Formatted the target drive with Windows 10 and prepared the drive as an uninitialised blank partition.
Downloaded Clover UEFI & El Capitan from AppStore on Yosemite 10.10.3
Prepared the USB
Made GPT with Single HFS+J.
Created installer using createinstallmedia method.
Installed Clover and set it up as follows… I used the following settings because this was the only way I could get the original existing install to boot.. so I figured why change anything and mess with it… dropping OEM SSDT works fine in my case to use while installing, full h/w and such all working during install. (extremely smooth installation… once I got a working boot)
Full DSDT in ACPI/patched.
DSDT/SSDT contains Brightness Fix for ACPIBacklight
Disable nVidia Discrete Graphics
kexts
ACPIBacklight
FakePCIID_Intel_HD_Graphics
FakePCIID
FakeSMC
VoodooPS2Controller
drivers64UEFI
EmuVariableUefi-64
FSInject-64
HFSPlus
OsxAptiFixDrv-64
OsxFatBinaryDrv-64
Config changes from rehabman originals
SSDT DropOem YES
InjectIntel YES
InjectEDID NO
Boot graphics glitch, 10.10.x/10.11.x (credit lisai9093, cecekpawon) Disabled NO
Boot Clover in UEFI Legacy mode.
Took a few tries to get into the install screen. Random seemingly inconsistent KP’s on each boot… I don’t know if this is a NVRam issue that is affected by adding or removing EmuVariableUefi but it appears to work way better with the driver, but I seem to have more success in any case if I leave the computer a considerably long time between boots to get to another successful boot? If I try a boot using straight up normal boot, then it KP’s… I try another boot straight away… it will KP. Sometimes if I turn it off and leave it for 1 minute, and try the exact same boot without any changes, it will get to the installer 100% perfectly fine. Is this NVRam? Caching? I always Boot without Cache every time I add or remove a kext while troubleshooting… but for it to magically fix itself just from waiting longer… seems odd.
After the install went smooth and I managed to get to the initial account creation screen, I entered all my details but when I press enter… I’m left with this screen.
The computer is still responsive and the mouse still works. if I hit backspace a few times the monitor will do the ‘You’ve hit a key that doesn’t do anything, flash.’
Sleep and Wake work 100%. I can put the computer to sleep and wake it up… Brightness Controls work 100%, I can use the brightness keys to turn the brightness up and down without a problem.
Volume controls work perfectly.’ Hitting the keys brings up the ‘You’ve got no sound to turn up or down UI.
Trackpad works 100%
Keyboard works 100%