AudioGod's Aorus Z390 Pro Patched DSDT Mini Guide and Discussion

[AudioGod]

Just now, tuk3 said:

Same problem AudioGod, only screen get blank, motherboard stays on. When wakening the screen, the system crashes.

Had success on your original EFI with disableing AppleATC and using VoodoHDA. That gives back sound. Now I only need to figure out how enable autosleep. So far only the screen gets dark after some time but the CPU stays on.

 

The slow USB is due to high CPU on "displaypolicy" at startup or after coming back from sleep. Any of you pros have any advice how to solve this?

Change the darkwake argument I think it’s on darkwake=8 or 0 so try changing it  or removing it all together.
without darkwake it takes 1 mouse click to wake and a second to wake the screen.

[texem]

4 hours ago, AudioGod said:

Any improvement with the 5700xt performance yet with the latest beta?

unfortunately not

[hackinhacker]

Is there an EFI specifically for internal gpu UHD 630?  As I was testing audio check, I pulled out my rx 570 and booted, but it shows black screen after I clicked the macos mojave boot from the clover boot loader.

[AudioGod]

30 minutes ago, hackinhacker said:

Is there an EFI specifically for internal gpu UHD 630?  As I was testing audio check, I pulled out my rx 570 and booted, but it shows black screen after I clicked the macos mojave boot from the clover boot loader.

There s indeed, it’s on the front page

[Tiem]

6 hours ago, AudioGod said:

Any improvement with the 5700xt performance yet with the latest beta?

Sadly no. Same synthetic benchmarks. Which aren't actually all that reliable. Out of the 6 tests I ran using GB5:

 

43k, 49k, 43k, 47k, 43k, 44k

 

[Vanles]

have a problem with the installation. the setup runs almost to the end and with 2 minutes remaining there is a black screen and the PC restarts. I have a 5700 and a Samsung Pro 512 GB M.2
 

The BIOS settings have been changed to 19.1 as described in the instructions. DDR 16 GB are in A1 and B1 .... nothing else is in the system. The USB stick is also in the first USB2 port. Can't get any further what I can do after.
 

What else could I try?

Thanks

[AudioGod]

9 minutes ago, Tiem said:

Sadly no. Same synthetic benchmarks. Which aren't actually all that reliable. Out of the 6 tests I ran using GB5:

 

43k, 49k, 43k, 47k, 43k, 44k

 

use luxmark for gpu benching in future, it’s consistent.

geekbench is useless as any sort of guide as you can see yourself.  
 

7 minutes ago, Vanles said:

have a problem with the installation. the setup runs almost to the end and with 2 minutes remaining there is a black screen and the PC restarts. I have a 5700 and a Samsung Pro 512 GB M.2
 

The BIOS settings have been changed to 19.1 as described in the instructions. DDR 16 GB are in A1 and B1 .... nothing else is in the system. The USB stick is also in the first USB2 port. Can't get any further what I can do after.
 

What else could I try?

Thanks

Use this EFI Buddy 
Aorus Z390 Pro Vega Navi VII F12d EFI .zip 

 

make sure you enter new serial numbers and details as well as those fields are blank. 

Edited January 25, 2020 by AudioGod

[Tiem]

2 minutes ago, Vanles said:

have a problem with the installation. the setup runs almost to the end and with 2 minutes remaining there is a black screen and the PC restarts. I have a 5700 and a Samsung Pro 512 GB M.2
 

The BIOS settings have been changed to 19.1 as described in the instructions. DDR 16 GB are in A1 and B1 .... nothing else is in the system. The USB stick is also in the first USB2 port. Can't get any further what I can do after.
 

What else could I try?

Thanks

I would use one of the red or blue USB slots, not the 4 at the top that are USB 2.0.

 

1. Ensure your USB installer is actually working and was made properly, without errors. Most install problems are because someone made a USB installer through some sorted hack and slash method. Make one on a real Mac that has been updated to the latest OS you plan to install. Anything else may inject errors that will either fubar your install or prevent you from even installing.

 

2. Make sure your BIOS (not SMBIOS yet) is updated to the latest version (F12d for the Pro and F12c for the Pro WiFi). After updating the BIOS, go back into it and enable the dGPU, save the settings and reboot. Go back into the BIOS and then set the parameters of the video card, which will now be visible. Save your settings and then load from the USB installer.

 

3. Download either the Clover or OC EFI that is appropriate for you (ones for the navi card). I suggest Clover as it's far more mature than OC and has more tools that support it.

 

4. Open up the config file and fill in the following (for Clover): 1) BoardSerialNumber, 2) SerialNumber, 3) SmUUID and 4) ROM. Then add "-v" to the boot arguments in case you have any errors, you can see where the process halted. Once your system runs fine, you can remove it get the nice Apple graphical boot process.

 

Many of us have identical systems. Yours sounds very clean and simple so there shouldn't be any problems. I would go back and make sure you're doing all the steps properly.

[Vanles]

56 minutes ago, Tiem said:

I would use one of the red or blue USB slots, not the 4 at the top that are USB 2.0.

 

1. Ensure your USB installer is actually working and was made properly, without errors. Most install problems are because someone made a USB installer through some sorted hack and slash method. Make one on a real Mac that has been updated to the latest OS you plan to install. Anything else may inject errors that will either fubar your install or prevent you from even installing.

 

2. Make sure your BIOS (not SMBIOS yet) is updated to the latest version (F12d for the Pro and F12c for the Pro WiFi). After updating the BIOS, go back into it and enable the dGPU, save the settings and reboot. Go back into the BIOS and then set the parameters of the video card, which will now be visible. Save your settings and then load from the USB installer.

 

3. Download either the Clover or OC EFI that is appropriate for you (ones for the navi card). I suggest Clover as it's far more mature than OC and has more tools that support it.

 

4. Open up the config file and fill in the following (for Clover): 1) BoardSerialNumber, 2) SerialNumber, 3) SmUUID and 4) ROM. Then add "-v" to the boot arguments in case you have any errors, you can see where the process halted. Once your system runs fine, you can remove it get the nice Apple graphical boot process.

 

Many of us have identical systems. Yours sounds very clean and simple so there shouldn't be any problems. I would go back and make sure you're doing all the steps properly.

 

Thank you for the help, I did it all over again and now the MacOS runs. Great

If you have a question about the Clover settings, which one should I choose for Cataline? Only find examples for older versions. Doesn't want to make a mistake, runs so well

[AudioGod]

2 minutes ago, Vanles said:

 

Thank you for the help, I did it all over again and now the MacOS runs. Great

If you have a question about the Clover settings, which one should I choose for Cataline? Only find examples for older versions. Doesn't want to make a mistake, runs so well

Don’t over install clover there’s no need and whatever you do don’t instal rc scripts,

 

just use my EFI as it is as it should all be perfect already only thing you need do is personal hardware or info.

 

for upgrading it’s only the very first two option that you select

Edited January 25, 2020 by AudioGod

[Vanles]

Good thing I asked.

Do I have to run Clover again after setup, or does the system boot immediately without a USB stick?

Or do I have to run Clover with the first two options. ?

[AudioGod]

3 minutes ago, Vanles said:

Good thing I asked.

Do I have to run Clover again after setup, or does the system boot immediately without a USB stick?

Or do I have to run Clover with the first two options. ?

After you have installed Catalina copy the EFI from the usb stick into the Catalina drives EFI partition and reboot and your done.  
 

also remember to make sure the correct drive is selected as your main boot drive in the bios.

Edited January 25, 2020 by AudioGod

[Vanles]

so easy ..... perfect 

Thanks for the great help.  

[Cameron Nicholson]

Hiya,

 

I have an update on my bluetooth and WiFi, everything has been working fine, anyway I was just sat here and all my BT devices stopped working, then I got the notification that XX Wasn't ejected probably, I then connected my USB receiver and switch my MX Master 3 to "usb mode" to shut down, still nothing. Turns out it may be a usb issue? Where do we go from here?

 

Edit: Whoops XHCI was disabled. 

Thanks 

Edited January 26, 2020 by Cameron Nicholson

[Cameron Nicholson]

Now opencore loads however after boot I get a blackscreen with two little coloured squares

[Vanles]

Since it happened to me yesterday when the 5700 (XT) is displayed as a 14GB graphics card after installation ... Update Update Update MacOS !!!! Thanks AudioGod for your help and great work!

[texem]

1 hour ago, Cameron Nicholson said:

Now opencore loads however after boot I get a blackscreen with two little coloured squares

 

for a test remove "agdpmod=pikera" and "shikigva=80" if in config.plist.

There must be something with HDMI/DP and WEG - well it helps only if OC is alive when you get your squares

 

 

 

Edited January 26, 2020 by texem

[hackinhacker]

18 hours ago, AudioGod said:

There s indeed, it’s on the front page

@AudioGod

 

I looked at the front page but I don't see one for igpu with f11 bios

 

 

[AudioGod]

36 minutes ago, hackinhacker said:

@AudioGod

 

I looked at the front page but I don't see one for igpu with f11 bios

 

 

I only started doing igpu EFIs from F12d but all you need to do is download a F11 dsdt and replace the F12d one and away you go

Edited January 26, 2020 by AudioGod

[geekiegeek]

Currently running the F11 BIOS on z390 Pro WiFi with a 5700XT and everything works apart from sleep. The issue I have is that it wakes up straight away and this started since I installed the AWAB wifi combo card. Pretty sure the problem is the USB connection for the WiFi card waking things up.

 

Anyone else had this issue and know a fix?

 

Also if I upgrade to F12 BIOS do I keep my config.plist with all my serial number info and changes or do I have to start again?

[AudioGod]

14 minutes ago, geekiegeek said:

Currently running the F11 BIOS on z390 Pro WiFi with a 5700XT and everything works apart from sleep. The issue I have is that it wakes up straight away and this started since I installed the AWAB wifi combo card. Pretty sure the problem is the USB connection for the WiFi card waking things up.

 

Anyone else had this issue and know a fix?

 

Also if I upgrade to F12 BIOS do I keep my config.plist with all my serial number info and changes or do I have to start again?

@geekiegeek Just copy over your serial uuid and MLB info to the new Navi EFI and your done. ( it’s perfect for your build trust me buddy)

update your bios to F12d if you do so.

 

as for your sleep problem it sound like proximity wake is on so go into hackintool and check your power settings there and correct them. It’s a one click repair.  

Edited January 26, 2020 by AudioGod

[hackinhacker]

9 hours ago, AudioGod said:

I only started doing igpu EFIs from F12d but all you need to do is download a F11 dsdt and replace the F12d one and away you go

@AudioGod

Updated the bios to f12d and booted up with the new HD630 Z390 Pro F12d EFI.zip .  However it doesn't boot properly after the clover bootloader.

 

Edited January 27, 2020 by hackinhacker

[Cameron Nicholson]

14 hours ago, texem said:

 

for a test remove "agdpmod=pikera" and "shikigva=80" if in config.plist.

There must be something with HDMI/DP and WEG - well it helps only if OC is alive when you get your squares

 

 

 

I removed Shikigva=80 and it has booted fine,

 

What USB kext do I need for the h100i, I may actually get working sleep.... BTW I get something flash about NVRAM before the boot select screen.

EDIT: Definitely don't have working NVRAM "nvram: Error clearing firmware variables: (iokit/common) not permitted"

Edited January 27, 2020 by Cameron Nicholson
Added information

[AudioGod]

21 minutes ago, Cameron Nicholson said:

I removed Shikigva=80 and it has booted fine,

 

What USB kext do I need for the h100i, I may actually get working sleep.... BTW I get something flash about NVRAM before the boot select screen.

Best thing you can do for the h100i is disconnect it from the internal usb header.

macos doesn’t use it or understand it and the h100i doesn’t use it unless your using icue in windows to change colours or curves or update its firmware. That’s it’s only use so just pull it from the system and plug it in if you ever want to use it in windows. 

[Cameron Nicholson]

2 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

Best thing you can do for the h100i is disconnect it from the internal usb header.

macos doesn’t use it or understand it and the h100i doesn’t use it unless your using icue in windows to change colours or curves or update its firmware. That’s it’s only use so just pull it from the system and plug it in if you ever want to use it in windows. 

Really silly question will the pump still work, will the fans still ramp up? 

 

Also I edited my post, I don't have working NVRAM.