Rocky start to HS Hackintosh

[Moniker]

Hello

So I finally built the start of my system. It sports:

i7 7700k
Gigabyte GA-Z270N-WIFI
Samsung 960 EVO M.2 drive
16GB of RAM

This system won't have a dGPU to start with, the ones I want are sold out (this is an ITX build so I want low power and all of those are unavailable).

I've managed to get Clover to sorta boot after creating the USB and putting FakeSMC, USBInjectAll and ApplePS2SmartTouchPad kexts (from a YT video, actually) and config.plist from the HS guide post.

I seem to be getting a torrent of errors though. I can't tell you one specific wrong thing, I just seem to notice there are a lot. Now, I have no idea where to go from here, or back to, so, I was wondering if anyone could help.

It's currently frozen at "IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLockState 3, hs 0, bs 0, now 0, sm 0x0"

Well. This is a turn of events. My screen literally just went off. No reboot, no usb pen activity.

 

[RehabMan]

Hello

So I finally built the start of my system. It sports:

i7 7700k
Gigabyte GA-Z270N-WIFI
Samsung 960 EVO M.2 drive
16GB of RAM

This system won't have a dGPU to start with, the ones I want are sold out (this is an ITX build so I want low power and all of those are unavailable).

I've managed to get Clover to sorta boot after creating the USB and putting FakeSMC, USBInjectAll and ApplePS2SmartTouchPad kexts (from a YT video, actually) and config.plist from the HS guide post.

I seem to be getting a torrent of errors though. I can't tell you one specific wrong thing, I just seem to notice there are a lot. Now, I have no idea where to go from here, or back to, so, I was wondering if anyone could help.

It's currently frozen at "IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLockState 3, hs 0, bs 0, now 0, sm 0x0"

Well. This is a turn of events. My screen literally just went off. No reboot, no usb pen activity.

ApplePS2SmartTouchPad.kext is for laptop keyboard/trackpad, not desktops.
You probably need Lilu.kext + IntelGraphicsFixup.kext.

 

[Moniker]

I later tried a combination of files with those in and it didn't work, remaking the USB and adding just the two files I had (minus the trackpad one) plus those two, it booted, thank you!

However, it doesn't see my m.2 drive. Wasn't there supposed to be native support? Is there something extra I need to do?

 

[RehabMan]

However, it doesn't see my m.2 drive. Wasn't there supposed to be native support? Is there something extra I need to do?

Check BIOS settings (SATA mode must be AHCI).

 

[Moniker]

That's what it is set to. The BIOS sees the drive (didn't always), I've confirmed before booting that the drive was detected, but it still doesn't show up.

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So I decided to get an SSD in and try an install there. After some issues, I have booted macOS HS. I can, right away, tell three things aren't working:

- Dual Ethernet (Only one port is functional, using IntelMausiEthernet. Using E1000 doesn't work, as I'd expect
- PS/2 port.
- Audio (already put AppleALC.kext in)

I didn't know BT wasn't supported either and I don't think my BT dongle is working either. The PS2 keyboard I've been working doesn't work once I boot macOS, so I'm locked out. Can't get into Screen Sharing, so progress seems halted for now.

 

[Moniker]

Okay, so I figured out a couple of things:

- The NVMe was showing up in System Report but not Disk Manager. Since it was new, I just command line formatted it with APFS (as I could get diskX information), it worked fine afterwards.
- APFS caused some issues with the second SSD I was using (to temporarily install OSX to, now it's my Windows drive, OSX has been successfully moved to the 960 EVO and boots fine.
- Audio performance on the machine, latency wise with a USB soundboard clearly isn't living up to the computer's potential, I've followed a couple of guides, still can't get the ALC1220 to work.
- While in Ableton, the computer restarted. No idea why, haven't checked the logs yet.
- Installing Windows on the 850 EVO was a pain, required me to remove the m.2 drive, located on the underside of the motherboard.


So currently, what doesn't work and needs fixing:
- Built in audio. Followed a couple of guides, but no dice, will keep at it some other time, my time with the machine has run out for now.
- Power management. Macs Fan Control at least sees no sensors, I don't know if speed management on the CPU fan and all is being done properly.

What doesn't work and can wait:
- Dual Ethernet
- PS/2 port
- Back to My Mac