Lost-Entrepreneur439

literally everything in this computer is compatible except for the wifi

well in my case i don't really have a choice, it can't be replaced in this laptop.

I got some Acer laptop which has an AR5B22 (AR9462 chipset) Wi-Fi card, and it can't be replaced. I replaced the laptop's Pentium with a spare i5 I had laying around and installed High Sierra on it, and mostly everything is working, except for the Wi-Fi, even the Bluetooth works perfectly, but the Wi-Fi just isn't detected at all. Right now for Wi-Fi I have to use a Realtek USB adapter, which requires chris1111's software and SIP disabled, I'd rather just using the internal Wi-Fi, as I hate the USB adapter sticking out of the laptop (this laptop is already big enough, i don't need it to be even bigger), and I'd like SIP enabled. Does anyone know how to get this Wi-Fi card working in macOS?

so, update, this system has suddenly decided it's now going to accept my RX 580. I did reflash that card's VBIOS so I don't know if that fixed it, but whatever the case is, this issue is essentially resolved as I now have a dGPU and can just use two HDMI monitors with that.

Well, first of all, let me make this clear, it is not a VGA port internally. Intel removed support for VGA back in the Skylake days, so it is very much impossible for it to be VGA internally, and the way every manufacturer worked around it was by converting to DP internally. Some Googling can confirm this. The issue isn't that I have a VGA screen, the issue is it's all the system has. HDMI and VGA is all Acer put on this system, and I need dual-monitor support. I also can't get a dGPU, because Acer doesn't let you. This system doesn't send any video output with a dGPU connected unless an OS loads the driver for that dGPU, and after doing some research, this is what most low-end Acer systems do, they're hard-coded to only let you use the iGPU.

I have an Aspire TC-780, a while back I did the connector patching for HDMI, but now I want to get VGA working too. As this is a Kaby Lake machine, VGA should be DisplayPort internally, as it has been since Skylake, and I verified this by booting in VESA mode, and indeed, I did get VGA output there. If it truly was VGA internally, it wouldn't work, even in VESA. Without VESA, I get no signal after verbose, I figured I just needed to do connector patching, typical hackintosh things, so I just enabled screen sharing, turned it on with the VGA monitor and connected into it on another hack, but here's the issue: macOS isn't even detecting the VGA monitor. It's not like it's outputting to an incorrect connector, no, there's straight up no display0 in the ioreg, it's acting like no monitor is detected. I checked, and framebuffer 0 and 2 are already set to DisplayPort, 1 is set to HDMI from previous connector patching (it was DisplayPort originally). My only guess is I need a 4 connector-count framebuffer, but Kaby Lake desktop only has 3 connector-count framebuffers, so I'm not sure what to do in this case. Is there any hope of getting VGA working? I am currently running Ventura. Some kexts are missing from my EFI, I had to remove them to get it to fit in the 3.78MB file size limit, they are still in the config.plist. EFI.zip

I generally work with the parts I already have, and the 2400 PRO is all I have. It's fine though, I'll just use Leopard on this system. It's not a daily use computer anyways, just a project box.

I managed to get it to boot with the Radeon HD 2400 PRO, however for acceleration I had to use Leopard. Snow Leopard and later I can't get acceleration. This really sucks, because theres normally people developing stuff for legacy OS's, this is how I was able to get away with using my D630 on Snow Leopard as a daily laptop for a while, however for Leopard there isn't anything. While there is some people developing for Leopard, it's all PowerPC only, and just crashes on Intel. If anyone has any ideas on how I could get at least Snow Leopard (or anything later) running, please let me know. I'm using AGPMInjectorHD2400.kext and Natit.kext to get acceleration in Leopard.

I prefer building my EFIs myself, so I'd rather use my own EFI. I know i probably should switch to an older bootloader like Clover or Chameleon but I can't find any good guides for them. I do have a spare Radeon 2400 PRO laying around, and I did try it, but I couldn't get any form of acceleration in either El Capitan or Snow Leopard.

After the verbose, this system just shows a white square and nothing else. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? EFI.zip

I recently decided to fix my Presario 2500, as I wanted to use it as a machine for early windows+dos games, however just for fun, I'd like to do an old OS X hackintosh on it. I believe the CPU should be supported up to Leopard, but I can't find much info on the GPU. One thread said they got full resolution in Tiger (no info about QE/CI however), and one said it's sister card (iirc same thing but with worse shaders) didn't get QE/CI in Leopard. Does anyone here know if it's supported? Basic specs: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz (Northwood), ATI Radeon IGP 345M, 128GB SanDisk Extreme MicroSD (connected via sd to ide adapter)

I am running Sequoia with OCLP. Whenever I try to enable FileVault on my E6430, I just get the error "incorrect password", my password is being entered correctly however, how do I fix this? I've only uploaded my config.plist as my full EFI compressed is over the file size limit. config.plist.zip

I've heard mixed things about VGA on the E6x30 series, some people saying it does work, other people saying it doesn't, it's currently NOT working for me, nothing happens when I plug in my VGA cable. If VGA is supported on the E6430, how do I fix it? I have a VGA-only monitor that still looks great despite it's age, and it would be nice to use it with macOS on my E6430. EFI is attached to this topic. EFI.zip

I have a Dell Latitude D630 running Snow Leopard with OpenCore, and I have an ACPI patch I need to boot into Mac OS X, however this patch doesn't play nicely with Windows, and causes an A5 BSOD. Is there any way I can get that patch to only load in Mac OS X and not Windows? zip file attached has my ACPI folder, config.plist and my DSDT. D630ACPI.zip

The 5401 uses an Alps I2C touchpad, I'm not sure how to identify exactly which model it is, but looking at other 5401 EFIs on GitHub, all of them use the same kexts I have, AlpsHID, VoodooI2C, and VoodooI2CHID.

macOS keeps acting like I'm suddenly holding another finger on my touchpad, and its made my touchpad essentially unusable. I don't have this issue in Windows or Linux. How do I fix this? EFI: https://files.catbox.moe/0ga2ck.zip

I would prefer using OpenCore, I don't know how to make a Clover EFI and this laptop has some hardware issues which makes it difficult to reinstall macOS if I would have to reinstall (I'll go into detail later in this post) I am getting acceleration, my screen resolution is correct, my VRAM shows up as 288MB in about my mac, stuff like transparency is working, and there's no screen tearing. If you're curious about the hardware issues - For some strange reason, this laptop fails to cool the CPU properly outside of Windows, Linux is basically impossible to get working, and while macOS works for the most part, the laptop does tend to overheat and shutdown when installing or updating macOS, just to get macOS installed, I had to remove the laptop's keyboard and palmrest, and hold a fan directly above the CPU's heatsink, just to stop the CPU from overheating.

I installed macOS High Sierra on a Dell Inspiron N5040, and while I got mostly everything working on the first attempt, there's some minor issues I'm having, these are the issues, how do I fix them? 1. Sleep is not working, when I attempt to put the laptop in sleep mode, the backlight just turns off, and the screen just turns on and off every few seconds, not actually entering sleep, and when "waking" from sleep, the laptop's backlight does not come back on, you have to reboot to get the backlight back. 2. I am unable to adjust the screen's brightness. I do have SSDT-PNLF, I made it using SSDTTime. 3. The laptop is unable to detect power source changes, if I boot macOS with the charger connected, when I disconnect the charger, macOS still says the charger is connected, and vice versa. This has the lowest priority for me to fix as the laptop's battery only lasts for about 10 minutes therefore I'm almost always running it off the charger, but it still would be nice to fix. EFI is attached to the post. EFI.zip

14.4, 0.9.8 Release. I'll disable SecureBootModel and let you know about the results. Disabling SecureBootModel fixed it, Sonoma is now working with no issues, thank you!

im trying to install Sonoma on my Latitude 5401, however on the second phase, it reboots at 22 minutes remaining, then goes into this reboot loop. Anyone have a solution? Ventura works fine. The ZIP file contains a video of the bootloop and my config.plist Archive.zip

I have made progress with modernizing the kexts and bootloader, I have managed to get a 2020 version of Clover running and I'm using mostly modern kexts now, only exception being VoodooHDA because AppleALC didn't want to work for some reason. The latest version of Clover doesn't work, it gives me the same 0x1 error as OpenCore. So far I have managed to fix the shutting down/rebooting issue and the battery issue.

I managed to get OS X installed again, the additional voiceover voices pkg got corrupted, and over my time using it, I have discovered more issues, specifically the battery percentage isn't showing in the menu bar (tried enabling it in settings but it just vanished again, and settings said my battery was at 0%), and I find the touchpad is really glitchy, sometimes just randomly scrolling. I feel a lot of the issues could be fixed by using modern kexts (like lilu, virtualsmc, applealc, etc.) and a modern bootloader like Clover or OpenCore, however I can't use a modern bootloader, OpenCore fails to load the kernel with the error "0x1" and there's nothing like the Dortania guide for Clover so I have no idea how to make an EFI for it, and most modern kexts require Clover/OpenCore and don't support Chameleon (including Lilu and any of the kexts that rely on it, which is most modern kexts.). It works well enough for normal use for now though, I'm actually writing this message from my D630.

another issue, not 100% sure if this is an all D630s issue or just a me issue, but Mountain Lion seems to have trouble installing, i had some trouble installing it the first time but eventually got it installed, but then I had to connect my D630's SSD to my desktop, and I didn't eject it when removing it, because of that, macOS chose to write protect the entire partition and I was forced to format it, and now no matter what I do, it always fails here. I tried redownloading the OS X installer, and installing OS X to a different SSD, but no matter what I did, it would always fail at the same spot. I'm going to try installing Lion then upgrading to Mountain Lion, since I've never had any issues installing Lion. Update - i didn't actually test with a different USB, and Lion randomly shut off during the install, and when I tried to boot it again, it was going at slow DVD speeds, and with those kinds of speeds, OS X would take hours to install, assuming my USB failed, trying with a different one now.

I created a patched version of MyHack v3.3.1 that fixes the "killed: 9" issue when attempting to run it on modern macOS. It's helpful for people who want to do a legacy hackintosh but only have access to modern macOS. It still launches on old OS X versions too. I tested it and confirmed it works on Sonoma. myHack.zip

i did manage to fix the wifi, i did make an update saying that, i downgraded the airportd daemon, and i already had broadcom43xxfamilyrev2 or whatever the kext was called.