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Thank you so much MaLd0n! With that DSDT with whatever patches you applied successfully made me past the install and able to boot the installed OS! https://imgur.com/a/elP9MoW As a preliminary I tested a few things and was surprised that bluetooth worked OOB VendorID: 8087 DeviceID: 0AAA as I was under the impression that wifi and bluetooth are combined in one chip and that the Intel Wireless-AC 9560 (not sure of this) isn't supported so assumed the bluetooth wouldn't be either. Is it possible that the bluetooth part of the chip could work but not the wifi? Or that the bluetooth is separated and is independent on mainboard? Well in any case now I just have to install my hybrid hard disk for the real permanent installation and work out as much as I can of getting as much that I can to work as possible! But now you've enabled me to actually move forward with this process, so thanks again! Untested: Ethernet Works: Intel UHD 630 accelerated, 144Hz refresh rate works, 1080p resolution, brightness adjustment works (but not brightness keys). Bluetooth Microphone input, (no non bluetooth audio yet, but ALC0294 seems supported so should be easy to get working) Volume Keys work Webcam USB (3.1/3.0/2.0 I believe all works(this machine only has entirely USB 3.1 ports), but will have to do the port mapping related to USBInjectAll kext and to finalize the USB configuration) Keyboard + Keyboard RGB backlight (with personalized settings remembered from configuration on Windows) Doesn't work: Trackpad (From other thread a user said this trackpad has been gotten to work but only in polling mode, so I will have to look into that) -> Sleep (though that's probably because the NULLPowerManagement kext I believe, should be able to remove that and do the Plugin Clover injection and then it should work maybe... Looks like it enters sleep but keyboard backlight keeps flashing and upon trying to get out of it by hitting a key it fakes coming back but screen is frozen. Mouse moves for a short while until it disappears and hard reset is required) I'm probably forgetting some things but I'll get to them when I get to them! So finally aside from getting the audio working, fixing sleep, and hopefully the trackpad, and making sure the ethernet works... I'll probably just have to perhaps swap out the WiFi chipset if I need to and basically everything or nearly everything will be working on this machine and I'll be completely happy! ! Now to get to work on it! Only if I get stuck again I'll ask for more help! xD lol !

Okay hopefully it's not the case that your system doesn't have NVRAM or else it won't be able to remember your automatically configured or manually configured UEFI boot entries... Ok you have some options... You should look in your UEFI BIOS and you should see a place to add UEFI boot entries manually. I have attached some images of what my UEFI BIOS boot entry adder screen looks like and the process in order to manually add a boot entry. Just do it differently in that you would select your SSD where in my example I used the Sandisk USB because I haven't got my macOS installation working yet and so I'm using that as an example because that's where I have my Clover currently, but it's the same process just select your SSD with Clover instead of what I did. -> https://imgur.com/a/jnDPIZe If you don't have anything like that in your BIOS an alternative method I've used before (on a PC that didn't have a boot entry creator in it's UEFI BIOS, but still had working NVRAM) is if you have a Linux install or a Linux live usb that you must boot via UEFI method... You can use efibootmgr! Described here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Efibootmgr and here: https://linux.die.net/man/8/efibootmgr Basically as those directions show, once you have your EFI partition mounted on Linux, you can view and alter your systems NVRAM to add boot entries change the order of entries and/or select a particular entry to boot automatically / active boot entry, or just an entry to temporarily boot next boot, etc... root # efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0002 Timeout: 3 seconds BootOrder: 0002,0003,0000,0004 Boot0000* CD/DVD Drive BIOS(3,0,00) Boot0001* Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00) Boot0002* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,800,61800,6d98f360-cb3e-4727-8fed-5ce0c040365d)File(\EFI\boot\bootx64.efi) Boot0003* Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00)P0: ST1500DM003-9YN16G So viewing it like that will show you what it's currently set with, which it'll likely only show your Windows in the #1 position since your Clover entry isn't coming up when you load your boot menu (with your F12 key for your computer) You're going to want to add an entry with something like this: root # efibootmgr -c -L "macOS" -l '\EFI\CLOVER\CLOVERx64.efi' So then when viewing it again afterwards it'll be added so then if your view looks something like this: root # efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0002 Timeout: 3 seconds BootOrder: 0002,0003,0000,0004 Boot0000* CD/DVD Drive BIOS(3,0,00) Boot0001* Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00) Boot0002* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,800,61800,6d98f360-cb3e-4727-8fed-5ce0c040365d)File(\EFI\boot\bootx64.efi) Boot0003* Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00)P0: ST1500DM003-9YN16G Boot0004* macOS HD(1,800,61800,6d98f360-cb3e-4727-8fed-5ce0c040365d)File(\EFI\CLOVER\CLOVERx64.efi) Set it as active first: (with an asterisk signifies that in above output) root # efibootmgr -b 0004 -a Then it'll show up when loading your bootmenu or to auto boot change the order so that it's first: root # efibootmgr -o 0004,0002,0003,0000 Viewing it again will show the updated boot order with macOS via Clover ordered first so it will be what automatically boots when you power up your machine (if that's what you want, otherwise press your boot menu key and it should now let you choose your "macOS" boot entry or whatever you named it). If the entries don't stick indicating your system doesn't have persistent NVRAM, then you could either backup and overwrite your Window's UEFI bootloader @ \EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi so Clover auto boots that way, or annoying use a USB stick everytime you boot macOS (I would prefer the former over that, but if Windows updates the UEFI bootloader through an update or something like that you may end up having to re-install it this way) But note that you can just copy the CLOVERX64.efi over bootx64.efi and it will work just fine, even though its not in the CLOVER folder, Clover knows where it's folder is -> \EFI\CLOVER. Finally Clover itself has an option to add a boot menu entry on the Clover Boot Options as seen in image #11 that I've attached, but I think you have to be booted from it from HD or SSD for the entry to be made for that EFI partition or it'll create it for the USB if booted via that as it looks like that's the entry it's creating from the image. Anyway hope this helps

Hello there! Just bought this machine the ASUS ROG STRIX SCAR II GL704GV, and just like my old laptop am trying to get macOS running on it. I finally got really close to success but I believe I have the same problem as this person: https://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=9729. Though he has the GL704GM not GL704GV which is different in that it has a RTX 2060 instead of GTX 1060 graphics card which I understand RTX is unsupported currently but the Intel UHD 630 is supported as far as I'm aware so that'll be good enough for my macOS install... The problem is that the macOS installer using the Olarila Mojave installer makes it all the way to the end (using either config2 or config, both boot) and when there's less than 1 minute remaining it locks up and fans spin up as the person in the above link describes. It looks like a DSDT edit is what ended up solving it, but I'm not sure which edit actually is what helped them and I haven't done any DSDT editing yet and have only just dumped my DSDT with f4 in Clover. (and I don't want to try the DSDT that worked for that user since the model number is slightly different with slightly different hardware as I've shown above and think it might be risky to try the wrong DSDT for my hardware) I've also found this user: https://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=10807&p=88294&hilit=gl704gv#p88294 Which does have the GL704GV model exactly but no DSDT posted and what was posted a config that worked for that person doesn't work for me so I do think it's more to do with the DSDT rather than a config file setting... I actually did take a look at the finalized DSDT on that first link and saw edits made by MaLd0n but I'm not sure which edits I need or if those are publicly available to use for patching and which are going to be useful / needed for my particular machine. Finally I am first installing macOS to my USB stick's extra partition for testing and in the end to have a backup working installation on USB so hopefully that doesn't have anything to do with my issue and it's still compatible to use HFS+ for Mojave correct? I am going to move my SHDD from my old machine and install macOS Mojave to it after I get a working install on USB but haven't done so yet due to it being my only working macOS install (of 10.12 Sierra) at the moment and have needed it to help get this one up and running. Since it's not an SSD though it can't use APFS? So it too will be HFS+ I believe. Thanks for your help, I've attached my DSDT extracted using CLOVER -> GL704GV-origin.zip Images: https://imgur.com/a/y4rnMrE