Success High Sierra 10.13.2: ASRock Z270 TAICHI, i7-7700k, GeForce GTX 1060

NickElsey · Jan 19, 2018

Note: There's an updated version of this build for High Sierra 10.13.4 here

NickElsey's High Sierra mATX:
ASRock Z270 TAICHI - i7-7700k - GeForce GTX 1060
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Couple of Hitachi SATA 2 Tb drives
Keyboard
Mouse
Monitor

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My first Hackintosh build. I have a Mid-2012 Mac Pro workstation (fully loaded at the time), but it was getting a bit old and slow, so thought I'd give this as go.

It all went very smoothly (thanks in a large part to the wonderful resources on this site). Currently the only thing that's not working is the on-board WiFi - I've just ordered a TP-Link Archer T9E AC1900 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter instead.

Installation Notes

UEFI Settings
I used the the following as my starting point.

To access UEFI Setup, press and hold Delete on a USB Keyboard while the system is booting up
Press F6 to get into Advanced Mode

I changed the following settings:

Advanced > Chipset Configuration > VT-d: Set to Disabled
Advanced > USB Configuration > XHCI Hand-off: Set to Enabled
Boot > CSM: Set to Disabled

UniBeast Phase
My only call out here is that you need to format the USB Stick as GUID Partition Map since we're going to be booting in UEFI Boot Mode (see the troubleshooting notes).
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MultiBeast Settings
After successfully installing and booting into High Sierra 10.13.2, I configured the MultiBeast settings as follows:

Drivers - selected the following:
- Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > ALC1220
- Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 100 / 200 / 300 Series Audio Support
- Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 200 / 300 Series / X299 Audio Device ID Patch
- Misc > Select Fake SMC Plugins
- Misc > Select Fake SMC HWMonitor Application
- Network > Intel > IntelMausiethernet v2.3.0
- USB > Increate Max Port Limit 200 Series
Bootloaders - selected the following:
- Clover 2.4 UEFI BOOT MODE + Emulated NVRAM
Customize - selected the following:
- Graphics Configuration:
  - NVIDIA WEB drivers boot flag
  - NVIDIA Graphics fix up
- System Definitions:
  - iMac > iMac 18,3

Installed the drivers and quit MultiBeast.

This installation guide suggested that FakeGPU.kext would cause a kernel panic. This kext file wasn't present on my machine after the MultiBeast install, but I deleted /Library/Extensions/FakeSMC_GPUSensors.kext just in case.

NVIDIA Drive Install
NVIDAA Web Drivers are required to get the fully acceleration from the graphics card. Installed NVIDIA Web Driver 378.10.10.10.25.102 for High Sierra 10.13.2

Rebooted successfully into High Sierra (yah!)

Final Installation Tasks

Installed KextBeast
Installed AppleALC.kext via KextBeast
Installed Clover Configurator and used it to get audio working
- Mount EFI partition
- Open /Clover/Config.plist
- Changed the following settings:
  - Devices > 1. Audio / Inject: Set to 11
  - ACPI > Patches > Added change HDAS to HDEF
- Saved Config.plist rebooted and confirmed audio working OK
Fixed iMessage as per this guide
- Run Clover Configurator and leave on the SMBIOS screen.
- Open Terminal.app and run uuidgen.
- Paste the output in the SmUUID field in Clover Configurator (next to the Serial Number).
- Copy the value in the Serial Number field
- Go to the RtVariables screen on the left
- Paste your serial number into the MLB field, and then add 2 random characters or digits to the end
- Enter a value for the ROM field - I'm using Ethernet so I selected UseMacAddr0 from the drop-down.
- File > Save config.plist and Quit Clover Configurator.
- Rebooted and confirmed iMessage worked OK

What's Working

Samsung 960 EVO M.2 disk
SATA disks
NVIDA Graphics
USB 3.0 ports
Audio
Onboard Ethernet
Bluetooth
iMessage

What's Not Working

Onboard Intel WiFi.

Benchmarks
Benchmarks from Geekbench 4

CPU Single-Core Score: 5,940
CPU Multi-Core Score: 21,066
GPU Compute: 108,818

edeag3 · Jan 19, 2018

This is great! Finally got my Fatality Z270 itx gaming AC working. I had the wrong BIOS settings all along...

PatrickJF · Feb 14, 2018

NickElsey said:
NickElsey's High Sierra mATX:
ASRock Z270 TAICHI - i7-7700k - GeForce GTX 1060
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...

I'm doing almost an identical build, I'm sure this will come in handy. I'm also getting Asrock's Thunderbolt 3 PCIe card. Is there anything you can think of that I might want to watch out for with that?

relaydenied · Feb 14, 2018

NickElsey said:
NickElsey's High Sierra mATX:
ASRock Z270 TAICHI - i7-7700k - GeForce GTX 1060

I am planning my build for the Taichi as well. 8700K and RX 580. Hoping things go as smoothly. Any gotcha's or things learned post install would be appreciated!

relaydenied · Mar 9, 2018

edeag3 said:
This is great! Finally got my Fatality Z270 itx gaming AC working. I had the wrong BIOS settings all along...

What BIOS settings did you change to make things work? What was wrong?

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@NickElsey: Did you ever get wireless working?

bulibasha75 · Mar 17, 2018

Did you create your USB High Sierra with UniBeast ?

bulibasha75 · Mar 18, 2018

NickElsey said:
Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > ALC1220

Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 100 / 200 / 300 Series Audio Support

Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 200 / 300 Series / X299 Audio Device ID Patch

you can't select all 3 at the same time .

Stork · Mar 18, 2018

bulibasha75 said:
NickElsey said:

Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > ALC1220

Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 100 / 200 / 300 Series Audio Support

Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 200 / 300 Series / X299 Audio Device ID Patch

Click to expand...

you can't select all 3 at the same time .

You're correct. For this build, you only need the first two:

Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > ALC1220
Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 100 / 200 / 300 Series Audio Suppor

bulibasha75 · Mar 18, 2018

Thank you Stork !
I have a quick question for asus z270-a prime mb.
I am trying to get the audio working following this guide.
I have downloaded AppleALC.kext and I need to install it in S/L/E correct ?
then I open coinfig.plist in clover config. Go to devices and for audio change from 1 to 11 correct? Do i need to check reset HDA ?
And last part of the question I alreaqdy have a line in ACPI rename HDAS to HDEF and I add Change HDAS to HDEF line underneath ?

Stork · Mar 18, 2018

bulibasha75 said:
Thank you Stork !
I have a quick question for asus z270-a prime mb.
I am trying to get the audio working following this guide.
I have downloaded AppleALC.kext and I need to install it in S/L/E correct ?
then I open coinfig.plist in clover config. Go to devices and for audio change from 1 to 11 correct? Do i need to check reset HDA ?
And last part of the question I alreaqdy have a line in ACPI rename HDAS to HDEF and I add Change HDAS to HDEF line underneath ?

I only use MultiBeast. I am not masochistic or have enough patience to make the USB, audio and Ethernet chipsets work by manually applying kexts. YMMV. Good luck!

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