[Guide] El Capitan on the Skylake H170N-WIFI

[afonic]

I used this guide to install El Capitan 10.11.3 to Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3 with Core i5 6500 and nVidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti. I am posting some information here, for anyone that might try to search for this model.

Follow this guide to the letter, only don't install any of the Wi-Fi stuff (obviously). For Maxwell nVidia cards like the 750 Ti, nVidia Web drivers are needed. Make sure you remove nv_disable if present and set nvda_drv=1, or even after installing the driver, the ones from Apple will be used.

The extra steps needed:

• I had to install FakePCIID and FakePCIID to make the front USB2 ports work. Place them in EFI/CLOVER/kexts.
• To enable audio, use audio_CloverALC-100 script to enable audio outputs.
• Install Code Commander using Kext Wizard or a similar tool (not in EFI), to fix "audio after sleep" problem.

I am using it for about 15 days now, and it seems 100% trouble free, all ports and devices working, printing works, sleep and wake as well.

Please note that this motherboard's BIOS has a bug that populates the UEFI boot list devices with an extra Clover entry each time you boot your PC. This could create problems, like increased time to boot or inability to boot without clearing the CMOS at all (I didn't experience the later). To fix this, follow the instructions here.

If you have a question about this particular motherboard, please PM me or start a new thread, let's not get off topic here. Thanks to ammulder for the guide and all developers of the tools and fixes used.

 

[GenericMonk]

I'm using the Dell DW1560 wifi/bt card in the OP; followed all the instructions but I can't get bluetooth working. It shows up in the system preferences but anything that requires BT fails; pairing devices just results in a spinner then an error 2 minutes later, receiving iPhone calls causes FaceTime to instantly crash, all outbound iPhone calls fail etc. Anyone else had this issue?

Gigabyte z170n-wifi, f4 bios.

 

[debasdroid]

I'm new to Hackintosh. Will it be possible to install El Capitan on a Skylake i5 6500 & Gigabyte H110M-S2 board? Do I have to have an SSD? I have a Nvdia GT730 GPU

 

[debasdroid]

I'm new to Hackintosh. Will it be possible to install El Capitan on a Skylake i5 6500 & Gigabyte H110M-S2 board? Do I have to have an SSD? I have a Nvdia GT730 GPU

 

[madmantaling]

Works great with my Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI with skylake i5 6600K and GTX 970! I downloaded the newest versions of IntelMausiEthernet on El Capitan 10.11.1.

Added my fully working (for my setup) EFI-folder

Can you publish a complete guide for it , please .

 

[BasJohan]

Thank you a lot for this guide! I've just built my very first hackintosh using this guide, and everything seems to work. Al my noob mistakes were already taken care of i previous comments, so now Ill just continue to try an clean up my duplicate boot entries. My only suggestion is that perhaps you could make it more clear in the first post that it's probably better to go with intelMausi than AppleIGB if only one ethernet nic is needed.

Thanks
//Johan

 

[ammulder]

It seems like 10.11.4 changes a lot for Skylake machines, so I will update the guide soon based on that. I will be sure to suggest avoiding the IGB Ethernet port.

 

[thyraon]

It seems like 10.11.4 changes a lot for Skylake machines, so I will update the guide soon based on that. I will be sure to suggest avoiding the IGB Ethernet port.

What kind of changes, for example? Should it be safe to upgrade to 10.11.4, coming from 10.11.3? Or do you advise to hold off on the update?

 

[afonic]

I updated just fine using App Store, I only had to update the nVidia drivers as well.

 

[ammulder]

I think it should be safe to upgrade. But a new install should be more straightforward -- it looks like the IOAPIC patch is no longer needed, and the HD530 should be fully functional, and the only tweak needed to a UniBeast install drive is the USB configuration. Plus Multibeast now includes the Ethernet drivers. So less to do manually.