How to Fix Hosed my machine royally

How to Fix Hosed my machine royally

This mini-guide provides a structural approach to troubleshoot and fix the issue.

Prerequisites

• Confirm your hardware specifications (CPU, GPU, Motherboard).
• Ensure you have a bootable recovery USB and backup your EFI.

Fix Steps

1. Check if your GPU requires WhateverGreen or specific boot-args (e.g., agdpmod=pikera).
2. Ensure Metal acceleration is fully supported for your macOS version.
3. Update Lilu and WhateverGreen to the latest versions.

Verification

• Reboot and verify if the functionality is restored and stable under typical usage.

Original Question:

I had a Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 TH with an i7 7700k and an RX-570 Pulse 8GB running Mojave just fine. I broke the golden rule and changed more than one thing at once. I had made a Catalina install USB but decided to fix up Mojave and try the direct upgrade. I upgraded Clover from 49xx to 5141. I used hackentool to add the latest lula, whatevergreen, and appleALC. I thought whatevergreen superseded FakeSMU and, not being able to figure out how hackentool removed kexts, used the finder to find...

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Author: thewad