Maldon
I have tried for weeks (literally weeks now) to get a stable Sequioa system on my Gigabyte Aorus Pro. I'm going to explain my symptoms in the hope that someone here can help me get to the bottom of this, or I might pay you to help me resolve my system as I need it both for work and for music.
Symptoms:
Random crashing for no apparent reason
Sometimes when I reboot the meter goes exactly halfway across the screen and the system does not boot (requires reset NVRAM and sometimes takes me three or four attempts to get back into OSX). In other words, sometimes boots sometimes doesn't.
Appears to happen when I copy files from one drive to another
Crashed yesterday trying to update UAD software
Crashed regularly when trying to mount EFI
Attempts to correct
Tried enabling/disabling VT-D. Ran stably on 1.0.2 then I updated OCAT to 1.0.3 and it would kernel panic after about 3 seconds after the picker (white line for three seconds followed by constant reboot cycle). Also updated my kexts to current versions.
I then accessed the EFI on another Ventura install I have attached on another SSD and weirdly it seems to have reset my EFI back to previous kexts (i.e. did not seem to take the update).
I also have not been able to get ethernet working. My Maple Ridge card is mapped and working on my ventura install but not yet tested. Need stable system first.
This morning, I made some changes to the Bios and AGAIN... as soon as I did this I had the white meter going slow to exactly half way again and kernel panic. Seems to happen whenever I make a bios change.
Question: Do I need to reset NVram after a bios change?
Hardware:
Gigabyte Aorus Pro X Z790 (Rev 1.0)
Intel i9 14900K chip
Onboard wifi card removed - Replaced with Fenvi T919 (working see below)
Crucial T705 NVME 1TB (was £200 as I wanted the fastest machine I could buy) - for my main OSX drive (and Logic Pro/Music installation)
Crucial P3 1TB - Data drive
Sapphire Radeon RX570 4g
Corsair Dominator Ram 32g x 2 (64 gig total)
Gigabyte 850 PSU
Thunderbolt Maple Ridge (I also have two Thunderbolt Titan Ridge cards and one is flashed for mac, bought on Facebook and confirmed as working in another machine) I have custom mapped the ports and created a customised AML file based on the Titan Ridge base AML downloaded from this site). I am yet to test this in Sequoia and not my priority right now as the system is unstable.
Universal Audio Apollo Twin X (connected with a Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter to the Apollo 16)
Universal Audio Apollo 16 (connected directly to Thunderbolt card
Philips 1080p screen
BIOS Settings:
CSM Support - disabled
Secureboot Mode - Standard (no way of setting it to Other OS in my BIOS)
VT-D - Currently enabled but I have also tried disabling and I seem to have better stability with it on. Pls confirm if this is not recommended
SATA - no way of setting as AHCI in my bios but when SATA is attached seem to be profiling fine
XMP set to XMP 1 - for full use of my 6000 on DDR5
Intel default settings were on 'Extreme' but I have now set it to disabled (but left XMP at XMP 1) to see if this improves things
No other overclocking features set.
Platform Power Management - Disabled
SR3 Save Mode - Disabled
Rest of power set at defaults
Initial Display on PCIE 1 Slot
Internal Graphics - Disabled
PCIE Bifurcation Support - Auto
Onboard Lan Controller - Disabled (as I couldn't get it working)
Audio Controller - Disabled (as I am using HDMI audio on my PC screen for now and want my UAD to be my main audio interface)
Above 4G Decoding - Enabled
Above 4G MMIO Bios assignment - Enabled
Re-size bar support - disabled
IOAPIC 24-119 Entries - disabled
Thunderbolt configuration - All enabled (became visible in my bios when I installed windows on another drive and read elsewhere this was necessary, to get the Thunderbolt card seen by Mac)
Serial Port - disabled
Legacy USB Support - Enabled
XHCI Hand-Off - Enabled
VMD controller - disabled
Fast Boot - Disabled
Windows 10 Features - Enabled
CSM Support - disabled
Boot Arguments (under NVRAM line 3)
alcid=12
-lilbetaall
watchdog=0
dk.e1000=0
e1000=0
npci=0x3000
-wegnoigpu
-ctrsmt
EFI + Plist (attached)
I successfully installed Sequoia using an external SSD in a caddy using your modded EFI from here (but unstable obviously). Attached.
My current EFI is on Opencore 1.0.3
SMBIOS MacPro 7,1
Lilu - 1.7.0
VirtualSMC - 1.3.4
Fenvi installed with AirportBRCMFixup, IOSkywalkFamily, AMFIPass, IO80211FamilyLegacy
RestrictEvents 1.1.5
WhateverGreen - 1.6.9
USBPorts (and associated AML files) - Custom generated USB map with Hackintool (15 ports only)
Bluetooth, Wifi, Airdrop are all working. But having tried so many times to get the system stable, but it still crashes and is continuously hard to get to boot.
Maldon, any help would be gratefully appreciated! Matt
config.plist.zip
Aorus Pro X Z790 MK screenshots.zip