Do you have supported and recommended hardware, but your Hackintosh is still not running or
not running great?
Ley’s find out what could be the problem.
Hi, I’m Teresa from morgonaut.cloud and I help people to save money on their Hackintosh
builds, I help them simply to build a perfect Hackintosh.
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Lot of people search internet for ages to find good working Clover folder for their
Hackintosh, but still can’t find the only one - the BEST one.
So as you know already, the only BEST config is the one you create and tweak yourself for
your particular Hackintosh build.
Or if you get some of the configs created by myself which I offer to download, but again
- it works only for exact component configuration.
So now imagine you have such an amazing config downloaded, but your Hackintosh is still not
running as good as I showed you or as you expect?
So how is this possible?
Easy question, easy answer.
BIOS.
The most important and highly overlooked step in the process of building a perfect Hackintosh,
is to correctly setup your BIOS.
If your BIOS is not set up correctly, you can in some cases will not even be able to
run a Hackintosh on it at all.
Even with perfectly matching Clover config.
So I decided to make this problematic clear forever and for everyone.
In this video I will show you how to correctly setup BIOS for your Hackintosh, built on top
of Asus motherboard and next time I will show you the same but for Gigabyte boards.
So let’s get straight into it.
In this Hackintosh running behind me I have the Asus Prime Z370-A motherboard, so let’s
have a look into the BIOS.
To access your ASUS motherboard BIOS press on boot DELETE key or F2 key.
You will be greeted with this welcome screen.
Access the Advanced Mode clicking in the bottom right corner or with the F7 key.
It’s a good idea to update your BIOS to the latest one.
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 top right corner click on TOOL and Enter the ASUS EZ Flash Utility.
Here you have the option to update BIOS from previously downloaded file from Asus support
website or directly via Internet.
Now just click on YES and your BIOS will be updated.
I already done that.
On bottom click on Exit to exit the flash utility.
On top right click on Exit and now click on Load Optimized Defaults.
This is very important step, so don’t miss it.
Now confirm it by OK.
I do not overclock my production machines, so overclocking is not what I cover in this video
So let’s walk through all settings we need to change or set,
so your Hackintosh can run perfectly.
Navigate to Onboard Devices.
If you have M.2 NVMe drive like me set it’s bandwidth configuration to x4, otherwise it
will no run at it’s maximum speed.
I will now walk through all my screens, so you can match it easily.
I will just emphasize the most important settings.
For sure disable the Serial port.
Here make sure the Fastboot is disabled.
SATA mode should be set to AHCI.
And also be sure the CSM is disabled.
Now let’s move to next tab.
Here set your XMP profile for your memory and don’t worry if your speed may be different
than mine, we have simply different memory types.
Here you can set your overclock, but as I said, I do not overclock at all, so I’ll
leave it all untouched.
Here the default Optimized settings are all ok.
Intel Virtualization leave Disabled, but I saw already some machines that needs this setting,
so experiment with it.
The same with VT-d, I have it Enabled, but some machines had problems with it.
And now the crucial part - graphics configuration.
If you have dedicated GPU, like I have the RX 580 in this build, set your primary Display
to PCIE and make sure to have iGPU Multi-Monitor Enabled.
But If you have only one display connected to the iGPU onboard graphics and no dedicated
GPU, then set the Primary Display to CPU Graphics.
In the configuration with matching SMBIOS and dedicated GPU the Multi-Monitor option
is mandatory for getting encoding acceleration.
IOAPIC Entries should be Enabled.
Here we already set the AHCI mode.
And nothing special down here.
TPM Disabled.
Thunderbolt configuration is very individual.
I will cover Thunderbolt in one of my future videos in detail.
Onboard devices we already set earlier.
APM leave as it in default.
Network Stack disabled.
In USB configuration Legacy support Enabled, some boards have also the option for XHCI
Handoff so set it as Enabled too.
In Monitor tab there is nothing to change.
Fast Boot should be Disabled.
Boot Configuration leave as is, CSM disabled and Secure Boot should be set to Other OS.
And that’s all, we are at the end.
Now just save your BIOS with the F10 key or confirm the option Save changes & reset and
you’re good to go.
So you can easily match your BIOS settings to mine I showed you in this video and your
Hackintosh should be ready to for installation or later tweaking.
If you will have some additional questions, feel free to comment down below.
And as I told you, next time I will show you the correct BIOS settings for Gigabyte boards.
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So that’s all for today, thank you for watching and see you next time my Hackintosh friends.