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

[AudioGod]

9 minutes ago, WizeMan said:

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  

Awesome bud and fingers crossed it stays that way. 

[pkdesign]

On 2/16/2020 at 5:53 AM, WizeMan said:

One question:

 

Since the latest Clover EFIs use OcQuirks and FwRuntimeServices, is the slide=0 boot argument needed?

I do not use it. I do not have an boot arguments except darkwake=3

[pkdesign]

FYI: I updated to Clover 5104, and OCQuirks 15 this morning and everything works on my system.

 

I also deleted the dw=3 boot argument since sleep doesn't work right for me anyway.

[MaLd0n]

8 minutes ago, pkdesign said:

I also deleted the dw=3 boot argument since sleep doesn't work right for me anyway.

some corsair cooler cause problem in sleep, is a usb cable connected, try set this usb port to internal(0xff/255)

[larabee]

On 2/16/2020 at 3:02 AM, AudioGod said:

good question, on my Z390 Master I don’t need it no.

i put it in there on the Z390 pro more to be on the safe side but by all means try removing it and if it works and can pass X amount or restarts on a cycle then it’s good to go.

X=Whatever you think is enough restarts or cold boots to satisfy yourself really. 
for me X=50 but for system stress professional @larabee It’s more like 100.

 

@AudioGod's current Clover EFI is rock solid for Z390 Pro with latest BIOS F12D. Anything lower is unstable. My testing methodology: disconnect all other HDD (reseting 200 times will likely to affect it), cold reboot 100 times and 50 additional times with rebooting into windows and come back to Mac OS. 

I noticed with your OpenCore, BIOS boot device order is sometimes changed without me touching it... 

[AudioGod]

10 minutes ago, larabee said:

 

@AudioGod's current Clover EFI is rock solid for Z390 Pro with latest BIOS F12D. Anything lower is unstable. My testing methodology: disconnect all other HDD (reseting 200 times will likely to affect it), cold reboot 100 times and 50 additional times with rebooting into windows and come back to Mac OS. 

I noticed with your OpenCore, BIOS boot device order is sometimes changed without me touching it... 

 

@larabee about the bios ordering, funny you should mention that cos its been happening to me too but also with clover. turned out to be the slot I had my windows drive connected too on the master. I moved it to the slot under my gpu and bam it stopped messing with the boot order. 

Edited February 17, 2020 by AudioGod

[pkdesign]

1 hour ago, MaLd0n said:

some corsair cooler cause problem in sleep, is a usb cable connected, try set this usb port to internal(0xff/255)

USB cable disconnected.

 

If you didn’t see it before, sleep works with dw=3, it is external hard drives that complain about not being ejected properly. I tried AudioGod's suggestions.

 

Also, it seems that even if I eject the disk manually and then sleep, when computer wakes up it still gives me eject warning. Hmpf.

Edited February 17, 2020 by pkdesign

[Tiem]

15 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. 

It's a 1x card: http://en.fenvi.com/en/brand_view.php?id=366

 

Moving it to the lower slot won't do anything but give you nice placebo effect 

[AudioGod]

6 minutes ago, Tiem said:

It's a 1x card: http://en.fenvi.com/en/brand_view.php?id=366

 

Moving it to the lower slot won't do anything but give you nice placebo effect 

Yeah your right aswell,

Amazon uk lists it as a 4x card, 

Why do you think moving it to the lowest slot has made two peoples system stop crashing then? That ain’t placebo so there’s got to be a reason why other then the card itself?

what do you reckon it is in that case? 
 

 

[Tiem]

I really can't say. Same reason my car drives amazing after a bath. 

 

But you can see from the physical PCIe male connector on the card that it's just a PCIe 1.

 

I'm inclined to think that it has nothing to do where the card sits but more the fact of moving it (like a reboot fixes things). Could be resetting NVRAM and whatever kicked the card... for now.

 

I moved the card to bottom slot as well. I'll keep an eye on it but it's working the same. I'll test the range and post up if anything is different. Don't get me wrong I want better performance/reliability, but I also don't wanna convince myself something is happening when it's not 

[Cameron Nicholson]

I'm back down at 50Mbp/s with a laggy mouse when uploading, I'll keep testing though. 

[Cameron Nicholson]

Now its working fine again, but occasionally hiccups. I think next thing to do is change the aerials, moving it to x4 has definitely improved it

It's consistent with my iPhone at the moment

[AudioGod]

4 hours ago, Tiem said:

I really can't say. Same reason my car drives amazing after a bath. 

 

But you can see from the physical PCIe male connector on the card that it's just a PCIe 1.

 

I'm inclined to think that it has nothing to do where the card sits but more the fact of moving it (like a reboot fixes things). Could be resetting NVRAM and whatever kicked the card... for now.

 

I moved the card to bottom slot as well. I'll keep an eye on it but it's working the same. I'll test the range and post up if anything is different. Don't get me wrong I want better performance/reliability, but I also don't wanna convince myself something is happening when it's not 

Hahaha yeah I hear you there buddy but This isn’t the same thing as slapping the car or your girl through the wash (I know that’s a rare one for her)... there’s something else defo going on here. I’m running the same test as you anyway and have swapped out my card and fitted the t919 to my bottom slot and will see how it goes too. Il speak to MaLD0n later and see if he has any ideas why.

Edited February 18, 2020 by AudioGod

[Tiem]

Tested the range, still the same.

 

It's going to perform the same in any slot. Even at PCIe 1x, the card has plenty of throughput for WiFi/BT. Like slapping your Honda Civic on the autobahn. It's not going to turn into a Ferrari.

 

Snake oil.

[AudioGod]

49 minutes ago, Tiem said:

Tested the range, still the same.

 

It's going to perform the same in any slot. Even at PCIe 1x, the card has plenty of throughput for WiFi/BT. Like slapping your Honda Civic on the autobahn. It's not going to turn into a Ferrari.

 

Snake oil.

you can’t call all other people liars bro cos that’s what your basically doing. If somebody says it fixed there problems and then a second one says it you got to open them German eyes of yours and consider why it’s happening instead of dropping into a stance that everybody is wrong apart from you.

Be helpful and everybody will be thankfully right or wrong but be a {censored} and expect to be treated like one back.  
be nice dude or be silent, you ruffle to many feathers on here and I’m not talking about my own.

Edited February 18, 2020 by AudioGod

[AudioGod]

Here’s the lane sharing and Tiem is correct in the fact that it shouldn’t make a difference as no lanes get swapped or taken from anywhere else for any of the x1 or the x4 slots. I wonder what on earth is going on in that case. Don’t worry I believe you guys that are having the problem, no doubts from me there I just can’t work out why it’s happening or why moving the card to slot 4 helps. I’m not ashamed to say that I’m clueless over this I’m afraid. 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 18, 2020 by AudioGod

[WizeMan]

14 minutes ago, AudioGod said:

Here’s the lane sharing and Tiem is correct in the fact that it shouldn’t make a difference as no lanes get swapped or taken from anywhere else for any of the x1 or the x4 slots. I wonder what on earth is going on in that case. Don’t worry I believe you guys that are having the problem, no doubts from me there I just can’t work out why it’s happening or why moving the card to slot 4 helps. I’m not ashamed to say that I’m clueless over this I’m afraid. 

 

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The only thing I know is that I am about one day in with MSR Unlocked and no bluetooth issues whatsoever have appeared with the Fenvi card on PCIEX4

[AudioGod]

54 minutes ago, WizeMan said:

 

The only thing I know is that I am about one day in with MSR Unlocked and no bluetooth issues whatsoever have appeared with the Fenvi card on PCIEX4

 And now that makes 3 people that it’s helped. Baffle!

Edited February 18, 2020 by AudioGod

[Tiem]

9 hours ago, AudioGod said:

you can’t call all other people liars bro cos that’s what your basically doing.

No. Stop right there. I'm saying at best they are wrong. You can be wrong and not be a liar. Being wrong is ok. BEING WRONG IS OK. Stop with your forced choice fallacy.

[AudioGod]

2 minutes ago, Tiem said:

No. Stop right there. I'm saying at best they are wrong. You can be wrong and not be a liar. Being wrong is ok. BEING WRONG IS OK. Stop with your forced choice fallacy.

you wanna stop right there mate. Your rude and arrogant and constantly talk down to people and your out of line. I never said being wrong wasn’t ok I said the way you come across is wrong as your talking down your nose at people does make you come across like you think people are talking {censored}, this place is meant to be a place of discussion and not a place for you to constantly ridicule people. You have been reported to the mods on various occasions by other people and I always find out about it because they come back to me so you can think what you like but it’s you who needs to fix up and be more polite and stop looking down on people.

 

 

Its idiots like you who make me want to close down this thread and go elsewhere

[eSaF]

@ AudioGod - To close the thread because of one person would be a great lost to me and many others. I've noticed over time you are even willing to tear down your setup to try different ideas and methods just to help find a solution to a problem someone would post - NOW THAT IS DEDICATION and I applaud you.

@ Tiem - No two board are alike, there will be a difference no matter how slight and may offer a difference in performance, so what works for you will not necessary work for another. It's often said 'We are here to learn and help each other' being rude or abusive solves nothing. If you don't agree with an idea or method, no one is forcing you to adapt, just move on and stick with what works for you.

Edited February 18, 2020 by eSaF

[Pieroman]

On 2/17/2020 at 1:15 PM, AudioGod said:

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)

I just tried adding OcQuirks.plist and change DevirtualiseMmio to true and ForceExitBootServices to false. Otherwise the same as your EFI (+battery clear). For now it has survived a few restarts and cold boots without errors, including with booting windows in between. Only time will tell if that was a good solution.

 

And don't leave @AudioGod ! Thanks again  

[AudioGod]

7 minutes ago, Pieroman said:

I just tried adding OcQuirks.plist and change DevirtualiseMmio to true and ForceExitBootServices to false. Otherwise the same as your EFI (+battery clear). For now it has survived a few restarts and cold boots without errors, including with booting windows in between. Only time will tell if that was a good solution.

 

And don't leave @AudioGod ! Thanks again  

Awesome bud, thanks for letting me know.

take your hack on a boot cycle including flicking back and forth from windows to cat and see what happens.

do like a cycle of at least 20 restarts and cold boots or many more if you can handle the boredom of doing that?

when I’m testing for that sort of failure I tend to do over 50 cycles before I’m convinced it’s gonna hold true. 
do keep me posted and if it works well for you and a few others il integrate it into the next update.  
 

Good stuff buddy thank you.  

[Tiem]

3 hours ago, eSaF said:

No two board are alike, there will be a difference no matter how slight and may offer a difference in performance, so what works for you will not necessary work for another. It's often said 'We are here to learn and help each other' being rude or abusive solves nothing. If you don't agree with an idea or method, no one is forcing you to adapt, just move on and stick with what works for you.

I never said I didn't agree with it. All I said, was from a technical perspective, there's no reason it should be any different. All good if you want to say we don't know why it works but it works. But I'm not down with saying the 4x lane makes a lick of difference or the card belongs there. It does not.

[larabee]

16 minutes ago, Tiem said:

I never said I didn't agree with it. All I said, was from a technical perspective, there's no reason it should be any different. All good if you want to say we don't know why it works but it works. But I'm not down with saying the 4x lane makes a lick of difference or the card belongs there. It does not.

 

@Tiem at least it works better for me and for others when I move the card to different slot.

We don't know how it works that way, we cannot ignore the fact that people experiment with the slot position and it works.

You're tunneling on the lane bandwidth, but forgot about the lane position. The slot name is PCIX4, so I'm down saying moving it to X4 slot helps my system.

 

P.S.:I wonder who taught you English, but the way you discuss matters may upset other people. 

 

@AudioGod Adding something for all of us to discuss: I found several old threads in a forum whose name I should not mentioned here. Many people complaint about the card. Several people had to put it at different slot for the wifi to work properly. So Slot position will affect the card functionality. One person reported that if he plugged it in to PCIEX16_2, he had to set the bandwidth to X2 in order for the card to function properly.

@Cameron Nicholson can you double check your Platform Power Management and see if your PCH Active State Power Management has been disabled? 

 

 

In conclusion, we found some correlation between changing PCI Express slot position to the functionality of T919 card but we don't know the reason why it happens.

 

 

 

Edited February 18, 2020 by larabee