What is the hackintoshability of ZBOX EN760

[Sunblade]

In your honor, F4OR:

First of all sorry for not finishing this status report and/or guide earlier (I have been running my machine for a couple of weeks now as my main media center).

What I have fixed since last:

* Audio
- Got it to work with either the 3.5 mm output or HDMI output. Could not get both to work at the same time.
How: Got a working kext from an open source repository that installs the correct driver based on automatic detection. By letting it auto detect I got the 3.5mm audio port working, however I wanted HDMI Audio so after specifying different versions I finally found one that enabled HDMI Audio. (Don't really remember which one but the GitHub repo is where I got the working kext)

- You should really make a backup of the real AppleHDA kexts since they are used by the script in the repo to create the realtek audio kext.

https://github.com/toleda/audio_RealtekALC


* Ethernet
- Wired ethernet is working fine, both ports are showing up and works as expected.
How: After finding out the name of the network adapter (looking at the windows installer files for the card) it was not so hard. The device is working fine with the kext RealtekRTL8111 which can be found in Multibeast under network>realtek.


* NVRam
- Since PCs does not have this extra storage module I'm storing the contents of the NVRam settings to a file on shutdown and restoring on start up. I had to fix this for Parallels 10 to let me run another OS X instance as a virtual machine (Running windows or linux works fine without NVRam access)
How: http://www.idelta.info/archives/nvram_on_hackintosh/


* Power management
- Not sure I did this correctly but Intel Power Management app is reporting Ampere, Frequency and Watt status for the CPU in real time.
How: Generated a DSDT file using "DPCIManager" and added that to the /Extra/ folder. The file will be called DSDT.aml. Then I googled for intel Power Gadget and downloaded the osx installer. You can find it here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget-20


A very useful tool for me have been the DPCIManager, it finds a bunch of devices in your computer (even if you do not always have the drivers) and helps you know what kext or key word to google for.

Another side note, I get kernel panics some times when booting my computer, I have no idea why but haven't really though that much about it since I can just reboot it again and then it works perfectly. I have only had the kernel panic issue in the booting process. Once I'm in OS X it works flawlessly, the machine is quiet and cool all the time and performs way better than my mac mini ;-)

Happy hacking


For reference, here is a list of all my currently loaded kexts:

➜ ~ kextstat -no-kernel
Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) <Linked Against>
8 1 0xffffff7f80da3000 0x9000 0x9000 com.apple.kec.Libm (1) <4>
9 3 0xffffff7f80e89000 0x9c000 0x9c000 com.apple.kec.corecrypto (1.0) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
10 0 0xffffff7f81035000 0xc000 0xc000 com.apple.kec.pthread (1) <7 6 5 4 1>
11 15 0xffffff7f81a52000 0x9000 0x9000 com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily (1.4) <7 6 4 3>
12 25 0xffffff7f80b24000 0x34000 0x34000 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily (2.9) <7 6 5 4 3>
13 1 0xffffff7f832a6000 0x65000 0x65000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform (3.1) <12 11 7 6 5 4 3 1>
14 1 0xffffff7f81770000 0xb000 0xb000 com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore (28.30) <9 7 6 5 4 3 1>
15 0 0xffffff7f81a4b000 0x7000 0x7000 com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily (31) <5 4 3>
16 3 0xffffff7f80a47000 0x2e000 0x2e000 com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily (2.0) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
17 0 0xffffff7f81aac000 0x1e000 0x1e000 com.apple.driver.DiskImages (389.1) <16 7 6 5 4 3 1>
18 0 0xffffff7f82aa2000 0x1d000 0x1d000 org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC (1328) <11 7 5 4 3 1>
19 1 0xffffff7f82ee1000 0xf000 0xf000 com.apple.driver.AppleCredentialManager (1.0) <7 5 4 3 1>
20 2 0xffffff7f80f8a000 0xd000 0xd000 com.apple.driver.AppleMobileFileIntegrity (1.0.5) <7 6 5 4 3 2 1>
21 0 0xffffff7f82ef0000 0x23000 0x23000 com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore (2) <20 19 9 7 6 5 4 3 1>
22 0 0xffffff7f80e86000 0x2000 0x2000 com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet (8) <7 6 5 4 2 1>
23 2 0xffffff7f80f97000 0x5000 0x5000 com.apple.kext.AppleMatch (1.0.0d1) <4 1>
24 1 0xffffff7f80f9c000 0x17000 0x17000 com.apple.security.sandbox (300.0) <23 20 7 6 5 4 3 2 1>
25 0 0xffffff7f8102b000 0x9000 0x9000 com.apple.security.quarantine (3) <24 23 7 6 5 4 2 1>
26 0 0xffffff7f8331c000 0x8000 0x8000 com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall (161) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
27 0 0xffffff7f83279000 0x3000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC (1.7) <4 3>
28 0 0xffffff7f82dbd000 0x4000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS (2.1) <7 4 3>
29 0 0xffffff7f83000000 0x3000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleHPET (1.8) <11 7 5 4 3>
30 3 0xffffff7f8177b000 0x8a000 0x8a000 com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily (2.0.0) <14 7 6 5 4 3 2 1>
31 0 0xffffff7f83315000 0x4000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons (3.1) <30 13 11 7 6 5 4 3 1>
32 0 0xffffff7f82e29000 0x8000 0x8000 com.apple.driver.AppleRTC (2.0) <11 5 4 3 1>
33 1 0xffffff7f83269000 0x5000 0x5000 com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime (2.0) <7 6 5 4 3>
34 0 0xffffff7f8326e000 0xb000 0xb000 com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM (2.0) <33 7 6 5 4 3 1>
35 3 0xffffff7f80fb7000 0x33000 0x33000 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily (3.2) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
36 0 0xffffff7f82bca000 0xa000 0xa000 com.apple.BootCache (35) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
37 0 0xffffff7f8325a000 0x5000 0x5000 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib (1.0.0d1) <6 4 3 2 1>
38 0 0xffffff7f83261000 0x3000 0x3000 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless (1.0.0d1) <7 6 4 3 2 1>
41 9 0xffffff7f816e8000 0x71000 0x71000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily (705.4.14) <12 7 5 4 3 1>
42 0 0xffffff7f81821000 0x20000 0x20000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBXHCI (705.4.14) <41 12 7 5 4 3 1>
45 2 0xffffff7f81b8a000 0x19000 0x19000 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily (2.7.0) <5 4 3 1>
46 0 0xffffff7f8327e000 0x1b000 0x1b000 com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort (3.0.7) <45 12 5 4 3 1>
47 0 0xffffff7f818a4000 0x19000 0x19000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI (705.4.14) <41 12 7 5 4 3 1>
48 0 0xffffff7f80fea000 0x3a000 0x3a000 com.insanelymac.RealtekRTL8111 (1.2.2) <35 12 5 4 3 1>
49 0 0xffffff7f81882000 0x1b000 0x1b000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub (705.4.1) <41 5 4 3 1>
51 0 0xffffff7f81bb0000 0x18000 0x18000 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage (2.6.5) <45 16 6 5 4 3 1>
52 0 0xffffff7f82be9000 0x3000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.XsanFilter (404) <16 5 4 3 1>
53 0 0xffffff7f81817000 0xa000 0xa000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite (705.4.9) <41 4 3 1>
54 2 0xffffff7f80dac000 0x77000 0x77000 com.apple.vecLib.kext (1.2.0) <8 6 5 4 3>
55 4 0xffffff7f80e23000 0x37000 0x37000 com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily (200.6) <54 5 4 3 1>
56 0 0xffffff7f82c4b000 0x53000 0x53000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio (295.22) <55 41 12 5 4 3 1>
57 0 0xffffff7f8180e000 0x9000 0x9000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver (705.4.0) <41 30 5 4 3 1>
58 0 0xffffff7f80ae2000 0x31000 0x31000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily (3.7.0) <5 4 3 1>
60 11 0xffffff7f81045000 0x47000 0x47000 com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily (2.4.1) <12 7 5 4 3 1>
61 4 0xffffff7f8108c000 0x10000 0x10000 com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport (2.4.1) <60 12 7 5 4 3>
64 4 0xffffff7f81a5b000 0xa000 0xa000 com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily (5.8.0d49) <11 7 6 5 4 3>
65 0 0xffffff7f82ed9000 0x3000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleLPC (1.7.3) <64 12 5 4 3>
67 0 0xffffff7f82abf000 0x4000 0x4000 com.intel.driver.EnergyDriver (2.0) <7 5 4 3>
68 2 0xffffff7f81a79000 0x1c000 0x1c000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMC (3.1.9) <11 7 5 4 3 1>
69 0 0xffffff7f82e81000 0x4000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleOSXWatchdog (1) <12 7 6 5 4 3 1>
70 0 0xffffff7f82fd0000 0xb000 0xb000 com.apple.driver.AppleHV (1) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
71 0 0xffffff7f82fcb000 0x3000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleHWAccess (1) <7 5 4 3>
72 0 0xffffff7f82ac6000 0x5000 0x5000 com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X (7.0.0) <68 7 4 3 1>
73 0 0xffffff7f8176d000 0x3000 0x3000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient (705.4.0) <41 7 5 4 3 1>
74 1 0xffffff7f81a65000 0x14000 0x14000 com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy (1.0.0) <64 11 7 6 5 4 3>
75 0 0xffffff7f81a95000 0x10000 0x10000 com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin (1.0.0) <74 68 64 12 11 7 6 5 4 3>
76 3 0xffffff7f8109c000 0x6000 0x6000 com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl (3.7.21) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
77 2 0xffffff7f810a2000 0x30f000 0x30f000 com.nvidia.web.NVDAResmanWeb (10.0.1) <76 61 60 12 7 5 4 3 1>
78 2 0xffffff7f83016000 0xf000 0xf000 com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily (266.5) <5 4 3 1>
79 1 0xffffff7f83029000 0x1a000 0x1a000 com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController (266.5) <78 60 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>
80 0 0xffffff7f80e5a000 0x21000 0x21000 org.voodoo.driver.VoodooHDA (2.8.4) <55 12 7 5 4 3>
81 0 0xffffff7f813b1000 0x23d000 0x23d000 com.nvidia.web.NVDAGM100HalWeb (10.0.1) <77 12 4 3>
82 1 0xffffff7f81bd5000 0x7b000 0x7b000 com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 (156.4) <60 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>
83 0 0xffffff7f81c50000 0xd00000 0xd00000 com.nvidia.web.GeForceWeb (10.0.1) <82 77 61 60 12 7 5 4 3 1>
84 0 0xffffff7f819d4000 0x15000 0x15000 com.apple.iokit.IOSurface (97) <7 5 4 3 1>
85 0 0xffffff7f816dc000 0x6000 0x6000 com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet (1.0.1) <35 6 5 4 3 1>
86 1 0xffffff7f819e9000 0x4000 0x4000 com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily (1.1) <5 4 3>
87 1 0xffffff7f82e8e000 0x11000 0x11000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController (1.0.13d1) <86 12 11 5 4 3>
88 0 0xffffff7f82e9f000 0xe000 0xe000 com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl (1.2.10) <87 60 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>
89 0 0xffffff7f82c9e000 0x5000 0x5000 com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient (3.6.1) <60 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>
91 1 0xffffff7f83043000 0x13000 0x13000 com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib (1.15) <5 4>
92 1 0xffffff7f83056000 0xe5000 0xe5000 com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib (266.5) <91 55 54 6 5 4 3 1>
93 0 0xffffff7f8313b000 0xa7000 0xa7000 com.apple.driver.AppleHDA (266.5) <92 79 78 61 60 55 6 5 4 3 1>
95 2 0xffffff7f80f25000 0x5000 0x5000 com.apple.kext.triggers (1.0) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
96 0 0xffffff7f82bd6000 0x9000 0x9000 com.apple.filesystems.autofs (3.0) <95 7 6 5 4 3 1>
97 0 0xffffff7f83231000 0x13000 0x13000 com.apple.driver.AGPM (100.14.37) <76 64 61 60 12 5 4 3>
99 1 0xffffff7f8324c000 0x3000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl (3.7.21) <60 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>
100 0 0xffffff7f8324f000 0x7000 0x7000 com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy (3.7.7) <99 76 60 12 11 7 6 5 4 3 1>
101 0 0xffffff7f82fc2000 0x5000 0x5000 com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor (1.9.5d0) <5 4 3>
106 0 0xffffff7f80f2a000 0x59000 0x59000 com.apple.filesystems.smbfs (3.0.0) <95 9 7 6 5 4 3 1>
107 0 0xffffff7f83337000 0x6000 0x6000 com.parallels.kext.usbconnect (10.1.1 28614) <41 7 5 4 3 1>
108 1 0xffffff7f8333d000 0x4e000 0x4e000 com.parallels.kext.hypervisor (10.1.1 28614) <12 11 7 5 4 3 1>
109 0 0xffffff7f8338b000 0xd000 0xd000 com.parallels.kext.netbridge (10.1.1 28614) <108 5 4 3 1>
110 0 0xffffff7f83398000 0x4000 0x4000 com.parallels.kext.vnic (10.1.1 28614) <35 5 4 3 1>
112 0 0xffffff7f8339c000 0xb000 0xb000 com.mice.driver.WirelessGamingReceiver (1.0.0d13) <41 30 5 4 3>

 

[F4OR]

Hey Sunblade!
Sorry for the late reply, went out of town for a little holiday vacation.

This guide probably took a while to make, so I really appreciate the time and effort you spent into it I'll make sure to treat it like the bible.

Ethernet ports all show up, Power Management seems fine (based on the intel power gadget), and HDMI audio works (After thousands of pained attempts).
The NVRam guide seems to not work, but besides that, it is mostly functional.

Again, thank you. I probably wouldn't have made it this far without your awesome guide

 

[Sunblade]

Hey Sunblade!
Sorry for the late reply, went out of town for a little holiday vacation.

This guide probably took a while to make, so I really appreciate the time and effort you spent into it I'll make sure to treat it like the bible.

Ethernet ports all show up, Power Management seems fine (based on the intel power gadget), and HDMI audio works (After thousands of pained attempts).
The NVRam guide seems to not work, but besides that, it is mostly functional.

Again, thank you. I probably wouldn't have made it this far without your awesome guide

Well I'm glad I could help and it was fun proving to everyone that the EN760 actually is very compatible with OSX. Hope you have a great holiday vacation and I wish you a happy new year (especially with your new fun hackintosh)!

PS. If you find a way to make the WiFi/Bluetooth work, please post back any time

 

[mrintegra]

Thanks Sunblade for saving me the time of scouring the net for roper kexts and mods in order to get OS X installed on this particular machine. I do not have my ZBOX yet but will be getting it soon and pairing it with the Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac card since its been running really well in my iMac for the past six months thanks to insanelymac and OSXLatitude. Oh by the way, an alternative suggestion for NVRam workaround would be to install and use the Clover bootloader instead of Chimera or Chameleon. If you have a properly generated MLB, ROM and Serial then everything would be functional and recognized by Apple to use their services such as FaceTime and iMessages. I had switched my main rig a Lenovo M91P and an i5 NUC that were running Chameleon to Clover in order to get these two services working again.

Hopefully, when my hardware arrives, my install will go well. Thanks again for the guide!

 

[mrintegra]

@Sunblade & F4OR - I managed to install clover and Yosemite onto the EN760 using some of the info supplied from you on the EN760 thread. Everything is working perfectly without a DSDT and I have one problem with the system. The EN760 is not showing any video output over HDMI to my monitor unless I boot with the flag, nv_disable=1. Have you been able to get the HDMI working? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated and I would be glad to shared my files with you if you needed them.

Current system;
Zotac EN760 connected via DVI
Clover 3156 installed in EFI on Samsung 128SSD mSata
Yosemite 10.10.2
8GB RAM
500GB Sata HDD

 

[Sunblade]

@Sunblade & F4OR - I managed to install clover and Yosemite onto the EN760 using some of the info supplied from you on the EN760 thread. Everything is working perfectly without a DSDT and I have one problem with the system. The EN760 is not showing any video output over HDMI to my monitor unless I boot with the flag, nv_disable=1. Have you been able to get the HDMI working? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated and I would be glad to shared my files with you if you needed them.

Current system;
Zotac EN760 connected via DVI
Clover 3156 installed in EFI on Samsung 128SSD mSata
Yosemite 10.10.2
8GB RAM
500GB Sata HDD

Hello mrintegra!

Yes I have HDMI output, it works fine with both DVI and HDMI. They are both auto detected whenever I connect a display to either of the ports. No reboot required and I am using the Nvidia drivers. However I had to do some modding of the audio kexts to get sound over HDMI but I did that after being able to get full resolution image with acceleration over HDMI.

Not sure how to help you in this case. Im running an older version of OSX Yosemite because I´m afraid of all the work I might have to do to get it working again if I update

 

[mrintegra]

Hello mrintegra!

Yes I have HDMI output, it works fine with both DVI and HDMI. They are both auto detected whenever I connect a display to either of the ports. No reboot required and I am using the Nvidia drivers. However I had to do some modding of the audio kexts to get sound over HDMI but I did that after being able to get full resolution image with acceleration over HDMI.

Not sure how to help you in this case. Im running an older version of OSX Yosemite because I´m afraid of all the work I might have to do to get it working again if I update

Holy cow you responded...haha. I'm not sure what the deal is then with my unit. I have everything(sleep, speedstep and etc) working perfectly fine with the one exception of the HMDI. Every time I try to boot from the HDMI, I get a black screen. However, the computer is still running since I can VNC into it but it's a bit sluggish since for some odd reason the QE/CI is disable. Any chance you can advise which version for the Chameleon/ Chimera was used and include your plist for the bootloader as well as the smbios.plist (with all the sensitive info removed)? Almost forgot to ask if you can also post pictures of your BIOS settings. My HDMI works with Windows but I just cannot figure out with why it will not work with OS X even with different Product Names in the SMBios.

It's a lot to ask but I appreciate all the help. Thanks in advance.

 

[Sunblade]

Holy cow you responded...haha. I'm not sure what the deal is then with my unit. I have everything(sleep, speedstep and etc) working perfectly fine with the one exception of the HMDI. Every time I try to boot from the HDMI, I get a black screen. However, the computer is still running since I can VNC into it but it's a bit sluggish since for some odd reason the QE/CI is disable. Any chance you can advise which version for the Chameleon/ Chimera was used and include your plist for the bootloader as well as the smbios.plist (with all the sensitive info removed)? Almost forgot to ask if you can also post pictures of your BIOS settings. My HDMI works with Windows but I just cannot figure out with why it will not work with OS X even with different Product Names in the SMBios.

It's a lot to ask but I appreciate all the help. Thanks in advance.

Hello mrintegra!

Sorry for the late reply, I have to say that Im getting more and more tempted to update my machine to 10.10.4 or even the new El Capitan. Apparently Apple has fiddled around with bluetooth functionality across different versions of Yosemite and I would like to get a more stable version on my hands.

Another thing that have been lurking up on my system is that any type of SMB or AFP file sharing activity disables my ethernet. I have to manually walk over to the computer and pull out and insert the ethernet cable to get network access back.

What I want to say with this is that Im interested to see you succeed with your machine so I can update mine as well. I have attached my whole Extras folder here, I hope you have some use for it. It contains my SMBios and chameleon config.


Contents:

/Extra
-/modules
--HDAEnabler.dylib
--Keylayout.dylib
--Maxwell Driver.bundle
-/Themes
--....
-DSDT.aml
-Maxwell enabler.kext
-NVDAMAX.kext
-NVDAStartup_org.kext
-NVDAStartup.kext
-nvram.55ADE.....plist
-org.chameleon.Boot.plist
-smbios.plist

 

[Sunblade]

@mrintegra

I have rebooted my machine now (rarely do so, had an uptime of > 100 days ) and captured some photos of my bios settings and chameleon boot screen including version number in the top left corner.

(I have subscribed to this thread using instant email now so I will reply a lot faster than a month )

Check it out:

 

[mrintegra]

Sunblade - No worries, on the delay. I haven't had much time to check the forum. Been preoccupied with work and chasing after my two kids. Thanks a whole lot for taking the time to snap all those screenshots so I can use it to compare my BIOS. When the final version of El Capitan, I will definitely update. Don't foresee any problems with this major upgrade since I haven't had any troubles updating from 10.10.3 to 10.10.5 using the Clover bootloader.

When I have time within the next week or so, I will post up a zipped DMG file of my EFI partition. Hopefully, someone else with the same system as ours will find it useful.

Regards,
mrintegra

@mrintegra

I have rebooted my machine now (rarely do so, had an uptime of > 100 days ) and captured some photos of my bios settings and chameleon boot screen including version number in the top left corner.

(I have subscribed to this thread using instant email now so I will reply a lot faster than a month )

Check it out: