/r/hackintosh
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View rules and FAQ before posting.
No distro/beast tools: We do not not support the use of tools such as UniBeast and Multibeast as well as distros such as iAtkos, Niresh, Olarila and such. The reason for this is that these tools do more damage than good as they neither teach you what you're doing and can also damage macOS itself with unneeded framework changes.
The Dortania guide provides ways to install macOS without a Mac device with macOS sourced from Apple directly.
No self-promotion: Please keep all paid services and advertisements off the subreddit. This community does not wish to be affiliated with such sources so all paid work and such should be kept private
No Mac or VM posts: Regardless of what methods were used for installing, we are a subreddit focused on PC hardware running macOS. Please keep macOS specific, virtual machines and Mac hardware posts to their respective subreddits.
Don't distribute EFIs: Do not share your EFI folders, instead point users to the subreddit's vanilla guides. If you would like to share your work, document the specific items required to build your Hackintosh that were not covered in the guide instead. Pre-baked EFI posts will be removed as they are not guaranteed to work and they spread a low-effort sentiment in the Hackintosh community.
Note: You can share your EFI in order to ask for help, but you cannot send EFIs to the requester as a way of helping.
No Youtube Videos: While we understand some users may be more visual learners, please understand that most(if not all) youtube guides either:
So we highly discourage uses of these videos, instead much preferring users follow the written guides in our FAQ and Sidebar. The main offenders of these types of videos are from TechNolli, Morgonaut, and TechTunerLife.
Alpha/Beta Software releases are unsupported: Because alpha/beta software is full of bugs, supporting beta software makes it difficult to troubleshoot issues. Please avoid posting about beta software help until it has reached GM.
Success posts of these softwares are welcomed with proper documentation and [IT BOOTS! (WIP)] flair. Help and question posts will be removed.
Unrelated Posts and Memes: Unrelated subjects and memes are not allowed in this subreddit. This sub is mainly for help and information sharing about hackintoshing. The mods reserve the right to remove any post that is of low quality or unrelated to the subreddit.
What is a Hackintosh?
A Hackintosh is a non-Apple computer that runs macOS.
macOS INSTALLERS NOTE: This sub is dedicated to legally obtained copies of macOS. Please do not ask, or post, about things like iAtkos, Niresh, or any other modified macOS installer that may have malicious code in it!
Pre-Built EFI NOTE: We provide minimal to no support for Pre-Built EFIs from GitHub, Hackintosher and such due to generally being heavily outdated, poorly made and users not knowing what their hackintoshes are doing. You may still ask for help but please be prepared to remake your EFI from scratch following the OpenCore Vanilla Guide
UniBeast and Multibeast NOTE: Unfortunately we do not support the use of beast tools due to being closed sourced, can modify MacOS files and users generally not know what these tools are doing(more info here). You will be requested to restart your installation following the OpenCore Vanilla guide to properly learn hackintoshing or face public humiliation and be stuck with your broken Hackintosh
Check out the brand-new FAQ! Don't ask before you read it fully, twice.
Make sure you post your Hackintosh's specifications when you ask questions. (Posting guidelines in the FAQ or further down the sidebar)
Regarding info/guides posted to this subreddit, we reserve all right to remove posts we feel either break the rules, provide poor info or redirects to other poorly made guides. Please understand that we want to keep the subreddit clean and a place where people don't have to worry about getting false info
How to install macOS on a PC
Post-installation Guides
OpenCore Resources
Informative threads homegrown here from /r/hackintosh
Additional Hackintoshing resources
Check if your hardware can run macOS
Posting Format
Hardware:
CPU:
GPU:
RAM:
Motherboard/Laptop model:
Audio Codec:
Ethernet Card:
Wifi/BT Card: (if available)
What guide/tool followed: [Links and/or names, links preferably]
What part I got an issue with: [Describe your issue WITH pictures attached if possible]
What files/config I am using:
Extra Info: [Add something you need to point out about your setup]
Related subreddits:
/r/hackintosh
Pc specs: Xeon e5 2680v3 Rx 580 16gb ddr4
My OC efi file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jL7Qbk8UH2sfCxCkmbgs3APrHs43Fk-z/view?usp=sharing
I'm almost there, getting a secondary wifi card for Airdrop on my laptop while keeping the original one for higher speed connection.
The *only* part where I'm stuck now is the internal usb header for BT connection for the Airdrop wifi card.
Ultimately I can connect the usb part outside (ugh), but that doesn't really sound like the smartest alternative.
Anyone feeling charitable to help me find a way to adapt an internal usd header out of this board? Or perhaps only the 2 cables that the BT cable has?
This video has the full disassembly of this system and the pic below shows where I'm stuck.
I tried updating my Big Sur hackintosh and after checking everything I booted into the updater only to be rebooted. Every time I try I get the same result. Here is a video with some logs if you are curious:
I think it might be a mouse issue but I'm still not sure. Please help in any way you can. Thank you!
Hello, I recently came across multiple rather hidden comments about AirportItlwm for Sequoia and after some back and forth, I now have native WiFi and Bluetooth working. Since it was quite the effort to gather all the information, I decided to compress everything I learned in this detailed tutorial. I hope you like it!
Specs :
CPU : I5-4750
Gigabyte H81-MH
RAM : 16gb DDR3 1600mhz
GPU : DATALAND rx580 2048sp ( flashed vbios )
iMac 2014 smbios
impressed with the performance of this build since it's just recycled ewaste I found lying around my house
Flashed the GPU with the modded bios ( not other vendors vbios )
If anyone were to flash their cards like mine , I'd recommend using windows 1809 cuz win 11 is stupid and won't let me run amdvbflash ๐๐๐
I feel like itโs not loading my EFI folder correctly or something because it says โcant perform kext scan: no kext summaryโ. What am I doing wrong?
Hey all
I tried to disable the SIP of my Macbook, but after restarting it keeps prompting for password to unlock the disk. The password I input is correct, that isn't the issue
I reactivated the SIP and I still have the same issue. I also tried to unlock the disk through terminal directly but still no success
Is there something I am still able to do?
I recently installed another drive on my windows 11 machine and with some help was able to hackintosh it and am currently on sequoia. I am dual booting with open core, one drive is windows 11 and the other is Hackintosh. Everything works fine, but my current gpu is incompatible with Hackintosh. my CPU has integrated graphics so it's not a huge problem, but it seems like it's hard for it to keep up.
Here is my current rig:
MB: Asrock B365 Pro4
CPU: i7 9700k
GPU: GTX 1660
PSU: 500w bronze
I use the Nvidia GPU on windows for gaming and use other applications that benifit from NVIDIA GPUs so I don't want to switch over to AMD for windows. Now, I was wondering if it would be possible to install a RX 570 in the second PCIE slot in my PC and have both GPUs in there at the same time, GTX 1660 only used for windows, and RX 570 only for Hackintosh.
And If it will work then i'll have to get a new PSU as well that has 2 PCIE Cables and also has the juice to power both GPUs.
Hello,
Iโm planning to install macOS as a second operating system, specifically for graphic design and other creative tasks. My processor is a Ryzen 7700X, and my GPU is an nvidia 4070, but I know that this card is not supported by macOS.
Iโm considering getting an AMD RX 570 8GB OCโwould this be sufficient for my needs? Would it allow me to install macOS successfully?
If it works, I plan to install the AMD GPU in the second PCIe slot of my MSI B650 Edge Wi-Fi motherboard.
Would this setup work for macOS?
Hi guys, I'm trying to install macos ventura with opcore on Ryzen 5 4600g with the mcra520mdxv3 board and it stucks on amfi, i already tried amfi=0x80, the error occurs when i add the vsmchbkp=0 to prevents hid legacy shim 2, can anyone help-me?
I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Iโm converting an old Apple iMac G4 into a modern monitor by using an old LG Gram 17โ display (model LP170WQ1-SPF2). The problem is that I want to mount the control board inside the base and not the monitor so I need to a 40 Pin laptop display cable thatโs around 20โ long to fit through the articulating neck. If I mounted the control board inside the display housing, I would have to route too many cables through the neck. If I just route the 40pin connector, it will fit without issue.
Does anyone have any idea where I can order a custom length 40 Pin cable for that display? Or are there good resources for creating my own 40 pin connector?
This may not be the right location but I have a MacBook Pro, A1989 (2018 model) that is having issues and apparently Target Disk Mode is the only way to communicate with this since the SSD is soldered in (or I would pull it out and slave it). I have attempted to:
Is this just impossible with Windows 11 via USB?
Would I need a second MacBook or some form of Boot Camp to do this?
Hey everyone.
My laptop has one of those older WWAN Slots besides the traditional WLAN.
I wonder if I can use that WWAN slot for enabling Airdrop, so I can keep te original fast WLAN wifi.
Any suggestion is welcome. Pic below of the WWAN Slot.
hello! i've been struggling to hackintosh my machine for a while now. the main issue is that macOS doesn't detect my igpu. i'm trying to get it working on sonoma with oclp. i applied the root patches, but that didn't fix anything. i've researched a lot before posting here, even asked in the "hackintosh paradise" discord server, but they didn't help. iโd really appreciate any help with this issue since it's getting frustrating.
specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
IGPU: HD 4000 RAM:
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G41 (MS-7758) 3.0
(ask me if you need more info)
hi guys, recently I have a problem that isn't drastic but annoying, that is, my Apple logo is stretched when starting MacOS and after a while of loading it auto-fixes.
but it's a very annoying problem.. here's what I tried to do:
I swear I don't know what to do. please help
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(sorry for the quality)
i have:
plz help
I wanted to hackintosh my laptop after I successfully hackintoshed my pc but I realized my laptop has a Realtek wifi card and I donโt think I should even try.. Any way I can make it work with Sequoia as thatโs what i was planning on installing?
Please help- I have tried everything that seems to be a solution but to no avail. Every time I try to sign in to iMessage, it shows the iMessage Convo screen, then after 5-10 seconds, signs me out again! I've read and tried everything in the dortania icloud services but nothing. I've contacted apple support, they don't have any block on my account. Tried making a new user on my Mac and that has the same problem.
Hello. I am having trouble with macos Ventura on my Asus tuf gaming a 17. When I launched "install macos Ventura" it surprisingly booted into installer. After complete install it took me to opencore bootloader and I chosed macos installer. After that it randomly rebooted. It was hard to see what was writing but it was LOG EXIBTS START or LOG RESET RECOVERY or something like that. When I wanted to go back to reinstall macos this didn't work anymore leaving LOG EXIBTS START
I have a sandy bridge CPU with MacPro6,1 SMBIOS, which had Ivy Bridge. When I tried to use ssdtPRgen, it gave me 'board-id is not compatible with this CPU' message. Below it, it asks if I wish to continue. Will an incompatible board-id affect how the forced generated SSDT works?
Hi, so I made a usb for an Intel haswell pc, and when loading the installer, I get a memory panic with thread 0 crashed... I looked online and tried resetting the NVRAM and disabling Intel virtualization, but nothing worked... Help please ๐
I used a guide to install Big Sur and Monterey to my Optiplex 7010 [i7-3770 Intel HD 4000]. I am interested to upgrade to Ventura or maybe even Sonoma if its possible. I would firstly like to know if its possible, and if it is, do I have to just manually follow the dortania guide and do a fresh install or can I utilize my existing efi?
CPU: AMD Ryzenโข 5 PRO 5650GE
GPU: Integrated IGPU - (Likely RX Vega 10 or 7)
RAM: 8GB @ 3200MHz
Motherboard: OEM AMDยฎ PRO 565 Chipset
Audio Codec: Realtek ALC3867 Audio Codec
Ethernet Card: Realtek RTL8111FPH-CG Gigabit Network Connection
NVME: Samsung OEM Pre-installed
I have successfully installed and booted macOS, but I am having trouble with the RTL8111 not being recognized. The Ethernet status in System Preferences fluctuates between "Not Connected" and "Cable Unplugged", and I cannot connect to the internet.
I have tested several older RealtekRTL8111 kexts, but none have successfully connected so far.
I have attached my EFI folder. Could anyone please help me?
The EFI was created following the OpenCore Install Guide.I have manually set a static IP address in case DHCP IP address acquisition fails.I experienced the same connection issues with older macOS versions like Big Sur.
I want to try using Mac OS for learning web development. Which one is a better option? I found both a 2015 Macbook Air and a T480 Thinkpad for a cheap price with both having an 8gb ram.
I heard the T480 is great at hakintoshing.
Hello! Does anyone know of reasons why copying the EFI contents from an old drive to a cloned drive would not result in a clover boot loader that my BIOS can see? I have been tearing my hair out
I have a really old Sierra hackintosh Iโd like to keep running for archival purposes, and Iโm trying to move the install from one disk to another so I can consolidate everything. The clone has worked fine, and clover can boot the new HD, but I canโt seem to get clover on the new diskโs EFI to be a valid boot option in the bios.
Most of the results for similar problems say that just copying the whole contents of the EFI from one disk to another should fix this. I have also tried using clover configurator to clone the EFI, as well as a straight dd command.
The machine has a main hd with Sierra and Clover, as well as what seems to be the only windows boot loader that works, with win10 on a second drive (which I have also cloned to a different disk using dd and failed to make it bootable). It seems like all my boot loaders are pretty borked, and itโs been so long since I set this up I have forgotten a lot of the jargon and specific knowledge for digging in deeper. Any help would be much appreciated!!
Hello! I have my offline Sequoia installer booting and looking promising but the only issue is my NVMe SSD (SK Hynix PC601) is not being detected. Not in disk utility or terminal. I do have "NVMeFix.kext" if that matters.
Does anybody have advice on what I could try? If you need any other hardware details or info please ask, I'm happy to oblige. Anything to help aid my situation
Thank you!
I followed the https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/
specs
Device name LAPTOP-M2B0HIAV
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (13.2 GB usable)
Device ID A29B01CA-A1FE-4A99-A276-60F98360DC1D
Product ID 00325-81321-36576-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch Pen support