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"Wrestling with the system"... very likely to begin with, it's a Skylake platform afterall. "forever"... who knows? Check whether your AMD FirePro card is supported or not. Integrated Intel HD P530 may be supported by faking regular Intel HD 530. NVMe SSD may require driver and/or patch. Your Intel wireless is not supported and would require to be replaced by an OS X compatible card/dongle. There are already several threads related to the Precision 7x10 range; I suggest you read them up.

If it's an Apple model, expect it to work OOB without any patches or add-on kexts. If it's not an Apple's model (eg: DW1830), then you may still require all of those kexts and patches. Just read-up what Rehabman's described on his repo/blog.

More likely to be a USB issue. Make sure you've renamed your USB controllers from "EHCx" to "EH0x" in the DSDT (actual DSDT file patching or Clover on-the-fly patch) and you use a USB injector kext (own-built or Rehabman's USBInjectAll).

I assume your audio interface is USB connected. Check your BIOS to USB Wake option and, if enabled, disable it.

The HP Zx00 workstations must be something like 8yrs old now...

It's not really a Hackintosh matter. Just remove the partitions from Windows, using the DiskManager tool. You'll then be able to reformat the recovered disk space to NTFS or even extend your windows partition if it's the 1st one on disk (I mean before the OS X partition). Once you remove the EFI partition, you'll probably find you'll have to re-instate your MBR, so be ready to boot from your Windows installation media to repair this.

What happens when you press Fn-Insert multiple times?

Dev Micky1979 @IM just released a new Enoch boot file r2851 that includes a number of fantastic new developments, including on-the-fly kernel + kexts patching facility. This allows similar mods to what was restricted to Clover until now. Ace! http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231075-chameleon-23svn-official-pkg-installer-binaries/page-204?do=findComment&comment=2376053

No impact to be expected..

And its purpose is to support USB2/USB3 multiplexing over USB3.0 ports, i.e. manage USB2.0 devices through the EHCI driver instead of the XHCI driver.

Good; please note that FakePCIID_XHCIMux does not operate without FakePCIID kext; well, afaik.

If you want them cached, they must go to /L/E. This is faster to load. If you placed them in Clover's EFI, they'll be injected at startup, not cached and you won't see any traces of them in SysProfiler for instance.

No support for such tools here... You can Google for ways to create a OS X USB installer from Windows. I've never tried it myself but I believe there are a few ways. You'll find examples at InsanelyMac. Ex: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288795-guide-creating-os-x-usb-installer-using-a-windows-pc-only/?do=findComment&comment=2012539 The alternative you may consider is to use a virtual machine. You'll find video tutos on YouTube. Ex:

Personally, I always recommend to install add-on kexts to /L/E from where they can be cached. The folder is dedicated to 3rd party drivers after all... Only install kexts to /S/L/E if it's absolutely necessary. Repair folders permissions and rebuild cache through the usual Terminal commands afterwards.

If you look up packs posted in El Capitan/Sierra Clover guides (any computer model really), most config.plist file will contain the ACPI patch for renaming USB2.0 controllers from EHCx to EH0x in the DSDT. Use Clover configurator tool to view the files. You'll find Rehabman's USBInjectAll kext through a very basic Google search.

Lack of USB-internal webcam detection is unlikely to be linked to a BIOS version. Instead, It's more likely to be a consequence of the well-known USB port issues that have cropped up since El Capitan. Make sure you've: patched your DSDT to rename all EHCx references to EH0x (can also be done on the fly through Clover) installed a USB injector kext (Rehabman's USBInjectAll should do)

Where's the confusion? The article gives 2 x examples... 1.30f3 which translates to 6bytes key 01 30 0F 00 00 03 1.33f8 which translates to 6bytes key 01 33 0F 00 00 08 The article also points to the Apple EFI and SMC firmware update pages which lists many many SMC keys as x.yyfzzz. On that basis, I would have expected you could properly translate 1.39f11 into 6bytes (i.e. 12digits, not 13!) key 01 39 0F 00 00 11.

If your KP was AICPUPM related, then yes it's Ok to activate AsusAICPUPM. You should probably remove P States and C States generation also. Sounds like your CPUs are actually Sandy Bridge generation. You're sure they're Xeon 5520?

No apparent native CPU PM in placed at all... I would not expect you need to select/activate "Drop OEM" in the ACPI->SSDT section of your Config.plist. Double check for any rogue NullCPUPM kext left over in /L/E or /S/L/E. If found, delete the kext and rebuild your cache.

NullCPUPM = no CPU power management, so yes, delete all active traces of the kext after native CPU SpeedStep tuning is done.

Those specs are compatible with Sierra, except the WLAN card of course which will have to be replaced with a compatible model. See here for a non-exhaustive list. You can install Sierra using existing guides for Dell Ivy Bridge laptops such as Latitude E5x30, E6x30 or the Latitude 6430U (this latter being probably closer in terms of specs). Try and extract your ACPI BIOS tables (DSDT, SSDTs) so that they can be patched. Begin installation with a minimal set of kexts such as FakeSMC (mandatory), NullCPUPowerManagement (until you activate AICPUPM patch + generate your CPU-specific SSDT for CPU PM) and PS2 controllers. There isn't much in terms of hardware accessories on this model so installation should be fairly hassle-free. The only thing you'll have to do in terms of post-installation tuning will be sorting out the audio. If Webcam is USB-internal, it'll either work OOB or not at all. If it's PCIe, pray for an O2 Micro model as that may work with a DSDT patch.

No.

If CPU frequency stays stuck at x8 800MHz, your CPU-specific SSDT is incorrect. Re-generate one and make sure you have the correct SMBIOS in use (MacBookPro9,2 or MacBookAir 5,2). If native CPU SpeedStep is in place for your i7-3630QM, HWMonitor will show speeds varying from 800MHz (or more likely 1.2GHz) minimum to 2.4GHz (the CPU nominal frequency) and then Turbo boost up to 3.4GHz. Your CPU-specific SSDT goes to Clover's ACPI/patched folder but you probably already know that.

You're running Clover so you should keep the vanilla AICPUPM kext in /S/L/E and just check/activate the AsusAICPUPM option of Clover config.

Best to insert this in FakeSMC's Info.plist, saves the hassle of repatching the PlugIn after each update...