Glasgood's macOS Mojave [SUCCESS][GUIDE] for Aorus Z390 Pro

[glasgood]

1 hour ago, FTFT1234 said:

I've followed this guide a month or so ago and got my whole system up and running flawlessly. Thanks @glasgood!

However, yesterday I've updated from macOS 10.14.4 to 10.14.5 and now I have a problem. When booting the progress bar underneath the apple logo gets to around 75 percent, but then my monitor loses signal. It takes 20 - 30 seconds before the monitor gets a new signal with the login screen being shown. Other than this everything works perfect.

 

My system specs are:

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO

Processor: Intel Core i7-9700K

Graphics: IGPU (UHD630)

RAM: 16 GB

Storage: SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series

SMBIOS: iMac18,1

 

Do you guys know, what the problem could be? Of course the Framebuffer patches are in my config.plist, I didn't change anything there before or after updating to 10.14.5.

 

Oh, and something funny I've noticed: Since updating to 10.14.5 in the About this Mac section it says I have a 3,6 GHz Intel Core i9, but as you can see in my specs list, it's an i7. I guess that comes from the new iMacs not having a 9th gen i7 but an i9 instead.

 

Hi, not sure what is causing monitor to lose signal briefly. Maybe updating to latest Clover version could resolve this. You could try testing SMBIOS 19,1.

 

To correct cpu type:

 

 

 

 

4 hours ago, AudioGod said:

Ah yes the white mains power up flash. That's normal with asus and gigabyte boards. I've been seeing that for many years now. I don't think it's a fault of any sort though. Il double check but I'm pretty sure it's a little power on self test of some sort.

 

 

Update - what's happening is when erp is enabled and you power up from the mains for the first time the psu is briefly allowing power though the system before the erp kicks in and shuts everything off. The reverse effect is too have something that lights up hooked into a USB slot and shut down the system with erp off and the lights will remain lit up in the USB device because erp hasn't kicked in and shut off the USB power fully. If you like to charge stuff with the system off via USB then leave erp disabled but if like me you have loads of stuff hooked up via USB and more so if it lights up or is rgb then leave it enabled or power keeps going to the devices even though the system is off.

I hope that helps buddy.

 

Thanks for explaining, I decided to keep erp disabled on my hack 

[AudioGod]

1 hour ago, glasgood said:

 

Hi, not sure what is causing monitor to lose signal briefly. Maybe updating to latest Clover version could resolve this. You could try testing SMBIOS 19,1.

 

To correct cpu type:

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for explaining, I decided to keep erp disabled on my hack 

I don't like power running though the system while in an off state as it will be pushing a min of 1amp and a few watts though each USB output maybe slightly more. If you plug your phone into the system while it's off does it start charging? if so and it's a modern phone then you know its pushing out more, I don't like the thought of that.. lol

[FTFT1234]

1 hour ago, glasgood said:

 

Hi, not sure what is causing monitor to lose signal briefly. Maybe updating to latest Clover version could resolve this. You could try testing SMBIOS 19,1.

 

To correct cpu type:

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for explaining, I decided to keep erp disabled on my hack 

 

Thanks! Switching to iMac19,1 did the trick for me  Changing the cpu type didn't do it for me, but that's okay, it doesn't bother me as it doesn't affect the performance in any way. Thank you!

[Charles375]

On 5/24/2019 at 12:58 PM, glasgood said:

 

@Charles375

 

Try different SMBIOS, maybe iMac 18,3 for High Sierra. I never tested my Aorus Pro Z390 Hackintosh build with macOS High Sierra, so unfortunately I'm not going to be able to advise. 

Hello again, changing SMBIOS to iMac 18,3 and removing USB kexts lines was the solution thank you! 

Now I'm tryin to setup the on board audio...

AppleALC.kext and realtekALC.kext are installed in kext->Other

There is Audio category with output list in System Report/Audio/Intel High Definition Audio but no Output device on System Preferences/Sound... Any advice?

Edited May 26, 2019 by Charles375

[mfortuna]

Hey @glasgood I've just tested the new EFI folder and I'm having problems with Final Cut Pro again  I'm sticking to the older one.

 

One tip: It would be nice if you posted all the old EFI folders of every update you make. Maybe someone can learn something or just finds it useful. 

[glasgood]

On 5/2/2019 at 5:12 AM, mfortuna said:

Thank you very much! I've followed your guide and everything is working like a charm!

 

This is my first desktop Hackintosh and with your guide it was pretty straightforward

 

My build:

- Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Pro

- Intel i5-8400 (leaving space for future upgrades)

- 2x Crucial Ballistic Sport Lt 8GB

- Kingston A400 SSD Sata3 (Hackintosh)

- Adata XPG Gammix S10 M.2 PCIe SSD. (Windows 10)

- Thermaltake Tt V200 and Thermaltake Smart RGB 600w PSU

- TP-Link AC1900 Archer T9e Wi-Fi

- Using iGPU because I'm still waiting for the GPU to arrive (Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB)

 

One comment: The XPG Gammix S10 M.2 PCIe SSD DIDN'T WORK OK for MacOS. After installation (that took a while) my mouse was laggy every time I copied a file. Did a Benchmark with Blackmagic and found that the SSD was running as low as 40 MB/s for reading...

Tested with another partition in Windows and was working correctly (like 1500MB/s), so I changed the Mac installation to the SATA drive and the Windows to the M.2.

Second comment: I've tested FHD video editing with integrated graphics and was pretty surprised how well it did to manage everything.

 

Big thanks from Argentina!

 

@mfortuna What EFI folder are you using, intel or RX580, and does your machine now have RX580 ? 

11 hours ago, Charles375 said:

Hello again, changing SMBIOS to iMac 18,3 and removing USB kexts lines was the solution thank you! 

Now I'm tryin to setup the on board audio...

AppleALC.kext and realtekALC.kext are installed in kext->Other

There is Audio category with output list in System Report/Audio/Intel High Definition Audio but no Output device on System Preferences/Sound... Any advice?

 

@Charles375 Attach efi.

Edited May 27, 2019 by glasgood

[Charles375]

2 hours ago, glasgood said:

 

@mfortuna What EFI folder are you using, intel or RX580, and does your machine now have RX580 ? 

 

@Charles375 Attach efi.

Here it is, I removed Firmware.scap to save space

EFI Charles no sound.zip

[glasgood]

1 hour ago, Charles375 said:

Here it is, I removed Firmware.scap to save space

EFI Charles no sound.zip

 

@Charles375

 

Realtek ALC1220-VB has layout-id 1 (Audio Inject = 1) on Aorus Z390 Pro.  No need to use realtekALC.kext and AppleALC.kext at same time. 

 

EFI Charles no sound.zip

 

Best!

 

Edited May 27, 2019 by glasgood

[Charles375]

37 minutes ago, glasgood said:

 

@Charles375

 

Realtek ALC1220-VB has layout-id 1 (Audio Inject = 1) on Aorus Z390 Pro.  No need to use realtekALC.kext and AppleALC.kext at same time. 

 

EFI Charles no sound.zip

 

Best!

 

Thank you, I've tried all layouts (and the EFI you re-sent me) but nothing works, I still have only HDMI Output in Sound Preferences

[glasgood]

19 minutes ago, Charles375 said:

Thank you, I've tried all layouts (and the EFI you re-sent me) but nothing works, I still have only HDMI Output in Sound Preferences

 

@Charles375

 

Test speakers connected to Line Out jack ?

 

 

And change sound pref to Internal Speakers.

 

 

 

[mfortuna]

6 hours ago, glasgood said:

What EFI folder are you using, intel or RX580, and does your machine now have RX580 ? 

 

@glasgood I'm using the RX 580 one. My machine is running a Sapphire Nitro+ SE RX 590 8G

[glasgood]

31 minutes ago, mfortuna said:

 

@glasgood I'm using the RX 580 one. My machine is running a Sapphire Nitro+ SE RX 590 8G

 

@mfortuna

 

Ok, send me your old EFI config.plist.

[glasgood]

11 hours ago, mfortuna said:

Hey @glasgood I've just tested the new EFI folder and I'm having problems with Final Cut Pro again  I'm sticking to the older one.

 

One tip: It would be nice if you posted all the old EFI folders of every update you make. Maybe someone can learn something or just finds it useful. 

 

 

@mfortuna

 

Looks like when I did the PCI import, I must have overwritten device-id. Look at the Device / Properties values in old EFI. You should have something like below, if not the:

 

Add:

device-id 9B3E0000 

 

Update:

 

AAPL,ig-platform-id 0300923E 

 

 

Thanks for flagging this up

 

[Charles375]

1 hour ago, glasgood said:

 

@Charles375

 

Test speakers connected to Line Out jack ?

 

 

And change sound pref to Internal Speakers.

 

 

 

I only have HDMI Output on this window

[glasgood]

10 minutes ago, Charles375 said:

I only have HDMI Output on this window

 

@Charles375 Try using this config.plist==>> config.plist  and try disable CSM in BIOS.

 

 

Edited May 27, 2019 by glasgood

[larabee]

@glasgood  I finally had a chance to switch board to use the exact same one as yours. I'm running a newer BIOS version but everything works as expected. Looks like you have not updated the uploaded EFI folder for external graphic card to reflect the changes in the device properties for intel 630. 

After I added device-id --> 9B3E0000 and updated AAPL,ig-platform-id --> 0300923E , final cut works fast as expected but I lost the ability to track voltage for the HD630, but as long as it's working fine, then it doesn't matter. I just try to get the chip to turbo boost to 1GHz, It's been running around 600 Mhz on mine. 

[glasgood]

56 minutes ago, larabee said:

@glasgood  I finally had a chance to switch board to use the exact same one as yours. I'm running a newer BIOS version but everything works as expected. Looks like you have not updated the uploaded EFI folder for external graphic card to reflect the changes in the device properties for intel 630. 

After I added device-id --> 9B3E0000 and updated AAPL,ig-platform-id --> 0300923E , final cut works fast as expected but I lost the ability to track voltage for the HD630, but as long as it's working fine, then it doesn't matter. I just try to get the chip to turbo boost to 1GHz, It's been running around 600 Mhz on mine. 

 

@larabee

 

 

 

 

 

 

device-id and AAPL,ig-platform-id back inside confg.plist 

 

[Charles375]

6 hours ago, glasgood said:

 

@Charles375 Try using this config.plist==>> config.plist  and try disable CSM in BIOS.

 

 

Not better

[kochfede]

Excellent guide adapted to my config: AORUS Z390 ULTRA - AOURUS RADEON RX 590 8gb Gaming

The problems its to config frambuffers in the GPU to use multimonitors the DVI-D doesnt work well (flawsy and noisy, blink to black)
Anyone has to manage to config well the ports connectors of this GPU?

[alros]

Hi this guide was amazing, I had issues installing mojave (im a hackintosh noob) but I had NVIDIA card an a Samsung 970 EVO PLUS, bought a Radeon RX 570 and was able to follow this guide. Yesterday I saw someone posted that there was a firmware update for the Samsung 970 EVO PLUS and it works too. Now all i wish is for support for the board wifi and bluetooth on the Aorus Pro Wifi, other than than it works perfect!

 

Samsung 970 EVO PLUS firmware
https://s3.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com/global.semi.static/SAMSUNG_SSD_970EVO_Plus_ISO_190513/7ES357322A6707A720E1A71EF11A3BE1EED819E011D317626415F0281A78151C/Samsung_SSD_970_EVO_Plus_2B2QEXM7.iso

[panosru]

@glasgood hello mate! The ABWB 802.11AC WIFI With Bluetooth 4.0 PCI-Express (PCI-E) BCM943602CS just arrived from Amazon and I installed it but is not recognised by the system :/

 

The wifi and the Bluetooth is not working, I mounted it on PCI Express (I removed my TP-Link and placed the ABWB there), and I put the USB cable in 9pin port, but neither the wifi is working nor the Bluetooth

 

I put the card in PCIEX1_3 and the 9pin in HS11 on F_USB2 (I also tried F_USB1) and I used the "Optional - Alternate SSDT 1" from your guide which disables the HS06, SS05 and HS05

 

 I also added the AirportBrcmFixup.kext but it seems that the card is not eve recognised by the syste

 

 

Does it need drivers or something?

 

Thanks!

 

CLOVER.zip

Edited May 29, 2019 by panosru

[glasgood]

1 hour ago, panosru said:

@glasgood hello mate! The ABWB 802.11AC WIFI With Bluetooth 4.0 PCI-Express (PCI-E) BCM943602CS just arrive and I installed it but is not recognised by the system :/

 

The wifi and the Bluetooth is not working, I mounted it on PCI Express (I removed my TP-Link and placed the ABWB there), and I put the USB cable in 9pin port, but neither the wifi is working nor the Bluetooth

 

I put the 9pin in HS11 on F_USB2 (I also tried F_USB1) and I used the "Optional - Alternate SSDT 1" from your guide which disables the HS06, SS05 and HS05

 

 

Does it need drivers or something?

 

Thanks!

 

CLOVER.zip

 

 

Is Broadcom bluetooth listed in IORegExplorer under HS11 and in System Report / USB ?  Can you test WiFi device in Windows, Windows drivers can be downloaded via bootcamp.  lastly, you could try a reinstall of macOS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[panosru]

@glasgood It seems that when I screwed the card on the case, it somehow pushed the card a bit out with an angle without me noticing it, I just noticed it and re-installed it properly, now it is normally detected by the system.

 

The airdrop works fine but the lagging issue I had previous remains, unfortunately.. strange that from what I noticed it happens when I connect my BT keyboard, I have a Matias wireless aluminium keyboard, it works fine with my MacBook though, I guess Matias is not Hackintosh friendly after all... but even without the keyboard, the Bluetooth seems to be a bit laggy, I'm getting some disconnects here and there, and when I reboot the machine i have to reconnect my creative soundbar manually :/ 

 

Update:

It seems that it is not an issue with the keyboard, my mouse is also lagging and the sound from BT soundbar comes "laggy / broken" as well, so I guess it is a general BT issue with my setup which I'm unable to figure out, I re-installed the OS several times but the issue remains.

Edited May 29, 2019 by panosru

[glasgood]

FINAL CUT PRO  – Configuration for AMD RX5xx  - UPDATE

 

 

Example: 

 

If CPU is i7-8700 or i7-8700K

 

Add:

device-id 923E0000 

 

Add:

AAPL,ig-platform-id 0300923E 

 

 

  

If CPU is i9-9900 / i9-9900K or i7-9700 / i7-9700K

 

Add:

device-id 983E0000

 

Add:

AAPL,ig-platform-id 0300983E 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Find your Intel CPU Device ID

 

  

Edited May 29, 2019 by glasgood

[mfortuna]

@glasgood @larabee

 

I don't really understand the why but this is happening to me:

 

Tried the new EFI folder, FCPX boots OK, everything works. When rendering (made the test with H.264) it takes more than the double of time than my older EFI (attached below).

 

Also observed the booting with verbose and it took a while longer (don't know if that is because of first boot with the new EFI and kexts) and saw the lines in the picture attached.

Spoiler

 

 

I've been searching and found that this guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06QeN6KuRY&t=546s ), with iMac Pro SMBIOS made the AMD GPU work with quick sync and everything the iGPU usually does, achieving better export times. It has to do with a better GPU or maybe we can do this with our RX580-590?

 

Another question: Is it necessary to put in config.plist the GPU properties? If it's empty MacOS just recognizes it and shows it up in "About this Mac".

 

Thanks for reading!  

 

EFI mfortuna.zip