Apple Thunderbolt Display + Hackintosh?

[Acden]

Finally, I got my DisplayPort working. But no sound and any ports. How to enable them?

 

[mikenesukh]

Hello! did you manage to adjust the sound?

 

[beoss]

I got sound to work by installing the Apple Bootcamp Drivers manually.

 

[Acden]

I got sound to work by installing the Apple Bootcamp Drivers manually.

are you talking about sound in windows or mac os?

 

[beoss]

are you talking about sound in windows or mac os?

I used the Apple built Boot Camp for Windows Drivers.

 

[monerador]

Apparently nobody has built a Hackintosh with the Apple Thunderbolt Display to work with sound, camera, and usb hub? The one I am building now is working but just the screen like everybody else. I don't care about the camera, audio, etc... I think the main problem for me is that I can't control the brightness of the monitor...

 

[Acden]

monerator, do you know how to activate camera, sound, usb etc on this monitor?

 

[volcan96]

I have my Thunderbolt Display working with sound, camera, brightness controls and USB hub. I had to do a lot of investigation and tons of trial and error. Honestly, I would never do this again as I wasted too much time on it and would have been better off buying another monitor.

THIS IS NOT A GUIDE!!! This is a reference showing my TB Display working. So please spare my inbox
For anyone who wants to try, I'll attach some files for you WITHOUT SUPPORT.

I'm not 100% sure what made it work. I think it just started working on a reboot in the middle of the night. Or maybe it was the tequila.

Gotchas:

• The setup is kind of fragile. A clover update can make it stop working and you may have to revert clover.
• I dumped the asus tb card; I never got it to work.
• I am afraid to update my MOBO BIOS
• My config.plist is messy

My setup for the display and TB:

• Apple MMEL2AM/A, Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to 2 Adapter
• Gigabyte (Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Card) Components Other GC-ALPINE RIDGE in Port 4(last PCI port)
• No cable from TB card to TB header port

My Hack(my sig is slightly out of date):

• PRIME Z370-A
• i7 8700K
• Sapphire 11276-02-40G Radeon PULSE RX VEGA 56 8GB HBM2 DUAL HDMI/DP (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card (in first PCI port)
• SMBIOS

Pre-Reqs:

• An overall working hackintosh.
• USB Ports. Get your USB Ports correct following rehabman's guide. This is a must in my opinion for overall system stability.
• Proper Audio Edits in config.plist
• Read up on KGP's x299 guide here, specifically TB section E.9.2.13 (as of today).
• Get the PCI paths correct per KGP's guide. There are also starting point files that can be used and modified.
• Some Googling for other sites that have Thunderbolt + Hackintosh information.
• There's tons of info out there about which PCI port the TB card should be in

Things to try

• Choose a SMBIOS close to KGPs. I chose 18,3 which while not a perfect match is close enough.
• Mess with the pci paths per KGP's guides and the others on the internets
• Clear the Clover "nvram" by using F11; dunno if this helps or not

What doesn't work (but I don't care):

• Hackintosh Sleep
• TB Hotplug(may be related to sleep?or vice versa?)
• The TB card doesn't show up in System Report
• On rare occasions the TB card doesn't "initialize" properly and I have completely unplug the power for 30 secs or so it can be loaded by the MOBO.

Apparently nobody has built a Hackintosh with the Apple Thunderbolt Display to work with sound, camera, and usb hub? The one I am building now is working but just the screen like everybody else. I don't care about the camera, audio, etc... I think the main problem for me is that I can't control the brightness of the monitor...

 

[pix1410]

My configuration is quite fresh but seems to work properly (with audio and built-in camera) :

• macOS High Sierra
• ASUS PRIME Z270-A + i7-7700K
• Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8G
• ASUS ThunderboltEX card
• Apple Thunderbolt Display 27"
• LG IPS237 24" LCD

There were two tricky things:

• installing ASUS ThunderboltEX card in Windows
• Thunderbolt3->Thunderbolt2 connector
• drivers and audio settings in Windows10 (must be done before you switch to macOS)

 

[Acden]

As for me, with my configiration Apple Thunderbolt display works without any windowses!!!
I have not installed any windows since connecting Thunderbolt Display!

(But any ports, sound etc is not working on display, even camera)