[Guide 2018] Z820 - HIGH SIERRA, The great guide (Sucess)

[Dr Droid]

My Z820 E5-2670 v1 was running Sierra for the long while. I had to replace a hard drive, so I decided to upgrade it High Sierra. I tried multiple times to get the installer USB too boot, did't have any luck. I just went ahead and give Mojave a try and not waste more time on High Sierra... Woah! it's pretty easy to get going with it Mojave.  I still need to work on power management, but so far it's pretty snappy out of the box.

Mojave 10.14.6, Clover_v2.5k_r5103

Edited January 18, 2020 by Dr Droid

[Dr Droid]

I decided for the time being, upgrade from Sierra to High Sierra is the better route for my situation. I gave up on Mojave for now. I was wasting too much time messing around with Mojave, to get PM working. I will try again when I have more free time, as I need this system to do work. High Sierra was a non issue. 

[arkieboy72472]

Bilbo -

 

Would you consider making a Mojave installation thread for the x20 series that is as awesome as this one is for High Sierra? I am running it on my 620 and I love how in-depth and how much attention to detail is in the instructions. People don't realize that writing a great instruction manual is super hard work and requires quite a bit of attention to detail and hand holding. That is what separates this guide form others. So many people glaze over steps or omit things...but not you. Also if Catalina is capable maybe down the road. I know that HS works as well on the x20 as Sierra does on the first gen Z series.

[bilbo]

On 1/25/2020 at 1:40 AM, Dr Droid said:

I decided for the time being, upgrade from Sierra to High Sierra is the better route for my situation. I gave up on Mojave for now. I was wasting too much time messing around with Mojave, to get PM working. I will try again when I have more free time, as I need this system to do work. High Sierra was a non issue. 

 

Sorry about that. Ragimund was able to get pm working on Mojave. Didn't those post (previous page) useful for you?

[bilbo]

14 hours ago, arkieboy72472 said:

Bilbo -

 

Would you consider making a Mojave installation thread for the x20 series that is as awesome as this one is for High Sierra? I am running it on my 620 and I love how in-depth and how much attention to detail is in the instructions. People don't realize that writing a great instruction manual is super hard work and requires quite a bit of attention to detail and hand holding. That is what separates this guide form others. So many people glaze over steps or omit things...but not you. Also if Catalina is capable maybe down the road. I know that HS works as well on the x20 as Sierra does on the first gen Z series.

 

Thanks for your words. I really appreciate it. Yes, it's really really hard and it takes eons, specially considering that English is not my native language and I'd say it's not my main skill.

 

About mojave's guide, I mentioned time ago. Since the lack of nvidia support (damn Apple) , simply , I can't install Mojave. (I have a 1080ti). Sadly, my road in Hackintosh is simply closed. I would like it , sure. In fact, I'm still on Sierra (because a compatibility issue of the soft I use), and I installed High Sierra only for test and the guide. But now... simply, it's impossible. Now I'm spending all time with my machine under windows and centos.

 

But , anyway, I think that just updating main kexts , all guide should apply to Mojave. Several users has reported the success. Basically, except some finding,  that what's I did from Sierra to HighSierra

[arkieboy72472]

I hear you. I am extremely impressed with Centos 8. It is a few minor tweaks away from being a top tier desktop OS. If I give you a spare graphics card, would you consider a guide? I have a k4000 quadro I am not using :-)

[antonio.clb]

Hello to everybody!

I'm writing just to inform you that yesterday I did a flawless update from 10.15.2 to 10.15.3 without any problem.

PM is still working, see my AppleIntelInfo.kext output after a Cinebench 20 run:

Every 1,0s: sudo cat /tmp/AppleIntelInfo.dat                                                                  Mac-Pro-di-Antonio.local: Fri Jan 31 10:21:52 2020

AppleIntelInfo.kext v2.9 Copyright    2012-2017 Pike R. Alpha. All rights reserved.
logIGPU..................................: 0
logCStates...............................: 1
logIPGStyle..............................: 1

CPU Ratio Info:
------------------------------------------
Base Clock Frequency (BLCK)............. : 100 MHz
Maximum Efficiency Ratio/Frequency.......: 12 (1200 MHz)
Maximum non-Turbo Ratio/Frequency........: 28 (2800 MHz)
Maximum Turbo Ratio/Frequency............: 36 (3600 MHz)
P-State ratio * 100 = Frequency in MHz
------------------------------------------
CPU P-States [ 29 (31) ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 2 3 6 7 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 2 5 11 ]
CPU P-States [ 29 31 (33) ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 2 5 6 9 11 15 17 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 11 15 17 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 12 13 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 11 15 17 ]
CPU P-States [ 29 31 33 (35) ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 11 15 17 ]
CPU P-States [ 29 30 31 33 (35) ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 15 17 ]
CPU P-States [ (12) 29 30 31 33 35 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 15 17 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15 16 17 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 29 30 31 32 (33) 35 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 29 30 31 32 33 (34) 35 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 (24) 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 24 (28) 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 (20) 24 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 20 24 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 (36) ]
CPU P-States [ 12 20 24 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 (35) 36 ]
CPU P-States [ (12) 18 20 24 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 18 20 24 26 27 28 29 30 (31) 32 33 34 35 36 ]

Have fun!

AC

[Ragimund (HP Z820)]

Hi All,

 

Original High Sierra guide for HP Zxxx works Ok 1:1 to Mojave also, no need for new HP Zxxx Mojave guide. Even I, as a beginner (Newbie) in Hackintosh world, managed to install Mojave to my Z820.

 

And IF you have any model of NVidia graphics card, sorry, High Sierra is the highest for you. Apple dropped NVidia support totally in Mojave & Catalina due NVidias own "bad co-operation & problems". You have to buy AMD graphics card! I have RX580 and it has Native support.

 

Mainly my problems were issued to "I didn't read guide carefully from word to word before doing something" - jumping too fast to things without knowing what I was doing got me troubles (as I was from Windows world, but also knowing Linux helped me).

 

Big Thanks to Bilbo, Antonio, others as they helped me to understand things and kindly corrected me where I had done my errors - learned quite much on the way...

 

Getting PM working was actually easy, just stick with the guide. My problem was related to wrong SW version of that ssdtPRGEN - correct version was the "beta" version (latest). I downloaded the older as I thought that it was more "stable".

 

Haven't try the Catalina yet, I will stick with Mojave as it's more Mature.

 

 

To Antonio: I did bought the 1TB NVMe SSD. As almost every place is selling this Samsung 970 EVO Plus version (over 220 euros, previous 970 EVO versions not available) and you mentioned that Plus version has some problems with Apple NVMe driver I took the risk and bought something else.

 

After reading many tests and reviews I bought A-data XPG SX8200 Pro with 149 euros. +22 euros for PCIe NVMe adapter with heatsink.  It's specs are pretty good and is a good competitor for Samsung with 5 years warrant.

 

I have almost the same speed results as you with your Samsung.

Reading gives 2800 and writing 2500. It's Ok for me, at least it beats the SATA SSD with 550/520.

 

Interesting was that I tried it first with windows 10. There it gave almost the maximums related the A-data specs. 3500/3000. So it's not the HP Zxx hardware problem, it related to Apple's own driver.

 

BR

 

-Ragimund

[arkieboy72472]

On 2/19/2020 at 6:06 AM, Ragimund (HP Z820) said:

Hi All,

 

Original High Sierra guide for HP Zxxx works Ok 1:1 to Mojave also, no need for new HP Zxxx Mojave guide. Even I, as a beginner (Newbie) in Hackintosh world, managed to install Mojave to my Z820.

 

And IF you have any model of NVidia graphics card, sorry, High Sierra is the highest for you. Apple dropped NVidia support totally in Mojave & Catalina due NVidias own "bad co-operation & problems". You have to buy AMD graphics card! I have RX580 and it has Native support.

 

Mainly my problems were issued to "I didn't read guide carefully from word to word before doing something" - jumping too fast to things without knowing what I was doing got me troubles (as I was from Windows world, but also knowing Linux helped me).

 

Big Thanks to Bilbo, Antonio, others as they helped me to understand things and kindly corrected me where I had done my errors - learned quite much on the way...

 

Getting PM working was actually easy, just stick with the guide. My problem was related to wrong SW version of that ssdtPRGEN - correct version was the "beta" version (latest). I downloaded the older as I thought that it was more "stable".

 

Haven't try the Catalina yet, I will stick with Mojave as it's more Mature.

 

 

To Antonio: I did bought the 1TB NVMe SSD. As almost every place is selling this Samsung 970 EVO Plus version (over 220 euros, previous 970 EVO versions not available) and you mentioned that Plus version has some problems with Apple NVMe driver I took the risk and bought something else.

 

After reading many tests and reviews I bought A-data XPG SX8200 Pro with 149 euros. +22 euros for PCIe NVMe adapter with heatsink.  It's specs are pretty good and is a good competitor for Samsung with 5 years warrant.

 

I have almost the same speed results as you with your Samsung.

Reading gives 2800 and writing 2500. It's Ok for me, at least it beats the SATA SSD with 550/520.

 

Interesting was that I tried it first with windows 10. There it gave almost the maximums related the A-data specs. 3500/3000. So it's not the HP Zxx hardware problem, it related to Apple's own driver.

 

BR

 

-Ragimund

 

One correction:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/b91vf5/mojave_gpu_buyers_guide/

 

Native nVidia GPUs

Kepler GPUs (GTX 6xx, 7xx) Highest Supported OS: Current/Mojave 10.14.6

Currently the only 100% native Nvidia architecture that works with Mojave. Users have reported issues with the GTX 650ti, 660, 660ti but this is caused by a driver issue on Apple’s end by not supporting the GK106 core(or quite poorly as the issue seems to be memory leakage which also affects real Macs). Another issue with this generation is lower end products marketed as first generation Kepler are actually using a Fermi core but have identical counterparts running Kepler cores as well(GF 116 vs GK 107 found in the GT 640). AND PLEASE NOTICE THAT GTX 745, 750 and ti VARIANTS ARE NOT INCLUDED, THEY'RE NOT KEPLER

 

Supported cards:

Kepler Gen 2:

GTX Titan (GK 110 Maxwell core)

GTX Titan Black(GK 110 Maxwell core)

GTX Titan Z (One of the few dual GPU cards supported in MacOs)

GTX 780/ti

GTX 770

GTX 760/ti

GT 740

GT 730

GT 720

GT 710

Kepler Gen 1:

GTX Titan (GK 110 Maxwell core)

GTX Titan Black(GK 110 Maxwell core)

GTX Titan Z (One of the few dual GPU cards supported in MacOs, unfortunately was never truly utilized)

GTX 690(Another dual GPU card compatible with MacOS)

GTX 680

GTX 670

GTX 660/TI(MUST BE RUNNING A GK 104 core, NOT GK 106)

GTX 650(MUST BE RUNNING A GK 107 core, NOT GK 106)

GTX 645(GT 645 is Fermi)

GT 640(Kepler edition, GK 107/208 core)

GT 630(Kepler edition, GK 208 core)

Quadro:

Quadro 410

Quadro K420

Quadro K600

Quadro K2000/D

Quadro K4000/D

Quadro K4200

Quadro K5000

Quadro K5200

Quadro K6000

[stefanza]

On 2/19/2020 at 12:06 PM, Ragimund (HP Z820) said:

Hi All,

 

Original High Sierra guide for HP Zxxx works Ok 1:1 to Mojave also, no need for new HP Zxxx Mojave guide. Even I, as a beginner (Newbie) in Hackintosh world, managed to install Mojave to my Z820.

 

And IF you have any model of NVidia graphics card, sorry, High Sierra is the highest for you. Apple dropped NVidia support totally in Mojave & Catalina due NVidias own "bad co-operation & problems". You have to buy AMD graphics card! I have RX580 and it has Native support.

 

Mainly my problems were issued to "I didn't read guide carefully from word to word before doing something" - jumping too fast to things without knowing what I was doing got me troubles (as I was from Windows world, but also knowing Linux helped me).

 

Big Thanks to Bilbo, Antonio, others as they helped me to understand things and kindly corrected me where I had done my errors - learned quite much on the way...

 

Getting PM working was actually easy, just stick with the guide. My problem was related to wrong SW version of that ssdtPRGEN - correct version was the "beta" version (latest). I downloaded the older as I thought that it was more "stable".

 

Haven't try the Catalina yet, I will stick with Mojave as it's more Mature.

 

 

To Antonio: I did bought the 1TB NVMe SSD. As almost every place is selling this Samsung 970 EVO Plus version (over 220 euros, previous 970 EVO versions not available) and you mentioned that Plus version has some problems with Apple NVMe driver I took the risk and bought something else.

 

After reading many tests and reviews I bought A-data XPG SX8200 Pro with 149 euros. +22 euros for PCIe NVMe adapter with heatsink.  It's specs are pretty good and is a good competitor for Samsung with 5 years warrant.

 

I have almost the same speed results as you with your Samsung.

Reading gives 2800 and writing 2500. It's Ok for me, at least it beats the SATA SSD with 550/520.

 

Interesting was that I tried it first with windows 10. There it gave almost the maximums related the A-data specs. 3500/3000. So it's not the HP Zxx hardware problem, it related to Apple's own driver.

 

BR

 

-Ragimund

Hi Ragimund,

 

Thanks for all of this. I followed your progress as I have a Z820 2xE5-2670 v2 Bios 3.91 - Bilbo's guide is great and easy to follow as were your messages.  Mojave is working well with power management and GB3 scores are impressive.

The only problem I have is not being able to shutdown. My Z820 restarts when shutdown from Mojave and Windows 10. Will live with that as the usual solutions don't seem to work.

EDIT: I also have an NVME drive which I select after booting clover from a Sata SSD (which I use as backup for Mojave).  I bought the 970 PLUS and check that the firmware was the latest version which Samsung created to fix the Mac OS problem.

So I boot from SATA SSD with NvmExpressDxe-64.efi in Drivers64 so that Clover recognise the 970, select MacOS Samsung 970. Use CCC to clone any changes to the SATA SSD.

Stefan

Edited February 26, 2020 by stefanza
Comment on NVME

[arkieboy72472]

I followed the guide exactly and finally got Mojave to work. Catalina, not so much. There are some parts of the guide I have a few nit picks with but all in all it is great and worked for me.

 

If anyone reads this and wants to try it, here are some issues I noticed:

 

1) in the part about maciACL it says use 6.1 but the version he quotes uses version 6.2a. Just use that.

 

2) about ssdpregen, the folder it downloads to by default is a hidden folder. You will have to make hidden folders viewable to find it.

 

3) the appleintelCPU kext he refers to has a slightly different name than what is used.

 

4) to use mojave you will need a newer version of clover which will have a completely different layout so just be careful (and this guide is not for mojave so this kinda doesn't apply).

 

5) the guide doesn't get specific into how to make iMessage work and doesn't get into the specifics of certain parts of the config.plist, but it at least goes over the important parts

 

6) while this guide 99% works for Mojave like it does high sierra, make sure and get the newest kexts unless he says otherwise.

 

7) not everything is needed in the folder he provides but it has more than enough for most people.

 

8) When you first do f4 for dsdt etc, also save apic.aml as you will need it in the end.

 

All in all the guide is on the money and if you read the threads and the guide and pay close attention you can run Mojave or High Sierra on your second get Z series. Oh, and make sure your BIOS time and date is set right. 

 

Also if you are trying Catalina you may need other kexts not located in this guide and not linked to by this thread. It may or may not work. When people post results, they often leave out many details. People tend to skim over things they know that you do not.

Edited February 26, 2020 by arkieboy72472

[kyroschow]

Hi, Hackintosh noob here trying to get Catalina working. Following the guide and Antonio's new PM approach in Catalina, I was able to get PM working a couple days ago. But today I check HWMonitor and AppleIntelinfo.kext, my CPUs are back to stock speeds. I am not sure what could have caused the problem.

 

Output of AppleIntelinfo.kext:

sudo cat /tmp/AppleIntelInfo.dat                 
AppleIntelInfo.kext v2.9 Copyright © 2012-2017 Pike R. Alpha. All rights reserved.
logIGPU..................................: 0
logCStates...............................: 1
logIPGStyle..............................: 1

CPU Ratio Info:
------------------------------------------
Base Clock Frequency (BLCK)............. : 100 MHz
Maximum Efficiency Ratio/Frequency.......: 12 (1200 MHz)
Maximum non-Turbo Ratio/Frequency........: 28 (2800 MHz)
Maximum Ratio/Frequency..................: 28 (2800 MHz)
P-State ratio * 100 = Frequency in MHz
------------------------------------------
CPU P-States [ (28) ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 3 8 15 16 17 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 4 5 7 8 11 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 6 7 8 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 6 7 8 10 12 13 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 14 15 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 14 15 16 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 14 15 16 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 14 15 16 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]

 

Here's the outputs when I run the 4 commands:

kextstat|grep -y appleintelcpu               
   40    0 0xffffff7f83209000 0x2a000    0x2a000    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement (222.0.0) F76E3420-6A3B-3C54-AECF-3CE52F3F1EEC <8 7 6 5 3 1>
   55    0 0xffffff7f83298000 0x3000     0x3000     com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient (222.0.0) 95FDE1E5-9403-31D1-B8DE-E337BC88BC55 <8 7 6 5 3 1>

kextstat|grep -y x86plat
  115    1 0xffffff7f826d6000 0x19000    0x19000    com.apple.driver.X86PlatformPlugin (999.9.9) 337EC7D0-E726-38CA-9C14-3C4B7C4C7B52 <114 66 27 15 12 8 7 6 5 3 1>
  162    1 0xffffff7f826ef000 0x7000     0x7000     com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim (1.0.0) E0AA6793-A683-35E1-821D-6680D7B1B6B4 <115 114 15 8 5 3>

sysctl -n machdep.xcpm.vectors_loaded_count
0

sysctl -n machdep.xcpm.mode
0

 

Edited March 2, 2020 by kyroschow

[antonio.clb]

21 hours ago, kyroschow said:

Hi, Hackintosh noob here trying to get Catalina working. Following the guide and Antonio's new PM approach in Catalina, I was able to get PM working a couple days ago. But today I check HWMonitor and AppleIntelinfo.kext, my CPUs are back to stock speeds. I am not sure what could have caused the problem.

 

Output of AppleIntelinfo.kext:

sudo cat /tmp/AppleIntelInfo.dat                 
AppleIntelInfo.kext v2.9 Copyright © 2012-2017 Pike R. Alpha. All rights reserved.
logIGPU..................................: 0
logCStates...............................: 1
logIPGStyle..............................: 1

CPU Ratio Info:
------------------------------------------
Base Clock Frequency (BLCK)............. : 100 MHz
Maximum Efficiency Ratio/Frequency.......: 12 (1200 MHz)
Maximum non-Turbo Ratio/Frequency........: 28 (2800 MHz)
Maximum Ratio/Frequency..................: 28 (2800 MHz)
P-State ratio * 100 = Frequency in MHz
------------------------------------------
CPU P-States [ (28) ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 3 8 15 16 17 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 4 5 7 8 11 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 6 7 8 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 6 7 8 10 12 13 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 14 15 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 14 15 16 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 14 15 16 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 14 15 16 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]

 

Here's the outputs when I run the 4 commands:

kextstat|grep -y appleintelcpu               
   40    0 0xffffff7f83209000 0x2a000    0x2a000    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement (222.0.0) F76E3420-6A3B-3C54-AECF-3CE52F3F1EEC <8 7 6 5 3 1>
   55    0 0xffffff7f83298000 0x3000     0x3000     com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient (222.0.0) 95FDE1E5-9403-31D1-B8DE-E337BC88BC55 <8 7 6 5 3 1>

kextstat|grep -y x86plat
  115    1 0xffffff7f826d6000 0x19000    0x19000    com.apple.driver.X86PlatformPlugin (999.9.9) 337EC7D0-E726-38CA-9C14-3C4B7C4C7B52 <114 66 27 15 12 8 7 6 5 3 1>
  162    1 0xffffff7f826ef000 0x7000     0x7000     com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim (1.0.0) E0AA6793-A683-35E1-821D-6680D7B1B6B4 <115 114 15 8 5 3>

sysctl -n machdep.xcpm.vectors_loaded_count
0

sysctl -n machdep.xcpm.mode
0

 

Hello!

My AppleIntelInfo.dat on Catalina 10.15.3 is still correct:

AppleIntelInfo.kext v2.9 Copyright © 2012-2017 Pike R. Alpha. All rights reserved.
logIGPU..................................: 0
logCStates...............................: 1
logIPGStyle..............................: 1

CPU Ratio Info:
------------------------------------------
Base Clock Frequency (BLCK)............. : 100 MHz
Maximum Efficiency Ratio/Frequency.......: 12 (1200 MHz)
Maximum non-Turbo Ratio/Frequency........: 28 (2800 MHz)
Maximum Turbo Ratio/Frequency............: 36 (3600 MHz)
P-State ratio * 100 = Frequency in MHz
------------------------------------------
CPU P-States [ (12) 23 31 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 2 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 2 3 4 12 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 26 31 (32) ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 18 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 1 2 3 4 5 12 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 26 29 (31) 32 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 4 5 8 12 13 17 18 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 1 2 3 4 5 7 12 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 26 28 29 (31) 32 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 4 5 8 9 12 13 17 18 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 10 12 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 25 26 (28) 29 31 32 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 4 5 8 9 12 13 17 18 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 12 13 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 (33) ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 17 18 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 (20) 23 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 33 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 17 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 17 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 ]
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CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
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CPU P-States [ 12 20 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 (31) 32 33 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 20 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 (34) ]
CPU P-States [ 12 20 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 (35) ]
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CPU P-States [ 12 17 19 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 (36) ]
CPU P-States [ 12 17 19 (20) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 (24) 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 ]
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Double check your ACPI/patched folder under EFI/CLOVER, it should contain at least 3 files (mine has 4 because of the NVMe external pactch):

Edited March 3, 2020 by antonio.clb

[Alex Andreu]

On 12/11/2019 at 12:01 PM, antonio.clb said:

Thanks for the tip bilbo! I've enabled it:

I confirm that security update from Mojave 10.14.6 (18G1012) to 10.14.6 (18G2022) has worked flawlessly (3 reboots needed).

No need to repatch AICPM after update. My CPUs multiplier factors oscillates between x12 and x35 according to HWMonitor. All 40 CPUs are showed on activity monitor (Window -> CPU Usage).

I can confirm Mojave works perfectly on my Z620 by following my AICPM patching routine described early and, of course, based on your great work!

 

Update

Here's my AppleIntelInfo.dat after a GeekBench 5 (712 sc - 10852 mc) run (36x!!!):

AppleIntelInfo.kext v2.9 Copyright © 2012-2017 Pike R. Alpha. All rights reserved.
logIGPU..................................: 0
logCStates...............................: 1
logIPGStyle..............................: 1

CPU Ratio Info:
------------------------------------------
Base Clock Frequency (BLCK)............. : 100 MHz
Maximum Efficiency Ratio/Frequency.......: 12 (1200 MHz)
Maximum non-Turbo Ratio/Frequency........: 28 (2800 MHz)
Maximum Turbo Ratio/Frequency............: 36 (3600 MHz)
P-State ratio * 100 = Frequency in MHz
------------------------------------------
CPU P-States [ 27 32 (35) ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 13 14 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 5 9 ]
CPU P-States [ (12) 23 27 32 35 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 3 6 9 12 13 14 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 2 5 7 9 12 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 27 28 32 (33) 35 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 3 6 7 9 12 13 14 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 2 3 5 6 7 9 12 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 26 27 28 32 33 (35) ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 2 3 5 6 7 9 12 13 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 18 19 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 26 27 28 32 33 (34) 35 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 15 16 18 19 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 26 27 (28) 29 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 23 (24) 26 27 28 29 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 (20) 23 24 26 27 28 29 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 20 23 (24) 25 26 27 28 29 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 20 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 (31) 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 20 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 (35) ]
CPU P-States [ 12 (20) 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU P-States [ (12) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU P-States [ (12) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 18 19 (20) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 (36) ]
CPU P-States [ 12 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 (34) 35 36 ]
CPU P-States [ 12 13 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (33) 34 35 36 ]

 

Thanks a lot for all your efforts and contribution to the community!

 

Best regards.

AC

Hi Everyone,

 

Great job done in this forum/topic.

 

I am experiencing problems with my Z620 v1 on Catalina 10.15.3

 

I can't patch AICPM Kext, it states Read Only File ( I do this under sudo )

x86Platform file can't be loaded, either it is kext injected at S/L and S/L/E

 

Is there any way someone could share his CLOVER folder, please?  Config.plist will be awesome in order to double check if I have wrong parameters.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Alex.

[Alex Andreu]

Sorry, 

 

I finally found what has happening.  -xcpm flag needed to be enabled at Clover Boot in order to let x86platformplugin.kext to be loaded.

 

I was finally able to patch AICPM vía Clover and now I have PM working perfectly. Also a previous bug I had that created random reboots when plugin and unplugging USB´s 2.0 and 3.0 is gone.

 

Cheers!!

 

Alex.

[antonio.clb]

7 hours ago, Alex Andreu said:

Sorry, 

 

I finally found what has happening.  -xcpm flag needed to be enabled at Clover Boot in order to let x86platformplugin.kext to be loaded.

 

I was finally able to patch AICPM vía Clover and now I have PM working perfectly. Also a previous bug I had that created random reboots when plugin and unplugging USB´s 2.0 and 3.0 is gone.

 

Cheers!!

 

Alex.

Great news @Alex Andreu!

Notice that, according to @bilbo's guide, you should enable the xcpm_ipi flag if you have two physical CPUs:

Quote

31-Enable on clover “-xcpm” flag, or “-xcpm_ipi” custom flag, if you have a dual cpu, as the script recommends.

 

Best regards.

AC

[Alex Andreu]

Thanks for getting back to me. I will try -xcpm_ipi instead to see if it makes any difference.

 

What I can assure is, when I created for Mojave SSDT.aml, If I used the flags for SandyBridge cpu´s ( I have dual E5-2690 v1 ), geekbench and cinebench performance was very poor.

 

If SSDT was created by "fooling" flags and telling to apply IvyBridge patches for a E5-2690 v2 with its proper max turbo speed, Cinebench score was fantastic ( around 4800 points ).

 

How can this be possible? Did anyone experience this kind of situation in the past?

 

I think I have both SSDT´s if anyone with Dual 2690´s wanna try.

 

Once again, thanks in advance for your support.

 

Regards,

 

Alex.

[Taccess]

On 11/30/2018 at 5:47 PM, pingyes said:

HighSierra, Mojave almost the same process, I work under cent os7.4, everything is normal, including Thunderbolt is still working out of the box

 

Hi I can get both mojave and High sierra installed on my z820 but the PCI Thunderbolt has no driver on either ?

 

Can you tell me how yours is working please and any advice i can to enable mine please ??

 

my pcie thunderbolt card shows as :

pci1a00,2     Other multimedia       No                 Firewire

 

Need thunderbolt for my audio interfeace any help is really appreciated  

Edited March 13, 2020 by Taccess
additional info

[arkieboy72472]

I have given up for now getting catalina to work, but at least Mojave is supported for a while. Not sure what I did wrong, but Mojave is fine for now. I occasionally get an EFI error message, but I think its ok.

 

I have an important question. I hope someone can help me

 

If I add more ram and go from one processor to a dual processor set up, what should I do before and after I make this change? What flags and settings should get changed? Do I redo the power management ssdt script thing again? 

 

I am considering 2 processors and extra ram, though I may just hold what I got or reinstall everything and keep a working good SSD.

[antonio.clb]

3 hours ago, arkieboy72472 said:

I have given up for now getting catalina to work, but at least Mojave is supported for a while. Not sure what I did wrong, but Mojave is fine for now. I occasionally get an EFI error message, but I think its ok.

 

I have an important question. I hope someone can help me

 

If I add more ram and go from one processor to a dual processor set up, what should I do before and after I make this change? What flags and settings should get changed? Do I redo the power management ssdt script thing again? 

 

I am considering 2 processors and extra ram, though I may just hold what I got or reinstall everything and keep a working good SSD.

Hi and, first of all, hope everything is fine for you and your beloved ones in these difficult times! Of course, this is fo all the folks in our hackintosh community!

 

Catalina works fine on my Z620 (see specs in my signature) but Mojave still rocks, so stick with it if you're happy!

RAM increase should be easy (follow HP recommendations listed HERE for correctly placing DIMMs).

For secondary CPU, you have to redo the whole PM section and don't forget to add the "xcpm_ipi" Clover flag.

 

Best regards.

AC

[arkieboy72472]

12 hours ago, antonio.clb said:

Hi and, first of all, hope everything is fine for you and your beloved ones in these difficult times! Of course, this is fo all the folks in our hackintosh community!

 

Catalina works fine on my Z620 (see specs in my signature) but Mojave still rocks, so stick with it if you're happy!

RAM increase should be easy (follow HP recommendations listed HERE for correctly placing DIMMs).

For secondary CPU, you have to redo the whole PM section and don't forget to add the "xcpm_ipi" Clover flag.

 

Best regards.

AC

 

 

So, I can add the flag, save and reboot, then do the power management section again? sounds good. I am just doing ram for now. EDIT: just finished up and now I have every slot with 16GB of ram for 128GB. I think I may make this a multi boot machine and run VMs to practice things.

Edited April 4, 2020 by arkieboy72472

[antonio.clb]

13 hours ago, arkieboy72472 said:

 

 

So, I can add the flag, save and reboot, then do the power management section again? sounds good. I am just doing ram for now. EDIT: just finished up and now I have every slot with 16GB of ram for 128GB. I think I may make this a multi boot machine and run VMs to practice things.

Wow! I've "just" 64 GB in mine... ^__^
For the second CPU, it shoud only be a matter of following the PM steps once more as described by @bilbo...

 

Have fun!

AC

[arkieboy72472]

I have been having issues for some time.

Here are some links to pictures from my Hack:

https://imgur.com/qzvagLH

https://imgur.com/8SulMem

https://imgur.com/ufmolz6

My problem: I only get sound out of one speaker, not both.

Things I have tried:

• Swapping out speakers with known good ones.

• changing layout-id in dsdt to match one in config.plist

• Turning off internal speakers

• changing layout id to 11

• checked audio midi values

What I think may be the issue:

The speakers I am using are Bose companion 2 desktop. The line-out and internal speakers are mixed up. This desktop has a singular internal speaker. Currently the OS thinks the line out is internal and vice versa. It hasn't always been this way. I think an update or something may have broken it. I am unsure. I have no earthly idea how to fix this. I think it was OK in High Sierra but not in Mojave which may mean a driver issue.

My layout ID is 28. This uses the ALC 262 Audio codec. Has anyone else ever had and fixed this issue?

[felipousismix]

Hello there: first of all thank you to all the people who made this guide possible. I followed it and I have a working Z820 in High Sierra running almost perfectly, the only thing I can't make work are the built-in USB3 ports. All the USB 2 ports work fine, as well the add on USB3 card I had on my Z800.

I have the proper Kexts in the 10.13 folder>>mXHCD.kext and USBInjectAll.kext but no luck. I removed the original patches from Clover as the guide stated, but no luck.

 

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited April 13, 2020 by felipousismix

[bilbo]

On 3/13/2020 at 11:20 AM, Taccess said:

 

Hi I can get both mojave and High sierra installed on my z820 but the PCI Thunderbolt has no driver on either ?

 

Can you tell me how yours is working please and any advice i can to enable mine please ??

 

my pcie thunderbolt card shows as :

pci1a00,2     Other multimedia       No                 Firewire

 

Need thunderbolt for my audio interfeace any help is really appreciated  

 

Hello. I did not do too much tests with thunderbolt card because I only use it to connect an external thunderbolt HD. As I remember, to enable it completly , you have to activate the "legacy mode" into thunderbolt security policies in bios (see the guide). Also, make sure you installed it in the right pci slot. Then, I remember I had to initialize it (or whatever) on windows. I mean, install the driver and be sure that card is working appropriately, once at least. I'm not sure 100% of this last process. It was almost 5 years ago.

 

Anyway, forget the system profiler. It's not acurrate. Just plug your interface audio card and try.