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
For this test build I paired my ASRock motherboards with the i3-8350k. I got the i3 iGPU up and running without needing a dedicated graphics card. The Coffee Lake i5/i7 work OOB in macOS High Sierra, however the i3 requires spoofing a Kaby Lake CPU to get the iGPU accelerated properly. Surprisingly, sleep works fine and reliably despite being spoofed as a Kaby lake iGPU. For this test build I slapped on a Dark Rock Pro 3 as a temporary cooler which was overkill for the i3-8350k. Temps only peaked at around 50C.
Parts
Here’s the final parts I used for this test build:
| Part | Name | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Total | $689.36 | |
| CPU | Intel Core i3-8350K Quad-Core Processor | $179.99 |
| Motherboard | ASRock Z370 Extreme4 ATX | $144.99 |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory | $189.99 |
| Storage | SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 250GB | $124.40 |
| Power Supply | EVGA 600 BQ, 80+ BRONZE 600W | $49.99 |
Why Two Motherboards?
I was originally just planning to get the ASRock Z370 PRO. However, after binge watch videos and listening to music with it I noticed the max volume that could be set was a tad lower and not as crisp sounding as the ALC1220 audio chipset I was using prior. The ASROCK Z370 Extreme4 just happened to be on sale at the time for a little more than what I paid for the Pro4 and had the better ALC1220 audio chipset. Having both side the Extreme4 looks a lot better and it’s 12 phase power design is more useful if I want to overclock the i3-8350k. If you are debating whether to get the Z370 Pro4 or something more expensive it comes down to looks and whether you want the best onboard audio quality available and if you want a better overclock.
ASRock Coffee Lake Hackintosh Tips
- Darkwake should be changed to darkwake=0 or darkwake=8 on ASRock motherboards in config.plist. If darkwake is left as default, wake from sleep may take much longer than it should or show only a black screen upon wake. Also when left as default the hack may restart instead of properly sleep/waking if darkwake isn’t set to 0 or 8. This is already done in the downloable EFI below.
- Update ASRock BIOS to P1.50 so that USB flash drives stay connected through sleep. Earlier BIOS version such as P1.00 (which is what mine came with) will cause flash drives to eject on sleep and throw a eject warning in macOS when waked. Also on earlier BIOS versions plugging flash drives into the upper two or leftmost USB Ports on the rear IO may cause input devices to stop working so I reallly recommend updating your BIOS.
- I used audio layout id 7 for both the ASRock Extreme4’s ALC1220 and the ASRock Pro4’s ALC892 chipset.
ASRock Z370 Hackintosh Guide Overview
This guide should work for pretty much allASRock H270/Z370 motherboards available if you’re wondering. The general guide can also be used for these motherboards, but the EFI folder I preconfigured has everything needed for the Coffee Lake iGPU on ASROCK. I’ve also tested this with a GTX 1050 Ti and RX 560 both of which I had no trouble installing and you can get working once you get to the post-install section.
Step 1 – Creating the macOS Installer
The first step to making a hackintosh is transferring the macOS install files to a USB flash drive. To do that follow the guide: How to make a macOS flash drive installer
Step 2 – Configure EFI Boot Partition
This guide uses a preconfigured EFI the steps are very simple. To add in the preconfigured EFI we must first mount the EFI partition:
- Download Clover Configurator
- Open Clover Configurator
- Select Mount EFI under TOOLS
- Click Mount Partition for Install macOS….
- Click Open Partition (This is your EFI Folder)
- Delete the existing EFI folder if it’s in the partition
- Download Hackintosher’s ASRock_Z370_iGPU_EFI.zip
- Unzip ASRock_Z370_iGPU_EFI.zip
- Copy & Paste the unzipped EFI folder to mounted partition or /Volumes/EFI
- Navigate to /Volumes/EFI/EFI/Clover/
- Right-Click Open config.plist with Clover Configurator
- Select Boot section on left-column of Clover Configurator
- Change darkwake to darkwake=8
- Select Devices section on left-column of Clover Configurator
- Change Audio Inject from 11 to 7
Extra steps i3-8100/i3-8350k:
Using an i3-8100/i3-8350k iGPU? You will need to make some changes to the EFI folder for compatibility. Follow the i3 iGPU Guide then return here after you’ve made the changes:
Step 3 – ASRock Z370 Hackintosh BIOS PreInstall Settings
Before installing macOS on your ASRock motherboard a few BIOS settings should be changed. Before doing that I recommend you change your BIOS version to P1.50 to get avoid the USB issues I mentioned above.
- Restart & Enter BIOS by pressing DEL on bootup
- Press F6 after entering BIOS to swap to the advanced settings
Verify the following settings:
- OC Tweaker \ DRAM Configuration → Load XMP Setting : XMP 2.0 Profile 1
- Advanced \ CPU Configuration → Intel Virtualization Technology : Enabled
- Advanced \ Chipset Configuration → Vt-d : Disabled
- Advanced \ Chipset Configuration → IOAPIC 24-119 Entries: Enabled
- Advanced \ Storage Configuration → Sata Mode Selection: AHCI
- Advanced \ Super IO Configuration → Serial Port: Disabled
- Advanced \ USB Configuration → Legacy USB Support : Enabled
- Advanced \ USB Configuration → PS/2 Simulator : Disabled
- Advanced \ USB Configuration → XHCI Hand-off : Enabled
- Security \ Secure Boot → Secure Boot: Disabled
- Boot → Fast Boot: Disabled
- Boot → Boot From Onboard LAN: Disabled
If using iGPU:
- Advanced \ Chipset Configuration → Primary Graphics Adapter : Onboard
- Advanced \ Chipset Configuration → Share Memory : 128MB
- Advanced \ Chipset Configuration → IGPU Multi-Monitor : Enabled
If using dGPU:
- Advanced \ Chipset Configuration → Primary Graphics Adapter : PCI Express
- Advanced \ Chipset Configuration → IGPU Multi-Monitor : Disabled
During the install we will need to boot off the UEFI: partition of the flash drive multiple times. You can either set it to Boot Option #1 in BIOS under the boot section or press F11 everytime the computer reboots to boot off the UEFI: partition of the flash drive, until the EFI is transfered to the SSD/HDD macOS is being installed on.
Step 4 – ASROCK Z370 High Sierra Install
Now we are ready to install macOS High Sierra. Then after we are finished we need to copy the EFI folder from the flash drive’s EFI partition to the boot drive’s EFI partition. If you need to walked through the install follow: High Sierra Clover Install Walkthrough
Step 5 – ASROCK Z370 Pro4 Hackintosh Post-Install
Follow the post-install section of the general guide for getting graphic cards, sleep, HDMI audio working. If you are using an Nvidia graphics card you will need EmuVariableUefi-64.efi to get acceleration and remove the graphical glitches. Also ig-platform-id needs changing to to 0x59120003, which you’ll find steps for below.
Guide to fresh installing macOS High Sierra on a Hackintosh (10.13 Update)
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94 Comments on "ASROCK Z370 Extreme4 / Pro4 Hackintosh High Sierra Guide"
Thanks for posting this, Hackintosher!
I’m just about finished configuring an Extreme4 Z270 machine, so this would’ve been even more appreciated a couple weeks ago, haha!
Why did you decide to go with the SmallTreeIntel82576.kext rather than the IntelMausiEthernet.kext? I seem to have ethernet working with the latter.
I included SmallTreeIntel82576.kext just in case someone was following this guide with an Intel i211AT ethernet chipset as ASRock includes it on some of their motherboards and IntelMausiEthernet.kext doesn’t support it.
Thanks for this. I’m new to hackintoshing. Why do you enable “legacy usb”? Why is that needed on a brand new coffee lake setup with usb 3 and usb-c?
Thank you. I just purchased everything to build a mini-ITX hackinstosh with ASRock Z370M-ITX/ac, and i3-8100. Should I use this EFI?
Yes, absolutely.
Great! Thanks for the reply. I also noticed ASRock has rolled out BIOS update 1.60, ok to update to 1.60 or stay with 1.50??
I believe you can roll back BIOS versions so you can try it if you’d like to.
Hi, I have AsRock Extreme4 and i3 8100 with 2x8GB RAM and tried your EFI files but I can’t get this config working. Mobo BIOS is 1.30 (can’t find 1.50 or 1.60 at AsRock site). All BIOS settings are the same as you provide.
MacOS High Sierra installer version – 13.1.05, Clover – v2.4k_r4359
Using your EFI files I see Apple logo and after passing 2/3 of loading progres bar, when macOS GUI should appears, there is black screen with looped info:
„iMac.local com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.WindowServer) : Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds”
I’ve tried connecting FullHD monitor via DVI-D and in later tries replace it with 4K monitor via HDMI with the same effect.
Config is fully working with Win10.
Looking for any help. Thanks in advance.
If you are just copying the files out of the folder and using your own Clover folder that’s probably the problem. I noticed with certain versions of Clover Bootloader the installer wont complete. Try just copy pasting my EFI folder into your EFI partition.
Thank you for your help and all your efforts!
I’ve prepaired clean USB installer with Unibeast 8.1.0, newer MacOS High Sierra installer version – 13.2.07 and take out my NVidia for installation time and then installer GUI started working. My macOS is now running 🙂
Nice bonus is that macOS sees my higher RAM speed (XMP).
Have a nice day!
Hi there,
I’m pretty new to all this and have been researching for the past few months. I’m wanting to build a powerful, stable, quiet machine for creating music (logic pro x) and editing video (premiere pro). I was wondering, is there any reason i shouldn’t get an ASROCK z370 mobo, and put a i7-8700k in it? I’m trying to keep costs down and it doesn’t seem clear to me why i should buy the considerably more expensive Gigabyte mobo from your other Coffee Lake build?
I guess I wont even really be using onboard sound, although its nice to have the option. I’ll be using a focusrite 18i20 v2 (anyone had experience using one of these with a hackintosh?).
Appreciate you taking the time to make all these guides and read/answer comments!
You can get any z370 motherboard for your hackintosh.
focusrite works greatly on mac or on a hackintosh, without problem
Hello, can you confirm that quicksync works with the rx560;;;
Hi, Thank you for the info provided and the guide. Much appreciated.
I am picking parts and would like to build 8700k system for FCPX editing work. Can you please confirm/suggest if the Asrock Fatal1ty z370 Gaming ITX would work as well, and that I can use the info and the files you provided in your build?
Also, my other question is if Quicksync works with either RX580 or 560, as I would love to have this option of fast exporting in FCPX. Thank you for your answer.
I’m using the i5 8400 instead of the i3, is your zip file config.plist already spoofed?
i think i don’t need the spoofed one.
You don’t absolutely need it, but a lot of people are using it for their i5 and i7s since clover will default to using a sky lake FakeID without setting IntelGFX
Actually scratch that. Remove IntelGFX from Fake ID in config.plist under Devices left column and replace it with if you want 0x59128086 for i5, i7. Otherwise you can keep it blank and remove the PCIID Kexts
alright got it, thanks for the reply. Will try it soon and let you guys here know if it worked.
I am up and running on ASRock Z370m ITX/AC, i3-8100, Samsung 950 NVME 250GB formatted Mac OS extended journaled . The Install was very smooth, thank you for the detailed instructions. I am confused, in the EFI provided to download in this guide “shikigva=4”, you say for Coffee Lake i3 chips to use “shikigva=1” I only have the iGPU UHD 630.
A few things I have noticed.
1. I seem to have some issues with sleep/wake, and when the hackintosh sleeps I seem to lose my bluetooth keyboard and mouse.. forcing me to reboot.
2. On the hackintosh, when using the clover configurator app it starts to glitch out and freezes the whole system, making it difficult to alter the EFI .plist. Is there a better way to edit the EFI on the hackintosh?
3. Should I disable any other KEXTs from your EFI folder that I do not need that might be causing my issues?
Thanks,
Jay
I reinstalled everything and double checked all BIOS settings. Things seem to be running more smoothly, but Chrome browser will eventually freeze up the system. Also sleep kills audio until I restart. Can anyone help with these issues?
I just followed the guide and had no problems installing on an Asrock Fatal1ty z370 Gaming ITX with a 8700k CPU. I even managed to get my EVGA 1080 GPU going too! Only thing is now my system is randomly rebooting a minute or two after logging in. Have you heard of this issue before, and is there anything I can check/try?
The config.plist is set up for an i3. Open config.plist and navigate Devices > FakeID and remove line about IntelGFX. Navigate to Graphics on left column and change ig-platform-id to 0x59120003
Thank you Hackintosher, for the tremendous guide — my system’s running like a charm!
Thanks for your guide and effort, and I’m going to build a Hackintosh with Z370 Extreme4 . When I check the bios update on ASRock, it seems that the P1.50 is for Pro4 not Extreme4. Can I download the P1.50 for my Extreme4?
thank you!
Hi thanks a bunch for ur great tutorial ! I managed to install all and running following ur tutorial and EFI.zip file. But little thing that bothers me is that when i click “About this Mac” its shows that my Processor is: 3,7 GHz Unknown. Where and what should I change in order to show properly i7 etc. ? Is in it Coffee Lake i7 8700K natively recognized ?
My specs are:
-OS: High Sierra
– MOB: ASRock z 370 Extreme 4
– CPU: i7-8700K
– GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX580 8GB Pulse
– RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengence 3000
– SSD Samsung Evo 850 250GB
You can google how to change it by editing a file, but it will only be purely cosmetic, there isn’t any way to do it natively until probably Apple releases their Coffee Lake lineup.
Hi, I’ve tried this with a 8700k, but the same mobo. Currently using the integrated graphics card, but will have my Palit 1050 arriving on monday. Unfortunately I was getting a black screen half way through loading the installer for High Sierra. I tried using Unibeast and managed to get OSX to install, but had a black screen problem after installing Multibeast. I didn’t really want to go the Unibeast/Multibeast route if possible. Do you have any suggestions? I’d prefer to follow your instructions/method if possible. Thanks!
Hi again, sorry I tried changing the FakeID of the IntelGFX as talked about elsewhere in the comments (to 0x59120003 in clover), as I’m using an i7. OSX is now installing (wrong resolution, but we’re no longer getting a black screen). I’ll doubtless be back with another problem later! Apologies, this is my first hackintosh. Thanks for your work.
Hi @Hackintosher I’ve just bought a Asrock Z270 extrem4, i7700k, 1050 ti. Wondering whether to send it back because of coffee lake. My priority is reliability and my usage is final cut pro, bitwig and coding. I couldn’t buy an AMD card because of the Etherium miners. I’m also planning on installing high sierra. I see that most of the people selling prebuilt boxes on ebay are using a similar hw config but sierra. What do you think?
Hi Giles & Hackintosher,
I’ve been trying for today to get my system to boot with the Palit 1050ti 4gb (fanless). I tried everything in your guide to getting Nvidia web drivers working, updated to latest HS and latest web drivers. Kept getting this error-
gIOScreenLockState 3 …
I could see this as i set my boot to verbose in clover. I found some threads about this around the internet, lots of people seem to be using the 1050ti and are having this issue. I eventually managed to boot by ticking “inject intel” in clover. I’m not entirely sure what this does, and I don’t feel like its a very clean fix. Also, now I’m booted, the hardware acceleration seems to be working, but its showing 256mb VRAM instead of 4GB in “About My Mac”. Any suggestions?
I’ll keep trying to debug this, but at least I’ve got it booted now and ran some benchmarks which seem decent. I’ll let you know how i get on, but would really appreciate if you have any input Hackintosher? Thanks!
This looks like it might be a useful thread. https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/help-high-sierra-and-nvidia-webdriver-error-gioscreenlockstate-3.233198/
My build is on hold while I wait for some crucial lpx ram. Decided to just go straight in at 32gb.
Hi Giles,
Thanks for the link. I scoured the internet for that error too and tried everything but couldn’t fix it. However, as a last ditch effort i simply re-formatted and used my original thumb drive to start from scratch using Hackintoshers method. Everything worked this time (i did the whole thing using dedicated GPU rather than starting with the integrated). I have no idea what i did differently, but everything seems to work perfectly! FYI my build is the z370 Pro4, 8700k CPU, 16gb ram (atm), samsung 960 m.2. Might be some encouragement for you to go ahead with your build.
Hmm I am very tempted. Of course the ram I just bought isn’t on their approved list! But it is just the 16GB version that Hackintosher used. Could you try using chrome and final cut pro and sleep to see if it crashes?
Stuff it I’ve pulled the trigger on the coffee lake kit. I’m sure enough people are using this stuff to iron out the kinks.
Nice. I’ll put my machine through the paces of final cut. I ran cinebench and geekbench and got great results. Plus im using a fanless GPU (my machine is for audio, logic x specifically). My focusrite 18i20v2 worked out of the box too. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Really bad performance from my wifi card i bought though. I am quite far from my router, but my imac does much better than the hack for this. Im using a TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 N900
I’m a sysadmin by trade and I would never use wireless at home for a workstation. It’s a shared medium so you’re always going to get unpredictable performance. Powerline plugs work so well so you won’t have trailing cables everywhere. I had a look at that gpu actually, gets well reviewed but I suspect that final cut will just not perform well with nvidia so I will have to fight it out with the crypto peeps for an overpriced 580 or vega.
Only remaining problem is that my Focusrite 18i20v2 will cut out/crackle very occasionally for a few milleseconds. Not good for an audio machine! I’m trying to debug this and will let you know how it goes. My money is on some kind of USB related problem… I wonder if Hackintosher has any ideas?
@Hackintosher,
Over in your Coffee Lake guide (https://hackintosher.com/guides/coffee-lake-hackintosh-overview/), under the section “Coffee Lake UHD 630 Graphics”, you write “If upgrading from a Kaby Lake CPU you can also remove -disablegfxfirmware under Boot > Args in config.plist if you have it as it’s not necessary on Coffee Lake.”
However, in this guide (ASROCK Z370 Extreme4 / Pro4 Hackintosh High Sierra Guide), the Clover config you provide has “disablegfxfirmware” enabled/checked. Why the contradiction? Did you discover some issue since the former guide was written?
If you are using a Kaby Lake IntelGFX FakeID -disablegfxfirmware is necessary. I’ll correct that thank you.
@Hackintosher
Thanks for this tutorial. I have an ASROCK z370 Pro4 and an Intel i5-8400. Working off your config and another one from tonymacx86, I was able to get the hackintosh to boot. Most everything seems to be working but the mouse stops working after a short time. I have to unplug it and plug it in again to get it working. But that only lasts for about 30-60 seconds before the mouse dies again. Strangely, the keyboard works fine.
Any thoughts on what could be causing this and how to fix it?
Nevermind. Seems like the problem is with my mouse and macOS X in general. Time to call Logitech.
Also got truble with mouse A4Tech. I change mouse to Microsoft – work perfectly.
I’m considering going with the Asrock Z370 TAICHI – It’s just a level above Extreme4 and looks like it should also be compatible. Has anyone tried out the Taichi board?
hmm my build was all fine until post installation I installed the nvidia 1050 card, selected inject nvidia and installed the web drivers, now it boots up with a vga like screen until the loading bar is about 2/3’s done and just hangs. I did update macos to the latest supplemental release and disabled the onboard card.
I’ve looked over the AMD graphics installation notes again and it looks like the way to go for me at least.
I’ll also be using an AMD card, going for the AMD Radeon RX 560 – not building a gaming machine, purely for work / programming / design etc. Still trying to decide which board to go for and which one has had the best overall success rate with Hackintosh.
will this work with the z370 taichi? any tweaks need be made to the EFI?
Nice guide! I’ve got a Hackintosh working with the Asrock z370 Extreme4 mobo (8700k) too but am still getting all my external drives ejecting after waking up from sleep. Even after updating to latest BIOS (which seems to be 1.3 from the updates on the Asrock site so where are you getting these newer BIOS updates?). Any idea on how to fix appreciated!
Hi Hackintosher,
Thank you for posting such detail guide.
I followed all steps to built my first hackintosh. It works great most time, but it randomly restarts without app frozen or any sign. Just like someone pressed the reset button.
I changed ig-platform-id to 0x59120003.
Do you have any other suggestion about preventing randomly restart?
CPU Intel Core i3-8350K
Motherboard ASRock Z370 Extreme4
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2666
Storage SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 250GB
Graphic Card GIGABYTE GV-N107TGAMING-8GD
OS 10.13.2
Thank you for helping.
Does it happen when you try to wake it up or when using it? I remember that happening once before on a different ASRock motherboard.
No, it happens while I’m working on something, such as video editing, opening finder, switching from one application to the other. It just happens randomly. Sleeping and waking work perfectly.
goodafternoon, I have recently bought a dw1560 card from ebay…. I see the asrock z370 extreme4 has a m2 wifi key E slot with antenna holes in the i/o shield….
Can I install my dw1560 card in this slot and do I have to connect some kind of wires or so …..
tnx in advance for any help….
Hi again, it could be being caused by auto power off try opening Terminal and pasting
sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0
goodafternoon, I have recently bought a dw1560 card from ebay…. I see the asrock z370 extreme4 has a m2 wifi key E slot with antenna holes in the i/o shield….
Can I install my dw1560 card in this slot and do I have to connect some kind of wires or so …..
tnx in advance for any help….
I have a problem, when there is a download from the Internet, we put the computer into sleep mode, the computer is rebooted
My specs are:
-OS: High Sierra
– MOB: ASRock z 370 Extreme 4
– CPU: i7-8700K
– GPU: Palit SJS GTX1060 6GB
– RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengence 3000
– SSD Samsung Pro 960 512GB
Finally I’ve made my hackintosh running very well with your EFI Folder…Thanks for your work!…But I can not update to 10.13.3 – everytime I want to boot I get “MACH REBOOT” and nothing happens…do you have a guess?
Hi i have problem on 10.3.3, i have radomly freezing after encoding in fcpx, i go witch your tutorial. When i remove shiki an rad4200 system not have freezy but boot from sleep take 30s. I can do this faster 2 times shoot down monitor. Any ideas?
Hello Hackintosher! I built an Extreme4 Z370 Hackintosh (8700k, GTX 1080) a couple weeks before this guide went up so there were a couple helpful tips in here, especially darkwake=8.
I’m just now getting around to trying to fix iMessage and Airdrop but I’m not sure if I want to replace my current config.plist as everything else seems to be working fine. Which lines did you change to make iMessage work OOB? Same for Airdrop if you don’t mind.
Sounds like the Serial Number isn’t valid. You need to generate one for your self in config.plist by opening it with Clover Configurator, click SMBIOS and click generate new until you find one that shows up as valid on Apple’s site https://checkcoverage.apple.com/
Hello Guys,
I need some tips. I have a High SIerra bootable Stick with the EFI settings from hackintosher. The Stick works fine on a Z170 Board and a i5-6600k on it. So the stick works fine.
On my System:
ASROCK z370 Pro4 and an Intel i5-8600k (BIOS 1.70) the USB-stick wont boot correctly. It stops loading on the Apple Logo. I have setup all BIOS functions in the hackintosher guide.
(Sorry for my bad english skills)
Thanks for the guide. I did the Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac with 8700K 65w and igpu. Almost everything works, including thunderbolt graphics monitor. Still have to test more thundebolt devices. Except the power supply over usb, it was restricted to 500 mv so loading an ipad goes very slow. Any solution?
Have you been able to test more TB devices? About to build a machine with this same MoBo, but everyone seems to have TB3 issues
Not yet, i have a a thunderbolt monitor and it works. Looking for a hub now, but they wont come cheap. This mobo is straight TB3 no separate card connected to the mobo needed. So best changes here.
Thanks for posting this.
I used your guide almost to the letter and everything worked perfectly even iMessage.
My build
Extreme4 Z370
i8700k
Gigabyte Radeon RX580
The only issue I have is with sound via DP to the monitor. I have two dual monitors setup via DP. No sound over DP however I have working sound over headphones. Can you please offer some guidance.
Oh and one more thing I noticed sometimes my microphone voice is distorted and very heavy.
I have two Line In in settings under sound/Input and when i switch back & forth the distortion goes away. Very strange but I can live with it 🙂
Hi Hackintosher,
I’m looking for a compact size setup, these setup will be a nice platform for beginner’s first build? Thank you!
https://www.asrock.com/nettop/Intel/DeskMini%20GTXRX%20(Z370)/index.us.asp#Overview
https://www.asrock.com/nettop/Intel/DeskMini%20GTXRX/index.us.asp (B250/GTX1060)
WiFi/BT chip=Intel 3168NGW
Best Regards,
Pal
Hey Hackintosher,
thanks for this guide! Its perfect.
My Build is with an AsRock Taichi Z370 and an i7 8700
I just cant get my Ethernet and Wifi working with your EFI Folder.
Does anyone has the same issues? Would be glad for a hint 😉
Cheers
Thank you for this awesome guide, was very helpful in my first hackintosh high Sierra build:
◦ ASRock Extreme4
◦ i7-8700K
◦ 32GB RAM
◦ MSI DUKE GeForce GTX 1080
◦ Corsair RM850x
◦ Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
◦ SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5″ 500GB (for windows 10 only)
◦ ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner
◦ Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-02
◦ About this Mac: iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017)
Everything is working as in a real Mac and had no problems installing High Sierra 10.13.3 Supplemental Update.
The only miner issues that I have:
1. Can’t update clover to the latest version in clover configurator, I get “This package is incompatible with this version of Mac…..”
2. For some reason the dvd tray opens up when booting the system.
I was able to fix the dvd tray issue by connecting the drive to a different SATA port.
I have no Keyboard or Mouse input after following the suggestions. i7-8700k / ASRock z370 Exterem4.
I’ve replaced the EFI folder within the Clover boot with the ASRock_Z370_iGPU_EFI.zip contents.
I’m 10 hours in trying to get this to work with various “solutions” provided around the net, and it seems I can install 10.13.2, but as soon as I updated that to the most recent, I lost mouse and keyboard control. I reformatted and tried to install 10.13.4, same issue. I found a PS2 klist which got the keyboard working, but of course, that does me no good because I don’t have a COMMAND key on my keyboard which prevents me from completing the setup.
I have no USB support, with any solution I have found.
I am getting the same black screen about two thirds of the way through the installer loading. I am running a i7 8700k with a ASRock z370 K6 board. I’ve followed this guide to a T and still getting stuck there. The black screen hangs for a second and then the clover screen pops up as if nothing has happened. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank u Hackintosher！
I’m configuring an AsRock Z370 taichi machine, is the same setting? can i use this efi?
Cpu:i5 8600K
no graphics card，Thank u！
Thanks for this, Hackintosher!
And i want to know AsRock z370 taichi wifi+Bluetooth can work good？some body tell me Gigabyte z370 ud3h better than z370taichi，but i dont see z370 ud3h in tonymacx86. so i don’t know which i should choose。and i buy a Gigabyte GC-ALPINE RIDGE thunderbolt card for my sound interface，it can work？my English is not good，hope you can know what i say..
i have a problem after 10.13.4. internal graphics dose not working properly. I don’t know how to upload EFI.zip to this forum. Please help.
I’m in the same position. I can’t get 10.13.4 to work. For me nothing displays, my monitor goes to sleep on boot. Did you have any luck with sleep wake? I got it to work but on wake all usb drives are disconnected. 1.8 bios.
Thank you so much, got my system running great with your EFI and the NVIDIA guides.
Only thing now is USB hard drives won’t mount or show up at all, anyone have a fix for this?
-asrock z370 extreme4
– 8700k
– EVGA gtx 1080ti
Just looking for some confirmation on my thinking. I am about to do a build with the ASRock Z370M-ITX/ac WiFi and i5-8400 and iGPU.
I’m planning on using the EFI from this post but since I will be installing OSX 10.13.4 I assume I should go though and update all of the included kext files to the latest version. Is this sound thinking?
Yes that’s right you’ll also want to add the USB patch from the 10.13.4 Notes https://hackintosher.com/guides/hackintosh-high-sierra-10-13-4-update-guide/
Heads up for anyone working on this motherboard I’m going to be trying out the ssdt from this thread:-
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/eriks-5ghz-coffee-lake-build-i7-8700k-asrock-z370-extreme-4-gtx-960-64gb-ram.237046/
I’ve yet to get satisfactory sleep wake.
@hackintosher I’ve not been able to register for your forums, I used the register now form but didn’t get an email, when I try my creds I get user not found.
I checked the forums and it doesn’t show you as ever registering so that should explain why you’re having trouble logging in.
Let me know if the SSDT solves your problem so we can add one here. What happens when you try to sleep/wake and what graphics card are you using?
@hackintosher I managed to register on the forum when using safari. Possibly it’s a plugin I have in chrome that’s causing the problem.
The SSDT worked from that thread, in that I can now use usb devices without injection, also some of the usb ports now don’t disconnect drives, it might be that only the usb 3.1 one on the back suffers from this. However since entirely moving to erics config.plist I’ve now lost sleep wake. It sleeps but never fully powers off. My gfx card is a asus rog rx580. What I’m struggling with is finding log entries when things go wrong and you’re left with a blank screen. I’ve had some joy with /Library/logs/boot.log and system.log. I’ve also sometimes been able to connect up a remote console.. after my initial excitement of how easy this all was I’m accepting that this is going to require some time investing.
I note that another user on the thread has had problems with the intel graphics after their upgrade:-
“Please help. It was good in 10.13.3. But, after update to 10.13.4, internal graphics not work with Inject Intel.”
I haven’t started looking into that yet as I just want the basics stable.
@Giles Westwood
Can you share SSDT files with me? I have the Asrock extreme 4 as well but im encountering several issues preventing me from patching. It would be nice if you could write a detailed process of how or just share the file to me..Thanks@@!!
Hi, I am planning to use my pc as a hackintosh. I just wanted to know if my pc will be compatible with your guide, these are the parts from my pc:
-Intel i5-8600K
-Asrock z370 extreme4
-16GB Corsair Vengance lpx 3000
-Msi Gtx 1070
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks
Ali
I struggled for the longest time to get my audio devices to register. When I changed my onboard audio settings in BIOS from AUTO to ENABLED, it finally worked! Hope this tip helps someone.
Thanks for posting!
I’m new to hackintoshing.
I just wonder that i5-8400 is compatible with your EFI zip and Asrock Z370 Extreme 4.
Thanks for the guide, Hackintosher!
Everything is working perfectly here! But the USB3’s just do not work. I tried numerous guides and fixes but nothing seems to work. Did you use something specific?
This is gold!!!!
But I still have an issue with audio/sound, It not work.
Do you guys have any ideas?
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I built a hackintosh following every one of your steps and it worked perfectly. No flaws and great guides. I only had a problem with Clover at the beginning not showing the “boot from MacOS installer” but I found the solution quickly. Only problem I have with the machine is that it works perfectly except for USB3. If I want to use a USB3 device I need to use a USB2 extension cable. Can you help with a fix maybe?
Hi Beden,
What was your sollution for Clover not showing the “boot from MacOS Installer”? I’ve already installed High Sierra on my computer once before. I needed to fresh install and this second time around clover wont show the Installer. I’ve been at it for a longtime – would love to hear how you dealt with this problem. Thx
Not sure if anyone still refers to this guide but I was having the issue of Clover not showing “boot from MacOS Installer” as well. I fixed it by running
rm -f /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra/.IAPhysicalMediain the terminal with the USB install stick plugged in@Hackintosher, can it work on z170 extreme 4 pro?
Thanks for the instructions.
I was able to install Mojave (10.14) with provided EFI folder and latest Clover on Z370M Pro4 + 8600k with integrated graphics. After installation both DVI and HDMI output was flickering. HDMI had some pinkish color. I updated Mojave via software update to 10.14.1 and set smbios as Macmini8.1 and HDMI started working flawlessly. (No output on DVI though)
can you please share the EFI folder? I have the same MOBO, but no success so far….Thnaks
Hi, I have the same Mobo with i7 8700K, bios version is P3.10 but mouse doesn’t work during the installation. Any advice would be appreciated!