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AudioGod
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24 minutes ago, larabee said:

 

@AudioGod Regarding the vega56 bios: Houston, we have a problem: It's rock solid in hack but unstable in windows. Sometimes it freezes in windows. I can live with it stable in hackintosh anyway. The vega Boost clock on my hack is around 1500 mhz and temperature is cool enough around 55*C. 

 

 

That's weird as I do all my gaming in windows and I have zero problems with the vega bios with or without my oc on it.

I did a huge rocket league session the other day that went on for over 5 hours...haha.(league games) and i didn't get a single flinch plus that was running @2160p with all settings maxed out. 

You have some strange behaviour going on with your vega56 buddy.

I'm thinking.........

 

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larabee
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1 minute ago, AudioGod said:

 

That's weird as I do all my gaming in windows and I have zero problems with the vega bios with pr without my oc on it.

I did a huge rocket league session the other day and It went on for over 5 hours...haha.(leauge games) and i didn't get a single flinch plus that was running @2160p with all settings maxed out. 

You have some strange behaviour going on with your vega56 buddy. I'm thinking.........

 

Yeah, I even sent it back to do RMA, they did not find any problem.

My issue starts when I restart from hack to windows, and it just freezes after login. A couple restart fixes the problem. I'm happy with what I have now. Will sit tight and wait for Navi to get supported. 

Damn Vega is hot and draws a lot of power. During my gaming session, I notice it draws at max 289W... OMG. 

AudioGod
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3 minutes ago, larabee said:

 

Yeah, I even sent it back to do RMA, they did not find any problem.

My issue starts when I restart from hack to windows, and it just freezes after login. A couple restart fixes the problem. I'm happy with what I have now. Will sit tight and wait for Navi to get supported. 

Damn Vega is hot and draws a lot of power. During my gaming session, I notice it draws at max 289W... OMG. 

 

OMG is that total power draw or gpu?

I don't think I'm getting anywhere near that sort of power drain with mine. Il check that on my side. What game gave you that sort of power draw?

 

Have you tried reseating your vega?

Maybe even a repaste just in case?

What PSU is powering it all?

larabee
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1 minute ago, AudioGod said:

 

OMG is that total power draw or gpu?

I don't think I'm getting anywhere near that sort of power drain with mine. Il check that on my side. What game gave you that sort of power draw?

 

Have you tried reseating your vega?

Maybe even a repaste just in case?

What PSU is powering it all?

 

The GPU itself draws that much power. Radeon Wattman and my corsair reports the same value. Vega can really waste a lot of power haha. 

I'm playing total war 3 kingdoms, max out settings and tax the card to 99% most of the time during large battle. Temperature is really stable around 77*C at 1690-1700 Mhz core and 930Mhz Memory. 

I'm running corsair hx1200i. It runs the radeon VII just fine and can carry this baby vega at ease. 

AudioGod
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@larabee

Ok I have an idea,

What If i save my motherboard bios setup and send it too you (with the overclock switched off) and then you load it up and give it a blast and see if you get the same results? (Also update your bios to F10 before you load in my settings)

Wanna try it?

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larabee
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2 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

@larabee

Ok I have an idea,

What If i save my motherboard bios setup and send it too you (with the overclock switched off) and then you load it up and give it a blast and see if you get the same results? (Also update your bios to F10 before you load in my settings)

Wanna try it?

 

Sounds like a good idea to me. I don't think it's the motherboard acting up weird, more like Silicon Lottery is at play here. 

Let me try doing a small test of 100 times power cycle this weekend to see if i can consistently reproduce the error. 

AudioGod
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16 minutes ago, larabee said:

 

Sounds like a good idea to me. I don't think it's the motherboard acting up weird, more like Silicon Lottery is at play here. 

Let me try doing a small test of 100 times power cycle this weekend to see if i can consistently reproduce the error. 

 

Here is the latest bios and my settings saved.

give it a try, you have nothing to lose.

Larabee f10 bios and settings.zip

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larabee
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3 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

 

Here is the latest bios and my settings saved.

give it a try, you have nothing to lose.

Larabee f10 bios and settings.zip

 

I'll give it a try this weekend then report back to you 

thanks a lot buddy. Enjoy hacking!!!

AudioGod
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2 hours ago, larabee said:

 

I'll give it a try this weekend then report back to you 

thanks a lot buddy. Enjoy hacking!!!

 

Our builds are pretty much identical right down to the psu so we should both be experiencing the same behaviour. Unless your Cpu OC is not truly stable or your overclocking your ringbus to high then you should be as rock solid as my build is.

Updating your bios and trying my settings brings you totally inline with me so if it still freaking at that point then you have to explore your oc's across the whole system and default everything and go from there. If you have already done a rma on the vega then I just can not work out what else it could possibly be.

Good luck when you give it a blast and report back with your results buddy. :)

 

soniferous_fox
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Hi @glasgood I just wondered if you had any ideas for my ongoing Bluetooth unavailable after sleep issue. I have tried different kexts and boot arguments to help, but still have the issue. I have now ended up not using any kext as I have the BCM943602CS combo card and discovered it works without, but still have the issue. However, the odd this is, it only happens after a longer period of sleep, and I have also just discovered that rather than having to reboot, if I sleep manually and wake again, then it comes back on! The it first wakes, it says "not available" and the hardware no longer appears in the system report or in IoRegExplorer, although Wi-fi is still fine. But as I say, it then all comes back after a quick sleep/wake. I am wondering if there may be a way to force it to come back on as well? 

 

Thanks. 

glasgood
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1 hour ago, larabee said:

@glasgood 

I've just heard about the OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi may brick the motherboard news. Is it real or just fake news. Is there any alternative? 

 

 

 

@larabee

 

Interesting, will wait and see how this plays out before making any decision to change driver. But in the meantime, I’m staying with the driver.  

 

 

larabee
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1 hour ago, glasgood said:

 

@larabee

 

Interesting, will wait and see how this plays out before making any decision to change driver. But in the meantime, I’m staying with the driver.  

 

 

 

I'm having problems with other drivers , just need to sit tight and see. 

 

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glasgood
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45 minutes ago, larabee said:

 

I'm having problems with other drivers , just need to sit tight and see. 

 

 

All the other drivers cause instant & intermittent problems with Aorus Pro, I tested them ages ago and OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi is the only driver that works. It seems that Nick Woodham's OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi driver had been around for some time, since 2016. If the driver was bricking machines, surely we would have known about this by now. 

 

 

 

 

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larabee
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9 hours ago, glasgood said:

 

All the other drivers cause instant & intermittent problems with Aorus Pro, I tested them ages ago and OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi is the only driver that works. It seems that Nick Woodham's OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi driver had been around for some time, since 2016. If the driver was bricking machines, surely we would have known about this by now. 

 

 

I've tried to conduct my own experiment but the sample size of 3 motherboards with too many variable is hardly conclusive enough. 1 of my designare Z390 did suffer a problem with BIOS and have to be RMA. Both chips got corrupted after around 500 power cycle. My Z390 Gaming X and Z390 Pro random startup hang and clear bios settings. Things stop after I changed SMBIOS to iMac Pro 1.1 and update the latest BIOS and use @AudioGod bios + settings. 

I can assume the driver does sometimes mess up the hardware but the chance is just as slim as winning lottery ticket. 

wdopulencia
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@glasgood @larabee can you please help me with my problem? i cant boot to macos, i am getting errors and wont allow me to continue to macos. i tried powering it off then on, but still stuck at the same problem. This happened after I inserted the BCM943602CS card into the board last night. I'll attach the photos of the error, it happened twice, with 2 different errors that occurred. Thank you!

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UPDATE: apparently, I can boot to macOS Mojave after I boot to windows 10 first, then restart and then boot to macOS, it seems to bypass the error.

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larabee
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14 hours ago, wdopulencia said:

@glasgood @larabee can you please help me with my problem? i cant boot to macos, i am getting errors and wont allow me to continue to macos. i tried powering it off then on, but still stuck at the same problem. This happened after I inserted the BCM943602CS card into the board last night. I'll attach the photos of the error, it happened twice, with 2 different errors that occurred. Thank you!

 

UPDATE: apparently, I can boot to macOS Mojave after I boot to windows 10 first, then restart and then boot to macOS, it seems to bypass the error.

 

sometimes a few restarts are needed after making changes to the system. Glad you can get it working. 

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JmacUSAF
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@glasgood Would you mind looking at my EFI once more?  I just installed the Dell DW1560 in the back m.2 slot with an adapter card  The kexts I seemed to have added works well with the Wifi section but the Bluetooth side is not being recognized.  It says "Bluetooth: Not Available.  I have a cable running from the card to the internal USB 2.0 connector.  I believe I need this to use Bluetooth.  When looking at IORegistryExplorer, I cannot see the card connected on port HS11.  On a side note, I can not also see my desktop speakers connected to HS04 in IORegistry but they seem to working.  I thought HS11 was the internal port and I labeled it "Internal" when I went through with your guide.   I'm wondering if I am using a wrong kext file, maybe I didn't disable something in the bios, maybe my USB mapping went wrong.  Who knows!  I appreciate the help.  With the kexts I've added, I'm noticing restarting is sometimes taking a few restarts as well.  Maybe I do not need all of the ones I added.

 

Thank you again

EFI.zip

 

UPDATE:  I switched the side the cables were within the internal USB port.  I was using pins 2,4,6,8 on the right side and switched to pins 1,3,5,7 on the left side and it was recognized in IORegistry and in the system report.  I am now waiting on an antenna replacement.  The ones I originally ordered were only for PCIE and not m.2.  So I cannot test the Bluetooth and wifi without the antennas just yet.  I do see my wifi but the signal is too low.  Bluetooth does not see anything at the moment.   

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@Oom There have been a couple of updates already if you just google "Hackintosh" "10.14.6".  There seems to be just a couple of precautions you have to take (Back-up, update the bootloader, update patches for 10.14.6, but otherwise seems like a pretty harmless update.  

glasgood
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4 hours ago, Oom said:

Has anyone try and success to update from 10.14.5 to 10.14.6 I have popup window notify about 10.14.6 yesterday but too scare to do the update.

 

I updated without problem yesterday from 10.14.5 to 10.14.6. 

Oom
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6 minutes ago, glasgood said:

 

I updated without problem yesterday from 10.14.5 to 10.14.6. 

Good news thanks @glasgood and @JmacUSAF so I can just click update and wait for system reboot then select boot from ssd as usual no extra step required?

glasgood
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11 minutes ago, Oom said:

Good news thanks @glasgood and @JmacUSAF so I can just click update and wait for system reboot then select boot from ssd as usual no extra step required?

 

Yes, normal update. Takes about 15 mins, so be patient. Always recommend to use Carbon Copy Cloner  beforehand. Carbon Copy Cloner makes a bootable backup of you full macOS installation and has a trial period. 

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