OS: Catalina 10.15.5 w/supplemental update. OpenCore 0.5.9
System Specifications:
AMD Ryzen 3700X
CoolerMaster ML360 AIO Cpu water cooler
MSI MEG X570 ACE Motherboard
MSI RX 5700 XT Gaming X GPU
16Gb Crucial Ballistic Sport LT 3200mhz DDR4
Samsing 960 EVO 512Gb NVME SSD (Mac OS)
Kingston A2000 512Gb NVME SSD (Windows 10)
Seagate STDM001 3Tb Mechanical hard drive
Fenvi 1200 Mini PCIE Broadcom chipped WiFI/Bluetooth (for mac os compatibility, Replaces stock intel suppled with mobo).
Lian Li PCO11 Dynamic case
What works:
iServices
Handoff
Continuity
Apple Watch Unlock
Siri
Audio (either by Audio onboard motherboard, or over display port)*
Sleep
Hardware Graphic Accelleration
* I have not tested the microphone input, I know my webcam (logitech) works from previous attempts at getting this working, but it has been loaned to a friend for Zoom purposes.
Bios Settings: The usual, XCHI handoff on, VT-D off etc, but also set the PCI-E lanes to x3, not auto (which will pick x4, and cause random 5 second freezes).
Catalina:
Installation is a pain. Two sticks must be created. After the first part of install, the "5700 XT Crash Avoidance stick" must be used to boot until "MacOS Installer" disappears from the open core boot picker. The other options is to substitute an RX4XX or 5XX card to complete phase 2 and 3 of installation. This is because NAVI cards crash the 10.15.5 (and supplemental update) installers in the second and third phase.
Big Sur:
The second stick is not nessecary, big sur installer does not crash when doing the second, third and fourth part of the install with a navi card. The EFI will be available later today (26/07//2020 - be aware I'm an Australian, so for some this may be tomorrow for you i.e. Yanks will find it appears on the 25th) - I am tidying it up and removing device properties that may not suit your configuration.
Apart from the few niggles on install, the machine runs great. I use it as my daily driver, and keep my macbook pro for what it is meant to be, my portable!
All EFI folders in this thread created by me have a graphical boot picker (opencanopy). This alliviates squinting at tiny text on higher resolution displays (4k, 5k). I have a 4k display and need to run it scaled in mac os to read it so you can imagine what its like for me reading the text picker on it!
Catalina Users:
Remember to create two usb sticks, one with the boot-args "-wegnoegpu" and "-v" for stage 2 and 3 of the install. This is only for people running Catalina. Big Sur does not need this.
Follow the post, I regularly update the EFI, but rather than replacing, I leave the older ones intact, so should a newer one bork your system, you can roll back. Check through the threads from the end back, for posts from me, when you see a new EFI attached, read the post, see what needs changing in bios, wether a bios update is needed, and what to do to config.plist/with kexts to get yourself up and running.
Issues fixed in latest EFI:
Micro freezes
Sleep fully working in big sur, along with ocasionally unlocking with apple watch
LSI 9211-8i working with 4 disks
To Do:
LSI 9212-4i4e SAS controller with an LTO5 tape drive and 4 Sata disks.
System Specifications:
AMD Ryzen 3700X
CoolerMaster ML360 AIO Cpu water cooler
MSI MEG X570 ACE Motherboard
MSI RX 5700 XT Gaming X GPU
16Gb Crucial Ballistic Sport LT 3200mhz DDR4
Samsing 960 EVO 512Gb NVME SSD (Mac OS)
Kingston A2000 512Gb NVME SSD (Windows 10)
Seagate STDM001 3Tb Mechanical hard drive
Fenvi 1200 Mini PCIE Broadcom chipped WiFI/Bluetooth (for mac os compatibility, Replaces stock intel suppled with mobo).
Lian Li PCO11 Dynamic case
What works:
iServices
Handoff
Continuity
Apple Watch Unlock
Siri
Audio (either by Audio onboard motherboard, or over display port)*
Sleep
Hardware Graphic Accelleration
* I have not tested the microphone input, I know my webcam (logitech) works from previous attempts at getting this working, but it has been loaned to a friend for Zoom purposes.
Bios Settings: The usual, XCHI handoff on, VT-D off etc, but also set the PCI-E lanes to x3, not auto (which will pick x4, and cause random 5 second freezes).
Catalina:
Installation is a pain. Two sticks must be created. After the first part of install, the "5700 XT Crash Avoidance stick" must be used to boot until "MacOS Installer" disappears from the open core boot picker. The other options is to substitute an RX4XX or 5XX card to complete phase 2 and 3 of installation. This is because NAVI cards crash the 10.15.5 (and supplemental update) installers in the second and third phase.
Big Sur:
The second stick is not nessecary, big sur installer does not crash when doing the second, third and fourth part of the install with a navi card. The EFI will be available later today (26/07//2020 - be aware I'm an Australian, so for some this may be tomorrow for you i.e. Yanks will find it appears on the 25th) - I am tidying it up and removing device properties that may not suit your configuration.
Apart from the few niggles on install, the machine runs great. I use it as my daily driver, and keep my macbook pro for what it is meant to be, my portable!
All EFI folders in this thread created by me have a graphical boot picker (opencanopy). This alliviates squinting at tiny text on higher resolution displays (4k, 5k). I have a 4k display and need to run it scaled in mac os to read it so you can imagine what its like for me reading the text picker on it!
Catalina Users:
Remember to create two usb sticks, one with the boot-args "-wegnoegpu" and "-v" for stage 2 and 3 of the install. This is only for people running Catalina. Big Sur does not need this.
Follow the post, I regularly update the EFI, but rather than replacing, I leave the older ones intact, so should a newer one bork your system, you can roll back. Check through the threads from the end back, for posts from me, when you see a new EFI attached, read the post, see what needs changing in bios, wether a bios update is needed, and what to do to config.plist/with kexts to get yourself up and running.
Issues fixed in latest EFI:
Micro freezes
Sleep fully working in big sur, along with ocasionally unlocking with apple watch
LSI 9211-8i working with 4 disks
To Do:
LSI 9212-4i4e SAS controller with an LTO5 tape drive and 4 Sata disks.
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