[Guide] HP Elite 8300 & 6300 Pro (all form factors) using Clover UEFI hotpatch

[amaroaverna]

hi, thank you for a guide
recently gave me a hp z220 with cpu i7 3770, I can't find a guide for this model because have a c216 server chipset. Can I use this guide for my model for you?
thank you, bye

 

[trs96]

hi, thank you for a guide
recently gave me a hp z220 with cpu i7 3770, I can't find a guide for this model because have a c216 server chipset. Can I use this guide for my model for you?
thank you, bye

It would probably be best to follow the other Elite 8300 guide. This guide has more specific SSDTs for the Q77 chipset that will not work as well with C216.

[Guide] Install High Sierra on the HP 8300 Elite / 6300 Pro Desktop PC

Complete Video Guide for High Sierra Installation on the HP 6300 / 8300 Important Note: If this is your first install of High Sierra or you are attempting a clean re-install you'll want to follow the new Updated for 2020 video guide. See the new video guide for 2020. Choose from the...

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[Supiter]

Hi there and thank you for this guide and for trs96's guide.
My HP 8300 works like a charm with the latest Mojave version.

I am having problems running a dual monitor system though.
I have 2 monitors:

• Old ACD (Apple Cinema Display) connected to the HDMI port via an HDMI-to-mDP adapter
• Dell P2715Q connected to the DP port.

The ACD is my main monitor. I just love it because it has speakers, camera, microphone and gives me the overall experience of my old iMac. When the Dell is switched off it is working as expected.
When the Dell is switched on, the boot sequence and the macOS GUI will get displayed on it exclusively. The ACD remains black. When I now switch off the Dell both screens will be black, so there is no switching back to the ACD.

Ideally I would like the boot sequence to always get displayed on the ACD and then have the Dell and the ACD be displaying macOS. Also when I switch the Dell on or off in between I'd like the ACD be unaffected by that.

What would be the logical way to go forward in order to tackle this issue?

Thank y'all.

 

[amaroaverna]

It would probably be best to follow the other Elite 8300 guide. This guide has more specific SSDTs for the Q77 chipset that will not work as well with C216.

[Guide] Install High Sierra on the HP 8300 Elite / 6300 Pro Desktop PC

Complete Video Guide for High Sierra Installation on the HP 6300 / 8300 Important Note: If this is your first install of High Sierra or you are attempting a clean re-install you'll want to follow the new Updated for 2020 video guide. See the new video guide for 2020. Choose from the...

www.tonymacx86.com

Thanks for the reply.
I tried to use the config.plist of the guide and I was able to complete the boot by booting from mac hd. All the guides I followed did not complete the loading of the bar. I could use specific kext you advised me to do further tests.
thank you

 

[trs96]

Thanks for the reply.
I tried to use the config.plist of the guide and I was able to complete the boot by booting from mac hd. All the guides I followed did not complete the loading of the bar. I could use specific kext you advised me to do further tests.
thank you

Can't advise anything. I don't know all of the hardware you have or exactly which guide you followed.

 

[HayoGarage]

When i start step 2 for installing it just stays at the apple logo with the bar full. I tried swapping graphics cards to a gt 740 but that still didnt work. Followed every step as well.

 

[Regtom]

I've reached the first boot user setup, but the graphics are mangled. I picked up an Elite 8300 with a i5-3450 and added a GT 710. I was running High Sierra on this successfully, but the upgrade to Mojave didn't work and decided to do a fresh install, instead of troubleshooting, since it's a system I use for writing that only has a few programs installed. But not having much luck.

When the third boot completes, where I'm choosing language and location and such, I get a light gray rectangle filling the top left side of the monitor, with a black band running down the right side and thinner along the bottom. I believe this is the first screen and something about the graphics isn't rendering correctly. Perhaps they are stretched. I do have a working cursor, but it disappears if I click anywhere.

Booting takes around 20 minutes due to several timeouts (busy timeout[0], 240s: 'AppleACPICPU'). I've tried several things in Clover:
Safe mode - boot fails
Inject NVidia - no change
Inject kext - Seems to boot a bit faster, but same outcome

I'll pull the files and get screencaptures tomorrow morning. Apologies, but I'm late for bed and the kids wake early. Hoping this might be an easy fix someone can point out. On the funny side, while this last try was taking forever, I was reading 9 to 5 Mac and noticed the report the next version of Mac OS will separate iTunes out into several standalone apps. If If I'd read that yesterday, I'd have put HS back on and run it until the new OS launches. But now I feel so close and just want to finish the job.

Thanks ahead

 

[Kraveylicious]

I just picked up an MSI RX 560 4GB. Can I just pop this into my 8300 CMT that’s already successfully been turned into a Hackintosh using this guide, do I need to do the whole installation over again, or are there just some bios tweaks I need to make? Sorry if this has already been covered. Thanks!

 

[trs96]

do I need to do the whole installation over again, or are there just some bios tweaks I need to make?

No need for a re-install. The BIOS will auto adjust to your graphics card by switching off the iGPU and enabling the 560 when you first boot with it installed. It will look like it temporarily shuts off and then restarts by itself. This is normal. If you followed this guide there shouldn't be much else you need to do.

 

[odisei]

I've reached the first boot user setup, but the graphics are mangled. I picked up an Elite 8300 with a i5-3450 and added a GT 710. I was running High Sierra on this successfully, but the upgrade to Mojave didn't work and decided to do a fresh install, instead of troubleshooting, since it's a system I use for writing that only has a few programs installed. But not having much luck.

Same problem with almost the same configuration(only processor slightly different - i5-3470).
I don't know how to fix this problem, but I'll try to install Mojave by following @trs96 instruction and will report how it went.