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    Stuck at "Generation from SMC report as 2"

    I'm currently in the process of converting an Optiplex 7070 into a Hackintosh. I have absolutely no clue about OpenCore, but Clover runs great on the 3 Hackintoshs I've built so far, even with AMD Ryzen. The hardware: i3 9100 UHD 630 (iGPU) 8GB single-channel RAM 860 Pro 512GB As EFI, I took...
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    Dell Optiplex 3020 SFF i5-4570 8gb stuck on a screen

    I am using opencore and everytime i go to boot into the usb it stops here i have been working on this for about a month now and i could really use some help
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    Hackintosh stuck at ROOT

    I followed the guide from Brandon Yen on youtube "macOS Big Sur Hackintosh Guide - No macOS Required!". When I startup from the USB and choose macOS base system (External) It will start and then stops at the line "root". Don't know what I did wrong, hope someone can help. My pc setup: MSI B250...
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    [HELP] Internal USB Issues (BT+CAMERA) + No Battery Status

    Hey guys, really hope someone can help me with this laptop as I couldn't find anything for it online It is the HP Envy 13 aq1050 i7 10510U 16GB RAM 256 SSD (replaced) DW1560 I am having issues getting battery status to work properly. I somehow managed to get graphics acceleration and sound...
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    Can't get Catalina to install Razer Blade Stealth 2019

    I am able to get to the part where I format the disk. I format the entire 1tb nvme ssd as apfs. The specs are a core i7, and the mx150. After looking on the forum I see that it's not listed, but there is an article I read that they were able to do it with the same laptop as mine. I'm able to get...
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    Please help Me I am not able to get past this error

    I am trying to install hackintosh high sierra. I am not able to get past this screen with the error: "apfs__module_start:1279". Can Anyone please help me?
  7. OtherTobi

    Install stuck on Apple logo

    Been trying all day to install MacOS high sierra on a MSI z390-a pro with a i7-9700k, the bar on the installer gets stuck at 100% I've been following this guide for high sierra, but it's for a z370, however, I saw someone using the same guide to install manjaro and it worked for him, so I...
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    XPS 13 9350 Catalina Sleep/Wake Black Screen

    Hey guys, hope all is well. I would really love some help on this issue. I've been compiling a guide for Catalina on the XPS 13 9350 but I have run into a couple problems and I would really really love some help. 1) Sleep wake does not function properly, just reverts to a black screen on wake...
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    First build high end dual boot PC (advice requested)

    Hey everyone! I'm planning to finally build myself a good PC (I'm still running a 2007 iMac). I'm reasonably mechanically minded, and like a nice challenge, so it seemed like a good idea to take on the task of building it myself. I started digging around a bit, discovered the hackintosh...
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    MBR Hackintosh doesnt boot freezes on opendirectoryd crashed: too many corpses

    I made an MBR Hackintosh on a vhd file and it works fine in VMware. I copied to the MBR partition in my computer and it shows up in clover. When I boot with clover it eventually freezes on Process[xxx] crashed: opendirectoryd. Too Many corpses and also says something about a shared region...
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    Accidentally removed Windows drive from bootloader via terminal command

    I used this command: diskutil info disk0s2 | grep -i "Partition UUID" | rev | cut -d' ' -f 1 | rev But I accidentally removed the wrong disk and now my main windows drive is not appearing in the bootloader. I can't figure out how to get it back. I tried resetting my windows drive, but I kept...
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    MSI GF65 9SD Laptop Catalina Problem

    Hey guys, just bought a new laptop MSI GF65 9SD with an Intel® Core™ i7-9750H Hexa Core, 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2666MHz and an Intel® UHD Graphics 630 + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR5. I always wanted to try an use Mac OS and now that I have a decent laptop I was giving it a try. I downloaded...
  13. sstrads

    Help!: NUCintosh, first build.

    So sadly, one of the main reasons I simply can't switch to Windows is because most of the software I need for work runs exclusively on Mac and due to the incredibly stupid prices Apple is charging for current models I needed to look for other options. My line of work is mainly based on audio...
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    Going to attempt my first Hackintosh build. Will these parts work?

    Hey, sold my RTX 2070 today and bought the Powercolor RX5700 XT (coming next week). My setup will be: CPU: i7 9700k GPU: PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil 8GB MB: MSI MPG Z390 GAMING EDGE AC RAM: 16GG DDR4 3200MHz SSD: 240GB Kingston HDD: 2TB Barracuda. Case: Corsair Carbide Series 275R...
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    Stuck at apfs_module_start:1683

    Hi everyone, I am trying to install hackintosh on my laptop and I did everything I could find on the internet to fix this issue and still no luck getting it to boot into the installer.Below is my laptop model and and attached is my EFI. Please help, thanks in advance. Laptop model: Asus...
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    Stuck at grey screen with a white box and cursor | Vanilla Catalina i7-7700k RX580 H270M-ITX/ac

    I'm trying to install Catalina fresh onto my setup. I set up the installation USB via the Vanilla Hackintosh method. However, every time I boot I get stuck on this page: As you can see my cursor is on there; however, if I click on the white box then my cursor disappears permanently. It stays...
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    Can't boot the USB installer due to RAM mapping errors

    I've created several USB installers from Sierra to Catalina using the vanilla way and Unibeast on different USB drives. None of them can boot from Clover to the macOS installer on a HP ProDesk 600 G1 SFF. After selecting the macOS Installer in the Clover boot selection, it shows some messages...
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    Dell Latitude E5540 - First Time Hackintosher

    Hey Folks - First off, this site is great and has been a wealth of knowledge for me trying to figure out how to go about creating a Hackintosh, so thank you for all the content you've provided to date. I will readily admit I am a completely new to this, and as such, will probably ask or say...
  19. CitizenSal

    Purple Picture and No Sound. Help please [EFI Attached]

    Hi so I posted before about my clover booting slow and during the advice given I messed up and lost everything. I've managed to start again with a backup and fresh install and well, the result is, everything working bar Purple picture and no sound. I did a verbose run and it said something about...
  20. CitizenSal

    Hackintosh booting slow

    Hi! I’ve had my hackintosh since April and it’s been running great. But recently it has been taking a long time to boot up and into the clover boot menu. I’ve had to restart my computer 3x to get it to boot into clover menu. I’m not really sure what could have happened My BIOS is all correctly...

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