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

[Tiem]

Thanks man for all the into. Super helpful and invaluable 

[AudioGod]

@Tiem Try turning off XMP in the bios and then see if your hub magically starts working for you?

im interested to know if it has any effect for you. 

5 minutes ago, Tiem said:

Thanks man for all the into. Super helpful and invaluable 

Anytime brother  

 

Oh and by the way, glasgood created a new guide to go with my EFIs as the old Mojave guide he did for he’s EFIs had many parts that no longer align with my EFIs so all the stuff about usb patching is invalid in this instance.

Edited December 30, 2019 by AudioGod

[Tiem]

Will do. I’ll post back the results for you 

[AudioGod]

2 minutes ago, Tiem said:

Will do. I’ll post back the results for you 

[Tiem]

10 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

@Tiem Try turning off XMP in the bios and then see if your hub magically starts working for you?

im interested to know if it has any effect for you. 

Anytime brother  

 

Oh and by the way, glasgood created a new guide to go with my EFIs as the old Mojave guide he did for he’s EFIs had many parts that no longer align with my EFIs so all the stuff about usb patching is invalid in this instance.

Yeah that’s how I found this thread. He links back to it on his post

[gibbo592]

On 12/27/2019 at 10:05 PM, AudioGod said:

He’s Sidecar isn’t working because he is not setting he’s igpu to enabled and trying to use auto instead which will not work. Dunno if he listened to me and fixed it though.

 

hes also not reading the notes about the EFI and clearing the nvram by pulling the battery from the board for a few minutes.

its a such a shame that people can’t read a few simple notes to avoid these tiny problems or just ask somebody on this thread as there’s plenty a person on here willing to help.  
 

Hi AudioGod thanks for the EFI and advice so far it seems with igpu enabled and after clearing nvram system wont boot no entry symbol displayed - any ideas ? 

[aeondubs]

On 11/7/2019 at 4:16 AM, laxattack said:

I have 2 questions:

1. Has anyone had any issues with random kernel panics when the computer is sleeping similar to this "Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.driver.watchdog(1.0)" ?

2. Has anyone had any success with OpenCore Bootloader?

Yes it's driving me nuts. Figure it out?

[AudioGod]

3 hours ago, aeondubs said:

Yes it's driving me nuts. Figure it out?

sorry pal I have no idea on that one.

i need a lot more information to be able to make any conclusions buddy.

 

5 hours ago, gibbo592 said:

Hi AudioGod thanks for the EFI and advice so far it seems with igpu enabled and after clearing nvram system wont boot no entry symbol displayed - any ideas ? 

Hi Buddy,

I have just noticed that you have a Z390 Master not Z390 Pro.

is that correct?
If so then don’t use the EFI or Bios profiles from this thread and move across to my Z390 Master guide instead and try again.

 

I have messaged you via the master thread with all the correct files and instructions needed for you so get in touch there and give it a try.

 

Edited December 31, 2019 by AudioGod

[pkdesign]

20 hours ago, AudioGod said:

No don’t add a usb kext. It’s not needed or any other kext or Efi. Only what I have already in there is all your going to need.

the ssdt and dsdt are what give you native usb support. The WiFi USB port used on your board is already disabled via the dsdt, plus you can disable it in bios F11

Nice! Works fine. Just a couple of extra ports listed and my USBPorts kexts had them identified as internal or type C but other than that this works!

 

BTW, do you have an OC guide somewhere?

Edited December 31, 2019 by pkdesign

[AudioGod]

9 minutes ago, pkdesign said:

Nice! Works fine. Just a couple of extra ports listed and my USBPorts kexts had them identified as internal or type C but other than that this works!

 

BTW, do you have an OC guide somewhere?

 
I have a OC EFI but only for the Z390 master at this moment in time buddy. We might expand this guide for OC in the future though so keep an eye out for that.

[stangen]

Guys, just want to thanks for your great works! I bought new PC with Aorus Pro, i7 8700K and Sapphire 5700 XT Nitro plus and will try the guide to install Catalina! 

[AudioGod]

4 minutes ago, stangen said:

Guys, just want to thanks for your great works! I bought new PC with Aorus Pro, i7 8700K and Sapphire 5700 XT Nitro plus and will try the guide to install Catalina! 

Good luck buddy,

Let me know how it all goes for you. 
Im here if you need any help

 

little tip, go slow and 1 step at a time, read the small notes carefully and your be fine. 

Edited December 31, 2019 by AudioGod

[Gary054]

Hi everyone, thanks for successfully installing Catalina in this place.
What is different from everyone is that my motherboard model is Z390 Aorus pro WIFI,

but I have recently encountered troubles. After installation, the boot is normal.

But when I switch back and forth between Windows 10 and MACOS, I cannot boot into Catalina correctly. (Hint: Couldn't allocate runtime area)

this problem has troubled me for a long time. The solution is to unplug the motherboard battery and reset the BIOS to boot correctly, but this problem will appear again soon.

I did not unlock CFG. Because the given MSR file will prompt an error. I need your help, thank you very much.
My dual systems are installed on two NVME M.2 solid-states, each of which has its own EFI partition. The BIOS settings are the same as in the tutorial.

[Tiem]

On 12/30/2019 at 3:22 PM, AudioGod said:

Nope unfortunately disabling XMP did nothing. GHUB still can't detect my mouse but every USB port I plug it in, the mouse works... so I dunno. I grabbed a screenshot of Hackintool.

 

The mouse is plugged into HS07/SS07 but Hackintool reports HS07/SS10 (SS10 being one of the case ports, disconnected on mine). They all work, but they are all sort of jumbled.

 

[AudioGod]

7 hours ago, Tiem said:

Nope unfortunately disabling XMP did nothing. GHUB still can't detect my mouse but every USB port I plug it in, the mouse works... so I dunno. I grabbed a screenshot of Hackintool.

 

The mouse is plugged into HS07/SS07 but Hackintool reports HS07/SS10 (SS10 being one of the case ports, disconnected on mine). They all work, but they are all sort of jumbled.

 

 

Again forget Hackintool for the usb as the patch deals with it and Hackintool can’t explain that to you and shows usb madness but I’ve told you all this already fella. 
If the usb patching bothers you that much then you should stop using this EFI and create your own without any ssdt and dsdt patching to the USB ports cos Hackintool doesn’t understand the usb patching and will show it all wrong.  Your overthinking it all again and yes it is annoying for me buddy as I do hate repeating myself again and again Gggrrrrrrr  

 

Happy New Year Anyway Brother, I hope you had a good one. 

 

8 hours ago, Gary054 said:

Hi everyone, thanks for successfully installing Catalina in this place.
What is different from everyone is that my motherboard model is Z390 Aorus pro WIFI,

but I have recently encountered troubles. After installation, the boot is normal.

But when I switch back and forth between Windows 10 and MACOS, I cannot boot into Catalina correctly. (Hint: Couldn't allocate runtime area)

this problem has troubled me for a long time. The solution is to unplug the motherboard battery and reset the BIOS to boot correctly, but this problem will appear again soon.

I did not unlock CFG. Because the given MSR file will prompt an error. I need your help, thank you very much.
My dual systems are installed on two NVME M.2 solid-states, each of which has its own EFI partition. The BIOS settings are the same as in the tutorial.

 

It’s failed to allocate memory to your nvram,

simple one off fix is to save your bios as a profile and then pull the power from the mains and remove the battery from the motherboard for a couple of minutes then put it all back and load back your settings in the bios and away you go.

It shouldn’t return after that but if it is that would suggest that you have a problem somewhere. 
is it only happening when you bounce from windows to macOS?

also don’t restart from windows to macOS but instead always shut down before switching OS, that’s not part of the problem for you but just something you should always do.

 

what EFI are you using of mine and what is your setup?

not just the board but the lot, list me your full spec including the bios revision?  

Edited January 1, 2020 by AudioGod

[AudioGod]

I just wanted to take the time out to thank everybody on this thread for all the input, suggestions and fault finding that’s made the EFIs for this guide get better and better.

Without you lot our hacks wouldn’t be as stable as they are and this thread wouldn’t be possible so again thank you everybody and a very Hacky New Year To you all. 

 

Heres to 2020 and some serious hard work attempting to make out Hacks even better then they already are.
Thanks again everybody, your all awesome (even the ones that annoy me sometimes you know who you all are....you keep me on my toes..lol).

 

@larabee @texem @MaLd0n @glasgood you guys are on a next level of awesome so an extra huge show of respect goes out to you guys as again without any of you four the two threads I maintain would not exist now. Big Love and Respect To you all. 

 

HACKY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY LETS MAKE 2020 A GOOD ONE. 

Edited January 1, 2020 by AudioGod

[AudioGod]

@Tiem I’ve just had a brain wave moment 

The hub your using is it a USB 3 one and if it is are you up trying to use usb3 and usb2 devices off it because if you are you might be pushing he boundary’s of what the usb patching can do so do me a favour and try running just the mouse off the hub via a usb 2 port from the system with no other devices attached to the hub and tell me the result please brah?

its just a theory and not a fact but it does make some sense.  

Edited January 1, 2020 by AudioGod

[laxattack]

On 12/31/2019 at 3:08 AM, aeondubs said:

Yes it's driving me nuts. Figure it out?

I switched to OpenCore and no longer had any kernel panics

[texem]

17 hours ago, laxattack said:

I switched to OpenCore and no longer had any kernel panics

 

Happy new year to all,

 

 

Q: did you ever test the latest EFI from here based on OCQuirks ? 

Wondering which OC EFI did you use , own configured, DSDT based or SSDT-only  ?

 

 

[Tiem]

21 hours ago, AudioGod said:

@Tiem I’ve just had a brain wave moment 

The hub your using is it a USB 3 one and if it is are you up trying to use usb3 and usb2 devices off it because if you are you might be pushing he boundary’s of what the usb patching can do so do me a favour and try running just the mouse off the hub via a usb 2 port from the system with no other devices attached to the hub and tell me the result please brah?

its just a theory and not a fact but it does make some sense.  

I've got an earlier model G502 which I'm pretty positive is just USB 2.0. With just the mouse plugged into HS13 (the 4 USB 2.0) this is what Hackintool outputs (I disabled Legacy USB support in the BIOS):

 

 

The ordering actually looks a lot better now. G HUB still can't see my mouse, but google shows even people with legit Mac's can sometimes not get it working so it might just be Logitech.

[AudioGod]

Just now, Tiem said:

I've got an earlier model G502 which I'm pretty positive is just USB 2.0. With just the mouse plugged into HS13 (the 4 USB 2.0) this is what Hackintool outputs (I disabled Legacy USB support in the BIOS):

 

 

The ordering actually looks a lot better now. G HUB still can't see my mouse, but google shows even people with legit Mac's can sometimes not get it working so it might just be Logitech.

bro for the third time, hackintosh can’t display the patching info correctly and will not reflect what the usb output are actually doing because of the way the patching works,

your getting a picture from it but it’s also an incorrect one.

im not going to explain that again to you brother....lol dam it lol

[fart pants]

Big thank you to audiogod, for this thread and top notch expertise. Also a big thank you to Maldon and glasgood for alternative solutions. At this point Im using bios f11 and audiogod’s pro nave vega zip efi, MSR profile, patches, drivers and kexts minus Whatevergreen, but before this I was testing so many variations, Its been monumental in getting my aorus pro pro back into OSX. My journey to this point wasnt easy, I think for me that Catalina is the most difficult mac OS to get stable and functioning well. Im posting a reply here because I want to help and return some support if I can. 

 

I’ve been reading a few posts with issues that I had and maybe still have and I’ll try to give some tips.

 

Resolved major issues:

 

Boot looping in post. 

 

Possible causes.  f11 bios, 32gb ram, MSR unlock profile.

Post error was a ram issue but it occurred After I installed the MSR profile, I managed to resolve the issue to some extent but I still get weird boot anomalies like power button flash when pressed but no power on and also the odd boot loop once in a while.

 

I didn’t scientifically diagnose the issue but what helped MSR profile to become more stable was indeed like audiogod’s suggestion of removing the battery from the mobo but for me I also had to reduce the ram to 16gb and run that for a few shutdowns and restarts the add the other sticks. I found bios f10 was the most stable but alas the msr profile is not suggested for any other bios revision.

 

Error 0x0000xxxx alloc type 2 runtime blah blah (This error came at the first 2 or 3 lines in verbose mode) The dreaded stop circle.

 

Causes: igfx, titan ridge pci card (and possibly something else)

Whats amazing is this error just occurred way after installation and normal use, with no change to bios settings.

 

What solved the issue was igfx disabled in bios. Unfortunately I needed it for headless mode, fcpx and acceleration. So after many hours of testing... igfx at 64mb in bios worked with the one port setting in the thunderbolt configuration menu resolved this error. I have a GC titan ridge add on card for my LG 5k display.

 

Ongoing Issues:

 

1. Sidecar worked once when I first install OS, then crapped out with device timed out error ever since. Update: its worked twice so far... Why now?

 

2. Logitech g502 not connected in GHUB, but system report/usb Identifies it properly. Someone earlier had posted the same problem, I'm unable to customise my mouse buttons.

 

3. Black screen when restarting or waking, but this is difficult to resolve because I'm running my monitor through a thunderbolt card. Don't know where the problem lies.

 

Choppy HEVC and very high bit video playback in VLC, Quicktime and unresponsiveness/crashes in Final cut pro.

 

I downloaded some very high bit 4k jelly fish test vids to test.

Possible Causes: igpu configuration in DSDT, Whatevergreen, vega 56 (and possibly something else).

 

Early stage but looks promising, using audiogod’s DSDT I added “injectintel” to clover graphics and removed Whatevergreen.

Update: Ive just had really choppy video playback with these settings. I restarted my pc and smoothness has returned. hmmm

 

Now here is what I've noticed in my trail and error testing, maybe audiogod or others can shed some light on the differences between these set ups?

 

setup 1. Audiogod’s DSDT only

 

In “about this mac”, Graphics/displays report was slow to report information ( about 4 seconds). Only my vega 56 info reports and all is looking as it should. PCI info shows the intel 630 as “Other display controller” and intel acceleration is showing in ioreg... but choppy video

 

screenShot 1

 

setup 2. Without DSDT and only using Maldon's Olarila method of a few Configuration changes through clover (sorry no actual screen shots but screenShot 2 is close but without the gpu's numbers 1 and 2 as shown)

 

In "system report" / Graphics is instant and there is no lag in getting the report as described in the above DSDT method. Now depending what ig-platform id I set in clover, I get 2 different report results. Both result in choppy video but the system report is different.  

1. Intel UHD 630 and Vega 56 is now shown in "graphics/displays". this did not occur with the above method (check screenShot 2). IOreg shows intel acceleration but there is one snag Final Cut Pro fails to launch and a crash report is generated.

2. No four second lag in generating Graphics/display report, but it only shows the Vega (basically the same result as audiogod's DSDT method but without the pci info) but Final Cut works with choppy unresponsive video.

 

setup 3. With audiogod's DSDT, InjectIntel added in clover and Whatevergreen removed from efi

 

Final Cut opens and works better with very high bitrate HEVC and h264 video, smoother frame rate out put in VLC and Quicktime, intel acceleration active in IOreg 

 

screenShot 2.

Now there are a number of differences in this method.

1. As in method 2 above when "Graphics/displays" reports the the gpu's in this way, Final Cut Pro would crash when launching.

2. GPU numbers and Infinity fabric Link were not present in any other method.

3. PCI report (I know its cosmetic) also changed (see screenshot 3). It now shows as VGA compatible? Please compare it to screenShot 1.

 

screenShot 3

 

screenShot 4

 

Without Whatevergeen I get pink/purple lines at the end of the apple boot screen but clears at login screen.

 

I have just noticed this.

 

screenShot 5

 

my Vega 56 is showing as a Vega 64, that didn't happen in my Mojave hack. Is that an issue?

 

I hope some of this info helps someone

 

Sorry I forgot to add that to get setup 3 to work I also had to set Initial display to igfx and not pci 1.

 

 

Edited January 2, 2020 by fart pants
Added info

[AudioGod]

@fart pants I’m not sure where to start with all that info but that amount of errors you have made with your changes are huge.

il start off igpu enabled, you want to be headless and not showing in hardware info, the way you have it is totally wrong and not running in headless mode.

for the vega, you shouldn’t be injecting it via clover and just use whatevergreen. I used to use the same Vega56 pulse as you do before I swapped it for the nitro and then the 5700xt and everything was perfect the way it’s set up now.

My method is the same as MaLd0ns method as the guy helps me out loads and does me DSDTs for me and glassgood uses my EFI’s now himself and he’s guides now point to my downloads so we are all on the same page when it comes to how a EFI is meant to be setup.

can you send a copy of your EFI for me to examine please buddy? 
 

By the way your user name is awesome....

Edited January 2, 2020 by AudioGod

[fart pants]

4 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

@fart pants I’m not sure where to start with all that info but that amount of errors you have made with your changes are huge.

il start off igpu enabled, you want to be headless and not showing in hardware info, the way you have it is totally wrong and not running in headless mode.

for the vega, you shouldn’t be injecting it via clover and just use whatevergreen. I used to use the same Vega56 pulse as you do before I swapped it for the nitro and then the 5700xt and everything was perfect the way it’s set up now.

My method is the same as MaLd0ns method as the guy helps me out loads and does me DSDTs for me and glassgood uses my EFI’s now himself and he’s guides now point to my downloads so we are all on the same page when it comes to how a EFI is meant to be setup.

can you send a copy of your EFI for me to examine please buddy? 
 

By the way your user name is awesome....

 

hello audiogod, Haha yeh the name is classic... 

 

"il start off igpu enabled, you want to be headless and not showing in hardware info, the way you have it is totally wrong and not running in headless mode."

yep that's what I wanted but I was losing frames and getting choppy video playback with very high bitrate H264 and HEVC videos. That why I experimented. I must admit I never noticed it before when headless in my Mojave hack but I never edited 4k or above back then but I'm planning to now.

 

"for the vega, you shouldn’t be injecting it via clover and just use whatevergreen."

I'm not, see screenshot 4. Just Injectintel, unless your DSDT is injecting it? I'm using your Navi/Vega zip efi in your first post. Yeh I used MaLd0ns guide at Olarila for headless 8700K along time ago for Mojave and it worked a treat. His new guide for 9900k shows that he is able to remove whatevergreen.

 

https://olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10565#p86617

 

I can't explain why but I'm getting better performance with method 3 its calculated fluke. Its early days, it may mess-up something else.

 

"can you send a copy of your EFI for me to examine please buddy?"

Sure no problem, thanks for looking.

EFI.zip

[AudioGod]

6 hours ago, fart pants said:

 

hello audiogod, Haha yeh the name is classic... 

 

"il start off igpu enabled, you want to be headless and not showing in hardware info, the way you have it is totally wrong and not running in headless mode."

yep that's what I wanted but I was losing frames and getting choppy video playback with very high bitrate H264 and HEVC videos. That why I experimented. I must admit I never noticed it before when headless in my Mojave hack but I never edited 4k or above back then but I'm planning to now.

 

"for the vega, you shouldn’t be injecting it via clover and just use whatevergreen."

I'm not, see screenshot 4. Just Injectintel, unless your DSDT is injecting it? I'm using your Navi/Vega zip efi in your first post. Yeh I used MaLd0ns guide at Olarila for headless 8700K along time ago for Mojave and it worked a treat. His new guide for 9900k shows that he is able to remove whatevergreen.

 

https://olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10565#p86617

 

I can't explain why but I'm getting better performance with method 3 its calculated fluke. Its early days, it may mess-up something else.

 

"can you send a copy of your EFI for me to examine please buddy?"

Sure no problem, thanks for looking.

EFI.zip

I will take a good look though that EFI tomorrow buddy and report back with my findings.