Vega 64 is constantly turned on and off while in idle mode.

[FernandoCoverdale]

I have observed that my vega 64 when my hack is in idle mode, is activated by turning on the blue LED and turns off, this is constant. I do not know what can be due. Do you know how to solve it? Thank you

Mojave Last Version
Asus z370-F
Sapphire vega 64

 

[jaymonkey]

I have observed that my vega 64 when my hack is in idle mode, is activated by turning on the blue LED and turns off, this is constant. I do not know what can be due. Do you know how to solve it? Thank you

@FernandoCoverdale,

Are you referring to the row of blue LED's on the Vega card ?

If so then its normal for the first one or two LED's to light depending on what your doing even if there are no apps using the GPU. MacOS uses Metal API to render the GUI so there is always some processing being done on the Vega.

There where some issues with the early Vega drivers that did not throttle the clock very well which sometimes meant that you would see more LED's light when in an idle state, but the issue was fixed in 10.14.5.

Cheers
Jay

 

[FernandoCoverdale]

@FernandoCoverdale,

Are you referring to the row of blue LED's on the Vega card ?

If so then its normal for the first one or two LED's to light depending on what your doing even if there are no apps using the GPU. MacOS uses Metal API to render the GUI so there is always some processing being done on the Vega.

There where some issues with the early Vega drivers that did not throttle the clock very well which sometimes meant that you would see more LED's light when in an idle state, but the issue was fixed in 10.14.5.

Cheers
Jay

I may not explain it well, I'm sorry, I mean when I suspend my computer or go into sleep mode, the screen turns off and then the rest included my gpu, but after 3 or 4 seconds I activate my computer again activating the fans of my cpu and activating my graphic "that's why I said it turned on my vega from color to blue", then all cpu, motherboard, gpu is switched off again and after 3 or 4 seconds it is activated again all, so on, the monitor never turns on, it is very unpleasant to have the equipment in idle mode and listen to the power relay and see the tower illuminate every x seconds.

 

[jaymonkey]

when I suspend my computer or go into sleep mode, the screen turns off and then the rest included my gpu, but after 3 or 4 seconds I activate my computer again activating the fans of my cpu and activating my graphic "that's why I said it turned on my vega from color to blue", then all cpu, motherboard, gpu is switched off again and after 3 or 4 seconds it is activated again all, so on

@FernandoCoverdale,

Ok I think I understand the issue now.

What your saying is that when you sleep the system, it wakes and then sleeps again every few seconds ... which sounds like a power management issue rather than a gpu one.

Some USB devices can cause wake/sleep issues including certain keyboards and mice.
First try unplugging all USB devices except Keyboard and mouse and try system sleep again.

If that does not work then check you are implementing native CPU power management ... see this guide for more info :-

macOS Native CPU/IGPU Power Management

macOS Native CPU/IGPU Power Management Native macOS power management delivers the best combination of processor and graphics performance and efficiency. The ingredients are an installed processor XCPM enabling ssdt or correctly configured Clover setting, a compatible system definition and the...

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Cheers
Jay

 

[Gigamaxx]

Clover ACPI settings: enable Cstates, check box for C6
Also set bios to activate Cstates.

Trying to sleep without these settings or a proper SSDT can be troublesome.

If nothing else works go to System Preferences “energy savings” and uncheck the put all hard drives to sleep and cpu sleep. Just turn on and off manually.

 

[FernandoCoverdale]

in the end I solve it by selecting in Clover the Smbios 19.1 that is supposedly optimized for Vega, now I can put the equipment in sleep mode and it completely turns off everything until I wake it up by pressing any key or trackpad
Apparently everything works fine, including messages, icloud etc.
But I have no way of getting a valid serial number after doing the verification with the apple website, although it does not give me problems I would like to be able to put a valid one. Any ideas? Thanks

 

[jaymonkey]

But I have no way of getting a valid serial number after doing the verification with the apple website, although it does not give me problems I would like to be able to put a valid one.

@FernandoCoverdale,

SMBIOS 19,X serial numbers are discussed in detail in this guide :-

SMBios 19.x - iMacs 2019

Hello, I want to open this thread to get the latest news about the new SMBios iMacs 2019 and the compatibility with 9th Gen Core Coffee Lake CPUs (i5 and i9). Update 2: Clover Configurator 5.4.2.0 is out, add SMBios for iMac 19,1 and 19,2 :headbang: Update 1: (Info get from bootmacos ) Sorry for...

www.tonymacx86.com

Cheers
Jay