[Guide] Dell XPS 9560 Mojave VirtualSMC, I2C Trackpad, Clover UEFI Hotpatch

[nikoel]

That is very funny. Mine throttle always at 0.8 after 5minutes of HD video editing. I did the same as you on my laptop (GRIZZLY THERMAL, undervolted etc) but never found a way around it (except disable the inter thermal framework drivers for good) I tried to explain this to the customer support, fought for it for a long time but never got it right even though I had a professional customer service plan. So my only solution was and is still todayto go through mac OS with this laptop.

If I were you, I'd order a new heat-sink assembly. There is a beefier aftermarket version that is better than stock dell. I suspect the factory/you may have bent the assembly on installation/de-installation. Even stock 0.8Ghz throttling was never observed on my machine and I live in Queensland Australia which is often is as hot as balls. I heavily suspect that the silicon is not making proper contact with the heat-sink

 

[gnosy]

Ok thanks for the tip. But I don t understand why the processor is never throttling on Mac OS with heavy workloads 24 hours in a row. Do you know where I can buy those new heat sink assembly you think about ?

 

[MrGreenPerc]

Has anyone tried this on the 9575?

 

[InsaneCultist]

Has anyone tried this on the 9575?

There is a separate success thread for the 9575. I personally have not tried it but a colleague of mine has one that apparently runs well but not as well as the 9560 or 9570 due to the Type-C implementation.

Unable to get XPS 15 2-in-1 9575 HD 630 work in 10.13.4

Hi, My laptop specs are: XPS 15 9575 4K Display (3840*2160) i7-8705G Processor with Radeon™ RX Vega M GL graphics HD630 (device id and vendor id: 0x591b8086) Windows 10 + First installation of macOS (10.13.4) on APFS in the same disk I've been working on this laptop for four days; however, I...

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There is a functioning EFI folder in that thread.

 

[dmitry_matora]

Are you still using it docked? I've tried CLOVER v3.4 and I can only wake my 9560 using lid or power button.
network/usb/ac wake are enabled in BIOS (and all are failing to wake it)
Getting rid of SSDT-UPRW.aml and/or adding SSDT-DeepIdle.aml doesn't help

Finally figured it out (sort of).

Removing SSDT-UPRW.aml doesn't recover wake on lan (or wake on bluetooth/usb) functionality, but disabling SSDT-UPRW.aml in clover's config.plist does (only when SSDT-DeepIdle.aml is in place).

SSDT-DeepIdle.aml is intended to fix sleep issue and that what it does (sort of). When SSDT-UPRW.aml patches are disabled and SSDT-DeepIdle.aml is in place, laptop will disappear from network during sleep but will consume entire battery in about 10 hours. Looks like it fixes sleep at software (kernel?) level but breaks it at hardware level. I think I had it working even at hardware level with KNN's config, but I was unable to use external monitor with it and it didn't support 10.12.6+ so I had to give up on it.

Anyway, when SSDT-UPRW.aml patches are disabled and SSDT-DeepIdle.aml is in place I'm not only able to use laptop "docked" (wake external monitor using usb/bluetooth keyboard) but I also never get black screen on lid open (which I get all the time with regular config).

10 hours of sleep is not much, so I wrote two scripts to enable wakeonlan when docked and enable long sleep when undocked.

#!/bin/sh
sudo diskutil mount disk0s1
cd /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER
cp config.netwake.blocked.plist config.plist
cd ACPI/patched
mv SSDT-DeepIdle.aml ..
cd ~
sudo diskutil umount disk0s1

#!/bin/sh
sudo diskutil mount disk0s1
cd /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER
cp config.netwake.unblocked.plist config.plist
cd ACPI
mv SSDT-DeepIdle.aml patched
cd ~
sudo diskutil umount disk0s1

script obviously requires having config.netwake.blocked.plist and config.netwake.unblocked.plist (with SSDT-UPRW.aml patches disabled) in same folder as config.plist

 

[apfsx]

If I were you, I'd order a new heat-sink assembly. There is a beefier aftermarket version that is better than stock dell. I suspect the factory/you may have bent the assembly on installation/de-installation. Even stock 0.8Ghz throttling was never observed on my machine and I live in Queensland Australia which is often is as hot as balls. I heavily suspect that the silicon is not making proper contact with the heat-sink

Where can you buy this aftermarket version?

 

[romanmykytiuk]

Hi everyone.
Nice to e-meet you all.
I m happy that there are some folks with the same laptop and desire to run macOS.

I need your help to run it. I've tried a lot of stuff but the system reboots after I installed it to the SSD.

My specs:
- killer wi-fi
- ram - 32gb
- i7-7700hq
- gtx 1050

Could someone explain the process of installing it STEP BY STEP? I am not tech-savvy to run it by myself. Have a nice day guys. Hope someone will help me.

 

[apfsx]

Hi everyone.
Nice to e-meet you all.
I m happy that there are some folks with the same laptop and desire to run macOS.

I need your help to run it. I've tried a lot of stuff but the system reboots after I installed it to the SSD.

My specs:
- killer wi-fi
- ram - 32gb
- i7-7700hq
- gtx 1050

Could someone explain the process of installing it STEP BY STEP? I am not tech-savvy to run it by myself. Have a nice day guys. Hope someone will help me.

Hello friend,

The original thread is basically as STEP BY STEP as you can get... there is step by step instructions for installation. If this is your first Hackintosh then prepare to begin reading like a lot. Have you done a Hackintosh previously? Do you know how to install & update kexts, modify config.plist for Clover, etc? If you don't know these steps this will be a very frustrating process.

 

[romanmykytiuk]

Hello friend,

The original thread is basically as STEP BY STEP as you can get... there is step by step instructions for installation. If this is your first Hackintosh then prepare to begin reading like a lot. Have you done a Hackintosh previously? Do you know how to install & update kexts, modify config.plist for Clover, etc? If you don't know these steps this will be a very frustrating process.

Thank you for the response and forgive my language as I'm not a native speaker.
Recently I installed mac os Mojave to dell 9550 but I found repo on Github how to do that and there are a lot of files. So ready to use the clover folder. I just installed it to EFI and USB flash. And frankly speaking, it was easy and everything works fine.

I used the v.3.4 clover and run clover and installed it to the flash drive: then I replaced the clover folder with v.3.4 and the process was smooth until reboot where it stuck and loop every time the system reboots.

 

[romanmykytiuk]

I think I have the same and my laptop got panic.

''My Samsung PM961 is not 4Kn sector, it seems there is native support for it and matches a native device ID.

• Kernel Panics were plenty until I switched to AptioMemoryFix and VirtualSMC.'' and I don't know how to fix it.

My steps:
1. I downloaded Mojave and made the USB flash drive bootable.
2. I installed clover to USB flash drive and replace clover folder with v.3.4
3. I replaced the clover folder inside 'Efi' after the 2 step
4. I've got the progress, apple logo, I can install the mac os to my SSD but the process interrupted after reboot and it's looped.

Guys, i need your help. I've read a lot but I think I have a luck of Hackintosh knowledge.