GOP Boot Screens part II(Clover)

startergo · Nov 17, 2018

DearthnVader said:
Looks good, the driver loaded, so I think it will be compatible with the 5,1 firmware.

First, download this version of UEFITool:
UEFIPatch_0.25.0_mac.zip 1.38 MB

Save you firmware, and open it in UEFITool, you can dump your Firmware with @dosdude1 ROMTool.

ROMTool.zip

In UEFITool File>Search chose GUID and search for:

Code:

8A107CC5-DCDA-4FB7-A272-4243B41AFBFE

Expand that GUID out until you see PE32 image section.

Right click on it and choose replace body. Open the AppleAGP.efi, then File>save image file.

That should be it, now just flash that firmware.

Reboot to a shell as we did before, or if you have a GOP card, install that with your GT120 so we can see if the driver loads for both cards.

If the AGP driver doesn't break anything, and you get to the shell on your GT120, upload a drivers.txt file for us.

EDIT:Just noticed you have a Radeon GOP card, but you need to flash a valid ROM back to it, you must have edited the VBios protected tables. That won't work for GOP boot screens, as the driver never links to the device>INVALID.

This is the output of the load AppleAGP.efi:

Code:

load: Image fs0:\EFI\AppleAGP.efi loaded at 71D65000 - Success
Asmedia 106x SATA Controller UEFI Ver 1.10 AHCI Mode
Copyright (C) Asmedia Technologies, Inc. All Right reserved.
Firmware version: 160120_10_4E_01
Press 'Ctrl-r' to enter RAID menu...
Asmedia 106x SATA Controller UEFI Ver 1.10 AHCI Mode
Copyright (C) Asmedia Technologies, Inc. All Right reserved.
Firmware version: 160120_10_4E_01
Press 'Ctrl-r' to enter RAID menu...

That is actually my Sonnet Tempo SSD Pro Plus not the video card. Any explanation?

Forbidden Era · Nov 17, 2018

I'm gonna see if I can get GOP firmware on my 560, I've read it might be possible, if so I'd like to join the fun! lol

DearthnVader · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:

This is the output of the load AppleAGP.efi:

Code:

load: Image fs0:\EFI\AppleAGP.efi loaded at 71D65000 - Success
Asmedia 106x SATA Controller UEFI Ver 1.10 AHCI Mode
Copyright (C) Asmedia Technologies, Inc. All Right reserved.
Firmware version: 160120_10_4E_01
Press 'Ctrl-r' to enter RAID menu...
Asmedia 106x SATA Controller UEFI Ver 1.10 AHCI Mode
Copyright (C) Asmedia Technologies, Inc. All Right reserved.
Firmware version: 160120_10_4E_01
Press 'Ctrl-r' to enter RAID menu...

That is actually my Sonnet Tempo SSD Pro Plus not the video card. Any explanation?

Could be AGP causing a rescan of the PCI bus, best guess.

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

DearthnVader said:
Could be AGP causing a rescan of the PCI bus, best guess.

I saw some errors as well, but could not redirect them to a file.
I tried :

Code:

load AppleAGP.efi >> err.txt 2>&1

But it complained that "2>&1" is not a correct redirector. Any thoughts?

DearthnVader · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:
I saw some errors as well, but could not redirect them to a file.
I tried :

Code:

load AppleAGP.efi >> err.txt 2>&1

But it complained that "2>&1" is not a correct redirector. Any thoughts?

Not sure about the errors, maybe a pic of the screen?

Your drivers.txt showed the driver loaded, but it wasn't linked to anything as the AGP driver needs to be loaded before the system scans the PCI cards for option roms.

I really wouldn't over think it, so long as you have your MATT card and know how to use it to recover from a bad FW flash. I'd just go ahead and replace the driver with the older one from the 3,1, and it will work as we expect, or it won't.

Not too much else we can try, at this point.

EDIT: Piping the load command seems to work for me:

Code:

load Apple.efi > load.txt

Code:

load: Image fs0:\Apple.efi loaded at 7B668000 - Success

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

DearthnVader said:
Looks good, the driver loaded, so I think it will be compatible with the 5,1 firmware.

First, download this version of UEFITool:
UEFIPatch_0.25.0_mac.zip 1.38 MB

Save you firmware, and open it in UEFITool, you can dump your Firmware with @dosdude1 ROMTool.

ROMTool.zip

In UEFITool File>Search chose GUID and search for:

Code:

8A107CC5-DCDA-4FB7-A272-4243B41AFBFE

Expand that GUID out until you see PE32 image section.

Right click on it and choose replace body. Open the AppleAGP.efi, then File>save image file.

That should be it, now just flash that firmware.

Reboot to a shell as we did before, or if you have a GOP card, install that with your GT120 so we can see if the driver loads for both cards.

If the AGP driver doesn't break anything, and you get to the shell on your GT120, upload a drivers.txt file for us.

EDIT:Just noticed you have a Radeon GOP card, but you need to flash a valid ROM back to it, you must have edited the VBios protected tables. That won't work for GOP boot screens, as the driver never links to the device>INVALID.

I have flashed the rom, but it was very quick and I am not sure it was succesfull. Attached is the extracted body from the new rom. Remove text extension.
Loaded new drivers:

Code:

            T   D
D           Y C I
R           P F A
V  VERSION  E G G #D #C DRIVER NAME                         IMAGE NAME
== ======== = = = == == =================================== ===================
47 00000001 ? - -  -  - ICH Serial ATA Controller Initializ BB65942B-521F-4EC3
A3 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI AHCI Driver                     95AF7E4D-C45D-47FF
A4 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI NVMe Driver                     51116915-C34B-4D8E
A6 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI ATA/ATAPI Bus Driver            69FD8E47-A161-4550
A9 00000010 B - -  1 72 PCI Bus Driver                      93B80004-9FB3-11D4
AB 00000010 ? - -  -  - ISA Bus Driver                      240612B5-A063-11D4
AC 00000010 ? - -  -  - ISA Serial Driver                   93B80003-9FB3-11D4
AE 0000000A ? - -  -  - Simple Network Protocol Driver      A2F436EA-A127-4EF8
AF 00000010 ? - -  -  - Apple Net Load File Driver          A3F436EA-A127-4EF8
B0 00000010 ? - -  -  - Apple NetServices Protocol Driver   7A5CFD97-8F27-458A
B2 03050300 ? X X  -  - Intel(R) PRO/1000 3.5.03 EFI-x6     A1F436EA-A127-4EF8
B3 00000011 D - -  2  - USB EHCI Driver                     BDFE430E-8F2A-4DB0
B5 00000010 D - -  6  - Usb Uhci Driver                     2FB92EFA-2EE0-4BAE
B6 00000011 B - -  8 16 USB Bus Driver                      240612B7-A063-11D4
B7 00000010 ? - -  -  - Usb Bot Mass Storage Driver         B40612B9-A063-11D4
B8 00000010 ? - -  -  - Usb Cbi0 Mass Storage Driver        A3527D16-E6CC-42F5
B9 00000010 ? - -  -  - <UNKNOWN>                           B40612B2-A063-11D4
BA 00000010 ? - -  -  - Generic USB Mass Storage Driver     A5C6D68B-E78A-4426
BB 00000010 D - -  2  - Usb Keyboard Driver                 2D2E62CF-9ECF-43B7
BC 00000010 D - -  2  - Usb Mouse Driver                    2D2E62AA-9ECF-43B7
BD 00000010 D - -  1  - Apple HID Interface Driver          07B37006-9302-408E
BF 00000010 ? - -  -  - APFS Jump Start Driver              CFFB32F4-C2A8-48BB
C0 00000010 ? - -  -  - HFS File System Driver              4CF484CD-135F-4FDC
C6 00000010 D - -  1  - Platform Console Management Driver  51CCF399-4FDF-4E55
C7 00000010 D - -  2  - Platform Console Management Driver  51CCF399-4FDF-4E55
C8 00000010 B - -  2  2 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
C9 00000010 B - -  2  2 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CA 00000010 B - -  1  1 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CB 00000010 ? - -  -  - Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CF 00000010 D - -  1  - UGA Console Driver                  CCCB0C28-4B24-11D5
D0 00000010 ? - -  -  - Serial Terminal Driver              9E863906-A40F-4875
D1 00000010 D - -  2  - Generic Disk I/O Driver             CA261A26-7718-4B9B
D2 00000010 D - -  1  - FAT File System Driver              5058F21C-BC34-11D4
D3 00000010 B - -  1  3 Partition Driver                    43B93232-AFBE-11D4
E6 02084201 ? X X  -  - ASiX USB ethernet driver            D81D1706-BE6F-4734
E7 00000010 ? - -  -  - FireWire Ohci Driver                0412A7A1-C050-42C2
E9 00000010 ? - -  -  - FireWire Device Driver              6074610C-93C6-4A50
EA 00000010 D - -  1  - <UNKNOWN>                           BCCAD460-4F7D-4E51
FB 00000010 D - -  1  - AGP Driver                          8A107CC5-DCDA-4FB7
103 00000010 ? - -  -  - Asmedia 2106 Sata Controller Driver
104 00000010 B - -  1  1 Asmedia 2106 Sata Controller Driver
105 00013D00 ? - X  -  - AMD GOP X64 INVALID Driver Rev.1.61
106 00000D3A B - -  1  5 NVIDIA GPU Driver                
107 00000D3A ? - -  -  - NVIDIA GPU Driver

[doublepost=1542556074][/doublepost]

DearthnVader said:
EDIT:Just noticed you have a Radeon GOP card, but you need to flash a valid ROM back to it, you must have edited the VBios protected tables. That won't work for GOP boot screens, as the driver never links to the device>INVALID.

I have changed the part number only. But I can download the original vBIOS.

DearthnVader · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:

I have flashed the rom, but it was very quick and I am not sure it was succesfull. Attached is the extracted body from the new rom. Remove text extension.
Loaded new drivers:

Code:

            T   D
D           Y C I
R           P F A
V  VERSION  E G G #D #C DRIVER NAME                         IMAGE NAME
== ======== = = = == == =================================== ===================
47 00000001 ? - -  -  - ICH Serial ATA Controller Initializ BB65942B-521F-4EC3
A3 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI AHCI Driver                     95AF7E4D-C45D-47FF
A4 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI NVMe Driver                     51116915-C34B-4D8E
A6 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI ATA/ATAPI Bus Driver            69FD8E47-A161-4550
A9 00000010 B - -  1 72 PCI Bus Driver                      93B80004-9FB3-11D4
AB 00000010 ? - -  -  - ISA Bus Driver                      240612B5-A063-11D4
AC 00000010 ? - -  -  - ISA Serial Driver                   93B80003-9FB3-11D4
AE 0000000A ? - -  -  - Simple Network Protocol Driver      A2F436EA-A127-4EF8
AF 00000010 ? - -  -  - Apple Net Load File Driver          A3F436EA-A127-4EF8
B0 00000010 ? - -  -  - Apple NetServices Protocol Driver   7A5CFD97-8F27-458A
B2 03050300 ? X X  -  - Intel(R) PRO/1000 3.5.03 EFI-x6     A1F436EA-A127-4EF8
B3 00000011 D - -  2  - USB EHCI Driver                     BDFE430E-8F2A-4DB0
B5 00000010 D - -  6  - Usb Uhci Driver                     2FB92EFA-2EE0-4BAE
B6 00000011 B - -  8 16 USB Bus Driver                      240612B7-A063-11D4
B7 00000010 ? - -  -  - Usb Bot Mass Storage Driver         B40612B9-A063-11D4
B8 00000010 ? - -  -  - Usb Cbi0 Mass Storage Driver        A3527D16-E6CC-42F5
B9 00000010 ? - -  -  - <UNKNOWN>                           B40612B2-A063-11D4
BA 00000010 ? - -  -  - Generic USB Mass Storage Driver     A5C6D68B-E78A-4426
BB 00000010 D - -  2  - Usb Keyboard Driver                 2D2E62CF-9ECF-43B7
BC 00000010 D - -  2  - Usb Mouse Driver                    2D2E62AA-9ECF-43B7
BD 00000010 D - -  1  - Apple HID Interface Driver          07B37006-9302-408E
BF 00000010 ? - -  -  - APFS Jump Start Driver              CFFB32F4-C2A8-48BB
C0 00000010 ? - -  -  - HFS File System Driver              4CF484CD-135F-4FDC
C6 00000010 D - -  1  - Platform Console Management Driver  51CCF399-4FDF-4E55
C7 00000010 D - -  2  - Platform Console Management Driver  51CCF399-4FDF-4E55
C8 00000010 B - -  2  2 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
C9 00000010 B - -  2  2 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CA 00000010 B - -  1  1 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CB 00000010 ? - -  -  - Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CF 00000010 D - -  1  - UGA Console Driver                  CCCB0C28-4B24-11D5
D0 00000010 ? - -  -  - Serial Terminal Driver              9E863906-A40F-4875
D1 00000010 D - -  2  - Generic Disk I/O Driver             CA261A26-7718-4B9B
D2 00000010 D - -  1  - FAT File System Driver              5058F21C-BC34-11D4
D3 00000010 B - -  1  3 Partition Driver                    43B93232-AFBE-11D4
E6 02084201 ? X X  -  - ASiX USB ethernet driver            D81D1706-BE6F-4734
E7 00000010 ? - -  -  - FireWire Ohci Driver                0412A7A1-C050-42C2
E9 00000010 ? - -  -  - FireWire Device Driver              6074610C-93C6-4A50
EA 00000010 D - -  1  - <UNKNOWN>                           BCCAD460-4F7D-4E51
FB 00000010 D - -  1  - AGP Driver                          8A107CC5-DCDA-4FB7
103 00000010 ? - -  -  - Asmedia 2106 Sata Controller Driver
104 00000010 B - -  1  1 Asmedia 2106 Sata Controller Driver
105 00013D00 ? - X  -  - AMD GOP X64 INVALID Driver Rev.1.61
106 00000D3A B - -  1  5 NVIDIA GPU Driver               
107 00000D3A ? - -  -  - NVIDIA GPU Driver

[doublepost=1542556074][/doublepost]

I have changed the part number only. But I can download the original vBIOS.

Is this the result of replacing the AGP driver in the firmware?

If so, next you need to flash a valid GOP vbios back to your AMD card.

The result we are hoping for is:

Code:

FB 00000010 D - -  2  - AGP Driver                          8A107CC5-DCDA-4FB7

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

DearthnVader said:
Is this the result of replacing the AGP driver in the firmware?

If so, next you need to flash a valid GOP vbios back to your AMD card.

The result we are hoping for is:

Code:

FB 00000010 D - - 2 - AGP Driver 8A107CC5-DCDA-4FB7

Reflashed original vBios. No errors but no boot screen either:

Code:

            T   D
D           Y C I
R           P F A
V  VERSION  E G G #D #C DRIVER NAME                         IMAGE NAME
== ======== = = = == == =================================== ===================
47 00000001 ? - -  -  - ICH Serial ATA Controller Initializ BB65942B-521F-4EC3
A3 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI AHCI Driver                     95AF7E4D-C45D-47FF
A4 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI NVMe Driver                     51116915-C34B-4D8E
A6 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI ATA/ATAPI Bus Driver            69FD8E47-A161-4550
A9 00000010 B - -  1 72 PCI Bus Driver                      93B80004-9FB3-11D4
AB 00000010 ? - -  -  - ISA Bus Driver                      240612B5-A063-11D4
AC 00000010 ? - -  -  - ISA Serial Driver                   93B80003-9FB3-11D4
AE 0000000A ? - -  -  - Simple Network Protocol Driver      A2F436EA-A127-4EF8
AF 00000010 ? - -  -  - Apple Net Load File Driver          A3F436EA-A127-4EF8
B0 00000010 ? - -  -  - Apple NetServices Protocol Driver   7A5CFD97-8F27-458A
B2 03050300 ? X X  -  - Intel(R) PRO/1000 3.5.03 EFI-x6     A1F436EA-A127-4EF8
B3 00000011 D - -  2  - USB EHCI Driver                     BDFE430E-8F2A-4DB0
B5 00000010 D - -  6  - Usb Uhci Driver                     2FB92EFA-2EE0-4BAE
B6 00000011 B - -  8 16 USB Bus Driver                      240612B7-A063-11D4
B7 00000010 ? - -  -  - Usb Bot Mass Storage Driver         B40612B9-A063-11D4
B8 00000010 ? - -  -  - Usb Cbi0 Mass Storage Driver        A3527D16-E6CC-42F5
B9 00000010 ? - -  -  - <UNKNOWN>                           B40612B2-A063-11D4
BA 00000010 ? - -  -  - Generic USB Mass Storage Driver     A5C6D68B-E78A-4426
BB 00000010 D - -  2  - Usb Keyboard Driver                 2D2E62CF-9ECF-43B7
BC 00000010 D - -  2  - Usb Mouse Driver                    2D2E62AA-9ECF-43B7
BD 00000010 D - -  1  - Apple HID Interface Driver          07B37006-9302-408E
BF 00000010 ? - -  -  - APFS Jump Start Driver              CFFB32F4-C2A8-48BB
C0 00000010 ? - -  -  - HFS File System Driver              4CF484CD-135F-4FDC
C6 00000010 D - -  1  - Platform Console Management Driver  51CCF399-4FDF-4E55
C7 00000010 D - -  2  - Platform Console Management Driver  51CCF399-4FDF-4E55
C8 00000010 B - -  2  2 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
C9 00000010 B - -  2  2 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CA 00000010 B - -  1  1 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CB 00000010 ? - -  -  - Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CF 00000010 D - -  1  - UGA Console Driver                  CCCB0C28-4B24-11D5
D0 00000010 ? - -  -  - Serial Terminal Driver              9E863906-A40F-4875
D1 00000010 D - -  2  - Generic Disk I/O Driver             CA261A26-7718-4B9B
D2 00000010 D - -  1  - FAT File System Driver              5058F21C-BC34-11D4
D3 00000010 B - -  1  3 Partition Driver                    43B93232-AFBE-11D4
E6 02084201 ? X X  -  - ASiX USB ethernet driver            D81D1706-BE6F-4734
E7 00000010 ? - -  -  - FireWire Ohci Driver                0412A7A1-C050-42C2
E9 00000010 ? - -  -  - FireWire Device Driver              6074610C-93C6-4A50
EA 00000010 D - -  1  - <UNKNOWN>                           BCCAD460-4F7D-4E51
FB 00000010 D - -  1  - AGP Driver                          8A107CC5-DCDA-4FB7
103 00000010 ? - -  -  - Asmedia 2106 Sata Controller Driver
104 00000010 B - -  1  1 Asmedia 2106 Sata Controller Driver
105 00013D00 B - -  1  1 AMD GOP X64 Release Driver Rev.1.61
106 00000D3A B - -  1  5 NVIDIA GPU Driver                   
107 00000D3A ? - -  -  - NVIDIA GPU Driver

DearthnVader · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:

Reflashed original vBios. No errors but no boot screen either:

Code:

            T   D
D           Y C I
R           P F A
V  VERSION  E G G #D #C DRIVER NAME                         IMAGE NAME
== ======== = = = == == =================================== ===================
47 00000001 ? - -  -  - ICH Serial ATA Controller Initializ BB65942B-521F-4EC3
A3 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI AHCI Driver                     95AF7E4D-C45D-47FF
A4 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI NVMe Driver                     51116915-C34B-4D8E
A6 00000010 ? - -  -  - PCI ATA/ATAPI Bus Driver            69FD8E47-A161-4550
A9 00000010 B - -  1 72 PCI Bus Driver                      93B80004-9FB3-11D4
AB 00000010 ? - -  -  - ISA Bus Driver                      240612B5-A063-11D4
AC 00000010 ? - -  -  - ISA Serial Driver                   93B80003-9FB3-11D4
AE 0000000A ? - -  -  - Simple Network Protocol Driver      A2F436EA-A127-4EF8
AF 00000010 ? - -  -  - Apple Net Load File Driver          A3F436EA-A127-4EF8
B0 00000010 ? - -  -  - Apple NetServices Protocol Driver   7A5CFD97-8F27-458A
B2 03050300 ? X X  -  - Intel(R) PRO/1000 3.5.03 EFI-x6     A1F436EA-A127-4EF8
B3 00000011 D - -  2  - USB EHCI Driver                     BDFE430E-8F2A-4DB0
B5 00000010 D - -  6  - Usb Uhci Driver                     2FB92EFA-2EE0-4BAE
B6 00000011 B - -  8 16 USB Bus Driver                      240612B7-A063-11D4
B7 00000010 ? - -  -  - Usb Bot Mass Storage Driver         B40612B9-A063-11D4
B8 00000010 ? - -  -  - Usb Cbi0 Mass Storage Driver        A3527D16-E6CC-42F5
B9 00000010 ? - -  -  - <UNKNOWN>                           B40612B2-A063-11D4
BA 00000010 ? - -  -  - Generic USB Mass Storage Driver     A5C6D68B-E78A-4426
BB 00000010 D - -  2  - Usb Keyboard Driver                 2D2E62CF-9ECF-43B7
BC 00000010 D - -  2  - Usb Mouse Driver                    2D2E62AA-9ECF-43B7
BD 00000010 D - -  1  - Apple HID Interface Driver          07B37006-9302-408E
BF 00000010 ? - -  -  - APFS Jump Start Driver              CFFB32F4-C2A8-48BB
C0 00000010 ? - -  -  - HFS File System Driver              4CF484CD-135F-4FDC
C6 00000010 D - -  1  - Platform Console Management Driver  51CCF399-4FDF-4E55
C7 00000010 D - -  2  - Platform Console Management Driver  51CCF399-4FDF-4E55
C8 00000010 B - -  2  2 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
C9 00000010 B - -  2  2 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CA 00000010 B - -  1  1 Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CB 00000010 ? - -  -  - Console Splitter Driver             408EDCEC-CF6D-477C
CF 00000010 D - -  1  - UGA Console Driver                  CCCB0C28-4B24-11D5
D0 00000010 ? - -  -  - Serial Terminal Driver              9E863906-A40F-4875
D1 00000010 D - -  2  - Generic Disk I/O Driver             CA261A26-7718-4B9B
D2 00000010 D - -  1  - FAT File System Driver              5058F21C-BC34-11D4
D3 00000010 B - -  1  3 Partition Driver                    43B93232-AFBE-11D4
E6 02084201 ? X X  -  - ASiX USB ethernet driver            D81D1706-BE6F-4734
E7 00000010 ? - -  -  - FireWire Ohci Driver                0412A7A1-C050-42C2
E9 00000010 ? - -  -  - FireWire Device Driver              6074610C-93C6-4A50
EA 00000010 D - -  1  - <UNKNOWN>                           BCCAD460-4F7D-4E51
FB 00000010 D - -  1  - AGP Driver                          8A107CC5-DCDA-4FB7
103 00000010 ? - -  -  - Asmedia 2106 Sata Controller Driver
104 00000010 B - -  1  1 Asmedia 2106 Sata Controller Driver
105 00013D00 B - -  1  1 AMD GOP X64 Release Driver Rev.1.61
106 00000D3A B - -  1  5 NVIDIA GPU Driver                  
107 00000D3A ? - -  -  - NVIDIA GPU Driver

You won't get the Boot Screens without a custom boot loader.

However, the AGP Driver is not loading for your AMD card:

1 UGA( nVidia GT120 ) + 1 GOP ( AMD RX580? ) = 2.

I'm not sure how the MATT card works, or what you did when you flashed your FW. I assume the MATT card will always boot the FW on the MATT card, not the one on the logic board?

What tool did you use to flash the patched FW?

I'm not sure if you have the MATT card installed, if flashing the FW flashes the MATT card or the logic board?

Can you remove the MATT card, flash the patched FW to the logic board, then reinstall the MATT card to recover only if the patched FW doesn't boot?

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

DearthnVader said:
You won't get the Boot Screens without a custom boot loader.

However, the AGP Driver is not loading for your AMD card:

1 UGA( nVidia GT120 ) + 1 GOP ( AMD RX580? ) = 2.

I'm not sure how the MATT card works, or what you did when you flashed your FW. I assume the MATT card will always boot the FW on the MATT card, not the one on the logic board?

What tool did you use to flash the patched FW?

I'm not sure if you have the MATT card installed, if flashing the FW flashes the MATT card or the logic board?

Can you remove the MATT card, flash the patched FW to the logic board, then reinstall the MATT card to recover only if the patched FW doesn't boot?

The MATT card overshadows the original ROM. I have tested that already. For the system that is the active ROM. I flashed with the ROMTOOL. It was a fast flash maybe because everything is the same only the AGP driver was different. Anyway, the Romtool declared success after flashing (it took only 3-4 seconds). I don't want to flash my original ROM yet, because if I brick it I have to desolder it to reprogram so I keep it as a fallback ROM.

DearthnVader · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:
The MATT card overshadows the original ROM. I have tested that already. For the system that is the active ROM. I flashed with the ROMTOOL. It was a fast flash maybe because everything is the same only the AGP driver was different. Anyway, the Romtool declared success after flashing (it took only 3-4 seconds). I don't want to flash my original ROM yet, because if I brick it I have to desolder it to reprogram so I keep it as a fallback ROM.

Just trying to understand what the Matt card does, and what EEPROM get flashed with ROMTool when the MATT card is installed.

Does ROMTool flash the MATT card, then the system boots from the MATT card, yes or no?

I'm just trying to make sure you are booting from the patched ROM.

If you can't use the MATT card to recover the ROM on the logic board, then defiantly don't flash the logic board.

What rom version is on the MATT card, what version is on the logic board, and what version did you patch?

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

DearthnVader said:
Just trying to understand what the Matt card does, and what EEPROM get flashed with ROMTool when the MATT card is installed.

Does ROMTool flash the MATT card, then the system boots from the MATT card, yes or no?

I'm just trying to make sure you are booting from the patched ROM.

If you can't use the MATT card to recover the ROM on the logic board, then defiantly don't flash the logic board.

What rom version is on the MATT card, what version is on the logic board, and what version did you patch?

I don't think I reflashed it properly the first time so I repeated the procedure. Now it took some time before the result came up. Next I blessed the Bootx64.efi and upon reboot a verbose output came out on the screen after which an Apple logo with a progress bar, which never initiates (same as when you upgrade the firmware the Apple way). It sits at this screen and I don't know how to proceed now. Should I reboot?

DearthnVader · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:
I don't think I reflashed it properly the first time so I repeated the procedure. Now it took some time before the result came up. Next I blessed the Bootx64.efi and upon reboot a verbose output came out on the screen after which an Apple logo with a progress bar, which never initiates (same as when you upgrade the firmware the Apple way). It sits at this screen and I don't know how to proceed now. Should I reboot?

Not real sure what's going on there, give it some time, if you don't see any progress after 5 or 10 min., you won't have any real choice other than to reboot.

If you reboot, hold the option key and try to boot the OS, not the shell, and see what that does.

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

DearthnVader said:
Not real sure what's going on there, give it some time, if you don't see any progress after 5 or 10 min., you won't have any real choice other than to reboot.

If you reboot, hold the option key and try to boot the OS, not the shell, and see what that does.

Aaand we have a brick! Option boot brings a white screen and regular boot this (expires in 24hrs):

Edit: Link corrected
https://send.firefox.com/download/345218f25a/#FhAcAc_PRu27i7GGobbJtw

h9826790 · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:
Aaand we have a brick! Option boot brings a white screen and regular boot this (expires in 24hrs):
https://send.firefox.com/download/927649d5a5/#BbLzQv9K25JAjWzTWV5_7w

That option boot to white screen may be because of the TempoSSD card.

Do you hear the boot chime? If yes, that's not bricked.

If no, but pure white screen. That's bricked.

Also, nothing in the link

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

h9826790 said:
That option boot to white screen may be because of the TempoSSD card.

Do you hear the boot chime? If yes, that's not bricked.

If no, but pure white screen. That's bricked.

Also, nothing in the link
View attachment 805012

https://ufile.io/pe2ex
It chimes but what has the tempossd to do with the white screen?

DearthnVader · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:
https://ufile.io/pe2ex
It chimes but what has the tempossd to do with the white screen?

DarthnVader strikes again.

No, really, don't panic.

I assume what is going on here is you have Mojave installed, and the system is booting Mojave on your GT120.

That won't work.

Try and zap the pram, Comand+OPT+P+R three chimes.

As @h9826790 says, the blank screen is likely the sonnet card, you may have to remove it to get to the Apple Boot Picker. May have something to do with a conflict between the older AGP Driver and the Sonnet card.

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

DearthnVader said:
DarthnVader strikes again.

No, really, don't panic.

I assume what is going on here is you have Mojave installed, and the system is booting Mojave on your GT120.

That won't work.

Try and zap the pram, Comand+OPT+P+R three chimes.

As @h9826790 says, the blank screen is likely the sonnet card, you may have to remove it to get to the Apple Boot Picker. May have something to do with a conflict between the older AGP Driver and the Sonnet card.

Ok got some errands to do. Will continue in a while.

h9826790 · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:
https://ufile.io/pe2ex
It chimes but what has the tempossd to do with the white screen?

The TempoSSD card's firmware is not compatible with the 5,1 firmware (4,1 is OK).

When there is a bootable drive installed on the TempoSSD card, the boot manager may not able to show up properly. It could be only some options show up. Or completely white screen with no option at all.

Performing PRAM / SMC reset with empty card (no drives installed) may able to fix this issue temporarily (usually will come back after any drives swap / change. Or BootROM flash. Or any PRAM / SMC reset).

For this GOP test, you better completely remove this card to avoid false result.

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

h9826790 said:
The TempoSSD card's firmware is not compatible with the 5,1 firmware (4,1 is OK).

When there is a bootable drive installed on the TempoSSD card, the boot manager may not able to show up properly. It could be only some options show up. Or completely white screen with no option at all.

Performing PRAM / SMC reset with empty card (no drives installed) may able to fix this issue temporarily (usually will come back after any drives swap / change. Or BootROM flash. Or any PRAM / SMC reset).

For this GOP test, you better completely remove this card to avoid false result.

This is the first time I got a white screen. Never had an issue booting from it with bootpicker. The problem is that HS is on the card
[doublepost=1542573373][/doublepost]Ok removed the GT-120 and booted to my Mojave. If you remember loading the AGP driver called the sonnet card. So I guess the 3,1 driver somehow messed the sonnet boot option. Now what?

Log file:

https://pastebin.com/a7J2npLT

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

I am copying HS on a HDD and will remove the Sonnet card. BTW tested Next loader and there was no boot screen

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

The white screen on boot is not related to the Sonnet card. I have removed the Sonnet card and zapped the NVRAM several times and every time end up with a white screen with the option key boot.

DearthnVader · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:
The white screen on boot is not related to the Sonnet card. I have removed the Sonnet card and zapped the NVRAM several times and every time end up with a white screen with the option key boot.

That's sad news, I assume you can't get to a shell to see if the AGP Driver loaded to both video cards.

Before you flash a good FW back to the MATT card, you may as well see if you can get boot screens with this custom version of Clover.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tD9nUNWeZl3ztiqAyr75ZYpZoGM6eRqt

Install with these settings:

It will install to the EFI partition of the disk you select, then just bless it the same way you did the shell. It will replace the BOOTX64.efi with Clover.

Make sure you have a screen connected to your GOP card, it can be used with both cards, or just the GOP card.

startergo · Nov 18, 2018

DearthnVader said:
That's sad news, I assume you can't get to a shell to see if the AGP Driver loaded to both video cards.

Before you flash a good FW back to the MATT card, you may as well see if you can get boot screens with this custom version of Clover.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tD9nUNWeZl3ztiqAyr75ZYpZoGM6eRqt

Install with these settings:

It will install to the EFI partition of the disk you select, then just bless it the same way you did the shell. It will replace the BOOTX64.efi with Clover.

Make sure you have a screen connected to your GOP card, it can be used with both cards, or just the GOP card.

I tried blessing bootx64.efi and later cloverx64.efi. The verbose output worked, but it never stopped at a clover screen just rebooted straight to HS. It did't ever create a debug file:
Install Clover bootloader to see boot-log (from generate bootlog)

My SIP is enabled. Is it interfering?
It is a total mess. It does not react to NVRAM reset, I can't get to Recovery, no boot screen, verbose output always. I will dump this ROM and send it for evaluation to @tsialex

DearthnVader · Nov 18, 2018

startergo said:
I tried blessing bootx64.efi and later cloverx64.efi. The verbose output worked, but it never stopped at a clover screen just rebooted straight to HS. It did't ever create a debug file:
Install Clover bootloader to see boot-log (from generate bootlog)

My SIP is enabled. Is it interfering?
It is a total mess. It does not react to NVRAM reset, I can't get to Recovery, no boot screen, verbose output always. I will dump this ROM and send it for evaluation to @tsialex

If SIP is enabled you can't use the bless command to set the boot loader.

Likely just time to call this one a failure and flash a good Rom back to your MATT card, assuming you can boot Recovery to disable SIP.

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