Nitro-5-an517-51-Hackintosh

Supports MacOS 10.15.x, tested only on catalina but it should work on (10.14.x and 10.13.x)

What's Working...
  • intel bluetooth and WiFi on AX200 card ( you will need to add your ssid and password manually open the kext folder in info.plist (password and User-name) )
  • Sleep (https://dortania.github.io/oc-laptop-guide/battery-power-management/correcting-sleep-problems.html) (Disabling Hibernation)
  • WiFi + Bluetooth + Airdrop + Universal Clipboard + Handoff + Continuity Camera + iPhone Cellular Calls (DW1820a)
  • Power Managment is very stable most of the time cpu Fan will not load but it depends on what you are doing
  • TouchPad + all gestures Finally after month of researching
  • Fully Functional QE/CI Enabled Graphics
  • Display brightness with hot keys
  • FaceTime, Messages, etc...
  • iGPU with disabled dGPU
  • Audio & headphone jack
  • Battery Management
  • All USB ports
  • WebCam
  • Ethernet
  • Sidecar
Disabled Devices
  • GTX 1660Ti
BIOS Settings
  • Security → Set supervisor password (to disable secure boot)
  • Security → Password on boot → Disable
  • Boot → Secure Boot → Disable
  • Main → click on (calt+s) a new setting will appear to change SATA type to AHCI otherwise you will not be able to see you drive when installing hackintosh

WIP

Bios Unlock to unlock CFG and have full control over your laptop (done without programmer)

https://github.com/SaeedHaidar/Acer-Nitro-5-AN517-51-Bios-Unlocking

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/KeeYees-SOIC8-EEPROM-CH341A-Programmer/dp/B07SNTL5V6/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=ch341a&qid=1587467368&sr=8-2

Working but still in beta

Intel-AX200 wifi

Not Working

HDMI (Nvidia Optimus is hardwire to HDMI)

Important info

When you switch SATA type to AHCI you might not be able to boot to windows again but do not worry here is a guide i found to switch without getting any issue https://support.thinkcritical.com/kb/articles/switch-windows-10-from-raid-ide-to-ahci

If apple Continuity did not worked try logout and login again on all your devices your hackintosh too

To get right click to work go to touchpad settings in (Secondary click) choose (click in bottom right corner)

You need to disable SystemProfilerMemoryFixup.kext if you wanna enter recovery mode or you will get kernel panic

Do not forget to generate new Smbios with clover configurator and for OC use GenSMBIOS (MacBook pro 16,1)

🍏 UPDATES 14.06.2020-OpenCore

  • Add itlwmx.kext to get Intel-AX200 wifi to work but it's still in beta it will take time to improve (AX200 will work as Ethernet) read here for more info https://github.com/zxystd/itlwm

🍏 UPDATES 09.06.2020-OpenCore

🍏 UPDATES 26.05.2020-OpenCore

  • Add kext for intel Bluetooth for WiFi you can now search but still no internet so for now i will only add kext to get bluetooth to work intel-Bluetooth

🍏 UPDATES 23.05.2020-OpenCore

  • Remove igfxpavp=1 and igfxfw=2 boot arg to fix an issue where gpu usage will stay high after playing video on appstore

🍏 UPDATES 20.05.2020-OpenCore

  • Fix USB Power Managment SSDT-USBX

🍏 UPDATES 18.05.2020-OpenCore

  • OC-DW1820a
  • Kexts

🍏 UPDATES 15.05.2020-OpenCore

  • OpenCore 0.5.8
  • Resources Folder
  • OC-Config.plist
  • Kexts

🍏 UPDATES 14.04.2020-OpenCore

  • Add SSDT-USBX.aml for USB-Power because after i tested usb-stick 3.1 gen i noticed it did not worked so now all port work normaly with super speed too
  • OC-Config.plist

🍏 UPDATES 12.04.2020-OpenCore

  • Fix an issue when usb is pluged-in the laptop will not sleep with SSDT-GPRW
  • Replace SSDT-NoHybGfx with SSDT-NDGP_OFF to make sleep faster
  • OC-Config.plist

🍏 UPDATES 11.04.2020-OpenCore

  • Replace DSDT with SSDT-BRKEY and SSDT-I2C-TPAD because placing DSDT will cause conflict with other patches
  • Add NVMeFix.kext to get better power managment for NVMe
  • OC-Config.plist

🍏 UPDATES 10.04.2020-OpenCore

  • Brightness with native hot keys
  • TouchPad has been fixed
  • OC-Config.plist
  • ACPI Patches

🍏 UPDATES 07.04.2020-OpenCore

  • better way to enable Apple ALC
  • CPUFriend-1.2.0-DevBuild
  • WhateverGreen-1.3.8
  • Resources Folder
  • VirtualSMC-1.1.2
  • AppleALC-1.4.8
  • OC-Config.plist
  • Lilu-1.4.3

🍏 UPDATES 05.04.2020

  • Add SystemProfilerMemoryFixup.kext to show memory section in about this Mac
  • Add Theme to OpenCore Bootloader
  • OC-Config.plist
  • OpenCore 0.5.7
  • Clover 5108
  • Some missing parts :
  • SSDT-DMAC
  • SSDT-SBUS
  • SSDT-XSPI
  • SSDT-MCHC
  • SSDT-PMC
  • SSDT-MEM2
  • SSDT-PPMC
  • SSDT-SBUS-MCHC
  • SSDT-HPET.aml

Bios Version

1.28 https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/7966?b=1