Category: Troubleshooting
What is nVidia Mac Driver or Web Driver? Nvidia Mac driver is an additional macOS driver provided by Nvidia itself instead of Apple. Apple pack macOS with its own GPU Kexts, but when Nvidia web driver is installed, Apple’s native GPU Kexts becomes inactive. Nvidia web-driver is required to make Maxwell, and latest Graphics cards work …
When starting to install or configure a Hackintosh, you must begin with Bios configuration, without proper Bios configuration system may reboot, kernel panic or cause some other issues, this guide shows how to configure bios for a Hackintosh
Updating a Hackintosh always has the potential for things to go wrong, so it is always recommended to have a backup copy of your data. The safest method is to have your data backed up to a separate drive or NAS (Network Attached Storage); however, this can become very expensive especially if you have a lot …
Unless you are extremely lucky, you will need a kext to enable your internet. Most ethernet built into motherboards can be used; however, a very small number of wifi cards are supported. If you have a prebuilt system or laptop, most likely you will have to purchase a new wifi adapter.
Boot Flags The downside of having a Hackintosh is that when things go horribly wrong, you must fix it yourself. In this guide I will attempt to go through the basic process to go through when your hackintosh isn’t functioning as it should.
What is Bluetooth Handoff? Bluetooth Handoff is a feature is a feature of OS X 10.10 that allows you to pick up what you were doing on your iOS devices device with your mac. It works for Mail, Safari, iWork, Calendar, and Contacts. Sadly it does not work by default on Hackintoshes.
Why the issue occurs One very common issue with Hackintoshes is an inability to log in to iMessage, iCloud, ect. There have been various fixes for the issue; however, they are somewhat scattered throughout forum sites; I will attempt to assemble them here.
Upgrading Niresh Yosemite to 10.10.3 may cause a problem with clover boot-loader this simple guide will help you fix it
Solving the Error BootCacheControl Unable to open /var/db/BootCache.playlist: 2 no such file or directory Hackintosh beginners and sometimes even the professionals may end up in a screen like the following where mac os x verbose displays couple of lines about launchd and fsck These are the few lines related to BootCacheControl
This often happens to Hackintosh beginners because of incompatible Graphics card / Graphics chipset After successful Installation or Upgrade you may see grey screen, or your monitor may turn off (black screen) with No Signal (sleep mode)
You may have faced this error while Installing Mac OS X or After a Successful Installation may be in Hackintosh (OSX86) or real Macs In this post I’m going to explain this problem and suggest a solution with using my personal experience.
Running Mac OS X on PC is tricky so you may end up in some rare problems like “Waiting for DSMOS” or “DSMOS has arrived” these occurs even in real mac computers too Shortly DSMOS stands for Don’t Steal Mac OS X Waiting for DSMOS – occurs when Fakesmc.kext is not installed DSMOS has arrived – …
This is a rare error which occurs in Hackintosh computers, this guide explains how to fix the issue FakeSMC failed to initialize SMC device Error
This article is about fixing a common issue in Hackintosh computers Kernel panic by AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext also Shows an Error “NO HPETs available… CPU(s) Configured” (Especially in AMD Machines). AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kextThis kext is specially designed to work with Apple computers to manage the power (The name says it all), but in Hackintosh, it is a real problem.
