yalefang/rog-strix-z390-i-hackintosh

ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING Hackintosh OpenCore

OpenCore Bootloader ROG-STRIX-Z390-I-GAMING-Hackintosh

OpenCore 0.7.3

Guide used OpenCore Vanilla, I highly suggest reading through all of it and going through and creating your own config.plist even if it's just to understand the inner workings of OpenCore. Directly copying my config.plist may not work if you do not have the exact components that I do.

This has been tested and is running on 10.14.x, 10.15.x, 11.x.

Hardware

• CPU: Intel i9 9900K
• Motherboard: ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING
• M2 Hard Disk: Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 500G NVME M.2
• Heat sink: NOCTUA NH-U12A
• Heat sink: NF-F12 industrialPPC-3000 PWM
• Heat sink: NF-F12 industrialPPC-3000 PWM
• GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB Nitro+ Special Edition
• RAM: Corsair DDR4 3200 C16 64GB (32GB x2)
• Chassis: INWIN A1 Plus
• Power: Corsair SF750
• WiFI: BCM94352z/DW1560 (replace onboard card)

links

• https://khronokernel.github.io/Opencore-Vanilla-Desktop-Guide
• https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-Z390-I-GAMING
• https://github.com/rusty-bits/OC-tool

Working

• iServices
• Audio
• airport and WiFi (replace onboard card to BCM94352z/DW1560)

USB Port Mapping

Selected XHC ports (max 15)

Ports	Type	Description
HS01	USB 2 and USB 3 Type C connector with Switch	Front USB Type-C
HS05	USB 2 Type A connector	Rear USB 2.0 (black)
HS06	USB 2 Type A connector	Rear USB 2.0 (black)
HS07	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Rear USB 3.1 Gen 1 (blue)
HS08	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Rear USB 3.1 Gen 1 (blue)
HS09	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Front USB 3.1 Gen 1
HS10	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Front USB 3.1 Gen 1
HS14	Internal connector	Bluetooth/Wifi - BCM94352z Hub
SS01	USB 2 and USB 3 Type C connector with Switch	Front USB Type-C
SS03	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Rear USB 3.1 Gen 2 (red)
SS04	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Rear USB 3.1 Gen 2 (red)
SS07	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Rear USB 3.1 Gen 1 (blue)
SS08	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Rear USB 3.1 Gen 1 (blue)
SS09	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Front USB 3.1 Gen 1
SS10	USB 3 Standard-A connector	Front USB 3.1 Gen 1

Kexts

Generic

• Lilu.kext
• WhateverGreen.kext
• VirtualSMC.kext
• SMCProcessor.kext
• SMCSuperIO.kext
• AppleALC.kext
• USBInjectAll.kext (disabled)

System specific

• IntelMausiEthernet.kext

WiFi and Bluetooth

• BrcmBluetoothInjector.kext
• BrcmFirmwareData.kext
• BrcmPatchRAM3.kext
• AirportBrcmFixup.kext

Custom

You should generate these yourself if you're not using my exact component list.

• USBPorts.kext (generate by using USBInjectAll.kext and Hackintool)

ACPI

System specific

• SSDT-PLUG.aml
• SSDT-EC-USBX.aml
• SSDT-AWAC.aml
• SSDT-PMC.aml

Custom

• FixShutdown-USB-SSDT.aml
• SSDT-HPET.aml (generated via your own DSDT.dsl file)
• SSDT-UIAC.aml (USB Port mapping, generated via Hackintool along side USBPorts.kext)

Tools

• Hackintool
• PlistEdit Pro (VS Code works just as well, but PlistEdit Pro is probably more user friendly)
• The following from Corpnewt
  • SSDTTime
  • MountEFI
  • gibMacOS
  • FixHPET

Gotchas & Troubleshooting

1. agdpmod=pikera is required in NVRAM > Add > 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82 > boot-args, otherwise you'll get a black screen.
2. The system will throw an error regarding POST on every reboot unless SAT0 to SATA, _Q11 to XQ11 and _Q12 to XQ12 are included in ACPI > Patch.
3. If you need to generate a .aml file, use $ ./iasl <path to .dsl>, this tool is located in the Scripts folder when you run any of CorpNewts tools (MountEFI is probably the first one you'll use).
4. Generating your own systems DSDT.aml (used as the basis for any of your custom SSDT files) file is best done in Windows using CorpNewts SSDTTime tool.