[Guide] Alienware-17-R4-Dual-GPU-MacOS-Catalina-10.15-Hackintosh

[vatsa131]

here are supposedly good Win10 drivers for it now preventing issues

Can you share the link?

 

[spinkb]

Post #25 and #26?

Bcm94352z | dw1560 causes Windows 10 Lockup / Freeze

My DW1560 arrived today and I encountered the same issue. After trying the fix from @sparc1234 the card still freezes sadly... It worked for a really long time at the first boot, but after a reboot it went all downhill again... My laptop is a Dell XPS 9570 on Windows 10 (Pro) build 1809...

www.tonymacx86.com

Otherwise maybe the dell reference here?

Windows 10 blue screen error with the DW1560 wireless card installed | Dell Romania

Those are what I was basing my info on...again, I don't have my card yet to confirm them.

 

[vatsa131]

That is an old driver. I tried a lot of them. None is good in windows 1909 & don't think would work well with new driver system in windows 2004

 

[vatsa131]

@spinkb Did you change any setting? Sleep does not work for me out of the box using clover v10.

 

[spinkb]

No changes... What BIOS version are you on? Clear NVRAM once more and try again?

I'm on 10.13.6, all Apple updates applied after that. RockJesus clover v10. If there is something I can check for you, let me know. I don't have the Wifi card installed yet...its still in the mail.

 

[vatsa131]

I am now on Bios 1.9. Tried clearing Nvram.

Hope @rockjesus can help here. Cant understand all those ACPI patches.

 

[spinkb]

Well...I'm sorry to tell you, and happy for myself...but with the Wifi card installed, I have BT and Wifi in OSX, didn't change anything, just installed and booted. Booted into Windows 10 too, and it worked as well. I guess it takes long term usage in Win10 to detect problems there, but initial usage seemed to be OK with some quick checks. I won't be using Win10 accept for occasional gaming, so I may never notice the issues.

Sleep works too. So when I get time, my remainign thing is the iMessage stuff needs to be done. But otherwise I am 100% functional.

 

[vatsa131]

Well, great that it works for you. Hope you dont get any problems. Problems started for me after maybe 2 windows updates.

I am liking Catalina a lot. Fixed sleep, power management & disable GPU. Only thing that doesnt work for me is USB C -> HDMI. Cant seem to figure that out.

 

[spinkb]

USB-C to HDMI didn't work for me either...but you have native HDMI, so why not use that port instead? You also have native display port...that is how I conencted two 4k displays to my laptop.

 

[vatsa131]

No Nvidia in Catalina.