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[Guide] HP 6300 Pro / HP 8300 Elite - A 100 percent Working and Easily Affordable CustoMac

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i have a mac mini and a macbook so i have no problem if i use the whole disk for sierra.
thank you so much
 
cripstak said:
i have a mac mini and a macbook so i have no problem if i use the whole disk for sierra.
thank you so much
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Yes, use the whole thing for Sierra. Windows is optional.
 
I would have another question
how can i check that my hp is an i5 3570 or an i5 3470 ?
 
cripstak said:
I would have another question
how can i check that my hp is an i5 3570 or an i5 3470 ?
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Boot into BIOS and check what you have. Under System Information.
 
thank you so much
and goodnight
 
Thanks for this detailed guide! I used it pretty much verbatim (except using UniBeast 8.1) to install High Sierra 10.13.1 from scratch to an APFS formatted 120GB SSD, in an i5 8300 + GT 710.

The only snag was that clover had the option "Set Nvidia to VESA" set by default, which causes the boot to freeze up after a while. Once I manually disabled that, it booted into the installer.

There was also some confusion about which disk to boot from during the multiple reboots during the install, but if a selection failed to boot I could reboot and try again and the install would continue.

Everything seems to work fine, except iMessages which I haven't been able to get working. I can log in but every message recipient comes back as "not registered" with iMessage.

Update: I updated to 10.13.2, but I had to first copy FakeSMC.kext to efi/clover/kext/other, otherwise the update would stall. I also managed to get iMessage/Facetime working by cloning the ROM/MLB values from a real Mac (an old 2006 mini).
 
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If anyone needs an SSD boot drive for their HP 6300/8300 there are two excellent options at Amazon today.

The 120 GB is 50 dollars and the 240 GB model sells for 70 USD today only. These are high quality MLC 3D Nand drives
that perform nearly as well as the 850 Evo in benchmarks. In real world use you can't detect any difference.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0742BC3DQ/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
 
Goodmorning everyone
Tomorrow finally comes the GT710 video card and I'm trying to build my hackintosh, in Italy there is no longer the Fenvi FV-T919 Wifi / BT adapter, can you recommend a compatible card?
Thank you
 
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