Vanilla Hackintosh guide for the z390-i AORUS motherboard using clover bootloader.
I followed this guide:
https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-guide/
- Gigabyte Z390-I Aorus Pro Wifi
- Intel Core i7-9700K
- 2 x Corsair LPX 16GB DDR4 3200MHz (32GB kit)
- AMD Radeon VII 16 GB
- Samsung 970 EVO Pro NVMe M.2 SSD 512 GB
- Corsair SFX 600W PSU
- Louqe Ghost S1
- Sleep / Wake
- Audio (select internal speakers)
- Ethernet
- Bluetooth (lag when Wi-Fi is on)
- Onboard Wi-Fi
- Onboard Wi-Fi replacement guide
- USB 15 port with 3.0 Speeds
Follow the Vanilla guide to create a USB installer
After creating a USB installer, we need to install Clover bootloader to the USB key. Follow the directions in the Clover Setup portion of the Vanilla Guide. In addition to these steps, we need to add one more driver to make our Z390-I board work. Under the UEFI Drivers, select Additional Drivers -> EmuVariableUefi.
Below are all the drivers we need for our Z390-I.
After Clover Bootalder has finished installing on our USB drive, drag all necessary kexts to the mounted EFI parition of the USB drive. In case of the Z390-I Aorus Pro motherboard, the kexts suggested on the Vanilla Guide are all we need.
After our USB installer is prepared, we need the proper config.plist file that works for our CPU. Since this build has the 9700K, we require the sample.plist file for the CoffeeLake CPU, provided here: https://github.com/corpnewt/Hackintosh-Guide/blob/master/Configs/CoffeeLake/config.plist
Replace the current config.plist with the raw text from above and save.
The bios does not have to be version F5. However, I found this version easier to navigate to find specific settings. Below is each setting separated by the main label give in the bios.
M.I.T.
Advanced Frequency Settings -> Extreme Memory Profile -> Profile 1
Bios
Fast Boot --> Disabled
CSM Support --> Disabled
Windows 8/10 Features --> Windows 8/10
Peripherals
Intel Platform Trust Technology --> Disabled
Software Guard Extensions --> Disabled
Peripherals --> USB Configuration
Legacy USB Support -> Enabled
XHCI Hand-off -> Enabled
Peripherals --> Network Stack Configuration
Network Stack -> Disabled
Chipset
VT-d --> Disabled
Internal Graphics --> Enabled
Above 4G Decoding --> Enabled
Updated Bios to latest
Tweaker
Advanced CPU Settings --> VT-d --> Disabled
Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P.) --> Profile 1
Settings
IO Ports --> Internal Graphics --> Enabled
IO Ports --> Wi-Fi --> Disabled
IO Ports --> Above 4G Decoding --> Enabled
IO Ports --> USB Configuration --> Legacy USB Support --> Enabled
IO Ports --> USB Configuration --> XHCI Hannd-off --> Enabled
IO Ports --> Network Stack Configuration --> Network Stack --> Disabled
Miscellaneous --> Intel Platform Trust Technology --> Disabled
Miscellaneous --> Software Guard Extensions --> Disabled
Boot
Fast Boot --> Disabled
CSM Support --> Disabled
Windows 8/10 Features --> Windows 8/10
There are a couple of things to take care of specific to our build for post-installation, though the Hackintosh, in general, is up and running and should completely work.
If we check "About This Mac", we'll notice that the preferences are displaying the i9-9900k, and our SMBIOS is a 2017 iMac.
Lets first fix our CPU Type, which is currently displaying as a 9900k.
We need to remedy this by fixing the CPU Type. This is done within Clover Configurator. Open our config.plist file with Clover Configurator, and navigate to CPU. In the CPU settings, set the CPU Type to 0x0705 and save.
This will configure the CPU type in our config.plist to properly display the i7-9700k.
We want to set the SMBIOS to iMac19,1 to closer reflect our build. To do this, open our config.plist with Clover Configurator, and navigate to SMBIOS. From the dropdown list, select the desired SMBIOS from the dropdown list at the bottom left (shown in the screenshot). After selecting SMBIOS, make sure to save.
We should now see proper system information about our Hackintosh: i7-9700k, and iMac 19,1
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