AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 3 hours ago, Pieroman said: Updated to the latest EFI folder without MA.efi, performed full battery reset and put iGPU to 32MB... But ended up getting the "error allocating boot..." error after a while. A couple of things though... I got the error right after restarting from Windows, and then the error kept happening (whereas it was fine for several boots on macOS before that). Could restarting from windows be a cause somehow, and more importantly is it normal for the error to keep happening once it appears (only got it to boot with a backup EFI including MA.efi) ? Second link question is about disabling iGPU, which seems to be my only option left... what kind of functionality do I lose by doing that ? I seem to remember sidecar and/or x265 decoding is that correct or does everything still work with iMac 19,1 even with iGPU disabled (I don't dare ask about DRM haha... but still curious haha). The Z390 Pro is a dam tricky board to use without MA.efi and the igpu enabled but windows shouldn’t cause that. As a test try temporally disconnecting your windows drive and see if it stays stable by restarting macOS over and over ( say 5 or 10 times) if that works then shut down and wait a few mins and then start the hack back up and if it boots then you know there’s something else happening to your hack fault wise that’s causing the problem. having the igpu disabled with shiki 144 will be fully functional other then your lose Sidecar and quicksync. If your not using a Navi gpu then one other option for you would be to switch to smbios iMacPro1,1 with igpu disabled. This would give you full working drm and everything else bar Sidecar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Nicholson Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 7 minutes ago, AudioGod said: yeah confirmed, I just refitted the t919 to my hack to test but using the lowest slot instead of the 1x above it and it sure does work a lot better there. After all these weeks/months of trial and error. But from a theoretical stand point it makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 Just now, Cameron Nicholson said: After all these weeks/months of trial and error. But from a theoretical stand point it makes sense. Does it? Hhhhmmmmm, it’s a 1x card to start with isn’t it? i don’t see how using a 4x slot instead of the 1x can cause that. thinking about it though, I use a BCM943602CS native card and it’s on a pcie adaptor. The adaptor is a 1x pcie card yet I know the BCM943602CS runs at 4x natively so you might actually have a point there. Baffled I am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) ok ok I just did some digging and the t919 is a pcie 4x card. That explains it then. @WizeMan are you using the lowest pcie slot already? Switch your card to it if your not. Edited February 17, 2020 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 @texem Question, is your ABWB BCM943602CS metal bracket silver or black? also have a look at the BCM943602CS card itself and tell me if you see a CE approved stamp on it or not? I am doing a build for somebody and I bought a ABWB BCM943602CS from amazon and it’s not a CE approved BCM943602CS so I suspect it’s a fake one and also when the system goes to sleep under smbios1,1 (Vega56 gpu installed) The system crashes and restarts just like what was happening to you. I removed the ABWB BCM943602CS and tried again without it and low and behold the crash stopped straight away. I’ve just called amazon about it and let them know and the guy admitted that they have Had this flagged up a lot of times over the last few months and gave me a full refund and a £15 voucher as a sorry. my Personal ABWB BCM943602CS has a silver bracket not black and is ce approved, I’m going to swap it out for my t919 I think and donate my ABWB BCM943602CS to the build I’m doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Nicholson Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 24 minutes ago, AudioGod said: ok ok I just did some digging and the t919 is a pcie 4x card. That explains it then. @WizeMan are you using the lowest pcie slot already? Switch your card to it if your not. Thats what made me start to wonder, when I retrieved the link to post here I noticed it's a x4 card. So sidecar requires integrated which I'm guessing we have disabled. All good, I run dual monitors which I'm about to upgrade to 4K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 14 minutes ago, Cameron Nicholson said: Thats what made me start to wonder, when I retrieved the link to post here I noticed it's a x4 card. So sidecar requires integrated which I'm guessing we have disabled. All good, I run dual monitors which I'm about to upgrade to 4K Sidecar works fine here. igpu enabled under 19,1 and away you go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieroman Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 59 minutes ago, AudioGod said: The Z390 Pro is a dam tricky board to use without MA.efi and the igpu enabled but windows shouldn’t cause that. As a test try temporally disconnecting your windows drive and see if it stays stable by restarting macOS over and over ( say 5 or 10 times) if that works then shut down and wait a few mins and then start the hack back up and if it boots then you know there’s something else happening to your hack fault wise that’s causing the problem. having the igpu disabled with shiki 144 will be fully functional other then your lose Sidecar and quicksync. If your not using a Navi gpu then one other option for you would be to switch to smbios iMacPro1,1 with igpu disabled. This would give you full working drm and everything else bar Sidecar. Thanks for the answer ! Tough luck, I would have tried iMacPro1,1 but I have a 5700XT. I'll try things out again, maybe deactivating built-in audio which I don't care about will free some more memory for the kernel (anyone tried ?). If it's still not OK I will probably live on the edge and keep using MA.efi ... Are the problems between iMacPro 1,1 SMBIOS things that could get solved in future updates of macOS or WEG/Lilu ? Edited February 17, 2020 by Pieroman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Nicholson Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 9 minutes ago, AudioGod said: Sidecar works fine here. igpu enabled under 19,1 and away you go Thanks, it was as easy as that. Silly question, the hack won't use the iGPU for rendering, it will still use my discrete GPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Pieroman said: Thanks for the answer ! Tough luck, I would have tried iMacPro1,1 but I have a 5700XT. I'll try things out again, maybe deactivating built-in audio which I don't care about will free some more memory for the kernel (anyone tried ?). If it's still not OK I will probably live on the edge and keep using MA.efi ... Are the problems between iMacPro 1,1 SMBIOS things that could get solved in future updates of macOS or WEG/Lilu ? the Navi drivers are awful in MacOS and it’s Apple or AMD that actually need to sort it out as try using a Navi gpu on a real Mac and it crashes all over the place. 19,1 is stable with the 5700xt but saying that if you don’t do anything super gpu intensive like gaming or gpu rendering then you should be ok under 1,1 as that’s the only things that really make it crash. This applies to a real Mac as well as hacks. 2 minutes ago, Cameron Nicholson said: Thanks, it was as easy as that. Silly question, the hack won't use the iGPU for rendering, it will still use my discrete GPU? only time the igpu comes into play is when you use quick sync buddy. Edited February 17, 2020 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Nicholson Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, AudioGod said: only time the igpu comes into play is when you use quick sync buddy. Ok, thanks. I've pretty much got a perfect hack now, thank you, appreciate it. Next thing to tackle is fan control. But that can wait haha Edited February 17, 2020 by Cameron Nicholson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Cameron Nicholson said: Ok, thanks. I've pretty much got a perfect hack now, thank you, appreciate it. Glad to hear it, I’m sick at home with a stinking cold so I’m more helpful on here today as I’m bored and stuck indoors....lol Edited February 17, 2020 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Nicholson Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Just now, AudioGod said: Glad to hear it, I’m sick at with a stinking cold so I’m more helpful on here today as I’m bored and stuck indoors....lol Fly round the world and rewire my fan setup haha, get well so man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 Just now, Cameron Nicholson said: Fly round the world and rewire my fan setup haha, get well so man. I would but my private jet is being serviced... cheers buddy, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieroman Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 I just saw this tutorial on hackintosher suggesting to add an OcQuirks.plist and set DevirtualiseMmio to true and ForceExitBootServices to false. Is it already set in the compiled OcQuirks here, or is it something anyone has tried ? Good luck with your cold @AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Pieroman said: I just saw this tutorial on hackintosher suggesting to add an OcQuirks.plist and set DevirtualiseMmio to true and ForceExitBootServices to false. Is it already set in the compiled OcQuirks here, or is it something anyone has tried ? Good luck with your cold @AudioGod give it a try and let me know how it goes? it very well could help yes, the last time we looked though the OCQuirks plist it was useless for our setups but that could of very well changed now. I remove the plist when I list a new revision of OCQuirks so just download R15 from the github here. https://github.com/ReddestDream/OcQuirks/releases as a sidenote, it’s harder to get 19,1 with igpu enabled on a OpenCore setup then it is a clover one so I have my doubts that it will help but I could be totally wrong, (it would be great if I am) Edited February 17, 2020 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texem Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, AudioGod said: @texem Question, is your ABWB BCM943602CS metal bracket silver or black? silver and CE. Sorry couldn't shot a better photo Edited February 17, 2020 by texem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) @texem no that’s perfect your legit. Phew. drop down to the 4x slot under it, I think the combo is 4x u know. im trying it now there on the build I’m doing and getting much better results. update, no forget it....it’s a 1x adaptor, I just checked the spec, Edited February 17, 2020 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texem Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 I'll give it a try, tnx for the hint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texem Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) as expected : the above x4 hype is nonsense ;-) tbh: for whatever reason it should use more than one lane ? performance ? Never ... Edited February 17, 2020 by texem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, texem said: as expected : the above x4 hype is nonsense ;-) tbh: for whatever reason it should use more than one lane ? performance ? Never ... It’s a 1x card to start with as I quickly corrected myself already above. it’s the t919 that’s 4x and crashes on the 1x slot Edited February 17, 2020 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texem Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) ah, ok . To be correct with the model type it's a BCM94360CS2 / two antennas. There exists "CS" with 3 and "CD" with 4 antennas and BT4.1 The ABWB is the "older" model with BT 4.0 . Edited February 17, 2020 by texem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioGod Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, texem said: ah, ok . To be correct with the model type it's a BCM94360CS2 / two antennas. There exists "CS" with 3 and "CD" with 4 antennas and BT4.1 l. The ABWB is the "older" model with BT 4.0 . yep that’s right bud (BCM94360CS2 was used up until the 2017 MacBook) but fun fact and you check this one for yourself BCM94360CS2 is actually a 4x card and ABWB are using a 1x adaptor, I doubt it makes any difference tbh but it’s a bit strange of them to do that I think. Edited February 17, 2020 by AudioGod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WizeMan Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 2 hours ago, AudioGod said: ok ok I just did some digging and the t919 is a pcie 4x card. That explains it then. @WizeMan are you using the lowest pcie slot already? Switch your card to it if your not. Oh snap I am using PCIEX1_3 as stated on @glasgood's guide I'll swap the card on PCIEX4 port and report back. I 'll even try MSR unlocking it again. Maybe this time is my lucky time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WizeMan Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 So: Fenvi T-919 card on PCIEX4 port MSR Unlocked I need to give this some time in order to get legit results. But I've been playing Music on my Sony bluetooth headphones and while previously (even with MSR Locked) I could sense some audio glitches here and there, now I cannot hear any audible glitch. I will give back legit results later today or tomorrow. Until then let's hope this is the end of the MYSTERIOUS_MSR_BT_JUNK issue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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