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I had a working Mojave installation on my HP Z400 with clover and from a VMware image.  (Because i had a Nvidia 8800GT with no Metal support.) I found a cheap AMD RX 570 card on the local market.
So i did a reinstall with a clean Mojave version from de App Store. Before the new card everything worked fijne exept the video card.
(My Englisch is not great sorry!)
 

The hardware:

  • HP Z400 Motherboard in standard ATX case.  (Some powercable and other hacks needed.)
  • Xeon W3520 (4 cores  2,67Ghz)
  • 6x 2GB DDR3 non ECC
  • Sapphire Radeon RX 570 4G Nitro+
  • SATA Harddisk
  • BIOS version 03.61 (last)

 

BIOS Settings:

File\Default Setup

  1. Restore Factory Settings as Default (You may get some new options)
  2. Apply Defaults and Exit (Reboot)

Storage\Storage Options

  1. Legacy Diskette - Write Disable
  2. Sata Emulation - RAID+AHCI

Security\Device Security

  1. legacy Diskette - Device hidden
  2. Embedded Security - Device Device hidden

Power\Hardware Power Management

  1. Everyting - Enable

Advanced\Processors

  1. Hyper-Threading – Enable

 

Install disk:

  1. Download the complete Mojeva Install App from de Appstor
  2. Make a install USB stick
  3. use the Terminal app and command
    “sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USB -- /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app”
    Where USB is te name of the USB stick
  4. Install Clover v2.4k r4844
    Change Install Location and choose  “Install macOS Mojave”
    Customize

Select:

  • Install clover in the ESP
  • Boot Sectors\Install boot0af in MBR
  • Clover for Bios(legacy) booting\ Clover EFI 64-Bits SATA
  • BIOS Drivers, 64 Bit\ApfsDriverLoader-64     (For Apfs in Clover)
  • Everything else unchanged
  • Install


Open Clover Configurator
And open config.plist from the EFI on the USB stick

Select:

  1. Boot\Arguments   dart=0
  2. Graphics - RadeonDeInit
  3. Kernel and Kext Patches   DellSMBIOSPatch
  4. SMBIOS Choose Mac Pro 5.1

Save

 

Kexts:

And place those kexts in Clover\kexts\Other (Zie Attachments)

  • FakeSMC.kext (Mandatory)
  • AHCIPortInjector_v1.0.0_Micky1979.kext (SATA)
  • IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector_v1.0.0_Micky1979.kext (Fix SATA)
  • NullCPUPowerManagement_v1.0.0d2_tgwbd.kext (Support CPU)
  • VoodooHDA_v2.87.kext (Sound)


And install disk is ready
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My install was Mojave 10.14.2 and with succes updated to 10.14.3

 

Everything is working great de only problem i have found is Mojave sees 7 memory slots and there are 6 slots in the system.
When i define te memory slots in Clover the problem is solved see the image.

 

kexts.zip

config.plist.zip

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Edited by Lexies
  • 2 months later...

It doesn't work here. My GPU works perfectly in Sierra, but can't boot to Mojave installer. I get black screen. 

I am wondering how come you don't have Whatevergreen and Lilu kexts? 

 

HP Z420 Workstation

Intel Xeon E-1620v2

ATI Radeon Sapphire Nitro RX570 4 Gb

8 Gb unbuffered ECC RAM

 

Is your your monitor connected with Display Port cabel?

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  • 11 months later...
  • 8 months later...

Sorry about the necropost

My z400 is driving me crazy...

 

I had a few years a z400 with mountain lion and yosemite. I did a lot of succesful instalations.

 

Then I bough a real mac pro 5.1

 

Then, sold the mac pro, and in current days, I need a desktop again, so bought another z400, for the sweet taste of past hacks...

 

 

But I had failed miserably.

 

I have followed your guide step by step, and always I get stuck in "bsd process name corresponding to current thread unknown"...attempting system restart .... mach reboot

 

The differences between your z400 and mineÑ

 

  • HP Z400
  • 6x 2GB DDR3 non ECC
  • XFX RX 580 8GB
  • SATA Harddisk
  • BIOS version 03.57

 

And about the installation, can found Clover v2.4k r4844... I used 4847, and last Mojave build, downloaded from app store, 10.14.6

 

 

Please!! I had googled a lot!!

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Nevermind, I did success today

 

I don't know which thing did the trick, but:

 

Upgraded the bios to 3.61

Found a 10.14.2 installer

Run Clover r5127

 

Cheers! 

 

 

pdt: BTW I can't it him to sleep properly...

Any clue?

 

Edited by jmvBMW
  • 1 month later...
On 1/3/2021 at 11:27 AM, PPCnostalgic said:

If Apple Mail is running the machine can't sleep, mine does but I have to quit Apple Mail, Safari doesn't block the sleep.

BTW: Try my DSDT

Rob

dsdt.aml.zip

 

I tried your DSDT, but my machine sleep and immediately wake up, and sometimes with blackscreen and no usb devices working...

Also, In the back usb ports only 4 of 6 works...

Edited by jmvBMW
  • 2 weeks later...
  • 2 months later...

I have no longer a hackintosh... :(

 

Because I got a brand new old stock 2010 5.1 mac pro!!  :)

 

BTW: the cause of no sleep issue is a cheap pc usb keyboard, which is causing the same issue in the real mac

 

 

Edited by jmvBMW
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