Installing High Sierra has been pure hell for those using Nvidia graphics cards. Black screen on boot or constant reboot loop. This guide will fix it. The black screen problem is especially an issue on build (17A405) and is caused by the drivers not installing correctly because of the SIP setting and the instant reboot […]
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When the warning “macOS could not be installed on your computer” or “The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged” is thrown during a macOS High Sierra install on a hackintosh it’s usually caused by one of two things. I first noticed this problem when installing the High Sierra 10.13 Supplement Update (17A405) and only […]
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Third party NVME drives are natively supported in High Sierra, however there are still those having trouble getting their’s working and so this was written. I’m personally using the popular Samsung 960 EVO as my NVME drive of choice as I knew it would work well as part of a hackintosh when I picked it […]
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So I got my first Coffee Lake & Z370 combo yesterday and of course the first thing I did was install macOS on it to mess around and figure out how to get full iGPU acceleration working. For reference I’m using a GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 (an amazing motherboard) and an i3-8350k as I […]
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The Coffee Lake processors are out of stock everywhere however you can still get your hands on one if you’re willing to pay above retail. When Coffee Lake first came out I didn’t bother trying to get an i7-8700k because I knew they would be unavailable for months because of the low inventory levels will […]
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The macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 update brings security and stability improvements as well as a fix to Spotlight not accepting keyboard input, new Emoji’s, Bluethooth Apple Pay fix and finally reliability improvement to Microsoft Exchange message sync in Mail. 10.13.1 Update High Sierra 10.13.1 has been released along with it updated Nvidia Web Drivers. It’s […]
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Coffee Lake is here and I’ve successfully installed macOS High Sierra featuring the i7-8700k and Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7. The i7-8700k was out of stock everywhere during it’s release month and despite that I still managed to get my hands on one following the steps I detailed here. I haven’t had much free time […]
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This is how to generate a Coffee Lake SSDT or any SSDT using the beta version of ssdtPRGen. Dealing with ssdt-beta Download ssdtPRGen.sh-coffee_lake.zip Now we need to: Unzip ssdtPRGen.sh-coffee_lake.zip Rename the the unzipped folder ssdtPRGen.sh-coffee_lake to ssdtPRGen Move the renamed folder to ~/Library/ This can be done in Terminal with these lines: unzip -qu ~/Downloads/ssdtPRGen.sh-coffee_lake.zip -d ~/Library/ mv ~/Library/ssdtPRGen.sh-coffee_lake […]
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There’s a number of methods that can be used to get hackintosh HDMI audio over integrated graphics working. I’ve been asked a couple times how to get it working and this is the method I use: Method 1 – Hackintosh HDMI To me this is the simplest method to get HDMI audio working on a […]
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I’ve been using Coffee Lake as a hackintosh for awhile now and although if you been looking to build one early one you probably know information has been scarce so here’s what I think of it as well as the rundown of what you need to know, which I will be adding more too as […]
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This is a basic guide that can be used to get a Ryzen desktop PC running macOS High Sierra 10.13.x. Installing macOS on an AMD build has more steps involved and harder to get working for beginners so I tried to simplify that process as much as possible and make it as easy to understand with […]
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The macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 update brings stability, compatibility and security to your “Mac”. This update is light on features and only has improvements to compatibility with usb audio devices, voiceOver navigation for PDF’s in Preivew, Braille in it’s release notes. The update also probably brings a number of undocumented fixes, improvements and changes to macOS. […]
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Coffee Lake UHD 630 iGPU has native support baked in High Sierra, but what about getting graphic acceleration with Coffee Lake on Sierra 10.12.6? For those of you who are still using Sierra for whatever reason you can make use of the UHD 630 iGPU on your Coffee Lake Hackintosh. All you have to do […]
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How to get the Coffee Lake i3’s graphic acceleration to work in High Sierra? As of High Sierra 10.13.2 the Coffee Lake i3’s are still not natively supported, but there exists a workaround until then to make acceleration work. I’m posting this just as head’s up for people looking to build the cheapest Coffee Lake […]
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In High Sierra 10.13.2 a bug was introduced that caused sleep to no longer function on AMD Polaris graphic cards. This guide will fix broken sleep for AMD RX 560/570/580 graphic cards in macOS for hackintosh users. The only card isn’t affected is the is the Sapphire RX 580 Pulse 8GB, which is fully supported since […]
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I’ve been testing various motherboards since Coffee Lake released including the ASRock Z370 Extreme4 & an ASRock Z370 Pro4 to see which ones I like the best. I’m writing this early as a couple of you have been having trouble getting macOS High Sierra Installed on your ASRock Z370 motherboards. Coffee Lake i3 iGPU Working […]
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Here’s how to fix the video rendering issues and performance problems on Intel based Hackintoshes using AMD RX Polaris, Nvidia graphic cards or an iGPU in Final Cut Pro X or any other video encoding/decoding/render processes. A lot of people seem to have crashing issues with High Sierra and FCPX 10.X on their new Hackintoshes. […]
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