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 lately so I’m posting this build a little later than I would have liked.
Coffee Lake works out of the box in High Sierra 13.X requiring no special changes/hacks. Running Sierra 12.X is another story requiring a FAKECPUID spoof to Kaby Lake for Coffee Lake to be gotten up and running. The iGPU works with full graphical acceleration as does sleep/wake functionality on both the UHD 630 iGPU and a Nvidia/AMD dGPU. Sound, Ethernet, iMessage and HWMonitor to monitor temps, voltages, fanspeeds are all working fine on this Gigabyte build. The total cost for this built was about $1200 excluding the monitor, I was able to get the motherboard $40 off and the RAM I purchased when the prices were lower.
The Build
Intel i7-8700k Processor @ 5.0GHz
Performance wise, Coffee Lake performs surprisingly well on a hackintosh all 6 cores and 12 threads are working. I managed to overclock my CPU to 5 GHz simply using the Auto overclock feature on my Gigabyte motherboard. I probably could squeeze a little better of a score with a manual overclock, faster RAM timings and a potential delidding. The CPU crushes the performance of current Mac’s offered which is subject to change when Apple releases the iMac Pro.
See my Coffee Lake Hackintosh GeekBench Score
Cooling my i7-8700k @ 5GHz is the Dark Rock Pro 3, which I managed to get two of on sale last year. I still use them for i7 builds because of their combination of looks, quietness and performance for an air cooler.
GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 Motherboard
I think this is one of the best looking motherboards by Gigabyte so far with a much better color scheme then the Kaby Lake Z270X Gaming 7. I chose this board particularly for it’s looks and overclocking potential, which I was able to get my i7-8700k simply using the auto overclock feature. Luckily the Z370 Gaming 7 uses an Ethernet and Audio Chipset that are very compatible in macOS, unlike the Z270 variant which used a Creative 3D Audio Chipset which can be a little more tricky to get working for beginners. Audio and Ethernet have so far worked reliably without any breakage on the Z370 AORUS Gaming 7.
Also USB 3 speeds work on all the ports up to 5Gbps through my testing in macOS, however, I don’t have any devices to test the Gen2 port or 10Gbps so can’t verify if that can be gotten working or not at this time. USB-C port is functional as well. Although there is one problem with the USB 3 ports and it’s something I noticed back in Sierra 12.6 even with Gigabyte’s Z270 chipset as well as certain MSI motherboards. The problem is that if I have flash drives plugged in the rear IO USB3/3.1/USB-C ports, they will eject upon waking from sleep. This only affects USB 3 flash drives, USB 2 drives work fine in any port of the rear IO. The front USB headers don’t have this issue and this is where I plug in my flash drives as I rather not reach behind my computer to plug in a flash drive everytime so the issue doesn’t really bother me.
GIGABYTE AMD RX 560 4GB OC Graphics Card
I already had a AMD RX 560 laying around so I decided to go with the matching Gigabyte theme for this build. I was originally planning to get a GTX 1060, but quite a lot of Hackintoshers have been complaining about the GTX 1060 under performing or sleep not functioning properly. I do also have a mini GTX 1050 Ti which I also tested in this build that doesn’t suffer from this issue. Also Nvidia card’s are a little more tricky to get working in High Sierra you will need to enable SIP for the install when you reach that step.
Fractal design makes good cases and this case with it’s mesh front panel caught my eye. When I first slid it out of it’s cardboard boxing I was surprised at how small it was for a mid tower. At 17 inches tall w/ without the feet and 15.5 inches deep it can pass for a micro ATX sized case.
Cable management is tidy in this case. There’s plenty of nooks to stuff cables into and I didn’t even bother to use zip ties as a result.
A reliable and highly recommend NVME Drive and and the fact that it I knew it worked in High Sierra OOB and give me no problems.
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Corsair RAM continues to be a great choice for hackintoshing even with Coffee Lake as the LPX is pretty much on the compatibility list for every motherboard which is a good thing to avoid memory corruption kernel panics. Since switching to this brand from the Kingston ram I used in Sky Lake I haven’t had a single Kernel Panic related to memory issues.
If you don’t want to spend too much on a power supply, while also not getting something terrible then the EVGA BQ 600W is a good choice because of how quiet it is for a power supply that doesn’t’ have zero spin technology and the fact that it’s a power supply that doesn’t make that annoying clicking noise when turning on and off.
GIGABYTE Z370 Hackintosh Guide
Getting a Gigabyte Coffee Lake hackintosh like this one working is fairly straightforward. Even using a different Coffee Lake CPU or Gigabyte motherboard should be fine as their all pretty much the same.
Above is my Hackintosh Clover EFI that you will want to download and use for your Hackintosh’s EFI Boot Partition.
BIOS Settings
These the are the BIOS settings you will need to change after creating the macOS installer and before first boot:
- Save & Exit → Load Optimized Defaults
- M.I.T. → Advanced Memory Settings Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P.) : Profile1
- BIOS → Fast Boot : Disabled
- BIOS → LAN PXE Boot Option ROM : Disabled
- BIOS → Storage Boot Option Control : UEFI
- Peripherals → Trusted Computing → Security Device Support : Disable
- Peripherals → Network Stack Configuration → Network Stack : Disabled
- Peripherals → USB Configuration → Legacy USB Support : Auto
- Peripherals → USB Configuration → XHCI Hand-off : Enabled
- Chipset → Vt-d : Disabled
- Chipset → Wake on LAN Enable : Disabled
- Chipset → IOAPIC 24-119 Entries : Enabled
Based on the GPU you’re using change the following settings:
Dedicated graphics card:
- Peripherals → Initial Display Output : PCIe 1 Slot
- Chipset → Integrated Graphics : Disabled
Intel iGPU:
- Peripherals → Initial Display Output : IGFX
- Chipset → Integrated Graphics : Enabled
- Chipset → DVMT Pre-Allocated :128M (if this setting isn’t showing then: 1. Set Integrated Graphics: Enabled. 2. Save and Exit BIOS by pressing F10. 3. Reenter BIOS upon computer restart and it should be there.
Gigabyte Coffee Lake Hackintosh Instructions
Follow the guide Guide to fresh installing macOS High Sierra on a Hackintosh (10.13 Update) with these special instructions:
- Follow Step 1 & 2 normally
- Skip Step 3
- Step 4 use the BIOS settings above
- Continue following the guide as normal
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312 Comments on "Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 Hackintosh Build Guide"
Hello again… I have been following your website for a couple of months now and sincerely appreciate all your hard work and insights… however I do notice that you stop your blogs once Mac OS is installed, but that’s only half the battle. The real value of a Mac is the entire ecosystem, which includes iMessage, FaceTime and Handsoff….
So can you please update this guide to say if these are working too and what hardware do you use to add Bluetooth functionality (to use with Apple Mouse and Keyboard) and Camera for FaceTime?
Thanks!
Sure thing!
Hello, first of all thank you for everything you do, you are amazing, I found your website days ago and it seems great. I have mounted a hachintosh with your guide and High Sierra 10.13.6 + intel 8700k + gtx 1060 + ga 370 ultra gamming and a pcie with bcm943602cs wifi + bluetooth. It has been working for 2 days ok but now the bluetooh is disconnected sometimes and it returns after 20/30 seconds, the bcm943602cs worked without doing anything, puncturing it and working, but this is killing me … can you help me ?? THANK YOU!! sorry for my english google …
Using his guide with a combo of multibeast I got bluetooth, iMessage working.. I don’t own an apple mouse/keyboard though.
Do the FakeSMC hardware sensors all work fine with your Z370?
Yes it does, temps, voltages, fanspeeds.
Thanks for the build, but now I am conflicted. I was looking to do a build with the ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero. There have been some complaints about the Gaming 7 having a coil whine issue. Did you happen to notice anything like that with your build? I say conflicted because of the apparent ease of overclocking with the Gigabyte board versus the Asus. That and the afore mentioned coil whine. It is good to see that you did well in the silicon lottery and was able to hit 5Ghz without delidding. Did you happen to notice how the temps were?
Temps hit 85C in Cinebench at 5GHz I was honestly expecting 100C so I’m happy. Temps are lower than my i7-7700k. When I take the panel off my case I do notice coil whine when loading or opening something, but usually can’t hear it over my CPU fan and case fans. I was going to get a HERO myself, but was apprehensive to do so as the S1200 audio chipset doesn’t always work after sleep and in my experience with 170/270/370 ASUS motherboards I would be limiting myself to AMD graphic cards as ASUS + Nvidia + macOS has given me problems with hackintosh sleep in the past, although I am considering getting the HERO later on to compare.
gaming 7 never had any coil whine , i have installed more than 500 gaming 7 mainboard and also testet , there are no coil wine on mainboard , coil whine there are some grafic card as shit brand palit , zotac , msi , asus also had some series 1070 , 1080 , 1080ti with coil whine but they fast repair it and replace with new one , coil whine is not problem is just annoying ,
but if you plan in future made OC 8700K 5Ghz then go with asus maximus x ,
if you wanna to stable work like harm then go with gigabyte gaming 7
What is the total cost of this build (excluding monitor)? Thanks!
About $1200 The Gigabyte Gaming 7 was on sale for the $209 recently and the RAM I got last year when the prices were lower.
Your tutorials are great!
I want to build a Coffee lake hackintosh but this build is too expensive.
I’m thinking of building something with an i3-8100 or an i5-8400, it would be nice if you show us a cheaper build.
Working on one right now.
I have an i5-8400, with the Gigabyte AORUS Gaming 5 board. The build is identical.
I can also tell you that the i5-8400 really performs awesome. I’m very pleasantly surprised.
Take the i5-8500.. the fine buck for your money in (i)ntel
s rich universe of shame 🙂2018..dez…when a cpu is about 300 $… 2017 149,90.
a funny game.
Threadripper 1920x in hackintosh= inglourious bestard ( in my town the cpu is at!!! 349,-€)
happy chr.
Doing an 8700k ITX build in the next couple of days and going to be following your guides.
I’ll be using an ASUS ROG STRIX its motherboard, would the EFI provided here be suitable with a couple of tweaks?
Also wondering if you’ve experimented with generating SSDT states for cpu power management?
Cheers!
http://hackintosher.com/guides/generating-coffee-lake-ssdt-hackintosh/
Thank you for all your detailed instructions!
In your Set 25 post:
http://hackintosher.com/blog/best-motherboard-brand-hackintoshing-2017-kabylake/
You mentioned that ASRock was your #1 choice and Gigabyte #3. Is that still the case?
I’m planning on building a Hackintosh in the next few weeks and I’m trying to identify what the most reliable board would be for it. Based on this post looks like Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 might fit the bill.
I’m not interested in gaming just want a powerful machine that will last me for 5-6 years.
Your valued recommendation is very much appreciated!
Hi there,
Just wondering what you did for the overclock values to show?
Did you have to generate an SSDT? I have the same setup as you except with the Gaming 5 Motherboard and I can’t get overclocked results to reflect in my geekbench scores.
If you did make an SSDT, would you mind sharing it please?
http://hackintosher.com/guides/generating-coffee-lake-ssdt-hackintosh/
Just discovered this blog! How awesome.
Since it looks like you are a hack-a-holic 🙂 could you do a mini itx build with an i7-8700?
Cheers!
I plan to do a mini ITX build soon the CPU might be different but that wouldn’t be a deciding factor whether it would work for you or not, there all pretty much the same steps outside of SMBIOS.
how about asus and msi z370
any external graphics card need to install high sierra this GIGABYTE Z370 mother board?
Hi,
I have to say this was the easiest hackintosh build ever. Bought the same hardware as suggested (different DDR4, used GSKILL TridentZ 3Ghz) and my old MSI Nvidia GTX 980 Ti) and did the following:
1) Backed up my High-sierra install
2) Installed all the hardware
3) Configured BIOS as suggested (I could not find the SuperIO configuration..)
4) Mounted the old Crucial SSD on a different Mac
5) Copied the provided EFI folder and adjusted parameters to have a NVIDIA graphics card instead of a AMD (removed whatever green.kext) to the boot SSD EFI partition
6) Configured the SSD as my boot drive
7) Everything worked on FIRST BOOT :~)
Awesome!!!
Thanks for your help
Jorge
any external graphics card need to install high sierra this GIGABYTE Z370 mother board?
Boas Jorge, estou com algumas dificuldades a configurar o meu sistema, também semelhante ao teu, 8700K, Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 e GTX 980ti. Sou um pouco nabo na coisa e estou aqui meio a patinar, especialmente depois de instalar o OSX e pôr tudo a funcionar como deve ser (net, som, gráfica, etc). Se me pudesses dar umas dicas agradecia imenso. Facebook: Jael Guerreiro. Obrigado!
Hi Jorge,
Thanks for letting us know of your successful build and congrats! I’m in the process of putting together a coffee lake build myself and wanted to know what you meant by steps 4 and 5 of your process:
4) Mounted the old Crucial SSD on a different Mac
5) Copied the provided EFI folder and adjusted parameters to have a NVIDIA graphics card instead of a AMD (removed whatever green.kext) to the boot SSD EFI partition
I’m a bit new to hackintosh builds and this will be my second build with the following hardware:
Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Gaming 7
i7-8700K
32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800)
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GAMING
Do you see any potential issues that I will have with this hardware that can be avoided? I’ve been hearing people talk about only using Samsung 860 SSDs and also needing to do something different with Nvidia cards.
Thanks in advance!
Ryan
Hi,
You need DDR4 ram to fit in that motherboard
Forget to mention: cloned my SSD boot drive to the NVME and re-configured boot options to boot from the NVME.
Hi Jorge, can you please explain your step 4 and how did you re-configured boot options to boot from nvme i copied the efi and now all work great except the gpu (nvidia 1080) and i have m2 samsung 970 evo
sorry for my noob question
sorry i meant step 5 (change the gpu to nvidia)
Hi, I see that your builds are all intel based. Will you give ryzen a shot? I’m currently planning to build one based on ryzen 5 1600, so it will be nice if i can have some idea of what motherboard that is reliable for ryzen
I´m very interested in a 8100 or 8400 mini itx build. i wonder if
Gigabyte Z370N WIFI or ASRock Z370M-ITX/ac is better.
(nice onboard sound + shielding would be appreciated as I´m not very happy with the noise interferance my macbook causes in sleeping mode on my Presonus Eris E5)
Yea I’m debating between both of them. I leaning towards the Gigabyte Z370N because of the Realtek ALC1220 audio chipset.
I hope you get great news from the ryzen platform; I would like to assemble my eighth hackintosh with AMD also to thank them for having moved the monopoly intel.
However five minutes of applause to hackintosher to have created this blog, thank you.
Hello!
Thank you for this wonderful blog.
As an independant editor (FCPX), i was wondering if you think this machine is reliable enough to get as my main Workstation.
Yes, defintely my Brucek 5k benchmark 25 seconds on Sierra and 17 seconds on High SIerra.
Yes, people were initially having trouble with FCPX on High Sierra including me, but the steps below solved the issue for me. http://hackintosher.com/guides/fix-rendering-issues-fcpx-high-sierra/
You have an amazon link to the Z270 mobo not the Z370 mobo btw.
At what section? All the ones I checked link to Z370.
Strange! Everywhere. The 8 items from Amazon split into 2 rows, below the kit list, and above the comments. I can see two different Z270 items there which don’t appear in your article and no Z370. I am in the UK. BTW, do you suppose your GTX 1050 Ti Windforce OC 4GB (?) will work just as well as the Radeon 560 4GB in general and also in this build? Cheers.
will this work with the Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 5 Motherbaord as well? i heard built in wifi doesnt work.
very similar setup, except im going to be using vega 64.
hopefully all is well!
Hello thank you for your blog much appreciated.
I installed Mac OS high Sierra on a i3 8100 coffee Lake using the gigabyte z370m and installed it via unibeast and only used the multibeast with whatever kext options they had that match my motherboard.
Used voodoo for sound as alc for my mobo was not working.
everything like FaceTime iMessage USB 3 ethernet works fine but the only problem is my Intel graphics it is showing 1536 megabytes and I think that is correct.
But the icons bar you have below is dull and greyed out. Can you advise on how to correct this as this was my first build and not sure how to really use this clover config thing. Thank you
So your Gigabyte AMD RX 560 worked straight out of the box with 10.13.1 without any necessary BIOS tweaking or driver installation?
Yes just whatevergreen.kext, emuUEFIVariable-64.efi, Primary display: dGPU, ig-platform-id 0x59120003
Thanks very much for the input. I spotted you mentioned something about that in your other blog. I decided to give this a shot, and definitely sold on using Radeon over Nvidia. Cheers.
I noticed that you have the Gigabyte RX560 OC Windforce 4G Rev 1.0. Very nice! If I’m not mistaken, this seems to have been discontinued and superceded by a 2.0 model which is less powerful but which is powered solely off the PCIe slot. I figure it is to target the lower end of the motherboard/PSU market and put more distance between it and the RX570. Shame. Asus seems to have done the same thing with their RX560s . A few sellers are still offering the Rev 1.0 but at near RX570 money which makes no sense at all.
This looks really nice- congrats!!!
Would like to do this built with iGPU only…
You say: “The iGPU works will full graphics acceleration as well as sleep/wake functionality works on my Gigabyte Z370 AORUS motherboard flawlessly. ”
But also:”Once the proper framebuffers for Coffee Lake are added in a future updated, Hackintoshers will likely be able to skip out on a getting a graphics card if they don’t need it, but until then you will need a dedicated graphics card for proper acceleration if you go with Coffee Lake”
So it won’t work with iGPU only? Any news on that?… confused 😉
I’ll correct that thanks for noticing. Through further testing I’ve found out the iGPU works, but not flawlessly 1 in 15-20 times waking from sleep there is graphical artifacting. This isn’t present when using a dGPU only the UHD 630. Right now I’m experimenting with different settings to see if I can make that go away as I’m interested in making another coffee lake build that’s ITX without a dGPU
Thank you very much for the follow-up!!
I’ll be watching this, hoping you will post your progress.
I’m still a bit nervous about my soon to be first Hackintosh 😉
I made some changes to my EFI partition and havn’t experienced the iGPU issue for the past couple of days.
Those are really good news!!
Like @Christian Mailand I also need thunderbolt to work. Reseaching this seems quite hard, I find a lot of people asking about it, people who have issues with it, and so far none who are successfully using it with ie. a thunderbolt audio interface (like UAD Apollo).
Any insight you might have on this, would be really helpful 😉
Or rephrased: Which Z370 thunderbolt (preferably on board) would you reccommend? I’d hat to have to wait for Z390 with chipset based support of TB 😉
That’s great to hear. What changes did you make to correct the iGPU issue (and does the EFI download link above include them)? I’m very interested in making a build with just iGPU.
Thanks!
That’s great to hear. What changes did you make to correct the iGPU issue (and does the EFI download link above include them)? I’m interested in making a build with just iGPU.
Thanks!
‘I’m interested in making another coffee lake build that’s ITX without a dGPU’
I would love to see a guide for this as I am also looking to build an ITX with only iGPU for audio production.
Would you be able to test if a 4k monitor would work well with the iGPU?
Thanks again for answer comments and sharing your knowledge!
I would imagine one would use higher clock memory for such a build, if the main DDR4 RAM is being used for graphics.
Hi Tau, I noticed that my display goes to sleep . after 40 mins of inactivity constantly. Even though I set it for 3 hours in prefernces/energy saver. Can you offer me some suggestions I can try out.
Thank you in advance 🙂
Thank you for making this guide available. You wouldn’t by any chance happened to see how it worked with a thunderbolt card? I’m on the lookout for a new machine, but have drives etc on thunderbolt, so I’d like to see them working properly.
Cheers,
I’m following this build tomorrow when my parts arrive, will test that out once I’m up and running and let you know.
Apparently you need to buy the Gigabyte Thunderbolt card for this to work 🙁
Hello can i use this guide for Aorus gaming 5 or Aorus ultragaming with this EFI folder?
Yes of course they are all very similar.
Thank you, but I have Saphire Radeon rx 580 8 Gigabyte, should I change something in config.pls file?
This is good to hear, however the main reason I personally would go for the Gaming 5 over the 7 (aside from price) is the built-in wifi. Is this likely to work via this method or will it require a bit of additional tinkering?
You need to replace the Intel wifi that’s not compatible with a hackintosh compatible one.
Can i use efi partition for z370n wifi and 8600k?
I’m undecided whether to buy z370n wifi or as rock falal1ty itx.
Can you help me? thanks
Luigi
Can i use efi partition for z370n wifi and 8600k?
I’m undecided whether to buy z370n wifi or as rock falal1ty itx.
Can you help me? thanks
Both will work fine, I’m actually go to by the ASROCK Fatal1ty as I want two ITX computers.
Thanks, the z370 wifi have problem kernel task or sleep?
Thanks and sorry for my english
I used your guide and built a near identical setup that seems to be working well. The only major difference is that I went with the i5-8600k processor. I can’t figure out if I missed something in the setup but I can’t get High Sierra to reflect the overclocked processor speeds. About this Mac only shows a 3.6Ghz Unknown processor. Any suggestions?
Hi there, great info but I can’t see exactly what components you used for your wifi and Bluetooth? The gaming 7 has no built in wifi so I am assuming you used an adapter? Which type? Did it work out of the box?
Thank you!
+1 on the wifi and bluetooth.
I just build a similar config but ùi dont have wifi and bluetooth yet.
What adapter do you recommend ?
Following your guide with the 8700k and the gigabyte aorus gaming 7 z370 and after the first restart of the install process, I get an error message saying “The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged”. Do you know how to resolve this?
-note : I followed the steps to disable apfs
/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg Did you try following: http://hackintosher.com/guides/high-sierra-fix-macos-not-installed-computer/
I downloaded a new Install MacOS High Sierra App and this time I got past the previous error following all precautions, opting out of apfs, nvidia enabled. Now I get an error after the 2nd boot and a bit of the install process that simply says macOS High Sierra could not be installed on your machine, run apple diagnostics. The install log has a new error regarding a failed extraction of Core.pkg
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you for your fast response! I’m so glad to have help, my last hackintosh build I couldn’t hardly get anyone to respond on any forum I posted on.
I did delete EmuVariableUEFI-64, but I did it before I completely reinstalled, I did not retry my existing install.
I haven’t done anything with SMBIOS.
I’ll have to try that.
Regarding the SMBIOS change, I come from the days of Chimera so this is my first crack at clover. When changing the SMBIOS, do I need to take the bootable usb and use clover configurator on an existing machine to change the definition? Or can I do it from the boot loader on my new z370 build? If memory serves my SMBIOS is set to iMac 18,2, which should be more than recent enough. Could it be FF/FFM or an Old FakeSMC as per fusion71au’s post at the link below?
I’ve also looked up solutions involving moving all kexts to the “other” folder within the efi partition as well as pulling the installation drive out of the hackintosh after the first install run, plugging it into an existing machine, and manually inserting the files as per G.com’s forum post here on insaneleymac:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/328405-the-path-systeminstallationpackagesosinstallmpkg-appears-to-be-missing-or-damaged-help-please/
For reference I am my graphics card is a 1080ti.
Thanks again for your help man! I’m looking forward to getting this build off the ground!
Edited smbios to be imac 18,3. Updated Fake SMC, followed your guide to enable Nvidia gpu. Kexts are already in the “other” folder, removed EMUVariableUEFi. Also made sure ff and ffm were not zeroes.
Still the same failure at second boot after opting out of apfs.
Don’t know what to do next aside from change efis or mounting the drive in a working system and attempting to find OSInstall.mpkg and then manually injecting it.
I checked install.log and noticed a few lines about InstallESDDmg could not be mounted (error code 2). I should mention I was unable to download the High Sierra installer normally. I downloaded the 19mb stubby version then it downloaded the remaining files on the fly. I added those files to the installer app under the “Shared Support” folder and that included InstallESDDmg.pkg. I followed the steps I outlined here:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/299731/macos-high-sierra-media-installer/307118#307118
Should that pkg be in the contents folder instead? Or somewhere else. I’m currently copying that pkg to the contents folder to see if that helps.
Thanks for this great guide. I am in the process of installing 10.13on this same CPU + MB combo. I am not seeing some of the same options in BIOS that you had in the guide. What bios version is your board running?
Hey, I think there’s one thing missing from both this and the Guide to fresh installing macOS High Sierra on a Hackintosh (10.13 Update):
You don’t seem to discuss the final step of getting clover and the EFI folder setup **on the Hackintosh system drive**, so the hackintosh can actually startup on its own without first booting to clover bootloader on the USB drive… or did I miss something?
I assume it’s much the same as what was done for setting up the USB key installer, but it would be fantastic if you could add this to your guide to complete the picture!
Thanks for such clear and concise guides btw – you’re doing a fantastic job!
It’s there at the bottom of the Install section http://hackintosher.com/guides/macos-high-sierra-hackintosh-install-clover-walkthrough/
Hi Hackintosher,
I have finished a Mini-ITX build on the Z370n WiFi with 8700k and GTX 950 last Friday. Since I hadn’t had the time to fine-tune the Config and efi yet, I haven’t posted this to any blog. Since you are an expert in this stuff, I was wondering if you could make some time to chat about this build and maybe help me answer some questions I have around optimizing and debugging. Thanks, LS
I just got a Z370N and have it up and running macOS what qwuestions do you have?
Is the WiFi card on the Z370N replaceable? Also are the steps any different from the Z370 Gaming 7.
Yes it’s replaceable. You will need to change the ig-platform-id to 0x59120000 if you plan to use the iGPU.
At this point, the only thing not working seems to be my GTX 950. Either I get black screens when using emulated NVRAM driver, or NVIDIA web drivers auto-switch back to MacOS X default drivers. Any ideas/tips?
Did you follow the Nvidia guide? http://hackintosher.com/guides/properly-install-nvidia-drivers-high-sierra-10-13/
If you get the warning they didn’t install properly then you need to unistall and reinstall again.
No warning, re-installed with SIP enabled anyway, but no luck unfortunately.
You installing the right version of the web drivers? Apple did a forced update to build (17B1003) https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/378/WebDriver-378.10.10.10.20.109.pkg
Since I can’t reply to your latest message again, I’ll reply to this one:
After your reply, I’ve created a new boot/install medium re: your guide here (previously through unibeast). This install couldn’t boot, unlike the unibeast, which worked pretty much out of the box.
Once installed, I’ve used the latest version of the driver, installed with SIP enabled through Clover Configurator and your EFI on this site, no error. As soon as I enable Emulated NVRAM, the black screen occurs on boot. nv_disable parameter in clover gets me back in MacOS X. At this point I’m clueless what else to try. I’m considering setting up the iGPU for now, and get a GTX10x0 for native support.
If you have an EFI for this for the z370n wifi board, I’d love to use that. Thanks in advance! LS
Did you figure it out? I just installed the drivers on a GTX 1050 Ti w/ the Gigabyte Z370N ITX an hour ago with no issue.
Set in BIOS; Primary Display: PCIe Slot 1 and Integrated Graphics: Disabled.
Unistall the Nvidia Web Driver
Here’s the EFI I used http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Gigabyte-Z370N-10.13.2-Test-SIP-Enable-EFI.zip
Replace your existing EFI with the one above. I have SIP preenabled so you don’t need to do anything to the config.plist.
Restart machine.
Redownload the web drivers that match your build version. If you were using 10.13.1 apple did a forced update to a newer build version to fix that root issue.
Install Web Drivers & Restart, that’s all I did.
Thanks! I’ll give it a shot!
Hi Hackintosher! I got everything up and running in the meantime. Thanks for sharing your working EFI. I was able to install and update the NVIDIA drivers, even without SIP enabled.
A couple of things I still can’t seem to figure out:
– rad4200 in boot flags: why? (without it does not boot, but since it’s NVIDIA, this feels weird to me)
– shikioff in boot flags: why?
– USB power consumption: did you manage to get this working. Particularly: I have a USB Apple SuperDrive that won’t start due to “low powet usb port”. All ports on the Z370n wifi are usb 3.0 as you know. Any idea’s?
Thanks again 🙂
Can i use your refi zip whit IGpu intel?
Hello, if I use the cpu i7 8700K with an asus or msi Z370 motherboard and with gpu sapphire rx 580, this guide work fine?
I recommend following the general guide, which can work for Coffee Lake. I have an ASUS motherboard on the way that you can also follow.
Ps: I’m about to assemble a new pc and I still have to buy the components
I have the same motherboard… first it was F2, and couldn’t find all the BIOS settings from your list and now I have F5e… But still can’t find all your settings, in particular:
4. BIOS → Windows 8/10 Features : Other OS
(no setting regarding windows or OS of any kind to be found!)
7. Peripherals → Super IO Configuration → Serial Port : Disabled
(the Super IO Configuration category just doesn’t exist!)
When I try to install macOS High Sierra, the Black screen with white Apple logo shows off, the progress bar starts moving, but when it’s at about 25%, it goes black and the computer restarts in Clover again…
I have same CPU, Same motherboard, RX 580… Have copied your EFI to the installer…
Any suggestions?
I experienced the same thing. I ended up updating the Lilu kext with a the newest version and it solved the issue for me.
I have a Gigabyte Z370 Gaming 5, 8700k and GTX 1070. Good luck!
ok! Will try that!
What version of the BIOS do you have?
Alright! Now it’s working!
It’s a bit of a mess as it’s a mixture of what UniBeast and the EFI from here… But at least I’ve managed to get into macOS!
Processor is “unknown”, thought it would be automatically recognised in High Sierra?
Can I ask why you had to use UniBeast? I was able to follow this guide exactly (except for the updated Lilu.kext) and have no issue.
Sorry, I can’t really help you with the unknown processor error.
Because it didn’t work when I followed this guide… and I wasn’t smart enough to think about updating kexts etc… I’m all new to Hackintoshing… so tried UniBeast, and then I at least managed to install High Sierra…
I updated to the latest BIOS (version F4, 11/09/17)
I’m on F5e… maybe that is only for Gaming 7 then?
Still curious why I can’t see some of the options mentioned in the article though…
The options of Windows 8/10 and Super IO were also unavailable to me. Despite this, it worked just fine. I would suggest starting with a clean install using this guide, making sure to update the Lilu.kex, and see where it takes you.
how can I do that? I have the same problem 🙁
I tried the Lilu.kext 1.0.0 release and 1.2.4. I had no luck 🙁
I have the same problem as Dmitri, above…..
Replace your EFI with http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GIGABYTE-Z370-AORUS-10.13.2-Hackintosh-EFI.zip
I dont have the Settings for “Other OS” and “Serial Port” on my Aorus Z370 Gaming 3 (latest BIOS version). Not sure if this is the reason why I’m get a reebot after a few seconds any time i run Installer from USB.
Any Ideas?
Thank you
Update your Lilu.kext to the latest version. The Other OS and Serial Port changes were absent on my BIOS version and it worked fine without them. See above comments.
I updated BIOS settings section, also I updated the AORUS EFI for 10.13.2. Replace the EFI on your flash drive with this one: http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GIGABYTE-Z370-AORUS-10.13.2-Hackintosh-EFI.zip
Thanks!
I goofed and tried MultiBeast and it ruined my system… had to wipe the drive and re-install High Sierra… Good thing, after doing that and adding your new EFI, my CineBench score went from 97fps to 146fps!!! (cpu stayed the same) and the machine now seem to be working great!
At the moment my biggest issue is getting reliable Bluetooth for my Apple Magic Mouse, having the system recognise the CPU by name and getting the Thunderbolt card (GC-Alpine Ridge) to work once I’ve picked that up from the shop…
Oh, and seems to be no way to wake it up from sleep…
Thank You Dudes 😀
Update the Lilu.kext solved it for me. <3
@Dmitri, I’d like to build the same as you did, because I need Thunderbolt in order to make my Apollo twin work ! Any news about your GC-Alpine Ridge ?
(Sorry if my english is not perfect, I’m french 😉 )
Guitarmat,
I choose not to pick up the GC-Alpine Ridge card as it was a Rev 1.0 (and there’s a 2.0 apparently). Not sure if it makes a difference but I realised I won’t have any thunderbold devices anytime soon anyway so I’d rather wait for the Rev 2.0 card…
Thanks a lot for your answer, @Dmitri. So I’ll wait a little bit. I just heard that z390 motherboards would maybe have the thunderbolt included. This could be an option for me, if z390 processors work with high sierra… and if I’m able to wait until mid 2018 !
Hey, i even don’t have an efi partition on an usb stick i did the whole thing until now flawlessly. How to make a efi partition on an already made usb boot stick? WTF =??=????
Hey, i even don’t have an efi partition on an usb stick i did the whole thing until now flawlessly. How to make a efi partition on an already made usb boot stick? And why is there no such thing about how to actually make a efi partition on an stick in this article???? its really important.
Had the same issue as Dmitri with not seeing those two settings Bios.
I’m on the latest 5e for Gaming 7.
The new EFI that Hackintosher posted works fine and I’m able to boot fine with IGPU.
Only issue I have is system will not sleep. It goes down but then turns itself back on.
The other is when I shut it down the Fans stop and it looks like it’s down except the RGB lights stay on in Red. Only way to shut them is to turn off the power supply switch.
Is everyone else able to get their system to sleep and shutdown properly?
If you are using a DSDT and/or SSDT with IGPU any chance of posting?
Thank you!
1. RGB lights on off are a “feature” and can be disabled in BIOS; not caused by hackintoshing.
2. Open Energy Saver and uncheck: Wake on LAN + uncheck: Power Nap
3. If you have a wireless mouse that could be waking on the hackintosh; try turning it off the second you press sleep and see if the computer wakes.
4. You have a program running preventing sleep open Terminal and type:
sudo pmset -gto see what it is.Thank you for the suggestions.
1. The RGB’s turn off in windows and would be great if they turned off on the Mac Side. Does anyone’s turn off?
2. Those were already checked off
3. Mouse and Keyboard are wired
4. That command did show the following: sleep. 10 (sleep prevented by apsd)
I found this link and turned off Apple Push Notification Services:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/92214/how-to-disable-apple-push-notification-service-apsd-on-os-x-10-8
Unfortunately that did not do the trick. When I run the command sleep now shows 180
Thanks!
Did you ever get sleeping sorted?
Thanks!
Yes I did. Turns out it was my Cosair Water Cooler. I had to disconnect the cable that went from a fan header to the cooler via USB 2 connector.
Once removed it worked fine. Seems it was always pulling power so would wake up the system. It works fine in Windows but not on the Mac side. For now it’s disconnected.
How come when I shutdown my computer it automatically restarts back up again.
Gigabyte z370 gaming 3
Intel I7 8700k
NZXT H440
500gb 850 Evo
Add FixShutdown checkbox to config.plist
Did you have any luck with the shutdown/restart? I have the gaming 7. I spent a few days on it and finally gave up. Tried everything FixShutdown checked, turning off all wake on lan, different power supply, installed all the BIOS versions, etc, etc.
Great build what a great resource your site is!
I am thinking of upgrading from my 8core 2010 Mac Pro and aging PC to a dual boot gaming / studio machine.
What’s graphics card might be best choice? I’m thinking 1070 but Apple now supports AMD Radeon natively?
Appreciate any help, am so nervous about spending the cash. BTW I’ve built PCs for years but never a Hackintosh.
DO NOT HAVE YOUR HACK GO TO SLEEP after this install, i just ran into many problems getting that thing to work just now, cmos flash et cetera
Hey guys!
I’m still very much a beginner in hackintosh builds and will be attempting to upgrade my first build from 2014 to a Coffee Lake build. Based on my hardware listed below, do you guys see any potential issues that can be avoided?
Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Gaming 7
i7-8700K
32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800)
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GAMING
I’ve seen many people recommend the Samsung 960s for High Sierra and wanted to know if the 850s will work as well or if I should just go with the 960s. Using a 1080TI would be huge for me, as I edit a lot in Premiere where the CUDA cores are a big performance upgrade.
Thanks in advance to any who are willing to share their wisdom!
Ryan
You should use 2666mhz DDR4 memory!
Thanks Dmitri! Any particular reason I should use 2666mhz DDR4 memory? The RAM I have now is what I had from my previous build. I’m starting to wonder if I should just buy all new parts and build a completely new machine.
If I understand things correctly DDR3 is not compatible with the Z370 MBs! But I might be wrong, I just took that for granted. So you better check it in case I talk out of my arse 😉
Thanks Dmitri, I ended up getting 32GB of 2666mhz DDR4 memory! The deciding factor was my decision to build an entirely new machine instead of just upgrading my current one. Thanks for the tip man, I appreciate it!
Wicked! I had to settle for 16gb due to… money. Looking to upgrade to 32gb as soon as I can… Good luck with the build!
2-3 others are having trouble with shutdown not working. I personally sleep my machine and when I’ve shut it down I haven’t had any trouble.
850 works
Hi, Nice guide. Which audio kext did you install ? I have the same motherboard. Thanks
BIOS keeps resetting!?
It seems like my BIOS is resetting all the time. When I start the computer after sjut down, it starts shuts down (after just half a sec) and then starts again normally… And at least the majority of times I go to BIOS I get the message ‘BIOS has been reset” and all the settings are back to default… I can load my settings etc… and there’s no problem starting the computer… BUT… I would like to be able to use the Smart Fan function of the BIOS has the fans are running at maximum otherwise it seems and it’s a bit too loud…
Anyone have an idea how to solve this?
(have the Aorus Gaming 7)
Hey man. Thanks so much for the guide. This was installed in a tenth of the time it took me to get Windows up and running on the same system. Incredible. However I cannot get HDMI audio to work. I followed a previous guide of yours which involves ticking UseIntelHDMI in Clover Config, but it doesn’t do anything. I am using same MB and CPU as you.
Ok,
So now this build is working really well… Got my Apple Magic Mouse working smoothly… Just some little quirks I can live with… and one MAJOR thing: Some projects cause FCPX and the machine to completely freeze. I can still move the mouse pointer around (even with BT mouse) but everything is completely unresponsive… can’t force quit FCPX and have to shut he computer down… This is kinda disastrous as I built this thing just to run FCPX… any suggestions welcome!!
Not sure if it’s a High Sierra thing (my MacBook Pro is still on Sierra)… or a Hackintosh thing, or whatnot… getting kinda desperate and starting to wish I had spent the money on a genuine Mac…
What graphics card are you using? When does the freeze occur, when loading up the project or just randomly when working?
I’m using Radeon RX 580…
Mostly it’s when exporting projects, but sometimes randomly when playing back…
I have managed to export some old projects… but some just cause the freeze.
I have tried deleting rendered files, cache and stuff. Also copy everything and paste into new new project, but same thing…
This happened in FCPX 10.3.4, then I thought because it was buggy in High Sierra, but it’s also happening in 10.4.
So far it hasn’t happened in a new project, but have also not done anything complicated, just thrown in a few clips and added some effects…
A lot of people seem to have crashing issues with High Sierra and FCPX 10.13.X
As a last resort you could create a new partition on y our hard drive and install Sierra 10.12.6 and use FCPX 10.2
But before that you can try the following, because to me it sounds like a encoding/decoding issue.
Download the latest version of Shiki.kext RELEASE and place it in EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
https://github.com/vit9696/Shiki/releases/download/2.2.0/2.2.0.RELEASE.zip
Test 1
Rename your config.plist to something else for backup
Download this one add it to /EFI/CLOVER
http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/config.plist-FCPX-Test1.zip
Restart and enter BIOS and set
Chipset → Integrated Graphics : Enabled
Afterwards try seeing if there is any different in FCPX
Test 2
If that doesn’t work try replacing your config.plist with this one
http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/config.plist-FCPX-Test2.zip
Restart and enter BIOS and set
Chipset → Integrated Graphics : Disabled
Let me know…
Thanks!
I’m such a newbie when it comes to hackintoshing so a bit confused how to do some of those things… while I try to get the courage I’ve been testing some other stuff… By removing all effects and transitions, I seem to have no problems exporting… So… at the moment I think there might be some effect that is acting up in High Sierra…
I’ll keep reporting what I find!
Following this guide and tell me if it solved your FCPX issue http://hackintosher.com/guides/fix-rendering-issues-fcpx-high-sierra/
If you are using an RX 560 you need to add the boot flag -rad4200 in the Custom Flags textbox in Clover Configurator under Boot to fix freezing.
any tips on the sleep thing? btw sleep is not in my sys prefs, weird…
so now my hack wont turn on, nothing, no fan no sound absolute silence
anyone?
You using RX or GTX? RX 560, 570, 580 sleep is broken on 13.2 have to downgrade to 13.1 / wait for a fix from Apple or use one of the solutions on the internet. I’ll post something on a fix soon.
im on a rx 580 gts system is 10.13.1 though. thanks man
Does your computer even POST?
seems to be related to the cmos, after reset all is good ( which in fact it isnt of course 🙂 i tried different bios settings and now it seems stable, weird though
Is it possible to change the processor name to i7 8700K from unknown name? If the processor is unknown, is it badly supported by macosx?
when my graphics card was recognised as rx xxx 8gb it was way slower than it is now as recognised correctly as rx 580 8gb
which graphics do u have. I bought an Asus RX580 8gb Dual OC and is being recognized as RX xxx 8gb. Any tip on how to make it recognized as RX 580 8GB?
Is it safe to try to load a vbios from a Shapphire RX 580 Pulse?
Did you have any issues with the Dark Rock Pro 3? Their website says that fan is not compatible with the gigabyte z370 Aorus gaming 7.
I checked the website and it’s on the list see: http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Dark-Rock-Pro-3-Compatibility.png
There’s no reason it wouldn’t it’s the same socket and 4 pin power connector on all Intel motherboards.
https://www.bequiet.com/en/motherboardcheck
When I selected all the criteria, it brings up a listing of products and it says not compatible for the dark Rock pro 3. Just curious if you were certain, didn’t want to buy it if it won’t fit or if it blocks slots/ram etc.
Oh I see, no it doesn’t block anything on the motherboard. I have a M.2 + 2 sticks of LPX Ram + GFX card with no issues.
Thanks! Guess I’ll go grab one myself. Great build!
I believe in the link you shared, you haven’t selected all the drop downs so it’s just showing you all the motherboards possible, not necessarily the compatible ones? I could be mistaken.
Any idea how to get HDMI audio to work?
Has anyone figured out how to get Thunderbolt to work with the Gaming 7 motherboard running High Sierra? That’s one of the last things on my checklist for a successful machine. Thanks in advance!
My buid is i7 8700 non K version, gigabyte Z370 d3h, samsung evo 960, I used my old raspberry pi to bridge my usb wifi dongle, everythings working except for the processor unknown
Heres the youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0WYeNiYwY
Hi,
Thanx for all informations, great website.
I’m going to build my first one hackintosh, what about the Gigavbyte Z370 HD3P + i7 8700k, could i use same mobo settings applied and mentioned in this guide.
Thanx
Alessandro
Yes they are the same settings.
Thank You !
Hi! I’m having issues since the beginning of the hack: I’ve followed every step of the guide from setting the BIOS and creating the USB (with the EFI folder provided and SMBIOS and Lilu.kext updated) but when I boot my PC and Clover starts I can’t begin the install because there are no devices shown.
I’m using a Gaming 5 (F4 BIOS update) with i5 8600k. Now I’m using the iGPU but I have already a GTX 1070 FTW2 ready to install.
Thanks in advance!
Are you using an NVME drive? If so you will need to follow the instructions here before it shows:
http://hackintosher.com/blog/get-nvme-m-2-ssds-show-high-sierra-hackintosh-install/
“To get an NVME to show properly in High Sierra’s Disk Utility do the following:
Plug in another SSD or HDD in one of your SATA ports and the NVME will show along side it. This will be a problem if a NVME drive was never initialized before.
In BIOS under the BOOT section make sure SATA mode in is set to AHCI
Click Show All Devices in the upper left corner of High Sierra’s Disk Utility to display all Internal and External drives.”
It worked for me.
Thanks Vito! But I think this will be useful later.
My current problem consist in this screen:
http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1.-Boot-OS-X-Install.jpg
without the “external” drive visible. That area it’s simply empty.
Try replacing your flash drive EFI with this one. http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Gigabyte-Z370N-10.13.2-Test-SIP-Enable-EFI.zip
Do the buttons underneath show? If external isn’t showing then that means that the High Sierra installation files from the app store weren’t copied onto flash drive correctly.
I’ve tried but it didn’t work.
Re-downloaded the High Sierra 5.2GB file with HighSierraPatcher, re-formatted the usb, copied the installer and EFI folder provided (tweaking only the SMBIOS) following the guide.
Same result: no external drive shown on Clover…and yes, the buttons underneath show.
At this point the only thing I can suppose is a problem with the High Sierra installer.
Do you have other link for downloading it? Thanks
Also when I format the USB there is no “Scheme” option for setting the GUID map, even creating a VM in Win10 doesn’t help, there’s only the Format option.
Could be this the problem?
Thanks.
thank you so much for the help, glad to found this website,, it almost a week i’ve been trying to build my coffelake hackintosh but not succeeded, after following your guide now i’ve got a fully working hackintosh, so thank’s again.
but i bump in to another problem, seems that FCP 7 it’s no longer supported in high sierra, where in my country people still using it for main software editing, here’s my dumb request can you make this kind of guide step by step for installing SIERRA in coffelake base, because after a week of desperation, its kinda scary for me to do another research for build from scratch .LOL
sorry about my english..
my set up
Proc : i7 8700k
Motherboard : gigabyte Z370 ultra gaming
VGA: Gtx 1070
Ram: Corsair 32 gb ram
PSU: Corsair CX 600
The steps will be the same and the EFI folder should work only you wont need to do the extra two steps to disable APFS when you get to the install part. Also you could always torrent FCPX 10.4 for High Sierra for free.
Succed building sierra with same method.. thanks a lot.. but it not detect my asmedia pcie usb 3.0 and bluetooth dongle, can you tell me the solution, it would be another great help..
Great Job, I followed your Guid and everything except Analog Audio works fine.
Digital Audio through Display Port is fine.
The ALC1220 will be recognized, output sources in system preferences are present but no sound comes out, what can I do?
Use your EFI folder (untouched except SMBIOS)
I can’t seem to get the onboard audio working, does anyone else have this issue?
Hello¡¡I have same configuration and my problem is front headphone don’t work….I configured in clover /devices audio in 1… any solution??thx its a very good guide¡¡
Hey Hackintosher, I hope you can help me with my issue here. I have almost the same build as this (different RAM brand) and everything was working fine for a week until I did some downloading of patches on my dual booted Windows partition. (Perhaps this was just a coincidence). Now I get panic (CPU 0 Caller etc etc) whenever I try to boot from clover verbose or if I use a a fresh Unibeast install USB. What has happened? Can you please help me debug this as I am getting no responses from other forums. Thanks so much.
Things I have tried so far:
Toggle Trust “True” and “False”,
Entered details of my DDR4 ram, though the manual seems to label the DIMM slots differently to the Easy mode setting in the BIOS (?)
Added NullCPU kext, but I don’t think it even gets that far in the boot sequence.
Tried another clover folder altogether from a similar build.
I am pretty desperate to get this working again. I should also add, my Windows partition remains unaffected by this and boots as if everything is fine.
Thanks so much.
It’s recommended to install OSX and Windows on separate hard drives to avoid problems like this. I personally haven’t had this issue so I can’t be of much help. I do remember onetime having a similar problem where a ExFat parititon would cause kernel panics back when I had a Haswell hackintosh. To me it sounds like your drive was corrupted. You said you tried reinstalling but have you tried repairing permissions in Disk Utility or erasing that partition or making a new one? As a last resort you will have to completely wipe the drive. Also how did you set it up? When you plan to install Windows + Mac you have to set it up as a GUID formatted disk in disk utility first before installing.
It can’t be to do with my ssd as even without it plugged into my computer I cannot get a fresh Unibeast install, or any install USB to get beyond that panic either.
Ok I fixed it. Problem was Intel Optane memory drivers that had installed from Gigabyte in Windows. They had changed BIOS to RST rather than AHCI. Weird though that this change persisted beyond a CMOS clear.
Hi Hackintosher, just wanna say that I’ve found my problem: basically there must be something in the High Sierra 10.13.2 installer that doesn’t let Clover find it, I’ve downloaded the 10.13.1 version and the “external” drive appears at the first boot.
Then the installation with your EFI folder went flawless.
Thanks again!
Dear all,
Does someone know if this build still works stable when cpu throttling settings like c-states, p-states,turboboost and even multithreading are all disabled ?
I am interested in this build but i do audio/music production and for this, all kinds of cpu/core throttling/core parking/powersaving settings in BIOS should be disabled for optimum performance in audio/music production software.
Hope to hear from you !
Warm Regards.
Is there anyone successfully using Thunderbolt on their build? Thanks guys!
I used your post here and bought the same motherboard, RAM and processor. I bought a different case, CPU cooler and a ASUS GeForce GTX 1060. Everything worked well except I had to add EmuVariableUefi-64. I am a technical blogger as well – and this was a great and well-written post! This is my first hackintosh.
Is it possible to run both the graphics card on the motherboard and two monitors on the GTX 1060?
Yes, absolutely.
I hooked up a TV to the HDMI port on the motherboard, but nothing appears on the TV. Any ideas on what I need to do? Thanks.
Hey guys,
First I want to thank hackintosher for his great site and work. I copied your build and till now it works pretty flawless. Thanks for making this possible.
So I built my pc and am dual booting windows 10 en MacOS 10.13.2
Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7
KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Ti EX-SNPR White
The only issue I am facing now is the ALC1220.
I used the EFI from your guide for this build, but can’t seem to get audio working. When I plug in the audio cable, the Internal Speakers disappears from the available outputs. I’ve tried all different layouts for it, but none of them work.
switched back to 7 because that’s what you use in your EFI. Did you do anything special or have any tips to get audio working on the Gaming 7 Motherboard?
There shouldn’t be anything special you have to do. Does the audio work in Windows? With Gigabyte motherboards some people have trouble with certain versions of AppleALC.kext I suggest you try different versions on their release page starting with the newest one. https://github.com/vit9696/AppleALC/releases
Yes, audio works from the ‘line-out’ output in windows. While testing different layouts I found out that one of them worked when plugging the cable in the ‘rear’ speaker output.
Could it be that the layout for this ALC1220 is not know yet, so the dev’s from AppleALC should create a layout for this specific board?
Just tested with the newest AppleALC. Same problem.
Also, I’m not the only one facing this problem with this motherboard: check out https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/7cjwpt/which_audio_layout_for_my_alc1220_speakers_arent/dprkmvs/
The topic starter told me he gave up on solving it. :o(
this is the main topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/7cjwpt/which_audio_layout_for_my_alc1220_speakers_arent/
I’ve been going crazy over this! Thanks for raising it and linking the reddit thread, too. Sound prefs reads Headphones instead of Internal Speakers. My experience has been that 11 did not work for me initially (plugged into the rear normal ‘out’ speaker connection) but I noticed that it DID work when plugged into the front headphone port. I changed to 1 and that worked with the rear connection, so I thought i was golden. After a few reboots over the course of a couple days, it stopped working out of nowhere. I started jumping around the others and found that 11 started working with the rear connection again. It seems to sporadically change on me… sounds like more is to come with AppleALC and this board.
Besides this one relatively minor issue, the guide was fantastic and made the process painless.
Hello. Help me please
I just bought the same configuration because of your article. i7 8700k, gigabyte z370 aorus gaming 7, but I already have gigabyte GeForce 1080ti successfully runned on previous mecos I bought another one instead of Radeon.
I can’t Load my geforce 1080ti web driver at all.
I used your efi folder from this post for start mac 10.13, all except video is ok. I tried to install lastest nvidia web drivers, checked nvidia web true , set Intel, amd,nvidia false in config clover but after every boot nvidia web drivers has been resetted to os x default driver. What additional I need to do?
Thanks and .sorry for my bad english
Do you have EmuVariableUefi-64 in drivers? That might be the problem of nVidia web resetting to system
Yes i installed it and everything works fine before i wanted to update bios. after it web driver doesn’t load again.revert previous version don’t helped me. what I need to do?
Thanks a lot for the guide and EFI folder.
I have a perfectly working Aorus Gaming Ultra + i7 8700K + RX560
The only problem I have is with shutdown. Everything shuts down but the leds on the Aorus MB remain on! Is it the same with your build?
In the BIOS the leds are set to stay off when the pc is either off or sleep and I’m using FixShutdown in Clover! Without FixShutdown it shuts down for a couple of seconds and the leds do turn off…but then it reboots
Any help or idea would be appreciated
Thanks!
I have the same shutdown issue. I use FixShutdown in Clover and all turns off (drives, GPU), but Aorus Gaming 5 mobo red light stays on and the computer does not fully shut down. I have to manually flip the rear power switch. This is annoying, but I can live with it.
But perhaps someone has found a fix to actually totally power down. If I uncheck the FixShutdown in Clover it reboots after a few seconds.
Let me know if you find a solution, I’ll do the same!
Hackintosher what about your gaming 7? Do your mobo led turn off after shutdown?
I had a similar issue and the Colver “FixShutdown” was not working even though I had it checked. Go into your config.plist within Text Edit and change FixShutdown to “FixShutdown_0004” and see if that works. That’s what worked for me and though I had the latest version of Clover Configuratror installed.
@monsterz, that FixShutdown_0004 did not work for me in the config.plist. I’m on latest Clover Config, too. Do you have power management enabled in bios? I don’t.
Hey Hackintosher! Nice build, I have just finished one similar to this with a Gigabyte Z370 mobo. The only issue I’m left with is that my CPU fan, as well as my case fans, stay at a very high speed once waking from sleep. The computer goes to sleep perfectly, but once I wake the system up all the fans start running at relatively high speeds, as if the initial boot up fan speeds are being overrode. When I check the iStat monitor it shows all fans are at “0 RPM” and in HWmonitor no fans are present. Have you had any issues with waking from sleep? This is the only thing I can’t seem to get to work correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I actually solved this by updating my BIOS.
Thanks a lot for the guide, it works out of the box.
Maybe somebody can help me, I only have the integrated iGPU not a dedicated card for now. I’m able to set 4k resolution and intermediate native resolutions (like 3008×1692, for example ) with the RDM app, but in the Displays preferences there is no way to set scaled resolutions between 1080p and 4k (the Looks Like options that appear in the preferences). I’ve tried with SwitchResX to add new resolutions and also creating a new Display Property List for the display with this page, https://comsysto.github.io/Display-Override-PropertyList-File-Parser-and-Generator-with-HiDPI-Support-For-Scaled-Resolutions/ but I have had no success
I have an LG 27UD88-w display, and with my 12” MacBook I can set intermediate resolutions that are scaled, like 2560×1440, 3008×1692 and 3360×1890, so it is not an issue of the display
I’m using the DisplayPort connection, as the HDMI does not support high resolutions with 60Hz
I have this exact build and my Apple logo changes size during the boot process. Does anyone else experience this or know how to fix it? I’m using a 4K monitor.
I’ve uploaded a video showing the boot process.
https://youtu.be/6IctMxfvMWY
Thanks!
I have your exact build, part for part [I duplicated it all intentionally] – Thanks for EFI folder 😉
Question though: Have you found random reboots, particularly during sleep or standby? I wake up every morning to the white clover bootloader screen, and sometimes it’s occurring during the day as well.
Just curious if you had that issue and found a way to tackle it if so.
I had similar reboot issues when I first put it together. But not with the latest version of the EFI folder posted here:
http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/EFI-Gigabyte-Z370_NVRAM_shiki4.zip
Actually, I think the reason it was rebooting was because I was using 18,3 on an i5, as soon as I changed it to 18,2 it the rebooting stopped (I’m pretty sure). 18,3 is intended for i7.
Mine was installed successfully I got everything on the Mac. After installing Windows 10 the FakeSMC seem not to work anymore. It just stuck on the booting screen without having the bar at the bottom of the logo.
Have you tried to update to the 10.13.2 supplemental update? Mine crashed mid update. I restored with CCC from a backup drive, but despite the restore, “macos install” is still an option in clover.
Do you know how I remove this partition if I just want to flat out start over? I thought restoring my drive with CCC would get rid of that but it didn’t.
As far as updating, my next move is to remove both my graphics cards and try with iGPU. Any other recommendations? But my biggest question is how do I get rid of this “macos install” partition if I just want to wait for 10.13.3?
Thanks.
hello I have a build with
gigabyte z370n-wifi.There
is a problem for me.I check ‘fixshutdown’,hackintosh can shutdown,but mb’led is on ,and mouse and keyboard light are on.Erp (in bios)is enabled.can you help me?
Thank you
I made a Hackintosh based on this blog.
The difference is that the graphics card is GTX 1050 ti.
Thank you for your blog.
I have one question.
I added EmuVariableUefi-64 for Nvidia.
There was no problem with this,
Delete OsxAptioFix2Drv – 64.efi and EmuVariableUefi – 64,
I tried installing AptioMemoryFix.efi.
It works without problems.
If AptioMemoryFix.efi is OK, should I use it?
Or should you return to OsxAptioFix2Drv – 64.efi and EmuVariableUefi – 64?
Please give me some advice.
I’m using OsxAptioFix3Drv – 64.efi at the moment I havn’t tested AptioMemoryFix.efi, but if it works it works.
Thank you for reply.
Continue testing with AptioMemoryFix.efi.
The remaining problem is,
When shutdown, the motherboard LED does not turn off.
Is the LED of your motherboard turned off?
Sorry but how do you check if graphics acceleration is working?
PS: I don’t think sleep/wake is working…
Hi, thanks for you blog. I have a question about wifi. What extension card/dongle do you use? As Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 has no wifi build in. (but Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming Wifi has)
Thx
My build (z370xp sli) works just fine less the sleep/wake.
It wakes up by itself with bios disabled wake on lan.
Hi,
with the following machine:
Win10 on Samsung 960 EVO (pre-installed)
i7 8700 K
Gigabyte Z370 HD3P (no external GPU connected)
16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT
TP LINK WN881 ND (connected)
i followed all steps (choosing Italian Language) in this great guide, and used the EFI folder here kindly shared.
After the second boot, the installer returned the error:
“The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged”
I checked all the solutions written in this page:
http://hackintosher.com/guides/high-sierra-fix-macos-not-installed-computer/
but noway, using the EFI folder shared here i’ve no probs with:
– EmuVariableUefi-64.efi (it’s not in the zip file);
– SMBIOS: in the config.plist (is correctly written “18,3” value).
I tried to read the ia.log saved on the chosen installation drive (ADATA SX6000NP) but i see no speaking errors, maybe you see something in this log?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S4YvjMK-t3AtXfWNCEmDycDWQQ4T8cHR
Thanx in advance.
Alessandro
Solved !
The App Store didn’t download the complete file, i used this tool to get it:
http://osxdaily.com/2017/09/27/download-complete-macos-high-sierra-installer/
Now High Sierra is succesfully installed!
I’m totally new at this but I created the Bootable USB as done in the guide; my mac recognizes the Install High Sierra and EFI partitions on boot but my Arorus Gaming 7 board does not show the USB as a boot option even even after the recommended BIOS settings… What am I doing wrong?
Somehow I think the BIOS isn’t saving the the more important settings like XHCI Hand-off,
I had to reset the CMOS… 😀
Hello, I was wondering in how far it’s possible to controls the fans with this board.
Under Windows I have set it so that the case fans are off in idle, resulting in a virtually noiseless PC.
Since there won’t be a Mac version of the Gigabyte fan control software, how quiet can you get the fans using just the BIOS settings?
Hi! Thank you for all the work you put in these guides. I bought the same configuration as you, just with an 1070ti graphic card instead. I followed all the steps above and used the EFI from the comments below (http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GIGABYTE-Z370-AORUS-10.13.2-Hackintosh-EFI.zip). I could install the web driver for my graphic card, the card is recognized in the OS and activated. But the OS itself behaves very strange. It is very laggy after installing the driver. So if I try to move a window for example, it has always quite some delay and the movement is not smooth. Does anyone have the same problem or a soution for this? Thanks!
Hey, so I have almost the same build but I have a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB hard drive that I have installed the Mac OS X High Sierra. For some reason it does not boot into the Mac OS. When I try to boot I get the “Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key” message. I have made all the changes to BIOS and am kind of stuck now. I loaded the Mac OS X on the hard drive from a MacBook Air as though it was an external hard drive, everything went fine. I turned everything off when it was asking for country that I live in to set up the Mac OS. I feel like i’m missing something but cannot think of what it might be. could use some help. Thank you.
Hello , everything works fine , but there are some issues
1.sleep mode working but after add wi fi blotooth combo card sleep mode start not working monitors is black screen but mainboard and cpu fan still working , is like macosx cant get at sleeep mode wenn on maiboard is installed pcie combo card wifi + bluetooth ,
2.shud down i dont know why but on asus maiboard on z370 maximus x , and z370p prime , the shut down work fine , on gigabyte shut down isnt work and after shutdown hackintosh do self auto restart
3.the very important part of hakintosh is how to made work with thunderbolt card i have GC-ALPINE RIDGE but there is no way to do it to work ,
I have no luck getting the MacOS Installer to work on this board.
It stops very early on, on the Apple logo, no load bar is showing, -v shows a CPU related error message.
I have an 8700k, z370 gaming 7, 1080 GTX Ti.
Does this install guide need to be changed in any way? It’s now three months old after all…
Meanwhile I found out the problem was: I needed to tick the FixHeaders box. I never had to do this in all my previous hacks, but here we are. All sorted and up and running now.
dang I tried this but I still get the circle with the line in the middle after the bar gets around half way.
I like the way you write and report things…lol And need you’re advice. would Sierra work on such a build? I’m looking to upgrade from an I7 3770k Ga z77-ud5h build to a better video editing rig with a six core cpu. I,ve ordered already 2 1TB crucial nvme. I don’t plan on going high sierra because of software related issues premier pro and fcpx. I do use both… I am even considering a x99. doN,t necessarily want to go x-299 since compatibilité speed stepping and more seem their a this time, and a lot of hassle.
Yes I actually have used this system on Sierra, it works fine however you will wont a graphics card for proper graphical acceleration as the Coffee Lake iGPU can only gotten working on Sierra 10.12.6 in a sort of hacky way.
Hi,
I was trying to follow your instruction but i was kind lost on this step 2
“At Step 2 use the Gigabyte EFI instead of the one offered in the Guide when doing the transfer or copy/paste into the EFI partition”
What is Gigabyte EFI? is it a utility that you install?
Thanks!
It’s just a folder that contains boot files. You’ll understand where to put it following the guide.
Where can I find this folder?
The guide offers the following file “Hackintosher.com’s High Sierra EFI” but I can’t find any folder named “Gigabyte EFI” in it.
Thank you.
I edited that guide and forgot to remove that part simply use the High Sierra EFI
Amazing build! So much great info here! I am one step away from purchasing the same hardware but I have one important question. I have UAD/2 Satellite so I need thunderbolt to work. Is it possible to make it work on this machine? Thanks so much!
Hi Can you kindly include build details for GTX 1080/1060 instead of RX560 please. What are the changes insteps.
Hi followed your wonderful guide and overall most things work great. I’m having some issues with temp sensors. Ive looked at your guide for HWmonitor and placed all 5 of rehabmans 10/17 fakesmc kexts in the correct location in the efi partition but hwmonitor is showing incorrect temps of 300C plus and 8 cores. I’m running the exact build in your guide with rx580 gpu and ive OC’d to 4.7ghz. Any clues to getting correct temps and cpu info. thxs
Thanks for the great work on making this very nice guide! My build basically works nicely except for the following 4 problems:
(1) I am using internal graphic UHD630 connecting to 2 monitors. When the system boots, it hangs at the login screen (screen keep refreshing and you cannot login at all). If I unplug 1 monitor and use 1 monitor only, the login screen does not hang and I can proceed to login. After login if I plug in the 2nd monitor, the system recognizes the 2nd monitor but I can only perform screen mirror only but no split screen.
(2) Audio port mapping still has problem as reported by the others (only rear speakers works).
(3) Onboard lighting is still on after shutdown.
(4) Wake up from sleep, the fans will run at much higher speed.
Hi Chung,
any updates on configuration to get second monitor working?
I found the audio works fine on 10.13 but broke when I upgraded to 10.13.4, I may try it with 10.13.3 tomorrow and see if that works ok. I read someone else had fixed this with VoodooHDA
Excellent Guide! Thank you! have Aorus Gaming 7, 8700k and AMD Radeon Vega FE and worked without a hitch following the guide. The only thing is the fans are loud now. I have a NZXT H700i case with Kraken V62 cooler for CPU. When I am in Mac OS it seems definitely louder than when I am in Windows. Any suggestions would be great! thanks.
Hi! I have just the same MB and CPU, but Gigabyte 1070 instead of AMD card.
It’s working great with my current config.plist: https://www.dropbox.com/s/90hcisj25m7k2n9/config.plist?dl=0
When I’m using your EFI folder, everything working fine (sound, usb, etc — awesome), but hackintosh doesn’t detect my video card. I’ve added kexts from my EFI folder and made different changes to the config.plist, but nothing helped.
Would you please tell me what should I do to make my 1070 work with your EFI folder?
I’m trying to understand some differences between your EFI and the one I made for my GA Z370n-wifi and hoping I can get smarter.
Clover/Drivers64UEFI
Mine does not have OsxFatBinaryDrv-64. What does that driver do?
Mine does have EmuVariableUefi-64 . Any idea what it does?
Kexts
I have FakePCIID_Intel_HD_Graphics.kext and FakePCIID.kext and you don’t . that surprises me
You have codex commander.kext. what does it do?
Clover.config
ACPI: What do your Drop Tables Entries do?
I have PluginType under generate options, you have Generate PStates and Generate CStates. How do those differ?
Boot.
You have darkwake, dart=0 and -shikigva flag, I have darkwake=8, dart=0, disablegfxfirmware, and -shikivga flag. I cannot get sleep to work, i will have to try yours.
Devices. Yo have USB inject, add clock ID and Fix ownership. I have Inject, and Fix Ownership. What does Add clockID do? I also have intelGFX set to 0x59128086
Graphics, I have 0x5912000 in ig-platform ID, yours is blank.
Kext Patches, tons of differences. wowee
SMBIOS, i’m using 17.1
Wow. so many differences. I think i’m going to just try your EFI folder on mine and see what happens.
Do you have HDMI audio working? that’s important for me
Ok, that was a disaster. With your EFI, i think my machine was able to sleep, but when it woke up the flickering and jittering was insane. and no HDMI audio with yours. Still, i’m hopeful that by digging into yours vs mine I might be able to get mine to sleep happily.
Thank you so much for all. I just managed to install it and seem to work perfectly.
I was just wondering what setting you used for the overclocking of the CPU? I couldn’t find the automatic OC setting you referring to. Many thanks,
I got macOS running!
Only problem im having now is:
Glitchy screen/artifacts
processor info not showing in about this mac
my build is:
i5 8400
gigabyte z370 aorus gaming 5
Does anyone know what might be the issue or if there are fixes you can point me to?
HI There,
I am having lots of problems with my build.
How did you manage to get your PCI Samsung card to work? It won’t format my end. Is there anything I need to use to make it work, please. Also I am trying to install 10.13.4 which is the latest version. You mentioned Download: GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Hackintosh EFI. But how do I install this file? Can you please point me in the direction of a tutorial for this installation please.
So lost and to be honest a novice. Lost one day on installing and no sucess.
thank you
Hello,
Can i ask what keyboard and mouse you are using for this build?
I completed my build with almost same hardware just g skillz RAM. Thanks! Hackintosher
I was having issues with iMessage and FaceTime the ROM and MLB values were not sticking in iMessageDebug and the steps were also not working in your guide. So I had to use clover Bootloader after the install and have some emu value checked on there.
The system is still under test I will post any other issues.
Ok i followed this guide and build myself a hackintosh and followed your other guides to update high sierra to 10.13.3. I am on iGPU no grpahics card yet as prices are very high. Have 8700k and gaming 7 MoBo.
When i try to update to 10.13.4 i start having graphics issues. I updated my kexts and applied usb patch but the graphics issue dosen’t go. In Smbios I have selected iMac 18,3 .
I had to choose iMac 18,1 profile with iGPU now it works!
Which ram slots did you use? The manual is confusing and it seems like for the same ram you used, 2×16 Vengeance, it says the slots starting from the cpu outwards is 4,2,3,1. So how do i configure the ram. Which slots do I put both of them?
May I ask whether you integrated sound card work? I don’t seem to see mic, output etc. The only option that I have is HDMI audio output. Thanks!
Hi, could you please explain the steps necessary to get this going with just the integrated graphics?
I have a GTX 1080 card I’ll be installing later, but for right now I’d just like to get the baseline install working…
Thanks very much for this guide, I’ll be making a donation!
Hello, and thanks for the tutorial!
I’m trying to create a near identical build to yours (by coincidence and found your post while googling for which kexts I need). I’m using the same processor and motherboard as you. My gpu is a Radeon WX 5100.
Issue #1; When following this tutorial, when I mount the efi partition, there is no efi folder. I’m not sure if I missed a step, but as far as I can tell this is normal because the tutorial you linked completely forgoes running the clover configurator.. is this accidentally left out? Without running clover I don’t get very far at all…
Issue #2; I tried running clover and then pasting your EFI folder over the one generated by clover. This lets me start the high Sierra installer, but after the apple loading screen my monitor is just black. I tried tweaking the config.plist a bit to my best knowledge, but wasn’t able to get any further.
When I say my screen is black, I mean that the monitor is indeed getting a signal. I believe the issue may be to do with my graphics card only supporting Display port and that I I need a kext or plist fix for that. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I got the build fully working with unibeast, so I know the hardware is good, but I want to reformat the drive and reinstall osx the “right” way.
First and foremost thanks for spending the time to put both the guide and the config files together. I had been reading for a while about how simple these coffeelake builds have been and that combined with the need for TB3 and some more oomph led me to drop some money on some new hardware.
Ive spent two days trying to get this system up and running! (same config as you but with 64GB Ram and an Nvidia GTX1080Ti) And after some rather inexplicable problems I’ve finally got the system booted up and running osx. However…
Im suffering from random and regular reboots to clover, and with it this unstable its unusable for work and im pulling my hair out. Could you or anyone else suggest the best way to trouble shoot this since at the moment OSX isn’t giving me any obvious error messages!!
Many thanks again
Try if it works with 32GB of RAM. If it works, double check that your memory is compatible , check in the memory list of the Motherboard that your memory is compatible with 4 banks and have a look at this thread: https://hackintosher.com/forums/thread/solved-gigabyte-aorus-gaming-7-ram-issues.22/#post-191
Hackintosher, excellent write up! Is there a video card your recommend that will be plug-and-play, but has two DisplayPort outputs?
I want to feed dual 4k monitors @ 60Hz, and the easiest way is via DisplayPort, but the card you listed here on only (1x) DisplayPort (1x) HDMI and (1x) DVI.
Any ideas on an alternate AMD card that will have two DisplayPort outputs? Thanks.
Check out the part’s page I have a list of graphic cards https://hackintosher.com/guides/hackintosh-buyers-guide-2018-edition-coffee-lake-cpu-motherboard-gpu-ram-ssd-high-sierra/
Using Internal Graphics I’m having to enable -disablegfxfirmware or it reboots right at the end after complaining about the IGFX firmware. But this is causing screen anomalies and performance of Graphics is poor. I’ve ordered an RX 580 but as it stands it looks like the Internal Graphics are borked at least with 10.13.4.
All the problems appear to be caused by me trying to use High SIerra 10.13.4, I’ve done a clean install to 10.13 and everything functions correctly with the EFI folder you provided 😉
Including the audio which I couldn’t get working on 10.13.4 has anyone else successfully updated to 10.13.4 with everything working?
I’ve dropped an RX 580 in now so not too worried about internal graphics.
No reason it shouldn’t work in 10.13.4. Did you update AppleALC.kext and Lilu.kext to the latest versions?
Thanks for the reply and also the hard work, very appreciated.
Once I’d done a completely fresh install and migrated my data everything worked fine, I was trying to use a drive that was previously in my Mac Pro for ease.
Everything fully working on 10.13.4, only thing I did differently was enable -xcpm and changed Generate Options to PluginType and this seemed to work in the same way as generating SSDT for CPU.
The only audio issue is the output choice (Digital Out) isn’t persistent across boots, but I can live with that.
Again many thanks for the reply and the guide 🙂
I followed it all as of this tutorial. Have pretty much all the same components (ssd, mobo, ram) no graphics card.
Installed with opt out apfs, stops at 18min, reboots, then goes through to 0, reboots, black screen with apple and progress bar, goes to 100%, reboots, comes back to black screen with apple logo and progress bar, goes to 100% reboots… stuck in that loop forever. Anyone had this?
Check if VT-d is disabled in BIOS
The Digital Out only seems to push a stereo signal, no surround sound 🙁
Hi man,
First of all thanks a lot for your awesome guides.. i have the same config as you (aorus gaming 7 motherboard).. I made the bootable usb like you mentioned, changed the bios setting..
Now, the problem is that OS X is not booting, instead when i select boot from usb, it just shows clover boot manager page and its happening overtime.. OS X is not loading.. i used your EFI folder as well.. however, i created the high sierra disk image through disk utility instead of terminal like you asked..
Can you please help me out man.. i would really appreciate it.. I am really new to this
Thanks a lot
You need to create it through terminal and then modify the boot partition by adding a ‘EFI’ folder that contains will Boot Clover EFI Bootloader and give you a grey screen that will allow you to launch the installer, you can’t launch the Mac OS installer directly without Clover installed first.
Follow the steps exactly to the letter.
Let me know if you have any further questions!
thanks for your reply man.. so i followed each step using terminal.. i copied high sierra version 10.13.4 through terminal like its mentioned.. then i opened clover configurator, mounted and opened the EFI partition, and it was empty.. So i copied the EFI folder you provided for download for aorus gaming 7 into the partition..
Next i changed the bios setting exactly.. now the problem is when i am booting from usb.. they grey screen appears, but there is no option saying “install high sierra from the usb” like i should get, instead i see “open clover shell 64” and some other options..
Have tried so many times, but i can’t see install high sierra option when the grey screen appears.. I tried creating my own EFI through clover boot loader and replaced that with your EFI folder in my EFI partition.. now i can see install high sierra when grey screen appears, however i don’t trust my folder as i have no idea about kexts and stuff so i haven’t installed yet. i was hoping to work with your EFI so that i get all the working settings and kexts as i have the same motherboard..
Any ideas??
Thanks man..
1. You need to be booting from the UEFI: partition of the USB stick. 2. If “Install High Sierra from…” isn’t showing it’s because it wasn’t installed on the USB flash drive correctly. You’re best bet is to wipe the drive then transfer the EFI over again and run the installer ONLY through Terminal. Make sure to name your flash drive “Hackintosher” for the script to work.
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app –volume /Volumes/Hackintosher/
okay thanks man.. thanks for your help and the guide.. it still didn’t work for me unfortunately.. don’t know why
You need to verify Install macOS High Sierra.app is in the Applications folder of macOS then you run the script. which will cause the USB to be renamed to Install macOS High Sierra. Then you mount the EFI partition and transfer over the EFI folder.
It would be nice if you could share your overclock settings.
I have overclocked to 4.9 GHz and am not close to your geekbench (3000 Bellow)
But I didnt do any other settings than increasing the multiplier to 49.
You mention that you used the “auto overclock feature” of the motherboard. I dont see any such setting in the bios. Could you elaborate?
All I used was the auto overclock feature, but I then lowered the voltage down after that as it’s set kinda high with it. You can find it under CPU upgrade. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.guru3d.com/index.php%3Fct%3Darticles%26action%3Dfile%26id%3D34838%26admin%3D0a8fcaad6b03da6a6895d1ada2e171002a287bc1&imgrefurl=http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gigabyte-aorus-z370-gaming-7-review,6.html&h=544&w=725&tbnid=6O4FV51ATqI_WM&tbnh=194&tbnw=259&usg=__iOMY3yt-mMBMY29xNjjdN7qBR9U=&hl=en&docid=gJjW7vygpzQM4M
Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time answering. However this didn’t improve my geekbench. I’m still at around 28’000. And I have the same RAM, same MOBO, same pretty much everything except GPU. You remember the voltage you set?
I don’t remember the voltage, however that shouldn’t be the issue. This Geekbench score was before the whole Intel Meltdown debacle and in 10.13.2 there was a slight performance loss to patch it and that along with my extra .1GHz could give a 2000 multi core different. The only other thing that would affect the Geekbench score would be if you were running in single channel or dual channel RAM mode.
I used this utility to set a script up for persistent audio selection after boot: https://github.com/deweller/switchaudio-osx
Then I ran:
SwitchAudioSource -a
Which lists all your audio outputs I found they were named differently to how they’re named in System Preferences/Sound so this step is essential to find the actual name:
Built-in Output (output)
Built-in Digital Output (output)
I wanted Digital Out so used the following command:
SwitchAudioSource -s ‘Built-in Digital Output’
I then wrapped that into a startup script, all working fine now 😉
Mojave works as well, used patched clover and installed VoodooHDA v2.9.0d10 which fixes audio, seemed to the only thing that it broke.
Hello,
I followed your guide but can’t seem to get into the installer. Halfway the apple logo it panics and reboots. On the verbose log I can see some errors with loading LaunchDaemons that it could not find the file or directory. Any idea what to do? I have the same hardware..
Hello Shyne,
i’m in the same boat as you. did everything according to the rules but everytime i start osx from clover, halfway through (after kec.corecrypto 1.0) the system attempts restart and the system reboots.
have you found a solution for this yet?
Hey there.
So, I have built a hackintosh before with a different rig and decided to try again with my new setup. Same processor and motherboard as you have listed here. I am using onboard graphics to start.
I follow our instructions exactly and am at a total loss.
1.). When I replace the EFI folder with the one you provide in the guide, then when the Clover Bootloder starts, there is no option to boot from the MAC usb stick. I’ve tried several different USB ports, both 2.0 & 3.0 and still nothing. I don’t know what the issue is.
2.). You give a link in your guide to follow instructions for creating a Hackintoah and in THAT link, they have ANOTHER EFI download that they suggest to use. When I use THAT EFI folder instead of yours, then it DOES show the MAC option in the clover boot loader, but when I click on it, it shows the Apple logo and hen just hangs. Nothing.
So, neither your EFI folder or the other one is getting me there.
My Bios settings have all been adjusted to exactly what you say.
I’m at a total loss. Please help. (And thanks in advance, for sharing your knowledge)
Thanks
Hi,
I succesfully created a 10.13.4 build with a Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming Ultra 2.0 board and an i7-8700K based on this guide.
I am still struggling to use the RX580 for rendering in iMovie (does not render at all) and hardware accelerated rendering in Premiere Pro (system kind of freezes); I read some posts about this in this Forum that the Mac18.2 profile or 18.3 with a specific S/N might help (not yet tried).
I have one question regarding sleep and waking up: In principle it works very well, but when I wake up with a key stroke, I need to press several times to have an image on the screen. If I press only once a key, the system goes up, but no image and goes back to sleep. If I press repeatedly for a couple of seconds, it works. If I press the power key on the case, it all works perfectly within a couple of seconds.
Is this a known pattern of behaviour?
My last hackintosh was an x58 board. I’m learning all the new stuff. Don’t understand the whole efi file yet. Does that contain all the drivers ?
My build is similar to yours, just have 64 GB ram, and a Nvidia 980ti. I’m thinking of overclocking my i7 8700k because I have a huge liquid cooler.
Currently my computer says unknown processor. Not sure why?
Hoping to get my system running smoothly by the weekend.
Hello,
I cant install high sierra.. when i put my computer on the clover boot window opens and it only says “start uefi shell 64”. I used the gigabyte efi.
My specs:
i7-8700k
Gigabyte z370 gaming 7
samsung evo970 pro nvme m.2
crosair vengeance lpx 16gb
asus 1060 gtx 6bg.
I’m having the same issue, it boots but it doesn’t show the option to launch the installer.
Any suggestion?
i solved it. use the high sierra efi from this guide https://hackintosher.com/guides/high-sierra-install-full-guide/
Hello, first of all thanks for everything you do, you are amazing, I found your website a few days ago and it seems great. I have mounted a hachintosh with its guide and High Sierra 10.13.6 + intel 8700k + gtx 1060 + ga 370 ultra gamming and a pcie with bcm943602cs wifi + bluetooth. It has been running for 2 days, but now the bluetooh is disconnected a few times and it comes back after 20/30 seconds, the bcm943602cs worked without doing anything, puncturing it and working, but this is killing me … can you help me? THANK YOU!! I’m sorry for my english google …
Hi, since your build is a Coffee Lake intel, can you do a benchmark test for encoding using Compressor a 1 minute video to HEVC 8-bit and 10-bit? I want to know if the encoding is accelerated like the latest MBP. I’m planning a build with these specs.
I added up the price of these parts in case anyone needs it, the total amount is about $1500 dollars.
Also I wonder is Wifi and Bluetooth supported by the gaming motherboard or as a add-on?
I am currently really struggling through this install. I cannot get to the high Sierra installer. The apple status bar takes an hour at least to reach the end and stays there indefinitely. I even left it overnight. Woke up this morning and it was still there. I am trying to install high Sierra 10.13.6. I copied your EFI folder to be safe but still no luck. My mother board is the Gaming 7-OP model. It came with intel optane storage installed but i removed it. i got this board for 200 on sale from new egg. Normally was 270 dollars! I’m curious if the board is somehow incompatible because of the 7-OP in the name. I’m just really almost ready to give up on this and use it for a gaming PC. I have tried everything I can think of. I’m using an NVMe internal drive as well.
Hi, I have followed this guide, have identical hardware as well aside from my case (Corsair 750D Airflow Edition), but unfortunately none of my USB 3.0 ports are working. All other USB ports (2.0, 3.1) work and show up in system profile. Any idea on how I can fix this? Everything else seems to work OK.
For anyone with the same issue, I believe I have solved this by updating my BIOS firmware – it was on the F2 firmware, I updated it to the most recently released F7 (as of mid-September 2018) hardware.
Hello, I’ve been using your guide to create my own hackintosh. got all the same components with the exception of the NVME drive (it’s a 970) and a different power supply. If we use the EFI folder posted for download here and then boot from the USB then we don’t have the option to start the OSX installer in Clover. We then tried with the EFI provided in the guide that details how to create the OSX Clover USB drive. By using this EFI we were able to start the OSX installer but then halfway through the apple logo the system reboots. Have tried in verbose mode but the screen switches too fast to see what causes the kernel panic.
Any suggestion on how to Debug/Resolve this issue.
Thanks!
Issue has been solved.
The motherboard was the OP version (included Optane module).
Ths module is incompatible with OSX and caused the boot to fail about halfway through right after kec.CoreCrypto 1.0.
removing the module resolved the issue.
Just ran into a new problem. I use an external sound card (RME fireface uc) and always hear a crackling noise in my speakers when the sound card is connected through USB. I already tried a different soundcard, it has the same issue, also tried my soundcard om my macbook pro where it works perfect and tried a different USB cable with no luck.
When I move my mouse the noise changes…
any suggestions?
thanks
Hi
Like many other posters here. Thanks for posting so much information for fellow Hackintoshers. I haven’t done my build yet but have just bought the i7 8700k and the Gaming 7 motherboard.
I’m just about to purchase the graphics card and wondered whether you’d still chose the same graphics card now. I want to be able to run my 2 old Apple Cinema 30” Displays until upgrading to 4K at some point.
I’d also be interested if you would change anything else about the build. If doing it now.
Many thanks in advance for your reply.
Hi, great guide.. I got a question….
Everything works fine, but I noticed when I plugged a USB drive into the 3.0 socket (blue), the drive does not appear.
When the system goes to sleep the first time, it automatically wakes, and then drives do appear in the 3.0 USB sockets. Also to note, the system does not automatically wake after the first time.
Do you know what might be causing this? My settings are all the same as you’ve suggested.
Cheers.
Excellent guide! Followed with slightly different config (Z370 Ultra Gaming vs. Gaming 5, plus Alpine-Ridge Thunderbolt AIC) on Mojave and things are working more-or-less flawlessly. Wondering if you’d either 1) post an updated EFI bundle for Mojave or 2) at least detail how you setup your Clover EFI as I’d like to replicate a similar Z370 based config on Mojave.
could you do this build with a 7820x? I want a build which can handle native H.264 editing in Premiere or FCP X . I plan on running high sierra with an Nvidia card and X370 gaming 7
Hey.
I have the same motherboard and have followed the High Sierra install but I cannot get past the initial OS install. It starts loading and then reboots to the Clover screen.
I’d really appreciate some help as I’ve been stuck on this for says. Is there any way to copy the data I get from the Panic?
Thanks in advance.
Also, if I try to do it with the internal graphics card, on reboot I just have a black screen 🙁
Hi, is the optical port working?
Hi! I’m Ysyry, from Argentina. I made a build similar to this one:
– Intel i5 8400
– Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming 2.0
– 16 GB 2666 (Ballistix Sport, 2×8 GB)
– No discrete GPU, using Intel UDH, until I get a RX560
– Samsung EVO 960 512GB NVMe
Set BIOS as suggested by Hackintosher.
Using the EFI shared on this post, installation stucks just after showing the apple logo (progress bar less than 5%).
Can somebody help me?
Thanks!
This was a great build and all is working very fine. I’m using the Gaming 5 MB and the 8700K and am up to 10.13.6.
Two things I’d like to fix are:
1) Saving of desktop pictures after reboot. I have a 3 monitor setup with my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8191 MB and my desktop pictures chosen with System preferences never get remembered after a reboot.
2) Sound output to optical port after reboot. After I reboot, Sound always reverts to the Headphone port.
I think this has something to do with NVRAM saving, but I’m not sure. I’m using Clover Configurator to update my config file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I used this utility to set a script up for persistent audio selection after boot: https://github.com/deweller/switchaudio-osx
Then I ran:
SwitchAudioSource -a
Which lists all your audio outputs I found they were named differently to how they’re named in System Preferences/Sound so this step is essential to find the actual name:
Built-in Output (output)
Built-in Digital Output (output)
I wanted Digital Out so used the following command:
SwitchAudioSource -s ‘Built-in Digital Output’
I then wrapped that into a startup script, all working fine now 😉