Razer-Blade-Stealth-Hackintosh-Guide

Hackintosh for Kaby Lake RBS Guide

• Originally installed on 10.13.4
• Updated to 10.13.5 => trackpad stopped working for a bit, a few reboots fixed it

PLEASE READ THROUGH THE ENTIRE GUIDE FIRST

This should be a relatively simple guide for setting up a hackintosh on a Razer Blade Stealth (mine is a 7200U i5 processor BIOS Version 8.02) If you fuck something up on your laptop, that’s on you…

Once everything is set up, you should generate a new serial number and stuff that goes along with it.

Anyway

Things to take note

• wifi will not work natively, it will require a USB dongle or a new card to be installed. I ordered this and installed the drivers from here and it wifi is working great.

• trackpad works with tracking and right/left click buttons at the bottom and tap-to-click works all over on the trackpad, there are no multi gestures, just basic functionality

• Battery percentage does show correctly, but it only updates if you disable and then enable the percentage from what I can tell (I'm going to try to find a fix) It seems to work correctly all the sudden ¯_(ツ)_/¯

THINGS I HAVE NOT TESTED YET:

• ANYTHING HDMI (I plugged it in and it seems to mess up my laptop so I'd avoid using HDMI)
• ANYTHING THUNDERBOLT 3
• WEBCAM
• MICROPHONE - Microphone works
• Sleep sorta works - display may require 2 openings to turn on from sleep

Things that should work fine

• Intel HD 620 Graphics (I recommend settings the resolution to 2048x1152 (by alt click on scaled when default is selected for display settings))
• Audio
• Backlight
• Trackpad
• Battery Status (look in things to take note)

Time to get into it

Setting up USB drive

Instructions from: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-booting-the-os-x-installer-on-laptops-with-clover.148093/

In terminal diskutil list find out what /dev/disk# the flash drive is on

diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk# 2 MBR FAT32 "CLOVER EFI" 200Mi HFS+J "install_osx" R change the # with the number the drive is

Download Clover from here

In the clover .pkg

• Select CLOVER EFI using change install location
• Select Customize
• Uncheck “Install for UEFI booting only”
• Uncheck “Install Clover in the ESP”
• Check “Install boot0af in MBR" in “Bootloader” Tab
• Make sure “CloverEFI is checked”
• Choose a theme (BGM has a Razer vibe to it)
• Press “Install” button

Time to add macOS High Sierra to the drive (Downloaded from the app store)

In terminal sudo "/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" --volume  /Volumes/install_osx --nointeraction

Open the EFI partition from the flash drive - copy the files in USB DRIVE STUFF/USB EFI Partition/EFI/CLOVER/ to /EFI/CLOVER on the flash drive

BIOS Configuration

• Advanced>CPU Configuration> VMX => Disabled
• Chipset>SATA/RST Config>SATA Mode => AHCI
• Security>Secure Boot Menu>Secure Boot => Disabled
• Boot>Fastboot => Disabled
• Boot> CSM> Launch CSM => Disabled

Install

Boot to USB drive

Use disk utility to wipe the drive and format it as APFS

Install

Post Install

If trackpad doesn’t work - delete the kexts AppleIntelLpssI2C.kext and AppleIntelLpssI2CController.kext From /System/Library/Extentions

In terminal diskutil list find out where the EFI partition on the system is diskutil mountDisk /dev/disk#s# to mount EFI from the system drive

Copy Laptop EFI setup/EFI/CLOVER/ to /EFI/CLOVER in the EFI partition just mounted

From the install USB, copy /EFI/BOOT to the EFI partition mounted in /EFI/ (added this in)

Copy files in Laptop System Drive/Library/Extentions/ to /Library/Extentions on the system drive

If stuff doesn’t work for you, give an attempt to fix it

Information/stuff:

• Backlight - https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-laptop-backlight-control-using-applebacklightinjector-kext.218222/
• Battery - https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-how-to-patch-dsdt-for-working-battery-status.116102/
• Trackpad - https://voodooi2c.github.io/#Installation/Installation https://github.com/MacForceOne/VoodooI2C
• This is the guide I followed to set mine up https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-razer-blade-2017.242627/ as well as a few other resources online

Disclaimer: I have not tried to install macOS following these steps above, what I did was take the parts from. the installation and add my files from a working machine to the - in hope that it will work and boot smoothly - best of luck to ya!

I ended up reinstalling cause I messed up related to my system (yours will be fine, this was a dun goofed my me) and I followed my instructions and it seems to be up and running great! So glhf