- Joined
- Mar 27, 2020
- Messages
- 18
- Motherboard
- Dell 3020 SSF - H81 Chipset
- CPU
- i5-4590S
- Graphics
- HD 4600
- Mobile Phone
Hi!
First of all, I want to mention, that I'm a beginner in the Hackintosh topic, so if I ask dumb things, or have misinformations about some topics, please feel free to correct me, and my apologies.
So, a few weeks ago, I've got my hands on a Dell Optiplex 3020 SSF, for a ridiculously low price. Since I had no better idea to make a use of it, I've decided to make it a Hackintosh machine.
Originally, the Machine came with a i3-4150, which had Intel HD4400, and it worked fine, but I had some issues, like preview freezing with large images, or GarageBand freezed up the whole machine, when I opened a dropdown menu. According to my research, these issues were caused by the iGPU, as it was never supported.
So, a few days later, I've picked up a second hand i5-4590S (the machine's cooling solution has a thermal limit of 65W) and the CPU swap went perfectly, I have no longer issues with preview, GarageBand, etc. Also I've upgraded RAM, (with the i3-4150 CPU for two weeks) although I wasn't able to buy the exactly same Hynix RAM stick. Lucky, they seem to work together. (One stick is a HMT451U6AFR8C-PB, the other stick is a HMT451U6BFR8C-PB)
However, I've got new graphics glitches, and they're more annoying than the issues were with the HD4400. When I open a right-click context menu, and I go to a dropdown list, the cursor starts indicating a loading, and than the menu dissapears. Sometimes it will load, but the menu will be frozen. Sometimes it will start flashing. Sometimes, Safari does the exact same loading thing, and then I get random black boxes in the pages. Safari does not need to open a context menu to behave like this, enough if you click into an another window. Xcode plist editor can hang up on opening dropdown lists. Sometimes windows start flashing.
I've been experimenting with multiple framebuffer configurations, according to WheneverGreen's Intel HD guide, but I had no luck with it, no other AAPL,ig-platform-id setting worked for me than 0300220D . Other framebuffer configs showed me 7MB VRAM. Also, I've played a lot with framebuffer-fbmem, and framebuffer-stolenmem options, none of them seemed to help me out.
I've setted the DVMT prealloc to 64MB in the BIOS. I have disabled CFG lock lock too. (Keep in mind, this feature is hidden in the Dell BIOS, so I had to tweak these parameters via modGrubShell.efi, by modifying NVRAM variables.) I also disabled VT-d in the BIOS too.
What could go wrong here? I'm out of ideas. I suspected the RAM too, but I had no issues like this with the i3-4150 CPU, using the same RAM configuration, so I don't think so.
I've included my config.plist. (OFC, with removed serials.) Thanks in advance for your help!
First of all, I want to mention, that I'm a beginner in the Hackintosh topic, so if I ask dumb things, or have misinformations about some topics, please feel free to correct me, and my apologies.
So, a few weeks ago, I've got my hands on a Dell Optiplex 3020 SSF, for a ridiculously low price. Since I had no better idea to make a use of it, I've decided to make it a Hackintosh machine.
Originally, the Machine came with a i3-4150, which had Intel HD4400, and it worked fine, but I had some issues, like preview freezing with large images, or GarageBand freezed up the whole machine, when I opened a dropdown menu. According to my research, these issues were caused by the iGPU, as it was never supported.
So, a few days later, I've picked up a second hand i5-4590S (the machine's cooling solution has a thermal limit of 65W) and the CPU swap went perfectly, I have no longer issues with preview, GarageBand, etc. Also I've upgraded RAM, (with the i3-4150 CPU for two weeks) although I wasn't able to buy the exactly same Hynix RAM stick. Lucky, they seem to work together. (One stick is a HMT451U6AFR8C-PB, the other stick is a HMT451U6BFR8C-PB)
However, I've got new graphics glitches, and they're more annoying than the issues were with the HD4400. When I open a right-click context menu, and I go to a dropdown list, the cursor starts indicating a loading, and than the menu dissapears. Sometimes it will load, but the menu will be frozen. Sometimes it will start flashing. Sometimes, Safari does the exact same loading thing, and then I get random black boxes in the pages. Safari does not need to open a context menu to behave like this, enough if you click into an another window. Xcode plist editor can hang up on opening dropdown lists. Sometimes windows start flashing.
I've been experimenting with multiple framebuffer configurations, according to WheneverGreen's Intel HD guide, but I had no luck with it, no other AAPL,ig-platform-id setting worked for me than 0300220D . Other framebuffer configs showed me 7MB VRAM. Also, I've played a lot with framebuffer-fbmem, and framebuffer-stolenmem options, none of them seemed to help me out.
I've setted the DVMT prealloc to 64MB in the BIOS. I have disabled CFG lock lock too. (Keep in mind, this feature is hidden in the Dell BIOS, so I had to tweak these parameters via modGrubShell.efi, by modifying NVRAM variables.) I also disabled VT-d in the BIOS too.
What could go wrong here? I'm out of ideas. I suspected the RAM too, but I had no issues like this with the i3-4150 CPU, using the same RAM configuration, so I don't think so.
I've included my config.plist. (OFC, with removed serials.) Thanks in advance for your help!