The Hackintosh Thread

[amgff84]

hi amgff84, I have 2 M93P one with i5 (quad core) and one with i7, I installed Catalina with Gigamaxx perfect drive and pretty much everything works, even sleep, I am in testing and I have tried Opencore but, I am frustrated, or one thing or another does not work, sleep absolutely does not work, wifi works but not bluetooth, it is detected but does not find anything, with clover it works well, I was wondering if I could share the EFI to see if I can get the things working, thanks and good weekend everyone

Very sorry for the late response! I can tell you right off the bat that sleep will work and everything works with Opencore and Big Sur/Catalina. Your WiFi issues can be solved with the right WiFi card. It needs to be of the same chipset that is still supported (BCM94360 as an example). Personally, I did a separate WiFi card and Bluetooth dongle. Just use "Hackintosh WiFi" or "Hackintosh Bluetooth Dongle" in eBay and it will return worthy results.

The only reason you should ever need Clover now is to unlock the EFI to make edits or replace it. That's it.

Regarding sleep, you'll need to make some changes in the Bios. I attached a YouTube video and you'll want to replicate his Bios onto your machine. The Bios section starts at 9:40, but the whole video is educational and helpful.

I believe he has a website with the EFI folder already done assuming you have followed his video. I forget what he recommends for WiFi and Bluetooth but this is the video I learned from so hope it helps!

TechNolli YouTube Video for M93P

 

[pshufd]

My latest on running macOS was to experiment with Linux KVM using sosumi which is a way to install macOS with a one-command-line command. It does work but I had problems with audio. This was on a system from 2008 and it is usable.

I also tried running Ubuntu using VMware on Windows 10 and then sosumi via KVM. I was unable to get this to work.

I then tried running Ubuntu on VMware on Windows 10 and macOS-Simple-KVM and this actually works quite well. I still have issues with audio in that there's some clipping but I suspect that I could fix these with a little work. Graphics performance could be a little better as well and I think that I would need to enable PCI passthrough to get to very near native performance.

My main professional applications are Windows applications so it would be nice to run everything off of a Windows box. In the meantime, I'm running my office stuff off my Late 2009 iMac which sits next to the Windows 10 beast of a machine. I have another 64 GB of RAM arriving today so it will have a total of 128 GB. I was using 85% of RAM yesterday doing my experiments. The extra RAM will fix that problem. I plan to run one or both of my professional programs in virtual machines at some point so that I can get the flexibility of macOS Spaces.

Windows treats all of your monitors as a single desktop so, when you go to another desktop, all of the monitors change. Spaces in macOS ties a virtual desktop to each monitor so you change things one monitor at a time. I can use one or more Virtual Machines to fix this as the Virtual Desktop would only run on one monitor. It's a pretty much hack of a way to fix one of Windows' deficiencies.

 

[amgff84]

So my hack is updated to the latest MacOS, updates and all... Anyone think Monterey will be an easy upgrade?

 

[pshufd]

So my hack is updated to the latest MacOS, updates and all... Anyone think Monterey will be an easy upgrade?

I've seen a few do it successfully. I got Monterey running on VirtualBox and am working on getting it to work with KVM. I'd ultimately like to get it working on Docker. I have an M1 Mini coming this week and I may well give up on Hackintosh once I get real hardware.

 

[amgff84]

I've seen a few do it successfully. I got Monterey running on VirtualBox and am working on getting it to work with KVM. I'd ultimately like to get it working on Docker. I have an M1 Mini coming this week and I may well give up on Hackintosh once I get real hardware.

Congrats on the M1. I'm fine with Intel though for now, but I'm curious to know where Apple goes from here and in the future. Regarding those who install Monterey, do you know if they need to be updated to the latest OpenCore?

 

[pshufd]

Congrats on the M1. I'm fine with Intel though for now, but I'm curious to know where Apple goes from here and in the future. Regarding those who install Monterey, do you know if they need to be updated to the latest OpenCore?

Some solutions use OpenCore but I see more people looking at KVM as there are fewer compatibility problems. I've seen some use both. I'm sticking with Virtualization as it allows me to run Windows and macOS on the same system. I have a big enough machine to absorb the performance penalty.

 

[amgff84]

Some solutions use OpenCore but I see more people looking at KVM as there are fewer compatibility problems. I've seen some use both. I'm sticking with Virtualization as it allows me to run Windows and macOS on the same system. I have a big enough machine to absorb the performance penalty.

Okay, I'll look into it more. I have a triple display running windows 10 and my Hackintosh. I use Synergy so I can use one keyboard and mouse. I have a variety of hdmi and peripheral switches to switch between the different machines if needed. My main machine is a 6 core 12 thread Intel chip so I could run a VM, but I would prefer a real machine.

 

[pshufd]

Okay, I'll look into it more. I have a triple display running windows 10 and my Hackintosh. I use Synergy so I can use one keyboard and mouse. I have a variety of hdmi and peripheral switches to switch between the different machines if needed. My main machine is a 6 core 12 thread Intel chip so I could run a VM, but I would prefer a real machine.

I currently have 3x4K + 1xQHD running off a i7-10700 with a 2015 MacBook Pro. also running Synergy. I currently have a Mojave VM and a Catalina VM and I'm building a Big Sur VM right now to be able to convert the Monterey Beta kit BaseSystem.dmg into a .img file to try a couple of different approaches for an installation.

I was looking at a proper Hackintosh and then the prices of CPUs, GPUs, RAM, etc. went through the roof. I didn't like buying stuff from third-parties either. The 5900X is available at a few places but the 5950X is still hard to find and GPUs are still impossible to get through standard, official channels. Outside the GT 1030 and I'm not going to spend $180 for one of those.

 

[nathansz]

So my hack is updated to the latest MacOS, updates and all... Anyone think Monterey will be an easy upgrade?

running open core 0.6.9 and upgraded without any issues

 

[amgff84]

I currently have 3x4K + 1xQHD running off a i7-10700 with a 2015 MacBook Pro. also running Synergy. I currently have a Mojave VM and a Catalina VM and I'm building a Big Sur VM right now to be able to convert the Monterey Beta kit BaseSystem.dmg into a .img file to try a couple of different approaches for an installation.

I was looking at a proper Hackintosh and then the prices of CPUs, GPUs, RAM, etc. went through the roof. I didn't like buying stuff from third-parties either. The 5900X is available at a few places but the 5950X is still hard to find and GPUs are still impossible to get through standard, official channels. Outside the GT 1030 and I'm not going to spend $180 for one of those.

Not for nothing, but the base to my Hackintosh is a haswell lenovo just put into a different case. I bought the lenovo machine for $150 and the rx 460 is about $100 right now. A simple dongle for WiFi and a BT one too if desired...

You could do a real hack pretty cheap. I eventually upgraded the CPU to a XEON and an Thermaltake H17 case. Power supply too and adapter, but it wasn't really needed. I eventually replaced the dongles with an adapter to use a real apple WiFi/BT card.

It's really a decent machine and behaves as a mac from the second I push the power button to the moment i turn it off.

 

[pshufd]

Not for nothing, but the base to my Hackintosh is a haswell lenovo just put into a different case. I bought the lenovo machine for $150 and the rx 460 is about $100 right now. A simple dongle for WiFi and a BT one too if desired...

You could do a real hack pretty cheap. I eventually upgraded the CPU to a XEON and an Thermaltake H17 case. Power supply too and adapter, but it wasn't really needed. I eventually replaced the dongles with an adapter to use a real apple WiFi/BT card.

It's really a decent machine and behaves as a mac from the second I push the power button to the moment i turn it off.

I was looking to drive at least 3x4k. I was looking at a 27 inch iMac 10700K and some of my trading friends run Mac Pros.

I had been waiting for an M1X and was expecting them at WWDC but it didn't happen. I keep my eyes open for old iMacs with i7s and a lot of RAM but they slip through my fingers. So I'll try an M1 for now and replace it with an M1X. Hopefully Apple will make something which can do a good job at 3x4K or even 4x4K.

 

[amgff84]

I was looking to drive at least 3x4k. I was looking at a 27 inch iMac 10700K and some of my trading friends run Mac Pros.

I had been waiting for an M1X and was expecting them at WWDC but it didn't happen. I keep my eyes open for old iMacs with i7s and a lot of RAM but they slip through my fingers. So I'll try an M1 for now and replace it with an M1X. Hopefully Apple will make something which can do a good job at 3x4K or even 4x4K.

That's a lot of power.

 

[pshufd]

Not for nothing, but the base to my Hackintosh is a haswell lenovo just put into a different case. I bought the lenovo machine for $150 and the rx 460 is about $100 right now. A simple dongle for WiFi and a BT one too if desired...

You could do a real hack pretty cheap. I eventually upgraded the CPU to a XEON and an Thermaltake H17 case. Power supply too and adapter, but it wasn't really needed. I eventually replaced the dongles with an adapter to use a real apple WiFi/BT card.

It's really a decent machine and behaves as a mac from the second I push the power button to the moment i turn it off.

 

[amgff84]

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I have one I can sell you for $108.00, but there is also this...

 

[pshufd]

I have one I can sell you for $108.00, but there is also this...

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I'm generally wary of used GPUs as there are stories out there on people receiving bricks. I was more looking for a 1660 or better. My daughter has one and it's fairly impressive. I have the M1 on the way so I don't need any additional hardware.

 

[amgff84]

I'm generally wary of used GPUs as there are stories out there on people receiving bricks. I was more looking for a 1660 or better. My daughter has one and it's fairly impressive. I have the M1 on the way so I don't need any additional hardware.

I hear that. That listing isn't mine but I do have an eBay store that I sell used hardware on. I don't have any GPU's on there now because the market for them simply sucks, but I did SELL about $8k worth of them since March (Sold not profited) and only had one return, which was not due to anything performance or quality related. I actually sold a guy an HD 7950 for a Hackintosh build because that's how bad the market is.

You should see what some people were trying to sell. Nasty, dirty, sometimes damaged but working cards for current market value. I at-least did a complete teardown, cleaning, and re-paste. I then stressed them for 30 minutes and benchmarked them. I'd then list them with an honest review on performance so they would know about what to expect. My RX 460 is in a build right now, and I'm probably going to list that locally because it was a build I put together to get rid of a few things that were not selling, that card included. It's strange because it would be the perfect card for a Lenovo system someone can just throw in there without mods because its an ITX card and doesn't require any additional power.

I guess there is some of us who just want to have a Hackintosh and some of us who need Apple hardware. I am just a guy who wants a Hackintosh, as I write this on my MBP.

I gotta be honest though, it looks like Windows is following in Apples footsteps and are going to require basically newer computers to run Win 11 so I might just switch back to MacOS full time and reactivate my Shadow account for gaming. In which I might look into a Mac Mini also.

 

[pshufd]

I hear that. That listing isn't mine but I do have an eBay store that I sell used hardware on. I don't have any GPU's on there now because the market for them simply sucks, but I did SELL about $8k worth of them since March (Sold not profited) and only had one return, which was not due to anything performance or quality related. I actually sold a guy an HD 7950 for a Hackintosh build because that's how bad the market is.

You should see what some people were trying to sell. Nasty, dirty, sometimes damaged but working cards for current market value. I at-least did a complete teardown, cleaning, and re-paste. I then stressed them for 30 minutes and benchmarked them. I'd then list them with an honest review on performance so they would know about what to expect. My RX 460 is in a build right now, and I'm probably going to list that locally because it was a build I put together to get rid of a few things that were not selling, that card included. It's strange because it would be the perfect card for a Lenovo system someone can just throw in there without mods because its an ITX card and doesn't require any additional power.

I guess there is some of us who just want to have a Hackintosh and some of us who need Apple hardware. I am just a guy who wants a Hackintosh, as I write this on my MBP.

I gotta be honest though, it looks like Windows is following in Apples footsteps and are going to require basically newer computers to run Win 11 so I might just switch back to MacOS full time and reactivate my Shadow account for gaming. In which I might look into a Mac Mini also.

I spent two hours on the Windows 11 TPM stuff this weekend. There was also a Windows Update that might have broken something. I turned on Firmware TPM and it seemed to break a few other things so I dug into things and managed to get my system back to where it was. My system can run TPM 2.0 in Firmware or I could buy a TPM chip as my motherboard supports it. What I'd really like to do is run it in a VM to try it out. I'd need some kind of TPM emulation in VMware, VirtualBox or KVM to do that.

 

[amgff84]

Hey, anyone have experience running open core or even clover on a gigabyte q87 board? I currently have a Lenovo board and I want to upgrade the board to non oem and use everything else. I get that I may need to make minor changes in the plist, but I bought an asus q87 that didn’t boot, And I hear gigabyte boards are favored.

 

[LordVic]

My Ryzen hackintosh has stopped booting. No updates or changes. not sure why. And can no longer even get a USB installer to boot anymore.

Hardware's fine. tested out. all good. wonder if there was a "silent" patch that Apple released that might have impacted some early Ryzen systems. I had a perfectly running hackintosh running on this machine already. R7-1700, 16gb RAM and 500gb SSD. MacOS ran really really smoothly.

 

[pshufd]

My Ryzen hackintosh has stopped booting. No updates or changes. not sure why. And can no longer even get a USB installer to boot anymore.

Hardware's fine. tested out. all good. wonder if there was a "silent" patch that Apple released that might have impacted some early Ryzen systems. I had a perfectly running hackintosh running on this machine already. R7-1700, 16gb RAM and 500gb SSD. MacOS ran really really smoothly.

Some things that I've found doing macOS Virtual Machines is that macOS does a lot of communications with Apple endpoints over the network and I suspect that they can change authentication and validation criteria. The other thing is that sometimes these endpoints are down or slow and a reboot or retry a little later works.

I have not had any problems running VMs but I did get intermittent problems trying to set them up.

 

[LordVic]

Some things that I've found doing macOS Virtual Machines is that macOS does a lot of communications with Apple endpoints over the network and I suspect that they can change authentication and validation criteria. The other thing is that sometimes these endpoints are down or slow and a reboot or retry a little later works.

I have not had any problems running VMs but I did get intermittent problems trying to set them up.

Not in a VM. was running MacOS natively on my R7-1700. until one day it just stopped.

VM's seem to work when I test them out. But when I'm running natively, I don't want to have to run an OS under the OS of choice. just a waste of resources.

Oh well. I always knew that using a hackintosh, even as a secondary machine could end up this way. And now with the M1 and that as the future direction of MacOS, I might as well move on.

 

[pshufd]

Not in a VM. was running MacOS natively on my R7-1700. until one day it just stopped.

VM's seem to work when I test them out. But when I'm running natively, I don't want to have to run an OS under the OS of choice. just a waste of resources.

Oh well. I always knew that using a hackintosh, even as a secondary machine could end up this way. And now with the M1 and that as the future direction of MacOS, I might as well move on.

I gave in and bought a Mini but I'm still playing with VMs. You can get better performance out of a Linux KVM as you're running the VM very close to bare metal.

 

[LordVic]

I gave in and bought a Mini but I'm still playing with VMs. You can get better performance out of a Linux KVM as you're running the VM very close to bare metal.

Oh, Im not apposed to virtualization and know it very well (I admin ESXI)

But for my home desktop, I prefer not to have that many layers if I can avoid it. I'm also nuts and anal about resource utilization.

 

[pshufd]

Oh, Im not apposed to virtualization and know it very well (I admin ESXI)

But for my home desktop, I prefer not to have that many layers if I can avoid it. I'm also nuts and anal about resource utilization.

It would be easier if the M1X systems were out. The M1 is a compromise from my perspective. It will get better.

 

[amgff84]

Hey, anyone have experience running open core or even clover on a gigabyte q87 board? I currently have a Lenovo board and I want to upgrade the board to non oem and use everything else. I get that I may need to make minor changes in the plist, but I bought an asus q87 that didn’t boot, And I hear gigabyte boards are favored.

Just an update, this Gigabyte Q87 board is 100%. Additionally, it is running BigSur and dual booting to Windows for gaming. Arriving today is the the Thermaltake S100 MATX micro-case and 60% keyboard to complete the set-up. Pictures to follow.