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I went on vacation and left my hackintosh sleeping in order to reduce power draw. I was hesitant to do that, because sleep is a good way to crash my hackintosh. Sure enough, I came home and ironically my machine's fans were running on high with the wall power monitor showing 170w draw, with the...

I recommend against ASRock GPUs. The aforementioned ASRock 5700 XT was never reliably able to boot on Catalina. It basically required me to keep the Gigabyte Radeon X570 in an adjacent PCIe port to ensure the machine would reliably boot to something other than a black screen at login. When the...

As an update, VirtualBox 6.1.50 (last release from that branch) runs fine on my AMD Hackintosh running Sonoma 14.6.1 (latest release as of this post). It just requires gyrations to partially disable SIP and disable AMFI before installation, which then allows the requisite VBox kexts to be...

Thanks. This issue persists in Ventura 13.6.9 w/ VirtualBox 6.1.50. Anyone know any way to get it to work normally? VirtualBox 6.1.50 runs fine (without this workaround) on my AMD Hackintosh in Sonoma 14.6.1. That is to say, whatever this issue was, it doesn't exist in the latest MacOS. Of...

Furthermore, there is no current way to directly export/import the "Local Items" keychain or its contents. That is to say, you cannot copy/paste Local Items entries into any other keychain, and the File=>Export Items function is disabled. The "Local Items" keychain storage schema is considered...

There are significant side effects for migrating SMBIOS related values, e.g. for an iMacPro 1,1 => MacPro 7,1 configuration for an existing system. The root cause of this is the Hardware UUID, as can be obtained by executing system_profiler SPHardwareDataType The Hardware UUID output by this...

Right. If memory serves, that agdpmod=pikera option was the first thing I tried. It's currently set (and may be necessary from what I have read), but it did not fix the issue. FWIW, the Radeon X570 worked fine with that boot argument too even though it did not need it. This has been very...

I am creating this thread to share the solution to the issue I had with my new Radeon 5700XT booting to a black screen after hardware upgrade. None of the common solutions to this issue worked for me. My machine is an Aorus Master X570 w/ a Ryzen 3700X running Catalina. This machine was...