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- Motherboard
- Asus TP500LAB (9 series)
- CPU
- i5-5200U
- Graphics
- HD 5500
- Mobile Phone
This Guide is made for installing macOS on the Asus TP500LA with the Broadwell i5-5200U CPU (9 series Broadwell)
with Intel HD 5500 Graphics (no Nvidia Optimus GPU)
This Laptop works really well with macOS. Almost everything is working perfectly for me.
What's working:with Intel HD 5500 Graphics (no Nvidia Optimus GPU)
This Laptop works really well with macOS. Almost everything is working perfectly for me.
- CPU + Proper Power Management
- Intel HD Graphics 5500 (1366x768) with full acceleration
- Keyboard and Elan Trackpad with working Gestures
- Ethernet
- Battery Status
- RealTek ALC233 Audio + Mic and HDMI Audio
- Bluetooth
- Wifi (when replaced by working Wifi hardware, see here)
- iMessage + Facetime + iCloud + Appstore (use the "Fix iMessage thread)
- Webcam
- Brightness
- Sleep
- More stuff I might forgot to mention
- Touchscreen (little weird though, works well when installing this driver)
- Handoff not working reliable (requires native Apple Wifi card)
- PCIE SDHC card reader
Initial Installation:
To prepare your USB flash drive, follow this excellent guide made by Rehabman. This includes all the required files needed to boot up the macOS installer and to successfully complete the installation. Once installed, go to the Post Installation section.
Important: Make sure that DVMT-prealloc memory is set to 64mb in BIOS.
Post Installation:
Now that you have macOS installed, make sure that you install Clover to your HDD. Download the latest version of Clover and install it. The requirements are as follows (to select in the customize tab in the clover installer):
To prepare your USB flash drive, follow this excellent guide made by Rehabman. This includes all the required files needed to boot up the macOS installer and to successfully complete the installation. Once installed, go to the Post Installation section.
Important: Make sure that DVMT-prealloc memory is set to 64mb in BIOS.
Post Installation:
Now that you have macOS installed, make sure that you install Clover to your HDD. Download the latest version of Clover and install it. The requirements are as follows (to select in the customize tab in the clover installer):
- Installation for UEFI motherboards
- Install Clover to the ESP
- In Driver64UEFI, select OsxAptioFixDrv-64 and EmuVariableUefi-64
- Install RC scripts to the target volume
- Clover Preference Pane (optional)
Now you can click on install and Clover will be installed. Now that it's done, open the mounted EFI partition and navigate to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.12 (and other) and remove any existing kext files in there. Go back to the main clover folder and replace the config.plist with the one available in the attachments.
Now, download your favorite kext utility and install all the kexts from the kext package in the attachments.
Now it's time to make your ACPI changes (the most important part):
Follow this guide by Rehabman to get all the correct acpi files. After you did that, apply the following patches available here:
Now, download your favorite kext utility and install all the kexts from the kext package in the attachments.
Now it's time to make your ACPI changes (the most important part):
Follow this guide by Rehabman to get all the correct acpi files. After you did that, apply the following patches available here:
- system_IRQ
- system_OSYS_win8
- remove_DSM
- usb_prw_0x0d_xhc
- graphics_PNLF_haswell
- graphics_Rename-GFX0
- graphics_Rename-B0D3 (make sure to replace 12, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 with 3, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 in the layout id)
- battery_ASUS-N55SL
- audio_HDEF-layout3
All the patches have a description to them, so that you understand what to do and where to apply them.
After you are done with patching, save all files with .aml extension and place them in /EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched/.
Next, create your power management ssdt, see here.
You can also try my ACPI files from the attachments, but I strongly recommend creating your own ones, because BIOS version might differ or any other hardware installed.
Conclusion:
This Laptop has been working very well for me for more than a year now (I started with Yosemite, then El Capitan and now Sierra). I decided to create a Guide now, because now I figured out everything and the system is running stable for me.
If you need any help regarding the installation or to get thing work, just post here and I will try to help you.
I'll update this thread for any new updates and fixes.
Special thanks to Rehabman for his awesome guides and for helping me along the way.
Happy Installing!
After you are done with patching, save all files with .aml extension and place them in /EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched/.
Next, create your power management ssdt, see here.
You can also try my ACPI files from the attachments, but I strongly recommend creating your own ones, because BIOS version might differ or any other hardware installed.
Conclusion:
This Laptop has been working very well for me for more than a year now (I started with Yosemite, then El Capitan and now Sierra). I decided to create a Guide now, because now I figured out everything and the system is running stable for me.
If you need any help regarding the installation or to get thing work, just post here and I will try to help you.
I'll update this thread for any new updates and fixes.
Special thanks to Rehabman for his awesome guides and for helping me along the way.
Happy Installing!
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