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I'd been working on this computer since of the beginning of 2014 and I can say that OS X can be stable on it with El Capitan 10.11.4 What I've done : - replaced optical drive with an SSD - replaced the AR9485 with the BCM94352 Working : - Intel i7-4700HQ (near all P-States) - Intel HD 4600 with native screen resolution and gfx acceleration (1) - Sound - Realtek ALC668 (2) - Sleep (I only checked by closing the lid) - USB2 & USB3 (3) - Ethernet - WLAN with BCM94352 (4) - Bluetooth (4) - Elan touchpad - Keyboard - Battery (about 2h30 but my computer is near 3 years old) - Touchscreen - Webcam Not Working : - Nvidia Geforce 750M (disable by DSDT because the card is not connected to the screen or external ports) - SD Card reader (no drivers but passthought with VMware Fusion and Windows is working) Not checked : - sound on HDMI - Bluetooth Handoff (should be working) (1) HD 4600 Glitch at boot Glitch on install : close and open the lid Glitch on external display connection : close and open the lid or put the computer to sleep Brightness is working (2) Sound Configured AppleHDA but quality was not so good : VoodooHDA 2.8.8 + little mods of the plist work much better There is no sound from internal speaker is you reboot from Windows or shutdown with fastboot enabled. -> can be fixed with codec Commander (if you choose to use appleHDA) (3) USB USB 2 & 3 working All the ports are redirected to the XHCI drivers EHCI is never used USB2 ports : 3 external ports + USB Card reader + USB Webcam + USB Touchscreen USB3 ports : 3 external ports (4) WLAN 5 ghz working with clover patch bluetooth works most of the time but sometimes the firmware upload fails and you have to restart Note : config.plist is not completed. You have to add the serial number to get iCloud, iMessage, etc.. to work. I cannot share mines. Looks for TODO in the plist. Installation process : 1 - prepare OS X installer (Vanilla) 2 - install Clover EFI and use my clover folder (config + dsdt + kexts..) 3 - after installation, install BrcmFirmwareRepo and patchRam2 + VoodooHDA on /S/L/E TO DO : - clean DSDT - switch to AppleHDA (headphone jack doesn't work well) - bios patch to enable Haswell Lake Tiny A big thanks to all the people who have worked on it, like amokk - he has done most of work. I'm not the creator of the kexts or dsdt patch I used. We have to thank : - Rehabman - PikerAlpha - EMlyDinEsH - slice - Mieze - and all the others N550JV-OSX.zip

I don't think it's because the 10.9.5 update. I think you rebooted to windows. Reboot to windows, then right click on Windows button -> shutdown or log off -> shutdown. This will "really" shutdown your computer, not put it in the "fast startup shutdown mode" of windows 8. Simply reboot or shudown using the charm bar when fast startup is activated don't work. This issue is not only seen with OS X. If you try to use Linux, you will have the same issue with the internal speaker only. I don't really understand this issue, try to ask Asus

Lose sound : shutdown laptop when you are on windows -> don't use reboot or fast startup or audio won't work on os x or Linux. Network : which one ? Wireless or lan ? About the long boot time try booting in verbose mode : you should be stuck for a long time on "IOAPIC xxxxx". I'm working on it because I get this issue sometimes... I don't understand when and what it occurs but I'm trying to get more info...

Hi, I've got this issue some time ago. It disappeared one day. I think it's an nvram issue, I don't really understand. Try to boot your laptop with Mavericks 10.9.5 with a connected external screen (I was using mini Display Port). Each time you boot with the external screen connected, both displays will be OK. It's a strange issue... Then try to run the clover installer from your os x install, I THINK this has solved this issue, but I'm not really sure. I hope this will work for you. Tell me the result.

Hi yes the two solutions you explained work indeed I like a lot the solution of the disk image and I'm thinking about using it for my Windows To Go which I use on a lot of different computers ; and I can't be sure that Clover will work on them, so thanks for that However, with a standard install of windows, I'll prefer Clover for one reason. First of all, even if I'm lying Windows that it is running on UEFI, it's to use the latest techs : UEFI is replacing all BIOS computers. Yes at the beginning I was angry when I realize that my new laptop was sold with an UEFI BIOS. But after one year, I can say UEFI (and Apple EFI) is a good thing which simplifie the boot process : no more bootsector, just only a .efi binary to load from a FAT32 partition Loading are faster and booting (and preparing) is easier. But there is one more problem. A lot of computers are still working with a BIOS and UEFI computers have different UEFI with different fonctions. I see in the Clover project a wish to make a big unification of the boot process. I managed the three laptop of my family. Only mine is UEFI (Asus), the other one is an HP and the third is an ThinkPad. And Clover is working on the three. When I need to install an OS I don't have to think if I'm on BIOS or UEFI or to enter the BIOS to select boot drive : clover does the job. I just have to insert USB key and boot (in UEFI) and this works with all modern amd64 OSes Clover is in the same time the UEFI BIOS and the bootloader and it can be common on a lot of computer But I'm maybe not more than a poor idealist who dreams of seeing unified open source coming to the people However your solution is working and it can be used in all case even in some case where clover doesn't work. My previous post was a little hard with you and I apologize. You were and you are still in the true and, even if a prefer the clover's solution, your solution is working all the time

No, I can't I have sometimes some reboot : I can't boot OS X at all. But I've understand that if I wait 30s in power off state, all return normal... It's very strange... I've made some tests with Clover to see if NVRAM works but it doesn't work All the NVRAM seems to be messy. As I said previously, I can't have sound in OS X if I select "reboot" on windows. I have to shutdown the laptop then power on it again... Some things stay loaded even after power off it's very strange... It may cause the reboot problems we have. Other problems happen with this laptop : with some linux kernel versions (3.7-3.8 I guess) there is a bug which break the battery. I know it's hard to believe but yes I couldn't charge the battery anymore, even when the laptop was powered off !!! This laptop is pretty good for the price but it has some strange issues....

I will send you my folder again but you seems to drop only two ssdt tables and I drop 4. I don't what is the best, I just drop this tables because I think they are not needed by OS X (for example the DMAR tables make my T410 crash). Two more things : I inject a custom system-id and I have far less uefi drivers than you ! Why are you using two similar drivers in a same time, like HFSPlus.efi and VboxHFS.efi ? They do the same thing ! Same with OsxAptioFixDrv.efi and OsxLowMemFixDrv.efi --> Clover wiki tells us to not use the two in the same time. But if your folder is working it's good Oh and I've rename GFX0 device to IGPU in DSDT to load AGPM

First of all, you said you tried a tuto. Well, if you opened this topic, something fails in what you've tried. Try to find what . We can't help you if you don't tell us what is wrong . OS X was created and is updated to work on specific hardware (Apple Hardware). For example, there are only drivers (kexts in OS X) for the hardware you can find on Mac. But some great people create some kexts to allow us to run OS X on PCs . Installing OS X o a PC is not like installing windows : with OS X you will learn new things about your PC and his component, and about OS X itself (how it works). This is often the only way to have a stable OS X I know this can be a little difficult at the beginning, but we are here to answer to your questions Let's begin ! Try to start OS X in verbose mode Verbose mode means you will see a lot of log lines at startup instead of the OS bootlogo (an apple for OS X ) Don't be afraid of all this lines, you will understand what this means

When you use GUID, your BIOS wants to boot in UEFI mode so it expect to find an EFI partition in FAT32 fs. If you only install OS X, the BIOS only see a HFS+ partition and it cannot boot because HFS+ fs is not supported on PC. You may format your disk in GUID, create EFI partition (fat32, 300mb), and OS X partition (HFS+). Then install CLOVER EFI (the only osx bootloader which support UEFI boot) on EFI partition. After, if clover is not automatically detected, you can add the clover boot entry in the BIOS : Add new boot entry > select HDD partition > EFI directory > CLOVER > CLOVERX64.efi

@razorbacktrack @vampi13 Do you fix your issue of rebooting after loading drivers ? I've made a little video to explain what I mean when I talk about the "reboot bug". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbf5vaNMR9A In the video, the laptop reboot twice after loading drivers. I solve this by power it off for 30 secondes. I hope this can help you. Oh and BTW I'm working on 10.10 DP1 : all is working except QE/CI. This is a good start.

The app is only a GUI for the sensors kexts. These kexts are often bundle with fakesmc. Check if CPUSensors.kext is properly loaded (type kextstat in terminal). You can update fakesmc too. Check the update version by Rehabman : https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-FakeSMC-kozlek

OK after some tests we can say we have a lot of problem with our BIOS. Like I said previously, some variables are store on the system on the BIOS (?) (I don't really now where). Here the facts : I wanted to make my bluetooth card being detected by the laptop so I decided to flash the BIOS to clear these variables (I think). I flashed the same version as I used for 2 months : the 208 one. And now I have KP every time I use the laptop on battery power. I used OS X every day since 3 months and I never had this problem. I restore a time machine backup from a date where all were working good but the problem is always here. Something is stored somewhere and it mess our OS X install or the components detection (bluetooth). For example, if you shutdown windows normally (charm bar -> setting --> shutdown) you won't have sound in OS X. You need to disable to shutdown it without the fast boot. We need to find what these settings stored in our laptop to make it work with OS X. For your problems of reboot when booting try this : 1) Be sure you're on BIOS 208 2) Make vanilla install on a USB disk : restore OS X Base System on the disk, copy Packages folder to the right place and extract mach_kernel to the root of the USB disk 3) Make Clover USB key : UEFI install 4) replace the EFI folder on the USB key with mine 5) Reboot to BIOS 6) Keep all default settings except secureboot (disabled) 7) Try booting (always in verbose for debugging (press space key on clover menu)) 8) If you reboot after Clover loading drivers, shutdown the laptop remove power supply and let it shutdown 2 minutes 9) Try again to boot after the 2 minutes WITHOUT booting others OS (Be sure windows 8 is not hibernated) You should always shutdown Windows by right clinking on windows start button then shutdown or the sound will not work in OS X and sometimes dualboot.

What's your BIOS version ? The DSDT provided in the EFI folder is extracted from BIOS 208 so if you have another version it can cause some issues... I'm going to write a more detailed guide in some days, I hope it will work for you ; otherwise we will dig together to understand what's wrong

EDIT : Bluetooth disappear suddently one day. Tried to flash the BIOS : nothing. Reboot to linux, windows, OS X : no one can see it. I can't understand

First of all, do you have sound working ? If yes and if you don't use VoodooHDA, I presume you have a patched AppleHDA. Check in the MIDI app if your the subwoofer is detected and try to select it as default device to see (or heard ) if it works.