I recently set up my hackintosh with Mac OS catalina 10.15.4 and everything works fine except iMessage and FaceTime. I followed the OpenCore guide and I have tried all the fixes like changing Mac serial numbers, snUUID etc. I also inserted my MAC address in my config and fixing en0. Is there any way I can get them to work?
(Ps. app store and icloud work fine but airdrop keeps crashing)

My specs are : Amd ryzen 2700
16 gb ram (3000 mhz)
Asus b450-m mobo
RX 590 gpu

I'm running a Gigabyte Aorus z390 Ultra on OpenCore 0.6.1with Catalina. I've been trying to get my head into USB mapping and have been battling along with USBmap to create a new USBports.kext but have yet to succeed. When I restart to map the second set of ports they don't appear even though NVRAM appears to be working ok.

I do however have a .aml for the USB ports from when I used Clover and Mojave. Can I use this with OpenCore and Catalina? I worked great under the old system. Don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to! Thanks.

Edit: (I have read through the Clover conversion guide, but I didn't make this clear and I'm unsure where to add it in my config.plist to just try it!)

im using opencore 0.5.9 on a b450 motherboard, is it safe to update the new OS update 10.15.7 without the opencore crashing or even touching the EFI?

I want to use the (old) Apple in ears with my Hackintosh. Or basically any headphones with an integrated mic. I‘m on a Z390 Designare and I have two separate plugs for mic input and audio output. So I got an adapter merging both into a single „4 pin“ cable but I can’t get the Microphone to work.

I don’t know what the problem is, maybe I didn’t get the config.plist or maybe this is a common issue that can be solved with different settings or third party programms.

I only know, the microphone is in fact working. How do I go about solving this?

Wierd issue. Gateway dx4860 desktop tower bios boot menu can't see uefi bootable hackintosh USB drives but sees bootable windows 10 installer USB in boot menu.

Tried with olarila pre-made hackintosh installer and installer I made myself both not being found.

Keep in mind both hackintosh installer usbs are found when i go into boot mode on my Dell latitude e7250 laptop

Any suggestions

I have been developing Android apps on my Windows i5 4th gen 8GB machine and it runs fine. Now, I am thinking to dive into iOS development. And for that I need a Mac machine.

I was thinking of going with Mac Mini 2020 i5 model but the only thing that concerns me is the lack of graphics card in it.

I have read somewhere that Hackintosh is not very reliable in terms of XCode and all. I've never used an apple product before so can't decide which one to go for.

Is a hackintosh (same price segment as mac mini) better or should I go with Mac Mini 2020 i5 for iOS dev mainly?

As of right now I have a pretty comfortable install. MacOS itself is completely vanilla and about 70% of my work has been done in the ACPI space of my laptop where I've been creating my own SSDT's to take care of the legwork.

I'm actually working on a fork of rehabman's HP Envy patches to convert the whole process to OpenCore and to use tools and extensions that are being maintained. With this in mind, I figured I should get my shit together and ask some questions that could save me the headache later.

In the original patch, the SMBIOS used was for the MacBookPro11,1. While this was fine and all for most cases, back in 2015 I decided to become stupid as fuck and drop big cash on a CTO laptop from HP. The processor in my system is an i7-4720HQ.

Looking at the models on EveryMac I saw that the 11,1 CPU's were a little below my spec, so I decided to opt for the MacBookPro11,2 SMBIOS as the i7-4870HQ is close enough to my configuration.

But, when generating the serial info I noticed the platform key was G86R but every Mac I've found with the 4870HQ and no dGPU was G3QN. All hopped up on Adderall I managed to figure out a method to pretty much generate only valid serial numbers and after sifting through the ones with validated purchased I selected mine, got the board serial and uuidgen'd a SysUUID.

I guess my question is was all that just a waste of time? Does the serial/board serial contain any information that macOS will use to configure power management? I understand how and why you should select the right SMBIOS but I've never heard anything about matching with a specific model.

Hello! I recently built a Z490 computer with the following specs: - Intel i7-10700 with an iGPU - MSI Z490-A PRO - 2x Corsair 8GB 3200Mhz RAM

I created the High Sierra installer with Unibeast using the guide on tonymacx86, but when booting the installer from the USB, it gets stuck at "end randomseed+++++++". When booting the same USB on a H97 computer, it works fine and the install is successful.

Things I've already tried: - Configuring BIOS according to MSI hackintosh guides online - Applying all the possible Aptio fixes separately - Applying the Free2000 fix - Shuffling RAM sticks around in the computer (Both in either As or Bs or one stick in either the first or the second slot) - The KALSR fix in the Dortania guide, got a slide value of 128, but didn't work.

I read online that this is a memory problem, but none of the proposed fixes or .efi files seem to work.

Has anyone had this problem on an MSI Z490 system, and if so, what was the fix? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Is it possible to find some sort of patcher to get an early black MacBook 2008 to get el cap or something that has some application support ?

I have a hackintosh, Upgrading GPU but not sure if This Navi AMD GPU RX 5500 XT RDNA architecture supported by MacOs Catalina/Big Sur. If you have any information then consider replying.

Yesterday I tried to install Catalina on my HP laptop following a guide being very inexperienced in this field and when I started Boot macOS Install from Niresh-Catalina it seemed to work but when the installation had to start it turned off and restarted from the boot menu

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I am attaching the video and the specifications of the PC

https://youtu.be/9lASRxxUAXQ

I ask you to help me because I am very clumsy and I will answer any question you want to ask me

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(Sorry if I could have misspelled something but I'm using google translate)

I need to move my entire drive on a new one, is there a way to move everything (EFI included) whiteout re-installing?

I am attaching the installer log.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nTaXUTKfyXiA1IcgRRRvz73aaXPfsRn1/view?usp=sharing

Will appreciate any help I can get,

Hey everyone,

I have a working machine running on Catalina 10.15.6.It's my first Hack. Can't seem to find how to update? Can u help a brother out? lol

Used Clover to install

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hi all, i paid someone to build a hackintosh for me and have had some problems since i started to use it but can't seem to get any help from the guy who built it.
Kernal Task seems to be running very high and it’s causing the PC to lag. Each time i restart the computer it seems to clear it up only to come up after 5-10mins of reopening the same apps. As you can see, the apps are not intensive and shouldn't cause any lag.
I'm also having issues with bluetooth (external dongle) where it keeps searching but not finding any devices and audio output is not detected when i plug a headphone in.
has anyone experienced similar issues or is able to help?

PC Setup

CPU - Intel i7 -10700

MOBO - MSI B460M PRO-VDH WIFI

RAM - Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 2666 MHz DDR4 8GBx2

GPU - Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 570, 8GB

PSU - SilverStone 650W Essential Power Supply

SSD - Samsung 860 EVO 250GB M.2 SATA SSD

Installer keeps crashing/restarting with 2 minutes left. Attempting to install on a spinning HDD in APFS format (whole drive formatted not just a partition).

OpenCore 0.6.1, Intel Core i5-4310U with Intel HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell), HP Elitebook Folio 9480m (BIOS M85 VER 01.50)

Mac OS X Catalina 10.15.6 (19G2021) (latest build), created the USB with createinstallmedia (on a Mac) and MakeInstall.bat (on a PC) as per the guide.

Tried the troubleshootings in the guide, still nothing. Tried changing SMBIOS, using different USB ports, removing RAM, different drives/SSD, removing SMCBatteryManager.kext. All same result, nothing.

Ran the debug version of OpenCore to get these logs:

Log pre-fixes | Log post-fixes

Config | Config with fixes | Pic of EFI I also have SSDT-HPET.aml

Hi everyone!

I am buying a Thinkpad t480s and want to try hackintoshing it, I was sick of the inability to recover data from my laptop after I spilled water in it, good thing I had a NAS backup.

What works? Where do I start? Which WiFi card should I get? Will future updates ruin the install?

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I find out that some people succesfully install macOS Catalina on their prestige 15. Anyone has followed some guide or want to share how he has done?

Here some links that I discovered, maybe they will be helpful:

https://github.com/wgjas2/MSI-Prestige-15-Hackintosh (this is in chinese so if anyone could help, it will be awesome)

https://github.com/KerKerOgh/MSI-Prestige-15-Hackintosh

These are the specs of the laptop:

• i7 10710u
• UHD630 + GTX 1650 MaxQ
• 2x8GB DDR4 2666 (Upgradable)
• Intel AX wifi (Swappable)
• 512gb NVMe SSD + 1 empty slot
• Fingerprint scanner (wont work in macos obviously)

I/O

• 2x Thunderbolt 3
• 2x 10GBPS USB3.1 G2
• microsd card scanner (wont work in macos)

Hey folks, I'm running an Audient ID4 interface over USB into Catalina 10.15.6 using OpenCore 0.6.1 on a Gigabyte z390 Aorus Ultra.

I am getting occasional audio glitchs/cut outs. Especially apparent when opening up System Preferences. I can usually get it back again but there is something buggy going on.

I have USB ports mapped and SSDTs setup for this board. I have disabled on-board audio.

Anyone else experienced this kind of issue and resolved it?

I want to build 10 gen intel becuase prices are exactly the same

and what with iGPU, because I don't need gpu

I am going to build a Hackintosh system soon.

Looking for a keyboard and mouse combo which I can use with Mac Os and also use it for gaming in Windows.

Currently I have 2 Keyboard options

1. Corsair K63 Wireless Keyboard
2. Corsair K57 RGB Wireless keyboard
3. Logitech MX Keys

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2 Mouse Options

1. Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless Gaming Mouse
2. Corsair Ironclaw RGB Wireless Gaming Mouse
3. Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro SE Wireless Gaming Mouse
4. Logitech MX Master 3

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These are all wireless options because I am told it is best to use a wireless keyboard and mouse with a dongle.

How about wired options? Will wired keyboard and mouse work with Mac Os?

Hello i found out on eBay this Acer veriton l4610g with i7 2600 s Intel, 240 SSD and 8gb RAM, and i would likes to know of can be compatibile, about this model i know has integrated video card and its mother chipset Is Intel h61

Hello there,

So, I recently built a Ryzentosh, and I’m pretty glad I nailed it without any major trouble.

It features a R5 3600 and a Gigabyte Radeon 5500 XT OC on a x570 ASUS Prime-P mobo. I handle my dual boot using 2 NVME M.2 SSDs, and the whole system is boosted with 16Go (2x8) of 3200 MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX.

While this puppy is crazy fast booting on Windows, such is not the case when booting MacOS. I use Catalina with OpenCore 5.9, and I can’t help thinking it should boot up faster.

First, I have to wait an excessive amount of time before the OpenCore GUI appears. Then, the OpenCore verbose takes well over a minute to get done before I can finally access my MacOS desktop..

I thought of turning off the “verbose” mode in the config.plist (which I finally didn’t do by fear I’d lose control upon what’s going on) and looked around for any “delay” setting or something. Without success.

Could you guys help me out with this ? It will probably not appear like a big issue for some of you but that’s really time consuming and I feel my machine could go much faster (which is frustrating) !

Thank you very much for reading ! Yours.

I have mac os on my amd hackingtosh, however im trying to install windows next to it but it gets stuck during install. Any tips to get this working?

I have a HP elitebook 840 G1 running MacOS X Catalina smoothly on Clover efi with triple boot to Windows 10 and Linux. Now I want to convert over to OpenCore as it has better reliability issues but there is one thing. I don't know how to configure OpenCore. I tried messing around with OCGenX and OpenCore configurator buy couldn't get it to detect the MacOS partition. Eventually I managed to get it to detect but then I couldn't boot. Here are my specs: Storage: samsung 256gb ssd, 64gb to MacOS

Ram: 16gb

Cpu: Intel i5-4200u

WiFi + BT: Intel Dual Band Wireless‑AC 7265 (not compatible but got both to work using OpenIntelWireless's repository)

Install via Vanilla Catalina method using this guide.

Everything works as expected except OpenCore.

Sidenote: linux not detected on OpenCore but I couldn't find if OpenCore doesn't support linux or if it is a misconfiguration.

I also have a couple of questions about OpenCore. Can I just replace the boox64.efi and OpenCore.efi file in my efi folder to update opencore and call it a day like one does in Clover or does each bootloader update need a reconfiguration? Also does each os update require a reconfiguration?

I have been trying to get Catalina installed on this PC for the past 3 days and am really struggling. I’ve tried to follow guides that seem as closely related to the hardware I have as I can find, but I always end up with a slew of error codes. If anyone could offer me some help or resources to help speed up this process I would GREATLY appreciate it. Thanks so much guys! (I’m trying to run this as a dual boot machine, I’m running Windows 10 on a M.2 and want to run Mac OS on my SSD)

Hi,

I've been using Handbrake so far and it works relatively well. However, when transcoding, it only uses the GPU (RX580 in this case) for the encoding portion only but the decoding, filtering and all the workflow before encoding is done by CPU.

Anyone knows of a transcoding app that does use GPU to decode and encode? For example, converting h264 to h265 videos. I do have support for videotoolbox and I have set my IGPU to headless. I did need to use iMacPro1,1 SMBios to get thing properly working though.

Thanks.

I am currently running macOS Catalina on OpenCore on my HP Pavillion X360 11-u112tu with the ALC 288 and layout-id 13. I've tried the two other layout-ids, and only the microphone works and the outputs show up, but there is no sound through the speakers or headphone jack. The sound output was previously working fine, but suddenly has stopped working and along with that, kernel_task CPU usage has jumped from >5% to around 80% with AppleALC enabled. I have tried many different things from using SSDTTime to disable native HPET as well as the AppleALC delay without any solution. The HDMI Audio still works fine though, and the iGPU is the HD 620 is using device-id 1659. According to some sites that I've found, it could be an ACPI issue, but disabling native HPET has supposedly been the fix for that. Currently, the only clue that I've found is that when looking up HDEF in IORegistryExplorer, the first line says "acpi-device" = "IOACPIPlatformDevice is not serializable". I've been scouring google for hours and I haven't found anything quite similar so any help would be appreciated.

This is my 2nd hackintosh after a 4 year break. So I got back in the game and built a hack after getting back into this sub and reading for several weeks and picking a parts list. It ended up being somewhat close to this system: https://github.com/SchmockLord/Hackintosh-Intel-i9-10900k-Gigabyte-Z490-Vision-D but there are obviously some differences.

My components:

CPU: Intel Core i5-10600k (not overclocked)
Mobo: GIGABYTE Z490 Vision D (v5 BIOS firmware)
GPU: XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS XXX Edition 1386MHz OC+, 8GB
Ram: TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z DDR4 32GB
Internal SSD: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB
Wireless Network Card: YOUBO PC Hackintosh WiFi Card BCM94360CD 802.11a/g/n/ac 1750Mbps BT4.0 PCIe

Setup as an iMac20,2, though I initially did the setup as iMacPro1,1 (and Catalina 10.5.6 and OC 0.6.0). I made the switch to iMac20,2 after upgrading to Catalina 10.5.7 and OC 0.6.1, just to see if the random crashes/freezing would improve, but they have not.

As part of the switch to the iMac20,2 config, I enabled the iGPU, but I haven’t yet tested whether it outputs video (it is recognized by Activity Monitor, but I haven’t seen it show any activity yet).

The scenario is this — I will work for a handful of hours, doing work in FCP X or in my DAW or just general office stuff. Sometimes I will be pushing FCP X hard doing rendering for a 15 minutes at a time, exporting a video then running a Handbrake encode that takes a half hour. It goes OK, then I’m checking email or uploading the file to dropbox or some other seemingly innocuous task and everything freezes. No kernel panic notice on screen, but everything freezes and the fans spin up to full until I hit the reset switch and restart. Sometimes the restart will give me another handful of hours of work, but occasionally (and today) it will essentially freeze up right after restart or very shortly after.

Upon restarting after a freeze, I’ll get the Apple error report window, which I’ll usually look at. Here’s the contents of a recent error message: https://pastebin.com/G90mXSEZ

Here’s a screenshot of my current EFI tree: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fy78avwz26tk0pw/Screen%20Shot%202020-09-28%20at%2010.48.05%20PM.png?dl=0

I can provide my config.plist if that would be helpful.

When the machine works, it is great. Everything works (all Apple services, etc). Tons of power, perfect for my needs. But the random crashes mean I have a difficult time relying on it for absolute mission-critical calls, etc. I do have a bootable clone of the OS drive in place, and Time Machine backups.

I’d love to figure out if this is a hardware or software issue of some sort. On the hardware side, I’ve heard of issues with XFX GPU’s in hackintoshes, so I’m naturally a little suspicious of that. The Wifi/bluetooth card has me a little suspicious as well, but for no good reason! I only have the wifi card so that airdrop and all the other iServices work as they are supposed to.

Let me know if there is any further info I can provide to help track down this issue. Thanks so much!

So I've been struggling with wake issues on my Hackintosh (two Hackintosh's actually) that had everything working except for wake issues. It sleeps just fine but waking from a standby or hibernate state would lead to a blank screen. It looks like things start up ok but for some reason the screen doesn't wake.

Turns out that if you have a 4K monitor with Radeon Freesync turned on, the monitor fails to reinitialize after sleep (standby or hibernate). After much debugging, this was my last idea and it worked! Disabling Freesync on the monitor solved the wake issue.

I had this same issue on an Asus H470-itx as well as a Gigabyte Vision D. Given it was happening on both mobos I felt it was either my monitor or my dGPU.

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Anyways, I thought I'd share in case others were facing similar issues.

My monitor is an LG 32inch Thunderbolt 4K IPS HDR monitor with Freesync

Obligatory "First Time Build" Disclaimer! Primarily an Audio Production machine, with maybe some light gaming eventually but primarily a work machine.

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CPU: Intel i9-9900KF 3.6GHz 8-Core
Mobo: Gigabyte Z390 Designaire for TB3 Connectivity

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 570

Ram: Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2x16) DDR4-2666

Internal SSD: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB M.2 SSD

Case: DIYPC Ranger-R8 ATX Mid Tower

Wireless Network Card: Fenvi FV-T919 PCIex1

OS: Mojave, using a VM For a few select low CPU intensive programs. Maybe a dual boot later on for gaming.

Debating just using the iGPU from the i9 for now, or going for rx570 right away as I'm hoping to get into an oculus rift system before too long.

I'll primarily be using Pro Tools and Logic, with UAD Thunderbolt devices as my interface.

I've been reading up on using OC as my bootloader but I'd love any feedback on the parts I have selected. From what I've read up on everything should be compatible and give me the i/o and power I need for recording/mixing.
Thanks in advance, this sub has been huge for getting me to a place where I'm ready to