lol bro. plz help.

[SmokeWithJXRDXN]

hey guys, so, first i’m new here on an actual profile. but i’ve had my system running Shaneee’s (or at least what i believe to be his) “HighSierraAMD V3 Unofficial.dmg” in the past, and got to the installer a few weeks ago but forgot about the security certificate expiration and just assumed the copy to have corrupted with time and disk transfers. my problem now, is that on the same system, i can no longer make it to the installer. when i “Boot macOS from HighSierraAMD” it shows the attached file below, then reboots, and if tried again launches into an OLD style EFI Bios?? which from what i understand is a USB issue? but it’s recurrent no matter the port i try. idk man. any help would be very greatly appreciated. i just want macOS back without fighting tooth and nail to get to the installer, when i know this very copy most certainly works with no tweaks to the EFI config.plist. i feel like (and probably am) a fool. it’s probably something simple i’m overlooking but for the life of me i can’t figure it out anymore.

AMD FX-4300
MSI Nvidia GTX 1650
MSI 970a SLI Krait edition
Click Bios 4 (latest update)

 

[Shaneee]

Is that motherboard UEFI? Regardless if it is or not you'd be best making an installer following Dortania's guide and using OpenCore.

 

[Edhawk]

Your MSI Nvidia GTX 1650 isn't supported in macOS. Never has been and never will be supported.

You need to use a compatible Nvidia (Kepler) dGPU to have any chance of running macOS on your old FX system. A compatible AMD dGPU would be a better option.

If you can't find a guide for a system that uses an FX-4300 CPU, then look for one using an FX-6300, as they are both from the same CPU series.

Your Bios seems to be UEFI based, so you shouldn't need to use any legacy boot options.

This success story for an 8-core FX-3850 might also be of help.

Thread 'Success - Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 / FX 8350 / Nvidia GTX 690 / OC 0.7.6 - Big Sur 11.6.2 & Monterey 12.1'

Dec 28, 2021

I have been playing around with my old AMD FX 8350 system (again) and decided to see if I could get it running macOS Big Sur.

I used OpenCore 0.7.6 and followed the Dortania AMD Bulldozer guide when creating the EFI folder.

I created my macOS Big Sur USB installer using the following CreateInstallMedia Terminal command:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled

Installation was slow, with many pauses and some initial Kernel Panics during the various installation stages. However, the end result was Big Sur...

• Edhawk
• Replies: 58
• Forum: Success Stories

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[SmokeWithJXRDXN]

Is that motherboard UEFI? Regardless if it is or not you'd be best making an installer following Dortania's guide and using OpenCore.

yes it is, and i may end up just having to do that but it’s weird that it WAS working and now i can’t figure out how on gods green earth i managed to get it to, you know what i mean?

 

[SmokeWithJXRDXN]

Your MSI Nvidia GTX 1650 isn't supported in macOS. Never has been and never will be supported.

You need to use a compatible Nvidia (Kepler) dGPU to have any chance of running macOS on your old FX system. A compatible AMD dGPU would be a better option.

If you can't find a guide for a system that uses an FX-4300 CPU, then look for one using an FX-6300, as they are both from the same CPU series.

Your Bios seems to be UEFI based, so you shouldn't need to use any legacy boot options.

This success story for an 8-core FX-3850 might also be of help.

Thread 'Success - Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 / FX 8350 / Nvidia GTX 690 / OC 0.7.6 - Big Sur 11.6.2 & Monterey 12.1'

Dec 28, 2021

I have been playing around with my old AMD FX 8350 system (again) and decided to see if I could get it running macOS Big Sur.

I used OpenCore 0.7.6 and followed the Dortania AMD Bulldozer guide when creating the EFI folder.

I created my macOS Big Sur USB installer using the following CreateInstallMedia Terminal command:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled

Installation was slow, with many pauses and some initial Kernel Panics during the various installation stages. However, the end result was Big Sur...

• Edhawk
• Replies: 58
• Forum: Success Stories

• 

thanks for the reply edhawk, as far as gpu support that may just be an “as tested” thing because it’s definitely compatible with macOS HS using the nvidia web drivers, i’ll have to get back to you on exactly which version, but i’ve had a very stable HS running smooth on this very card back in january 2021 and made it to the installer on this card no more than a month ago and had just assumed it to be broken because of the time and date issue for the security certificate, however i do have a kepler GT 730 on standby that i’ve also tried to resolve this issue and it doesn’t help. the whole concept of it just deciding not to work again is crazy to me but then again these are just rocks we zap with electricity and trick into thinking. here’s a pic of it booting on the GTX 1650 the LAST time i was able to get it up a couple weeks ago as aforementioned

 

[Edhawk]

Your system may have booted with the GTX 1650 installed, but getting graphics acceleration from the GPU would be another matter.

Here is a link to a page showing supported and unsupported Nvidia GPUs by series. Se what it says about the Turing series, which includes your GTX 1650.

NVIDIA GPUs | GPU Buyers Guide