How to Fix Deskmini 110 with 7th cpu: Catalina is working but no HEVC

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How to Fix Deskmini 110 with 7th cpu: Catalina is working but no HEVC

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. Boot with -v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 to identify the exact kernel panic.
  2. Validate your config.plist using ocvalidate.
  3. Ensure your EFI matches the Dortania guide specifications for your CPU generation.

Verification

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

Original Question:

Hi all.
I have made Catalina run on a Deskmini 110 build successfully, which is an ITX with ASRock H110M-STX motherboard and i5 7600T cpu. However, when I'm using the Intel framebuffer config following this guide, the system could boot but with random black out unless I change it to a 0x19120000 id of SkyLake spoofing, it helps but would make HEVC unsupported under VideoProc test.
This thread talks about the problem but I'm sure my DVMT prealloc in BIOS is 128MB.
I'm...

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