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Sierra 10.12.3 Hackintosh | Asus z170-A, Intel i5 6500, MSI GTX 960 OC, GTX1070(Dormant)
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Sierra 10.12.3 Hackintosh

Build

  • Asus Z170-A
  • Intel Core i5-6500
  • Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
  • MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GB
  • (DORMANT) EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC Gaming
  • 2x Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
  • Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
  • NZXT S340 (White)
  • Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum
  • 4x Phanteks PH-F140SP_BK 82.1 CFM 140mm Fan

Setup Guide

I. Setup USB Thumb drive

  1. Creating the boot drive
  2. Download and drag to thumb drive

II. BIOS settings (make sure BIOS is up to date)

  1. Ai Overclock
    • AI Overclocker Tuner > X.M.P.
  2. Advanced Items
    • System Agent (SA) Configuration > VT-d > Disable
    • PCH Configuration > IOAPIC 24-119 > Disabled
    • XHCI Handoff > Enabled
    • USB Configuration > Legacy USB Support > Auto
    • USB Configuration > XHCI Hand Off > Enabled
    • APM Configuration > Power on by PCI - E/PCI > Disabled
  3. Boot Menu
    • Fast Boot > Disabled
    • Boot Logo Display > Disabled
    • Secure Boot OS > Other OS
    • Boot Option 1 > USB Thumb Drive, UEFI Volume
  4. Exit > Save Changes

III. Install OSX

  1. At Clover boot screen, choose Boot Mac OS X from USB
  2. Disk Utilty
    • Select Target Disk
    • Erase > Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
  3. Don't bother to enable Network, Location, or Reporting nothing to be done now.
  4. On reboot select MacOS on *Target Drive* on the Clover boot screen

IV. Setting up the Machine

  1. Multibeast
    1. Drag and drop Multibeast to Application folder
    2. Run Multibeast and select the following settings:
      • Quick Start > UEFI Boot Mode
      • Drivers > Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 100 Series Audio Drivers > Disk > 3rd Party SATA
      • Drivers > Misc > FakeSMC
      • Drivers > Misc > FakeSMC HWMonitor
      • Drivers > Network > Intel > IntelMausiEthernet v2.2.0
      • Drivers > USB > Increase Max Port Limit
      • Bootloaders > Clover v2.3k r3766 UEFI Boot Mode
      • Customize > System Definitions > iMac > iMac 14,2
    3. Save your config
    4. Run and Close
  2. Fixing Ethernet Device Name (needed for apple store etc.)
    • In Terminal run sudo rm /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist
  3. Clover Configurator
    1. Mount EFI partition !(z-mount-efi.jpg)
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