makk Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) Hello and Greetings, *** This is made possible because of all the help here and elsewhere. *** I will attempt to guide those who have the same or similar Asus Laptop K53E BBR5 respectively. However, your DSDT file will need to be changed many times, at least it was for me. This install is based on Single Boot OS, no multi-boot and to create a bootable USB Installer a Hacky is necessary. First it is important to follow all the directions or you will chop on install. (Chop means get pissed because forgot simple stuff.) Don't worry you have to make mistakes in order to go forward. Studying little by little because there's a lot to take in. Just don't blow up the HDD or other stuff. My System: Asus Laptop K53E BBR5 Sandybridge: AppleSNBGraphics HD3000 CPU Intel i3 2310-M for mobile running at 2100Ghz Dual Core 4 Logical CPU's. No Turbo. Intel HD3000 Graphics -- no Nvidia or Radeon xtra graphics. Intel 6 Series Chipset 6/200 Samsung SSD drive 250Gb. -- Had to purchase separately. Original Hitachi 320Gb HDD too slow. Atheros GigLanEthernet Atheros AR9820 Wifi -- had to purchase separately Original Intel N-1030 doesn't work with Apple stuff. Elan Touchpad--- turned off. gets in the way of typing even with palm detection on max! Piece of junk. USB Mouse PS2 Keyboard builtin factory set USB 2.0 ports only no USB 3.0 Intel HDMI port Realtek ALC 269 Audio Battery Selection is absolute. This is a Sandybridge: layout id for Audio: hda-gfx = 03000000 because Realtek Audio onboard-1, layout-id for SNB = 00000100 in config plist Have to patches instead of Property because the Graphics freezes and locks up. Don't use Clover's Property at the very Bottom. Instead use Add Properties and the system runs stable. No artifacts, no freezes when running demanding software or opening many window apps, Safari is a hog. iTunes is too. These laptops are old and cannot handle Metal on from High Sierra upwards. There is a workaround to get the Dark and Light on Mojave. Currently running Mojave 10.14.6. Took awhile to try out many patching ways. What works just about everything, except for "Wake". sleep works but doesn't wake due to RTC issue. shutdown works, reboot, all the peripherals,. STEPS 1. Need a USB 16 Gb Flash Drive. USB 3.0 has better speed memory access is faster on good models. Download from this site: a: Two choices I offer, using a third party free software Flash Drive Maker 1.1 1 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/559-flash-drive-maker/ -- make a bookmark How to create an macOS Sierra USB install drive using what`s on the mac. This video shows how to install the Preview of macOS Sierra. it works for all macOS Sierra versions. Just replace the words Preview in your mind with the Post releases. 2 https://9to5mac.com/2016/07/03/how-to-create-macos-sierra-usb-install-drive/ ~ make a bookmark Disk Utility v 13 for Mac OS Sierra b. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/621-disk-utility-v13-for-macos-sierrazip/. -- make a bookmark QuickESP c. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/660-quickesp/ Kext Wizard d. http://www.osx86.net/files/file/4304-kext-wizard-3711/ Download elsewhere or ask Makiko here. 2. Kexts VERY IMPORTANT!! Kexts Here. PRE INSTALL INITIAL KEXTS!!! MUST PUT THESE IN USB EFI PARTITION FOR INSTALL TO HDD: FakeSMC.kext. without this kext no can boot from USB or HDD always stuck a IO or Boot Crash Failure AppleIntelCPUPM NullCPUPowerManagement.kext. this is necessary in order to avoid AppleIntelCPU power management crash. ApplePS2SmartTouchPad.kext. from Dinesh (needed for PS2 keyboard after install or big mess. If you have USB keyboard no worries.) ACPIBatteryManager.kext. - from Rehabman. AtherosL1cEthernet.kext. - not sure who Only After successful install on HDD put these kexts below into EFI partition under kexts folder, otherwise may hang on boot POST INSTALL AsusNBFnKeys.kext. Dinesh OSXLatitutde AppleBacklight.kext from Rehabman (have to run script which is provided to patch the kext and patch DSDT using the patch for HD3000) AppleHDA patcher 1.6 from Toleda. (download from this forum at downloads section) link: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/496-applehda-patcher/ NOTE: (copy all of S/L/E to safe place before doing any patching). that is /System/Library/Extensions directory where all the kexts ( drivers ) are before doing any patching to kexts. This way you have backups to screw with later if something is needed or breaks. I put the needed kexts in the ESP partition and it works just fine. I have no kexts in /S/L/E except for the hacked originals and one from Rehabman for the backlight issue. Even FakeSMC is in ESP/EFI < same partition- two names are used. IMPORTANT things to get into your mind first. Clover Bootloader is a boot loader it is very nice once you get used to it. It is a Hacky so it won't be Mac. Clover Configurator is a config.plist configurator for Clover Bootloader tells clover what to do. It is best to download this and use. Later as you are very well to do maybe you will use XCODE or some .plist configurator or are already. MaciASL is a DSDT and SSDT editor needed to make the necessary patches to your DSDT and new DSDT SSDT hacks. PM stands for power management which is a big deal, because you don't want your laptop CPU to constantly run at high temps. PC needs to drop in power and then ramp up for the applications such as Windows Paint e.g.. Laptops need lots cool air. Best to get a Laptop Base with serious fans blowing. --just for any one who is able: Make laptop base with cooling liquid. For laptops with side vents make blower. The other thing makers could do is have AC power adapter dial-able power source. Upon first install of the OS you need to boot from USB so this is called USB Install. Several names are used to describe this. USB installer, USB Stick Installer and others. All means the same thing. A USB drive that can install the OS. MAKING THE USB INSTALLER Format your USB drive using Disk Utility or hdutil. It can be the one on the downloads up above or the one supplied by the OS. hdutil method Make Bootable Installer Image Run these commands one at a time to make a bootable macOS High Sierra Installation media. hdiutil create -o /tmp/macOSHighSierra.cdr -size 5200m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J hdiutil attach /tmp/macOSHighSierra.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build sudo Downloads/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/install_build mv /tmp/macOSHighSierra.cdr.dmg ~/Desktop/InstallSystem.dmg hdiutil detach /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra hdiutil convert ~/Desktop/InstallSystem.dmg -format UDTO -o ~/Desktop/macOSHighSierra.iso Rename ISO.cdr to ISO File Choose Erase, and let it finish. After erasing, verify using First Aid to check for errors or damages. Then Select Partition... Chose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and "GUID" for "Partition Table" type This is assuming you have a Single Hardrive dedicated with no partitions running other OS's. If using multi-boot you can use Clover Bootloader to handle the multi-boot. I have no experience doing that. NOTE: there are many guides to dual boot here on the forum. After you have downloaded the Flash Drive Maker and you have a fresh copy of Mac OS X 10.12.x. --better way to do this: Once you have downloaded a copy of the Install say .dmg file. mount it by double clicking it. The Installer Icon pops up sometime not always. If you are on Windows, you can use Transmac. I don't have the instructions. But google it. DMG METHOD Another way, lets say you don't like El Capitan or some Mac version. Download a copy and turn back your BIOS Date to two years ago. Then the install will work. I've done this for all copies. Works. I've used several methods to install from .dmg files that work with a currently installed macOS. Here's how: 1 macOS Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina. Making a bootable installer from dmg file: 0 make sure your BIOS Date is set back two years. 1 mount the dmg file with DiskImageMounter (right click mouse) 2 once mounted a new window pops up with an icon - Install MacOS 3 right click the icon Show Contents, open up Contents 4 navigate to Resources and find createinstallmedia 5 open Terminal and type sudo then drag createinstallmedia onto the Terminal 6 type —volume and then hit space 7 Open New Finder Go > Go To Folder: type /Volume hit enter 8 find the usb drag usb onto Terminal 9 Press return to submit the full command type Y when prompted 10 Install process erases and formats the usb and writes. 11 process takes from 20-30 minutes to complete. ---------- 12 install Clover and drivers and kexts. Next, 1 Use FLASH DRIVE MAKER follow the instructions for using that application. here you use QuickEFI to get to your EFI partition. Install it and use it to mount your EFI partition on the hardrive. 2 Install Clover boot loader to USB drive. Choose this method first because UEFI may not work on the first try without having a stable OS. NOTE: there are many places in the processes and system where things can go wrong. please be aware of this. The method is Boot Legacy. or LegacyBoot but it doesn't say that in Clover Install Package Open the Clover Install Package Select the drive you want to install to Select the drive USB a name you will give will be overwritten by the Installer Application. You can later on rename it. The installer will find the EFI partition. FOR HDD INSTALL ONLY: USED LATER For installing to Hardrive which follows after making USB Installer Select Hardrive where Mac OS is going to reside. The installer will find the EFI partition. On Clover Install click "CUSTOMIZE" button. 1 uncheck install for UEFI only 2 check install clover in the ESP Legacy mode only works here. LegacyBoot2 is the default. Do not check "Use alternative booting PBR" leave blank unchecked Bootloader option Check only Install bootOaf in MBR Clover EFI option check only CoverEFI 64-bits SATA Themes if you want them, Drivers 64 check the ones recommended Drivers 64 UEFI check the ones recommended Quote What other drivers are needed for above? an Emulator is also necessary. After you have successfully installed Clover open up the config.plist and go towards the bottom of the configurator on the left side locate "Install Drivers" Go to DRIVERS UEFI 64 and press EmuVariableUEFI Go To EXTRA DRIVERS and press HFSPLUS and NTFS Next go to EFI locate Drivers UEFI 64 folder drag EmuVariableUEFI to Drivers 64 folder Do the same for HFSPLUS and NTFS drivers if these are not copied to Drivers 64 folder. These are necessary for NVRAM EMULATION and Windows running NFTS Install RC scripts on target volume -- uncheck for USB Installer. ** use for HDD SSD drives Install RC scripts on all other -- uncheck for USB Installer. Optional RC scripts -- uncheck for USB installer. ** use for HDD SDD drives Install Clover Preference Pane -- uncheck for USB Installer. ** use for HDD SSD drives Click install let it finish. After it finishes, Open the EFI partition then click on Clover, then kexts folder, remove all the 10.x folders and leave only "Other" folder, put all your kexts here in "Other." FakeSMC.kext. this remains in the system for life! Don't remove. or no boot. NullCPUPowerManagment.kext. -- No PowerManagement yet. Needed until PowerManagement has been stabilized. AtherosL1cEthernet.kext ApplePS2SmartTouchpad.kext and all the rest... to get the install going and such. CONFIGURING CONFIG.PLIST with Clover Configurator -after downloading Clover Configurator from SourceForge.com or here: -open up the config.plist on the EFI partition which is located under Clover Folder. -right click config.plist and select open with option and pick Clover Configurator. 1st SECTION ACPI Section this section is chopped into several tables. DSDT, Fixes, Drop OEM _DSM, Drop Tables, SSDT and others Under Fixes select Old Way Fix HPET, USB, Firewire, AddDTGP, AddMCHC, FixLAN, FixSBUS, FixAirport, FixShutdown, FixDarwin, FixIPIC Then select New way select the following: NewWay, FIX_ADP1, FixRegions, *(FixRTC DO NOT DO THIS BREAKS OS), FIXTMR AddIMEI, FixWAK, Fix S3D, Fix ACST, AddHDMI, Under Drop Tables hit the plus sign + three times then click on the first line and select DMAR leave everything else on that line blank--not needed don't have it. click the second line select SSDT then moving side to side to the right on the middle select TableID moving to the right of that click in the blank area and type CpuPM click the third line Select SSDT moving right select TableID moving right click and type CpuIOst Below Drop Tables in another section Look for Halt Enabler DisableASPM Fix MFCG select. BOOT Section At Boot it is also divided into several tables at the top is Arguments. Darkwake breaks the boot. -v slide=0 dart=0. Kext-devmode = 1, -gux-defer usb2, moving over to the right of these are drop downs. select LastBooted, if you don't remember what you named your hardrive. then to the right select PBR; note do not use PBRsata or any other crashes the system, hangs, freezes so forth. below these two selections, boot.efi --may have to type it in to the right XMPDetection highlight "No" if no XMP Memory. moving down select your timeout in seconds that you want the Clover Boot screen menu for. Check NeverHibernate; because the RTC time between BIOS and OS is not synced. CPU section 2100speed 100000bus 5000QPI 35Power DEVICES Section Leave Fake ID IMEI: 1c3a886 IntelGFX: 01168086 Sata: find this in boot log of Clover after first boot LAN: find this in boot log of Clover after first boot WIFI: find this in boot log of Clover after first boot USB check Inject, Add ClockID, FixOwnership. Audio leave all blanc. Use AppleALC from acidanthera to the left of Audio is Properties and underneath that are some boxes select: Inject, UseIntelHDMI, SetIntelBackLight, SetIntelMaxBacklight On first boot you won't get HDMI audio or screen. If you're lucky you will get screen, but otherwise you have to patch the DSDT. Legacy Boot config for graphics going bonkers In Fake ID for IMEI ---- 0x1c3a8086 Add Properties --- Menu click the + sign on the bottom left on this menu three times adding three lines to edit 1 line Device = IntelGFX; Key = AAPL,snb-platform-id; Value = 00000100; Value Type = data 2 line Device = IntelGFX; Key = hda-gfx; Value = onboard-1; Value Type = string 3 line Device = IntelGFX; Key = AAPL,os-info; Value = 30490111111108000001F01F0100000010070000; Value Type = data 4 line Device = HDA; Key = hda-gfx; Value = onboard-1; Value = string 5 line Device = HDA; Key = hda-fx; Value = layout-id; Value = 03000000 Value Type = data DISABLEDRIVERS Section - VBoxHfs GUI Section Mouse set to 500 8 Enabled if you want mouse in Boot GUI of Clover otherwise leave as is. Scan click Custom, check off Entries Tool Legacy << for Legacy Boot HD3000 Boot glitch Language select your language, Screen Resolution select the one the works, Theme Select what you wish GRAPHICS Section Dual Link set to 0, select Inject Intel, LoadVBios, ig-platform-id: sandy bridge 00001000 select EDID add the values for Product and Vendor that you can get from IREG KERNEL AND KEXT PATCHES Section Select: AppleIntelCPUPM, AppleRTC, KernelPM Kexts to Patch these are now preloaded and you can select them in the bottom portion popup Select: Trim for SSD drives Select: Usb patches appropriate for your OS. 10.11.x, 10.12.x, 10.13.x, etc. For Mojave 10.14.6 use these: USB Mojave Kext To Patch 4 1 Comment: USB port limit patch #1 10.14.x modify by DalianSky(credit ydeng) Disabled: No Find: 83fb0b0f Replace: 83fb3f0f Name: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHostFamily MatchOS: 10.14.x 2 Comment: USB port limit patch #2 10.14.x modify by DalianSky(credit PMHeart) Find: <83e30fd3> Replace:<83e33fd3> Name: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHostFamily MatchOS: 10.14.x 3 Comment: USB Port limit patch #3 10.14.x modify by DalianSky(credits PMheart) Find: <83fb0f0f> Replace:<83fb3f0f> Name: com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI MatchOS: 10.14.x 4 Comment: USB Port limit patch #4 10.14.x modify by DalianSky(credits PMheart) Find: <83ff0f0f> Replace: <83ff3f0f> Name: com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI MatchOS: 10.14.x Check AppleRTC, Asus AICPUPM, KernelPM. (Sandybridge CPU) NOTE: Several patches have to be applied for HD3000 graphics for legacy boot mode and if you have an SSD drive a Trim enabler patch. this requires a bootable Mac on Hardrive this one is later after install. For working Mac OS on hardrive need to add these patches First is Bootup Glitch where the Desktop Display goes weird, boxes and squares like someone is painting your display. absolutely no control it comes and then gets worse. Pixels are no longer recognized. mouse movements cause more painting. (NOTE: THIS IS NOW IN CLOVER CONFIGURATOR FROM POPUP MENU ON BOTTOM. FOR BOOT HDMI AND DISPLAY FIX USE THIS PATCH COURTESY OF HERVE' OVER AT OSX WEBSITE: IGP Find HDMI and also fixes the proper handling in Mac Binary Kext to to Patch Find and Replace Patches in Config.plist Name: AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB Find: 02050000 00040000 07000000 03040000 00040000 09000000 04060000 00040000 09000000 Replace: 02050000 00080000 07000000 03040000 00080000 09000000 04060000 00080000 09000000 Comment: Laptop Intel HD3000 HDMI (snb-platform-id 0x00010000) The Below Patches are antiquated. but there for Referencing. UPDATED MAY 11 2020 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>Boot graphics glitch, 10.10.x/10.11.x (credit lisai9093, cecekpawon)</string> <key>Enabled</key> <true/> <key>Find</key> <data>AQAAdRc=</data> <key>Name</key> <string>IOGraphicsFamily</string> <key>Replace</key> <data>AQAA6xc=</data> </dict> </plist> Second is telling for HDMI-Audio HD3000 Port 0406 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>HDMI-audio HD3000, 0x00010000, port 0406</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data>BAYAAAAEAAAJAAAA</data> <key>Name</key> <string>AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB</string> <key>Replace</key> <data>BAYAAAAIAAAJAAAA</data> </dict> </plist> Third is HDMI-Audio VGA 0602 HD3000 HDMI 0406 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>HDMI-audio/VGA(0602) HD3000, 0x00010000, port 0406</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data>AQIEABAHAAAQBwAABQMAAAIAAAAwAAAAAgUAAAAEAAAHAAAAAwQAAAAEAAAJAAAABAYAAAAEAAAJAAAA</data> <key>Name</key> <string>AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB</string> <key>Replace</key> <data>AQIDABAHAAAQBwAABgIAAAABAAAJAAAABQMAAAIAAAAwAAAABAYAAAAIAAAJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA</data> </dict> </plist> Fourth HDMI Audio HD3000 Port 0205 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>HDMI-audio HD3000, 0x00010000, port 0205</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data>AgUAAAAEAAAHAAAA</data> <key>Name</key> <string>AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB</string> <key>Replace</key> <data>AgUAAAAIAAAHAAAA</data> </dict> </plist> Fifth HDMI Audio HD3000 port 0304 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>HDMI-audio HD3000, 0x00010000, port 0304</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data>AwQAAAAEAAAJAAAA</data> <key>Name</key> <string>AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB</string> <key>Replace</key> <data>AwQAAAAIAAAJAAAA</data> </dict> </plist> Enable Trim for SSD drives <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>Trim enable SSD</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data>AEFQUExFIFNTRAA=</data> <key>Name</key> <string>IOAHCIBlockStorage</string> <key>Replace</key> <data>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=</data> </dict> </plist> RT VARIABLES Section two places to edit BooterConfig set to 0x28 CsrActiveConfig set to 0x67 this is necessary for hackies this allows for hacked kexts, and making changes to your hacky. SMBIOS Section this is where you select a Mac Profile type. Suggested ones are MacBookPro 8,3 17" Display; 8,1 13" Display; 8,2 which is 15" Display for this laptop using MacBookPro 8,2 click on the magic wand push button and scroll through the different Macs. once you have selected, if you select a MacBook, check Mobile and Trust. If you have selected iMac don't select Mobile just Trust. I know that others with laptops have selected iMac and have success. SYSTEM PARAMETERS Section Backlight Level to 0xffff Inject Kexts to Detect Select and check Inject System ID still in progress ..... config.plist Current Kexts EFI.zip Edited May 12, 2020 by makk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) INSTALLING the OS After you have successfully created a bootable USB installer and have installed Clover Bootloader on the USB, and have edited the config.plist, placed the necessary kexts in the EFI partition NEXT Put Clover installer.pkg on the USB Installer. Create a folder give it a name say, software put reboot the laptop, with USB, when the Asus Logo appears start pressing ESC key to get the boot option menu select the USB one. This should bring up Clover. Press F4 to download DSDT SSDT and all the rest to the EFI partition on the USB drive. These .aml files will end up in EFI>Clover> ACPI>origin. (In theory Clover Patches the DSDT upon boot so it should find it and make necessary patches) But for those with no Prior OS X, well, have to relay totally on an vanilla USB Installer that it works from the start. You have to have a working Macky or Hacky to get new install. Assuming you have not installed OS 10.12 at this point but have previous OS X installed. continue on to boot to install, select the install usb icon in Clover Menu Boot Screen. Something like "OSX Flash Drive" if you used "Flash Drive Maker" will appear in the Boot Screen of Clover as you move you keys to each Mac Icon. Something like "Install macOS Sierra" will appear if you used the createmedia method. Just click the enter button because your config.plist is set. Let Clover boot to the Installer and then once there you can select option Utility to setup your Hardrive for install. NOTE: I would use FLASH DRIVE MAKER because it gives a better option upon installing over the createmedia method. Once you get to the Installer Screen select the option to slice and dice your brand new hardrive. Don't go directly to Installing the OS. Go to Utility Menu and open up Terminal need to use Disk Utility to slice and dice your hardrive to install the OS. Once you have Disk Utility up and running, Select the hardrive in the left pane Choose Erase, and let it finish. After erasing, verify using First Aid to check for errors or damages. Then select Partition... Chose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and "GUID" for "Partition Table" type then click the option to set this choice it will setup the disk. Exit out of Disk Utility and the Utility Section to get back to the Install Screen. Continue to Installing There are some videos online to help with the next steps as I don't have that option to give you step by step view of the Install Screens. Once the installer has finished installing, it will reboot most likely. If not and you get to the Add New User Screen good to go! Create your user, skip the create Apple ID for now even if you have one already don't use it. Make sure you are connected to the Internet via ethernet as this may cause a problem on finishing the new user creation and booting into the Desktop. Then once you have Desktop let OS finish creating all the directory's and setting it up. Make sure your ethernet is working and you have Internet usage. here you use QuickEFI to get to your EFI partition install it and use it to mount your EFI partition on the hardrive. On your USB Installer go to the folder where you copied the clover installer.pkg Install it to using the same options as previous. After installing Clover Bootloader, mount your USB EFI partition and copy the entire folder beginning with EFI to your hardrives EFI partition. This way you don't have to re-edit config.plist for now and copy over the kexts and this. **make sure you copy the boot file along with the EFI folder. It should be an exact copy of the USB EFI partition. Check your USB installer for DSDT if it got copied or not. If not do this step again but without USB. if is it there, copy all the files to the hardrive EFI partition to EFI> Clover>ACPI>origin If you had a reboot, and did not get to create a new user do the following: When you get to the Asus Boot Logo press the ESC key and select the USB Drive again and press enter When you get back to the Installer Screen, select Utilities and select Terminal. when you open Terminal you will be in root user mode. Now copy FakeSMC.kext from your software folder on the USB drive. TYPING: ls -l <<<to get listing to find the software folder. cd to the folder type: cp –R /software/FakeSMC.kext /Volumes/"OS X"/System/Library/Extensions/ cp –R /software/NullCPUPowerManagement.kext /Volumes/"OS X"/System/Library/Extensions/ OS X refers to, is the name of the volume partition you named where you installed OS X to. Whatever the name is put in double quotes "JoeDrive" after copying that files type "reboot" without double quotes. the system reboots, the At Asus Logo, press ESC key to get the Boot Options Menu. Select the drive you installed to. press enter once you get to the screen to create the user ID create it and skip Apple ID creation or login. you will get a few other screens to choose what do to. Once you get to Desktop Install QuickESP and mount your EFI partition. Install Clover Bootloader using the legacy boot method as mentioned above. Then mount your USB EFI partition and copy EFI folder and boot to your Hardrives EFI replace existing. It is best to get a good config.plist going that works before you install to Hardrive. Copy the necessary essential kexts from the USB drive to hardrives EFI kexts folder if you haven't already done so. Congratulations! you have successfully installed and booted into 10.12.x Next the Kext NullCPUPowerManagement.kext and FakeSMC.kext that was copied to System/Library/Extensions These two should be in the EFI partition under kext folder. Once you have verified this, delete these two from System/Library/Extensions on your hardrive. OS X sees two and gets confused. Some people say to leave FakeSMC in S/L/E but I removed it from there and have it only in EFI partition. If it didn't work, it won't boot. POWER MANAGEMENT Download these IOREG Explorer needed IORegistryExplorer-SLRID_v10.6.3.zip AppleIntelInfo.kext AppleIntelInfo.kext.zip HWSensors download link: http://www.hwsensors.com. Install this to Applications (drag and drop.) THIS STEP IS BEFORE AND AFTER YOUR SYSTEM IS RUNNING POWERMANAGEMENT WITH AND WITHOUT NULLCPUPOWERMANAGEMENT.KEXT. to see if PM is working while NullCPUPowerManagment.kext is still in do steps 2 and 3 below 1 IOREG is needed to see if your PM is working and other peripherals as well, you can use this to view hardware info 2 AppleIntelInfo.kext is needed to check your PM in an active state. Place on Desktop 3 Now run HWmonitor then, open up Terminal as you need to change ownership and permissions for AppleIntelInfo.kext change directory to Desktop Type: cd ~/Desktop change ownership type: chown -R 0:0 AppleIntelInfo.kext change mod chmod -R 744 AppleIntelInfo.kext run the kext: type: kextload AppleIntelInfo.kext < press enter > let this run for a few minutes to gather info. Then type in Terminal: cat /tmp/AppleIntelInfo.dat then scroll down to the very end and see if your PM is working. Once you have figured out that it is working NOW YOU MUST UNLOAD: This step is important!!! In Terminal Type: kextunload AppleIntelInfo.kext >>press enter to stop the process Now you have a tool to check your PM is working. Leave NullCPUPowerManagement.kext in until you have working DSDT SSDT config.plist is edited patched kexts and proper kexts are in and have verified the PM is working. it will work even with NullCPU installed. Just not fully. You can use AppleIntelInfo.kext along with HWmonitor to see that the CPU is using speed step and does idle. Check to Make sure in EFI partition, kexts folder --FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement, and the rest are there. Make sure after every time you add or remove kexts to /System/Library/Extensions that you use Kext Wizard to install them. Then check off Repair system permissions, Rebuild cache . "Repair System Permissions." If you forget you will have boot problems or system failures. For the EFI Partition kexts folder you can add and remove kexts without having to Repair Permissions or rebuilding the cache. very convenient. Make sure in config.plist on your EFI partition under Kernel and Kext Patches these are checked: For Sandybridge, ***--check for Ivybridge on the Laptop Power Management site AppleRTC -- this is for Real Time Clocking Asus AICPUPM -- this is for locked CPU in BIOS Kernel PM -- this is for the Apple Kernel to management Power In ACPI under Old Way make sure Fix Shutdown is unchecked. (doesn't work in OS 10.12 for these laptops) under New Way make sure FixWAK and FIXS3D is unchecked (doesn't work in OS 10.12 for these laptops) Follow this guide for power management: To Get Started Basics (I have another guide coming up soon to get more detailed) ssdtPRGen and good information https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-native-power-management-for-laptops.175801/ For DSDT editing follow this guide: Need DSDT and SSDT for Power stability https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.152573/ Once you have generated DSDT and SSDT from ssdtPRGen, (have to do this several times to level up your system for acceptable stability) ( have to do this everytime the OS X is updated.) What you will end up doing is editing and patching your DSDT several times until the OS gets a better grip on your hardware. It's a work in progress. As of now Wake doesn't work. TIP: ON the Clover Boot Screen press F4 key to get the ACPI tables. DSDT SSDT files. These will be dumped (copied) to EFI partition >Clover>ACPI>origin F2 for logging F5 for VBIOS DSDT EDITING MaciASL Usage: Open this up and under "Preferences" go to "Sources" and make sure you have these URL's in there. These are Patch Repository's online. http://maciasl.sourceforge.net/pjalm/general/. name this one Generalhttps://raw.github.com/toleda/wireless_half-mini/master. name this one Wirelesshttp://raw.github.com/RehabMan/Laptop-DSDT-Patch/master. name this one Laptophttp://maciasl.sourceforge.net/pjalm/asus. name this Asus Always make backups or copies. Don't leave yourself hanging. Use the USB booster to test first. USB to boot your Mac hardrive. This is relatively simple step that will save you from having to reinstall because can't get to the Desktop. What patches then do you need? Several 1 Battery > under Laptop Patch > ASUS N55SL/VivoBook. This requires Rehabman's Voodoo Battery kext. 2 Brightness Fix (HD3000/HD4000) this requires Rehabman's AppleBacklight kext and patch 3 HD3000 Low Resolution **Read below for HDMI to work 4 Rename GFX0 to IGPU **Read Below for more editing 5 *pnp/pnp lower case error 6 Add IMEI 7 Add MCHC 8 Fix Mutex with non-zero 9 PNOT/PPNT fix 10 HPET Fix 11 IRQ Fix 12 RTC fix 13 SMBUS fix 14 6-series USB 15 Add DTGP **Read below for further editing DSDT patches: DSDTPatches.zip For Shutdown to work: Under General Folder --MaciASL Patching option 1 Shutdown Fix - Intel. -- on this patch you can edit it there's a 2nd SLPE change it to SLPB After compiling with no errors save as DSDT.aml but do not save to same directory as it will overwrite any others. For the HD3000 Low Resolution patch to get HDMI to work is two parts. Part 1: Original Patch from Repository: "AAPL,snb-platform-id", Buffer() { 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00 },\n "hda-gfx", Buffer() { "onboard-1" },\n Changed to before applying the patch: "AAPL,snb-platform-id", Buffer() { 0x10, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00 },\n "hda-gfx", Buffer() { "onboard-1" },\n Part 2: HDEF Patch: from AppleHDA Patcher 1.6 "layout-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 This patch is generated by the Patcher App. When selecting the type and version Laptop's Realtek ALC 269 VB v1 Then after making a copy of AppleHDA.kext drag it onto the patcher. The patcher creates a folder, kext and patches Folder MironeAudio <double click locate 10ec0269 <double click 278.56 <double click. DSDT Patches <double click Locate HDEF Patch < use this in MaciASL DSDT editor Go back one up out of this folder Locate "full Patched AppleHDA" folder open it and use Kext Wizard to install patched AppleHDA.kext Kext Wizard to do's: Select Backup kexts that will be replaced Select System/Library/Extensions Press Install when done select Maintenance at the top tab Check off System/Library/Extensions, Repair permissions, Rebuild cache, then press Execute. Done exit the app. Always use this app to add kexts and repair permissions and rebuild cache it's simple and nice. Next go to the EFI partition and edit the config.plist under the Devices tab, find Audio, then enter the number 3 for inject properties and check off Reset HDA, (sometimes this don't work so have to uncheck). depends on the HDMI TV, Monitor. **GFX0 rename to IGPU after renaming, another step has to be done. After compiling the DSDT don't save yet. Find IGPU main branch, expand it fully. Scroll down to _DSM and rename this to XDSM example: From Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) Highlight _ with Mouse and type capital X TO Method (XDSM, 4, NotSerialized) **Add DTGP editing in DSDT cut and paste required For some reason when adding this, it ends up near the bottom of the DSDT file. **NOTICE CHANGED: highlight the script and cut and paste to AFTER the very first WAK at the top of the DSDT file make sure you leave one space before and after example: Method ( _WAK 1, serialized) //WAK wake up |<--------------Some text------------->| } } >> open space no characters Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized) { If (LEqual (Arg0, ToUUID ("a0b5b7c6-1318-441c-b0c9-fe695eaf949b"))) { If (LEqual (Arg1, One)) { If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero)) { Store (Buffer (One) { 0x03 /* . */ }, Arg4) Return (One) } If (LEqual (Arg2, One)) { Return (One) } } } >> open space no characters SATA DSDT Edit ( thanks to artur_pt Locate IDE0 rename to SATA. rename all IDE0's found in DSDT to SATA. 28 total Then ADD THIS in right after AGTF: Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) // _DSM: Device-Specific Method { Store (Package (0x0A) { "AAPL,slot-name", "Built In", "name", "Intel AHCI Controller", "model", Buffer (0x2E) { "Intel 6 Series Chipset Family SATA Controller" }, "device_type", Buffer (0x10) { "AHCI Controller" }, "device-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x03, 0x1C, 0x00, 0x00 /* .... */ } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } } You can leave IDE1 or delete it. Since this is a laptop there is only one hardrive port. Reboot after making any changes to DSDT. WIFI - The Wifi Bluetooth Combo Half Mini PCIE card that comes stock does not work with Mac OS X. Have to replace this. I was looking for Atheros Wifi Bluetooth Combo to replace. But, since I do not use Bluetooth, purchased the AR9820 Atheros Wifi only. 2Gh/5Ghz option. This chip works OOB. What needs to be done is to change WLAN to ARPT in the DSDT. This can be done through Clover using the FixAirport in Old Way under ACPI. Clover should make the necessary name change in DSDT. But if you're not too keen on that just do it yourself. Do a Find and Replace in MaciASL. Find: WLAN Replace: ARPT Finish done. I did some hardware renaming in DSDT but that doesn't seem to do anything. Like it matters or not. But, just in case it is good to name it appropriately. There is a patch in the Repository I don't recall off hand which one I used, because I used several. I mixed and matched and re-edited a patch or two. However, it works OOB. And the Kext is already in the OS. No need to use a hack on with this chip. What does not work is the FN+F2 key and the Wifi idiot light near the mouse pad. Have to edit the DSDT using a few patches plus to edit manually by typing. To do this is a bit detailed and somewhat time consuming. Plus updates cause things to work and not work. Then you have to find the patches to use to make it work again. Also trial and error and more manual typing in DSDT. But for now it works after using the patches. This took quite some time to get to work. What worked in earlier OS X's doesn't work with 10.11 and beyond. Apple made changes. For FN+Keys to work in Mac OS 10.12.x. KEYS are >> F1 F2 F5 F6 F7 F9 F10 F11 F12 Monitor to TV don't work only in boot up mode.. Touchpad works but it don't work?? yeah weird. Display dimmer works, display off works, sound mute volume up and down works. Sleep button works but doesn't wake up. wifi have to fudge with. Like it don't work until you toggle then the wifi is on. Use: FnKeys as Function Keys Patch.txt then while reading this patch: Optional Fn key patches (old notebooks).txt rename to "Notify" Find in your DSDT for the FN KEYS section which is example: (this is for FN+F1 Keystroke) Method (_Q0A, 0, NotSerialized) // _Qxx: EC Query { Notify (SLPB, 0x80) // Status Change } but For the WIFI Toggle do not use Notify leave as is. Actually the original DSDT says Notify but using the patches supplied here which comes from Dinesh, it gets changed. Dinesh's post: Read carefully and thoroughly. It is not going to make sense till you actually do the patching http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1968-fn-hotkey-and-als-sensor-driver-for-asus-notebooks/ I had to intermix to find out which worked. Many reboots. Lots of lost time. But, it works now. However the patches are made for the Combo cards. (Wifi BT combo) Wifi Light don't work so use the patch >>WiFi BT LED status fix.txt AsusNBFnKeys.kext The Above kext requires the patches from Dinesh "Asus Patches" , in order to work. An ISSUE with Mac OS 10.12 concerning Wifivelocityd spamming the System Log and another agent/daemon listed in that post. I posted here on the forum: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/317694-wifi-wifivelocityd-spamming-system-log/ ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS: **Your USB Installer can always be used to boot the HDD and get into the Desktop to make changes. still in progress...... Asus DSDT patches.zip Notebook Core i Sandy Bridge.zip Edited January 20, 2017 by makiko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattsCreative Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 not insane at all just a normal guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ra77 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Excellent work!!, I have an Asus K53SV Intel I7 2670QM 2,2GHz 8Gb Ram 120Gb SSD Kingston and 1TB WD data disk Nvidia Geforce GT 520mx, the rest of the hardware is exactly the same as yours. I followed the same steps as you when I installed OS X El Capitan but but I used VoodooHDA for sound and Brightness Slider App to adjust the brightness. Now I installed Sierra almost without modifying anything. When I have more time I will try to fix the shutdown with your guide, thanks for sharing your experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 Excellent work!!, I have an Asus K53SV Intel I7 2670QM 2,2GHz 8Gb Ram 120Gb SSD Kingston and 1TB WD data disk Nvidia Geforce GT 520mx, the rest of the hardware is exactly the same as yours. I followed the same steps as you when I installed OS X El Capitan but but I used VoodooHDA for sound and Brightness Slider App to adjust the brightness. Now I installed Sierra almost without modifying anything. When I have more time I will try to fix the shutdown with your guide, thanks for sharing your experience. Ra77, Thanks. For Audio use HDAPatcher 1.6 by Toleda, it works without using VoodooHDA and the sound is much better. Plus I have HDMI Audio working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ra77 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Ra77, Thanks. For Audio use HDAPatcher 1.6 by Toleda, it works without using VoodooHDA and the sound is much better. Plus I have HDMI Audio working. I have my sound work like a charm using HDAPatcher 1.6 by Toleda, next power management and shoot down fix. Thanks again makiko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 Ra77, Once you get the PM working, and all is stable, you can switch to UEFI boot instead of legacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinhkm6 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 can you share EFI for me? tks so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 can you share EFI for me? tks so much vlnhkm6, Can you be more specific? share EFI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinhkm6 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 vlnhkm6, Can you be more specific? share EFI? yeh share EFI your complete installed computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 yeh share EFI your complete installed computer vinhkm6, that takes the fun out of building your own. mak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinhkm6 Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 vinhkm6, that takes the fun out of building your own. mak I will try to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 I have a current problem where the " t y o " keys stopped working. also on number pad the number " 2 " key stopped working. tried the pull the battery for a minute while pressing on button. tried newer kext. anyone have same issue? thnx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 Solved the keyboard issue. BIOS. Hacked it once for the AsusMSR but, that seems to have interfered with the keys. So now I just use Clover for the Asus fix and leave the Bios stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugi6666 Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Hello, could you share you config.plist? I am still trying to make my usb installer. I am getting into clover, but there is no installer boot option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesutgooner Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 I got no idea to patch, anyone mind helping me ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesutgooner Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 (edited) I still not really not get those, anyone mind helping me **GFX0 rename to IGPU after renaming, another step has to be done. After compiling the DSDT don't save yet. Find IGPU main branch, expand it fully. Scroll down to _DSM and rename this to XDSM example: From Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) Highlight _ with Mouse and type capital X TO Method (XDSM, 4, NotSerialized) **Add DTGP editing in DSDT cut and paste required For some reason when adding this, it ends up near the bottom of the DSDT file. **NOTICE CHANGED: highlight the script and cut and paste to AFTER the very first WAK at the top of the DSDT file make sure you leave one space before and after example: Method ( _WAK 1, serialized) //WAK wake up |<--------------Some text------------->| } } >> open space no characters Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized) { If (LEqual (Arg0, ToUUID ("a0b5b7c6-1318-441c-b0c9-fe695eaf949b"))) { If (LEqual (Arg1, One)) { If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero)) { Store (Buffer (One) { 0x03 /* . */ }, Arg4) Return (One) } If (LEqual (Arg2, One)) { Return (One) } } } >> open space no characters SATA DSDT Edit ( thanks to artur_pt Locate IDE0 rename to SATA. rename all IDE0's found in DSDT to SATA. 28 total Then ADD THIS in right after AGTF: Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) // _DSM: Device-Specific Method { Store (Package (0x0A) { "AAPL,slot-name", "Built In", "name", "Intel AHCI Controller", "model", Buffer (0x2E) { "Intel 6 Series Chipset Family SATA Controller" }, "device_type", Buffer (0x10) { "AHCI Controller" }, "device-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x03, 0x1C, 0x00, 0x00 /* .... */ } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } } You can leave IDE1 or delete it. Since this is a laptop there is only one hardrive port. Edited March 3, 2019 by mesutgooner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Greetings I was able to workout the problem. However, I have a question and a complaint. When I made this guide for the Kextto Patch in clover I did not use these alphabet soup codes: how to decipher and make use for clover configurator that does not know program language? <data>AgUAAAAEAAAHAAAA</data> <key>Name</key> <string>AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB</string> <key>Replace</key> <data>AgUAAAAIAAAHAAAA</data> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Thanks Herve, you're quite right, but I'm in a crunch. I'm not software minded, and I apologize. But thank you so much for letting me know what to use. I did not have a mac just windows. It was rather difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 This guide needs work. When I have time to revisit. Right now I'm running Mojave 10.14.6 after much trial and efforts, finally have this system stable and no artifacts with HD3000. After having tried many methods. Have figured out shorter easier way then above guide to do this install. The problem now is DSDT editing. Have to find an Iasl that isn't so picky like MacIASL. Searching for one now. Very happy with the stability after having tried so many things. The additions: Lilu.kext, AppleALC.kext,VitualSMC.kext. RTCMemoryFixup.kext, CpuFriend.kext, Whatevergreen.kext,Hibernation.kext, AirPortAtheros40.kext Configuration additions and retractions in config.plist. For Mojave to work: Herve' and Chris1111, plus DosDude1 patcher. Slice and his team for Clover, Mackie for Clover Configurator. Acidanthera for his Lilu and the others, OpenCore looks tempting to try next. In the works: RTC issue. Once this is good to go, will be able to wake I think. Restart and shutdown no problems. Sleeping no problem, waking big problem. Having to remap the Function Keys was serious problem since have to guess what the author is saying no precise. Thus my guide is not precise. If you have any questions and feel really lost, so was I. But I wanted to at least get people started and then have them swim the ocean and all the rest to find a good stable system. Thank you all for making this possible. Steve, rest in peace. Thank you sir. Makk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 With these K53E's some have different Audiochip, iCore 5 cpu or even iCore 7 cpu but the same bus and memory speeds. The PNFL or Backlight inserted into DSDT or SSDT-PNFL.aml causes video corruption. Fix Brightness Patches in MaciASL. I have a DSDT patch for this, but it errors on compile due to a statement. These laptops came with an external ATKP driver for FN keys. It is not part of the DSDT function So these laptop are looking for a 'driver' to handle the FN key functions in Blue. I tried every combination even. Any Fix Brightness patch causes video corruption. Some immediately others over a few hours. Without the brigthness fix it is too dim. I have to figure out how to build a driver, kext. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepitillo Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 (edited) Hello there, I have a K53SV with an i5-2430M processor, I think it's very similar to yours. I'm struggling booting the Catalina installer with the error in the picture, just when starting booting. It seams like a problem with power management, I've tried some patches but maybe I'm not on the right way. Do you have an idea about that problem ? Maybe MSR locked ? Obviously I'm booting with -no_compat_check and a suitable SMBIOS MacBookPro8,2 Thanks. Edited September 1, 2020 by pepitillo typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepitillo Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Hello, I was able to continue unlocking MSR --> https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/extras/msr-lock.html After, I've had to put the file attached in ACPI/PATCHED. FYI I'm using CLOVER. Now I'm stuck at still waiting for root device. Maybe it's necessary some fixes on USB. SSDT-EC.aml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makk Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 Not sure as I did not install Catalina due to many incompatibilities. For one HD3000 this is the big problem. Two memory needs to be 16Gb in RAM. Plus this laptop is only good with Sierra. Does not run High Sierra without locking up the screen. I've tried everything to make High Sierra work. Needs 16Gb RAM to run anything above Sierra. Video memory all this plays into it. On Sierra Safari hogs the memory runs terrible. Video is the problem. Need good video graphics. Other than that it runs El Capitan well. Sierra is good if you choose not to use Safari. I forgot to mention I am running 10.12.6. I tried all the above and lockups after a few minutes. Did successfully install but many issues. This laptop is 11years old and is ready for the grave. Have a good one. I would not install Catalina unless you have i5 or better and a different graphics. Try the dosdude1 installers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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