AudioGod Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Oom said: Hi, Thanks for you message I just want to confirm if I have to choose 'Boot macOS Install from Mojave' from clover to complete update after first reboot? I'm not know if my clover and kexts up to date how do I check? 'Boot macOS from Mojave' is the only option I normally have. You want to select the install from Mojave (the one on the left) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larabee Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 @AudioGod Hey buddy, reporting back, I think I finally find what's been causing problem: Creative SB 5.1 USB. Whenever I use it, it increases the chance of freezing randomly by 15%. I'm taking it off and test the system again. 5 hours ago, soniferous_fox said: If anyone is interested, I decided I wanted to switch from OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi if there was even a slim chance of it causing issues, but had never had any joy with any of the others. I gave it another go, and finally got another working - OsxAptioFix3Drv.efi. Note, I am on a Gigabyte Z390 M Gaming, but it may relate to similar boards? It does come with a big caveat though, and that is disabling iGPU in the BIOS to free up more memory when booting. You also need to add "slide=0" to boot options if you don't have it. With both of those done, it worked for me. iGPU for me was only for hardware acceleration in some apps, but I then changed the model in SMBios to iMac Pro 1,1 and that enables hardware acceleration using my graphics card (RX570), so the iGPU become obsolete anyway - as an aside, it also fixed Netflix playback in Safari. It is possible on different hardware you may be able to boot with iGPU, but you would need to calculate the slide number - I tried that, but there were only 1 area of memory I could use, and the slide number for that didn't work. Hopefully that may help someone. I also successfully upgrade to 10.14.6 after doing the changes, and all was fine. EDIT: Forgot to add, you also need to remove anything relating to Intel IGPU in your clover config. @soniferous_fox intel iGPU sometimes will out perform the RX570 with quicksync and VDA decoding. AMD is lacking a lot of power pre-vega. With Vega card, it's sensible to disable iGPU. I've tried yours, and based on glasgood config, the things need to be removed are: 1- Shikigva settings removed 2- Device properties for iGPU removed 3- Change SMBIOS to iMacPro 1.1 4- Disable iGPU @glasgood I've tried this method too, works for me so far but need more time to test the stability of the driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) 7 minutes ago, larabee said: @AudioGod Hey buddy, reporting back, I think I finally find what's been causing problem: Creative SB 5.1 USB. Whenever I use it, it increases the chance of freezing randomly by 15%. I'm taking it off and test the system again. @larabee Hey bro, That's good news but why are you bothering using the creative sc anyway? If it's any sort of production your doing with it then get something real or if it's for 5.1 gaming and video then just use the internal sc from the board as it's not much better or worst then the creative really. Quick question buddy, I noticed today that my about mymac lists my system as a imac pro but doesn't show the (2017) year. Is that right? All my benchmark scores are good and everything's working fine but I could swear it should list my system as a imac pro (2017) Edited July 24, 2019 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soniferous_fox Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 8 minutes ago, larabee said: intel iGPU sometimes will out perform the RX570 with quicksync and VDA decoding. AMD is lacking a lot of power pre-vega. With Vega card, it's sensible to disable iGPU. I've tried yours, and based on glasgood config, the things need to be removed are: 1- Shikigva settings removed 2- Device properties for iGPU removed 3- Change SMBIOS to iMacPro 1.1 4- Disable iGPU Glad it worked for you. For how much I use Final Cut I am not too concerned about quick sync, and it's a vast improvement on my 2013 Mac Pro :). And yes, they are the setting I removed too, but also InjectIntel from the Graphics section which I had enabled before. I should have also mentioned that I had to keep EmuVariableUefi.efi as well, which on some builds I don't think is necessary, but without it wouldn't shut down without a Kernel Panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larabee Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 1 minute ago, AudioGod said: @larabee Hey bro, That's good news but why are you bothering using the creative sc anyway? If it's any sort of production your doing with it then get something real or if it's for 5.1 gaming and video then just use the internal sc from the board as it's not much better or worst then the creative really. Quick question buddy, I noticed today that my about mymac lists my system as a imac pro but doesn't show the (2017) year. Is that right? I don't do much audio production on this mac. I have another one to do, this one is just for rendering the videos for my clients, and I need a USB sound card to plugin my headphone for late gaming sessions on windows; my dad stole my Schiit USB Amp already. About the iMac pro, it show 2017 on mine. But as long as it's working fine, then I think you don't need to mess with it. Can you also test out the OsxAptioFix3Drv.efi to replace the free2000 one? I heard the free2000 memory driver has issues. 4 minutes ago, soniferous_fox said: Glad it worked for you. For how much I use Final Cut I am not too concerned about quick sync, and it's a vast improvement on my 2013 Mac Pro :). And yes, they are the setting I removed too, but also InjectIntel from the Graphics section which I had enabled before. I should have also mentioned that I had to keep EmuVariableUefi.efi as well, which on some builds I don't think is necessary, but without it wouldn't shut down without a Kernel Panic. On Glasgood, he took out all of the injection in clover and use device properties and Shikigva to setup the iGPU, it's a cleaner method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soniferous_fox Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 9 minutes ago, larabee said: On Glasgood, he took out all of the injection in clover and use device properties and Shikigva to setup the iGPU, it's a cleaner method. Ah, must have missed that it wasn't needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 17 minutes ago, larabee said: I don't do much audio production on this mac. I have another one to do, this one is just for rendering the videos for my clients, and I need a USB sound card to plugin my headphone for late gaming sessions on windows; my dad stole my Schiit USB Amp already. About the iMac pro, it show 2017 on mine. But as long as it's working fine, then I think you don't need to mess with it. Can you also test out the OsxAptioFix3Drv.efi to replace the free2000 one? I heard the free2000 memory driver has issues. Now you see my OCD kicks in at this point and I have to have the (2017) or I wont sleep at night brother...hahaha (what have I done?) I shall give OsxAptioFix3Drv.efi a try as soon as the amibiant temp drops in my room as its 27.4c in here right now and I'm dying over here in london. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larabee Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 1 minute ago, AudioGod said: Now you see my OCD kicks in at this point and I have to have the (2017) or I wont sleep at night brother...hahaha (what have I done?) I shall give OsxAptioFix3Drv.efi a try as soon as the amibiant temp drops in my room as its 27.4c in here right now and I'm dying over here in london. com.apple.SystemProfiler.plist contains the info. Change it and you can cure your OCD. LMAO Oh dear, it's only 27? so cool man, give me that. It's 34C here in Southern California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 2 minutes ago, larabee said: com.apple.SystemProfiler.plist contains the info. Change it and you can cure your OCD. LMAO Oh dear, it's only 27? so cool man, give me that. It's 34C here in Southern California. It hit 34c here in london today too I'm talking the temp of my room where the system is. I'd swap for your cali temps all day long though. London sucks! LoL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larabee Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 1 minute ago, AudioGod said: It hit 34c here in london today too I'm talking the temp of my room where the system is. I'd swap for your cali temps all day long though. London sucks! LoL I have to drop my OC because my room temperature is at 34C. Heat Wave is crushing me. I saw my street plastic cone melting under the heat yesterday and just realize I have to spare my motherboard and CPU a bit... Aircool is not enough with this kind of temperature. For some reasons, I notice my hack temperature is somewhat lower than windows by 3 degrees using the same clock speed. lolz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, larabee said: I have to drop my OC because my room temperature is at 34C. Heat Wave is crushing me. I saw my street plastic cone melting under the heat yesterday and just realize I have to spare my motherboard and CPU a bit... Aircool is not enough with this kind of temperature. For some reasons, I notice my hack temperature is somewhat lower than windows by 3 degrees using the same clock speed. lolz. Yep snap I turned off all my overclocks too. Poor computers...lol...I've noticed that aswel with the temp difference, strange isn't it? Just to double check i didn't do my smbios wrong I'm meant to write iMacPro1,1 under smbios in clover? I didn't write it wrong or miss a space or anything like that or did I? Follow up.....It was my serial number believe it or not...I generated a new one and redid all my iCloud and info etc etc and now its displaying correctly....phew...hahaha Right I will now change over to OsxAptioFix3Drv.efi and see what happens. il report back soon Follow Up pt2.... I deleted the old free2000.efi and replaced it with OsxAptioFix3Drv and have done about 50 power cycles and jumped in and out of windows and mojave for a bit of back and forth stress, I've done a load of cold boots and forced it to sleep and let it go too sleep on it's own and all is fine so far and I'm bored of power cycling now so I'm calling it sweet as buddy. You know something too, this is making sense to me about the old .efi because I was having weird memtest fails on this system but the ram was fine and I double checked it on a few other builds all windows only and it passed all tests yet would fail randomly on the hack. I'm now running a over night memtest to see if the random errors reappear and if they don't then bingo I now know why it was happening. Awesome, i will do my final report in the morning after the overnight memtest. Looking dam good though for sure Edited July 24, 2019 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larabee Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 2 hours ago, AudioGod said: Follow up.....It was my serial number believe it or not...I generated a new one and redid all my iCloud and info etc etc and now its displaying correctly....phew...hahaha Right I will now change over to OsxAptioFix3Drv.efi and see what happens. il report back soon Follow Up pt2.... I deleted the old free2000.efi and replaced it with OsxAptioFix3Drv and have done about 50 power cycles and jumped in and out of windows and mojave for a bit of back and forth stress, I've done a load of cold boots and forced it to sleep and let it go too sleep on it's own and all is fine so far and I'm bored of power cycling now so I'm calling it sweet as buddy. You know something too, this is making sense to me about the old .efi because I was having weird memtest fails on this system but the ram was fine and I double checked it on a few other builds all windows only and it passed all tests yet would fail randomly on the hack. I'm now running a over night memtest to see if the random errors reappear and if they don't then bingo I now know why it was happening. Awesome, i will do my final report in the morning after the overnight memtest. Looking dam good though for sure Lol/ I remember you did ask me about changing serial number. Looks like this time it's changed to a good one then. I'm running my memtest the same time. Will get the results the same time with yours so we can conclude the stability of the OsxAptioFix3Drv and ask Glasgood to test himself then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgood Posted July 24, 2019 Author Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) 40 minutes ago, larabee said: Lol/ I remember you did ask me about changing serial number. Looks like this time it's changed to a good one then. I'm running my memtest the same time. Will get the results the same time with yours so we can conclude the stability of the OsxAptioFix3Drv and ask Glasgood to test himself then. Hello @larabee @AudioGod @soniferous_fox I tested this early today, replaced OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi with OsxAptioFixDrv3.efi , disabled integrated graphics in BIOS and switched to iMac Pro SMBIOS. I did not encounter any " could not allocate runtime " errors during boot and got excited a little So I went and tested my RX580 with Final Cut Pro and all was good. But when rebooting / starting my machine I experienced several intermittent kernel panics. So I have now reverted back to my previous EFI with OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi. In the past I did experiment with different drivers, I'm certain that I used AptioMemoryFix-64.efi successfully in an early EFI ==> ( CLOVER.zip with DSDT BIOS vF5 ) and iMac Pro SMBIOS. Edited July 24, 2019 by glasgood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soniferous_fox Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 3 minutes ago, glasgood said: Hello @larabee @AudioGod @soniferous_fox I tested this early today, replaced OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi with OsxAptioFixDrv3.efi , disabled integrated graphics in BIOS and switched to iMac Pro SMBIOS. I did not encounter any " could not allocate runtime " errors during boot and got excited a little So I went and tested my RX580 with Final Cut Pro and all was good. But when rebooting / starting my machine I experienced several intermittent kernel panics. So I have now reverted back to my previous EFI with OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi. In the past I did experiment with different drivers, I'm certain that I used AptioMemoryFix-64.efi successfully in an early EFI ==> ( CLOVER.zip with DSDT BIOS vF5 ) and iMac Pro SMBIOS. That’s a shame! Did you keep EmuVariableUefi.efi? Without that I got a panic every time I rebooted or shut down, but all was fine when I put it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgood Posted July 24, 2019 Author Share Posted July 24, 2019 15 minutes ago, soniferous_fox said: That’s a shame! Did you keep EmuVariableUefi.efi? Without that I got a panic every time I rebooted or shut down, but all was fine when I put it back. I did keep EmuVariableUefi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfortuna Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 1 hour ago, glasgood said: So I went and tested my RX580 with Final Cut Pro and all was good. How where your rendering times? Lower or higher vs. the iGPU? I'm not with much time right now, but whenever I can I'll make a test! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, glasgood said: Hello @larabee @AudioGod @soniferous_fox I tested this early today, replaced OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi with OsxAptioFixDrv3.efi , disabled integrated graphics in BIOS and switched to iMac Pro SMBIOS. I did not encounter any " could not allocate runtime " errors during boot and got excited a little So I went and tested my RX580 with Final Cut Pro and all was good. But when rebooting / starting my machine I experienced several intermittent kernel panics. So I have now reverted back to my previous EFI with OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi. In the past I did experiment with different drivers, I'm certain that I used AptioMemoryFix-64.efi successfully in an early EFI ==> ( CLOVER.zip with DSDT BIOS vF5 ) and iMac Pro SMBIOS. Hello @glasgood I hope your good buddy. That's interesting as I have went into final cut pro to test the vega 56 inbetween one of the power cycles and it had no side effect on my system at all. I gave up trying to make it panic and fail on me in the end. I'm running a memtest now and it's done 4 passes so far but if I was using the old free2000.efi my memory would of thrown an error by now probably. Did you update to the latest f10 bios beforehand buddy? Edited July 24, 2019 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saner Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) Hi i have gt730. What i need to do to make it work correctly ? z390 core i7 8700k gt730 Edited July 24, 2019 by saner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larabee Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 @glasgood can you try plug in additional 16 gb to make it 32gb and test it out? at this moment, @AudioGod and I are using the same hardware with the same config and we are having a hard time make it panic using your EFI and the drvr3 driver. I had several occasions when I max out memory and get a panic next time I restart. I think the panic is related to the amount of RAM used during the operation. Since I bump my ram to 32gb , i have less panic and as audiogod said, memtest make free2000 panic on mine too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgood Posted July 25, 2019 Author Share Posted July 25, 2019 @AudioGod @larabee I'm still on BIOS version f9. Only have total of 16GB ram so can't test with 32GB. Will set aside some time soon, update to latest BIOS and do some further testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cipha Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 I'm still struggeling with USB ports. I tried my own SSDT which didn't worked out well so I decided to test your other SSDTs provided in the tutorial. I don't really need the USB-C port so I thought I give it a go. Unfortuately all with the same results. Only my front ports and the USB 2.0 ports on the back are working. Everything else seems to be dead. Any ideas what I could try? my case has USB-C, 2x USB 2.0 and 2x USB3.0 on the front. I already disconnected the Front USB 2.0 on the mainboard without any changes. I'm pretty much lost right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgood Posted July 25, 2019 Author Share Posted July 25, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, larabee said: @glasgood can you try plug in additional 16 gb to make it 32gb and test it out? at this moment, @AudioGod and I are using the same hardware with the same config and we are having a hard time make it panic using your EFI and the drvr3 driver. I had several occasions when I max out memory and get a panic next time I restart. I think the panic is related to the amount of RAM used during the operation. Since I bump my ram to 32gb , i have less panic and as audiogod said, memtest make free2000 panic on mine too. @AudioGod @larabee Have now updated to BIOS v10, updated to latest Clover and kexts. Everything seemed to go well, but have issue with sleep when using SMBIOS iMac Pro with internal graphics disabled. The issue is the machine will wake from sleep to a black screen. So think this is something to do with AMD framebuffer for RX580 card. How is sleep with your hack, do you have same problem ? So at moment I'm back to using SMBIOS for iMac 19,1 with OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi and updated Clover and kexts. When I have free time will have another look. Edited July 25, 2019 by glasgood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, glasgood said: @AudioGod @larabee Have now updated to BIOS v10, updated to latest Clover and kexts. Everything seemed to go well, but have issue with sleep when using SMBIOS iMac Pro with internal graphics disabled. The issue is the machine will wake from sleep to a black screen. So think this is something to do with AMD framebuffer for RX580 card. How is sleep with your hack, do you have same problem ? So at moment I'm back to using SMBIOS for iMac 19,1 with OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi and updated Clover and kexts. When I have free time will have another look. @glasgood. @larabee I tested sleep and wake Multiple times last night and again just now and I have no problems at all. (I no longer have a h100i in there so my sleep is working without any patches) Im using smbios iMacPro1,1 and the drv3.efi 10.14.6 with the latest clover and Kexts and have done a 15 hour run using memtest and it passed with flying colours. I’m yet to get a single panic so far and I have stressed the hell out of my memory and system and still she purrs on. my bios settings are different to yours, if you want to give them a try then go back a page and your find them on a post to @larabee. If you do try them then make sure you switch the cpu boost back to auto as I switched off my oc before saving the settings and forgot to turn it back on. P.s. I have tested with 16gb and 32gb ddr4 (2 and 4 sticks) and my results are the same. Edited July 25, 2019 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgood Posted July 25, 2019 Author Share Posted July 25, 2019 20 minutes ago, AudioGod said: @glasgood. @larabee I tested sleep and wake Multiple times last night and again just now and I have no problems at all. (I no longer have a h100i in there so my sleep is working without any patches) Im using smbios iMacPro1,1 and the drv3.efi 10.14.6 with the latest clover and Kexts and have done a 15 hour run using memtest and it passed with flying colours. I’m yet to get a single panic so far and I have stressed the hell out of my memory and system and still she purrs on. my bios settings are different to yours, if you want to give them a try then go back a page and your find them on a post to @larabee. If you do try them then make sure you switch the cpu boost back to auto as I switched off my oc before saving the settings and forgot to turn it back on. P.s. I have tested with 16gb and 32gb ddr4 (2 and 4 sticks) and my results are the same. Thanks, though I'm wondering if the RX580 is root of the problem when using SMBIOS for iMac Pro. It seems that sleep works, system seems to wake but my screen stays black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larabee Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 3 hours ago, glasgood said: @AudioGod @larabee Have now updated to BIOS v10, updated to latest Clover and kexts. Everything seemed to go well, but have issue with sleep when using SMBIOS iMac Pro with internal graphics disabled. The issue is the machine will wake from sleep to a black screen. So think this is something to do with AMD framebuffer for RX580 card. How is sleep with your hack, do you have same problem ? So at moment I'm back to using SMBIOS for iMac 19,1 with OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi and updated Clover and kexts. When I have free time will have another look. Did you remove all iGpu settings and boot flag? I forgot the shikigva flag and it messed up entire thing. I've been running iMac Pro 1.1 for quite a while and doesn't have sleep issue. It must be framebuffer for RX580. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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