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

[AudioGod]

4 hours ago, glasgood said:

 

Afternoon ,

 

You could try and disable CSM Support in BIOS, then reboot and see if resolution changes. If resolution is unchanged, then enter Screen Resolution in Clover Config.plist in the Gui section and reboot and test.

 

 

 

 

 

Again if resolution still remains unchanged then you could try the following:

 

Enable CSM, and download CsmVideoDxe:

 

 

These are the only areas that I can think that will change resolution. 

 

 

I read that as of macOS Moajave 10.14.5, the fan issue with vega cards has been resolved, is that the case ?

 

Best!

 

 

 

Yea fan speed is how it should be, infact its reacting alot better then the rx580 did when it comes to the fans. The vega56 was well worth the change over. I now play rocket leauge in 2160p with a 10bit colour palette and the frame rate never goes under 70fps so I'm happy haha.

And in macos the vega56 just seems to work better overall.

 

Did you look at my boot log buddy and is everything ok?

I will try what you said with the gui resolution in abit and let you know.

 

follow up - I disabled CSM and it made the res even worst..lol...I removed the res I set in clover and left it blank so it would configure itself rebooted and same thing. 

il try method two with csm enabled in a moment.

 

strange thing is before the vega56 it was running my clover startup gui at whatever I wanted including 4k if left blank. Now none of that...no biggie but dam annoying lol

 

follow up 2 - I tried the other way with csm enabled and using the CsmVideoDxe and when I rebooted it borked my system so bad I had to use my usb boot key to get back in to my hard drive....ops!

 

So to add to the weirdness I just noticed that if I use my USB macos install key to boot up then the clover gui is the correct res and every now and again when I go to boot into macos (not using the usb instal) it doesn't boot and gives me a stop sign instead of the apple logo and I'm guessing it must he connected is some way.

What is going on here?  I'm stratching my head now...lol

Edited June 23, 2019 by AudioGod

[Sceme29]

Hello @glasgood , 

 

So I have been following this thread for little over a week now and I can say I’m more confident then ever to start my Hackintosh build that I’ve been planning for the past year. I will be receiving my final part in the mail tomorrow and will begin the process of setting up the Hackintosh. 

 

I bought a lot of the parts described in this thread with some minor differences.

- Motherboard - z390 aosus pro WiFi 

- intel i7, 8700k

- Corsair H115i pro

- G.skill tridents rgb 32gb

- sapphire pulse radeon rx580

- hp ex950 m.2 2280 1tb nvme

- Broadcom bcm94360csax with pci-e adapter

 

Im hoping this install goes smoothly especially since I’m using the Z390 WiFi version. Thank you for all the time and resources you have put into this thread, it is so well put together! I will keep you updated in the process. I will be starting it tomorrow!

 

[bleedingstar]

On 6/20/2019 at 10:35 AM, glasgood said:

 

When you arrived at the kernel panic below: 

 

Did you attempt a second boot ?

 

 

 

Mm. I managed to install windows on a separate disk and I can now dual boot. However still when booting into osx I often get this panic, sometimes I have to reboot 4 times...

Now yesterday I spent quite some time in windows and this morning when I wanted to boot into osx I got a new problem, it doesn't even get to the panic anymore, it stops here:

Before when I got the panic I could circumvent it by booting with the usb installer plugged in, but now even that doesn't work and I'm stuck at this screen.. 

Any clue what's happening here? 

 

edit: When I boot into windows my radeon software shows a popup with: "Default radeon wattman settings have been restored due to an unknown error"

Everything else works fine in windows.

 

edit2: I changed DVMT pre-allocated from 256 to 96 and it now manages to go beyond the screen below, however I'm back in kernel panic terratory. I just don't understand why its so unstable..

 

system info:

 

my system info: 

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI

I9-9900k

Corsair vengeance lox 32gb 3200mhz

Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 8gb

Samsung 970 EVO M.2 500gb (osx)

Samsung 840 250gb (windows)

 

Edited June 24, 2019 by bleedingstar

[glasgood]

19 hours ago, AudioGod said:

Yea fan speed is how it should be, infact its reacting alot better then the rx580 did when it comes to the fans. The vega56 was well worth the change over. I now play rocket leauge in 2160p with a 10bit colour palette and the frame rate never goes under 70fps so I'm happy haha.

And in macos the vega56 just seems to work better overall.

 

Did you look at my boot log buddy and is everything ok?

I will try what you said with the gui resolution in abit and let you know.

 

follow up - I disabled CSM and it made the res even worst..lol...I removed the res I set in clover and left it blank so it would configure itself rebooted and same thing. 

il try method two with csm enabled in a moment.

 

strange thing is before the vega56 it was running my clover startup gui at whatever I wanted including 4k if left blank. Now none of that...no biggie but dam annoying lol

 

follow up 2 - I tried the other way with csm enabled and using the CsmVideoDxe and when I rebooted it borked my system so bad I had to use my usb boot key to get back in to my hard drive....ops!

 

So to add to the weirdness I just noticed that if I use my USB macos install key to boot up then the clover gui is the correct res and every now and again when I go to boot into macos (not using the usb instal) it doesn't boot and gives me a stop sign instead of the apple logo and I'm guessing it must he connected is some way.

What is going on here?  I'm stratching my head now...lol

 

 

Had a look through your log, I noticed you have a TM theme,  how did that get inside my EFI ?  Have you worked out whats causing problem ?

 

 

 

[glasgood]

2 hours ago, bleedingstar said:

Mm. I managed to install windows on a separate disk and I can now dual boot. However still when booting into osx I often get this panic, sometimes I have to reboot 4 times...

Now yesterday I spent quite some time in windows and this morning when I wanted to boot into osx I got a new problem, it doesn't even get to the panic anymore, it stops here:

Before when I got the panic I could circumvent it by booting with the usb installer plugged in, but now even that doesn't work and I'm stuck at this screen.. 

Any clue what's happening here? 

 

edit: When I boot into windows my radeon software shows a popup with: "Default radeon wattman settings have been restored due to an unknown error"

Everything else works fine in windows.

 

edit2: I changed DVMT pre-allocated from 256 to 96 and it now manages to go beyond the screen below, however I'm back in kernel panic terratory. I just don't understand why its so unstable..

 

system info:

 

my system info: 

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI

I9-9900k

Corsair vengeance lox 32gb 3200mhz

Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 8gb

Samsung 970 EVO M.2 500gb (osx)

Samsung 840 250gb (windows)

 

 

 

 

Can you attach EFI so that I can look at your PCI properties. Please go back and change DVMT pre-allocated to 256 and disable XMP if enabled....  have same settings for BIOS as shown in guide. 

 

 

 

 

[glasgood]

11 hours ago, Sceme29 said:

Hello @glasgood , 

 

So I have been following this thread for little over a week now and I can say I’m more confident then ever to start my Hackintosh build that I’ve been planning for the past year. I will be receiving my final part in the mail tomorrow and will begin the process of setting up the Hackintosh. 

 

I bought a lot of the parts described in this thread with some minor differences.

- Motherboard - z390 aosus pro WiFi 

- intel i7, 8700k

- Corsair H115i pro

- G.skill tridents rgb 32gb

- sapphire pulse radeon rx580

- hp ex950 m.2 2280 1tb nvme

- Broadcom bcm94360csax with pci-e adapter

 

Im hoping this install goes smoothly especially since I’m using the Z390 WiFi version. Thank you for all the time and resources you have put into this thread, it is so well put together! I will keep you updated in the process. I will be starting it tomorrow!

 

 

Follow BIOS settings closely, keep XMP disabled and don't overclock CPU until macOS is installed and running smoothly. When macOS is installed and confirmed running stable then proceed with overclocks, enable XMP etc..  if needed. 

 

Best!

 

[glasgood]

@AudioGod

 

Looking through your Log, I noticed you have different defaults:

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Gui section in config.plist is minimal. SetMaxResolution: 2560x1440 is auto detected for my Dell U2715h monitor. 

 

 

 

[AudioGod]

6 minutes ago, glasgood said:

@AudioGod

 

Looking through your Log, I noticed you have different defaults:

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Gui section in config.plist is minimal. SetMaxResolution: 2560x1440 is auto detected for my Dell U2715h monitor. 

 

 

 

 

Different defaults meaning what buddy?

 

I am using the tonumacx86 theme yes...lol

I like the black layout and cant stand clovers default skin.

I have not got to the bottom at all of the stuck resolution no

[glasgood]

9 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

 

Different defaults meaning what buddy?

 

I am using the tonumacx86 theme yes...lol

I like the black layout and cant stand clovers default skin.

I have not got to the bottom at all of the stuck resolution no

 

 

When comparing our log's, your getDefaultSettings look completely different to mine ( highlighted in red in screenshot ). Can you attach your EFI, mind remove serial numbers etc.. 

The Clover default ( white-ish ) colour can be changed to dark charcoal-ish colour by removing "random" from Gui.  

 

 

Edited June 24, 2019 by glasgood

[AudioGod]

43 minutes ago, glasgood said:

 

 

When comparing our log's, your getDefaultSettings look completely different to mine ( highlighted in red in screenshot ). Can you attach your EFI, mind remove serial numbers etc.. 

The Clover default ( white-ish ) colour can be changed to dark charcoal-ish colour by removing "random" from Gui.  

 

 

 

Here you go buddy, I changed my theme over to a new one last night called neon so no more tonymacx86 theme here...lol

I got to the bottom of the random boot freeze at startup though, It was my SSD drive, In windows I had Samsung magician installed and it had turned on its ssd boost feature in windows and it was freaking out clover I think as the second I turned it back off it hasn't froze since so fingers crossed that's that sorted.

Also fingers crossed you find something a miss resolution wise.

If the EFI folder and my changes are good then your welcome to list it as an alternative EFI for people with a 9900k and Vega 56

 

Thank you for taking the time out to look at my problem bro, Your a top draw good guy. Awesome Buddy

 

AudioGod EFI.zip

Edited June 24, 2019 by AudioGod

[glasgood]

16 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

 

Here you go buddy, I changed my theme over to a new one last night called neon so no more tonymacx86 theme here...lol

I got to the bottom of the random boot freeze at startup though, It was my SSD drive, In windows I had Samsung magician installed and it had turned on its ssd boost feature in windows and it was freaking out clover I think as the second I turned it back off it hasn't froze since so fingers crossed that's that sorted.

Also fingers crossed you find something a miss resolution wise.

If the EFI folder and my changes are good then your welcome to list it as an alternative EFI for people with a 9900k and Vega 56

 

AudioGod EFI.zip

 

Thanks, EFI looks fine. Resolution wise, I can't think why. What is the screen resolution of your monitor ?

[AudioGod]

30 minutes ago, glasgood said:

 

Thanks, EFI looks fine. Resolution wise, I can't think why. What is the screen resolution of your monitor ?

 

Its 2160p (4k)

I used the neon theme instead now as it looks great even at my stuck resolution.

I'm thinking it's just the way it is with my vega 56 as researching it online last night I found a good few other people with the same problem using a vega card.

 

Am I correct in thinking I should deselect dark in enbedded theme mode under gui in clover and make it blank as I'm using my own theme? 

 

I'm going to reinstall mojave later on to my spare ssd to play with your alternative way of installing macos so I will stick my efi inside it and see if it does the same thing resolution wise as a test to see if its something to do with me changing over my GPU.

TBH I doubt it's that but il try anyway otherwise I give up! LoL

 

If I was too put my efi onto my usb mojave install key as a resolution test would that work too? Just as a test.

Edited June 24, 2019 by AudioGod

[glasgood]

9 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

Its 2160p (4k)

I used the neon theme instead now as it looks great even at my stuck resolution.

I'm thinking it's just the way it is with my vega 56 as researching it online last night I found a good few other people with the same problem using a vega card.

 

Am I correct in thinking I should deselect dark in enbedded theme mode under gui in clover and make it blank as I'm using my own theme? 

 

@AudioGod

 

Possibly down to something in Vega 56 cards firmware ( is a firmware update available )  . Can you try the following, if 3840x2160 does not work then try 2560x1440 : 

 

 

Reboot and test.

 

If still same then enable Patch VBIOS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[glasgood]

@AudioGod

 

Another thing to explore . would be to test the change from other OS to Windows 8/10. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[glasgood]

@AudioGod

 

You could also try Windows 8/10 WHQL, though it might cause problem with unsigned windows drivers used in Windows ( if any ) . Test with patch VBios off .

Edited June 24, 2019 by glasgood

[AudioGod]

2 minutes ago, glasgood said:

@AudioGod

 

You could also try Windows 8/10 WHQL, though it might cause problem with unsigned windows drivers used in Windows ( if any ) . Test with patch VBios off .

I tried changing to win 8/10 and WHQL last night to no effect.

I will check for a bios update for the card now and failing that il give VBios a try.

[AudioGod]

2 hours ago, glasgood said:

 

@AudioGod

 

Possibly down to something in Vega 56 cards firmware ( is a firmware update available )  . Can you try the following, if 3840x2160 does not work then try 2560x1440 : 

 

 

Reboot and test.

 

If still same then enable Patch VBIOS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I tried all of the above to no effect.

Theres no bios update for the card that I can find either.

Hmmmmmmmm

 

Also I noticed that as you.know I have erp enabled on my system as standard and when my system is sleeping in this mode it will wake it self up for email or notifications then go back to sleep and downloads will also continue all as it should do but yesterday I switched erp off and didn't turn it back on just seeing if it was causing the res issue (yes I was clutching at straws...haha) but what I did notice while it was off is that sleep and wake behaviour that I just mentioned doesn't work in the same manner if at all.

Check that one out for yourself and your see what I mean

Edited June 24, 2019 by AudioGod

[bleedingstar]

6 hours ago, glasgood said:

 

 

Can you attach EFI so that I can look at your PCI properties. Please go back and change DVMT pre-allocated to 256 and disable XMP if enabled....  have same settings for BIOS as shown in guide. 

 

 

 

 

The EFI is attached, I'll revert the bios settings back to a bios screen dump you sent me earlier. 
Like before, using the pre-install EFI on my rescue usb gives me no problems during boot. 

 

 

Archive.zip

[AudioGod]

5 hours ago, glasgood said:

@AudioGod

 

Another thing to explore . would be to test the change from other OS to Windows 8/10. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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@glasgood

 

Update, I have got to the bottom of it finally.

I found a new bios for my Pulse Vega56 and in the notes it mentioned it resolved random boot panics that was something I was seeing but thought I fixed it by updating my ssd bios as it hasn't happened since but anyway I updated my bios on the vega 56 and then rebooted and had to go into my motherboard bios after that and turn off CSM Support (that I prefer off anyway if not needed) and BAM the clover boot screen popped up in glorious 2160p. 

What a process to get it too work though but it was defo the bios on the vega 56 that needed the update.

Everything is looking spot on now and I've run out of things to do to my setup at long last...lol

 

@larabee

 

Could this be why your also getting random boot panics too?

 

I can attach a copy of the bios update and updating tool for you if you want buddy?

It's easy too flash. 

 

Just let me know and il upload it for you straight away.

[glasgood]

1 hour ago, bleedingstar said:

 

The EFI is attached, I'll revert the bios settings back to a bios screen dump you sent me earlier. 
Like before, using the pre-install EFI on my rescue usb gives me no problems during boot. 

 

 

Archive.zip

 

Check BIOS settings are same as guide and replace your old EFI with ==>EFI inside Archive.zip then shutdown and restart, if you get a kernel panic then shutdown and restart. You will need to import your PCI info from hackintool 

 

After importing PCI info, ensure you have following CPU properties.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 24, 2019 by glasgood

[glasgood]

@AudioGod

 

 

Thats fantastic news, glad you got that sorted. Can you provide link to firmware update and some details for others with your card, I will link from guide to your post. 

[AudioGod]

2 hours ago, glasgood said:

@AudioGod

 

 

Thats fantastic news, glad you got that sorted. Can you provide link to firmware update and some details for others with your card, I will link from guide to your post. 

 

Sure thing buddy will do as soon as I get back home.

I've already compiled a zip file for you with the bios and the tool I used and a copy of CPUz to make sure it all lines up.

Il send it over asap and a small guide

[larabee]

8 hours ago, AudioGod said:

 

@glasgood

 

Update, I have got to the bottom of it finally.

I found a new bios for my Pulse Vega56 and in the notes it mentioned it resolved random boot panics that was something I was seeing but thought I fixed it by updating my ssd bios as it hasn't happened since but anyway I updated my bios on the vega 56 and then rebooted and had to go into my motherboard bios after that and turn off CSM Support (that I prefer off anyway if not needed) and BAM the clover boot screen popped up in glorious 2160p. 

What a process to get it too work though but it was defo the bios on the vega 56 that needed the update.

Everything is looking spot on now and I've run out of things to do to my setup at long last...lol

 

@larabee

 

Could this be why your also getting random boot panics too?

 

I can attach a copy of the bios update and updating tool for you if you want buddy?

It's easy too flash. 

 

Just let me know and il upload it for you straight away.

 

Oh dear, I would love to have that bios. Thank you so much. I've had random boot panics with ATI Frame buffer. Will that affect its performance in windows? 

[AudioGod]

14 hours ago, larabee said:

 

Oh dear, I would love to have that bios. Thank you so much. I've had random boot panics with ATI Frame buffer. Will that affect its performance in windows? 

 

Performance has gone up in windows with the new bios. I just scored 7562 in timespy using a voltage of 1075 on p7 and 1025 on p6 1582, 1637 frequencies and 920 on the memory. 

That's nearly 100 points higher then before I flashed it.

Try those settings on your vega56, it's a nice balance I think.

 

I have posted the bios and flash tool plus a mini guide if needed.

Let me know your results when you do it.

 

 

Edited June 25, 2019 by AudioGod

[AudioGod]

22 hours ago, glasgood said:

@AudioGod

 

 

Thats fantastic news, glad you got that sorted. Can you provide link to firmware update and some details for others with your card, I will link from guide to your post. 

 

If you own a Sapphire Pulse Vega 56 and your having problems with the clover bootscreen resolution or getting boot kernal panics at start up then the chances are that your graphics card is using an old bios that conflicts with macOS so all you need to do is flash your GPU bios using the new bios, flash tool and GPUZ that I have provided.

 

If you don't know or are unsure on how to flash your GPU bios then here's simple guide to walk you though it and you are going to need to use the windows 10 side of life for the bios flash.

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-ati-flashing-guide.212849/

 

After you have done that go into your motherboards bios and Disable CSM Support, restart the system and your clover boot screen should automatically go to your monitors default resolution and the random boot kernal panics should be gone.

If your resolution is still stuck at the wrong size after that then all you need to do is set the resolution within your clover config.plist using Clover Configurator in the GUI section.

 

Sapphire Vega 56 Pulse New Bios and flash tool.zip

Edited June 25, 2019 by AudioGod