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The Hackintosh Thread
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No you don't have to do anything special. Clover will detect your operating systems and let you choose which to load when you boot up.
I built* this system in late 2012, as a result of the MacBook Pro Retina release excluding the ability to run enough storage. You had the option of one HDD, you couldn't replace the optical drive like in older machines.
It has been used daily for 5 years now, including in professional real time environments and has been every bit as solid and stable as the 13" BlackBook that it replaced.
CPU: Intel Core i7-3632QM @ 2.2Ghz
CPU Cooler: Stock HP
Screen: HP DV7 1080p dual link DVI
Motherboard: HP ProBook 4540S
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB SODIMM) DDR3-1600
Storage: Intel 530 Series - 240GB SSD
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2.5" 3TB 5400rpm SATA
Video Card: ATi Radeon 7650M/Intel Graphics 4000
Power Supply: Factory PSU with HP 6 cell battery, ~5 hours battery life, swappable
Optical Drive: Removed
Operating System: MacOS 10.12 Sierra
Wireless Network Adapter: Broadcom BCM20702 (detected as Apple AirPort Extreme)
This laptop has never run Windows in its entire life.
*Is it building a system if all you do is replace the screen, video cable, optical drive and wireless card?
Things that don't work:
Discreet graphics
Fingerprint scanner (meh)
iSight camera (I physically disabled it when the screen was apart, neater solution than tape over the lens)
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I had to stop reading at the end of the first paragraph:
After hackintoshing on many different motherboards I’ve developed my own I’ve come to have my own preferences based on the experiences I’ve had.
WHAT???
High Sierra update went smoothly.
I'm wondering if I upgrade to a G3 ProBook so I can take advantage of Haswell and a 32GB RAM ceiling
I'm wondering if I upgrade to a G3 ProBook so I can take advantage of Haswell and a 32GB RAM ceiling
I just updated mine to Sierra a few weeks ago
I'm willing to take risks on the Macbook, but not Big Hac.Can you let us know if the "your EFI is not up to our standards" message pops up?
I just updated mine to Sierra a few weeks ago
Can you let us know if the "your EFI is not up to our standards" message pops up?
I haven't received any messages... what is the context surrounding this message? When does it pop up?
Yes. Skylake-X/X299 - Live the Future now on macOS High Sierra 10.13 - [Successful Build/Extended Guide] | tonymacx86.com
[doublepost=1506615753][/doublepost]Yesterday, I updated my hackintoshes (2 desktops and 1 laptop) to High Sierra via App Store. Everything went about as smoothly as can be hoped for. Just required two simple extra steps due to the new file system.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/25/macos-high-sierra-weekly-efi-security-check/
macOS High Sierra automatically checks a Mac's EFI firmware against Apple's database of "known good" data to ensure it hasn't been tampered with, according to a series of tweets from an Apple engineer.
Haven't seen anything.
I set my serial number to the same one as my legitimate 2012 MBP anyway (dead motherboard, power header exploded) just as a precaution, heh.
Probably won't make a difference... I wonder if there's a way to flash the HP's EFI to the MacBooks? They're both Winstron built devices with the same low level devices, Ivy Bridge etc.
Check doesn't exist:
# ls -ald /usr/libexec/firmwarecheckers/eficheck
ls: /usr/libexec/firmwarecheckers/eficheck: No such file or directory
#
Shockingly, update from Sierra to High Sierra fixed all my Big Hac problems – except, as always, for sleep (which is the fault of Gigabyte BIOS).
I posted this myself:
I'm yet to get any such message. Literally *everything* works. Not OOB, I spent good two days doing nothing but setting it up. But since Sierra my NVidia card starts with the right resolution when macOS update comes (safe mode, but pixels are no longer 1cm x 1cm), and NVidia drivers update fix everything just as usual. High Sierra install required only a startup USB stick, the only thing that stopped working was wifi and Bluetooth, an hour later I was good to go again.
My only first world problem is that I love my 2016 m5 rMB so much that I only ever use the Big Hac to stream Spotify – which I don't really need Mac Pro level of power for – and to work on my own music, which I nowadays do approximately four hours a month. If things continue developing the way they do I won't bother updating the Big Hac when something breaks, I'll just get a 2018-2019 fully loaded rMB, and use that with a hub and 4K display I already have.
TL;DR – at least for me High Sierra update made things even better than they were before.
I have a pretty old one, Z97N-WIFI. This was discussed in the InsanelyMac forum, where others had this problem with newer Gigabyte mbs, and one guy got them to send him a beta version of BIOS update. This fixed his sleep issue. So I opened a ticket. I got a response saying "we do not update BIOS for this motherboard anymore, but why don't you disconnect everything including hard drive, keyboard and mouse, keep only power and display, and see what happens". I asked them how exactly am I supposed to figure out problems with sleep without an operating system, keyboard and mouse... The ticket was marked as resolved, since I didn't follow their logical and sensible advice.
/rant