HP Z420 still strong daily driver with macOS 15! (OpenCore 1.0.1)

HP Z420 still strong daily driver with macOS 15! (OpenCore 1.0.1)

Hi people!

With my 5 years old journey with hackintoshes already, started with laptops, stayed with old HEDT as a backup for my great M1 Mac, currently was able to push my HP Z420 to its limits and run macOS 15 for a few days already as semi-daily driver :D

System configuration:

CPU: Hexacore Intel Xeon E5-1650 (Sandy Bridge)

GPU: ASUS GeForce GT 640 2GB (Kepler, vBIOS mod for full UEFI support)

RAM: 48GB DDR3 1333MHz (6x8GB Micron 36KSF1G72PZ-1G4M1)

Motherboard: HP Z420 OEM motherboard

Audio Codec: Realtek ALC262

Ethernet Card: Intel 82579LM PCIe Gigabit Ethernet

Wifi/BT Card: None.

Storage:

  • ADATA SU650 (SSD for macOS 15 and Windows 11),

  • GoodRAM CX400 and Micron 1100 (SSDs for data),

  • Western Digital Caviar Blue (HDD for data).

BIOS revision: v3.96

What's working?

  • Ethernet,

  • Audio,

  • USB (except internal USB3 ports),

  • iServices (iMessage, FaceTime, AppStore, iCloud, etc.),

  • Partial Power Management (using ssdtPRGen.sh, as AICPUPM kexts doesn't work for me, no turbo boost, just base clock of 3.2GHz).

What doesn't work?

  • Internal USB3 ports (using PCIe ones, but sadly are only detected on OS level, not in BIOS),

  • Sleep (Clicking sounds on wake-up attempt),

  • Fan Monitoring (needs to be manually mapped in config.plist?),

  • AirPlay and AirDrop (although there was a point in time when AirDrop speakers worked fine but it's a fading memory now sadly),

  • Any Apple Silicon features obviously.

https://preview.redd.it/e9ow161wvqpd1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=bdf7ab72b63e8a68b13b629785be6c6facc5ebcc

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