audiosurplus Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Hey everyone, so I have a dell optiplex 3040 here that i've been trying to get Mojave (or catalina, or big sur, or anything at this point, they all get stuck at the same spot) going on for a few days now, and so far as far as i can get the installer to boot is seemingly all the way through, it goes to a white screen with a movable mouse, and then an apple logo with a bar that goes to about 95% before freezing, and then a minute or two later the machine just powers off. No reboot, no panic, it just shuts down with some text that quickly flashes before the machine shuts off, a photo is attached to this post showing that. Any ideas? Tried just about every pre-made EFI and every guide out there and they all do the same thing as my own custom made opencore install does, doesn't matter if it's clover or opencore. I've made sure all my bios settings are good and have tried countless little different things and so far i haven't been able to get past this one issue, and I'm not sure what else to even try by this point. Model: Optiplex 3040 SFF CPU: i5-6500 GPU:MSI GT 710 1GB / Integrated Intel HD 530 (not used, but if i can get it working that works too!!) RAM: 8GB DDR3L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted August 1, 2021 Moderators Share Posted August 1, 2021 Try without the MSI graphics card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted August 1, 2021 Administrators Share Posted August 1, 2021 GT710 will be Ok as long as it's a Kepler card, not a Fermi one. Kepler cards are fully and natively supported OOB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiosurplus Posted August 3, 2021 Author Share Posted August 3, 2021 These GT710s are the right ones to use with macOS as they work perfectly ootb with my real mac pro. I’ve also tried without the nvidia card, and the intel graphics produce the same issue, so i’m thinking it’s not graphics related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted August 3, 2021 Administrators Share Posted August 3, 2021 Post a zipped copy of your bootloader EFI folder. Please specify which version of bootloader you used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiosurplus Posted August 3, 2021 Author Share Posted August 3, 2021 Here's my EFI. Using OpenCore 0.6.4 EFI.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baio77 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Updated EFI OC to V 0.7.2 + Kext ioreg if boot EFI.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiosurplus Posted August 3, 2021 Author Share Posted August 3, 2021 That EFI just gets stuck at End SetConsoleMode, and then the machine reboots, also it no longer shows the boot picker. Does it matter that there is a copy of the mojave installer on the sata SSD and on the USB drive? I loaded it onto the SSD to maybe see if that would help, but did not change anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baio77 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 EFI.ziptest This in USB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiosurplus Posted August 3, 2021 Author Share Posted August 3, 2021 Same issue, even with the hard drive completely disconnected, if that makes a difference. Could it be something with the bios? I can try updating it or send a list of all the current settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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