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- Z390 Designare
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- i7-8700k
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Hey guys. I have x99 AsRock tai-chi motherboard with i7 6800k cpu. It took me about a 3 months and series of drive image restorations to make it work. A fellow hackintosher with the same system as mine, could not make his to work (he couldn't get his system to start the installation media). I explained all I did for mine and it took him about 40 minutes from nothing to a ready post installation. If you have different cpu - replace the fake CpuID with the one that is corresponding to yours from Clover upon booting the installation media.
You can download 3 archives at the very bottom of this guide.
Make sure before you start installation, in your BIOS setting, your VT-D is off and secure boot is disabled.
Create an installation drive with Unibeast. Mount the EFI partition of that drive and copy the contents from "EFI_installation media.zip" to your EFI folder in your EFI partition. If you don't see EFI partition, you can mount it with Clover configurator(in TOOLS>Mount EFI). Insert the installation media in USB 2.0 port. USB 3.0 or anything above will make your system to crash. When you are booting your installation drive, turn off all C-states for the cpu from Clover at boot, all in usb have to be off, all audio have to be off. I left them like that, but there was something that I could't change with editing the plist file so I'm giving you heads up. Delete the flag nvda_drv=1 and replace it with nv_disable=1 if you get panics.
I'm assuming you know how to use Disk Utility so I'll skip explaining that part. After the installation is ready, boot using the flash-drive, install the kexts first from "other.zip" with Kext Utility and copy the "EFI_ready installation.zip" contents from the archive to your EFI folder in your EFI Partition installation drive so you can boot without the USB installation drive from now on. If you can't find EFI partition use Clover configurator to mount it (in TOOLS>Mount EFI). After that install your GPU drivers. If you have Pascal GPU - drivers are available now, check in https://www.tonymacx...nvidia-drivers/ and the CUDA too from NVidia: http://www.nvidia.co....81-driver.html . Restart. Please note that if you have different motherboard from what I have, you have to make your research for the drivers, and kexts, and HEX replacements that you'll need. For example I needed HEX replacement to be able to use my onboard audio, kexts to fix sleeping monitor issue after boot, etc.
If you get kernel panics before and after installation - check your board's usb settings. If the ready installation crashes for no apparent reason, make sure you have the Kexts installed that I mentioned earlier. Another Panic reason can be to too low latencies/high speeds if you have overclocked your RAM. My board is x99 Tai-chi and it have 2 gigabit LAN connection options. Make sure your LAN RJ45 jack is connected to the lower jack on your Motherboard if you have the Tai-chi x99. Don't forget to use the right fake CpuID for your cpu, if it is different from mine.
Siri was a huge head bang to enable, but something tells me the "config.plist" in your ready installation should help her work. Enable your TRIM with "sudo trimforce enable" in the Terminal.
P.S.
Intel wifi is not supported by MacOSx Hackintosh. You have to replace it with compatible hardware. I never changed my wifi card so I can't really help you, because I never had to deal with this issue.
I could never make I-message to work, I followed this guide (https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/an-idiots-guide-to-imessage.196827/), but no matter what I did - my system was always rendered unusable (panics, crashes, etc), if you can make it work, please let me know what you did!
I know there must be better, more sophisticated way to get this all to work, I might have missed something, or included something that shouldn't be in the guide at all, but I run a stable system now with research I conducted by myself so that works great for me. I will always appreciate and welcome creative criticism. We are all here for the same reason.
You can download 3 archives at the very bottom of this guide.
Make sure before you start installation, in your BIOS setting, your VT-D is off and secure boot is disabled.
Create an installation drive with Unibeast. Mount the EFI partition of that drive and copy the contents from "EFI_installation media.zip" to your EFI folder in your EFI partition. If you don't see EFI partition, you can mount it with Clover configurator(in TOOLS>Mount EFI). Insert the installation media in USB 2.0 port. USB 3.0 or anything above will make your system to crash. When you are booting your installation drive, turn off all C-states for the cpu from Clover at boot, all in usb have to be off, all audio have to be off. I left them like that, but there was something that I could't change with editing the plist file so I'm giving you heads up. Delete the flag nvda_drv=1 and replace it with nv_disable=1 if you get panics.
I'm assuming you know how to use Disk Utility so I'll skip explaining that part. After the installation is ready, boot using the flash-drive, install the kexts first from "other.zip" with Kext Utility and copy the "EFI_ready installation.zip" contents from the archive to your EFI folder in your EFI Partition installation drive so you can boot without the USB installation drive from now on. If you can't find EFI partition use Clover configurator to mount it (in TOOLS>Mount EFI). After that install your GPU drivers. If you have Pascal GPU - drivers are available now, check in https://www.tonymacx...nvidia-drivers/ and the CUDA too from NVidia: http://www.nvidia.co....81-driver.html . Restart. Please note that if you have different motherboard from what I have, you have to make your research for the drivers, and kexts, and HEX replacements that you'll need. For example I needed HEX replacement to be able to use my onboard audio, kexts to fix sleeping monitor issue after boot, etc.
If you get kernel panics before and after installation - check your board's usb settings. If the ready installation crashes for no apparent reason, make sure you have the Kexts installed that I mentioned earlier. Another Panic reason can be to too low latencies/high speeds if you have overclocked your RAM. My board is x99 Tai-chi and it have 2 gigabit LAN connection options. Make sure your LAN RJ45 jack is connected to the lower jack on your Motherboard if you have the Tai-chi x99. Don't forget to use the right fake CpuID for your cpu, if it is different from mine.
Siri was a huge head bang to enable, but something tells me the "config.plist" in your ready installation should help her work. Enable your TRIM with "sudo trimforce enable" in the Terminal.
P.S.
Intel wifi is not supported by MacOSx Hackintosh. You have to replace it with compatible hardware. I never changed my wifi card so I can't really help you, because I never had to deal with this issue.
I could never make I-message to work, I followed this guide (https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/an-idiots-guide-to-imessage.196827/), but no matter what I did - my system was always rendered unusable (panics, crashes, etc), if you can make it work, please let me know what you did!
I know there must be better, more sophisticated way to get this all to work, I might have missed something, or included something that shouldn't be in the guide at all, but I run a stable system now with research I conducted by myself so that works great for me. I will always appreciate and welcome creative criticism. We are all here for the same reason.
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