Minihack’s Build: Haswell i5-4250U NUC BOXD54250WYKH1 - 8GB RAM

[macopolo]

Thanks, It's the most effortless and smooth way, nomore boot args and deadbeef and command line, really appreciate your work

 

[konsti]

Geekbench can be useful in this case ...
You can try with this :

EDIT: IT DOESN'T WORK !!!

<key>SMBIOS</key>
    <dict>
        <key>BiosVendor</key>
        <string>Apple Computer, Inc.</string>
        <key>BiosVersion</key>
        <string>MM71.88Z.0220.B00.1409291751</string>
        <key>Board-ID</key>
        <string>Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF</string>
        <key>BoardManufacturer</key>
        <string>Apple Computer, Inc.</string>
        <key>Family</key>
        <string>MacMini</string>
        <key>Manufacturer</key>
        <string>Apple Computer, Inc.</string>
        <key>Mobile</key>
        <false/>
        <key>ProductName</key>
        <string>MacMini7,1</string>
        <key>SerialNumber</key>
        <string>GETYOUROWN</string>
        <key>Trust</key>
        <false/>
        <key>Version</key>
        <string>1.0</string>
    </dict>

Hi everyone, hi @Sebinouse, thank you all for your valuable tips on making this NUC work.
Today, after experimenting with the original Clover configuration/files provided in post #1, I updated to latest Clover v3543 and tested Macmini7,1 as SMBIOS (manually entered data in config.plist). I rebooted and the device seems to book OK (booted without caches, first) and had no visible warnings in verbose boot.

What is used was slightly different to @Sebinouse, namely the below, from user Quadie at insanely:

<key>SMBIOS</key>
<dict>
       <key>BiosReleaseDate</key>
       <string>12/04/2014</string>
       <key>BiosVendor</key>
       <string>Apple Inc.</string>
       <key>BiosVersion</key>
       <string>MM71.88Z.0220.B01.1412041041</string>
       <key>Board-ID</key>
       <string>Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF</string>
       <key>BoardManufacturer</key>
       <string>Apple Inc.</string>
       <key>BoardType</key>
       <integer>10</integer>
       <key>ChassisAssetTag</key>
       <string>Mini-Aluminum</string>
       <key>ChassisManufacturer</key>
       <string>Apple Inc.</string>
       <key>ChassisType</key>
       <string>16</string>
       <key>Family</key>
       <string>Mac mini</string>
       <key>Manufacturer</key>
       <string>Apple Inc.</string>
       <key>ProductName</key>
       <string>Macmini7,1</string>
       <key>SerialNumber</key>
       <string>RM2N####GCVQ</string>
       <key>Version</key>
       <string>1.0</string>
</dict>

I am running Intel's Power Gadget and it seems the CPU stepping to work, frequency goes from 1.20GHz to 2.30GHz when running Geekbench. The results of Geekbench (v3.3.4) 64-bit mode were slightly lower than those when SMBIOS was set to MacBook Air, but still 5309 are OK compared to 5494 earlier. Temperature (per Intel's Gadget) seems a little higher, too, when idle. Running latest 10.10.5 and all updates.

I am still using original SSDT.aml and SSDT-1.aml provided by @minihack (many thanks again!!!) without SSDT-2.aml as I am using Atheros AR9280 PCIe that's working OOB.

The only issue I'd like to report is:
1) How to generate proper serial for Macmini7,1? Clover Configurator doesn't include it.
2) @Sebinouse why you wrote that it didn't work? (few months back, of course)
3) Anyone else re-tried it to set (manually set SMBIOS inside config.plist)
4) In verbose boot, I got X86PlatformShim::SendPStates - Success! but I also see some other message like com_intel_driver_EnergyDriver[0xffffff8025b78f00]::start(0xffffff8023a30b00) that I don't think I had earlier.

Your comments are welcome! Thank you again everyone for your assistance in previous pages.

EDIT: My NUC is D54250WYKH with latest BIOS v0041

 

[Sebinouse]

1) How to generate proper serial for Macmini7,1? Clover Configurator doesn't include it.
2) @Sebinouse why you wrote that it didn't work? (few months back, of course)
3) Anyone else re-tried it to set (manually set SMBIOS inside config.plist)
4) In verbose boot, I got X86PlatformShim::SendPStates - Success! but I also see some other message like com_intel_driver_EnergyDriver[0xffffff8025b78f00]::start(0xffffff8023a30b00) that I don't think I had earlier.

EDIT: My NUC is D54250WYKH with latest BIOS v0041

1) you only need to add random characters instead of # in the serial you mention in your post.... approximately !
RM2N####GCVQ
RM2 : location of manufacture (RM2 : Remanufactured model ...)
N#: year and week of manufacture (N8 means 52th week of 2014 according CloverConfigurator iMac15,1)
###: random characters (LD8 for instance)
GCVQ: mac model (MM7,1)

2) it didn't work at the very beginning of MM7,1. Maybe it was sold with a special version of MacOSX. It worked at the next update.

3) yep, and it works great !

4)I don't have those on my log ...