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

[AudioGod]

@microsoftFTW Make sure you delete all the partitions on your windows drive and start from a black disk so it can create a UEFI partition correctly.

[Yayiin]

No luck... 

I will still trying things

 

 

Thanks! 

[pkdesign]

Quick question. I see you mentioned "I have the Efi set up for full native USB with no port limits at all with the pro."

 

Does this mean I do not need to use the custom USBPorts.kext I created? I have the Wifi version of the board so not exact. And I assume you always need the port limit patches?

[AudioGod]

3 minutes ago, pkdesign said:

Quick question. I see you mentioned "I have the Efi set up for full native USB with no port limits at all with the pro."

 

Does this mean I do not need to use the custom USBPorts.kext I created? I have the Wifi version of the board so not exact. And I assume you always need the port limit patches?

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

Edited December 30, 2019 by AudioGod

[Tiem]

I have the wifi model as well. The USB port ordering will be off using this guide. Also, for some strange reason I can’t get Logi’s G HUB to see my mouse so something is def off with the USB assignments in the Pro’s DSDT.

 

Everything will work but that wifi card on the board does mess things up.

 

Ideally I’d love to get a proper DSDT for the wifi model. Alternatively I’ve debated pulling the wifi card but not sure that will make any difference when it comes to port number and order.

 

The files included in this guide will work for the wifi model but there will be irregularities, so just FYI.

[AudioGod]

26 minutes ago, Tiem said:

I have the wifi model as well. The USB port ordering will be off using this guide. Also, for some strange reason I can’t get Logi’s G HUB to see my mouse so something is def off with the USB assignments in the Pro’s DSDT.

 

Everything will work but that wifi card on the board does mess things up.

 

Ideally I’d love to get a proper DSDT for the wifi model. Alternatively I’ve debated pulling the wifi card but not sure that will make any difference when it comes to port number and order.

 

The files included in this guide will work for the wifi model but there will be irregularities, so just FYI.

That’s incorrect buddy, USB port ordering is the same and USB port HS14 is reserved for WiFi on the board and that’s it. HS14 on the none WiFi pro is not used. That’s the only difference in the port ordering (none at all) 

We have checked out the dsdt for the WiFi model and there’s no difference. It’s disabled as standard on my current dsdt and you can also disable it in the bios now and that’s that buddy. 
 

I doubt it’s the usb ssdt that off and more likely the hub not playing nicely with your hack or MacOS. I’ve got 2 usb hubs coming off my hack. 1 via 2.0 and 1 via usb c and I encountered 2 hubs that wouldn’t play nicely for the usb c one and got lucky on my third attempt. 
 

a few people have resolved there usb hub issues by dropping the ram speed down to 2133 (turn off XMP) and it tends to resolve it. My way was to find one that just worked...lol

Edited December 30, 2019 by AudioGod

[Tiem]

Yeah I did disable wifi in the bios because why not. Don’t need it at all.

 

All my research has shown pretty much what you’ve also discovered, that the Pro and Pro wifi are pretty identical. I mean Gigabyte doesn’t actually have a manual for the Pro. They only provide the model with wifi.

 

But Hackintool shows that the port ordering is off. If you look at Glasgood’s guide he posted the physical mapping of the ports. Most of my devices when plugged in don’t match.

 

I don’t have any USB hubs attached and I actually removed the connectors from the board for the ports on my case. I only plug in using the I/O plate on the MB. I was actually considering only mapping those and removing everything else as I don’t need them to make it as close to a real Mac as possible. Gotta learn DSDT stuff tho

 

I’ve also been meaning to ask, the patches applied in Clover like SKL+ fix (is that for nvram memory allocation or something else?) and HDAS to HDEF I have most of those disabled. I think I only left one. System boots and runs just fine. Are they there for older versions of macOS (I’m on the latest Cat beta)

[AudioGod]

6 minutes ago, Tiem said:

Yeah I did disable wifi in the bios because why not. Don’t need it at all.

 

All my research has shown pretty much what you’ve also discovered, that the Pro and Pro wifi are pretty identical. I mean Gigabyte doesn’t actually have a manual for the Pro. They only provide the model with wifi.

 

But Hackintool shows that the port ordering is off. If you look at Glasgood’s guide he posted the physical mapping of the ports. Most of my devices when plugged in don’t match.

 

I don’t have any USB hubs attached and I actually removed the connectors from the board for the ports on my case. I only plug in using the I/O plate on the MB. I was actually considering only mapping those and removing everything else as I don’t need them to make it as close to a real Mac as possible. Gotta learn DSDT stuff tho

 

I’ve also been meaning to ask, the patches applied in Clover like SKL+ fix (is that for nvram memory allocation or something else?) and HDAS to HDEF I have most of those disabled. I think I only left one. System boots and runs just fine. Are they there for older versions of macOS (I’m on the latest Cat beta)

That’s because the way the ports work on my dsdt and ssdt makes the, all work in any way and Hackintool will show madness but on the flip side go into the logs and your see that it’s all perfect.

if you want a deeper explanation on the usb patching then ask MaLD0n as he created it.  
 

the way my EFI is created is perfect as is and any changes other then adding your info is wrong and incorrect but totally up to you. If you used my EFI in vanilla form you would see that everything works as it should do. I get it though as I like to tinker too but your reading way too into it to the point that your making big mistakes buddy but again it’s your hack and up to you, 

Edited December 30, 2019 by AudioGod

[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