Hey Casey,
First of all I want to thank you for these most excellent instructions. This is my first time building a PC and my first Hackintosh. I probably couldn't have been able to do this project without your help. Kudos! Picture attached.
The build itself was not particularly difficult. Just watched some YouTube videos beforehand. The worst part was trying to install Windows. For whatever reason the Windows 10 Flash Drive that I bought from Amazon refused to boot. I updated the BIOS to F5, tried multiple combinations of BIOS and basically spent an entire day trying to get Windows to install. The next day I tried a Restore disk from another PC I have and that booted fine [I knew the hardware was working
]. Spent this day downloading Windows 10 from Microsoft and using a program for the Mac to build a flash install drive. That didn't work either, it would boot and get some kind of error and would not install. Finally at the end of the second day, I built a Windows Install disk on DVD and low and behold, the Windows DVD booted and I was able to install Windows.
The next day I followed your excellent instructions and had Mac OS 10.15.6 installed and running in maybe 1.5 hours. So Mac 1, Windows 0.
Have only had two glitches that I remember. The first was that I was rebooting and the system didn't go the the OpenCore picker, it booted directly into Windows. The second was that I was fiddling around with monitor setting on the monitor and the system seemed to crash. Oh, if I turn on "Wake for Network Access" the machine doesn't appear to go to sleep, but does otherwise [still need to test this a bit more].
Not running anything too advanced at the moment. Mail, Photos, Safari, Calendar, Carbon Copy Cloner, Screen Sharing, AirDrop, TV, Music all seem to work without issues. I'm using a wireless Apple keyboard and wireless Trackpad. No speakers but I can connect my Apple AirPods and watch and hear a move in TV or Safari.
Hardware that I choose if anyone is interested:
NZXT 710i case
Intel i9-10900K CPU
DEEPCOOL Castle 360EX AIO cpu cooler
64GB G.Skill Flare X DDR4 2933 memory
(2) Sabrent Rocket NVMe PCIe SSD's (one for Mac one for Windows)
Sapphire Radeon Nitro+ 5700 XT video card
YOUBO PC Hackintosh WiFi Card BCM94360CD 802.11a/g/n/ac 1750Mbps BT4.0 PCIe Network Adapter [Card itself says it is a Fenvi]
EVGA Supernova 850 T2 power supply
(2) Seagate 750 GB hard disk drives [that I had laying around]
Alienware AW2720HF monitor
I do have a question about Windows if anyone knows the answer. One of the hard drives I use as the clone of the Windows internal SSD [The other for the Mac]. The issue that I have is that in the OpenCore boot screen both drives are label Windows and I would like to somehow rename the cloned drive to "Windows Backup" so that it is distinguishable from the SSD drive. I used Windows "bcdedit" to change the drive identifier, but it still shows up as Windows in OpenCore boot selector. Anyone have any non-lethal suggestions?
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Sorry for the long post but I'm very excited to be fully up and running with no major problems to speak of and it is all thanks to you and your excellent instructions Casey!
Rand