/r/hackintosh
Welcome to 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
Colors are off when compared to being plugged in to my laptop (MacBook pro). How do I get the colors to match? Is it even possible ?
Got a 14900k which runs very hot and a bit unstable. Is a 9950X a better option? It’s for video editing.
Is a 9950X going to work on a hackintosh?
How can I fix this? I've been trying for days, trying to research what I can find and nothing.
bonus: can you currently run arm apps on x86?
Hello,
I am creating my first hackintosh and I was wondering if it would be a good idea to use my Apple account on it to use messaging and other features (I have a iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch).
Was not sure if I would be putting my account at jeopardy by doing this since all of my life is in it lol.
Please let me know . Thanks!
My hackintosh build uses an Intel core i9-10900F + Sapphire Pulse RX 5600 XT.
The opencore guide for Comet Lake suggests an iMac20,2 for core i9-10850K and up.
Since my cpu doesn’t have an iGPU and I am using a Navi 10 card, should I use the MacPro7,1 SMBIOS?
Hi everyone,
I’ve been working on my Hackintosh setup, and I’m running into a frustrating issue with my Blackmagic Video Assist monitor as an output monitor from HDMI. Here’s the situation:
shikigva=80
, but the issue persists.Has anyone else had this issue with a Blackmagic Video Assist or a similar setup? Any ideas on what else I could try?
Thanks
Hi
I just installed Sonoma 14.5 and upgrading to 14.7 version without any issues in my laptop HP Probook 430 G6 , but the 'shutdown' in power option is restarting my hackintosh laptop even I follow the steps in dortania guide in here : https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Post-Install/usb/misc/shutdown.html , and this is my EFI file :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LBh6k5A66_Zq85STYu1lCMcIPB73BFiT
What version will it run? How fast will it run? Can I upgrade the mac os? Will it use OpenCore?
I have successful install on Thinkpad back then. Now I am trying to install this to my HP Probook 440 G5. Everything is good to boot the USB installer except : the keyboard and touchpad (movable but cannot tap double tap). I have copied someone else HP's config and kexts to my USB, but still failed.
My specification:
My current kexts:
Note : I am always refresh the config.plist when changes occur
Before any further writeup - a disclaimer: the post is subreddit related because it's about achieving native wlan functionality. That said - the actual reading:
The overall premise is this - create a pcb to host a standard BGA519 package on a regular pci-e pcb with 3 antennas. MIT licence. You, as an enthusiast end user will have the files you can send over to your pcb maker of choice, they can either send a blank pcb for manual population or they can solder on the basics while the actual package is left over for the user to solder on at home. Zero legal issues to it, pretty straightforward idea. I get why usual suspects in the space won't do it, companies (Fenvi) would get sued into oblivion. But actual end users can do whatever they like and that's where this post comes in.
I already made some preliminary drawings and sets and I can share my eagle project. It's for a $17 bga519 package, standard 0.12mm. Total cost should orbit around $55 per board, depending on the mask. I'll make a very small 8-layer batch in green and I'll get fancy if signal integrity is a-ok and if things turn out right.
If you know what you're doing and don't mind contributing time to a good cause, shoot me a pm and help the development/brainstorming. I'll obviously mail out the free pieces for testing.
Thanks!
Hello!
I would like to share my success in enabling Secure Boot!
If you'd like to know how I did it, I wrote a Guide, available here!
Happy hackintoshing <3
Was going through storage and found this hackintosh I built around 8 years ago. Funnily enough I actually built this as a work computer for my mom out of old pc parts I had from a previous build. Brought back some good memories.
Long story short its got me interested in hackintoshes again, but it seems like after apple moved to arm it significantly complicated things. Obviously installing an OS built for arm on an x86 isnt possible. Although ive seen people installing very recent Mac OS Builds. Is it any harder now than it was back then?
Hey guys, I followed the dortania guide to fixing this but iMessage still does not work, it logs me out after a few seconds. For the ROM is used my mac address, for the UUID I used the one generated with genbios (should I use the one generated from the cmd on terminal) .I don't have Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and my apple account has a iPhone attached to it. When I contacted apple they tried to fix it but couldn't even when I gave them a customer code which I got by launching iMessage from the terminal. They told me to contact a senior advisor over the phone.
My question is what should I do next and is it a bad idea to give apple support my invalid serial number, thanks.
Hey guys i need help i forgot my password to my build and it’s giving me a headache, please help. Is there anything i can do to reset it??
CPU - 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400 2.50 GHz
GPU - UHD 730
RAM - 16 (DDR5)
SSD - NVME.
I wanted to learn the Flutter, but due to Xcode requirements, must need the macOS.
Now, I need a suggestion for the best macOS that will suit my hardware perfectly!
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Your advices, suggestions will be a big help.✨
THIS IS RESOLVED! I CHANGED AAPL,ig-platform-id TO 01660003 USING PROPERTREE.
Specs
Lenovo ThinkPad T430
CPU i5-3320M
GPU Intel HD Graphics 4000
8 GB ram
I've been following some tutorials on this and I've got to as far as getting the macOS utilities/setup to boot. It shows the Apple logo and loads for a bit, then the Apple logo goes to the right of the screen and gets cut in half, and the resolution for the macOS utilities page is messed up. What could be going on? FYI, in bios I have it set to UEFI only with no CSM support. SATA controller mode is AHCI (only other option is "compatibility")
I am attempting to install Catalina by the way
I upgraded my all AMD hack from ventura to sequioa, and I'll be going back to ventura. All my kexts,kernel patches and oc are all up to date and it's been a stability nightmare. I get random freezes and system lock ups. Not asking for help as I've made up my mind to go back to ventura. I just wanted to hear how it's going for yall? Any of yall experiencing the same thing ?
Edit:I did a fresh install and still ran into the same problem.
Edit 2: I ended up going to Mac OS sonoma and it runs like a dream. Sequioa right now is not stable for my AMD system
Hey guys, recently I've been looking at my hackintosh, and I don't seem to be able to get audio working properly, I've watched every YouTube tutorial I can find, read through the Opencore guide and the Apple ALC guide more times than I can count, but still nothing. I can see that AppleALC.kext is loading, Hackintool can see it as a loaded kext, and I've tried every codec ID for my audio. I used to have this working, and I know that it will be a simple fix, but I've spent days on this and it still won't work. I can play music through my DGPU fine, but neither the internal speakers, or the audio jacks work, does anyone know how to fix this?
Specs:
Dell Optiplex 5050 SFF
CPU - I7-6700
Graphics - RX580
RAM - 32GB DDR4
BOOT - Intel Optane 240GB NVME SSD
They seem to be supportable, and yet, on dortania.github.io (incredible site, btw, how did everyone figure this all out?) there aren't any kexts or SSDTs. I have a Phenom in my main PC, and would like to Hackintosh, but can't. I just get stuck at a blinking cursor while trying to boot the installer.
I am trying to build a hackintosh with Intel® Core™ i5-11400F (Rocket Lake CPU), but am not sure how to "spoof" my CPUID as the OpenCore guide details. How would I go about spoofing it? I also do not have any OS installed, and am curious if I need an OS installed in order to spoof. I plan on getting Windows OS as well anyway so not super important, just curious. THANKS FOR THE HELP!
What are some other projects like Hackintosh that I can research when I'm bored? For example, custom ROMs, Ubuntu Touch, iOS KVM, and a few others.
Also, I know this is probably impossible, but I was looking into the possibility of a watchOS port for WearOS watches.
Is this an error due to CPU config?
Long story short. I want to run OS X Snow Leopard via open core.
HP elite 6300
CPU: i7-3770 with cpu spoof or I5-2400
Nvidia GT120
Can’t get pass this.
I've gone through a number of websites on building a Hackintosh, including the FAQ here, and I'm having a hard time finding a tutorial for building a functional Hackintosh without having a Mac or Apple Developer account. So far, I'm stumped. Can someone direct me to a good tutorial for building a Sonoma or Sequioa Hackintosh for those without access to a Mac? I have a Kaby-Lake desktop and, based on the research I've done, I am sure it would be able to run MacOS with no problems, but I need a step-by-step guide that doesn't skip steps (and a lot of the Youtube videos I've seen do). Help!