Hackintosh on Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7

Mojave nVidia webdriver not avaliable yet 😢 :idea: But you can use a High Sierra, why not? This is light configuration to run macOS smoothly. I didn't get any kernel panics science after macOS install.

Hardware configuration

• Intel Core i7 8700K
• Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7
• 4×8GB Samsung M378A1K43BB2-CRC (no OC due to issues with USB ejection after sleep)
• M.2 NVME MyDigitalSSD SBX 120GB (macOS)
• PCI-e Broadcom BCM4360 WiFi ac + USB Bluetooth 4.0

Before you start make sure you have

• Working hardware
• Motherboard BIOS version F13RB
• Fresh Clover with generated SMBIOS.plist this file contains serial number so you must genenerate your own, if you are using a external GPU use mac Model 18,3 in another cases use 18,1

Installation

BIOS Settings

• MIT → Advanced Frequency Settings → Advanced CPU Core Settings → CFG Lock : Disabled
• Peripherals → USB Configuration → XHCI Hand-off : Enabled
• Peripherals → USB Configuration → Port 60/64 Emulation : Disabled
• Peripherals → Initial Display Output : PCIe 1 Slot (Only if using external GPU)

What's behind the scenes

Kexts

• AppleALC.kext - Enabling audio, with layout inject 16
• AtherosE2200Ethernet.kext - Atheros driver for Ethernet
• IntelMausiEthernet.kext - Another intel driver for Ethernet
• Lilu.kext - Dependency of AppleALC.kext, VirtualSMC.kext and WhateverGreen.kext
• SMCProcessor.kext - Kext for processor sensors, bundled with VirtualSMC.kext
• VirtualSMC.kext - A advanced replacement of FakeSMC, almost like native mac SMC.
• WhateverGreen.kext - Need for GPU support

EFI drivers

• ApfsDriverLoader.efi - Must have to run 10.13.6+
• AptioMemoryFix.efi - Must have to work with native NVRAM
• VBoxHfs-64.efi - Must have to run < 10.13.6
• VirtualSmc.efi - Bundled with VirtualSMC.kext. Needed if you use File Vault 2 or authrestart.

Issues

1. There is an issue with USB drives after sleep: the system warns about not properly unmounted storage device. This happens when I overclock the memory modules. And, I need two times mouse clicks to get the desktop (but this resolved by boot arg darkwake=0).
2. The limit of USB ports is 15 but it counts not only physical but also protocol based. So if one physical port can be used by two protocols such as 3.0 (SS) and 2.0 (HS), in this way in system he actually own two of fifteen addresses (eg. HS01/SS01). You can see the real USB mapping in this picture. Due to these limits I didn't enable a HS08 port in SSDT-10-EXT.aml table, but if you need this USB 2.0 header to work, you can drop the USB 3.0 protocol on another port. And keep in mind USB 3.1 ports such as Type-C, Type-A and header provided by ASMedia controller.

USB ports mapping

USB 2.0		USB 3.0
Port NAME	Port ADR	Port NAME	Port ADR
HS02	2	SS02	12
HS03	3	SS03	13
HS04	4	SS04	14
HS05	5	SS05	15
HS06	6	SS06	16
Headers
HS01	1	SS01	11
HS07	7
HS08	8
HS09	9
HS10	10

How to install modded BIOS

❗ This is not required for using macOS. Only F13RB is enought (can be flashed via Q-Flash BIOS utility). :exclamation: Backup current profile to USB disk.

1. You need a FPT.efi from Intel CSME System Tools v11 and in UEFI shell (you can use Clover shell aswell)

FPT.efi --savemac -f mod_Z370AOG7.F13RB

2. After this operation you must clear CMOS just press button with black key next to DRAM slots

3. To use Intel® ME v11.8.60.3561 you must flash firmware from Intel® Management(ME) 11.8.60.3561 (Firmware)

FWUpdLcl64.exe -allowsv -f 11.8.60.3561.bin

Chnagelog

1/06/2019

• Modded BIOS updated CPU microcodes
• Modded BIOS updated EFI IRST RAID for SATA v17.3.0.4057
• Modded BIOS updated EFI Intel Gigabit UNDI v0.0.23 and OROM Intel Boot Agent CL v0.1.14

11/04/2019

• Removed drop of set SSDT tables, only keep DMAR drop (Vd-T)
• Clover config disable generate C and P states, so we can use states provided by BIOS

7/04/2019

• Changed layout-id to 16
• Removed audio issue

4/04/2019

• Added modded BIOS with latest drivers and microcodes

1/04/2019

• Rewrite and cleanup in DSDT
• Inject devices properties through SSDT

27/03/2019

• Add new DSDT compatible with F13RB bios
• Update config to use with High Sierra with nvidia GPU

26/03/2019

• Add new F13RB bios with CFG lock option (MSR 0xE2)

24/03/2019

• Fixed DSDT from F12 BIOS
• Updated EFI drivers

18/03/2019

• Updated kexts to newest versions

20/11/2018

• Updated kexts to newest versions
• Recompiled DSDT with external references
• Config can be used with only iGPU card, external GPU is disabled via WhateverGreen.kext

19/11/2018

• Updated ACPI-tables to F11RB bios version
• Use SSDT to enable working ports
• Removed Legacy_USB3.kext
• Updated table of USB mapping
• Updated README

16/11/2018

• Added new F11 BIOS version with CFG Lock option (MSR 0xE2)

7/10/2018

• Rewrited audio layout-id injection

13/09/2018

• The initial push to GitHub