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@sherlocks and chris1111 - After spending a few more hours comparing config.plist entries and experimenting with different SMBIOS's, it appears that the problem I was having was due solely to my SSDT. When I drop my SSDT.aml and use Clover's SSDT (enable PStates and CStates and enable C7) and also disable my Radeon GPU in my DSDT, I am able to load graphics just fine and install and run High Sierra DP 6. I have xcpm power management and 7 PStates. Lid sleep/wake works as does battery icon. The system hung on me once and required a hard boot but with that one exception, it has been running pretty stable and cool. Most of the time, High Sierra was running at 55-65C. Now, I have it running at 45-55C. I'm sure it will run hotter as I install more apps and have more background processes. Still, I'm happy to have solved my most difficult challenge in OSx86 since installing Leopard.

 

So I want to confirm, this was not an issue with either SMBIOS or ig-platform-id.

With the ssdt installed, Did you have the update firmware error?

I had also Pike alpha's power management ssdt.aml which worked well on Sierra but not in High Sierra (CPU frequency maxed out using Pike alpha's method).

 

There's another tonymacx86 ssdt method you can use to enable power management however...

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@sherlocks and chris1111 - After spending a few more hours comparing config.plist entries and experimenting with different SMBIOS's, it appears that the problem I was having was due solely to my SSDT.  When I drop my SSDT.aml and use Clover's SSDT (enable PStates and CStates and enable C7) and also disable my Radeon GPU in my DSDT, I am able to load graphics just fine and install and run High Sierra DP 6. I have xcpm power management and 7 PStates.  Lid sleep/wake works as does battery icon.  The system hung on me once and required a hard boot but with that one exception, it has been running pretty stable and cool.  Most of the time, High Sierra was running at 55-65C.  Now, I have it running at 45-55C.  I'm sure it will run hotter as I install more apps and have more background processes.  Still, I'm happy to have solved my most difficult challenge in OSx86 since installing Leopard.

 

So I want to confirm, this was not an issue with either SMBIOS or ig-platform-id.

Thank you for the Infos

verry useful !

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@sherlocks and chris1111 - After spending a few more hours comparing config.plist entries and experimenting with different SMBIOS's, it appears that the problem I was having was due solely to my SSDT.  When I drop my SSDT.aml and use Clover's SSDT (enable PStates and CStates and enable C7) and also disable my Radeon GPU in my DSDT, I am able to load graphics just fine and install and run High Sierra DP 6. I have xcpm power management and 7 PStates.  Lid sleep/wake works as does battery icon.  The system hung on me once and required a hard boot but with that one exception, it has been running pretty stable and cool.  Most of the time, High Sierra was running at 55-65C.  Now, I have it running at 45-55C.  I'm sure it will run hotter as I install more apps and have more background processes.  Still, I'm happy to have solved my most difficult challenge in OSx86 since installing Leopard.

 

So I want to confirm, this was not an issue with either SMBIOS or ig-platform-id.

 

Mine is running 10deg hotter in HS as well. According to activity monitor it's mdworker, which is indexing. I've turned off indexing for all drives except the HS one, but it still indexes a lot!

Maybe it's a HS issue or is there a fix for this?

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I dont have this kind of Temp issue in HS

its good here

 

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THe temps aren't too bad, but I have a 420 plus a 360 rad. The 7900x is a power hog! Just in windows it sits around 23deg.

HWmon doesn't work in X299 yet, for me anyway haha.

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THe temps aren't too bad, but I have a 420 plus a 360 rad. The 7900x is a power hog! Just in windows it sits around 23deg.

HWmon doesn't work in X299 yet, for me anyway haha.

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 I understand with your powerful config  :angel:

My low power config  :hysterical:  :P

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With the ssdt installed, Did you have the update firmware error?

I had also Pike alpha's power management ssdt.aml which worked well on Sierra but not in High Sierra (CPU frequency maxed out using Pike alpha's method).

 

There's another tonymacx86 ssdt method you can use to enable power management however...

 

I am using Clover's SSDT with xcpm.  I'm very happy with the range of PStates I have.  I have had my laptop reboot after wake from sleep so I may check it out to see if that might help.

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Thanks for your detailed post to me a few pages back. I use a separate Clover USB flash drive, specially configured for my High Sierra install, and had deleted EmuVariableUEFI.efi from it before starting installation of High Sierra. However, I still had EmuVariableUEFI.efi on my main macOS SSD (along with an NVRAM.plist file) - maybe this is why when I disabled this drive I was able to proceed with the High Sierra installation?

 

I took BIOS details & FF/FFM for my smbios from Sherlocks post on this, and didn't know Clover could do this for you, so thanks also for bringing this up and reminding me to download the latest Clover using the Build_Clover command (I'm using r4176 and don't know if a new version has been released since then).

 

Also, can I ask how APFS damaged your flash drive - I've heard of problems using it on magnetic hard drives - but if it also causes problems on flash drives, I'll reinstall with HFS+ if it means I won't corrupt my drive?

 

Edit: For brevity

You're welcome ;)

 

I believe the APFS will require a minimum transfer speed to be working flawlessly and when I used my flash drive it got over heated in the boot process which is not a good thing for those IC's on the board and now the write speed on the Flash Disk is dropped drastically the read speed is still ok but if I copy a big file to the flash drive it takes a lot of time to complete. 

The disk was operating normal before I tried to install macOS High Sierra with APFS format. I've been using it for booting Sierra for tests and other proposes which was completely OK with HFS.

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Hi @Sherlocks,

 

Thanks for correcting the default FF & FFM used for iMac11,3 in Clover r4178 - now no longer need to set manual values for that SMBIOS :).

 

However same problem occurs for SMBIOS MBP7,1 on my Dell XPS M1530 notebook - specs of machine in my sig.  The default FF (0xE907F537) & FFM (0xFFFFFFFF) used by Clover for DB6 ---> error occurred while verifying firmware.

 

 

 

 

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7:046  0:000  Using ProductName from config
7:046  0:000  ProductName: MacBookPro7,1
7:046  0:000  BiosVersion: MBP71.88Z.003D.B00.1708080058
7:046  0:000  BiosReleaseDate: 08/08/17
7:046  0:000  Using FirmwareFeatures from clover
7:046  0:000  FirmwareFeatures: 0xE907F537
7:046  0:000  Using FirmwareFeaturesMask from clover
7:046  0:000  FirmwareFeaturesMask: 0xFFFFFFFF
7:046  0:000  Using PlatformFeature from clover
7:046  0:000  PlatformFeature: 0xFFFF

 

 

  • Clover legacy r4178, upgrade to DB6 by directly running the "Install macOS High Sierra Beta.app"
  • SMBIOS MBP7,1, no FF/FFM/PF or Board-ID/BIOS ver/date set in config.plist

 

After adding FF=0xE00DE137 and FFM=0xFF1FFF3F to my config.plist (same as MBP10,1 in post#2600), install proceeded without firmware verification error.

 

 

 

7:078  0:000  Using ProductName from config
7:078  0:000  ProductName: MacBookPro7,1
7:078  0:000  BiosVersion: MBP71.88Z.003D.B00.1708080058
7:078  0:000  BiosReleaseDate: 08/08/17
7:078  0:000  Using FirmwareFeatures from config
7:078  0:000  FirmwareFeatures: 0xE00DE137
7:078  0:000  Using FirmwareFeaturesMask from config
7:078  0:000  FirmwareFeaturesMask: 0xFF1FFF3F
7:078  0:000  Using PlatformFeature from clover
7:078  0:000  PlatformFeature: 0xFFFF

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To be honest laptops aren't really my speciality because I don't have laptop PC. 

For your X756UV use this config and let me know how it works.

I managed to install 10.13.6 beta on asus S400, for this stick was used a reference image 10.13 beta 5, launched on a flash drive using createinstallmedia and replaced it InstallESD.dmg from beta 6.

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I managed to install 10.13.6 beta on asus S400, for this stick was used a reference image 10.13 beta 5, launched on a flash drive using createinstallmedia and replaced it InstallESD.dmg from beta 6.

Well congrats  :thumbsup_anim:

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mnfesq
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dp6 install usb

many method

alway same error,someone as a solution

 

This is the problem I was having.  Your video is not loading.  I had to disable my Radeon GPU in my DSDT and just use the Intel HD GPU.  Also, I had to drop my custom SSDT.aml and use Clover's power management (enable PStates, enable CStates and enable C7).  Lastly, for me, I had to select inject EDID, Inject Video BIOS, and inject Intel in my config.plist.  Then video loaded (finally).

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This is the problem I was having. Your video is not loading. I had to disable my Radeon GPU in my DSDT and just use the Intel HD GPU. Also, I had to drop my custom SSDT.aml and use Clover's power management (enable PStates, enable CStates and enable C7). Lastly, for me, I had to select inject EDID, Inject Video BIOS, and inject Intel in my config.plist. Then video loaded (finally).

No need ig-platform? Did you use auto-detection?

 

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@Sherlocks

 

Installation is in progress without a problem on iMac13,2 SMBIOS on my IvyBridge rig.  :yes:  (I didn't have a problem with previous r4178 though)

 

Is there any other SMBIOS that you want me to try it let me know.

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@Sherlocks

 

Installation is in progress without a problem on iMac13,2 SMBIOS on my IvyBridge rig. :yes: (I didn't have a problem with previous r4178 though)

 

Is there any other SMBIOS that you want me to try it let me know.

Thanks for report.

Just copy smbios info since ProductName to PF in clover log and paste here.

 

 

 

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Thanks for report.

Just copy smbios info since ProductName to PF in clover log and paste here.

 

 

 

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I'm sorry but I don't quite understand what should I do exactly.

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Sorry for my bad english.

Just like fusion71au's report #2977 in this thread.

 

Thanks.

No problem :) I didn't add the FF or FFM it uses clover's defaults

here it is:

 

 

 

2:174  0:000  Using ProductName from config

2:174  0:000  ProductName: iMac13,2

2:174  0:000  Found same BiosVersion in clover and config

2:174  0:000  BiosVersion: IM131.88Z.010F.B00.1708080805

2:174  0:000  BiosReleaseDate: 08/08/2017

2:174  0:000  Using FirmwareFeatures from clover

2:174  0:000  FirmwareFeatures: 0xE00DE137

2:174  0:000  Using FirmwareFeaturesMask from clover

2:174  0:000  FirmwareFeaturesMask: 0xFF1FFF3F

2:174  0:000  Using PlatformFeature from clover

2:174  0:000  PlatformFeature: 0x1

2:174  0:000  BoardType: 0xA

2:174  0:000  ChassisType: 0xD

 

 

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No problem :) I didn't add the FF or FFM it uses clover's defaults

here it is:

 

 

 

2:174 0:000 Using ProductName from config

2:174 0:000 ProductName: iMac13,2

2:174 0:000 Found same BiosVersion in clover and config

2:174 0:000 BiosVersion: IM131.88Z.010F.B00.1708080805

2:174 0:000 BiosReleaseDate: 08/08/2017

2:174 0:000 Using FirmwareFeatures from clover

2:174 0:000 FirmwareFeatures: 0xE00DE137

2:174 0:000 Using FirmwareFeaturesMask from clover

2:174 0:000 FirmwareFeaturesMask: 0xFF1FFF3F

2:174 0:000 Using PlatformFeature from clover

2:174 0:000 PlatformFeature: 0x1

2:174 0:000 BoardType: 0xA

2:174 0:000 ChassisType: 0xD

 

 

Great. This is very clean report.

Thank you so much

 

Have a great day.

 

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