kernel panic / reboot / possible NVRAM corruption?

[duecedriver]

I apologize in advance, have not had to hackintosh is quite some time and this is a new build and using the newer boatloaders so just getting the hang of it.

System is a HP Z440, E5-2683v4 booting and working great with OC 0.8.5 and macOS 12

only issues I have and was thus trying FakeSMC vs VirtualSMC was processor ID in about Mac, its right everywhere else and power mgmt seems to work fine so I assume that was cosmetic, but what I really wanted working like I had on my x58 platform was istats. Using VirtualSMC I was getting next to no information, no cpu temps, no individual core steppings etc.

I installed FakeSMC and the intelcpu plug in, and it was working good for a hour or so... had 16 core temps, didnt get multipliers by core just a package multiplier, and of course no voltages or fans etc.. but after a couple reboots, it would no longer boot, my SSD got corrupted to the point where I could not repair it.

I did a clean wipe / install of macos 12 and it was really crashing hard, multiple failures at boot, reboot loops, got one crash report saying something about null pointers and apfs .. it was a mess

I went back to using virtualsmc and all is fine.

performance is a bit better with vitrualsmc as well, just a small percentage in geekbench5 and cinebench but noticeable. I wish I could have the function and relaibiltiy of virtualsmc and the functions of fakesmc.

sorry I could not provide further details.. I doubt that a fix can be had.. but any suggestions would be appreciated ..

[SergeySlice]

This is impossible. FakeSMC can't crash file system or even sata device. Look for mistakes elsewhere.

[duecedriver]

this system has been working fine with vitrualsmc, multiple days of reboots, left sleeping with USBs attached and power nap working with it waking periodically for a few seconds and going back to sleep, no issues, does not even eject the usb sticks during that sleep.. ie working perfect.

only change, remove virtualsmc and replace with fakesmc and the cpu plug in and all hell breaks loose, reboot loops not getting to the apple logo, corruption of the ssd, etc

only after a hard reset of all nvram, and replacing fakesmc with virtualsmc do things return back to normal. if caught before the ssd drive corruption like this last test, I didnt even have to re-install monterey, just started using virtualsmc again, and everything working fine..

so yes, confirmed .. issues are with fakesmc

[SergeySlice]

No, this is not confirmation. It is not FakeSMC issue.