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

[MaLd0n]

7 hours ago, Project 2501 said:

I didn't know there was a solution for the onboard BT for the Intel CNVi WiFi/BT board

https://www.olarila.com/topic/20658-hackintosh-intel-bluetooth-on-monterey-solution/

[texem]

@Ron Lemmens  do your 390pro suffer from BT issues as well ( BT dead after wake etc  ) ?  Are you using XMP Extreme Profile ?

 

 

Since i modified the RAM timing to manual DDR4-2666 it's working stable. 

Q is , why this happens only with MacOS 12  🤔

 

[Ron Lemmens]

22 hours ago, texem said:

with my i9-9900KS  i modified memory timing from XMP-3200 to manual 2666 .

 

all BT - issues are gone the same moment 

 

Uhhhhh … timing problems on z390pro … whats going wrong ? 

 

 

I noticed something else that came with Monterey, my USB audio device (Focusrite Scarlett 2i2) fails to reconnect (not always) as well. This never happened with Big Sur.

43 minutes ago, texem said:

@Ron Lemmens  do your 390pro suffer from BT issues as well ( BT dead after wake etc  ) ?  Are you using XMP Extreme Profile ?

 

 

Since i modified the RAM timing to manual DDR4-2666 it's working stable. 

Q is , why this happens only with MacOS 12  🤔

 

 

Yes, I had XMP Profile 1 loaded and I have now disabled it and voilá delayed BT issues are gone! 

Very strange indeed how this can be a dependency/sensitivity in MacOS core system?!?

Edited November 14, 2021 by Ron Lemmens

[texem]

"glad" to hear i'm not alone. 😐

 

In the past (and not only since running Monterey) there was another problem regarding USB.  All ports died during normal system operation randomly.

We had a big discussion here in this forum but no chance to fix this.

 

Thats all very strange ...

 

Edit: 

 

btw, with boot-arg "darkwake=8"  no double klick is necessary for getting the screen on.

 

 

Edited November 14, 2021 by texem

[dsynos80]

12 hours ago, Project 2501 said:

 

I didn't know there was a solution for the onboard BT for the Intel CNVi WiFi/BT board. I found IntelBluetoothFirmware on GitHub, but I couldn't find BluetoothFixup (I'd like to know where I can find it please). Since I am still running 10.14, does that mean the current IntelBluetoothFirmware will work for me without using your workaround for Monterey?

 

I assume that Intel CNVi WiFi is still not supported.

 

 

 For Mojave and Catalina i was using the IntelBluetoothFirmware and BluetoothInjector kexts. For Mojave i had to drop the Injector kext and use BluettothFixup instead.

[Project 2501]

13 hours ago, dsynos80 said:

 For Mojave and Catalina i was using the IntelBluetoothFirmware and BluetoothInjector kexts. For Mojave i had to drop the Injector kext and use BluettothFixup instead.

 

Great. Thanks for the info.

 

For future reference, where you got Bluetoothfixup? I found "Bluetoolfixup" as part of BrcmPatchRAM, but no "Bluetoothfixup". I know I'm slow to upgrade, but eventually I will 🙂

[Ron Lemmens]

21 hours ago, texem said:

"glad" to hear i'm not alone. 😐

 

In the past (and not only since running Monterey) there was another problem regarding USB.  All ports died during normal system operation randomly.

We had a big discussion here in this forum but no chance to fix this.

 

Thats all very strange ...

 

Edit: 

 

btw, with boot-arg "darkwake=8"  no double klick is necessary for getting the screen on.

 

 

 

Regarding the random USB ports dying, you need to map your USB ports (max 15) using USBMap.kext, otherwise MacOS tends to pick and activate ports randomly from the pool of 26 available ports (on a Z390 Pro).

 

From what I understand is that "darkwake=8" is no longer supported and needs to be "darkwake=0".

 

However, the recommended approach to avoid double keyboard presses or mouse clicks to fully wake your systeem is documented here (for OC).

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Post-Install/usb/misc/keyboard.html 

 

[texem]

Hi,

 

thanks for the hint regarding "acpi-wake-type" , never heared about 🙂

 

USB port dying is another story. If you look above here in this thread you can see that i'm using a modified SSDT patching the ports ( max 15 ) for some good reasons.

This, and any other version using ( USBPorts.kext etc ) doesn't fix this z390pro USB issue. Well, it's seldom and random but it exists.

Since i modfied the RAM speed it never happened again in between (knocking on wood)

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pkdesign]

10 hours ago, Project 2501 said:

 

Great. Thanks for the info.

 

For future reference, where you got Bluetoothfixup? I found "Bluetoolfixup" as part of BrcmPatchRAM, but no "Bluetoothfixup". I know I'm slow to upgrade, but eventually I will 🙂

It is BlueToolFixup. I made that mistake several times.

[Project 2501]

With the demise of 3G, was dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century and got an iPhone. However, I noticed something strange about charging through the lightning cable...

 

For some reason, if I have iTunes already open on the desktop computer, it will do a local sync, but it will not start charging (at least I don't see the lightning bolt badge on the battery icon). But if I close iTunes, disconnect the cable, and reconnect, it will charge after iTunes automatically runs and syncs. Not a huge inconvenience, but I wonder if this a Macintosh or a Hackintosh problem. I've tried direct connections with USB3 and USB2 ports, same behavior. Same thing when I go through a USB2 hub.

 

My soon to be retired iPod Touch 6 doesn't have this problem.

 

Any ideas about what going on?

 

--

Edit: When I got to work, I tested the iPhone on an iMac running 10.14.6 at work. No problems with charging. For now, I'll just leave auto-sync off.

 

Edited November 16, 2021 by Project 2501
Update

[rob1980]

On 11/15/2021 at 12:55 AM, texem said:

@Ron Lemmens  do your 390pro suffer from BT issues as well ( BT dead after wake etc  ) ?  Are you using XMP Extreme Profile ?

 

 

Since i modified the RAM timing to manual DDR4-2666 it's working stable. 

Q is , why this happens only with MacOS 12  🤔

 

Regarding the bt crash issue which I’m also facing, does it only fix it if dropped to 2666? Or can I simply disable Extreme profile and manually set 3600, or maybe 3200?

[texem]

works only with DDR4-2666 here . Performance loss is very low and doesn't matter ( only for benchmarksi)

 

XMP setting is ignored if you enter a manual DDR4-xxxxx speed 

 

[Ron Lemmens]

3 hours ago, texem said:

works only with DDR4-2666 here . Performance loss is very low and doesn't matter ( only for benchmarksi)

 

XMP setting is ignored if you enter a manual DDR4-xxxxx speed 

 

 

Same here manual setting of DDR4-2666 is the maximum speed without BT issues.

[panosru]

I don't have any issue with BT by also having XMP enabled @ 3200, the only issue I have is when I place my computer to sleep, once I wake it up, the bluetooth isn't working, but since I have both a secondary usb mouse plugged and a wacom tablet connected via usb, I only have to disable and enable usb from the preferences and then bt is working again, are you referring to another issue that I'm unaware?

 

what is driving me crazy is the slow boot from my samsung evo drive due to trim I hope samsung will release a firmware update for that, or any other fix...

[Ron Lemmens]

3 hours ago, panosru said:

I don't have any issue with BT by also having XMP enabled @ 3200, the only issue I have is when I place my computer to sleep, once I wake it up, the bluetooth isn't working, but since I have both a secondary usb mouse plugged and a wacom tablet connected via usb, I only have to disable and enable usb from the preferences and then bt is working again, are you referring to another issue that I'm unaware?

 

what is driving me crazy is the slow boot from my samsung evo drive due to trim I hope samsung will release a firmware update for that, or any other fix...

 

The problem with BT is it's activation delay after sleep, it takes 30-45 seconds before BT is working again after wake up, but after that it's working again. This started with Monterey. With Big Sur no problems with XMP Profile 1.

[panosru]

@Ron Lemmens, ok, so I guessed correctly that you are talking about that issue. I too have it, as I said, I just use my usb mouse or tablet to turn BR off and on right away, and it works fine. I also tried to disable XMP profile just to test that BT will work after sleep without me having to do the steps I mentioned, but I'm getting the same issue, therefore I  re-enabled the profile and I just do what I do

[pkdesign]

I've got a question about ResizeAppleGpuBars and ResizeGpuBars.

 

I see that the 12k firmware of our board has an option to set to ResizeCpuBars to Auto. So to play around I set his to Auto and set both Quirks in OpenCore to 0. My system boots fine but I have no idea if this is even doing anything. How can I test this and can anyone give me a run down of what it is supposed to do?

 

I will say that I think I see a difference with iStat menus. Memory was always a full bar here but now it seems less. I'm sure I'm dreaming!

 

Spoiler

 

 

[DoYouBelieveInMiracles]

Hello everyone, hope you are doing well.

I purchased a brand new Satechi X3 Bluetooth keyboard with the hope that it would work well with my Hackintosh.

While it worked OOTB on Windows, I am trying to connect it on Monterrey 12.0.1 and it just won't show up in the bluetooth menu. (while it does on my iPhone, my Hackintosh Windows installation etc)

I am using the TP-Link UB400 BT adapter and I used the BlueToolFixup.kext 2.6.1 solution and it seems to discover most BT devices, connect to them and work correctly since then.

I'm guessing it some error with my Hackintosh installation.

Can someone enlighten me please?

 

[benjiolino]

Hi,

I just realised that my Bluetooth is not working very well. So far I did not notice cause I never used it, except for AirDrop but now I have a BlackMagic SpeedEditor Keyboard and it's really unusable cause it has such a bad delay. I use the AudioGod EFI and tried the extra Bluetooth patch and tried both of the internal USB 2.0 ports. It works but has delay. Its a FENVi BCM94360CS2 card and should work OBB. The antennas are 1 meter away from the keyboard. Does anyone have similar problem or an idea how to solve it?

[pkdesign]

Smooth update to OC 076. Updated kexts, drivers, etc. Only had to add four items and delete one:

 

Add NVRAM > Add > 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82 > boot-args > igfxfw=2
Add UEFI > Output > ReconnectGraphicsOnConnect (Boolean, False)
Add UEFI > Output > UIScale (Integer, 0) <-In my case I use 2
Add UEFI > Quirks > EnableVmx (Boolean, False)

Remove NVRAM > Add > 4D1EDE05-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B38C14 > UIScale

 

Not entirely sure if the igfxf=2 is actually doing anything.

[Pieroman]

On 12/9/2021 at 10:19 AM, benjiolino said:

Hi,

I just realised that my Bluetooth is not working very well. So far I did not notice cause I never used it, except for AirDrop but now I have a BlackMagic SpeedEditor Keyboard and it's really unusable cause it has such a bad delay. I use the AudioGod EFI and tried the extra Bluetooth patch and tried both of the internal USB 2.0 ports. It works but has delay. Its a FENVi BCM94360CS2 card and should work OBB. The antennas are 1 meter away from the keyboard. Does anyone have similar problem or an idea how to solve it?

I've read that using wifi at 2,4Gz can interfere with bluetooth, especially on these cards. Is that your case ? If so and if possible, it's better to switch to 5GHz. Note though that I've seen bluetooth keyboard delay even on actual macs with apple keyboards...

[juan e. jot]

23 hours ago, pkdesign said:

Smooth update to OC 076. Updated kexts, drivers, etc. Only had to add four items and delete one:

 

Add NVRAM > Add > 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82 > boot-args > igfxfw=2
Add UEFI > Output > ReconnectGraphicsOnConnect (Boolean, False)
Add UEFI > Output > UIScale (Integer, 0) <-In my case I use 2
Add UEFI > Quirks > EnableVmx (Boolean, False)

Remove NVRAM > Add > 4D1EDE05-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B38C14 > UIScale

 

Not entirely sure if the igfxf=2 is actually doing anything.

Thank you, @pkdesign, for picking up the torch to ensure that even if new options aren't used in a particular new version (in this case, 0.7.6) of OpenCore, they are still included in the config.plist to potentially be used in future versions/alternate but similar configurations!

 

I tried igfxfw=2 as a boot arg too, and noticed (and a bit of searching finds similar experiences posted about) a bit of a lag going to/getting out of the boot screen, some spinning when opening up apps, none of which were there with only alcid=7 and -v. I wonder if igfxfw=2 was intended for older OSes? Clearly it does/did something of use, as on https://github.com/acidanthera/WhateverGreen, but unsure if it still does, or even now presents the apparent slowdown I experienced (at least for us running RX5x0s). As always, YMMV.

 

Other than leaving my UIScale integer at 0 cuz I'm only powering an HD monitor at the moment, all your other changes seem to work great on my system (I say, as I write on it)! Interestingly, leaving my config.plist untouched from 0.7.5 to 0.7.6 got me running with absolutely no errors (that I could see, as verbose text whizzed by… but I also screen-capped the first page of messages & there were no deal-breakers before the second page replaced it and rolled on until the boot screen). Reading the tea leaves of Differences.pdf ends up so iffy, about whether to apply any changes. So as above, even if legacy settings worked, I'm glad for your help getting ready for the future!

 

Thanks again!

[texem]

Hi friends,

 

Gigabyte released a new BIOS just named "F12" w/o any sub version (i,j,k ... ) for the PRO 

Release notes : "Customers will NOT be able to reverse to previous BIOS version due to major vulnerabilities concerns."

 

Wondering if there are any advantages.

 

Risky ?

 

 

[panosru]

@pkdesign, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I guess igfxfw=2 flag is suppose to be useful only for iGPU setups, meaning that since you are not using an integrated GPU you don't need that flag, no? Based on your signature I see that you have AMD Radeon/Intel HD 520, the later is iGPU, are you using it some how? The reason I'm asking that is if I could get something out of it it would be nice, like if the iGPU would handle the macOS graphical interface so my AMD Radeon would only focus on rendering more important staff (I might be completely wrong on that though). My setup currently has alcid=7 in boot-args.

 

Also, one more question, for those who are using Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe drive as the primary drive, in order to solve the trim issue I guess we have to wait for Samsung to release a firmware update (if they do) or maybe someone found a work-around? Every time I boot into my computer I have to wait exactly 7 minutes for trim to finish

 

Lastly, after wake from sleep, I have to use my usb wacom tablet to switch bluetooth off and on in order for the BT devices to be connected again, I have tried disabling the memory profile1 and restore the defaults in bios, but unlike to others, that didn't fixed that issue for me.

 

Thanks!

 

UPDATE:

I downloaded the latest firmware for 970 evo plus, I flashed two different flash disks, but none of them was able to boot into the firmware update software, I was getting a black screen. I tried with different format types, also I tried both guid and mbr, nothing.. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be really helpful! 

 

UPDATE2:

FFS! It took me all night that the bootable usb disk won't boot because CSM was disabled in bios... damn... but now the samsung firmware update software cannot detect my drive, I think I will reset my bios to make sure that there isn't anything that interfere with the process and then re-apply the settings. For some reason when I export the profile it isn't saved and I have to manually reapply all the settings. My current 970 evo+ firmware version is 2B2QEXM7, Samsung released 4B2QEXM7 so I hope that will fix the huge trim time it takes to boot.

 

UPDATE3:

After trying over and over again, I finally give up, the Samsung ssd firmware update software simply won't detect my drive. I read somewhere that the drive have to be formatted in NTFS, put into a windows machine then update the firmware via smasung magic utility, so if that is true, then I won't ever upgrade my drive because that the drive where macOS lives and I'm in zero mood for re-installations. If anyone have flashed the 4B2QEXM7 firmware, please let me know if that fixes the trim issue for you in Monterey. Thanks!

 

Edited December 14, 2021 by panosru

[pkdesign]

19 hours ago, panosru said:

@pkdesign, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I guess igfxfw=2 flag is suppose to be useful only for iGPU setups, meaning that since you are not using an integrated GPU you don't need that flag, no? Based on your signature I see that you have AMD Radeon/Intel HD 520, the later is iGPU, are you using it some how? The reason I'm asking that is if I could get something out of it it would be nice, like if the iGPU would handle the macOS graphical interface so my AMD Radeon would only focus on rendering more important staff (I might be completely wrong on that though). My setup currently has alcid=7 in boot-args.

 

When I post in this particular forum, I am only referring to my Aorus Pro WiFi motherboard configuration. Since I have a 19,1 SMBIOS, both the RX570 and the Intel 630 are active.

 

BTW, for the Dell laptop, it is only the iGPU that is working. The AMD Radeon is disabled. There is no way that I know of to make that work in that laptop.

Edited December 14, 2021 by pkdesign