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Yes, Fn+F3 & Fn+Insert working. Thanks.

Hi Jake, I have updated to 10.13.4 and noticed the brightness is set to maximum and I cannot use FN-down-arrow to change it. Attached my Clover folder. CLOVER.zip

Oh! Just found your other post @ [HELP] E6540 High Sierra install: post #64 The AppleHDA_ALC292.kext version is different. I replaced it and repaired permissions and all is good now! Thanks Jake!

I think there is something wrong with the latest bootloader installer. I used an older version to reinstall and it worked. Thanks Jake. I have another question. Is there an updated version of your E6540 collections? I seemed to be having trouble with the audio.

Hi Jake, I already have the entry for Clover in BIOS. When I boot I only get a black screen with a blinking cursor.

I just got myself an E6540: i7-4800MQ @2.7GHz 2x 4GB DDR3 Intel HD4600 and AMD Radeon HD8790M Centrino Advanced-N 6235 Wifi I had High Sierra working on an older E6520 on Samsung EVO 850 1T so I bought another Samsung EVO 850 1T and cloned it. Then I had installed Clover Bootloader 4411 on the new SSD with these options Install for UEFI booting only Install Clover in the ESP Drivers64UEFI\OsxAptioFixDrv-64 Install RC scripts on target volume Install Clover Preference Pane ​ I had BIOS A21 on the E6540. Dell had removed A22 from download so I was unable to get it. I had copied the kext provided by Jake Lo on another post. I am having trouble booting it up. I can use USB HS installer to boot into the OS, but somehow the Clover Bootloader on the SSD is not booting. What am I doing wrong? I just get a black screen with a blinking cursor when I do not use USB to boot. I noticed in Boot Menu, UEFI is showing 2 entries, the OS X is first and then Samsung SSD as second. In addition, how to get Optimus QE/CI to work?

Nevermind. I restored the vanilla AppleHDA.kext and downloaded the new version of AppleALC.kext 1.2.0 and Lilu.kext and set DSDT to use LayoutID 13 for AD1984A and got the sound to work too.

I am not sure that is entirely true. It was working fine for me when I was on El Capitan. It started having problems after updated to 10.13.1, but after tweaking Clover, I managed to fix it. Under Boot, check kext-dev-mode=1. Under Graphics tab, uncheck Inject Intel and checkPatch VBios instead. I am using the display port connection to HDMI on my monitor. There is no QE/CI, but at least video works with proper resolution. However, I seemed to have lost audio now even after repairing and rebuilding cache.

Yes, didn't realize there was another Apple update last night. I just repaired permissions and restarted and audio is back! Thanks.

Just noticed there is no sound anymore.

Thank you very much!

Okay, so I took your files and replaced them in EFI, then went to issue the install with the --converttoapfs NO and the boot problem went away. It is now installing. Just curious, what did you change?

How do I capture the screen dump from verbose and debug=0x100? The screen stops at the same picture I had attached on post #12 above.

Nope, same result, booted the Apple logo, show the loading bar and then KP.Did you see my question regarding legacy MBR? Could that be the problem? I though the original OS X Installer requires UEFI.

Actual I have question regarding APFS. The instruction from Schiller is to copy driver apfs.efi to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/ , however, my Clover was installed on the E6520 using legacy mode not UEFI in ESP with bootloader in boot0af of MBR. Could this be the problem? Can we install High Sierra with legacy boot?