This is what I’m are gonna be talking about today.
BIOS settings for your Hackintosh based on Gigabyte mainboard.
Let’s go straight into it.
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For proper functioning of your Hackintosh you need to have at FIRST place correctly
set up your BIOS.
Otherwise you would in some cases not even be able to boot your Hackintosh at all.
Proper BIOS settings for ASUS motherboards I covered last week in my previous tutorial.
So today as I promised I will show you all details of correct BIOS settings for your
Hackintosh based on GIGABYTE mainboard.
In this Hackintosh running behind me, which is my main production machine, I have the
Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Gaming 5 motherboard, which is one of few mainboards I can really
fully recommend as a base for really great Hackintosh, so let’s have a look into it’s BIOS
To access your Gigabyte motherboard BIOS press few times after the boot on your keyboard
the DELETE key.
You will be greeted with this welcome screen.
It’s a good idea to update your BIOS to the latest one at the first place.
Not always the latest BIOS version is the best one for you, but in most cases it is.
So first step - update your BIOS.
Only in case it will not work as you expected, then you can at any time downgrade it again.
On the bottom right corner click on the Q-Flash.
Now click on Update Bios.
You need to download the bios file from Gigabyte website and save it to some FAT formatted
disk before, for example on some USB flash.
Then here just here down just select the flash disk where you stored the bios file and click
on the two arrows on the right.
Various Gigabyte boards depending on their features or price can have slightly different
options, but the most important ones are present in quite all of them.
So I will now walk through all of this BIOS screens and tabs.
Always start with loading optimised defaults.
This is very important step, so don’t miss it.
If you don’t load optimised defaults, you can have some leftovers from previous tweaking
and then your default settings can be different than those recommended ones.
These first options are for overlocking, so I will not touch them now.
The only thing we need to change, is the memory XMP profile, so navigate to Advanced Memory
Settings and change the XMP profile to Profile 1.
If you will not change this settings, than your memory will run on just default low frequency
and not at a full speed for which you probably bought your memory for.
So Profile 1 is the way to go.
If your memory is not at the QVL or Qualified Vendors List, than the only option how to
get your memory running stable is to tweak it’s timings.
For example in my build I’m running 4 sticks of total 64 GB of RAM, but this setup is not
on the motherboard’s QVL as supported, so I had to slightly change the timings, so the
memory will run stable on this board.
I will now walk through all my screens, so you can match it easily.
I will just emphasize the most important settings.
Here you can see I’m running the F10 BIOS version, and this version is running absolutely great.
Make sure Fastboot is disabled.
Windows 8/10 features set to Windows 8/10.
CSM support I have enabled, but some of you can have problems with it, so experiment with it.
LAN PXE boot disabled, Storage Boot option ROM UEFI and the same for Other PCI devices.
Let’s move to Peripherals section.
If you have dedicated GPU, then set as Initial Display Output PCIe 1 slot.
If you have only integrated GPU in your CPU, then set here IGFX.
On Z series motherboard you will probably never need to enable the Above 4G Decoding.
Security Device Support Disabled.
In USB configuration make sure you enable the XHCI Hand-Off and Legacy USB support.
Network Stack Disabled.
Here make sure SATA mode is set to AHCI.
VT-d I have enabled because I have in my Clover config set the “dart=0” boot flag, which
disables it.
Internal graphics leave enabled even if you have dedicated GPU, otherwise your encoding
acceleration will not work.
As I said, your config.plist must reflect your settings here and your components setup.
And also leave as default these DVMT values.
IOAPIC entries leave Enabled.
So these are my settings for use with my i7-8700k and dedicated GPU Vega Frontier Edition with
3 displays connected to it.
Now just save your BIOS and run your Hackintosh.
So if you have compatible components, compatible mainboard and correctly set up your BIOS,
then the only thing you need is to have proper Clover configuration.
That’s why I’m presenting in my videos recommended and verified hardware, so to build
a Hackintosh really can’t be easier and you don’t need to know quite anything about how
to tweak all things for Hackintosh.
Just get recommended components, set correctly your BIOS, do clean vanilla installation and
copy my whole already prepared and tweaked EFI Clover folder which you can download from
my site and your Hackintosh must be running great.
There is no reason such a Hackintosh should have any problems.
It simply works as expected.
I’ve spent lot of time verifying and tweaking each configuration.
But if you decide to not follow my advices, then you can easily get into serious problems,
but then don’t complain please :) I’m getting complains comments every day, for
example, I know you say the Gigabyte Gaming 5 is a great board, but I’ve found another
blabla board for $30 cheaper, so I bought it.
But it’s not working.
Even with my Clover folders downloaded.
Guys, you still don’t understand the basic principles.
Each Hackintosh is unique.
You need to tweak configuration to suite your particular components setup and usage.
Just a little change like switching from dedicated GPU back to just using iGPU must be reflected
in the Clover configuration, otherwise it will not work.
Another example is when you download my config for iGPU + dGPU setup with full encoding acceleration,
it will be running great under condition, the display or displays are connected only
to discrete GPU.
When you decide to connect another display to iGPU, it will simply not work, because
my configuration was not prepared for that kind of use.
There is NO universal config on planet, that will work with all possible mainboards and
setups, it is simply not possible to make such a one.
So if you want absolutely easy and hassle free Hackintosh, really do what I advice,
follow my instructions and you will have perfect Hackintosh build without any extra effort
running in just 30 to 60 minutes.
All you need to do, is just follow my advices.
I have one guy who is quite 70 years old giving me thanks he was able to build perfect Hackintosh
just using my tutorials, he even didn’t need any of my extra services I offer.
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