X99-UD4 - R9-290x - black screen after install

[rkelleyrtp]

Greetings all,

I have been struggling with this for a while and decided to reach out to a larger audience.

I have a Gigabyte X99-UD4 board (F22 BIOS - Default Settings) with an R9-290X video card, 5960X CPU, and 32G RAM. It took a while, but I finally got a correct config.plist and accompanying kext and efi files to get a good boot for installation. The system boots fine for install (even phase-2 install) but always gives me a black screen when trying to boot in normal run-time mode. I have tried a variety of options (inject EDID, inject ATI, set the ATI FakeID to 0x67B01002, set the FB name to Radeon). No matter what I do, I always get a black screen. I have tried SMBIOS of 6.1 and 14.1.

I have the following "kext" files in the CLOVER/kext/10.12 directory:

• VoodooTSCSync.kext
• FakeSMC.kext
• FakeSMC_ACPISensors.kext
• IntelMausiEthernet.kext
• NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
• VoodooHDA.kext

I have the following files in CLOVER/drivers64UEFI directory:

• HFSPlus.efi
• EmuVariableUefi-64.efi
• FSInject-64.efi
• OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi
• OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi
• FSInject-32.efi
• OsxFatBinaryDrv-32.efi
• VBoxHfs-32.efi

Any advice? Again, all is good during the install but the post-install just gives me a blank screen. Attached is my config.plist.

 

[Bradish]

Greetings all,

I have been struggling with this for a while and decided to reach out to a larger audience.

I have a Gigabyte X99-UD4 board (F22 BIOS - Default Settings) with an R9-290X video card, 5960X CPU, and 32G RAM. It took a while, but I finally got a correct config.plist and accompanying kext and efi files to get a good boot for installation. The system boots fine for install (even phase-2 install) but always gives me a black screen when trying to boot in normal run-time mode. I have tried a variety of options (inject EDID, inject ATI, set the ATI FakeID to 0x67B01002, set the FB name to Radeon). No matter what I do, I always get a black screen. I have tried SMBIOS of 6.1 and 14.1.

I have the following "kext" files in the CLOVER/kext/10.12 directory:

• VoodooTSCSync.kext
• FakeSMC.kext
• FakeSMC_ACPISensors.kext
• IntelMausiEthernet.kext
• NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
• VoodooHDA.kext

I have the following files in CLOVER/drivers64UEFI directory:

• HFSPlus.efi
• EmuVariableUefi-64.efi
• FSInject-64.efi
• OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi
• OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi
• FSInject-32.efi
• OsxFatBinaryDrv-32.efi
• VBoxHfs-32.efi

Any advice? Again, all is good during the install but the post-install just gives me a blank screen. Attached is my config.plist.

I have a similar system (X99-Deluxe II) and I have done much the same 'experiments' to get the system to boot without the black screen.
I have had occasional success when I have the web driver AND nvda=1 selected but that is good for one boot-up only and thereafter...the black screen on subsequent boots. The only way around that is to deselect the web driver and select nvdisable=1 and then it will boot but of course no video acceleration.
This confusing sequence has happened since I upgraded to Sierra.
My prior installation with Yosemite did not experience this problem.
What you and I are experiencing on slightly different systems but same platform (X99 - Sierra) leads me to believe it may be an issue within Sierra.
I am continuing to 'experiment' and if I have a solution will post back, however if anyone has any suggestions or insight, please.....

 

[rkelleyrtp]

Thanks for the quick reply. I had a spare Nvidia card lying around, dropped it in, and the system booted up just fine (direct to GUI mode). I did not have to use any of the nvidia boot options in clover (nv_disable=1, etc) for the system to boot.

Seems like I just need to find the special option for the ATI card...

 

[Bradish]

Thanks for the quick reply. I had a spare Nvidia card lying around, dropped it in, and the system booted up just fine (direct to GUI mode). I did not have to use any of the nvidia boot options in clover (nv_disable=1, etc) for the system to boot.

Seems like I just need to find the special option for the ATI card...

Are you getting the full graphics acceleration?

 

[rkelleyrtp]

Hmmmm. Looks like I made a mistake. The other card is actually a Sapphire R9 270 2G DDR5 card (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I0D81OG/?tag=tonymacx86com-20)

So, the 270 card works OK (w/out acceleration). I wonder why the 290x card does not work.

 

[rkelleyrtp]

Well, it seems I am not alone. Evidently, there is a +78 page thread describing my exact issue. Looks like I need to go to an Nvidia card to get everything supported in Sierra. Any advice?

 

[Bradish]

So I followed the post that you mentioned.
Changed to iMac17.1, ran AGDPfix and rebooted with Web driver not enabled and nvda=1.
Voila as they say now I am running with the Nvidia driver working and acceleration as it should be.
Not sure if this will survive a reboot and setting the web driver to active...if all works then you will not hear me complain!
Thanks to all.

 

[Bradish]

And voila...on a reboot it did not and I cannot repeat m,y initial success.
I deselected and reselected as in my earlier post to no avail...
That has me really baffled.