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Boot in verbose mode to see where it hangs. If you're lucky, you won't encounter artifacts with BIOS A18. Our experiences are that it will after A12. What does computrace have anything to do with Downgrading the BIOS?

Try this bootpack, follow Clover guide here E5430_A12.zip

See if you could disable Wake on LAN / USB / WLAN / Bluetooth / AC, if they exist in the BIOS.

Updated your files for High Sierra Replace files to /EFI/Clover with the attached I find that with your Config and ACPI folder, sleep does not work, it only sleeps the display. With my files, still need to enable FixHeaders, sleep works. 5510_HS.zip

What happens when you close the LID? What happens when you select sleep from the Apple menu?

Restore the version of the kexts that were untouched (non patched/modded). You can find them in your USB installer, assuming your installer is not a Distro.

Why do you patched these kexts when using Clover? and what patches were done to them? AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB AppleIntelFramebufferCapri Restore them to the vanilla kexts.

what happens when you try to put it to sleep? Make sure to disable hibernation as it's a prerequisite to get sleep & wake to work on a Hackintosh: sudo pmset hibernatemode 0 sudo rm -f /var/vm/sleepimage sudo pmset hibernatefile /dev/null run this command and post the output here after failure to sleep log show --style syslog | fgrep "Wake reason"

Just use the bootpack from the Sierra guide, just need to update Clover, some kexts and Config file. See here I did not notice any garble screen before or after sleep. My setup is also an i5 but with 1920x0180 resolution.

"..all works great now.."....what does that include? Audio working? Audio Fn keys working? Brightness working? Brightness Fn keys working? Sleep and wake? Touchpad working with multitouch? Keyboard Backlit working? You did nothing wrong, just incomplete steps. You need to patch DSDT for brightness, sleep, audio and other fixes. You need the locate and install the correct audio kexts for your device, just lots of research and testing. Resources: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1948-elan-focaltech-and-synaptics-smart-touchpad-driver-mac-os-x/ https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1968-fn-hotkey-and-als-sensor-driver-for-asus-notebooks/ https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2167-display-backlight-driver-for-asus-notebooks/ Note: File/kexts I added is upgradable to latest 10.12.6

Adding to Schiller's instruction: By default upgrading HS on an SSD drive, it'll automatically convert to APFS format. If you want to keep HFS+ format, run this command instead of launching the "Install MacOS High Sierra.app" /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --converttoapfs NO If you want to install to a different partition/drive /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --volume /Volumes/"targetdrive" --converttoapfs NO/YES Note: Repair permission and rebuild cache if you lost audio after upgrade. Fresh Install: You can now do fresh install of High Sierra with HFS+ format with USB installer created using "createinstallmedia" 1) Make the USB installer via Terminal with "createinstallmedia" sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/"target_USB" --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app --nointeraction Note: targe_USB = name of the USB drive you're writing to 2) Install Clover, add appropriate bootpack 3) Boot with the USB installer, start Disk Utility and initialize your SSD as an HFS+ drive 4) Open the terminal in the USB (on the menu bar click Utility>Terminal), and launch this command /Volumes/"Image Volume"/"install macOS High Sierra.app"/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --volume /Volumes/"HighSierra" --agreetolicense --converttoapfs NO Note: HighSierra = name of the drive you're targeting 5) System will auto reboot after files has been copied 6) Boot with USB installer, select "Boot macOS Install from HighSierra". Installation will continue installing and reboot (Might have to do this rebooting a couple of times) 7) Boot with USB installer, finish the customization 8) Install Clover to newly installed drive, copy bootpack from USB installer to installed drive Source: https://malcont.net/2017/09/how-to-upgrade-macos-to-high-sierra-without-filesystem-change-hfs-to-apfs/

Post your Clover folder for review. post any custom kexts you have installed to /S/L/E or /L/E

remove these from your system RealtekALC.kext IntelBacklight.kext HDAEnabler13.kext Replace the attached into /EFI/Clover kexts in /EFI/Clover/kexts/Other/LE needs to go into /Library/Extensions, repair permissions and rebuild cache Make a backup first of course TP500L.zip

Try this bootpack E7450_840m_HS_A15.zip

change 0x01660003 to 0x01660004 and enable DualLink =1

Copy the folder ssdtPRGen.sh-beta to ~/Library and rename it to ssdtPRGen run in terminal cd ~/Library/ssdtPRGen ./ssdtPRGen.sh answer no and no. copy the generated SSDT.aml to /EFI/Clover/ACPI/Patched

latest versions are HS compatible Lilu.kext v1.1.7 IntelGraphicsFixup.kext v1.1.6 IntelGraphicsDVMTFixup.kext v1.1.8 AppleALC.kext v1.1.4 https://github.com/vit9696/Lilu/releases https://github.com/vit9696/Lilu/blob/master/KnownPlugins.md

You boot into your system's BIOS

Yup. I'll take a look at your file and update it here. What BIOS version is it running?

Try this Config config-HS.zip

Can't determine what codec is on that system. You might have to either do a codec_dump with Ubuntu or check Windows device manager. Look for a string under audio/realtek/hardwareID...something with vendorID and prodID. Most Asus use ALC255 but I can't be sure for your system.

User create installer method. Note: Untitled" is name of your USB Installer, rename it as you please. All data will be wipe! sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --nointeraction

Post system's specs and Clover folder for review. If you don't have patch DSDT/SSDT, then boot to Clover GUI, hit F4. Then boot to OS X, compress and attach the Clover folder after. Can you post DPCIManager screenshot of Status as well?

Try changing under Graphics ig-platform-id = 0x19260000

OMG! Good eyes! Yes, change the dash to a dot.