With the right combination of components and effort, you can install macOS on a regular PC. I've been using Macs for about 5 years now, and before that I was a 100% Windows and PC guy. What happened exactly? Tonymacx86.com: Home of the CustoMac Buyer’s Guide, iBoot, MultiBeast, UniBeast, and the world’s most helpful #hackintosh #mac #osx support community.

Empire EFI v 1. 0. Behold , I’ve released the new Empire EFI which is far better then any of its predecessors. However it comes along with new changes which should help both of us , you and me and everyone else. Thus making an easier installation. I’ve taken previous constructive comments and criticism and integrated it to my new Empire EFI v 1. Think of it as the first few steps that I’ve taken towards moving to Empire EFI v. I am planning to include more documentation which covers more and more aspect of the operating system.

I am also looking for translators who are willing to help me to translate some of the documentations to other languages so that a lot of people could understand the jargons which are commonly associated with osx. New Empire EFI Menu - Its classic , sleek and elegant. Changelog. Updated Chameleon to RC4 + Backported couple of patches such as this one.

This won’t work for me. After booting with the Empire EFI v 1.085 disk and then swap the disk to SL the kernel gets loaded and the other drivers.

Included New Essential Kexts (Drivers) Folder and documentation on how to install essential kext which gives you Sound Card (provided by Vodooo. HDA) , Battery Indicator (Vodooo. Battery) and Power Management (Speed. Step) (Vodooo. Power) , Injectors for graphics cards. New Theme  (its easier on the eyes , black on white) – A lot of people have complained that they did not able to read , so there you go ! Boot Wait is enabled by default which means that you can get to see the reason why its unable to boot instead of having an instant reboot. Makes it easier for you to troubleshoot.

Added Couple of Networking Drivers such as Intel 8. MM , variety of Realtek Ethernet cards , Attansic Ethernet , and Marvell too. This means that most of you who have complained before that they were unable to get to the internet to download kexts and all , should be able to do so by now.

If your Hackintosh can't boot, changing your boot options with boot flags may be your last chance at getting Mac OS X to start. If you don't know, "boot flags" are.

This is a very quick guide which I made up. Again its not prefect, I’ve made this to teach on how to restore your MacOS X Snow Leopard disk which you have bought. Boot from grub4dos to UEFI using Clover. You need a USB drive that contains a FAT32 partition as the first partition (in the partition table).

Improved P5. 5 Chipset support (i. Intel Core i. 5/Core i. Core i. 3 is not supported yet)Removed 1. GB memory limitation. New AMD Version (for AMD processors with SSE3) (It works with Core i. Intel processors with SSE3) (New in R2 – Improved AMD Support)(Added in R2) Support for Intel GMA (Onboard Video cards) such as GMA 9. GMA 9. 65/X3. 10.

Intel onboard video card Added support for Intel Core i. Intel Core i. 5/i.

Mobile variants) with onboard graphics (It should not panic) (Added in R2) – Support for more NVIDIA Graphics Card (such as GTX 2. M , GTX 2. 60. M and GTX 2. Known Issues & Workarounds.

Empire EFI will not work with problematic systems and graphics card. Common ones are like SONY laptops (some may work and some may not.

Depending on your luck) , ATI Mobility Radeon HD series (i. Mobility HD Reason will not be supported. Few other odd hardware because of the way how it works. You may encounter Black Screens after booting or it may just hang in there , if so you’re recommended to try an earlier build or special version of Empire EFI which may help you to boot your retail disc.

You may get them from here. There are few unresolved known issues from previous version of Empire EFI  as well. Empire EFI may or may not work with SLi/Cross. Fire graphics card. Its recommended for you to disconnect the additional card when you’re about to install OSXEmpire EFI WILL NOT WORK with Mac OS X discs that comes along with a mac (i. You must be using a retail $2.

Snow Leopard Disc. For those who are using NVIDIA GTX 2xx series , please make sure to type Graphics. Enabler=Y Pci. Root=0 or Graphics. Enabler=Y PCi. Root=1 (its case- sensitive)For those with Intel Graphics , i. GMA 9. 50/X3. 10.

Empire EFI V. 1. 08. R2 and please be sure to type Graphics. Enabler=Y if you’re having any issues (such as blank screen). If the issue still persist , try connecting your laptop to an external display. Download. Before you download , you must understand that Empire EFI v 1. CPUs and chipset combination only.

If you dont have a match or if you’re using AMD or older Intel processors , you may want to check out my full Empire EFI patch , here. Empire EFI will work on these following processors : - Intel Atom Processors , Intel Core Duo , Intel Core Solo , Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core 2 Solo , Intel Core 2 Quad , Intel Celeron Dual Core , Intel Pentium E xxx processors , Intel Core i.

Intel Core i. 5Empire EFI prefers Intel chipset with AHCI enabled (please be sure to enable AHCI for SATA operation in your BIOS). Its recommended that its to be installed on a motherboard which uses Intel 9. P/9. 45. G chipset or higher . Empire EFI  v. 1. Intel- n. Force based motherboards (such as ION).

Empire. EFI does not work with Clardale CPUs (i. Core i. 5 and Core i. GPU on the CPU itself. I am looking into this issue and hopefully as things progress , we can find a solution for these folks ! Each flavour contains two ISOs.

One which is known as Empire. EFI. iso and Legacy. Empire. EFI. iso.

One must use Empire. EFI. iso before trying out Legacy. Empire. EFI. iso as the legacy version is meant for problematic motherboards or if you’re getting errrors about memory and other things. Download Empire EFI v. Intel P5. 5 Chipset and Intel Core i. Intel Core 2 series , Intel Core series  (Contains both Empire. EFI v. 1. 0. 85 and Legacy. Enolmatic Vacuum Bottle Filler Manual Woodworkers.

Empire. EFI v. 1. Download Empire EFI v. Intel Atom , Intel Core i. Intel Core 2 series , Intel Core series (contains both Empire EFI v. Legacy. Empire. EFI v. Download Empire EFI V.

Experimental for AMD Phenom and Athlon X2 , X3 , X4 and for Intel Core i. Pentium D/Pentiu m 4 6xx series)Download Empire EFI V. R2 (Experimental Support for AMD Phenom , Athlon and Sempron with SSE3 , and as well as Intel Core i.

Core i. 5- M , Core i. M , Core i. 7M)Download Empire EFI V1. R2 (For Intel laptops with Intel onboard graphics card such as GMA 9. GMA X3. 10. 0 and as well as for desktop computers with problematic nvidia graphics card (i.

ATI graphics card)Download Empire EFI V. Based upon on Version 1. Meant for Intel Graphics 9. X3. 10. 0 Users) who’ve tried another version which has resulted in kernel panic or white screen.

The Perfect Customac- Pro: X9. A II, i. 7- 6. 95. X, 1. 28. GB G. Skill Trident.

Z, Aorus GTX 1. 08. TI Xtreme . I restored the Apple. Graphics. Control.

It does boot up properly BUT it shows the Graphics as . I then reinstalled the web driver, no change.

Then checked my config. Nvidia was not injected (its not). I uploaded my config.

EDIT: Quick update. I downloaded and checked the AGDPfix that was attached from your post and noticed that even though the version was the same, v. SO, I deleted the apple. Graphics. Control.

S/L/E, used kext injector and injected the backup, rebooted, ran AGDPfix that was attached to your post, rebooted, and same thing, Black screen. EDIT 2: I ended up re- enabling CSM. I can't find anything online that states that enabling it will cause any issues, unless you know some.

For now, it will have to do. The XCPM, I've tried all combination with cpuid.