ASUS Z170-DELUXE - i7-6700K - HD 530 & RX 5700 - [From macOS El Capitan 10.11.6 to Big Sur 11 - Windows 10]

Clover EFI for ASUS Z170-Deluxe - macOS Big Sur

Insanelymac GUIDE: https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342082-guide-asus-z170-deluxe-i7-6700k-hd-530-rx-5700-from-macos-el-capitan-10116-to-big-sur-11-windows-10/

ASUS Z170-DELUXE

macOS Install Instructions

For specs, notes, other informations see the linked Insanelymac guide

Installation:

• Create a macOS USB Installer with any method you now.
  • For creating Big Sur Installer USB on Windows, use my guide: [GUIDE] Creating Clover macOS Big Sur Installer USB on Windows
  • On macOS you can download the macOS Installer from App Store, or with gibMacOS, and create the USB Installer with the official "createinstallmedia" method
  • For Sierra and older you need to use the official .dmg from Apple’s website.
• Mount your USB’s EFI and paste my CLOVER and BOOT folder from my bootpack folder to it
  • On Windows you can mount your USB’s EFI with MiniTool Partition Wizard
    • Open MiniTool, select your USB drive’s EFI partition, right click, select “Change Letter”, Click OK, Apply, OK
  • After that you can manage the EFI using Explorer++ in administrator mode
  • On macOS you can use Terminal to mount, or use EFI Mountain Snow.app to mount your USB EFI
  • If there is no EFI folder inside the EFI partition you need to create that first

Example Structure:

• After finished, next step is to boot the Installer USB
  • I suggest to boot with config_debug.plist because if anything will go wrong you’ll see the logs of what causing that.
  • In Clover press NUM 0 or select “Options” below the partitions, select “Configs”, then select “config_debug.plist”
• Install macOS
  • Don’t forget to boot from your USB after restarts
    • If you install Big Sur boot from Preboot only!
• After installing you need to mount your USB’s EFI and your System Drive’s EFI then copy the CLOVER and BOOT folder to your System Drive’s EFI
  • (again, if there is no EFI folder, you need to create it first)
• Unmount and remove your USB Installer and restart your system

Post Installation

• Open up your config.plist with Clover Configurator.app, on SMBIOS tab, generate new SMBIOS, then you can log-in to iServices now

That’s it!

 Happy Hackintoshing! 

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