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

[hackinhacker]

On 1/3/2020 at 11:06 AM, hackinhacker said:

 

I did try with both HDMI and DisplayPort, it didn't work.   thank you very much for your help but still no luck.  

 

 

 

It is working now with "Headphones" output.  I can hear audio sound clearly with the my headphones.  However still no luck with the HDMI/DisplayPort output.  What would be the next step to troubleshoot?

 

 

[AudioGod]

11 minutes ago, hackinhacker said:

 

It is working now with "Headphones" output.  I can hear audio sound clearly with the my headphones.  However still no luck with the HDMI/DisplayPort output.  What would be the next step to troubleshoot?

 

 

That looks correct now at least.

great ok so like I said before it should just work. Can you confirm using windows that you have sound going though the HDMI line to your monitor all ok please bud?

[canstoptherokk]

Hi,

 

First of all i would like to thank you for what obviously is a LOT of work you’re putting into this, and sharing it with everybody!

That’s really awesome!

 

I also have a audio machine and almost the exact same setup as you have:

 

Aorus Z390 Pro Wifi

I9-9900k

HyperX Predator 4x8GB 3200Mhz DDR4

PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil

 

a couple weeks ago i upgraded to 10.15.2, and with the Radeon RX 590 Nitro+ all worked just fine.

(some issues with the Steinberg UR44C, but that’s not relevant right now.)

 

I now put in my new RX 5700 XT, and i dug through a lot of info and just cannot get it to work.

 

I’ve followed your instructions:
- updated to Bios F11

- made most of the changes in the bios (for some reason i don’t have any DVMT Total GFX0-Allocated setting)

- i did NOT import those Bios Settings that were attached to one of the first posts, as it complained to be a different version.

- i used your latest EFI Clover bootloader from some hours ago.

 

But i still have the exact same thing happening to me as with all the different settings and kext changes i tried:

 

it boots up, shows the first apple with the loading bar, then that dissapears and the screen just stays blank.

Its not losing the signal somehow, because the screen isn’t turning off. it’s just not displaying anything.

The machine as far as i can tell keeps running normally, i just can’t see anything.

 

the gfx card works fine when i boot with windows though.

 

i’ve tried the 19,1 with igfx enabled and disabled and there’s no noticeable difference in that.

 

Does anyone have any idea what else i could try?

 

ah, and the -v log doesn’t really say anything obvious to me, either. plus it goes away really fast.

 

any help or hint that points me into the right direction is greatly appreciated!

 

[AudioGod]

58 minutes ago, canstoptherokk said:

Hi,

 

First of all i would like to thank you for what obviously is a LOT of work you’re putting into this, and sharing it with everybody!

That’s really awesome!

 

I also have a audio machine and almost the exact same setup as you have:

 

Aorus Z390 Pro Wifi

I9-9900k

HyperX Predator 4x8GB 3200Mhz DDR4

PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil

 

a couple weeks ago i upgraded to 10.15.2, and with the Radeon RX 590 Nitro+ all worked just fine.

(some issues with the Steinberg UR44C, but that’s not relevant right now.)

 

I now put in my new RX 5700 XT, and i dug through a lot of info and just cannot get it to work.

 

I’ve followed your instructions:
- updated to Bios F11

- made most of the changes in the bios (for some reason i don’t have any DVMT Total GFX0-Allocated setting)

- i did NOT import those Bios Settings that were attached to one of the first posts, as it complained to be a different version.

- i used your latest EFI Clover bootloader from some hours ago.

 

But i still have the exact same thing happening to me as with all the different settings and kext changes i tried:

 

it boots up, shows the first apple with the loading bar, then that dissapears and the screen just stays blank.

Its not losing the signal somehow, because the screen isn’t turning off. it’s just not displaying anything.

The machine as far as i can tell keeps running normally, i just can’t see anything.

 

the gfx card works fine when i boot with windows though.

 

i’ve tried the 19,1 with igfx enabled and disabled and there’s no noticeable difference in that.

 

Does anyone have any idea what else i could try?

 

ah, and the -v log doesn’t really say anything obvious to me, either. plus it goes away really fast.

 

any help or hint that points me into the right direction is greatly appreciated!

 

Hi,

my Navi Efi is made to work with a 5700xt, myself and a lot of other people on this thread are using one right now. You don’t need to make any changes other then to add your details and everything should be fine.

by your description your Missing a boot argument that’s already in my EFI so I’m Wondering if your using the the RX Polaris EFI by mistake as that one is incorrect for your 5700xt and would cause exactly what your describing.

 

try again and use this EFI and don’t add or remove anything from it just add your details and done.

 

19,1 Aorus Z390 Pro Navi Vega EFI.zip 

Edited January 4, 2020 by AudioGod

[canstoptherokk]

 

3 hours ago, AudioGod said:

Hi,

my Navi Efi is made to work with a 5700xt, myself and a lot of other people on this thread are using one right now. You don’t need to make any changes other then to add your details and everything should be fine.

by your description your Missing a boot argument that’s already in my EFI so I’m Wondering if your using the the RX Polaris EFI by mistake as that one is incorrect for your 5700xt and would cause exactly what your describing.

 

try again and use this EFI and don’t add or remove anything from it just add your details and done.

 

19,1 Aorus Z390 Pro Navi Vega EFI.zip 

 

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

 

Unfortunately, also with this, i get the same result. all i've changed in the config of your efi is generate a UUID and the RT Variables, that's it.

i'm not sure whats going on, to be honest.

Edited January 4, 2020 by canstoptherokk

[Sharkus]

Thanks for all the hard work on this effort.  I did an install this morning and things are looking great, with no modifications needed for the Auros Z390 Elite motherboard with BIOS version F10A.  I have not tried modifying the CFG setting.

 

Here's the rest of my build configuration (I disconnected the Windows drives during install):

 

Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Elite

Intel i7 9700K

Corsair Vengeance 16GB 3000 DDR4

EVGA AIO

Fenvi T919 WIFI/BT

NVME 512 GB XPG (Windows)

SATA 2TB WD HDD (Windows data)

SATA 128 GB ADATA SSD (MacOS)

[AudioGod]

34 minutes ago, Sharkus said:

Thanks for all the hard work on this effort.  I did an install this morning and things are looking great, with no modifications needed for the Auros Z390 Elite motherboard with BIOS version F10A.  I have not tried modifying the CFG setting.

 

Here's the rest of my build configuration (I disconnected the Windows drives during install):

 

Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Elite

Intel i7 9700K

Corsair Vengeance 16GB 3000 DDR4

EVGA AIO

Fenvi T919 WIFI/BT

NVME 512 GB XPG (Windows)

SATA 2TB WD HDD (Windows data)

SATA 128 GB ADATA SSD (MacOS)

that’s awesome buddy well done. 

The Z390 Elite is not a mile away from the Z390 Pro so im not that surprised the dsdt is working with it but the power tables could very well be off..

have you tested things like sleep and wake and shut down after sleep and make sure that all works for you?

check the usb outputs all work for you too as the ssdt isn’t designed for your board but still might work as they are so close,

keep an eye on the motherboard when you shut down the system and make sure the board fully shuts down.

 

35 minutes ago, canstoptherokk said:

 

 

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

 

Unfortunately, also with this, i get the same result. all i've changed in the config of your efi is generate a UUID and the RT Variables, that's it.

i'm not sure whats going on, to be honest.

did you also add a serial number as well as the uuid and rt variables?

 



 

After selecting SMBIOS, example iMac Pro 1,1 ( image above ) then go to Apple and ensure you have the "serial number is not valid " message. Done!

im baffled,

what 5700xt is it?

Edited January 4, 2020 by AudioGod

[Tiem]

6 hours ago, canstoptherokk said:

i’ve tried the 19,1 with igfx enabled and disabled and there’s no noticeable difference in that.

 

Does anyone have any idea what else i could try?

 

any help or hint that points me into the right direction is greatly appreciated!

 

You can’t change hardware using old nvram variables. Even changing settings in the BIOS can cause problems with your install.

 

You also didn’t set up tour BIOS properly by the sounds of it. I would make a TM backup and use Migration Assistant to copy all your stuff over after doing a fresh install.

 

First reset your board. Pull the battery and unplug it from the AC. Wait a minute. Reboot and set up your BIOS as recommended. Note that if your IGPU is disabled and you enable it. You will have to save and reboot and go back into the BIOS to see settings like DVMT Total GFX0-Allocated. Also you have a wifi variant of the board. While they are nearly identical they still have different firmwares.

 

Then reinstall macOS. Grab the latest EFI for the Navi card and add a serial number, a uuid and your RT variables. That’s it.

 

Its honestly way faster than trying to hunt down any mistakes you’ve made.
 

PS: you always want to match your hardware as close to a real Mac as possible. Using 19,1 enables Sidecar. You will not get that working using the GPU in MacPro1,1.

Edited January 5, 2020 by Tiem

[AudioGod]

@Tiem use the new EFI I posted yesterday. I think I have solved memory allocation failures at boot up and the need to battery reset the bios for once and for all.

also try raising your igpu memory if your using 19,1 from 64mb too 512mb for a nice kick in performance.  

Edited January 5, 2020 by AudioGod

[AudioGod]

@WizeMan @pkdesign @Tiem @velopitex @tasc And anybody else reading this,

I have a test for anybody using the new EFI under 19,1 with igpu enabled.

using geekbench please run a gpu test and take a note of the score then restart the system and go into the bios and change the igpu memory from 64mb to 512mb 

Settings -> IO Ports -> DVMT Pre-Allocated -> 512m

Boot back into Catalina and once it’s fully loaded (after 2 or 3 mins) run the geekbench gpu test again and see if you get a nice kick in performance?

Be sure to let me know the result.  

 

if anybody gets a failure to allocate memory (stop sign at startup) using the new EFI ever then again please do let me know as thanks to the MemoryAllocation.efi and OcQuirks you should hopefully never see that or have to do a battery bios reset again. 

Edited January 5, 2020 by AudioGod

[Sharkus]

3 hours ago, AudioGod said:

that’s awesome buddy well done. 

The Z390 Elite is not a mile away from the Z390 Pro so im not that surprised the dsdt is working with it but the power tables could very well be off..

have you tested things like sleep and wake and shut down after sleep and make sure that all works for you?

check the usb outputs all work for you too as the ssdt isn’t designed for your board but still might work as they are so close,

keep an eye on the motherboard when you shut down the system and make sure the board fully shuts down.

Sleep, restart, and shutdown all seem to be working fine.

 

My AIO (EVGA) seems to have the same problem as the Corsair (instantly wakes up from sleep if plugged into F_USB1).  I tried the patch mentioned on the first page, but that didn't seem to make any difference.  Not sure if I'm entering the patch properly into the clover configuration.  The screenshot shows a lot of checked fixes that are not in the default config, so not sure if I need all those or just the rename config.

 

Sidecar is giving me some trouble (my iPad is detected but gives a "The device timed out." error dialog after a few seconds).  I haven't spent much time debugging it yet.

Edited January 5, 2020 by Sharkus

[AudioGod]

36 minutes ago, Sharkus said:

Sleep, restart, and shutdown all seem to be working fine.

 

My AIO (EVGA) seems to have the same problem as the Corsair (instantly wakes up from sleep if plugged into F_USB1).  I tried the patch mentioned on the first page, but that didn't seem to make any difference.  Not sure if I'm entering the patch properly into the clover configuration.  The screenshot shows a lot of checked fixes that are not in the default config, so not sure if I need all those or just the rename config.

 

Sidecar is giving me some trouble (my iPad is detected but gives a "The device timed out." error dialog after a few seconds).  I haven't spent much time debugging it yet.

 

try using sidecar wired instead of wireless and see if its the connection causing it?

if that works then go into your kexts folder within the EFI and delete airportfixup.kext, reboot and try Sidecar wireless again.

Edited January 5, 2020 by AudioGod

[hackinhacker]

10 hours ago, AudioGod said:

That looks correct now at least.

great ok so like I said before it should just work. Can you confirm using windows that you have sound going though the HDMI line to your monitor all ok please bud?

 

I can confirm if HDMI sound works once I have to reformat the drive and install windows etc... I have only one HD and it's fully partiontioned, so I can't install windows on top of MacOS.  and it appears that vmware fusion doesn't work well on hackintosh according to my google search...  Any other option i can follow than reformat the drive?

 

[Sharkus]

2 hours ago, AudioGod said:

 

try using sidecar wired instead of wireless and see if its the connection causing it?

if that works then go into your kexts folder within the EFI and delete airportfixup.kext, reboot and try Sidecar wireless again.

 

Wired gave the same error.  I was able to get things working by logging out of my iCloud account in Catalina, then back in.  It probably had something to do with me originally logging in with the default serial number from Clover, then changing it after. 

[AudioGod]

NEW Clover EFI UPDATE 3rd January 2020

The EFI has now been updated to the my latest version.

Changes made include,

OcQuirks & FwRuntimeServices Latest Revisions

MemoryAllocation.efi now added to the UEFI driver folder to fix failure to boot due to memory allocation failure at start up 

Whatevergreen 1.3.6 latest Beta

Clover Updated too Revision 5102

Plus other minor tweaks to the clover config

 

EFI Update - 03/01/2020 - Use with Bios revision F11 Only

19,1 Aorus Z390 Pro Navi Vega EFI.zip - Vega, Navi (5700, 5700xt), Radeon VII DSDT EFI

19,1 Aorus Z390 Pro RX Polaris EFI.zip - RX5XX Polaris DSDT EFI

 

If you are having trouble to boot up using smbios 19,1 with iGPU enabled then make the following change to the bios

 

• Settings -> IO Ports -> DVMT Pre-Allocated -> 512M

 

You will need to reset the bios by Removing the power cable and then pulling the battery on the motherboard for a few minutes to totally clear the nvram before loading into Catalina with the new EFI for the first time.

Use the unlocked MSR Bios profile if you can and untick kernelPM in the clover config if you do use it.

 

If you prefer using SMBios 1,1 then by all means switch to it but all the old problems of using 19,1 are corrected now with this EFI plus DRM is fully working unless you have a  Polaris gpu. Just to add, SMBios 19,1 is the correct one to be using for our chipset and cpu, if you check the spec of a real macpro it is not a using a CoffeeLake CPU or Z3xx chipset. It does work perfectlyl but correct is correct so 19,1 it is.  

 

TESTING AND FEEDBACK NEEDED SO PLEASE TRY THE FOLLOWING.

 

I have a test for anybody using the new EFI under 19,1 with igpu enabled.

using geekbench please run a gpu test and take a note of the score then restart the system and go into the bios and change the igpu memory from 64mb to 512mb 

Settings -> IO Ports -> DVMT Pre-Allocated -> 512m

Boot back into Catalina and once it’s fully loaded (after 2 or 3 mins) run the geekbench gpu test again and see if you get a nice kick in performance?

Be sure to let me know the result.  

 

if anybody gets a failure to allocate memory (stop sign at startup) using the new EFI ever then again please do let me know as thanks to the MemoryAllocation.efi and OcQuirks you should hopefully never see that or have to do a battery bios reset again

Edited January 5, 2020 by AudioGod

[jmcm]

Hi, I update to latest EFI and with RX580 the score in Geekbench 5 OpenCL was 43403 with 64m and now is 43657 with 512m.

64m: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/403156

512m: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/403197

 

I know the result is just ok, but I think that is what's expected with RX580...

 

No problems detected.

 

Thanks

[AudioGod]

19 minutes ago, jmcm said:

Hi, I update to latest EFI and with RX580 the score in Geekbench 5 OpenCL was 43403 with 64m and now is 43657 with 512m.

64m: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/403156

512m: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/403197

 

I know the result is just ok, but I think that is what's expected with RX580...

 

No problems detected.

 

Thanks

 

with a RX580 you have a slight increase. ok thank you for that.

on the 5700xt im getting a score bump of around 1000 with the igpu set at 512m. im trying to figure out if its universal or unique to the 5700xt or its just me.

 

@jmcm your getting a small bump up at in performance at 512m. it could be margin of error though so I need more results to know more. was the higher score consistent or did you only run the test once? 

Edited January 5, 2020 by AudioGod

[Ralle]

3 hours ago, AudioGod said:

NEW Clover EFI UPDATE 3rd January 2020

The EFI has now been updated to the my latest version.

Changes made include,

OcQuirks & FwRuntimeServices Latest Revisions

MemoryAllocation.efi now added to the UEFI driver folder to fix failure to boot due to memory allocation failure at start up 

Whatevergreen 1.3.6 latest Beta

Clover Updated too Revision 5102

Plus other minor tweaks to the clover config

 

EFI Update - 03/01/2020 - Use with Bios revision F11 Only

19,1 Aorus Z390 Pro Navi Vega EFI.zip - Vega, Navi (5700, 5700xt), Radeon VII DSDT EFI

19,1 Aorus Z390 Pro RX Polaris EFI.zip - RX5XX Polaris DSDT EFI

 

If you are having trouble to boot up using smbios 19,1 with iGPU enabled then make the following change to the bios

 

• Settings -> IO Ports -> DVMT Pre-Allocated -> 512M

 

You will need to reset the bios by Removing the power cable and then pulling the battery on the motherboard for a few minutes to totally clear the nvram before loading into Catalina with the new EFI for the first time.

Use the unlocked MSR Bios profile if you can and untick kernelPM in the clover config if you do use it.

 

If you prefer using SMBios 1,1 then by all means switch to it but all the old problems of using 19,1 are corrected now with this EFI plus DRM is fully working unless you have a  Polaris gpu. Just to add, SMBios 19,1 is the correct one to be using for our chipset and cpu, if you check the spec of a real macpro it is not a using a CoffeeLake CPU or Z3xx chipset. It does work perfectlyl but correct is correct so 19,1 it is.  

 

TESTING AND FEEDBACK NEEDED SO PLEASE TRY THE FOLLOWING.

 

I have a test for anybody using the new EFI under 19,1 with igpu enabled.

using geekbench please run a gpu test and take a note of the score then restart the system and go into the bios and change the igpu memory from 64mb to 512mb 

Settings -> IO Ports -> DVMT Pre-Allocated -> 512m

Boot back into Catalina and once it’s fully loaded (after 2 or 3 mins) run the geekbench gpu test again and see if you get a nice kick in performance?

Be sure to let me know the result.  

 

if anybody gets a failure to allocate memory (stop sign at startup) using the new EFI ever then again please do let me know as thanks to the MemoryAllocation.efi and OcQuirks you should hopefully never see that or have to do a battery bios reset again

 

@AudioGod again I am stunned about your excellent work on this. First I was a little worried about updating to your latest EFI because my hack already was running great. Except Apple TV+. But I just update my EFI now and voila.. my hack is even better now. Will try to change my DVMT to 512 and see if there is a bump in Geekbench. I will report. Apropos my VSTs are all running flawlessly, just like you said buddy. Thanks again for your great work  

[jmcm]

@AudioGod I only run the test once. Now, after boot, I've got 43857, but on repeat it's getting worse: 43579, 43122...

[Neblogas]

Does the new EFI folder work with F11 and Mojave? not Catalina?

[AudioGod]

3 minutes ago, jmcm said:

@AudioGod I only run the test once. Now, after boot, I've got 43857, but on repeat it's getting worse: 43579, 43122...

That’s margin or error nothing more then. (As well as Processes running in the background changing the score)

 

if you get the same results at 64m then stay there.

 

1 minute ago, Neblogas said:

Does the new EFI folder work with F11 and Mojave? not Catalina?

yes buddy no problems with Mojave go for it. 

Edited January 5, 2020 by AudioGod

[Ralle]

Here are my results with the new EFI 19,1 from Audiogod (2020/01/03)

 

CPU Benchmark:

 

Compute Metal:

 

Compute OpenCL

 

Everything looking good... 

 

Edited January 5, 2020 by Ralle

[AudioGod]

@Ralle can you clean that post up please buddy it’s huge and has the same post pasted 4 times on one message? 

 

Can you do the OpenCL gpu test only at 64m and then again at 512m and compare results Please. LoL 

[Ralle]

Just now, AudioGod said:

@Ralle can you clean that post up please buddy it’s huge and has the same post pasted 4 times on one message? 

 

Can you do the OpenCL gpu test only at 64m and then again at 512m and compare results Please. LoL 

Just saw it 

[AudioGod]

Just now, Ralle said:

Just saw it