{"id":6011,"date":"2016-09-21T10:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:37:05","slug":"macos-sierra-on-mac-wanna-be-windows-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/macos-sierra-on-mac-wanna-be-windows-laptops.html","title":{"rendered":"macOS Sierra On Mac Wanna Be Windows Laptops and Desktops"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>2017-08-01 I&#8217;ve just installed <a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/create-imac-182-from-dell-inspiron-dt-3668-i5-7400-kaby-lake.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">macOS Sierra 10.12.6 to Dell Inspiron DT 3668 i5-7400 Kaby Lake<\/a> and everything works very nicely.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>2017-05-30 macOS Sierra 12.4+ needs Clover Version 4049+ to work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>No longer needs flag nocache = no any more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When install Clover from the package to UEFI folder, doesn&#8217;t work&#8230; Need to copy the Clover files over to the EFI folder including BOOT folder to boot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Remove\u00a0VBoxHfs.efi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-upgrade-to-macos-sierra-12-5-from-el-capitan-11-6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Upgrade safely from El Capitan 11.6 to macOS Sierra 12.5<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"V7WjOKqWcNg\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I&#8217;ve just finished <a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/el-capitan-10-11-6-on-dell-7352-inspiron-i7-5500u-laptop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MacBook Air 7,2 on Dell Inspiron 7352 Broadwell i7-5500u<\/a> &#8211; Perfect.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>macOS Sierra was released yesterday and I installed it on my external USB hard drive to check it out&#8230; I&#8217;m not using it until I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s as solid as Yosemite or El Capitan. The SIRI seems to be a nice feature. There are things that work on El Capitan before but DON&#8217;T work on Sierra. I&#8217;ll post the installation progress as I go for all my laptops and desktop: HD3000-4000-4400-4600. For those who doesn&#8217;t have a mac &#8211; it&#8217;s time to Google and download the macOS Sierra preview copy while they&#8217;re still available to start.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/complete-guide-to-install-el-capitan-or-yosemite-on-pc-and-laptops.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For more on how to make Mac Wanna Be read here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This tutorial should work for all Mac OS X: Yosemite, El Capitan and macOS Sierra.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/s0gdzel7uzho5w7\/Kernels_Sierra.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kernels folder for macOS Sierra<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/7loxcl2xdf9nz9s\/clover_config_samples.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clover config.plist samples for HD3000, HD4000, HD4400, HD4600<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/0xxyr50gfp9nd2x\/configimac13_2.plist.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clover configdesktop_imac132<\/a>.(make sure to rename to config.plist)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/RehabMan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All Rehabman&#8217;s important kexts<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"\/\/www.insanelymac.com\/forum\/files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All Other kexts and Kernels<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/vmebc9laeer7mw0\/osxlowmem_hfsplus_ntfs.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ntfs.efi and hfsplus.efi for Clover\u00a0drivers64UEFI folder<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">My Patched DSDTs That Work On My Laptops<\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>You&#8217;re supposed to patch your own DSDT to have battery and sleep\/wake working, that&#8217;s the only way to learn. These are my working DSDT for all my laptops. You can try to use them for yours, but understand that all hardware are built differently and IT CAN BREAK YOUR COMPUTER, use them with your own RISKS. Please don&#8217;t ask me about these.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This is the link for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/RehabMan\/Laptop-DSDT-Patch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rehabman&#8217;s DSDT patch<\/a> in MaciASL:\u00a0\/\/raw.github.com\/RehabMan\/Laptop-DSDT-Patch\/master<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/bdgjxgktr5jksuy\/patchedx360_HD4400.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DSDT for HP X360 15-u011dx i7-4510u 8GB 1TB Windows 8.1 Haswell HD4400<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/azilzyudey0xl08\/dsdt_ssdt_hp_i5_4210u.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DSDT for i5-4210u Haswell HD4400<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/frooi1pbqajn9ig\/patched4000.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DSDT for HP Envy 4-1117nr and 4-1115dx 14&#8243; i5-3317u HD4000 Ivy Bridge Windows 8<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/xfqzcgqqpxvywit\/patched4600.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DSDT for HP 17&#8243; M7-J120DX Haswell i7-4700MQ HD4600 Windows 8<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/daakf5cds4n41ac\/patchedLenovoHD3000_G770.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DSDT for Lenovo G770 i5-2410M HD3000 Sandy Bridge Windows 7<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"M0CixPrWpTY\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"ob1UTLHX8cw\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Only boots with Clover 3599 and up.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The security option for &#8220;Allow apps downloaded from EVERYWHERE&#8221; no longer exist &#8211; must enable it through terminal.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><code><em>sudo spctl --assess --master-disable<\/em><\/code><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Trackpad pane for synaptics is blank, must be replaced with Trackpad.Preference.Pane from 10.11 or 10.10 or patched one.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>For BCM94352 CE-123H dual band wifi and Bluetooth 4.0 to work perfectly, a patch in Clover config.plist from <a href=\"\/\/www.insanelymac.com\/forum\/topic\/312759-fix-macos-sierra-dp1-bcm94532z-wifi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DARKVOID<\/a> must be in place. Handoff works just like El Capitan or Yosemite<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-xml prettyprinted\"><span class=\"tag\">&lt;dict&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;key&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\">Comment<\/span><span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/key&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;string&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\">AirPortBrcm4360 - fcvo<\/span><span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/string&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;key&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\">Disabled<\/span><span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/key&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;false\/&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;key&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\">Find<\/span><span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/key&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;data&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\">gflSqgAAdSk=<\/span><span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/data&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;key&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\">Name<\/span><span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/key&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;string&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\">AirPortBrcm4360<\/span><span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/string&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;key&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\">Replace<\/span><span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/key&gt;<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"tag\">&lt;data&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\">gflSqgAAZpA=<\/span><span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/data&gt;<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"tag\">&lt;\/dict&gt;<\/span><\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>SMBIOS MacMini no longer supported &#8211; Change to iMac13,2.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Backlight and Audio keys on keyboard no longer work.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>In case iMessage doesn&#8217;t work &#8211; Patch Kernel in the config.plist<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><code>&lt;key&gt;KernelToPatch&lt;\/key&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;array&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;dict&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;key&gt;Disabled&lt;\/key&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;false\/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;key&gt;Find&lt;\/key&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;data&gt;<br \/>\nuaABAAAPMg==<br \/>\n&lt;\/data&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;key&gt;MatchOS&lt;\/key&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;string&gt;10.12&lt;\/string&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;key&gt;Replace&lt;\/key&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;data&gt;<br \/>\nuaABAAAxwA==<br \/>\n&lt;\/data&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/dict&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/array&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_macOS_Sierra.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6013\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_macOS_Sierra-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"macOS Sierra On HP Windows Laptop\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>If we&#8217;re going to install Mac OS X on future Windows Hardware, we should create an external USB hard drive with all the partitions needed for all popular Mac OS X. These days the 500GB or 1GB cost less than $50. It&#8217;s a must have.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"wuau0UzegGE\"><\/div>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">macOS Sierra On Envy 4-1117nr i5-3317u HD4000<\/button><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-patch-idt-111d76e0-applehda-with-hdmi-sound.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patched IDT 111d76e0 AppleHDA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"R3HANZPRJAA\"><\/div>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">macOS Sierra On HP X360 15-u011dx i7-4510u Haswell HD4400<\/button><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>After 10.12.2 &#8211; Everything seems to work better &#8211; all keyboards work &#8211; the BCM94352HBM works perfectly with just new FakePCIID.kext and FakePCIID_Broadcom_Wifi.kext from Rehabman &#8211; make sure it&#8217;s 2016-1115 or newer. AppleALC patched at layout id3 for ALC282 using original AppleHDA.kext. Codec_Commander must be edited to wake with sound correctly.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><del><em>Twitter videos crashes macOS Sierra when opened.<\/em><\/del><\/li>\n<li [utub]R512uYDLMgc[\/utub]<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"cbjxJfGSZw4\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">macOS Sierra On Desktop Asus P8Z68V LX i5-2500k HD3000 with NVIDIA 8400GS<\/button><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>I bought a Toshiba SSD TR150 480GB from Fry&#8217;s to install macOS Sierra on my old desktop Asus P8Z68V LX LGA motherboard and i5 2500k running @ 4.2GHz. In order for the turbo to work, I had to use the iMac13,2 SMBIOS, actually for Ivy Bridge HD4000.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Everything works well except the programs seem to launch and close very slowly. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the drive or the macOS Sierra itself. I need to investigate on this one. After a while, the system is cached, open and close apps are faster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Siri only works with WIFI for location, Ethernet doesn&#8217;t work. Need to install a wifi module for location services.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>You can get a USB Tenda wifi inexpensively and use <a href=\"\/\/www.mediatek.com\/en\/downloads1\/downloads\/usb-rt2870rt2770rt3x7xrt537xrt5572\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this driver to enable it<\/a> to use location services. We can use <a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-connect-half-mini-pcie-wifi-bluetooth-combo-card-to-desktop-pci-e-slot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fenvi FV101 adapter to install BCM943225HMB<\/a> or BCM94352HMB to the PCI-E slot for both wifi-bluetooth combo.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"GuYk_ePG9Aw\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>To enable the trim feature on the SSD, the command must be issued and the drive must be connected to 6GB sata port (which this motherboard has 2 gray color on the bottom).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><code>sudo trimforce enable<\/code><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"C15RzOoDXxc\"><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"Gi5v__TB3ho\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When everything is done and if you have a Seagate USB External Hard Drive, plug it in and you can <a href=\"\/\/www.seagate.com\/support\/downloads\/item\/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download the NTFS to\u00a0<\/a><\/em><i>access all NTFS folders.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017-08-01 I&#8217;ve just installed macOS Sierra 10.12.6 to Dell Inspiron DT 3668 i5-7400 Kaby Lake and everything works very nicely. 2017-05-30 macOS Sierra 12.4+ needs Clover Version 4049+ to work. No longer needs flag nocache = no any more. When install Clover from the package to UEFI folder, doesn&#8217;t work&#8230; Need to copy the Clover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/macos-sierra-on-mac-wanna-be-windows-laptops.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1045,763,1072,541],"tags":[33,457,1040,1002,1001,418,416,1003,417,847,814,963,1005,1004,1012,1011],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadwell","category-clover-boot-loader","category-dsdt-patching","category-mac-wanna-be","tag-asus-p8z68-v-lx-lga","tag-bootdiskutility","tag-broadwell","tag-clover-boot-loader-3763","tag-clover-boot-loader-3859","tag-envy-4-1117nr","tag-hd4000","tag-i5-2500k-hd3000","tag-i5-3317u","tag-i5-2500k-hackintosh","tag-ivy-bridge","tag-macos-sierra","tag-ocz-ssd-tr150-480gb","tag-toshiba-ocz-tr150-480gb","tag-trim-support","tag-trimforce-enable"],"views":16023,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}