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

[glasgood]

47 minutes ago, eSaF said:

If I may interject - That particular card whilst it worked somewhat with previous OS X versions can be a bit laggy at times or will be continually searching for connection specially after wake/sleep. I have one and since 10.14.5 it became very hit and miss in operation and was preventing my rig from the sleep function. What I did to overcome the problem, I removed the wifi/bluetooth module and fitted it to a 4 arial PCI-E adapter I had (like the included pic) and all my sleep and connection problems were solved. Reading through the post I would hazard a guess it's the card that is causing the problem. By the way the module must contain 4 connection for the 4 arial attachment, failing that, I am afraid a new suitable card preferably one with 4 antennas will be needed. Good luck. 

 

 

@eSaF

 

Not exactly sure how many antennas @panosru has on his wifi / bluetooth combo card. The image I used was used for point of reference regarding antennas. Good to know, regarding your previous experience with PCIe adapters with less than 4 antennas. 

 

 

I'm using a BCM94331CD from an iMac ( it required AirportBrcmFixup.kext ) with PCI-e adapter and don't have any problems with sleep / lag. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 minutes ago, soniferous_fox said:

 

Brilliant! Thanks so much for these. The port limit patch means you don't have to do the mapping, is that right? 

 

It will get up and running, though it is best to create custom SSDT. 

Edited May 31, 2019 by glasgood

[soniferous_fox]

4 minutes ago, glasgood said:

It will get up and running, though it is best to create custom SSDT. 

 

Thanks. One last thing, is there anything specific in there to do with the Wifi/Bluetooth card? It's just that with the Mini ITX version, you can only use the Broadcom DW1560 cared (replacing the one that is already in it).

[glasgood]

9 minutes ago, soniferous_fox said:

 

Thanks. One last thing, is there anything specific in there to do with the Wifi/Bluetooth card? It's just that with the Mini ITX version, you can only use the Broadcom DW1560 cared (replacing the one that is already in it).

 

Ah, you have a problem!  looks like you wont be able to replace the wifi card on Aorus Pro Z390 I WiFi.  From what i now know, only cNVI cards are supported so your only other option would be using USB Wifi dongle and you won't get things like Handoff, iMessages working.  Possibly may want to consider an alternative board. 

 

[panosru]

@glasgood and @eSaF

 

First thanks a lot for taking the time to help me troubleshoot that issue! I appreciate it!

 

The card I bought is this:

 

I bought it from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00MBP25UK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

It has two antennas. I'm not using WiFi, I'm connected with my Ethernet cable but on testings I did, the WiFi works fine.

 

My Hackintosh is about 130 - 140 meters away from my workspace with an angle of about 34 degrees (from point A my workspace where I have my kb and mouse and point B the position of my card).

 

I just disconnected all devices from the computer and left only my wired keyboard, my wired mouse, my Bluetooth keyboard and Bluetooth mouse, so far is laggy, I will give it a bit more time for testing.

 

I haven't tried to place it under the desk below the workspace, I will do that for testing, but to apply it I will have to disassemble the furniture and remove the wires because I did some hard cable management to embed everything...

 

I have two USB dongles, and I tested them on both USB 2 and USB 3.

 

Handoff is disabled.

 

I already did a test with one monitor only, but still the same.

 

When I connect only one device, for instance, my mouse, it starts to work fine, some times for few seconds some times for few minutes, but after, e.g. 5 minutes, the lag comes back.

 

I haven't tried to disconnect the antenna cables and switch position; I will try it, could you explain to me a bit more what exactly should I detach and which cable place where?

 

@eSaF , I'm not that good with soldering, I'm afraid I might damage the card

 

I will turn off the computer now and remove the card to take some closeup pictures and upload them here.

 

Thanks!!!

Edited May 31, 2019 by panosru

[glasgood]

21 minutes ago, eSaF said:

 

Ok buddy gotcha - I am not using the AirportBrcmFixup.kext and it is working just great - before with the 3 antenna one when I attempted to put the rig to sleep, on restart it would be forever searching for wifi connection. Since I swopped out the card, I put the rig to sleep for roughly eight uninterrupted hours without it suddenly turning back on and the wifi connection is instant when I induce wake. Again I can't thank you enough, without your Guide and MalD0n's DSDT clean up I'd be still pulling out the few strands left on me barnet.

 

Are you dual booting with windows? The reason I am asking I am searching for version 6 Bootcamp drivers but cannot get hold of them.

 

Download via bootcamp:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 31, 2019 by glasgood

[panosru]

I took some photos from the card, and I don't think there is a way to remove the cables or swap them, they seem to be fitter there

[glasgood]

1 minute ago, panosru said:

I took some photos from the card, and I don't think there is a way to remove the cables or swap them, they seem to be fitter there

 

 

@panosru 

 

Antenna look like they are firmly connected to wifi module. 

 

Try,

 

Place Hackintosh on floor, under desk, directly below keyboard and power off MacBook. Power up Hackintosh computer with only essentials connected such as keyboard and mouse. And test if lag persists.  

 

[panosru]

@glasgood I put the computer under the desk and so far I haven't encountered any lag with any of my devices... 

 

At that point is feeling that combines joy and sadness together... 

 

What I will try now to do is to put back my TP-Link WiFi card which works fine for the WiFi, remove the ABWB card, and place a USB3 hub under my desk (which is already there) and mount a Bluetooth USB dongle on it (ASUS BT-400) and see if that will do the trick, so I could have my computer there where I intended to place it and the USB dongle under the desk, it might do the trick..

[glasgood]

14 minutes ago, panosru said:

@glasgood I put the computer under the desk and so far I haven't encountered any lag with any of my devices... 

 

At that point is feeling that combines joy and sadness together... 

 

What I will try now to do is to put back my TP-Link WiFi card which works fine for the WiFi, remove the ABWB card, and place a USB3 hub under my desk (which is already there) and mount a Bluetooth USB dongle on it (ASUS BT-400) and see if that will do the trick, so I could have my computer there where I intended to place it and the USB dongle under the desk, it might do the trick..

 

So possibly related to poor signal strength from WiFi combo card. If you can, don't rush yet to change anything. Confirm latest set up with no lag is good before changing anything else.

 

Edited May 31, 2019 by glasgood

[mfortuna]

7 hours ago, BSouza said:

I asked this because I have a hackintosh running today where I use a watercooler nzxt x42 and I can control the lighting perfectly with the Windows virtual machine, although I have windows installed on another SSD, sometimes the virtual machine is better to make small changes.

I also have a corsair k68 rgb keyboard, and I can change the lighting colors through corsair software via virtual machine with windows.

 

Then just try and report us back! Hahaha

I thought it wasn't possible but maybe you can. I don't really use virtual machines so...You're the best test subjet here 

[panosru]

@eSaF ah indeed, you are correct on that! I now noticed it!

 

@glasgood So what I did is to put the usb dongle on my USB 3 hub, and it wasn't working, the system ditected the usb dongle but I could not connect to any of my devices, I took another usb 3 cable I had (about 1 meter) and (male - female) and I connected the usb dongle there, it works fine!

 

Now my WiFi card isn't working, it used to work fine before, maybe I have to add a kext for it to work?

 

The card is a TP-Link Archer T6E

 

Thanks!

Edited May 31, 2019 by panosru

[glasgood]

12 minutes ago, panosru said:

@eSaF ah indeed, you are correct on that! I now noticed it!

 

@glasgood So what I did is to put the usb dongle on my USB 3 hub, and it wasn't working, the system ditected the usb dongle but I could not connect to any of my devices, I took another usb 3 cable I had (about 1 meter) and (male - female) and I connected the usb dongle there, it works fine!

 

Now my WiFi card isn't working, it used to work fine before, maybe I have to add a kext for it to work?

 

Thanks!

 

@panosru

 

Your previous  =>CLOVER.zip that you uploaded should work:

 

 

[soniferous_fox]

2 hours ago, glasgood said:

 

Ah, you have a problem!  looks like you wont be able to replace the wifi card on Aorus Pro Z390 I WiFi.  From what i now know, only cNVI cards are supported so your only other option would be using USB Wifi dongle and you won't get things like Handoff, iMessages working.  Possibly may want to consider an alternative board. 

 

 

That was close, so glad I asked that question! I had read of someone replacing with a Broadcom on a similar Asus board, but hadn't realised the cNVI bit was relevant, but having just read, it isn't compatible with Broadcom! Guess I will have to look at the Asus instead. Although it does have a 2nd M.2 slot on the back which I won't be using, so I have read ab out the possibility of using the Airport card with an adaptor to fit the M.2 slot, so may look at that as well.

[glasgood]

24 minutes ago, soniferous_fox said:

 

 had read of someone replacing with a Broadcom on a similar Asus board

 

Thats also opened another possibility, using an airport card and M.2 adapter, I did not realise that the board had two M.2 connectors. So maybe you can connect M.2 NVMe SSD at back of board and use other M.2 adapter with airport card, something I have never attempted / tested out, another thing for you to research before deciding . Looks very promising 

 

Edited May 31, 2019 by glasgood

[panosru]

@glasgood I really thank you for taking the time to support the users of that forum, including me!

 

I got my bluetooth working now without lags! I put the bluetooth dongle in a usb (male - female) cable, about 1meter and now that it is closer to my workspace, I have all my devices connecting automatically and without any lag!

 

My only remaining issue now is that facetime is not accepting my credentials when I try to login.

 

I think that I have to use EMUVariableUefi-64.efi and update my CLOVERX64.efi to version 4937 and facetime should work fine.

 

I haven't done an update to clover never, so in order to not do any mistakes, could you please confirm if I have selected the proper options? (I followed this guide)

Edited May 31, 2019 by panosru

[glasgood]

20 minutes ago, panosru said:

 

 

My only remaining issue now is that facetime is not accepting my credentials when I try to login.

 

I think that I have to use EMUVariableUefi-64.efi and update my CLOVERX64.efi to version 4937 and facetime should work fine.

 

 

 

Fantastic, glad you got it sorted. Yes, use EMUVariableUefi-64.efi no need to delete it. Follow my video guide for updating. Make a backup of your EFI before proceeding. 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 31, 2019 by glasgood

[panosru]

@glasgood i took a backup of my EFI before the upgrade, I haven't rebooted yet because I'm not sure if I did it correctly.

 

In my case, on the action column I had "Install" not "Upgrade" as you had in the video, so I chose what I had in my driver64UEFI folder. 

 

After the upgrade I have this:

 

Which I think is not right.

 

The *-64.efi files are the ones that left from previous EFI, should I delete the old efi files and leave the new ones? Is it normal that the new ones did not override the previous and they also do not have the -64.efi suffix?

 

This is my previous EFI from my backup:

 

Thanks!

Edited May 31, 2019 by panosru

[glasgood]

13 minutes ago, panosru said:

@glasgood i took a backup of my EFI before the upgrade, I haven't rebooted yet because I'm not sure if I did it correctly.

 

In my case, on the action column I had "Install" not "Upgrade" as you had in the video, so I chose what I had in my driver64UEFI folder. 

 

After the upgrade I have this:

 

Which I think is not right.

 

The *-64.efi files are the ones that left from previous EFI, should I delete the old efi files and leave the new ones? Is it normal that the new ones did not override the previous and they also do not have the -64.efi suffix?

 

This is my previous EFI from my backup:

 

Thanks!

 

Just delete the files that you did not have before upgrade. So compare upgraded EFI with old EFI and delete files that you originally did not have.

 

[panosru]

@glasgood I deleted the older files and left the newer, rebooted and everything seems to work fine!

 

Thanks a lot!

 

I'm now using clover 4937

[larabee]

@glasgood Yesterday I have a mini heart attack when all of my bootloaders (including the ones I used to boot the installer) refused to boot and spit out the error: Freeing low memory (up to 0x2000000) results = 0. Reflashing the BIOS fixed the issued. I shared my experience here just in case anyone has similar problem.

 

and I saw someone asked about changing the LED lights colors, just boot to windows then change it. It will save the settings and maintain the same color on Mac OS. 

[BSouza]

5 hours ago, mfortuna said:

 

Then just try and report us back! Hahaha

I thought it wasn't possible but maybe you can. I don't really use virtual machines so...You're the best test subjet here 

Hahahahaahah

 

The only problem is that I still can not test, because the new parts for me to mount my new hackintosh have not yet arrived.

[soniferous_fox]

I have decided to go larger and opt for the Gigabyte Z390M Micro ATX card so I can definitely get the wifi/bluetooth working, plus RAM will be expandable in the future. Can I just double-check that this card is suitable: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluetooth-PCI-Express-BCM943602CS-Hackintosh-Computers/dp/B00MBP25UK - if so, does the USB lead need plugin in for it to work?

 

Thanks.

[glasgood]

43 minutes ago, soniferous_fox said:

I have decided to go larger and opt for the Gigabyte Z390M Micro ATX card so I can definitely get the wifi/bluetooth working, plus RAM will be expandable in the future. Can I just double-check that this card is suitable: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluetooth-PCI-Express-BCM943602CS-Hackintosh-Computers/dp/B00MBP25UK - if so, does the USB lead need plugin in for it to work?

 

Thanks.

 

Yeah, that WiFi card is compatible. Gigabyte Z390M gaming is good and MaLdOn >> here has great / solid guide and perfect Clover EFI for that board.  So you can easily follow this guide and just use MaLd0n's Clover EFI folder. 

Edited May 31, 2019 by glasgood

[BSouza]

@glasgood

I'm waiting to get my new hardware to follow your tutorial.

I bought the following:

z390 aorus Pro

i7 9700k

Gigabyte rx 580 8gb

 

Should I do any part of the tutorial differently? Or should I follow the step by step? Because in your tutorial you use the i7 8700

[glasgood]

11 minutes ago, BSouza said:

@glasgood

I'm waiting to get my new hardware to follow your tutorial.

I bought the following:

z390 aorus Pro

i7 9700k

Gigabyte rx 580 8gb

 

Should I do any part of the tutorial differently? Or should I follow the step by step? Because in your tutorial you use the i7 8700

 

Follow tutorial and after installation of Mojave in Devices Properties change:

 

Change:

device-id 983E0000

 

Change:

AAPL,ig-platform-id 0300983E