[Guide] macOS High Sierra 10.13 - Dell Optiplex 780 (760) (755) (790) (990)

[MacPeet]

Whatevergreen only works with UEFI.
Legacy does not work with Whatevergreen.
Did you install Clover UEFI?

[cele_82]

On 2/1/2019 at 2:18 PM, blxkspell said:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/

Thanks man, I have a Core2Quad 9650(with SSE4) and a nvidia GT610. This worked like a charm in 10.9 wondering if the nvidia GT610 is ok with 10.13 ?

[MacPeet]

3 hours ago, cele_82 said:

Thanks man, I have a Core2Quad 9650(with SSE4) and a nvidia GT610. This worked like a charm in 10.9 wondering if the nvidia GT610 is ok with 10.13 ?

 

10.13.x yes, 10.14.x no ((restricted with rollback from the HS, currently only until 10.14.3) With Beta's 10.14.4 it does not currently work.)

 

GT710 works OOB with Sierra, High Sierra and Mojave.

Currently no problems with my Optiplex 780 and GT 710 with Mojave 10.14.4 DP2 Beta. Everything works.

Edited February 7, 2019 by MacPeet

[blxkspell]

On 2/6/2019 at 5:51 PM, MacPeet said:

Whatevergreen only works with UEFI.
Legacy does not work with Whatevergreen.
Did you install Clover UEFI?

Yes i did

[Gaboro]

Is there a way to upgrade the Optiplex 780 with E8400 CPU and GT710 from High Sierra to Mojave directly? 

[ernani]

Hi everyone,

 

After upgrading yesterday to 10.14.4, my Optiplex 780 reboots when it attempts to wake from sleep? Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Any thoughts on how to address it? My configuration is: Dell Optiplex 780: C2Q Q9400@2,66GHz, 16GB RAM DDR3, Gigsbyte GeForce GT710 2GB, SSD: 10.14.4.

 

Thanks!

[ernani]

On 3/29/2019 at 7:14 PM, ernani said:

Hi everyone,

 

After upgrading yesterday to 10.14.4, my Optiplex 780 reboots when it attempts to wake from sleep? Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Any thoughts on how to address it? My configuration is: Dell Optiplex 780: C2Q Q9400@2,66GHz, 16GB RAM DDR3, Gigsbyte GeForce GT710 2GB, SSD: 10.14.4.

 

Thanks!

For anyone facing the same problem as myself, I managed to resolve it by turning off hibernation (by pmset) and using darkwake=8 at clover boot options. Now my hackintosh wakes up as it should :)

[CairoC]

On 6/5/2018 at 7:01 AM, chris1111 said:

Installed macOS Mojave 10.14 on my spare Dell Optiplex 790

with Geforce GT 710

 

Nice OS 

 

Could you please help me out i'm sturggling to even make the clover boot I just need some good instructions for this system

[cele_82]

Is there a guide for installing 10.14 on Dell 780 ?

 

 

Thanks

[MacPeet]

@ cele_82

 

No, nobody has written yet.
In principle as in 10.13!
10.14 needs the telemetry patch and Optiplex780 needs rollback AppleHDA, as already described. HD5450 no longer works with Mojave. You need a GT710, for example, which supports metal graphics. You have to read a lot and find your way to Mojave yourself.
Currently I have no time and no desire for a guide.

 

The old box is still working with 10.14.5 DP2:

 

[chris1111]

On Dell Optiplex 790 to make booting UEFI and to have Clover GUI really good you need this Driver64UEFI CsmVideoDxe-64.efi

The screen is identical as booting ESP legacy

[Dniel97]

I managed to install Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6 on my Optiplex 780 with a XFX AMD Radeon 7XXX 1GB. I used the AMDRadeonX4000.kext, AMDRadeonX4000GLDriver.bundle, IOAccelerator2D.plugin and IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext drivers from Sierra 10.12.6 and Verde.kext to get QE/CI working. I didn't inject ATI Graphics and I didn't patched the frame buffer or using a patched DSDT for the graphics card. Sometimes I get weird red artifacts on the screen, is there a way to fix them? The artifacts go away if I zoom in, zoom out or scroll.

[cele_82]

Does the GT610 work in 10.14 ?

[morpheousman]

14 hours ago, cele_82 said:

Does the GT610 work in 10.14 ?

 

We are here to help each other, but at least try to search the forum first.

 

This was found in less than a minute...

 

 

 

[georgeg16]

Hey everyone, I don't know if this thread is dead but I need help with one little thing. I have just installed High Sierra 10.13.0 and used Rico's dsdt and config, now when I boot from Clover it just goes to a black screen while it's loading half way. I saw on here people using a GT1030 which is what I have but I don't know why it doesn't work for me. Cheers guys

[MacPeet]

Thread is not dead.
GT1030 needs web driver.
Boot with boot flag nv_disable=1 into the system, then install nvidia web driver for 10.13.x !!!

x = (pay attention to the version) !!!

[georgeg16]

5 hours ago, MacPeet said:

Thread is not dead.
GT1030 needs web driver.
Boot with boot flag nv_disable=1 into the system, then install nvidia web driver for 10.13.x !!!

x = (pay attention to the version) !!!

 

I did, I made sure I downloaded the right version of the Web Drivers according to my build number. I tried lilu and whatevergreen kexts but it hasn't made any difference

[chris1111]

5 minutes ago, georgeg16 said:

 

I did, I made sure I downloaded the right version of the Web Drivers according to my build number. I tried lilu and whatevergreen kexts but it hasn't made any difference

See my EFI you have config GT 10130

You have all neccesery files in that EFI 

 

Edited May 13, 2019 by chris1111

[georgeg16]

27 minutes ago, chris1111 said:

See my EFI you have config GT 10130

You have all neccesery files in that EFI 

 

Man you are a life saver!!!!

It works now, thank you so much Chris

[chris1111]

Good news Owner of Dell Optiplex 790 

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Edited May 14, 2019 by chris1111

[MacPeet]

 

Good news, my Optiplex780 is still working with Catalina.
Installation Catalina directly on my Mojave SSD with SMBIOS iMac13,1
After the installation I am back on SMBIOS iMac10,1.
Many new things in Catalina.
iTunes no longer exists. This is just music now.
Own movies now in AppleTV and podcasts now in the podcast app.
Sync iDevices now in the Finder.

[unrealpants]

> Optiplex780 is still working with Catalina.

 

Great - there goes my weekend plans.

[MacPeet]

@unrealpants

 

With ATI Radeon HD 5450 no way. You need a metal card, example GT710 Kepler works OOB.
TP-Link TL-WN851ND (Atheros needs a rollback in Catalina). Can I explain later, install once!

[unrealpants]

On 6/12/2019 at 12:44 AM, MacPeet said:

@unrealpants

 

With ATI Radeon HD 5450 no way. You need a metal card, example GT710 Kepler works OOB.
TP-Link TL-WN851ND (Atheros needs a rollback in Catalina). Can I explain later, install once!

thankfully that spec list is out of date and I do now have a GT710.  I'll update soon

[alfonzotan]

I stumbled across this thread while idly wondering if the old Optiplex 760 in my dedicated MAME cabinet could be upgraded to something more modern (it's been running Snow Leopard for... well, for a quite a while).  Made several variations of the High Sierra, Yosemite and El Cap USB sticks following the guide in the original post and several different DSDTs from the thread, but none of them will boot into the OS X installer.  Going -v gives me nothing, just a long pause before the system restarts and takes me back to the Clover boot screen.  

 

Any suggestions?  With this many variations and no joy at the same error point, I'm reasonably sure I'm missing something obvious.  Not like this is life or death, but it'd be fun to see how the new HLSL vector effects look...

Edited June 23, 2019 by alfonzotan
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