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- Motherboard
- GA Z170 UD3
- CPU
- i7 6770K
- Graphics
- AMD RX580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
First of all, this guide is for a completely new install. For whatever reason, the upgrade procedure failed from 10.12.6 to 10.13, I got a hangup at the Apple boot logo. So I said screw it and did a new install and restored from a Time Machine backup.
So this guide works fine for a new installation and these components:
What works:
Almost everything, except...
What doesn't work / Disclaimer:
Internal soundcard: I have disabled that because I use a USB soundcard (Xonar U7)
Problems:
Boot process is somewhat slow for a SSD? (about 1 minute), I am looking into that.
BIOS settings
- Erase your install disk with Disk Utility, ideally with APFS
- Start the installation on the fresh formatted disk
- The installation process will reboot the hackintosh a few times. Make sure to select Boot from Install macOS from (install disk), NOT from the USB!
- When installation is finished, there a 3 boot options from the disk: FileVault Preboot, macOS Installer Preboot and Boot MacOS - choose the latter Boot macOS
Post Installation:
Nothing! As mentioned, RX 580 and 5K will work out of the box. I can't help with the soundcard though, as I use a USB soundcard (which works fine oob). Enjoy your new system
Optional: Idiot's guide to iMessage
So this guide works fine for a new installation and these components:
- Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3
- Intel i6700k Skylake
- AMD RX 580 (which is only a bumped up RX480), specific vendor / model: Sapphire RX 580 8G Nitro
- Samsung 1TB Pro 840 SSD
- (32 GB RAM)
What works:
Almost everything, except...
What doesn't work / Disclaimer:
Internal soundcard: I have disabled that because I use a USB soundcard (Xonar U7)
Problems:
Boot process is somewhat slow for a SSD? (about 1 minute), I am looking into that.
BIOS settings
- In BIOS Features
- Fast Boot: Disabled
- Windows 8/10 Fatures: Windows 8/10
- CSM Support: Disabled
- Network Stack: Disabled
- Fast Boot: Disabled
- In Peripherals:
- Intel Platform Trust Technology: Disabled
- Initial Display Output: PCIe 1 Slot (Or whatever slot your GFX is in)
- Legacy USB Support: Enabled
- XHCI Hand-off: Enabled
- Port 60/64 Emulation: Disabled
- In Super IO Configuration:
- Serial Port 1: Disabled
- Intel Platform Trust Technology: Disabled
- In Chipset:
- Internal Graphics: Disabled
- Audio Controller: Enabled
- PCH LAN Controller: Enabled
- IOAPIC 24-119 Entries: Enabled
- Internal Graphics: Disabled
- Download High Sierra from Mac App Store on a Mac / Hackintosh
- Create USB install stick with DiskmakerX
- Download Clover
- Install Clover ON THE USB DRIVE (!) with these options:
- Installation for UEFI motherboards
- Bootloader: No update
- CLOVER EFI 64 SATA
- Drivers64UEFI: CSM, Fat, EmuVariable, OsxAptioFix2, OsxAptioFix
- Download Clover Configurator, open it, go to Mount EFI, Open Partition and copy the files from the clover-kext-zip from this post to the folder /EFI/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- Download apfs.efi from this post and copy to /EFI/EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI
- Press on the home button and load EFI - EFI - CLOVER - config.plist. Options to tick:
- ACPI: FixShutdown, FixDisplay
- Boot: dart = 0, nv_disable=1
- Kernel and Kext Patches
- Name: AppleUSBXHCIPCI, Find: 837d8c10 , Replace: 837d8c1b , Comment: change USB port limit and USB3 support
- RT Variables: Bootconfig 0x28, CsrActiveConfig 0x67 (this disables CSR completely)
- SMBios: Click the arrow button under the big question mark and choose MacPro6,1 and click on Generate Serial Button a few times. Note: I get a black screen with an iMac-SMBIOS. MacPro6,1 with AMD RX580 and 5K work out of the box.
- Save the config and reboot to the USB disk
- Erase your install disk with Disk Utility, ideally with APFS
- Start the installation on the fresh formatted disk
- The installation process will reboot the hackintosh a few times. Make sure to select Boot from Install macOS from (install disk), NOT from the USB!
- When installation is finished, there a 3 boot options from the disk: FileVault Preboot, macOS Installer Preboot and Boot MacOS - choose the latter Boot macOS
Post Installation:
Nothing! As mentioned, RX 580 and 5K will work out of the box. I can't help with the soundcard though, as I use a USB soundcard (which works fine oob). Enjoy your new system
Optional: Idiot's guide to iMessage
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