KBS756_V2 Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Hi I need some assistance in helping a friend set up her computer as a Hackintosh, I have previously done a couple of these before but always with Gigabyte motherboards and haven't had any major issues. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My friend bought this computer from Cyberpower PC and the following are it's specs CPU: i7-4790 3.6 GHz Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX (Believe it's this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130779&cm_re=MSI_Z97_PC_MATE_ATX-_-13-130-779-_-Product) SSD: 500 GB Samsung 850 EVO and a 2nd one for Windows and storage 1 TB Sandisk X400 Memory 16 GB 8x2 ADATA XPG V3 Video Card GTX 960 4 GB Zotac Wireless Gigabyte 802.11AC Wifi Bluetooth Combo PCIE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And this is what I've tried so far - I downloaded OS X 11.11.6 from the Mac App Store - Tried to use both Pandora and El Capitan V7 of the Clover installer to create a bootable usb This is the issue I am getting "Unable to find driver for this platform: \ "ACPI\" ...."IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1665" I've been messing with settings and booting UEFI and UEFI + Legacy Hybrid, I've turned off Vt-d and and CFG Lock also got Mac OS version : Not yet set If someone can direct me to a guide on how to get around this and how to set this up for this motherboard I would greatly appreciate it. I've been looking through this forum and I may be searching the wrong things but I haven't had much success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwarfy Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Hi, follow this guide. If you have any problems, upload your EFI and we will help you from there. Regards, Dwarfy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756_V2 Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 So I went through that guide for both Legacy and UEFI failed both times ... got farther with UEFI but to the same place i got stuck before I am gonna give it one more shot with checking UEFI settings and other elements placed in, but what do you want me to do if that doesn't work upload the EFI partition it creates on the USB? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwarfy Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 So I went through that guide for both Legacy and UEFI failed both times ... got farther with UEFI but to the same place i got stuck before I am gonna give it one more shot with checking UEFI settings and other elements placed in, but what do you want me to do if that doesn't work upload the EFI partition it creates on the USB? Thanks Yes, please follow the UEFI way only from that guide and then upload the Clover EFI folder. I'll modify it and add my config.plist in it and some kext here from the download section. Regards, Dwarfy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756_V2 Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 K Thanks ... Attaching the EFI file below ... Google drive link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-q1pBWeXrnR0J2QWF2d2dqTXc/view?usp=sharing Thanks Again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwarfy Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Hi try this. Replace the EFI KBS756_V2.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756_V2 Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 So I tried it and got past the past Hangup but the installer froze up on a second remaining and rebooted after showing some error messages If it happens again when I try now I'll take a pic of the log file and share where it's getting stuck Thanks again for your help EDIT Seems to have gone ok past that point 2nd time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwarfy Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 No problem. Sorry didn't see your second update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756_V2 Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 I got it installed now to figure out how to get the Wifi, Audio, and GFX working ... Guess thats something to ask on the post install forum tho Thanks Again for your help was ripping my hair out before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwarfy Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 I got it installed now to figure out how to get the Wifi, Audio, and GFX working ... Guess thats something to ask on the post install forum tho Thanks Again for your help was ripping my hair out before No problem, enjoy your new hack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts