Beiträge von colourofsound

Sweet; thats worked. SMBIOS is now reading as expected - and the OS is running a damn sight quicker too. Crazy.

However - preview issue still a problem. Lili and WEG not loaded.

What injection should I have in Defaults? Currently all are disabled except nVidia injection.

EDIT: Google 'rough-guide-fix-for-finder-preview-not-working-on-mojave-10-14' and you should come across a popular website about x86 Macs by Tony. This fix worked for me. From the page:

1. In the Finder, press Command-Shift-G and enter this to go to find the file:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleVPA.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist

2. Copy this file and save it somewhere for restoration purposes later if needed.

3. Open the original file in its original location with eg TextWrangler or BBEDit.

(NOTE: the AppStore version of TextWrangler will not allow this, see above).

4. In that file, find your used Mac Board ID. If you do not know it, here's how to do that:

• start Clover Configurator (available above under Downloads->Community Software),
• mount your EFI Partition under Tools - Mount EFI (probably something like EFI on APFS Container),
• then choose "Open..." and pick the config.plist in the EFI/CLOVER/ folder,
• choose SMBIOS and look at the "Board-ID" entry.
  
  (In the case of the 14,2 definition it's Mac-27ADBB7B4CEE8E61).

5. Once you have found that entry in the Info.plist file, (in my case it was in line 76) it will look like this:

<key>Mac-27ADBB7B4CEE8E61</key>

<dict>

<key>forceOfflineRenderer</key>

<true/>

<key>jpeg</key>

<true/>

</dict>

6. DELETE this section.

7. SAVE.

8. Restart.

Okay i’ll Give that a try.

I use Kextstat.

many idea why changing the SMBIOS in Defaults.plist isn’t having an effect?

No; they’re not loaded. Do I need something in defaults.plist to get them to load?

Nothing. Same result.

do you have it working with Ozmosis?

I don’t have black screen or freezing issues - the problem is that Preview will not load or show JPEGS. This has been well documented in Clover installs; the fix is to install Lilu & WhateverGreen and/or alter your SMBIOS to be the same/closest matching model Mac to your dedicated GPU.

this issue has been happening since the upgrade to Mojave. It’s been a prevalent issue since High Sierra, apparently.

however, even after putting Lilu and WG in S/L/E they don’t load; and when changing my SMBIOS settings in EFI/Oz/Defaults.plist, my system is showing the changes - almost like they are cached somewhere.

Everything was set to auto. Set it to init PCI first - same issue.

I can see the the Lilu and WhateverGreen Kexts arent even loaded.

Also, I've edited my SMBIOS in Defaults.plist, but its not changed in About this Mac? Very odd.

No such luck for me. Just a blank screen on the GTX650; and if I plug the IGFX in I can see that the OS just freezes at the Apple logo and doesn’t load.

I set my BIOS to initiate the IGFX first. What am I missing?

Zitat von jboeren

I did not configure these kexts on my system... I "just" dumped them in the kexts-directory.... The only thing I configured was the internal grapics card.

Hmmm - Kexts directory in EFI or S/L/E?

Do you have faultless operation? The test is whether JPEGs will load in Preview in Finder or the Preview app

Hardware is:

GA-Z77X-UD5H

i7 3770K IvyBridge

Gainward GTX650Ti

16GB RAM

SanDisk 250GB SSD Boot disk

I also have a working 128GB SSD with Sierra on with the same system; so I can flip between the installs.

Internal graphics are enabled yes; I did read that was important. I think the issue is what the equivalent is to Clover's config.plist (I guess its Defaults.plist?) and what is the correct thing to put in there.

Placing the kexts is easy; its configuring them thats the hard part.

Thanks again for your help

Sorry, I meant Ozmosis. Edited now; I’m a fool!

Hi All,

I've got a Mojave build running on my Z77X-UD5H board very nicely, after a full re-install and a bit of toing and froing with Clover.

I ditched Clover and am now back to Ozmosis; however I have the issue where Preview won't load JPEGs - I'm informed this is an issue with hardware acceleration in Finder.

I'm using an nVidia GTX650TI; which again is running nicely except for this problem. Some digging reveals that Clover installs have got around this problem by using Lilu.kext, Whatevergreen.kext, some BIOS manipulating and Frame Buffer settings in Clover.config.

Has anyone any idea how to implement this in a *Ozmosis* install? I'd really like to get my graphics card running properly as I need to do some app dev stuff in Unity.

Thanks in advance!

I'm back! Basically having the same issue, but with Mojave. I've installed the latest Oz BIOS from the Z77X-UDH5 thread, but am still getting the firmware issue.

Whats the best course of action? Thanks!

Hi,

I have a Z77-UD5H board, and have successfully uploaded the latest BIOS from this forum on to it.

My Sierra installation works fine, and I can begin the Mojave install from USB but it always stops with the firmware invalid error message.

How do I get around that?

Thanks!

Okay - I'll give that a try.

Would it be better to try and tackle APFS+ though? Because I'd like to move to Mojave once its been out in the wild for 6 months or so. One of the core apps I use is Logic Pro X and if I don't stay on top of the OS updates, I get left behind in Logic versions.

So in an ideal world I'd convert to APFS+; but if its not possible yet then I shall wait.

Still not having any luck with this; tried to alter my plist to almost disasterous results. Any thoughts?

@al6042 Here's a link to my backup Oz folder on Sync.com. You should be able to download it and take a look. Sorry, couldn't figure out the file attachment (german site labels!)

https://cp.sync.com/dl/52f1195…s54qrny-mixra6pd-5pevsvd9

@griven I'll give it a shot and let you know! i imagine I'll need both an updated plist and your BIOS update.

Thanks again guys!

EDIT: @griven I have tried your file, and the same thing happens.

Also, it does seem to clear files from the EFI partition; I am not using a USB stick though, I'm using the installer from the app store. Will I have better luck using a USB installer?

Currently I have nothing in EFI/Oz (no Defaults.plist or anything) and Sierra is running fine. Is this...normal?

Cheers!

Hi Guys,

First of all, thanks for helping me a few years back on this thread. People discount this forum because it's mainly German, but no one thinks that maybe you nice people will help if they just asked...

Anyone, on to my issue; fairly sure its pretty common.

I've installed the latest BIOS for my board from here, and then begun a High Sierra install from the Applications folder, as if it was an upgrade on a real Mac.

Everything seems to go well, until the machine reboots. I then get 'An error occurred while verifying firmware'. (as described here)

I can not proceed beyond this; the machine reboots and all is well (at least the new Bios works with Sierra! )

So, what am I missing here? I noticed that the Apple installer wipes my EFI partition. Luckily I made a copy, so can put it back the Oz files.

Sorry if you've been over this before; I should really take some German lessons

Thanks!

P.S - Should I just wait for Mojave...?

The DSDT has worked! Now to install El Capitan. I shall report if I'm successful/.

Thank you so much once again!

EDIT: El Capitan works! The only issues I have now, which are both unimportant currently, is that my machine thinks its a Mac Pro 3,1 in some places and an iMac 14,1 in others. Are there a couple of places this system identifier is stored, and is there a way to get consistency?

Secondly, my bluetooth seems to have stopped working. This isn't that important to me though.

Thanks again!

Hi,

Thanks for your replies - it's worked for the most part, except it doesn't appear to have loaded the Kext needed for the graphics. They're properly identified as HD4000 Intel chips in Sysrem Report, but only show 14mb of VRAM and also indicate that no Kext has loaded.

Don't usually need a Kext for the IGPU on this board as its supported by Apple - any idea whats happened?

Thanks again for your help and replies.

Hi all,

Hopefully you can help. I'm using the latest BIOS mod from here for my Z77X-UD5H rev 1.0 board, but I cannot get the El Capitan USB installer to boot, and using this BIOS breaks my current Yosemite installation.

In verbose mode, the installer seems to stall about a quarter of the way through loading, always on something to do with IOBluetooth, but its not an error, it just halts.

Can anyone offer any insight into the correct method? I'm running Intel Core i7 3770K, Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H mobo, Intel HD4000 IGPU, 16GB RAM. There is also a PCI firewire card plugged in, which I think is this one.

This guide doesn't seem to work for me either; the BIOS supplied in that guide freezes up my machine and I need to restore the BIOS from the backup.

Thanks in advance for you help.