/gigabyte-Z370-aorus-gaming-5-opencore

Primary LanguageC++

Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 - Hackintosh Build

System Configuration

  • 1x Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor
  • 1x Gigabyte - Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
  • 1x Crucial Ballistix Sport LT - RED 32GB (2 x 16GB) * DDR4-2400 Memory CL16 BLS16G4D240FSE
  • 1x Samsung - 970 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
  • 1x Samsung - 970 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
  • 1x Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard * Drive
  • 1x Gigabyte - AORUS Radeon RX 580 8GB Graphic Cards
  • 1x Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case
  • 1x Corsair - RMx 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
  • 1x Fenvi T919 - MQUPIN Fenvi T919 Desktop Wireless WiFi Adapter for macOS PC WiFi Card Continuity & Handoff BCM94360CD Native Airport WiFi & BT 4.0 1750Mbps 5GHz/2.4GHz 3x3 MIMO abgn+ac Beamforming+ WLAN PCI-E Card

What works

  • iMessage/Facetime (Needs proper SMBIOS: iMac19,1)
  • Audio (Needs kexts: AppleALC.kext)
  • Display Port & HDMI Audio (Needs a small patch, see below)
  • Graphics RX 580 (Out of the box)
  • Sleep & Deep Sleep (Out of the box, including FANs turned off)
  • Shutdown (motherboard leds turn off as well)
  • Fenvi T919 Bluetooth and Wifi (Out of the box - need to activate on board USB port HS11 and disable HS02)
  • Ethernet (Needs kext)
  • Wifi OnBoard Adapter (Needs kexts: AirportItlwm.kext)
  • Bluetooth OnBoard Adapter (Need kext)
  • USB 2.0 & 3.0 & 3.1 & Type-C
  • All continuity features with Fenvi T919

Gathering Files

Wireless OnBoard (Optional)

What does not work

  • Wifi from the Motherboard

BIOS SETTINGS

  • Save & Exit → Load Optimized Defaults
  • BIOS → Fast Boot : Disabled
  • BIOS → CSM Support : Disabled (You might get a blackscreen otherwise with * RX 580)
  • Peripherals → Trusted Computing → Security Device Support : Disable
  • Peripherals → Network Stack Configuration → Network Stack : Disabled
  • Peripherals → USB Configuration → Legacy USB Support : Auto
  • Peripherals → USB Configuration → XHCI Hand-off : Enabled (Extremely * important)
  • Chipset → Vt-d : Disabled
  • Chipset → Internal Graphics : Enabled. (Reboot BIOS then next options * will appear)
  • Chipset → DMVT Pre-Allocated : 128M
  • Chipset → DMVT Total Gfx Mem : 256M
  • Chipset → Wake on LAN Enable : Disabled
  • Chipset → IOAPIC 24-119 Entries : Enabled
  • Power → Erp : Enabled (Fix shutdown & motherboard leds not powering off)

USB Port Mapping

Folder Structure

  • EFI: Main folder to EFI drive for MacOS Big Sur 11.2
  • USBPortMapExports: All exported files to map USB ports.

Motherboard USB Details

Chipset+ASMedia® USB 3.1 Gen 2 Controller:

  1. 1 x USB Type-C™ port on the back panel, with USB 3.1 Gen 2 support
  2. 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A port (red) on the back panel

Chipset:

  1. 1 x USB Type-C™ port with USB 3.1 Gen 1 support, available through the internal USB header
  2. 6 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports (4 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)
  3. 6 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)

BIOS F12+ Hack

CFG Lock

I followed OpenCore CFG Lock guide to identify and reset it. You can simply skip to next step, I have included for more advance read.

Checking via VerifyMsrE2

To start, download VerifyMsrE2 (opens new window) and add this tool inside EFI/OC/Tools and config.plist(this can be done with ProperTree's snapshot function(ie. Cmd+R)). Next, boot OpenCore and select the VerifyMsrE2.efi entry. This should provide you one of the following:

VerifyMsrE2 is included in the EFI folder.

CFG-Lock is enabled:

This firmware has LOCKED MSR 0xE2 register!

CFG-Lock is disabled:

This firmware has UNLOCKED MSR 0xE2 register!

For the former, please continue here: Disabling CFG Lock.

For the latter, you don't need to do any CFG-Lock patches and can simply disable Kernel -> Quirks -> AppleCpuPmCfgLock and Kernel -> Quirks -> AppleXcpmCfgLock.

Quirk Enabled
AppleCpuPmCfgLock No/False
AppleXcpmCfgLock No/False

Disabling CFG Lock

So you've created the EFI folder but you can't still boot without unlocking before CFG Lock. In order to do this you'll need the following:

Inside your EFI/OC/Tools folder and config.plist, add the following tool(this can be done with ProperTree's snapshot function(ie. Cmd+R)):

Modified GRUB Shell is included in the EFI folder

  1. Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5 board is using 0x5A4 offset to manage CFG Lock status.

  2. Run the Modified GRUB Shell and write the following command:

setup_var 0x5A4 0x00
  1. At this point, run either reset in the shell or simply reboot your machine. And with that, you should have CFG Lock unlocked! To verify, you can run over the methods listed at Checking if your firmware supports CFG Lock unlocking to verify whether the variable was set correctly then finally disable Kernel -> Quirks -> AppleCpuPmCfgLock and Kernel -> Quirks -> AppleXcpmCfgLock.
Quirk Enabled
AppleCpuPmCfgLock No/False
AppleXcpmCfgLock No/False

Troubleshooting

Back side USB Type C port is not working

  1. Reset BIOS Settings
  2. Disable CFG Lock
  3. Reboot

Fix Broadcom WiFi on macOS Sonoma and Later