[Guide] Intel NUC7/NUC8 using Clover UEFI (NUC7i7Bxx,NUC8i7Bxx,etc)

[Leesureone]

I will certainly try! Can you give some background on what it does?

Another area I am not familiar with, thought it had to do with physical location. It’s apparently more to do with memory regions. See below from Rehabman from his clover configuration guide.

Floating regions

In ACPI, an OperationRegion can define a MMIO region, SystemMemory region, EmbeddedControl region, etc. These regions usually have fixed addresses dependent only on the machine configuration, BIOS version, or BIOS options. Sometimes, these regions can change randomly or unexpectedly. This is referred to as "floating regions".

Since by patching DSDT and/or SSDTs, we are providing a snapshot of these addresses at a given point in time, they may not match up should the BIOS decide to place such regions at a different address. If this is the case, you may notice that certain features are intermittently working, or other stability issues that appear to be random.

If you have randomly floating regions, you can try Clover's FixRegions feature (config.plist/ACPI/DSDT/Fixes/FixRegions=true). You can find the details in the Clover Wiki. Note: Only floating regions in DSDT can be fixed by FixRegions. Floating regions in SSDTs are problematic and there is no good solution other than to not provide patched SSDTs for SSDTs subject to randomly floating regions. Working around floating regions in patched SSDTs is beyond the scope of this guide. Note that FixRegions is relatively buggy. It cannot fix all regions and it can sometimes "fix" regions incorrectly.

 

[HedgeHog2k]

Another area I am not familiar with, thought it had to do with physical location. It’s apparently more to do with memory regions. See below from Rehabman from his clover configuration guide.

Floating regions

In ACPI, an OperationRegion can define a MMIO region, SystemMemory region, EmbeddedControl region, etc. These regions usually have fixed addresses dependent only on the machine configuration, BIOS version, or BIOS options. Sometimes, these regions can change randomly or unexpectedly. This is referred to as "floating regions".

Since by patching DSDT and/or SSDTs, we are providing a snapshot of these addresses at a given point in time, they may not match up should the BIOS decide to place such regions at a different address. If this is the case, you may notice that certain features are intermittently working, or other stability issues that appear to be random.

If you have randomly floating regions, you can try Clover's FixRegions feature (config.plist/ACPI/DSDT/Fixes/FixRegions=true). You can find the details in the Clover Wiki. Note: Only floating regions in DSDT can be fixed by FixRegions. Floating regions in SSDTs are problematic and there is no good solution other than to not provide patched SSDTs for SSDTs subject to randomly floating regions. Working around floating regions in patched SSDTs is beyond the scope of this guide. Note that FixRegions is relatively buggy. It cannot fix all regions and it can sometimes "fix" regions incorrectly.

Haha thanks, didn’t understand a word of it . ACPI, SSDT, DSDT,.. are all unknown to me..

 

[buffaloduets]

I think it is a ploy to make you buy a newer model Macbook/Pro/Air.

Unfortunately, Apple does this all the time - arbitrary hw restrictions to encourage people to buy new hardware smh

 

[Leesureone]

Seems that I fixed this right now almost one week away . Else I do first test at Mojave because is better supports like apps and etc just. But anyway I have question if exist any Application for CPU testing because sometime when I open any apps or Games in Webbrowser the processor fan make too much noice for nothing.

you can adjust the fan speed in the bios...you can also use activity monitor in Applications/ Utilities to see what is using the CPU.

 

[spottsy]

QUESTION ABOUT REHABMAN BIOS SETTINGS:

I was reading the first page of this guide once again and read this which raised a question.

"in BIOS settings you *must* enable legacy boot (continue to boot UEFI, but enable legacy for CSM)
(you will have KP/reboot without it)"

I somehow missed this detail and have been running with "legacy boot" disabled. I'll do as the guide says but Catalina is running ok for me.

I looked up CSM. What does the above statement mean? "you will have KP/reboot without it? What is KP"

So Leesureone is that part of the guide still valid as my system is working?

 

[spottsy]

Want to buy USB WiFi Adapter for my NUC8i7BEH

Is there any favorite Mac Hackintosh USB 3.0 Adapter. I have done some reading and found a TP-Link and D-Link review but hoping there would be an adapter that is Made for Mojave/Catalina.

External Wifi USB-Stick for macOS 10.14 Mojave with Driver ⌚️ mac&egg

You are looking for a USB-Wifi-Stick, which also comes for macOS 10.14 Mojave with a suitable driver? We have found two manufacturers that you can just fall back on. And these two are TP-Link and D-Link. TP-Link indicates that the driver for the corresponding sticks is still in beta (but…

macandegg.com

It seems that tech companies are not updating their drivers for Mojave and now Catalina so thought I would ask here first.

 

[Leesureone]

QUESTION ABOUT REHABMAN BIOS SETTINGS:

I was reading the first page of this guide once again and read this which raised a question.

"in BIOS settings you *must* enable legacy boot (continue to boot UEFI, but enable legacy for CSM)
(you will have KP/reboot without it)"

I somehow missed this detail and have been running with "legacy boot" disabled. I'll do as the guide says but Catalina is running ok for me.

I looked up CSM. What does the above statement mean? "you will have KP/reboot without it? What is KP"

So Leesureone is that part of the guide still valid as my system is working?

KP = Kernel Panic...bad deal. Things have changed, I still run with Legacy Boot enabled but it may not be necessary. I know at least one user, and now you, who have reported not needing it. Wondering if you did enable it if it changed the dual boot scenario you described yesterday.

 

[ta_orz]

I’m using TP-link Archer T3U. It works fine for Mojave and Catalina.

 

[HedgeHog2k]

I’m using TP-link Archer T3U. It works fine for Mojave and Catalina.

So you have full handoff / airdrop functionality with this? And does it work plug-and-play or you need to install additional drivers?

 

[HedgeHog2k]

Tried a little bit of gaming (CS:GO): gfx performance is definitely not up to to the same level as Windows 10.