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[help] dell optiplex micro 7040 to hackintosh

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Boot with an EFI Shell boot disk, set the DVMT @ 0x350 to 0x3
i.e.
setup_var 0x350 0x3
This will get you full QE/CI with InjectIntel = Yes and ig-platform-id = 0x19120000

Thanks! You are the hero!
I tried this with latest 1.6.5 BIOS, boot with a USB EFI shell, setup_var, inject intel, dual monitor (1 DP + 1 HDMI) HD530 works!
 
On the Optiplex 5040, did you use a unibeast/Clover USB boot stick to install? Along with your kexts and modified config.plist of course.
 
For the optiplex 5040, did you use a Unibeast Clover EFI boot stick to install OS X Sierra?
 
How good is an optiplex 7040 or 5040 for Mojave? Any feedback on this?
 
I'm trying to install Mojave but the installer won't recognize the m.2 drive(LITEON L8H-256V2G-41 M.2 2280 256GB SED). Anyone can help with this?
 
I'm trying to install Mojave but the installer won't recognize the m.2 drive(LITEON L8H-256V2G-41 M.2 2280 256GB SED). Anyone can help with this?
Start reading from post #85 for possible solution.
 
I've acquired a sff Optiplex 7040 the other day and I've been trying to install Mavericks or Yosemite, no luck. Can't even reach installer. I keep getting stick here and if I use smbios higher than iMac 14,2 I get the not compatible with this machine error.
Optiplex 7040 i5 6500, 16gb ddr4, 512gb SSD. I've tried with Igpu and dedicated GPU and none of them will work. Please help.
 

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I've acquired a sff Optiplex 7040 the other day and I've been trying to install Mavericks or Yosemite, no luck. Can't even reach installer. I keep getting stick here and if I use smbios higher than iMac 14,2 I get the not compatible with this machine error.
Optiplex 7040 i5 6500, 16gb ddr4, 512gb SSD. I've tried with Igpu and dedicated GPU and none of them will work. Please help.
How's ur installation going? any updates?
 
I've acquired a sff Optiplex 7040 the other day and I've been trying to install Mavericks or Yosemite
Try Sierra or High Sierra and see if one of those works. Your hardware is much too new for Mavericks to work, Yosemite as well. Older versions of macOS have no support for newer hardware because it didn't exist yet when those versions were released. Apple doesn't add support later on, they move on to a new macOS version every year.

See: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...versions-of-os-x-using-older-chipsets.141225/

Here's a guide from someone that installed Mojave recently on their 7040 Dell Optiplex.
 
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How's ur installation going? any updates?
Unfortunately, i had to swap the machine to an optiplex 7020 instead. I figured out the newer hardware wasn't compatible for older OS after pulling all my hair out lol. But i managed to install Yosemite 10.10.4 and i'm staying right there. Almost everything works except for sound and wake from sleep with mouse/keyboard.. Wake works when pressed the power button.
 
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