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  1. Edhawk

    Clean install Tahoe - Asus TUF Strix X570-F Gaming

    I have a created a clean installation of Tahoe 26.0 on a spare WD SN5700 1TB drive, on my Asus X570-F Gaming / Ryzen 9 5900X / RX 6700 XT / AQC113CS / BCM4360xxx system. I used my current OC EFI 1.0.5 that runs Sequia 15.7, only needing to update NootRX.kext for it to work with Tahoe. The OC...
  2. Edhawk

    Apple Serial Number check has changed, again!

    I recently visited the Apple Support page to check the validity of a Serial Number. I was surprised to see that you now have to 'Sign In' to your Apple Account to check your serial number. While this is on the English UK support site, I assume they will have rolled this out to all the other...
  3. Edhawk

    ASRock X300M-STX - Sonoma

    I bought a second-hand ASRock X300M-STX barebones system on eBay, cost £100 + £5 postage. I added these already owned components to flesh out the system: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM (2 x 16GB SODIMMS) AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU, with low profile cooler. An Intel AX210NGW WiFi/BT card, with 2 x antenna...
  4. Edhawk

    AMD mini PC Gen Machine Ren7000

    I am just confirming that I have installed macOS Ventura on this Gen Machine Ren 7000 series mini PC, after a few component changes to the stock system. The component changes included: Replacement of the Kingspec NX series 512GB NVMe drive with a Crucial P3 Plus 1TB NVMe drive, for use as...
  5. Edhawk

    Clover Boot Screen Function keys

    Below is a list of Clover (Fn) key functions, which may come in handy when you are troubleshooting your system. Press F1 for multilingual help, depending on language setting in configuration Press F2 to save preboot.log from GUI Press F4 to save original (OEM) ACPI tables into...
  6. Edhawk

    Enable AirDrop with Ethernet

    Enable AirDrop with Ethernet and enable AirDrop support on unsupported Macs running OS X 10.7+ Use the following defaults write command in the Terminal: defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1 You need to then kill Finder with ‘killall Finder’ or reboot the Mac for...
  7. Edhawk

    How to Repair permissions and rebuild kext cache in macOS.

    Repair permissions in /S/L/E (System/Library/Extensions) and /L/E (Library/Extensions) folders. Type/copy each of the following commands (separately) in Terminal: sudo chmod -Rf 755 /S*/L*/E* sudo chmod -Rf 755 /L*/E* sudo chown -Rf 0:0 /S*/L*/E* sudo chown -Rf 0:0 /L*/E* Rebuild Kext Cache...
  8. Edhawk

    How to obtain ACPI tables

    When asked to provide a copy of the ACPI tables from your system there are two main options depending on which boot loader you are using. When using Clover: To obtain copy of the ACPI Tables from your system: The ACPI Tables can be obtained by pressing the F4 key while on the Clover Boot...
  9. Edhawk

    Hibernate/Sleep & Systemwide power settings

    Sleep/Reboot issues on a Hack can be affected/caused by the Systemwide power settings. I use the following Terminal commands to set/disable the systemwide power settings in my Hacks. Terminal Command to review Systemwide Power settings sudo pmset -g You will be asked to provide your Admin...
  10. Edhawk

    Success - Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 / FX 8350 / Nvidia GTX 690 / OC 0.7.6 - Big Sur 11.6.2 & Monterey 12.1

    I have been playing around with my old AMD FX 8350 system (again) and decided to see if I could get it running macOS Big Sur. I used OpenCore 0.7.6 and followed the Dortania AMD Bulldozer guide when creating the EFI folder. I created my macOS Big Sur USB installer using the following...
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