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9 hours ago, backinblackx86 said:
I will be open to that when I begin to build the second WRX90E machine
@etorix I have been told that a virtual machine could be built on the WRX90 system. But I want to boot bare metal.
my own EFI gets stuck on the boot screen that immediately follows when a selection is made of the installation to boot in to. I tried with a few other EFIs, to the same effect.
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7 minutes ago, backinblackx86 said:
7960x was cool but i’d got for the 7970x if I did it again.
or the 7975WX if it’d work 🙂
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13 hours ago, etorix said:
And, if I'm not mistaken, no one has ever hacked EPYC (3000/5000/7000/8000/9000, not 4000, which I would expect to be a given).
On the Intel side of things, it seems that X299 "had quite a few people", but looks like a niche rather than a "popular" playground, while C422 has a handful of faithful users (which is a pity, as I find these systems to generally be a breeze to hack…), C621 even less and we may be down to two or three users with C621A hacks; no one has yet cracked W790 or C741.
You commend some respect for willing to address such requirements on a Hackintosh rather than jumping to Linux like everybody else…
But I submit that for this amount of RAM you should look straight at WRX90 (Threadripper Pro 7000WX) and its 8 RAM channels (up to 2 TB) rather than at TRX50 and its mere 4 channels (1 TB). (If you're willing to go for older DDR4 systems, dual Xeon Scalable can take up to 4 TB RAM with 3DS LRDIMM or Optane DCPMM.)
Yeah that’s why I am looking at the Gigabyte’s TRX50 AI Top. It seems to support 2TB with threadripper pro CPUs.
regarding the Linux / macOS. By necessity I have an Asus WRX90 based system but it only has 768GB RAM running Linux (hopefully I can upgrade to 2TB when the 256GB DIMMs become available). Plus given the occasional (not so infrequent with PCIe 5.0 based SSDs) instability, I can’t use the hackintosh as my work machine anyway. Also Nvidia’s GPUs not being supported, I have to use Linux.
Regardless, I would like to boot macOS on the work machine baremetal just for fun, as I have Apple devices so you know the echo system along with the aesthetics…
5 hours ago, backinblackx86 said:I do still have my 7960x trx50 AeroD machine but it has been repurposed as a GPU-rendering linux server. I had it running MacOSx86 Sonoma, it was stable, maintained weeks of uptime, and ran FCPX well. I did not use it as much as I planned to as my work took priority over creative interests. I do second the WRX90e, I built a 6x GPU setup around a 7985wx, a great platform. The AITop board is odd, as it accepts the wrx chip but uses quad memory, iirc. From the MacOS, I would stick with the AeroD.
There’s another thread with a person tried hackintoshing the Asus TRX50 board without success (last I checked). That’s another reason for looking at the AI Top..
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16 hours ago, etorix said:
Please define "popular" in this context…
The need for high RAM and/or many PCIe lanes are also addressed by Xeon Scalable/Xeon W-3000, some of which are natively supported by macOS, and which do not raise issues about application compatibility, contrary to Ryzen/Threadripper. I would not say that C621(A) hacks are "popular" by any reasonable acception of the term: We are a handful with these.
Good point. The TRX40 bare metal thread here had quite a few people on it, while TRX50 has only two, with just one success so far.
@backinblackx86 do you still have your TRX50 setup? There’s a motherboard by Gigabyte, TRX50 AI Top that is intriguing to me. I wanna experiment with that and since you built a hackintosh on a Gigabyte motherboard, I’m hoping it’d work for me too
@fabiosun yeah my use case is one of those. I work on massive datasets and require huge amounts of memory (largest 1.3TB)
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An aside: why did TRX50 not get as popular as TRX40 with hackintosh community?
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Is anyone here facing trouble with macOS updates? I’m trying to update my system to 15.1.1. It downloads the update, and while preparing, the system just hangs and needs a cold boot. I have tried four times already
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@Arrakis wifi and Bluetooth aren’t still working for me. How did you get them to work? I have arranged the order of kexts as you (they were disabled in your config.plist, I enabled them)
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On 9/13/2024 at 3:08 PM, Arrakis said:
Previously I needed to disable BTPatcher kext in config.plist and add revpatch=sbvmm in boot arguments to make the upgrade appear in the Software Updates section of System Settings. After applying changes to my config.plist using your EFI, the update is appearing without these two changes. Can you please confirm you don’t need to to do these either and you can upgrade your system from within Software Updates section section of System Settings?
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@Arrakis is WiFi and BT working for you in Sequoia?
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11 hours ago, Arrakis said:
Here is my EFI TRX40 GIGABYTE DESIGNARE under OpenCore 1.0.1
Starts and installs Sonoma up to and including Sequoia 15 beta 8.
Is this after updating the BIOS for sinkclose vulnerability?
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4 hours ago, etorix said:
On AM5, security updates in BIOS also brought some breaking changes in DSDT; maybe similar issues are at play here?
Have you tried to compare ACPI tables from the older and nwer BIOS, or re-checked memory whitelisting?
3 hours ago, fabiosun said:a simple video could help to understand if it is an ACPI problem as AM5 users have
i do not think it is the same ..but with a video it is possible to understand better
@fabiosun video of the reboot?
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Is there anyone who updated their bios with the latest one that patches the security vulnerability? If so, did you experience any reboots? My system now immediately reboots at the first screen after the opencore boot selector…
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22 hours ago, Jerry-ag said:
I updated latest OpenCore (v1.0.1), along with Lilu.kext and VirtualSMC.kext, but the macOS installation still hangs at the start. I would appreciate any suggestions to resolve this issue. Thank you!
unfortunately my expertise is zero. I guess the best thing to do would be to swap the motherboard with the Gigabyte one which has been successfully hackintoshed by @backinblackx86
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has this project been abandoned or succeeded already?
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@Arrakis can you please share your EFI that booted Sequoia. Thanks so much
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On 5/26/2024 at 10:48 AM, backinblackx86 said:
Are you using the T705 with Sonoma 14.5 or 14.4.1 ?
14.5
On 5/26/2024 at 11:08 AM, fabiosun said:@backinblackx86the only thing to pay attention is that @Jaidyuse a trx40 and i do not think this platform has a pci nvme 5.0 slot (i could be wrong) 🙂
@fabiosun is right, there is no pcie 5 port on my system, a trx40. Also I must mention I have a Samsung 990 pro SSD which I previously used for macOS. The T705 isn’t any faster in day to day usage as it’s random I/O performance is a tiny bit less than 990 pro. So if your use case isn’t moving lots of big files around, you should skip it
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I have been running a T705 for ten days now without any hiccups other than one during the installation. You might wanna try it if you want.
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any updates? I am anxiously watching this thread...
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Should I disable the wifi kext after downloading the update? I only have wifi
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I’m stuck at a reboot loop updating to 14.4 myself. I just checked and secure boot is disabled on my end. Does the config.plist has some settings @fabiosun?
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1 hour ago, fabiosun said:
@backinblackx86change that drive with one more compatible (PCIE gen 4) if you like to use it in OSX system
For now unsolved problem for T700 and generally also for other PCIE 5 Gen NVME
The GE Pro leads to random restarts too, only less often as the T700. I suggest staying away from PCIe 5 drives too, for now.
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18 hours ago, Lorys89 said:
Format entire disk to exfat guid and then only format the exfat container to apfs
And try to set setapfstrimout from -1 to 0
You can find it at kernel /quirks
That’s how I managed to format my own T700. Beware though, T700 caused a lotta panics and random restarts. It is some driver issues with macOS since it’s solid in Linux. I advise caution using it with macOS
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6 hours ago, fabiosun said:
I allow myself to joke with you Jaidy 🙂
what are you doing with your trx40 that doesn't have a slot/M2 pcie5.0? 🙂I’m waiting for a wrx90 motherboard to become available to get it. Otherwise, yes you have a valid point 🙂
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Gigabyte TRX50 installation success! :)
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I unfortunately can neither make time nor afford for it to go down as it is my work machine and I wanna graduate yesterday (plus my adviser would start breathing down my neck too)