[GUIDE] Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia, Tahoe on HP EliteDesk 800 G4/G5 Mini - The perfect MacMini8,1 Hackintosh

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Just stumbled upon an interesting situation that might be helpful to others...

 

I'm swapping CPUs between EliteDesk 800 Mini motherboards to prepare for a test of i5-8600 performance with a 65W HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini motherboard.  After initially assembling the new CPU/motherboard combo, my Geekbench 6 multi-core CPU scores were dismal at 2500-3000 (when I was expecting over 5700.  Simply re-seating the CPU (completely removing it from the socket and re-installing it), fixed the problem.  ChatGPT says that there are multiple reasons why this could be the case (e.g., poor pin connection, poor thermal connectivity, etc.).  Now that I have a working i5-8600/G4 Mini 65W system to test, I should have updated GB6 results for this post.

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I'm currently testing MaLd0n's new HDAUniversal.kext for audio in macOS Tahoe on our HP EliteDesk Minis.  I think audio quality is outstanding.  If you want to test, get the HDAUniversal installer from here and do the following:

 

1. Remove your existing audio solution for macOS Tahoe (e.g., remove VoodooHDA.kext from /Library/Extensions)
2. In your Open Core config.plist, set csr-active-config = <03000000> and reboot for the new SIP setting to take effect.  If you already have csr-active-config set to something that's less restrictive than <03000000> (e.g., <03080000>) then you don't need to change SIP.
3. Run the HDAUniversal installer and follow the prompts.  Be sure to "Allow" HDAUniversal when prompted.
4. After Restarting, you should have perfectly working audio.  You may need to select the audio output (e.g., select 'Line Out' or 'Headphones')
5. If you want more restrictive SIP, set csr-active-config = <01000000>.  Just like VoodooHDA.kext, HDAUniversal needs SIP set to allow untrusted kexts since it is installed in /Library/Extensions.