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NEW Clover Major EFI and DSDT UPDATE, 15th January 2020 (Use With Bios Revision F12d Only or read below)

 

Important Notice

This New EFI Contains a brand new DSDT made for for the Z390 Pro Bios Revision F12d ONLY,

If you dont want to update your bios and I personally recommend you do then replace the new DSDT with your old F11 DSDT and then you can continue using the F11 bios with the new EFIs.


The EFI and DSDT has now been updated to the my latest version.

Changes made include,

New DSDT's For bios revision F12d ONLY

OcQuirks Revision 12

Whatevergreen 1.3.6

Lilu 1.4.1

AppleALC-1.4.5

VirtualSMC 1.10

MemoryAllocation.efi now added to the UEFI driver folder to fix failure to boot because of memory allocation failures at start up 

Clover Updated too Revision 5103

Plus other minor tweaks to the clover config

 

I have also now created a HD630 IGPU only version of the EFI so for all you people out there that have been asking me for this your wish is my command. :)


 

Aorus Z390 Pro Vega Navi VII F12d EFI .zip - Use with Bios revision F12d Only (15/01/2020 Catalina 10.15.2 Vega, Navi (5700, 5700xt), Radeon VII DSDT Installed) SMBios 19,1
Aorus Z390 Pro RX Polaris F12d EFI .zip - Use with Bios revision F12d Only (15/01/2020 Catalina 10.15.2 RX5XX Polaris DSDT Installed) SMBios 19,1

HD630 Z390 Pro F12d EFI.zip - Use with Bios revision F12d Only (15/01/2020 Catalina 10.15.2 HD630 IGPU Only) SMBios 18,1

 

If you prefer using SMBios 1,1 then by all means switch to it but all the old problems of using 19,1 are corrected now with this EFI plus DRM is fully working unless you have a Polaris gpu. Just to add, SMBios 19,1 is the correct one to be using for our chipset and cpu, if you check the spec of a real macpro it is not a using a CoffeeLake CPU or Z3xx chipset. It does work perfectly but correct is correct so 19,1 it is.

 

Please Note, If you use a 5700 or 5700XT then SMBios 1,1 is unstable using the Navi GPUs so please stick to 19,1 with igpu enabled.

 

Latest Gigabyte Z390 PRO BIOS (F12d)

mb_bios_z390-aorus-pro_f12d.zip

 

CFG Unlock (MSR) F12d BIOS Profile - The Easy Way 

@texem Has kindly made this bios profile for you all to use that will unlock CFG on your motherboard making it play alot more friendly with the NVRam.

It also has all the bios settings listed on this guide pre done and saved onto the profile.

 

F12d MSR_Unlocked.zip  - Use with Bios Revision F12d ONLY

 

1 - Download the profile and save it to a USB Key

2 - Go into the bios,

3 - Load the profile, 

4 - Save and exit

5 - Go straight back into the bios and save your bios to a new profile and name it Default CFG Unlocked or something like that.

6 - Boot back into Catalina go into your clover config and under Kernal and Kext Patches Uncheck KernalPM 

7 - Save the changes and then restart and your done, your motherboard will now be CFG (MSR) Unlocked

 

PLEASE NOTE - If you reset the bios or load bios defaults it will clear the Unlock making CFG Locked again. 

I was running F11 Bios and EFI 03.01.2020. My systems with RX80 Nitro+ and i7-9700K / 32MB was working fine but sometimes just rebooted unexpectedly.

 

I followed this upgrade and can confirm that all is working well. My PC seems to be faster. If the unexpected reboots are gone is difficult to say, yet.

 

Thanks.

AudioGod
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39 minutes ago, Musician66 said:

I was running F11 Bios and EFI 03.01.2020. My systems with RX80 Nitro+ and i7-9700K / 32MB was working fine but sometimes just rebooted unexpectedly.

 

I followed this upgrade and can confirm that all is working well. My PC seems to be faster. If the unexpected reboots are gone is difficult to say, yet.

 

Thanks.


That’s good to hear buddy, 

fingers crossed with your random reboots but if the problem remains get in touch and let’s see if we can’t get to the bottom of the problem for you. :thumbsup_anim:

Otherwise just enjoy pal. 

AudioGod
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Hey all,

If anybody Fancy’s Testing a new EFI of OpenCore using smbios 19,1 using the new bios F12d then please let me know?

3 or 4 testers would be ideal so just let me know if you would like to be one of them?

 

 

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WizeMan
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Hey all,

If anybody Fancy’s Testing a new EFI of OpenCore using smbios 19,1 using the new bios F12d then please let me know?

3 or 4 testers would be ideal so just let me know if you would like to be one of them?

 

 

 

I'm in brah, you know :D 

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hackinhacker
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On 1/14/2020 at 5:47 PM, hackinhacker said:

 

found few ways to clear the cache but when my system is complete useless how am I supposed to go into the cmd line?  as I mentioned before my previous Mojave is completely destroyed so there is no way I can't go into safe mode or anyother way of going to the command line to clear the cache; unless there is another way to clear the cache other than going to the command line.

 

@AudioGod  I know you're busy but could you please help?  

AudioGod
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Alternative EFI - N-D-K Fork of OpenCore 16th January 2020 - Use with Bios revision F12d Only

 

Big Thanks to @texem for hes countless hours of hard work and help to bring a fully working version of OpenCore using SMBios 19,1 for you all to try.

We have chosen to use N-D-K's Fork of OpenCore as it works happily alongside windows and has a lot of features and changes that I wish were in the original version of OpenCore,

 

Support on this thread for these EFIs won't be great but @texem and myself will help out where we can. 

 

PLEASE NOTE - All bios settings and guide notes are the same for these EFI's and the SMBios is now set to 19,1

 

N-D-K OpenCore Navi Vega VII F12d EFI.zip - Vega 56/64 Navi (5700/5700XT) & Radeon VII DSDT Bios F12d

N-D-K OpenCore RX Polaris F12d EFI.zip - RX Polaris Series DSDT Bios F12d

 

PlistEdit Pro.zip - PlistEdit Pro (use to edit OpenCore)

 

 

Using PlistEdit Pro add your details by modifying the following 

 

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PLEASE NOTE - These EFIs are setup to be used with your msr Unlocked so make sure you use the F12d Unlocked Profile but if for any reason you can not unlock MSR then just modify following in the OpenCore config.plist :



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CFG Unlock (MSR) F12d BIOS Profile - The Easy Way 

@texem & @WizeMan Have kindly made this bios profile for you all to use that will unlock CFG on your motherboard making it play alot more friendly with the NVRam.

It also has all the bios settings listed on this guide pre done and saved onto the profile.

 

F12d_UNLOCK.zip  - Use with Bios Revision F12d ONLY

 

1 - Download the profile and save it to a USB Key

2 - Go into the bios,

3 - Load the profile, 

4 - Save and exit

5 - Go straight back into the bios and save your bios to a new profile and name it Default CFG Unlocked or something like that.

6 - Boot back into Catalina go into your clover config and under Kernal and Kext Patches Uncheck KernalPM 

7 - Save the changes and then restart and your done, your motherboard will now be CFG (MSR) Unlocked

 

PLEASE NOTE - If you reset the bios or load bios defaults it will clear the Unlock making CFG Locked again. 

 

 

Latest Gigabyte Z390 PRO BIOS (F12d)

mb_bios_z390-aorus-pro_f12d.zip

 

 

 

NEW Clover Major EFI and DSDT UPDATE, 15th January 2020 (Use With Bios Revision F12d Only or read below)

 

Important Notice

This New EFI Contains a brand new DSDT made for for the Z390 Pro Bios Revision F12d ONLY,

If you dont want to update your bios and I personally recommend you do then replace the new DSDT with your old F11 DSDT and then you can continue using the F11 bios with the new EFIs.


The EFI and DSDT has now been updated to the my latest version.

Changes made include,

New DSDT's For bios revision F12d ONLY

OcQuirks Revision 12

Whatevergreen 1.3.6

Lilu 1.4.1

AppleALC-1.4.5

VirtualSMC 1.10

MemoryAllocation.efi now added to the UEFI driver folder to fix failure to boot because of memory allocation failures at start up 

Clover Updated too Revision 5103

Plus other minor tweaks to the clover config

 

I have also now created a HD630 IGPU only version of the EFI so for all you people out there that have been asking me for this your wish is my command. :)


 

Aorus Z390 Pro Vega Navi VII F12d EFI .zip - Use with Bios revision F12d Only (15/01/2020 Catalina 10.15.2 Vega, Navi (5700, 5700xt), Radeon VII DSDT Installed) SMBios 19,1
Aorus Z390 Pro RX Polaris F12d EFI .zip - Use with Bios revision F12d Only (15/01/2020 Catalina 10.15.2 RX5XX Polaris DSDT Installed) SMBios 19,1

HD630 Z390 Pro F12d EFI.zip - Use with Bios revision F12d Only (15/01/2020 Catalina 10.15.2 HD630 IGPU Only) SMBios 18,1

 

If you prefer using SMBios 1,1 then by all means switch to it but all the old problems of using 19,1 are corrected now with this EFI plus DRM is fully working unless you have a Polaris gpu. Just to add, SMBios 19,1 is the correct one to be using for our chipset and cpu, if you check the spec of a real macpro it is not a using a CoffeeLake CPU or Z3xx chipset. It does work perfectly but correct is correct so 19,1 it is.

 

Please Note, If you use a 5700 or 5700XT then SMBios 1,1 is unstable using the Navi GPUs so please stick to 19,1 with igpu enabled.

 

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stdmje
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Just updated to the new clover EFI before upgrading the BIOS to F12d and everything is working fine.

 

The only problem i had is when using the msr bios profile that did not changed anything from the defaults so i had to use the BIOS settings i was using previously with F11.

  

BIOS SETTINGS (Bios Revision F11)
• Enter BIOS → Press F12 → Enter Setup
• Save & Exit → Load Optimized Defaults
 
• Boot -> Windows 8/10 Features -> Win 8/10
• Boot -> CSM Support -> Disabled (Can be set to Enabled if need be but try to have it set to Disabled first)
• Favourites -> Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.) -> Profile1
• Favourites -> VT-d -> Disabled (Can be set to Enabled or Disabled, Your choice)
• Settings -> IO Ports -> USB Configuration -> XHCI Hands-off -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Internal Display Output -> PCIe 1 Slot
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Internal Graphics -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> DVMT Pre-Allocated -> 64M
• Settings -> IO Ports -> DVMT Total GFX0-Allocated -> 256M
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Aperture Size -> 256MB
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Audio Controller -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Above 4G Decoding -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> USB Configuration -> Legacy USB Support -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> USB Configuration ->  XHCI Hand-off -> Enabled
• Settings -> Platform Power -> Platform Power Management -> Enabled
• Settings -> Platform Power -> ErP -> Enabled
• Settings -> Platform Power -> RC6(Render Standby) -> Enabled
 
• Save & Exit → Save & Exit Setup 

 

Big thanks!

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AudioGod
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10 minutes ago, stdmje said:

Just updated to the new clover EFI before upgrading the BIOS to F12d and everything is working fine.

 

The only problem i had is when using the msr bios profile that did not changed anything from the defaults so i had to use the BIOS settings i was using previously with F11.

  


BIOS SETTINGS (Bios Revision F11)
• Enter BIOS → Press F12 → Enter Setup
• Save & Exit → Load Optimized Defaults
 
• Boot -> Windows 8/10 Features -> Win 8/10
• Boot -> CSM Support -> Disabled (Can be set to Enabled if need be but try to have it set to Disabled first)
• Favourites -> Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.) -> Profile1
• Favourites -> VT-d -> Disabled (Can be set to Enabled or Disabled, Your choice)
• Settings -> IO Ports -> USB Configuration -> XHCI Hands-off -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Internal Display Output -> PCIe 1 Slot
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Internal Graphics -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> DVMT Pre-Allocated -> 64M
• Settings -> IO Ports -> DVMT Total GFX0-Allocated -> 256M
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Aperture Size -> 256MB
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Audio Controller -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> Above 4G Decoding -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> USB Configuration -> Legacy USB Support -> Enabled
• Settings -> IO Ports -> USB Configuration ->  XHCI Hand-off -> Enabled
• Settings -> Platform Power -> Platform Power Management -> Enabled
• Settings -> Platform Power -> ErP -> Enabled
• Settings -> Platform Power -> RC6(Render Standby) -> Enabled
 
• Save & Exit → Save & Exit Setup 

 

Big thanks!

It’s all the Bios same settings as before and if you redownload the F12d bios profile again from the main page or my main update message I posted the profile has been corrected to include all the correct settings. :thumbsup_anim:
 

@stdmje By the way if you don’t want to update the bios then use the older dsdt but whatever do not use the new DSDT on the old bios revision. It had to be rewritten so just to be safe and not mess things up under the hood don’t do that buddy and update the bios or downgrade to the older F11 dsdt.

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Tiem
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Tested the latest Clover EFI. Works beautifully. I did have a couple of freezes (stuck on ++++++++) for a couple of reboots initially, but it all cleared up and works just as well as the revision before. Great job :)

 

Running on the latest OC and everything is working, much better than Clover actually. Clover definitely has a better boot screen, but been dying to try OC and I'm loving it so far!

 

So both work great! I do have a very minimal set up, just FYI.

 

Thanks again AG :thumbsup_anim:

 

PS: I got the memory tab back with OC (*_*)

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Gosh, thank you for l the hard work! Can't wait to try it out.

 

I do wish that we could create a parallel track for those of us with the Pro Wifi version. I always feel left out :cry:

 

Not sure I am brave enough to go full OpenCore after almost 10 years with Clover! I feel like I know it like the back of my hand.

 

Question: I dual boot with Win 10 on a separate SSD, will the newest OpenCore (NDK) not have any issues?

AudioGod
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36 minutes ago, pkdesign said:

Gosh, thank you for l the hard work! Can't wait to try it out.

 

I do wish that we could create a parallel track for those of us with the Pro Wifi version. I always feel left out :cry:

 

Not sure I am brave enough to go full OpenCore after almost 10 years with Clover! I feel like I know it like the back of my hand.

 

Question: I dual boot with Win 10 on a separate SSD, will the newest OpenCore (NDK) not have any issues?


there’s no difference other then the WiFi on the pro WiFi board, same pcb, same rails, same Vrms, same USB port config it’s all the same (HS14 is even reserved in the Z390 Pro non WiFi that’s how the same they are), even the Dsdt takes it into account so there’s no need to feel left out, only thing I can’t do for you is unlock your MSR but even the bios version is the same...

 

about dual boot, your as safe as houses when it comes to booting into windows using this forked version of OpenCore, it’s the very reason we choose to use it buddy. :thumbsup_anim:

 

Enjoy my friend I hope you like it :) 

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2 minutes ago, pkdesign said:

I assume the OpenCore version gets placed in the hidden EFI partition just like Clover?

Do everything you would do as if it was clover EFI placement wise and add your details using plistedit pro , I have examples so you can see where to put your info :) 

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tasc
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11 hours ago, Tiem said:

 

PS: I got the memory tab back with OC (*_*)

 

 

Well look at that, I didn't even notice the memory tab was missing! I just checked, and sure enough it's not there. I know I've seen it before, but may have been when I was on 19,1. Just found this info on another forum:

 

"No RAM tab is the authentic macOS feature if RAM for your MAC(defined SMBIOS) is not upgradable"

Tiem
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I'm 99.9% sure it should be there. Not-upgradable typically applies to memory that is soldered to the board (like the Air). And even then it should list it no?

 

In any case, the iMac19,1 has 4 slots and despite being just hard to get to, is actually just regular DDR4. Crucial sells upgrades for it: https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Apple/imac-(retina-5k,-27-inch,-2019)-imac-19,1

AudioGod
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36 minutes ago, Tiem said:

I'm 99.9% sure it should be there. Not-upgradable typically applies to memory that is soldered to the board (like the Air). And even then it should list it no?

 

In any case, the iMac19,1 has 4 slots and despite being just hard to get to, is actually just regular DDR4. Crucial sells upgrades for it: https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Apple/imac-(retina-5k,-27-inch,-2019)-imac-19,1

@tasc @Tiem It’s a bug in clover nothing else, been happening for ages...lol

dont be trying to start a next DRMGate please you two over somthing cosmetic....:hysterical:

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texem
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TBH , friends .. in the name of AudioGod, me and others  : please do not ride on this cosmetic problem and plz do not expect a fix. What about trying to fix it for yourself and post your results here ?

 

Thanks :) be cool .

 

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AudioGod
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1 hour ago, texem said:

TBH , friends .. in the name of AudioGod, me and others  : please do not ride on this cosmetic problem and plz do not expect a fix. What about trying to fix it for yourself and post your results here ?

 

Thanks :) be cool .

 


@texem amen brother :hysterical:

 

My last words on this too,

@Tiem @tasc It started many revisions ago on clover and you can patch it back with a bit of effort in the device properties in your clover config but it’s just not worth it. We discovered It way back when we were all on glasgoods thread. Old old news now my friends and really not worth fussing over. Just use the EFI you prefer and ENJOY :startreck:

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vyu01773
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Weird... I'll try reinstalling the bios then. :/

I see you uploaded a new bios profile.
I'll try that. Thanks!

 

EDIT:
Problem persists. Has there been a new Catalina installer update in the last few weeks?

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AudioGod
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31 minutes ago, vyu01773 said:

Weird... I'll try reinstalling the bios then. :/

I see you uploaded a new bios profile.
I'll try that. Thanks!

 

EDIT:
Problem persists. Has there been a new Catalina installer update in the last few weeks?

 

Have you got a GPU installed in the system alongside the igpu?

if you do could you try removing it and try again without it in there?

If you do have a GPU is it a Nvidia one?

AudioGod
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12 minutes ago, vyu01773 said:

There is no dGPU installed. I have a fenvi wifi card tho. I already unplugged the USB part and tried w/o case USB.

 

what CPU are you using again?

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