Hello Hackintosh lovers, welcome to another Hackintosh Guide. New to Hackintosh? Don’t worry, we are here together to learn more about the Hackintosh stuff. If you are planning to build a mid-end Hackintosh, maybe the following build can be used as a reference. The new Intel Core i510400f coupled with ASUS Prime H410M-E motherboard is a good way to start the Hackintosh. When combined with at least 16GB DDR4 RAM, SATA drive and at least AMD Radeon RX 570 series, it runs super smooth.
In this article, I am going to guide you on how to install macOS Big Sur on an Intel Core i5 10400f processor. It is a pretty decent build at a fairly low budget. At the end of this post, you can download the EFI folder for this build based on OpenCore 0.6.5 and try it on your build. This EFI supports up to the latest version of macOS Big Sur. Before you go through, please spend some time to learn how Hackintosh and OpenCore works. Visit the OpenCore Guide and you will find all the things you need to build your Hackintosh PC.
Hardware specifications:
This ASUS Prime H410M-E Hackintosh EFI was built using the following hardware. Please make sure your hardware match this one. Otherwise, the EFI may not work properly. Do not use this EFI on the AMD Ryzen system, it will not work at all!!.
- Motherboard: ASUS Prime H410M-E Socket 1200
- Processor: Intel Core i5 10400f
- VGA: MSI Radeon RX570 8 GB
- 16 GB DDR4 RAM
- 256 GB SSD SATA drive
ASUS PRIME H410M-E Hackintosh OpenCore 0.6.5 Steps
Step 1. Create macOS USB Installer
Before you download the EFI, make sure you created the macOS USB Installer. After that, you can download and copy the EFI folder to your USB Installer. You can follow this guide below to create the macOS USB installer on different operating systems.
Step 2. Download EFI for ASUS PRIME H410M-E Hackintosh OpenCore 0.6.5
In this article, I am not going to explain every step to make the EFI OpenCore boot loader. If you have the same/similar build, you can directly grab the EFI folder from the link below.
ASUS PRIME H410M-E OpenCore 0.6.5 EFI Download
Download the zip file and then extract and copy the EFI folder to your EFI partition in your USB installer.
Step 3. Configure the BIOS
Before booting the PC with the USB installer, please go to your BIOS and then make sure the following
Enable:
- VT-x
- Above 4G-Decoding
- Hyper Threading
- Execute disable bit
- EHCI/XHCI Hand-off
- OS type: Windows 8.1/10 UEFI Mode
- DVMT Pre-Allocated(iGPU Memory): 64MB
- SATA Mode: AHCI
Disable:
- Fast Boot
- Secure Boot
- Serial/COM Port
- Parallel Port
- VT-d (can be enabled if you set DisableIoMapper to YES)
- CSM
- Thunderbolt(For initial install, as Thunderbolt can cause issues if not setup correctly)
- Intel SGX
- Intel Platform Trust
- CFG Lock (MSR 0xE2 write-protection)(This must be off, if you can’t find the option then enable AppleXcpmCfgLock under Kernel -> Quirks. Your hack will not boot with CFG-Lock enabled)
Step 4. Install macOS
Boot the computer with the USB drive. Please note that you will need to format the disk using Disk Utility first. Choose APFS format from the list. For any issues, please visit OpenCore Troubleshooting page below.
Please also check our Hackintosh OpenCore EFI download page for more EFI download for various systems.
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