no activity the computer wouldn't wake up and reboots (I disabled auto sleep in system preferences). It was working fine previously on El Capitan.

 

[kgp]

I just bought this motherboard and plugged in my SSD Sierra setup using this guide that was not working properly with GA-X99-UD4 and it worked perfectly. Although USB with X99_Injector USB 3.kext is not working perfectly. With your alternative usb my system wouldn't boot.

Also I have 3 4K displays and when they go to sleep after a while of no activity the computer wouldn't wake up and reboots (I disabled auto sleep in system preferences). It was working fine previously on El Capitan.

1.) Why with the alternative, more sophisticated USB method your hack would not boot?
2.) I just achieved full sleep/wake support for my build. See two posts above and modifications in my guide.

If you exactly followed my guide, 1) and 2) should also work in your case.

By the way, I am just testing a sophisticated XCPM enhancement, including Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST). If I do not detect any further stability issues, another update of my guide shall follow the next days.

 

[ahmadno]

1.) Why with the alternative, more sophisticated USB method your hack would not boot?

If I know why I wouldn't ask for help

If you exactly followed my guide, 1) and 2) should also work in your case.

I did follow your guide it's not physics

 

[ahmadno]

By the way I noticed in your guide for overclocking that you're syncing all cores which I have no idea why you would do. What this does is keep all your cores at the frequency of the highest core which made my cpu stay at the highest frequency almost all the time. I did not sync the cores, rather I entered the frequency for each core independently which solved the problem.

 

[kgp]

If I know why I wouldn't ask for help

I did follow your guide it's not physics

But did you follow the updates, which I just implemented few minutes ago? Anyway, it is difficult to answer your questions without knowing what you exactly did. I am afraid, you will have to find out how to loose your specific knots. I just can confirm that in my case everything is working now without any remaining issue.

Cheers,

KGP

 

[morganb]

Full Sleep/Wake Functionality - Mission Successfully Accomplished and Completed

To enable full Sleep/Wake Functionality for your build, apply the following steps summarized below:

1.) Download and unzip the VoodooTSCSync.kext.zip attached below. Note, that the attached file

considers a 10-core CPU configuration. The adapt the file for 6-core or 8-core configurations, perform the following steps listed below:​

a.) Right-click in the Finder-Window on the VoodooTSCSync.kext file. Select "Show Packet Contents".
b.) Go to /contents/, right-click on the "Info.plist" file and select "Open with / Other". Select the TextEdit.app and edit the "Info.plist" file.
c.) substitute the default 10-core entry

<key>IOCPUNumber</key>
<integer>19</integer>

by

<key>IOCPUNumber</key>[/INDENT]
<integer>15</integer>

in case you employ a 8-core CPU, or by

<key>IOCPUNumber</key>[/INDENT]
<integer>11</integer>

in case you employ a 6-core CPU
d.) save the modified "Info.plist" file

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2.) Copy the final "VoodooTSCSync.kext" file to the /EFI/Clover/kexts/10.12/ directory of your System Disk.

3.) Open your "config.plist" in the /EFI/Clover/ directory of your System Disk with the Clover Configurator and select

"darkwake=0" in the "Boot" Section.

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View attachment 252027​

4.) Save your "config.plist" and reboot.

Now your build should implement full Sleep/Wake functionality!

I already modified the entire guide in the originating post accordingly!

Cheers,

KGP

YOU HERO

 

[kgp]

By the way I noticed in your guide for overclocking that you're syncing all cores which I have no idea why you would do. What this does is keep all your cores at the frequency of the highest core which made my cpu stay at the highest frequency almost all the time. I did not sync the cores, rather I entered the frequency for each core independently which solved the problem.

Up to you. You have not to synchronize all cores if you do not want to. Just do your own performance test and choose your settings correspondingly. Anyway, with the new approach not published yet, the idle frequency of all cores in my case now remains just at 1.2 Ghz (defined min. frequency) thanks to EIST! In contrary, the max. frequency (in my case 4.2GHz) is consistently reached whenever necessary! EIST now works perfectly. You have to wait until I finish my tests, then I will update my guide correspondingly.

 

[erlipton05]

@kgp confirmed this build works on ASRock X99M Extreme4 - but having sleep/wake issues.

5820k - ASRock X99M Extreme4 - GTX1070

Will try this:

Full Sleep/Wake Functionality - Mission Successfully Accomplished and Completed

To enable full Sleep/Wake Functionality for your build, apply the following steps summarized below:

1.) Download and unzip the VoodooTSCSync.kext.zip attached below. Note, that the attached file

considers a 10-core CPU configuration. The adapt the file for 6-core or 8-core configurations, perform the following steps listed below:​

a.) Right-click in the Finder-Window on the VoodooTSCSync.kext file. Select "Show Packet Contents".

b.) Go to /contents/, right-click on the "Info.plist" file and select "Open with / Other". Select the TextEdit.app and edit the "Info.plist" file.
c.) substitute the default 10-core entry

<key>IOCPUNumber</key>
<integer>19</integer>

by

<key>IOCPUNumber</key>[/INDENT]
<integer>15</integer>

in case you employ a 8-core CPU, or by

<key>IOCPUNumber</key>[/INDENT]
<integer>11</integer>

in case you employ a 6-core CPU
d.) save the modified "Info.plist" file

​

2.) Copy the final "VoodooTSCSync.kext" file to the /EFI/Clover/kexts/10.12/ directory of your System Disk.

3.) Open your "config.plist" in the /EFI/Clover/ directory of your System Disk with the Clover Configurator and select

"darkwake=0" in the "Boot" Section.

​

View attachment 252027​

4.) Save your "config.plist" and reboot.

Now your build should implement full Sleep/Wake functionality!

I already modified the entire guide in the originating post accordingly!

Cheers,

KGP

Should be noted that my GA-X99-SLI did not need darkwake=0 for sleep/wake to work. Although... that X99-SLI board I was using DID DIE (like no longer functional, need RMA) DURING SLEEP - would not boot, no power, no nothing. When I tried swapping it out for an identical board with same bios, I got USB panics. Hence why I am now on the Extreme4

 

[erlipton05]

@kgp confirmed this build works on ASRock X99M Extreme4 - but having sleep/wake issues.

5820k - ASRock X99M Extreme4 - GTX1070

Will try this:



Should be noted that my GA-X99-SLI did not need darkwake=0 for sleep/wake to work. Although... that X99-SLI board I was using DID DIE (like no longer functional, need RMA) DURING SLEEP - would not boot, no power, no nothing. When I tried swapping it out for an identical board with same bios, I got USB panics. Hence why I am now on the Extreme4

No dice on the sleep/wake fix on Asrock Extreme4

 

[kgp]

No dice on the sleep/wake fix on Asrock Extreme4

My mistake. I forgot one essential thing....

Can you try to add the following "KernelToPatch" entries in the "Kernel and Kext Patches" Section in addition?:

Find* [HEX]                                                                                                        Replace* [HEX]                                                                                                     Comment
aa010000 dc330000 00000000 0000000000000000 00000000 01                                                            aa010000 00000000 00000000 0000000000000000 00000000 00                                                            SammlerG Sierra xcpm MSR Patch 1 / xcpm support Pike R. Alpha
3a060000 dc330000 00000000 000000001f000000 00000000 00000000 0000000000000000 00000000 00000000 00000000          3a060000 00000000 00000000 0000000000000000 00000000 00000000 0000000000000000 00000000 00000000 00000000          SammlerG Sierra xcpm MSR Patch 3 / xcpm support Pike R. Alpha
42060000 dc330000 00000000 000000001f000000 00000000 18                                                            42060000 00000000 00000000 0000000000000000 00000000 00                                                            SammlerG Sierra xcpm MSR Patch 4 / xcpm support Pike R. Alpha
e2000000 4c000000 00000000 000000000f040000 00000000 0500001e                                                      e2000000 4c000000 00000000 000000000f040000 00000000 0700007e                                                      SammlerG Sierra xcpm MSR Patch 5 / xcpm support Pike R. Alpha/MSR_PMG_CST_CONFIG_CONTROL0xE2=0x7E000007

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Now Sleep/Wake should work. I updated both my reply above and the guide in the originating post.