Thunderbolt Hackintosh! MSI Z77A-GD80 (Early Guide)

NEW GUIDE HERE: Link

Alfa’s Thunderbolt Hackintosh

Components

  • MSI Z77A-GD80 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 Thunderbolt Motherboard Newegg
  • Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) HD 4000 Graphics Newegg
  • MSI N460GTX Hawk GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB Newegg
  • Noctua NH-D14 120mm & 140mm SSO CPU Cooler Newgg
  • CORSAIR Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Newegg
  • 120 GB OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD MacSales
  • Seasonic SeaSonic X760 -760W 80Plus Gold Certified ATX12V PSU Newegg
  • SilverStone RAVEN Series RV03 Newegg

Other

  • Apple OS X Lion @ App Store Apple
  • Apple Magic Trackpad Apple
  • Apple Wireless Keyboard Apple
  • 2x Dell UltraSharp LED IPS LCD U2412M
  • BRAVO Digital Processor
    • Denon AVR-1912
      • 2x Polk Audio TSi 300
    • Schiit BiFrost
      • Schiit Valhalla
        • Sennheiser HD 650
        • Grado Prestige Series SR325is

Background:

  • Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (R.I.P)
  • Gigabyte EP45-DS3R (R.I.P)
  • Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3

Downloads:

Procedure:

  1. Set BIOS to the following:
    • ACPI Function - Enabled
    • ACPI Standby Set - S3
    • EuP 2013 - Disabled
    • Restore On AC Power Loss - On
    • Wake Up Event - USB - Enabled
    • Legacy USB - Auto
    • Enhanced Turbo - Enabled
    • Adjust CPU Ratio in OS - Disabled
  2. UniBeast
    • Follow this tutorial: Link
    • Stop after completing steps 1 and 2.
  3. BridgeHelper
    • Follow this tutorial: Link
    • Stop after completing steps 1 - 5
  4. Boot from flash drive
    • I normally boot in verbose mode just incase (-v)
    • More info: Link
  5. Install Lion
    • Follow this tutorial: Link
    • Only follow: ” STEP 3: Install Mac OS X Lion “
  6. Upgrade kernel
    • Follow this tutorial: Link
    • Stop after completing steps 6 - 10
  7. Complete initial setup.
  8. Place supplied DSDT file on desktop
  9. Run MultiBeast and select the following options:

  10. Reboot and enjoy your new Hackintosh

Notes:

  • The DSDT above is only half finished. Current fixes needed:
    • Audio support (Currenly the Non-DSDT HDA Enabler in MultiBeast fixes the problem) ( Fixed - June 4, 2012 )
    • Speedstep issue (DSDT fix?)
  • No Thunderbolt
    • This is due to the the DSL3510, and DSL3310 (Cactus Ridge) Thunderbot chips having not OS X support. The new Macs that are soon to be release have a high likelihood of using one these chips since they are the newest generation of Thunderbolt chips. Once those Macs have native Ivy Bridge ( PCIe lanes ++) support they will mostly likely have support for these Thunderbolt chips.

    • “The beauty of Thunderbolt is it’s near invisible to the OS. You don’t need to install any drivers to take advantage of it, just plug your devices in and as long as your devices have driver support they’ll just appear. The OS has no idea that your SATA, Ethernet or RAID controllers are sitting a few feet outside of your box, they all appear as normal PCIe devices.” Link

  • App Store works. iCloud does not, due to the use of BridgeHelper. Should be fixed with Apple’s offical Ivy Bridge support.
    • Messages Beta does not work
  • Video works flawlessely tested using Diablo 3
  • Audio works. No flaws. Tested only digital out using setup mentioned above.

Geekbench 10.7.4 64-bit:

 

This is a very early guide. The DSDT still needs some work. Hopefully I (or someone else) will be able to clean it up and post up a fully patched version.

Hope this helps other people. Post here if you need help with your build (TonyMacx86) I’ll try my best to help you. Good luck!

Edit Log:

  • Sunday June 3rd, 2012
    • Created Guide
  • Monday June 4th, 2012
    • Patched DSDT for Audio
    • Fixed slow boot due to USB (Set Legacy USB to Auto in BIOS)
    • SpeedStep now works for two multipliers (16 and 35) 

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