Alienware 13 R3 macOS High Sierra Help

[michaelkintner35]

Hello Hackintosh family! I really need some help, I am having a real hard time install macOS Sierra/High Sierra on my laptop. If anyone can help that would be amazing

Here are the specs for the laptop:

Model: Alienware 13 R3 Signature Edition Laptop
CPU: i7-7700HQ
Ram: 1 8gb DDR4 Module
iGPU: Intel HD 630
GPU: GTX 1060
Storage: 1Tb Toshiba NVMe drive

 

[Feartech]

Hello Hackintosh family! I really need some help, I am having a real hard time install macOS Sierra/High Sierra on my laptop. If anyone can help that would be amazing

Here are the specs for the laptop:

Model: Alienware 13 R3 Signature Edition Laptop
CPU: i7-7700HQ
Ram: 1 8gb DDR4 Module
iGPU: Intel HD 630
GPU: GTX 1060
Storage: 1Tb Toshiba NVMe drive

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[michaelkintner35]

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Read the article, saw some helpful information, one of my main issues is that I can't really get the installer to show up, it either hangs at the apple logo or restarts, and I ran -v to see the error code, and got nothing from it.

 

[Feartech]

Read the article, saw some helpful information, one of my main issues is that I can't really get the installer to show up, it either hangs at the apple logo or restarts, and I ran -v to see the error code, and got nothing from it.

you mean a blank screen when booting verbose?

did you get to the section regarding "problem reporting"?

 

[michaelkintner35]

you mean a blank screen when booting verbose?

did you get to the section regarding "problem reporting"?

Not really sometimes it just freezes, and sometimes it goes to the installation but I havent had any luck fully installing it. I have hackintoshed laptops before, but I've never done it with a laptop with integrated graphics + a gpu.

 

[Feartech]

Not really sometimes it just freezes, and sometimes it goes to the installation but I havent had any luck fully installing it. I have hackintoshed laptops before, but I've never done it with a laptop with integrated graphics + a gpu.

you will need to upload your problem reporting files

 

[michaelkintner35]

you will need to upload your problem reporting files

I'll remake the bootable USB. I'm going to try unibeast again. I was considering doing the vanilla installation method.

 

[Feartech]

I'll remake the bootable USB. I'm going to try unibeast again. I was considering doing the vanilla installation method.

unibeast is for desktops

Link to laptop guide:

[Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover

Overview One of the first challenges you'll face in installing OS X to your laptop will involve getting the OS X installer to boot from USB. This guide is for those wishing to use Clover (and in fact the only bootloader supported here). Both installing using Clover UEFI and Clover legacy are...

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use a later version of clover form the downloads section

 

[michaelkintner35]

unibeast is for desktops

Link to laptop guide:

[Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover

Overview One of the first challenges you'll face in installing OS X to your laptop will involve getting the OS X installer to boot from USB. This guide is for those wishing to use Clover (and in fact the only bootloader supported here). Both installing using Clover UEFI and Clover legacy are...

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use a later version of clover form the downloads section

I am currently reading the guide for it, and I saw that VMs aren't reccomended for USB installtion creation, but I don't have anythign else to use.

 

[Feartech]

I am currently reading the guide for it, and I saw that VMs aren't reccomended for USB installtion creation, but I don't have anythign else to use.

you need a mac or a working hackintosh to create the installer