The Ultimate Low Cost Big Sur Hackintosh - Core i5 Dell Optiplex 3020 SFF

[batboy29011]

Do you have a Windows 10 install USB ? Have you tried booting from that to see if it works ?

Yes, I've tried that before.

 

[batboy29011]

Start with the first (General) section at the top. Take some pics of how each is set and post them here.
After that, upload the whole (System Configuration) section to show how those are set.

 

[trs96]

Boot Sequence/List Option should always be set to UEFI, not legacy. Your flash drive is recognized.
If you have a legacy Windows 10 drive connected, disconnect the Sata cable
and then try booting from the USB.

Your NIC should be enabled so change this to Enabled.

 

[batboy29011]

Boot Sequence/List Option should always be set to UEFI, not legacy. Your flash drive is recognized.
If you have a legacy Windows 10 drive connected, disconnect the Sata cable
and then try booting from the USB.

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Your NIC should be enabled so change this to Enabled.

Okay, I'll give this a go and see then.

 

[batboy29011]

Boot Sequence/List Option should always be set to UEFI, not legacy. Your flash drive is recognized.
If you have a legacy Windows 10 drive connected, disconnect the Sata cable
and then try booting from the USB.

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Your NIC should be enabled so change this to Enabled.

Somehow it's gotten worse...idk what's going on. I pulled the CMOS battery to reset everything and clean slate and now the bios won't detect the EFi drive so I can change the hidden settings...my question about that is do I just dump the entire efi file onto the GPT EFI USB partition ?

Could I just have a bad motherboard or something in the end ? I really want this to work but I'm not sure at all what's going on here and why it's not just working as others have stated.

 

[trs96]

my question about that is do I just dump the entire efi file onto the GPT EFI USB partition ?

Yes, use the attached EFI (end of post #3) and drag/drop it to the EFI partition and it will boot. If you pulled the CMOS then all the BIOS changes got reverted back to defaults too. So go in to change those to the ones suggested for a hackintosh too.

 

[trs96]

Could I just have a bad motherboard or something in the end ?

If you can boot from a Windows USB installer and run Windows on this it's not a bad board.

 

[batboy29011]

If you can boot from a Windows USB installer and run Windows on this it's not a bad board.

Okay great news, I reset the bios a few more times and it was able to load into the modshell to change hidden bios settings and then I made a new disk on my Mac and attached the EFi again and it was able to boot into the EFI. I had to leave for work but I will try and report back as soon as I get home.

 

[batboy29011]

If you can boot from a Windows USB installer and run Windows on this it's not a bad board.

Current issue I'm running into now. It freezes up at this last line of code.

 

[trs96]

Current issue I'm running into now. It freezes up at this last line of code.

Try the other video input on your monitor i.e. use HDMI if you are currently using DP or use DP if you are currently using HDMI.