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- Mar 14, 2019
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- Motherboard
- motherboard LGA 2066 ATX
- CPU
- I5-4200U
- Graphics
- Nvidia GTX 764M
Hi! I've been trying to build a decent hackintosh with this laptop. Tested mojave and high sierra so far. On both installs the only way it worked was using the ssdt's, kexts and config.plist provided by:
https://github.com/coisadepro/Vostro-5470-Hackintosh
Following the guide:
The problem is that this link migh work okay for sierra, which I wasn't able to install but possibly could, but c'mon sierra is already so old and is the last thing to try. This laptop's cmos is quite weird and mac doesn't know how to shut it down properly. A lot of information can also be found in the thread: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...sierra-10-12-5-post-installation-help.244040/ which is from the same guy of the github link. Basically when you try to shut it down either it restarts again or gets stuck in a black screen. And after you force shut it down with the power button because the system got frost in the shutting down process or whenever, a cmos reset is required to boot again. The charging led will just blink and the computer doesn't turn on. I've already reseted this cmos so much that the battery pin and cmos battery pin are getting destroyed.... I'm already thinking on adapting a external switch to do this procedure. But don't worry about it, this is an old laptop and this is a just for fun experiment.
In the test with mojave sound didn't work, the igpu didn't work but still had 4mb of video memory showing up on about this mac, the screen was with ha real weird coloration but it still worked. Mojave was the nicer to shut down. After applying the patch: https://github.com/coisadepro/5470-shutdown-patch the system reboots to the clover EFI screen and I then use the EFI shell and run "reset -s" so it gracefully shuts down then! Problem is audio also doesn't work with mojave....
With high sierra the igpu works, I get my 1500 mb of video memory and the colors are ok. The audio also worked if I'm using these kexts:
Which is obviously a mess and was causing this issue after a forced shutdown:
I think "timeout [0] busy (60s) 'IGPU' " is the issue there! The system get's stuck on the last screen but is still responsive, like it reports if i plug an usb or disconect ethernet cable, but the graphical session wont come up! Notice that the EFI file used there worked so far for installing the system and booting some times, that problem only happened after a shutdown failure and that is only for high sierra... Since I had a better trick for shutting down mojave.
After getting someone's help to clean up the kexts, seems like that problem got solved, but the audio doesn't work anymore, not sure why?. I'm attaching the current EFI file, which is EFI2.zip, while EFI.zip is the one where the audio works but the IGPU problem happens. In the mojave installation I used the EFI.zip
What I really want with this thread, if you read so far, and I thank you for it, is to learn something... I know the easier solution now is just install sierra and have it like the "coisadepro" installation. But no dark theme?? Maybe there's a way to change that config.plist so the integrated graphics works?? and in mojave shutdown works much better with the reset -s workaround. What is provably missing now that audio doesn't work but it was working before? What actually causes the IGPU problem there? How to recover mac from such forced shutdown errors? I'm always restoring a backup and this take 2 hours. What can you guys say about all this? Any help is welcome. My main goal is to get mojave running on this, the problem is I don't have enough knowledge to fix this config.plist correctly for my IGPU (noticed that there are many patches there for this laptop).
THANKS IN ADVANCE!
SPECS:
Dell Vostro 5470 A20
CPU: Intel Core i5-4200U
4GB RAM DDR3
Chipset: HM77.
14.0” HD Wide Screen LED TrueLifeDisplay (1366x768) 720p
Wireless LAN: 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetoothv4.0Combo GPU:
Intel HD 4400 + GeForce GT 740M
2x USB v3.0. - 1x USB v2.0. - 1x RJ-45 - 1x HDMI) - 1x 3,5mm
http://www.arp.com/medias/14624418.pdf
https://github.com/coisadepro/Vostro-5470-Hackintosh
Following the guide:
[Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover
Overview One of the first challenges you'll face in installing OS X to your laptop will involve getting the OS X installer to boot from USB. This guide is for those wishing to use Clover (and in fact the only bootloader supported here). Both installing using Clover UEFI and Clover legacy are...
www.tonymacx86.com
The problem is that this link migh work okay for sierra, which I wasn't able to install but possibly could, but c'mon sierra is already so old and is the last thing to try. This laptop's cmos is quite weird and mac doesn't know how to shut it down properly. A lot of information can also be found in the thread: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...sierra-10-12-5-post-installation-help.244040/ which is from the same guy of the github link. Basically when you try to shut it down either it restarts again or gets stuck in a black screen. And after you force shut it down with the power button because the system got frost in the shutting down process or whenever, a cmos reset is required to boot again. The charging led will just blink and the computer doesn't turn on. I've already reseted this cmos so much that the battery pin and cmos battery pin are getting destroyed.... I'm already thinking on adapting a external switch to do this procedure. But don't worry about it, this is an old laptop and this is a just for fun experiment.
In the test with mojave sound didn't work, the igpu didn't work but still had 4mb of video memory showing up on about this mac, the screen was with ha real weird coloration but it still worked. Mojave was the nicer to shut down. After applying the patch: https://github.com/coisadepro/5470-shutdown-patch the system reboots to the clover EFI screen and I then use the EFI shell and run "reset -s" so it gracefully shuts down then! Problem is audio also doesn't work with mojave....
With high sierra the igpu works, I get my 1500 mb of video memory and the colors are ok. The audio also worked if I'm using these kexts:
Which is obviously a mess and was causing this issue after a forced shutdown:
I think "timeout [0] busy (60s) 'IGPU' " is the issue there! The system get's stuck on the last screen but is still responsive, like it reports if i plug an usb or disconect ethernet cable, but the graphical session wont come up! Notice that the EFI file used there worked so far for installing the system and booting some times, that problem only happened after a shutdown failure and that is only for high sierra... Since I had a better trick for shutting down mojave.
After getting someone's help to clean up the kexts, seems like that problem got solved, but the audio doesn't work anymore, not sure why?. I'm attaching the current EFI file, which is EFI2.zip, while EFI.zip is the one where the audio works but the IGPU problem happens. In the mojave installation I used the EFI.zip
What I really want with this thread, if you read so far, and I thank you for it, is to learn something... I know the easier solution now is just install sierra and have it like the "coisadepro" installation. But no dark theme?? Maybe there's a way to change that config.plist so the integrated graphics works?? and in mojave shutdown works much better with the reset -s workaround. What is provably missing now that audio doesn't work but it was working before? What actually causes the IGPU problem there? How to recover mac from such forced shutdown errors? I'm always restoring a backup and this take 2 hours. What can you guys say about all this? Any help is welcome. My main goal is to get mojave running on this, the problem is I don't have enough knowledge to fix this config.plist correctly for my IGPU (noticed that there are many patches there for this laptop).
THANKS IN ADVANCE!
SPECS:
Dell Vostro 5470 A20
CPU: Intel Core i5-4200U
4GB RAM DDR3
Chipset: HM77.
14.0” HD Wide Screen LED TrueLifeDisplay (1366x768) 720p
Wireless LAN: 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetoothv4.0Combo GPU:
Intel HD 4400 + GeForce GT 740M
2x USB v3.0. - 1x USB v2.0. - 1x RJ-45 - 1x HDMI) - 1x 3,5mm
http://www.arp.com/medias/14624418.pdf
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