Glasgood's macOS Mojave [SUCCESS][GUIDE] for Aorus Z390 Pro

[glasgood]

32 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

What do you mean by E2 unlocked buddy?

I updated to the F10 bios a few days ago aswell.

 

I ==>> read a while ago that  E2 was unlocked on Gigabyte motherboards by default. 

 

@KGP-iMacPro wrote in his guide: 

 

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Excellent news concerning CPU Power Management: ASUS, MSI and ASROCK mainboards allow now for manually unlocking the MSR 0xE2 BIOS Register along their X299 mainboard series. The MSR 0xE2 BIOS Register of all Gigabyte mainboards is anyway unlocked by factory default. Since BIOS firmware version 1301, the  manual unlocking of the MSR register is also possible within any ASUS X299 mainboard BIOS. By this we now achieve fully native HWP (Intel SpeedShift Technology) CPU Power Management for all Skylake-X processors on all mainboards with unlocked MSR 0xE2 BIOS Register, resulting in absolutely brilliant and top-end CPU performance (see Section E.1). We however still witness some TSC desynchronisation of the Skylake-X threads at boot and wake from S3. Until further microcode updates are performed by the mainboard manufacturers, we therefore have to use the TSCAdjustRest.kext provided by @interferenc in this case.

 

 

Edited July 17, 2019 by glasgood

[Neek]

14 minutes ago, glasgood said:

 

I ==>> read a while ago that  E2 was unlocked on Gigabyte motherboards by default. 

 

@KGP-iMacPro wrote in his guide: 

 

 

 

At least on my Z390 AORUS Pro it was NOT unlocked. Verified by both the VerifyMsrE2.efi tool and looking through the Clover boot log.

 

My Clover log contains:

0:101  0:000  === [ GetCPUProperties ] ==================================
0:101  0:000  CPU Vendor = 756E6547 Model=906EC
0:101  0:000   The CPU supported SSE4.1
0:101  0:000  BrandString = Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
0:101  0:000   The CPU supported turbo
0:101  0:000  MSR 0x35               80010
0:101  0:000   TSC/CCC Information Leaf:
0:101  0:000    numerator     : 300
0:101  0:000    denominator   : 2
0:101  0:000   Calibrated ARTFrequency: 24003229
0:101  0:000  MSR 0xE2 before patch 1E000000
0:101  0:000  MSR 0xCE              08080838_F1012400

If it's not unlocked, Clover will report "MSR0xE2 locked, patches will be turned on"

Edited July 17, 2019 by Neek

[JmacUSAF]

Here you go!  Thanks for the help!

 

Just so you don't have to look it up

Gigabyte z390 Pro wifi mini ITX

i7 8700

16g Corsair Vengence LPX

Sapphire Radeon 580

EFI.zip

[glasgood]

25 minutes ago, JmacUSAF said:

Here you go!  Thanks for the help!

 

Just so you don't have to look it up

Gigabyte z390 Pro wifi mini ITX

i7 8700

16g Corsair Vengence LPX

Sapphire Radeon 580

EFI.zip

 

Hi,

 

Have added ports limit patch, also changed SMBIOS from 19,2 to 19,1 and included AppleALC.kext. Follow my USB ports ==> guide . ( EFI below )

 

EFI.zip

 

 

[JmacUSAF]

Worked like a charm!  Thanks so much.  Just waiting on my Dell DW 1560 now.  I'm hoping that process goes smoothly! 

[AudioGod]

@glasgood @larabee

Hi guys,

I hope your both good.

Quick question, If I wanted to turn off my igpu and run with just the vega56 would it just be a matter of disabling it in the bios and then changing my smbios over and redoing my iMessage icloud etc etc?

I'm not a fan at all of having both gpus running as Im a overclocker at heart and it just does not sit well with me and also final cut and premiere seem to love the vega much more..lol

 

@larabee

How's your radeon vii?

I have a 5700 XT sitting in my test bench and I'm impressed with it.

Doesn't work in mojave unfortunately but that should change soon.

Edited July 18, 2019 by AudioGod

[larabee]

4 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

@glasgood @larabee

Hi guys,

I hope your both good.

Quick question, If I wanted to turn off my igpu and run with just the vega56 would it just be a matter of disabling it in the bios and then changing my smbios over and redoing my iMessage icloud etc etc?

I'm not a fan at all of having both gpus running as Im a overclocker at heart and it just does not sit well with me and also final cut and premiere seem to love the vega much more..lol

 

 

I agree with you. I have problem with OC with iGPU enabled, so here are what I've done: 

 

1- Back up clover and bios profile 

2- Remove the device properties for iGPU in Glasgood config. 

3- Turn off iGPU completely in your bios 

4- Change SMbios and redo iMessage config 

 

Enjoy the Vega power. If you're using rx580 or 590, iGpu will win, since Vega, it's much better to use Vega. 

Here is my result testing different SMBIOS on Vega 56 for your reference: 

 

 

[AudioGod]

9 minutes ago, larabee said:

 

I agree with you. I have problem with OC with iGPU enabled, so here are what I've done: 

 

1- Back up clover and bios profile 

2- Remove the device properties for iGPU in Glasgood config. 

3- Turn off iGPU completely in your bios 

4- Change SMbios and redo iMessage config 

 

Enjoy the Vega power. If you're using rx580 or 590, iGpu will win, since Vega, it's much better to use Vega. 

Here is my result testing different SMBIOS on Vega 56 for your reference: 

 

 

 

iMac pro 1.1 it is then..lol...thank you buddy.

I have a stable oc @5ghz as is (fixed voltage with zero AVX offset on it) and shes solid as a rock and passed every stress test I chucked at it but still I just don't like that igpu enabled and even more so when I consider my 9900k to be a bit of a lemon OC wise.

 

[larabee]

13 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

 

iMac pro 1.1 it is then..lol...thank you buddy.

I have a stable oc @5ghz as is (fixed voltage with zero AVX offset on it) and shes solid as a rock and passed every stress test I chucked at it but still I just don't like that igpu enabled and even more so when I consider my 9900k to be a bit of a lemon OC wise.

 

 

My 8700K struggle at 5Ghz without AVX offset... I have a really bad silicon.

If you crave for performance, get a radeon VII. It blows everything out of the water. The compute power is just too much haha. 

 

@AudioGod sit tight for Navi. Catalina will not support it at release because I only see Vega in the code. However, they may pull the plug to change vega20 and 1 unknown / fake ID into Navi at later point in time. At this moment, Radeon VII is the most powerful card you can throw into you system without breaking the bank. Its compute power is actually much higher than gaming power. I will return my VII and live with OC 56 until the 5800XT come out and get supported. 

Edited July 18, 2019 by larabee

[AudioGod]

19 minutes ago, larabee said:

 

My 8700K struggle at 5Ghz without AVX offset... I have a really bad silicon.

If you crave for performance, get a radeon VII. It blows everything out of the water. The compute power is just too much haha. 

 

@AudioGod sit tight for Navi. Catalina will not support it at release because I only see Vega in the code. However, they may pull the plug to change vega20 and 1 unknown / fake ID into Navi at later point in time. At this moment, Radeon VII is the most powerful card you can throw into you system without breaking the bank. Its compute power is actually much higher than gaming power. I will return my VII and live with OC 56 until the 5800XT come out and get supported. 

 

I got given the 5700 XT to test and keep so it's a freebie and after testing it out on my test bench I like it. It's not going in my system though, its gonna sit in my pile of parts for now...lol...I got a 3900x given to me aswell and its dam good too.

Edited July 18, 2019 by AudioGod

[larabee]

Just now, AudioGod said:

 

I got given the 5700 XT to test and keep so it's a freebie and after testing it out on my test bench I like it. It's not going in my system though, its gonna sit in my pile of parts for now...lol...I got a 3900x too. Its dam good too.

 

Making my 8700K feel like an old man... Damn tech moves so fast.

I will try AMD hackintosh soon  Back to the day of the athlon, it's so hard, haha 

[AudioGod]

4 minutes ago, larabee said:

 

Making my 8700K feel like an old man... Damn tech moves so fast.

I will try AMD hackintosh soon  Back to the day of the athlon, it's so hard, haha 

I'm not going there with macos, in my mind ryzen is windows and can stay that way..haha

 

I'm opening shop online very soon selling builds and components and other bits of fun tech so come to me for your parts in future buddy and if I have any golden cpus, gpus etc il make sure you get a heads up.  

[larabee]

2 hours ago, AudioGod said:

I'm not going there with macos, in my mind ryzen is windows and can stay that way..haha

 

I'm opening shop online very soon selling builds and components and other bits of fun tech so come to me for your parts in future buddy and if I have any golden cpus, gpus etc il make sure you get a heads up.  

 

Let me know when it's ready haha. I'd love to see it. 

By the way, remember to remove the Boot argument shikigva=60   from the clover for VDA decoder to work properly with Vega and iMac Pro 1.1 

I forgot to mention that in the previous post. 

[AudioGod]

1 hour ago, larabee said:

 

Let me know when it's ready haha. I'd love to see it. 

By the way, remember to remove the Boot argument shikigva=60   from the clover for VDA decoder to work properly with Vega and iMac Pro 1.1 

I forgot to mention that in the previous post. 

 

Thanks for that buddy. Most helpful

one last thing, should I change my serial number when I change my smbios?

Thanks again for your help dude, Awesome!

[larabee]

2 hours ago, AudioGod said:

 

Thanks for that buddy. Most helpful

one last thing, should I change my serial number when I change my smbios?

Thanks again for your help dude, Awesome!

 

You should change just in case. Apple will think you get a new mac.  If 2 computers are using the same serial number, there's a small chance Apple will block sign in. 

I just follow Glasgood iMessage guide everytime I change my SMBios, then save all of my config.plist file to reuse later. 

[JmacUSAF]

Question on the Wifi/Bluetooth card....More of a Mobo technical question.

 

I have these two items coming shortly...

Dell DW1560

Addonic M.2 Adapter M to E key

 

The Bluetooth seems to need power and a connection to a USB poort and I am going to use HS11 with the on board connection ( I already integrated it into my USB map).  However, I have no freaking clue what cable I need!  I found this adapter card slightly cheaper on Amazon and it came with a cable.  I've been looking these past days for the same one.  Does anyone have a link or an idea which one I need.  I know its a 5 pin connector to the adapter card.  And then just a block connector on the other side?  Which connections are coming off of the 5 pin (Obviously Vcc, ground, data?).  The block connector has many more.  

 

Thanks for the help, I hope this combination works.

[lygi]

Hi!

 

I've done everything step by step, everything works (almost)

One problem I've got is: SLEEP, or... waking up.

 

When the computer goes sleep, everything looks OK, monitor is OFF machine is OFF.

When I hit s PWR it wakes up but monitor stays black. 

It has some black signal for a couple of secs - but after this monitor goes sleep

The only way to have my desktop back is hard reset.

My EFI attached.

 

Bios settings as in #1

GB Z370PRO / MSI Vega 64 / I9 9900 / 32G 3200 /

 

Is there any chance to have sleep working?

 

 

 

EFI.zip

Edited July 19, 2019 by lygi
Up To Date EFI

[AudioGod]

16 hours ago, larabee said:

 

You should change just in case. Apple will think you get a new mac.  If 2 computers are using the same serial number, there's a small chance Apple will block sign in. 

I just follow Glasgood iMessage guide everytime I change my SMBios, then save all of my config.plist file to reuse later. 

 

 

Thanks buddy,

I just finished doing it all now and I can feel the difference instantly. To me Mojave in general feels better and all my bench scores minus the GPU have not been affected but best of all no more igpu...yay...hahaha

Yeah that is much much better. time to see what its done to my render times and GPUs performance in general.

 

[AudioGod]

 

@larabee

DAM.....My render times have shot down by a ridiculous amount....hahahaha...I'm impressed!

Gaming Frame rates are all within margin or error to me.

Intrestly my geekbench cpu score has jumped up by a fair margin too and I've just double checked this with the old efi and it's no margin of error thing either.

 

 

20 hours ago, larabee said:

 

Let me know when it's ready haha. I'd love to see it. 

By the way, remember to remove the Boot argument shikigva=60   from the clover for VDA decoder to work properly with Vega and iMac Pro 1.1 

I forgot to mention that in the previous post. 

 

Should I remove the shikigva=60 argument or not as its scratched out on your post?

I've removed it anyway but il put it back if it's not meant togo buddy

Edited July 19, 2019 by AudioGod

[larabee]

45 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

 

@larabee

DAM.....My render times have shot down by a ridiculous amount....hahahaha...I'm impressed!

Gaming Frame rates are all within margin or error to me.

Intrestly my geekbench cpu score has jumped up by a fair margin too and I've just double checked this with the old efi and it's no margin of error thing either.

 

 

Should I remove the shikigva=60 argument or not as its scratched out on your post?

I've removed it anyway but il put it back if it's not meant togo buddy

 

Power of Vega vs Intel iGPU. Lolz.

You MUST remove shikigva=60 or you will lose VDA JPG acceleration and preview / quicklook will fail to open any jpeg file. The argument means for iGPU to function properly. 

I didn't notice the jump in CPU performance because I'm too focused in getting every bit of vega 56 haha. 

 

btw, 

@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. 

 

@glasgood Since vega is quite popular, I think you can expand your guide to cover this. With Vega GPU, it's better to disable iGPU and use iMac Pro SMBIOS. 

Edited July 19, 2019 by larabee

[AudioGod]

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.........

 

Edited July 19, 2019 by AudioGod

[larabee]

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]

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]

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]

@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?

Edited July 19, 2019 by AudioGod